My little Bit of Honey

And another one gone and another one gone..another one bites the dust. There. Now you ALL have Queen stuck in your head. You're welcome ;) What I Meant by that was that another pound bites the dust. Yup. Down one more.  Two pounds left till I'm at the halfway point, two pounds till I'm back to where I was over a year ago. Then I begin the journey of trying to lose the weight that has been on there for quite some time.  I was thinking last night how great it feels to not be "afraid" to look at the scale anymore, I am not where I want to be (yet) but I am not afraid of the numbers I see. I'm a work in progress which is always a good thing, when we stop working on ourselves and trying to improve it's almost as if we "give up" on who we are. No one is perfect and I don't think anyone really tries to be perfect, but we all try to best of ourselves we can be. I lost my way for awhile, I look back on my past posts and it brings tears to my eyes. I...

Happy Monday after Thanksgiving all! I hope you all had a lovely holiday and ate lots of delicious food! My Thanksgiving was great, it started off with my Turkey Trot 5k. I felt good about doing this 5k because 70% of the proceeds go to the local food bank. However, I knew starting the race I wasn't going to do well. I hadn't trained in over 2 months and I just knew I was going to come in at 40-45 minutes. I think that this mindset really helped take the pressure off, which in turn helped me to do much MUCH better. My time was: 34.23 which was my best time that I've had in a 5k yet. I had to stop three times to walk a little and to take my inhaler, but I didn't let myself walk for more then 2 minutes. I paced my running and my breathing and I ran across the finish line with a giant smile on my face. I couldn't believe it, when you are running a 5k you feel (well I feel) like I am taking forever and I will be in last place.  So it's always a nice surprise when ...

Not today, but tomorrow. This is a day that anyone who is losing weight stresses out over, the biggest eating day of the year. I'm honestly not all that stressed over it, I was at first but not really anymore. I will be with my family and I will be enjoying their company, having a glass of wine and some delicious food. I've been doing great all week and I will count my calories, but I won't worry if I go over. The good thing about this whole process is that my stomach definitely has shrunk. I can no longer eat massive plates of food and I know when to stop. I realize that my brain processes food faster than my tummy so I eat slower than I used to. There were times when I ate like someone was going to take my food away and I wouldn't stop until everything was gone. I still finish my plates for the most part unless I go out to dinner, then I will try and keep my portions under control.  Unfortunately I didn't lose the 10 lbs I wanted to by Thanksgiving. Which I...

So I used a cheesy quote from Annie, don't hate. It's true.  The sun DOES come out and I AM having a better day today than I did yesterday. For all those who are wondering, I did in fact go home and do a work out. I also had an ice cream BUT I had A LOT of calories left over. I figured it balanced itself out. The ice cream was also only 180 calories, so not that bad. Throughout this whole process I have been adamant to not restrict myself and say what I "can't" eat. That word is not good, it does not help you. It's like when you say "I can't have that it has to many calories" your brain throws this switch and goes haywire. Example: You say:  "Ha. I can't have that piece of pumpkin pie deliciousness with whipped cream!" Your brain: "OMG. I NEED that PIE to LIVE! If I do not have a piece of pie I WILL die" so what can you do? Your brain is telling you in order to survive, you need pie, cake or whatever it is you want to ha...

Today is just one of those days I want to throw in the towel. I want to crawl under the covers with a bag of candy and just stay there.  Not.a.good.day. I am overly emotional and sensitive and just having that feeling that nothing is good enough. There isn't really a reason, just one of them days (Remember that song?) We've all been here, we've all had these days. I've gotten through these days, gone home, gone to bed and woke up the next day in a much better mood. So why is it that you can't see past these days during them?  In the past, I would get fast food (Wendy's, number one with cheese, chicken nuggets and a large coke) eat every last bit of it and then have ice cream after (chocolate, obviously). So far today, I've resisted the temptations. I walked past the chocolate cake in the cafe without even batting an eye lash. Same with the apple pie and pumpkin pie. I had a 100 calorie pack of chocolate covered pretzels and a 100 calorie bag of popcorn. ...

How often are we told that you should eat less to lose weight? While this may be true, I take it with a grain of salt. Now, I'm not saying that eating 5 thousand calories a day is OK, I'm saying that maybe eating 1200 is not enough. When you start with MyFitnessPal they give everyone the same amount of calories, 1200. Keeping in that range, I have lost 16 pounds, but I am thinking that my weight loss is starting to slow down because I am not eating enough. I have gone to a few different websites and they say that I should be consuming at least 1500 calories a day to lose weight. A couple websites told me I should be eating at least 2,000, but 1500 seems to be the magic number. So I'm going to try that, with hopes that it will jump start my metabolism and I will feel like I am losing again. I've also started eating protein with every snack, per the suggestion of one of my faithful readers (thanks :) ) and that has helped a lot. In addition to that having a bigger break...

I haven't posted in awhile, I really haven't had much to say. I don't want to keep posting about the same things every day, I know how boring that can get. I don't want to do that to myself or to any of my lovely readers! I have had a few challenges in the past few weeks that have gotten me down in the dumps lately. I really haven't been able to stop myself from snacking. I have been doing my best to stay under 1200 calories a day, but I still end up not losing weight. It's.so.frustrating. I weighed myself this morning and again, no change. I was so frustrated. I knew I hadn't lose 3 pounds or anything crazy like that, but I felt like I should've at least lost something. SO I decided to measure myself. I lost an inch and a half. around my waist and a whole inch on my hips. Glory! I have lost somewhere! This is good! This tells me I am not back pedaling and I am moving forward. So today I started thinking, what can I do to keep myself full until lunch...

Ah, these jeans. I love them. I bought them in mid August and they have been my only pair of jeans for the past few months that fit comfortably. They have that perfect feel to them, they are skinny jeans but they don't feel like saran wrap on your legs. Now, they don't fit, they are to big and I am constantly pulling them up. They don't look like skinny jeans anymore. This makes me sad and happy, sad because I am losing my FAVORITE jeans and happy for obvious reasons. Granted, I'll still wear them.... till they are literally falling off.  Then it's time for new favorite jeans! I have had a bad week, I think that is obvious in my posts. I felt like I wasn't losing anything and well, I really didn't. 0.2 pounds. I'm thinking I need to change my diet around a bit and either take certain things out or add certain things. Maybe a bit of both.  I feel like I'm hitting that weight loss wall that we all hit sometimes. I know I need to stop eating these rea...

I've been having a tough week so far, regarding my body image and weight loss. Now, if you've been reading my blog you know all along that this is the major thing that I struggle with. How do I get myself into a good mindset? How do I feel that "this is good enough, I look good" ? I don't know the answer to that. I honestly, don't. Don't get me wrong, I have been staying well under 2000 calories a day and I have worked out for the past two days. So where is all of this negativity coming from? I have this giant fear that I will hit a point and I will never lose another pound again. This thought terrifies me. Then the other thought is, how can I stay on this plan for the rest of my life? I know, it's a lifestyle change. Still though, will I ever be able to eat without counting the calories again?  Then my other thought is, what if I get down to the weight that I want to be at and I'm still not happy? What do I do then? I have so many questions that...

How true is this? I see a lot of these commercials and advertisements for these things that can "make you lose 50 pounds in 2 weeks!" or "Lose 20 pounds in 2 days!" OK maybe they aren't THAT drastic, but you get my point. You can't lose weight that fast and if you do, you can guarantee it is coming back on as soon as you stop doing whatever it is you were doing. I will admit, I have definitely tried a few of these schemes. The pills, the shakes, the powders, you get the idea. I spent money on these things because I felt "there is no other way", when in reality I was just being lazy. I wanted to eat what I wanted and still lose weight, I didn't want to work out. I just wanted to LOOK better not FEEL better.  There are protein shakes that definitely help you feel better and help you after a workout, but to drink them just to lose weight is just silly. I've taken hydroxycut and it made me shaky all the time and I didn't lose any weight, ...

I weighed myself this morning since I wasn't sure I'd be able to tomorrow. I am finally on the other side of the 150s, I'm at 154.6 and I have lost 15.4 pounds so far. I am 4.6 pounds away from my halfway point of 20 pounds. It's definitely an accomplishment, but it is also frustrating. This process takes time and if you aren't patient with your body your mind starts working against you. I have been trying to look at this from a different point of view, other than "I've only lost 15.4 pounds and I'm still over 150" I have been trying to look at it as "I've already lost 15.4 pounds in two months and I'm no longer over 160!".   So in another attempt to not be so frustrated I also looked at my inches lost (this is one thing that really gets overlooked when losing weight, but is so important). Here are my stats starting from 9/9: Waist: Starting: 40.0 inches Current (as of 10/29): 34.5 Total inches lost: 5.5 Hips: Starting: 51.0 Cur...

I don't know how I did it, but I survived. My total candy consumption for Halloween: 2 fun size packs of Whoppers (62 calories total), Reese's Peanut butter cup (80 Calories total) and a Snickers (80 calories total). As a chocolate fiend, this is a very successful year for me. Previous years I have indulged and not thought about how much I was eating. I could easily eat an entire box of Whoppers a large Snickers or a few peanut butter cups. I can't say it doesn't cross my mind to just pick up a candy bar at the grocery store while they are staring me right in the face. So I do pick it up and I look at the back and the calorie count and I pretty much throw it back. It must be a mental thing, but when I even think about eating a lot of candy I swear I can feel my stomach getting bigger. A lot of people look at me and will say "what's a piece of candy every now and then?" Well for someone who has hypothyroidism and a slow metabolism, a piece of candy every ...