Reached my HALF way goal!!

YAHOOZIE!!!!!!!

This week I lost 3.1 lbs which makes my total weight loss 50.6

My half way goal was 49 lbs.

I am sooo excited!

We also did my measurements.

Here are my starting stats
Chest 46 inches
Waist 42 inches
Abs 52 inches
Hips 54 inches

November 4th my measurements were
Chest 43 inches
Waist 35.2 inches
Abs 43.7 inches
Hips 49.5 inches

Today December 24th my measurements are
Chest 42.5 inches
Waist 35 inches
Abs 39 inches
Hips 48.5 inches

Total lost since the start
Chest 3.5 inches
Waist 7 inches
Abs 13 inches
Hips 5.5 inches

For a total of 29 inches lost

This is the best Christmas Ever!!

This is Me

December 19, 2008

21 weeks into the program




Merry Christmas to me!! Best gift I have ever given myself!

Huge shout out to all my friends who are having their own weight loss success!!
Especially my Great Friend Nancy W!!! Way to go girl! So proud of you!

Another shout out to Tracey MB who's own success inspired me to start my journey.
Her continued love and support continues to help me climb this mountain. Thank you will never be enough!

And a shout out to every single person in my life who continues to support me through this challenge. Love to you all! You know who you all are *wink*

Almost!!!

Well, I thought I was going to do it...but I fell a little short.

I was hoping I would reach my half way mark today of 49 lbs lost.

But I was 1.5 lbs short. I still lost 3 lbs though, so YAY ME!!!

I have now lost 47.5 lbs in 21 weeks with Jenny Craig.

I have not had a gain week...nor do I plan to.

Next week on december 24th I will hit my half way mark.
What an amazing gift to give myself!

I cannot wait for 2009! I am soo excited for a healthier year with myself!

16% of my body fat is gone!

WOO HOO! I cannot tell you how incredible it feels to know that I have lost 40 lbs!!!

I am 10 lbs away from my half way goal. And I know if I stick to my menu and start using the eliptical every day I can do it in the next 2 weeks.

I am soo pumped! I am not even nervous about the holidays b/c I am soo confident with everything I have learned!

I cannot wait for 2009 and a new year in my life!

Thank you to everyone who has been supporting me! I love you all!

hugs
TM

I'm soooo excited!!!!

Woo hoo! I just ordered an Eliptical on Monday and it will be here on Sunday!! This is something I have been saying I was going to do for awhile and finally did!! I just know that using it daily (which I cant wait to do) will help me lose even more weight. I really hope that I can hit 65- 85 lbs lost by the time we leave for Vegas at the end of January!

My weigh in today went well too! Lost another 2.5
Even with a Christmas party on Saturday night and eating Subway Monday night. but I was smart about Subway. I had a salad and a 6" chicken teriyaki. Which is one of the 7 grams of fat subs.

So I am happy that I was able to eat out with confidence.

On to next week. Aiming for 4lbs to lose.

Measurements and Progress

Here are my starting stats

Chest 46 inches
Waist 42 inches
Abs 52 inches
Hips 54 inches

As of today my Measurements are

Chest 43 inches
Waist 35.2 inches
Abs 43.7 inches
Hips 49.5 inches

Which means I have lost

Chest 3 inches
Waist 6.8 inches
Abs 8.3 inches
Hips 4.5 inches

So a total of 26.4 inches have been shed from my body!! I'll take it!!

It's been awhile

But here I am.

Today was week 15 weigh in. Even with Halloween Candy and some great corn salsa, I lost 3.9 lbs!!! Which brings my total weight loss to 35 lbs. I am sooo excited. My next target is my half way point and that is 209. I can totally see if within my reach.

Here are my Pictures

This is me, on the left April 2008




This is me 2 weeks ago.

I am going to post my updated measurement too. I just need to find my starting ones.

Not as bad as I Expected

Well it is the end of week 11 and I only lost 0.7 lbs.

But it has been a rough week and I actually expected to gain.

A dear friend of mine was diagnosed with Leukemia July 1st. She was admitted to the hospital immediately and started chemotherapy treatments. The first 2 rounds did nothing. They started the 3rd round, but her kidneys started to shut down and then other organs started to follow. She was moved to ICU and started on dialysis. She started to slightly improve. The plan was to get her body back strong enough to start the third round of chemo again. One day she pulled the breathing tube from her mouth and she started to bleed. she got a blood clot and it blocked her lungs. Her heart and her lungs stopped. she was resuscitated. She made a few improvements over the weeks but it wasn't enough. Last week a bone marrow scan showed that the cancer was still there (a first scan had indicated that it wasn't) and the doctors told her family that there was nothing more they could do for her. She was taken off all treatment and life support on Sunday night and she passed on Monday.

This had been very hard on us. 3 months ago "M" was fine, and now she is gone. She leaves behind a wonderful husband and 9 year old son (my son's best friend).

Sometimes it just doesn't make sense!

Needless to say I haven't really paid attention to my exercise or eating routine and had some extra calories. I suspect this week will be more of the same.

One day at a time I guess.

End of Week 8

Well after a not soo great week last week, I jumped back on the horse and rode to victory!

This week I lost 2.7 lbs! This takes my total weight loss of 20.9. Yahooo!

I am soo pumped.

I am having girlfriends over this Friday night for a candle party and there is going to be some snacking and drinking. My consultant and I worked out a plan where I can still celebrate with my friends and not affect my numbers for next week. I am really excited about this.

I feel really good about next week.

Sums it up?

As you can see I haven't posted anything in quite some time.

So picture tells the story of the last few weeks.

Week 5 Numbers

Can't complain...loss 2.8!!

Even with a couple bites of Extra Ordinary cheese!

I haven't been exercising at all though, so I really need to get that in there!

I am confident that I could get my weekly loss to 4lbs if I would start exercising.

On to Week 6

End of My first Month with Jenny!

Well, it was a bad week. I didn't eat my menu. I didn't exercise. Aunt Flo came to visit. I cheated on my product launch night. I didn't drink my water. And I still lost 2.7 lbs this week!!!
WOWEE does this program work? I am soo shocked. I expected to step on that scale today and be up! Soo thankfully that I wasn't. In my first month I lost 13.6 lbs.

We did my measurements too.

Chest down 0.7 inches
Waist down 2.8 inches
Abs down 7.4 inches
hips down 1.7 inches


Yahoooo! So I guess I will stick with it ;)

You know what sucks?

When half your family eats Pizza in front of you and the other half eats A&W!!!

Man was it hard for me not to bite into one of those grease filled burgers!

Temptation isn't even the word to describe the over power urge my body felt.

But I resisted!! Woo hoo! Not one little bite!

Week 3 Weigh In

Woo hoo! I don't know how I did it but...

I lost 3.8 lbs this week!!!

Yahoo!!!!


I was totally shocked. That brings my total weight loss to 10.9 lbs in 3 weeks

This Jenny thing REALLY works! I am loving it!

Expectations are low

Well it's been a real tough couple of days for me due to an illness of a close personal friends.
My stress level is really high, I've missed my walking regime, haven't stayed ontop of my menu and am not drinking my water. I haven't cheated. Which was really hard to maintain. I have been soo temped to down a few mojitos with everything that is going on, and last night I almost had hubs bring me home some french fries and a hamburger. But I didn't.

Nevertheless, I am not expecting a big loss this week. If I even lose at all.

We shall see in a few hours.

I want to give a shout out to all my friends who are taking the weight loss journey themselves. A special KUDOS and hug to my friend "N" who just reached the 10lb loss this week! Way to go girl!

I hope everyone else is having a great week in blog land.

I know I know....

I am totally neglecting my blogging duties. But that doesn't mean I have fallen off the wagon!

I am still on track and doing well.

My walking has slipped, need to turn that around. But it has been raining here for like 3 days and who wants to walk in the rain? Actually, it might be kinda fun. OK tonight I am back on the walking train. I was actually talking to my friend Shel last night and she was kinda teaching about beginner running. You know...walk for 2 minutes run for 1, etc. I think I might try that and get my heart rate up!

This week has been a little tougher in that every once in awhile I want to just quit and go back to eating what my family eats. Not that the Jenny food isn't delic...cause it is! Just sometimes I miss cooking some of my old favourites. But I talked to my inspiration Tracey today and she pumped me back up! Not to mention the new FAN-TAB-U-LOUS trip incentive for my company and I am definitely going to be skinny mini for that!

So I am doing well. Could definitely beef up the exercise! That will be my goal for the next couple of weeks.

Have a great Tuesday!

Yesterday's Weigh in

1.5 lbs lost. WOOT WOOT!

Slow and steady is what everyone tells me. I know I need to start thinking this way too. I didn't put all this weight on in one week, so I shouldn't expect to lose it in one week.

But anyone who knows me, knows that instant gratification is my name.

But I will take the minus and be thankful it wasn't a plus.

On to week 3. Which by the way, the menu looks YUM-O!

Weigh In Day

Well today is week 2 weigh in. I have to say I am more than a little nervous.

I think I am retaining water from pmsing. Nice, eh? Is there anything you can do to counteract that?

So I am not expecting a big loss. I will be really disappointed if it is less than 2 though.

Aw well. We shall see.

Update later.

SLACKER!!!

I am blog slacking!! LOL.

but then again it was the long weekend and I was enjoying my family.
We spent a few hours at the pool and I loved it. I really need to think about going more often come September. I can put Luke into the daycare and swim away. I felt great afterwards. I didn't walk yesterday, but I did clean all day which clocked in at 5700 steps.

I have been sticking my meal plan...even eating the yucky energy bars. I haven't cheated and surprising it is going well though.

I am really nervous about Thursday weigh in. I Am I going to feel this anxious every week? I hope not. I hope I get to the point where my weight and am I losing weight won't be on my mind every second. Will I ever see that day?

I think I might be pmsing too, which means I probably won't lose much. Crap! That will be disappointing.

Aw well. baby steps. baby steps. I need this to be my mantra.

10am - Breakfast
Coffee, Jenny's Egg sandwich, glass of milk and apple
AM Snack
Missed
1230pm -Lunch
Salad and Jenny soup
400pm - PM SNACK
energy bar from morning & bananda
530 Dinner
Jenny 's Mac and cheese with Veggies
Evening Snack
Water Consumption (20 oz bottles of water) - 2
Exercise
2.5 hours of swimming & 1 mile snack

Yikes!!

So in order to get really close to my goal and have a shopping spree when I go to Vegas January 25th I need to lose approximately 4lbs a week. OMG! That is huge!

I am going to try my hardest but HOLY FREAKIN COW!!

10am - Breakfast
Coffee, Jenny Cereal with Milk and strawberries
AM Snack
Energy bar - YUCK!
1230pm -Lunch
Spinach salad and Jenny's Chicken Burrito
300pm - PM SNACK
banana & Jenny Cheese Curls
Dinner
Jenny Meatloaf and potatoes with Veggies
Evening Snack
Yogurt and banana
Water Consumption (20 oz bottles of water) -5
Exercise
2 Mile walk

1030am - Breakfast

Coffee, Cup of milk, Jenny Cinnamon french toast with Raspberries

AM Snack

Missed - will make up later

1230pm -Lunch

Spinach salad and Jenny's Beef Chow Mein. YUM-O!

300pm - PM SNACK

Energy from this morning's am missed - BLECH!

600pm -Dinner

Jenny's Carbonara Pasta and mixed veggies (no corn haha) & banana (from pm snack)

Evening Snack

Jenny's Smores bar and glass of milk

Water Consumption (20 oz bottles of water) - 5

Exercise

Family walk for 1.5 hours

First Weigh In

Not as much as I wanted, but I didnt walk every night and made a couple of errors.

But my weight loss for week one is -5.6

Yahoooooo.

I got some questioned answered and I am going to work harder this week.

Bring on Week 2!

Oops...scuse my lack of blogging.

Sorry peeps. Been a couple of crazy days.

I had an Epicure party Tuesday and Wednesday night. Plus taking care of the 3 amigos during the day and trying to eat all my food. LOL. I feel like I am eating non stop. This is something completely foreign to me. Usually there is no rhyme or reason to when I eat. When I think about it, I eat. 6:00 dinner is about the only constant in my life when it comes to food.

My parties went well. Business wise and diet wise. I was certainly tempted, especially with that Extraordinary cheese dip staring me in the face 2 nights in a row. But I held strong and did not eat anything. I brought my Jenny snacks and water with me and stayed true to the cause.

I am feeling really nervous today about my weigh in tonight. I haven't gone off my menu or partook of any FREEBIES I was allowed to have. I have done really well with my water, drinking over 80oz a day. I have missed some of my snacks though, and I think I am supposed to eat everything on my menu. I have a list of questions for my consultant tonight. So yeah, I am worried.

I have to say I am soo grateful for all of you who are reading this blog and have left comments or emailed or phoned me. I have the best friends in the world. You are all soo supportive and encouraging. You cheer me on every day and for this I THANK YOU!!!! I don't know if I would be as strong without you.

Well gotta run. The 3 amigos are going at each other. I think the 2 year old is winning.

Good luck to me!

July 29th Food and Exercise

1030am - Breakfast
Jenny Egg Sandwich, grapes and milk
AM Snack
Missed/ felt too full
130pm -Lunch
Jenny Swedish Meatballs with noodles, spinach salad with cucumber, cherry tomatoes, carrots, parmesan cheese and Epicure caesar dressing
300pm - PM SNACK
Jenny chocolate crisps
4450 pm- Dinner
Jenny Fahitas and Jenny soupitizer
Evening Snack
Water Consumption (20 oz bottles of water) - 4
Exercise

Today is a Good Test

I have an Epicure Party tonight and will be able to test my strength.

I snack a lot as I prepare my dips and such for the party.
I also snack after the party as I am writing up the hostesses order.
But I am excited b/c the hostess already had a $750 party last week and the party we do tonight will add to this. So that will put me back on track for my sales this month.

I just need to remember to eat my Jenny meal before I leave for the party. And take my snack and water with me. I should be ok. '

It does mean that I will miss my walk tonight though. I am going to try my best to get everything done this morning (even though it is already 10:51 - we slept till 10am) and take the boys for a walk this afternoon.

Should be a good day!

Oh yeah and it's my mommy's birthday so.....Happy Birthday Mommy!

July 28th Food and Exercise Diary

10am - Breakfast
Jenny's french toast with berries and light syrup, banana, cup of milk, cup of Epicure Kyoto Cherry Rose tea
AM Snack
Missed/ felt too full
130pm -Lunch
Jenny ChickenSalad kit added to spinach salad with cucumber, cherry tomatoes, and Epicure caesar dressing
330pm - PM SNACK
Carrots with peanut butter
600 pm- Dinner
Jenny's lasagna with a whole lot of corn!
Evening Snack
Jenny Smores Bar and glass of skim milk
Water Consumption (20 oz bottles of water) 5
Exercise
Walked 1.87 miles + 2230 regular steps during the day = total 2.87 miles for the day

Hurdles Already

*sighs* Well it's time to test my commitment. Friday night I starting walking. I walked with my neighbour for an hour and half. It was a great walk. We went all over Beaumont. Up hills. Down Hills. Through the park. Around the lake. And back home. I've decided Yukon (my 2.5 yr old Husky) will be my walking mate. I've never walked Yukon consistently, so he is not leash trained. He pulls and tugs, goes way to fast and generally is a work out himself. This should be interesting. But it was fun.

Saturday I didn't walk...for some reason I cannot seem to remember. I think it was a lightening storm.

Last night it was pouring rain and lightening too. But my bigger obstacle is my foot. Yesterday morning I woke up with my left heel in excruciating pain! It wouldn't subside. I could not for the life of me figure out what the problem was. I soaked it in my foot bath with some Epsom salt. I massaged it. I elevated it. I took Advil. Nothing worked. The storm ended around 8pm and I decided I needed to suck it up and walk. At least try and if I had to turn back, so be it.

I did pretty good. I pretty much walked the course from Friday night. I left out the lake though. Which probably would have been an added hour. So I only walked a mile last night. But most of it was limping. I foot was hurting quite a bit. Not as much as it had all day, but still enough to cut the walk short.

At first I thought maybe with walking the Friday night, and then walking around on the hardwood floors without slippers had attributed to the foot problem. But then waking up this more with both feet slightly hurting and itching, it hit me.

As much as I have been fighting it, as much as I refused to believe it would happen to me, the inevitable has happened. I think I have arthritis in my feet.

My feet have been feeling weird in the mornings for quite some time now. Some days I am fine, and some days I am not. I never really put much thought to it. But as some of you know, arthritis runs in my family. My grandmother (my world) was diagnosed with it when she was a teenager, and it ate at her body until it final shut it down 3 years ago. My mother was diagnosed as well a few years back. I have always said that I would not let it get me. I felt pretty strong that it wouldn't...until today.

It's a good thing that I have vowed to get rid of this extra weight on me. I know that weight can affect arthritis. The next step is to see a doctor and get a diagnosis (whatever it may be). This scares me to death! The pictures of my grandmothers arthritic ridden body laid up in her bed or barely walking down the hall, haunt me. It is NO way to live! I refuse to be a burden to my husband and children. Having them take care of my every need until I wither away and die. It just can't happen!

Today is not a good day! Today is going to be a very hard day! I need to be strong today.

MY REWARDS!!!!

Sorry I am blogging up a storm right now. But that is because I have a lot on my mind, I awsn't here yesterday, and I have a lot to do this afternoon.

I have decided on a few rewards.

1) When I lose 20lbs, I can get my nails done.
2) When I reach my half way point, which is 50 lbs, I can purchse the new Iphone
3 If I am on track to reach my target weight (160lbs by March 1st, 2009) I can splurge and buy a new wardrobe when I go to Vegas on January 25th.

Some pretty sweet rewards I have set for myself.
I need to think about what my end reward will be.
Hey E, how bout you and me meet half way at a Spa for a weekend? Nice break for both of us. LOL


I welcome any other ideas and suggestions.

Day 3

My family is on board!

This morning when I got up and walked to the breakfast table my 9 year old says..

"Mom, you look skinnier already"

I almost cried. I love my family. I need to lose weight so that I am here to watch them grow, get married and have families of their own.

Today is a day to remember.

July 27th Food and Exercise Diary

10am - Breakfast
Cup of milk, Jenny Banana/nut muffin, grapes
AM Snack
Missed/ felt too full
1230pm -Lunch
Jenny Chicken sandwich, spinach salad with cucumber, cherry tomatoes, carrots, parmesan cheese and Epicure caesar dressing
330pm - PM SNACK
1/2 Cottage cheese, Jenny Veggie Bruschetta chips
600 pm- Dinner
Veggies and Jenny Chicken & Pot stickers YUM-O!
Evening Snack
Water Consumption (20 oz bottles of water) lost count after 4
Exercise - 1 miles walk.
Mopped the floors

Day 2

I don't feel much like blogging today.

I have had a headache all day long. Eagerly waiting for my supper to cook. I waited to long to make my dinner.

I have sticked to the menu today though.

That's all for today.

Todays Eats

10am - Breakfast
Jenny Hot Cereal, 1cup of skim milk, 1/2 cottage cheese, 1 cup of coffee, 1banana
AM Snack
Missed/ felt too full
12pm -Lunch
Jenny Turkey Burger with slice low fat mozza cheese and Bruschetta (Epicure)
Spinach salad with cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, carrots and poppy seed dressing (Epicure)
3pm - PM SNACK
Jenny bar - Note I do not like the taste of it.
530pm- Dinner
Jenny Chicken pasta parmigiana and mixed stir fry veggies (zucchini,carrots, red onion, mushrooms,broccoli), 1 banana after dinner
Evening Snack
3/4 plain no fat yogurt and raspberries with 1/2 tsp summer berry fruit dip.
Water Consumption
20 oz bottles of water -4
Exercise
3300 regular steps according to my pedometre
and walked for 1.5 hours tonight

Day 1

Today is the first day of the rest of my life.

I finally bit the bullet, asked for help and joined Jenny Craig.

When I went in for my consultation Wednesday night, I was pleasantly surprised with their program and food menu.

I LOVE my food. This is why any diet I have ever tried, has not worked. I love the taste of food. I love to eat. I am not an emotional eater. I don't binge eat..okay maybe occasionally when I find something I really love. But I love food. I know I have too big of portion sizes. I know I eat unhealthy food, far too often and without exercising to compensate. I know I am doing the wrong things. But up until Wednesday I didn't care.

I never viewed myself as FAT. I was sort of happy with the way I looked. But I obviously didn't care enough or else I would have stuck to a program, right? However, Wednesday morning I stepped on the scale and hit rock bottom! I was weighing myself just to see what my BMI would be. I was shocked to see 260 lbs stare me back in the face! I lost it! I cried like a baby!

What to hell happened? What happened to the tall skinny girl that all the guys wanted? The girl who shone when she played basketball and soccer and volleyball. The girl who loved to swim in the summers and skate in the winters? Where did this lazy bag of shit come from? Enough was enough. No more excuses. No more lying to myself. No more covering the fat. No more false confidence. Now was the time to get real!

I knew I couldn't do it on my own. I hadn't done anything up to this point. Some obviously I needed to pay someone to help me. I needed a plan that was all laid out for me and all I had to do was follow it. I called Jenny and here I am.

The price wasn't as much as I thought. There is currently a 50% off special until the end of July. Another sign to me that now was the time to do it.

I met with Ashley and she was the sweetest thing. She held my hand while I cried. She reassured me that they were there to help me and I could do it! For the first time, I felt like I really could.

We chose my plan, I went for the life time membership, and chose the menu.

My one-on-one consultations are every Thursday and today (Friday) I started my menu.

The breakfast was good. The cereal left a bit of an after taste, but not horrible.

I am feeling a little light headed right now, but I think that is b/c of the lack of coffee.

I am working on my 1st bottle of water. This will be one weakness - I am not used to drinking soo much water. But I will soldier on.

I am off to make my lunch of Turkey burger and salad. I think I will throw some Epicure Bruschetta on the burger to spice it up. Thanks for the tip Tracey! Tomatoes and spices are a "free food" so I am going to use the Epicure products along with my Jenny foods and really enjoy my smaller portions. Plus they bulk up the portions and don't add any extra calories. I am learning. One day at a time, right?

I am off for now. But will try and keep this blog regular. If not for you the reader, for my own piece of mine.