rogueofthecraft

Hey all,

Yeah, the title kinda says it all. At the moment, I’m a little mfrustrated with my weight loss. Not because I’m not losing weight, but because the numbers on the scale are going down, and yet there is absolutely NO change in my body! I’m trying as hard as I can to stay positive, and I know it won’t happen overnight, but I’ve lost almost 20 pounds… there should be SOME difference, right?

 And I know I’m not losing muscle, I eat healthy and drink lots of water and workout 5-7 times a week! So what’s the deal? Has this happened to anyone else? Am I going crazy?

 Other then that whole thing, everything else is well. I’m still eating healthy and doing what I can to be healthy… just getting a little frustrated with not actually SEEING a change in my body yet. I’m hoping it will come soon!

Hey all! I’m back!

I really need to be more consistant with writing blogs here. Because I haven’t been obviously. So I’ll update you on everything since the new year!

First of all, the first month didn’t go so well. I still ate bad, actually well into the second month of the year. Boo. But at the beginning of March, I joined a gym, and started going regularly. Great, except when I moved, I lost my “groove” and was eating fast food. Bleh!

Thankfully, now I’m fully moved into a great little apartment, I’m lovin’ my job, and I’m back to going to the gym regularly (5-7 times a week)! Plus I just got a new interval routine from an instructor at the gym and it’s totally kickin’ my butt! I’m so sore, but it’s great to know it’s all working so good!

As far as eating goes, since I’ve been unpacked living here, I’ve been eating VERY well. No fast food and I rarily ever go out. Almost a month now of healthy eating and I’m very happy with it! And that means No soda and no fast food! I’ve been doing really well and I feel great! I’m sure soon my weight loss will reflect it!

Well that’s all for me! I gotta run to work now! Think Slim buddies!

Alright everyone!

I’m BACK and ready to get things going RIGHT!

Taking all the things I know, I’m going to do my best to follow my own regiment in order to help me be healthy, and lose weight! If any of you watch my YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/DietGirlMel, you’ll see the resolution I put up! If not, here’s what I’m planning for myself in the upcoming year!

-I want to lose at least 5lbs a month. Not too much, and not too little!

-I would like to be under 200lbs. by the end of July when my family goes to the beach! That’s 46lbs in 7 months!

-I would like to be under 170lbs by next Christmas.

How do I plan to acheive these goals? By taking all the things I know about weight loss, and applying them to my life. For example:

-Not eating fast fod or drinking soda

-Getting the daily amount of water and vitamins everyday

-Not starving myself!

-Counting Chemicals, not Calories!

-Watching my Saturated Fat intake!

-Working out 5-7 times a week, and finding workouts that are fun!

-Intervals and weight training!

With those things in mind, I believe I can lose the weight I want… But there’s another thing I didn’t add to the list.

I have to stop resenting myself. Despite how my body looks now, it is a beautiful thing, and I am too. If no one else can see it, that’s their loss… But being healthy, and doing good things for my body, is showing myself and the world that I truely love myself, and THAT is the most important thing to living a fuller, healthier life.

For anyone who reads this, no matter how big or small you are, you’re beautiful already. A beautiful soul has no shape or age. And you’re a beautiful soul. Just as you are. Be healthy because you already love yourself, not so you CAN love youself.

Updates coming soon!

Alright… so as you know if you’ve read my previous blogs, I’ve been doing the Wu-Yi ea thing, and I like the tea. Haven’t really seen too much as far as results, but I’m cool with it. It said that you needed to try it for 2-3 months to start seeing results. I’m okay with that…

HOWEVER, though I was planning on continuing, considering that I am currently pinching my pennies till they scream, I really can’t afford $60 a MONTH for tea! X.x Which is horrible, but very true. So here is my video about it on Youtube, and I will continue making my vlogs, and trying something new… Andrea’s Answer. It’s an ebook I bought a while back and never really read… no time like the present, huh? LOL! Especially cause it’s free!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l37OoS0pMeA

Alright… so I woke up this morning and immediately freaked because I felt a pressure on my chest… It went away within 15 minutes of waking, but had me spooked the rest of the day.

Of course, with me being sick and coughing my lungs out all week, now I’m not so worried about it. If it continues through the weekend, I’ll go to the doctor, but I really think it’s this chest cold.

Anyway, as far as eating went today, I think I did rather well. I had a not so good sub at lunch, but I didn’t have anything bad with it (like fries or soda), drank more than enough water, and  had a salad for dinner! So all in all, I think I did pretty well with eating! No working out because I had to babysit. I’ll try to get it in tomorrow, but even if I don’t, Saturday will be a great day for it because I’m going to the Maryland Renaissance  Faire with two of my friends and that means a LOT of walking outside, AND most of it is UP REALLY steep hills!

Anyway, I need to go to bed, so I’ll blog again tomorrow! Night everyone!

I’ve been gone from BuddySlim for some time…  always feel like such a failure when I come back, having not lost any weight, or kept up with anyone on here…

I’m trying something new though! I found this ‘Wu-Yi Source’ online, that sells this weight loss tea, so I bought some and I’m trying it! Not only that, but I’ve decided to vlog (video blog) my weight loss journey at http://www.youtube.com/DietGirlMel. Do for all my BuddySlim buddies, check it out!

For anyone who’s found there way here FROM my vlog, this is where I will be posting my DAILY updates because I cannot make a video blog EVERY day x.x. So I’ll tell you a little about today!

I ate pretty well. Don’t know the cals, but I ate healthy, and drank the tea when they said to. And honestly, the tea isn’t all that bad! Tastes a lot like green tea! I added some honey because I can’t drink tea alone, but it’s decent tea in my opinion.

I also got a work out in! It wasn’t intense or anything, but it was something. I wanted to start slow because I haven’t done a real workout for a while!

Also to my YouTube friends, there’s a weight tracker on my profile page, so you can actually track my weight with me between vlogs!

That’s all for now! Hope everyone stays healthy!

So if you’ve read my last blog, you’ll know that I’ve been away from Buddy Slim for a couple of weeks and not doing too well. Well, I decided to change that today! And what a day!

I did alright this morning. I had some yogurt with berries put into it. It was yummy, though a little different. I forgot my morning snack (which sucked), and because everything was hectic at work, I didn’t get to eat anything until lunch. Had my spinach salad and a yummy sandwich, and got to take a small snap before heading back.

The afternoon was still a little hectic, but I grabbed my afternoon snack (a nice juicy granny smith apple) , and managed. I got home, and was a little hungry… and I knew that if I didn’t eat before I went to workout, I would come home and finish that bag of cheese balls in the cupboard… SO I tried something a little new. I took a couple garlic Melba snacks, and dipped them into some garlic flavored hummus…. and… YUMMY!!!! I only had a few though. Enough to sate my hunger before I left on my walk.

Coming home, I was very unsure of what to do for dinner. I have a lot of choices, and I didn’t want my calories to go over… So I thought of something new. I took a boneless, skinless chicken breast, cut it up,, cooked it in a bunch of spices, prepared a small serving of whole wheat pasta, and got a 1/2 cup of marinara sauce (I had left over from pita pizzas). Mixed it all together (with more spinach on the side), and BAM! It was WONDERFUL! I had a salad, and a yummy Italian-esc dinner that was JUST the right size.

AND, on top of that, I walked 4 miles today! YAY! I’m quite excited about it… and I was VERY excited when I sat down, and the muscles in my leg were twitching. A sign of a good workout!!

Now I just hope tomorrow won’t be busted because of this stupid work thing tomorrow night.

I really need to stop NOT coming here, because whenever I stop, I lose all motivation! It’s very frustrating… And because of such, I’ve been eating so badly and not exercising. Boo on that! This week is a new week, and I’m gonna make some goals to follow…

1. NO FAST FOOD!!!

2. NO SODA!!! (I don’t like diet soda, so no soda for me!)

3. Drink ALL of my water!

4. Exercise either after work or during my lunch break! (Accept Tuesday and Wednesday because of work stuff).

5. EAT BREAKFAST!!!

6. DO NOT BINGE COMPLETE ON THE WEEKEND!!!

7. Lose 2 pounds by next Sunday!

Alright, those seem pretty reasonable. I noticed that even though before I was doing great during the week, I’d get to the weekend and then totally let go and eat a lot of anything and everything… bad bad BAD! And so that slipped into the week, and that’s how it’s been for like… the last 2 weeks… Well actually, last week I had no money so I ate whatever I could find in the house, and once at my Mom’s. Thankfully I got paid on Friday, and so I went food shopping and that won’t be an issue now.

Another thing is, I haven;t been getting enough sleep, so I’m lethargic all day, and I’m so tired in the morning, I don’t want to eat, so I don’t. That just starts the whole day out badly. COFFEE IS NOT BREAKFAST! I need fiber and stuff!

Alright, so tomorrow I will update you all on how things are going with my goals… Wish me luck!

Alright, it’s safe to say I have not been on Buddyslim for ENTRIELY long way, and sicne I’ve been gone, I have NOT been doing good. I have hardly worked out, I’ve been eating FAST FOOD and drinking SODA and now I’m sure I’ve gained back every pound I’d lost…

Great… just great.

What should I do? I find this happening each time I try to change because I get SO frustrated that I’m not losing weight, or changing in anyway, yet I’m changing what I do and how I eat… UGH!

I need help, and the people around me don’t help that much… Mainly because I have a friend that is already DONE losing weight, and she wasn’t nearly as big as I am, and then everyone else in my life is skinny and/or not trying to lose any weight. What am I to do?! I don’t want to give up on my goals, but times flying by and nothing is changing!

I’m so irritated with myself, I’m actually quite upset about it… I feel so lost and lone, ya know? And I know that why we have buddyslim, but it’s freakin’ HARD when I watch everyone around me eat what they want, not workout, and be completely happy with their size 8’s! WHAT THE HELL!!!!!

I’ve lost my motivation, and my focus… I need to get it back, and I’m not sure how. Any pointers? Please help me!!!

So today was not too good. I weighed in for the work weight loss challenge (a bunch of women at work are doing a weight loss challenge together), and discovered that I’m back to the weight I started at (which is good because I gained weight after we started, oddly enough). So that was good. What was bad was that, in running late this morning, my breakfast consisted of 1/2 of a chocolate bar… Fulfilling. And then, I had to drink the coffee at work, and didn’t even get three sips out of the nasty swill before I couldn’t take it anymore! So there I was today…. starving, and tired.

Thankfully, I had my orange for snack… but then what happened? For lunch, the kids had… ‘Dun dun DUN!’… TACOS! And in a sense, I restrained myself a little. I didn’t have a tortilla… But I DID have some of the meat, the Spanish rice, cheese, and lettuce mixed together. It was like a taco salad, which was yummy…. but SOOO bad for me! Of course, I didn’t have just that. I still had my spinach that I eat everyday (it’s my goal for each day, because I know how good spinach is for me).

Afternoon snack was fine as well, had my granola bar, and I was fine… drank all kinds of water, doin’ good. Then I came home, and did something I have never done before! I walked my two miles… and then did it again! I WALKED 4 miles! Sure it took me a little over an hour, but I did it! Hells yeah!

So after that, I come home, and then I run out again… I had to go to Target… a bunch of money later, and I still don’t have any dinner at 9:30! I did the only thing I could do… I made a Smart Ones… The Chicken Parmesan (the only thing other then the pizzas I can stand). I really try to stay away from the frozen meals because I know they have so many preservatives and sodium… But sometimes there’s nothing else you can do. It was late, and there was no way I was cookin’ anything healthy.

So it wasn’t a good day for eating, but it wasn’t a bad one for everything else… agree? I sure do. Night girls!

Dream thin!