Golden Corral Challenge and Monday Milestones

FIRST UP Monday Milestones….LET’S SEE HOW I DID….

Ø Eat no more than 1600 calories in a day! Down 100 from last week because it wasn’t that hard for me to maintain that goal!! I ACED THIS GOAL!!!! I ATE LESS THAN 1600 CALORIES EVERYDAY…..AND Less than 1500 Calories everyday except 1 DAY and I ate 1540!!!

Ø  Exercise every single day!!! Exercise twice a day at least two days out of the week!!!----I exercised every single day even though on Friday I just did 20 min of Wii aerobics…I made up for it on Saturday at the gym!!! And the twice a day exercises…..did NOT happen!!!L

Ø  Write down how many bottles of water I drink along with the food in my journal!!----I started off strong but didn’t complete it…I wrote down my water intake 4 out of 7 days

Ø  Bring my lunch and snacks to campus; be active as much as possible and weigh in on Saturdays!-I aced everyone of these goals!!!

 Golden Corral Challenge

My biggest challenge this past week was overcoming my Golden Corral trip!!!  I finally decided to go to Golden Corral after church with Clevon yesterday! The whole ride to the restaurant....I had my phone out and my calorie counter app for my Blackberry working hard to come up with a balanced low-cal meal. I was proud of myself for not succumbing to the buffet. I successfully piled my plate with fresh veggies and one tiny slice of meatloaf. I managed to drink 6 GLASSES OF WATER WHILE THERE!!! I looked in envy at the all the other diners whose plates were piled with the exact opposite of my plate (Lots of mashed potatoes, Macaroni and cheese, dozens of yeast rolls, Pepsi after Pepsi, and NO veggies!!!) I had sugar free Jell-O for dessert...but, I really wanted a cupcake!!! I felt proud of myself as I walked out and thought about all the calories I could have eaten but, had the willpower not too!!!

However….I ate nothing for five hours after that and settled on “treating” myself to a cheeseburger from the previously banned McDonald’s and a hot fudge sundae. I still came in under my calorie intake but, because I felt bad about eating the McDonald’s….I punished myself with 2 hours of step aerobics on the Wii, while watching Basketball Wives and Real Housewives of Atlanta. I burned about 688 calories…which is good amount but, sucks for two hours of exercise!!!!

Well my goals for this week are:

• Eat no more than 1500 calories everyday…Sunday is the Super Bowl so I may stretch for 1600 for Sunday if I do well the rest of the week because I want something sweet!!!
• Exercise every single day for a minimum of 30 minutes and exercise twice at least two days this week.
• Write down everything I consume (water included).

SAME GOALS>>>>>CAN’T THINK OF NEW ONES SO I’M JUST TWEAKING THE OLD ONES.  All in all, I feel better…My clothes are getting loser…skin tight jeans aren’t skin tight anymore. It feels good now; just having my clothes fit a little better!!! See you all in a few days!!!!!!!!!!!

103 DAYS TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I bought a Wii and the Wii Fit!!!! Super excited!!! I’ve played the Wii fit before, while at home for vacation with my mom but, I have the Wii Fit Plus….basically that means now it tracks how many calories you burn along with a lot of new games and cool gadgets. I could hardly wait to get home and open up the box and play, I even slipped on studying for my test (bad I know) But, all in all I’ve really been enjoying it. Yesterday I decided I would do my Biggest Loser DVD and play the Wii for two hours!!! I was extremely tired but, I burned A LOT of calories!! My goal is to use the Wii as just extra exercise and not rely on it solely…mostly because while you do burn calories…it takes a lot longer to burn them playing some games than playing others.

My weekend plans consists of getting a head start on my homework…getting my hair done (AN ISSUE THAT IS STILL DRIVING ME ABSOLUTELY CRAZY!!!!) …………and relaxing. I’m in the weekend challenge so I’m determined to not let the weekends be a deterrent in my weight loss plan. Wednesday, I weighed myself and I was down another 2 lbs since Saturday!!! I weigh myself again this Saturday and I hope I lost or maintained!!! See you for my Monday Milestones…have a great weekend!!!!

106 DAYS TO GO!!!!!

Weekend Challenge

I'm in a new challenge:



It's an awesome prize and will help me to stay on track during the weekends!!!

Yesterday was a great day!!! I managed to feel full and satisfied, and even got to eat yogurt and fruit for dessert...all of this for 1,391 calories!!! I worked out at the gym on campus. The downfall of the day was messing up my hair!!!! I cannot stand to walk around with sweaty, matted down hair. You can't have a scarf on your hair while working out at the gym on campus (crazy I know!) The situation with my hair is beginning to deter me from going to the gym on campus and I know I need at least three days a week in the actual gym! But, I am going to keep researching and trying new things or I'll be putting micro braids into my hair until graduation....

Talk to you soon!!! 109 DAYS TO GO!!!!

Monday Milestones

Monday Milestones:

            Today is the day that I present the results of my goals for the week and whether I was successful or failed miserably…so let’s recap my goals and see how I did (results in RED):

MY GOALS:

1.      Eat no more than 1700 calories in a day:           My calorie totals for the week were as follows: Mon-979, Tues-1360, Wed-1555, Thurs-1930, Fri-1448, Sat-1266(But that doesn’t count my kiddie portion of spaghetti and 6 Jell-O shots I took after my school beat our rival!! They weren’t strong bc anyone who knows m knows I am not a drinker! But, I don’t know what my calorie intake as including this!) Sun-1564

So….all in all I succeeded but, Thursday and possibly Saturday were not good days!!!

2.            Do some kind of exercise EVERY SINGLE DAY: SUCCEEDED!!!!! I walked outside two days…went to the gym two days…and did my Biggest Loser dvd three days!!! Checkmark for me!!!

3.            Write down every single thing I eat in my food journal: SUCCEEDED!!! I wrote down every single thing I ate from a tablespoon to a cup!!!

4.            Bring a lunch and a snack to campus so; I don’t starve myself for the week: This one is a toss up…I forgot my lunch, in the car that my boyfriend took back home, on Wednesday and I was pretty hungry on campus but…I had my Special K bars so I ate that and a granola bar and that helped a lot. The other days I either didn’t have class or I had a late class so, no lunch was needed. But, a healthy snack was in my purse each day!!!

5.            Weigh myself on Saturday: SUCCEEDED…I weighed in at 239…down 2 lbs…a bummer but, two is better than zero or a gain!!!

6.            Use every opportunity to be more active whether it means get up and wash the dishes or clean up the house: SUCCEEDED…I made an effort to more active in my day to day life….washed the dishes everyday and made sure I just moved so, I was not just sitting in the bed watching TV!

My goals for this week are:

Ø  Eat no more than 1600 calories in a day! Down 100 from last week because it wasn’t that hard for me to maintain that goal!!

Ø  Exercise every single day!!! Exercise twice a day at least two days out of the week!!!

Ø  Write down how many bottles of water I drink along with the food in my journal!!

Ø  Bring my lunch and snacks to campus; be active as much as possible and weigh in on Saturdays!

Last week was pretty good but, this week I want to push harder, choose my calories smarter and get more sleep!!! Thanks for all your support. I’m starting a new challenge…more details coming soon, along with a link!

110 DAYS TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I CHEATED!!!!

Yep…that’s right….yesterday I cheated!! Me and Clevon were up late at a friend’s house and I started craving ice-cream….so I convinced him, rather easily I must say, to take me to McDonald’s and we both got ice-cream and a McChicken at midnight!!!! I felt bad the whole trip there but, the filling soon subsided after taking the first bite of the hot fudge sundae. It tasted divine!!!  After devouring the high calorie foods, it brought my calorie total for the day to 1930!!!!! The highest calorie intake I’ve had in two weeks by more than 400 calories!!! I can’t do this again, especially so late at night!!!

                I haven’t cheated on my workouts. I make sure I workout no less than 45 minutes a day but, I still feel horrible!!! And then I instantly thought to myself…of all days to cheat…you pick a Thursday…when you have the whole weekend ahead of you!!! Thursday is such a lousy day to choose for a cheat day!!!

                It’s a big weekend for my school (RIVAL GAME) so, I have friends coming in town but, I will remain disciplined.   The majority of my girls are supportive so, I’m sure it won’t be a problem.  But, it’s going to be a long weekend so, pray for me and hopefully yesterday will be my only CHEAT day!!!  Headed to the gym later and Urban Active in the morning with my friend CeCe who’s coming in town!!! See you tomorrow!!!!

112 DAYS TO GO!!!!!!!!

Better Late Than Never

After being on campus all day until 5 pm, I hardly felt like working out yesterday, especially with no one to work out with. After playing SIMS and watching American Idol (I only watch to laugh at the real horrible singers!), I decided that I should get up and do my Biggest Loser dvd at 10:30 at night!!! Although it was late, I felt like late exercise is better than no exercise at all!!! But, I think I’m going to do some research on when is the best time to do exercise….is there a good time or even with my late exercise I’m effective?

Yesterday was definitely a balancing act, that I didn’t do so good at….me and Clevon got  our schedule’s mixed up and I was stuck with no lunch and forced to live off a granola bar and a Special K bar for lunch!!! I sooooooo wanted to raid the vending machine but, I resisted the temptation!!! Thursday will be a better day but, it should be easy because I don’t have class until 2!!!

I just want to do as good as I possibly can so that I can look back on the last few weeks…whether I lose 2 lbs or 20 lbs…and say I tried my best!!! If I try I will be proud of myself….I’m going to try to do the Biggest Loser twice today because there’s a big snow storm coming through (I hope lab gets cancelled!!!!) .

I can’t wait to see how I look four months from now!!! I’m finding really fun ideas and lots of good success stories from reading other blogs and watching television programs that pertain to my struggle!!! Keep the feedback coming….it’s my fuel!!!

113 DAYS TO GO!!!!!!!!!!!

Sleepy Blues

Yesterday was a good day…I became registration complete for my last semester at KSU!!!!! I went to the gym energetic and came to a road block, Exum, our gym at school….was completely packed!!! Not a treadmill, weight bench, or elliptical was free. How is a woman supposed to work out with conditions like this??? So back home I went and that’s when the laziness set in. I already had a two hour power nap earlier...LOL…so did I really want to sleep again…YES!!! This is the time of the month that every woman dreads and fatigue sets in…my Aunt Flo has come to visit and dampened my mood drastically!!! But instead of going to sleep, I watched an hour of the Kardashians and went to the living room to do my Biggest Loser DVD. The DVD is not easy! It is a straight cardio workout and you feel it afterwards, especially if you’ve already been hitting the gym.

I ended the night watching Biggest Loser (Can you believe those twin brothers gained 9 lbs each in one week!!!!) and of course…The Game ( which was good but, too short!!!!) And I ate an ice-cream sandwich while watching Biggest Loser and paid for it afterwards because it did not sit well with my stomach right at all. But, my calories for the day were still 1360!!! So, that’s not too bad right…I indulged but, still was within my calorie limit.

But, after another battle of cramps, I felt restless an extremely hungry…so I indulged again and had a Special K bar and a bag of popcorn bringing my grand total to 1710!!! Not what I wanted at all but, still under my 1800 calorie max!

I visited the blog: Diary of an Aspiring Curvy Diva and she had a great idea!!! So, I’m participating in the Monday Milestones, which you set goals for the week…and report your progress the next week, along with your new goals for the week. So, it’s not Monday but, I’ll tell you my goals for the week and let you know what my progress is next Monday.

MY GOALS:

1.      Eat no more than 1700 calories in a day….I’ve been eating 1500. My original goal was to stay within 2000…but, I’m way below that so, I’m going to try and keep it up.

2.      Do some kind of exercise EVERY SINGLE DAY unless I suffer an injury of some sort….which I’m praying I don’t.

3.      Write down every single thing I eat in my food journal.

4.      Bring a lunch and a snack to campus so; I don’t starve myself for the week.

5.      Weigh myself on Saturday.

6.      Use every opportunity to be more active whether it means get up and wash the dishes or clean up the house.

So, there you have it…my goals for the week. I hope to accomplish these goals and develop more goals to accelerate my weight loss. I hope that I don’t let these cramps get the best of me and I continue to succeed. I planned to wake up at six and walked to campus from my apartment and then back to my apartment (Round trip 3.1 miles but, I think it should count for more because that hill is a beast!!!). BUT…that didn’t happen so; you’ll see me walking it later this afternoon. Until next time….

114 DAYS TO GO!!!!!!!!!