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I have had foot pain in my heel for about 5 or six months. A few months ago I went to my doc and he said I had a little bone spur and referred me to a podiatrist. I finally was able to get into him today and he said I have a little bone spur and plantar fascitis  ( I know that is spelled wrong). He gave me an injection of steroid into the heel (hurt like a mofo) and told me to get some special foot inserts and gave me a brace to wear at night to keep it stretched. He also told me no weight bearing exercise this week ><   That really pissed me off. So tonight I went to the gym and I SOOO wanted to do combat class but instead I did the elliptical machine and the stationary bike and made an attempt at swimming. Not too bad of a work out really.

As for the weight.  I have only been losing about half a pound a week for the past month. Three weeks ago I upped my calories from 1300 a day to 1500 because I work out kind of a lot. Last week I weight 150.5 with my goal weight being 150. This week I was just hoping I would lost at least another half pound. So I got on the scale and it said 148!!!!! I was soooo happy. I’m sure this won’t happen again anytime soon but I’ll take it when I can get it.

Hope everyone is doing great!

I haven’t posted a blog in a while but I am still going strong. I am down to 150.5 pounds. Another half a pound and I’ll be at 30 pounds lost since February. This week I’ve decided to add a few things to my exercise regime. I’m going to go to cycling class at 930 this morning. Haven’t taken a cycling class in over 3 years and I know they are super hard. Did an ab class on Wednesday after my kickboxing class. Also, I’m going to start doing yoga once a week. I hate yoga. I know most people love it and its supposed to be calming and I hope that someday I will feel that way about it, but currently I hate it. I’d rather be kicking and punching and jumping around. I feel that it will help my body with other exercising though so I’m going to give it a try for a few weeks.

I’ve gotten myself on a pretty good schedule for working out too. I go to work at 630 mon-thurs so I go to a 430 class at the gym every work day. I guess that’s like working out in the morning for me. Its been helping me sleep better during the day too. I take one day on the weekend as my rest day but I’m thinking of using my rest day to do yoga. I still enjoy my cheat meal once a week. Last weekend my guy and I went to a wine restaurant and had wine and shared a fruit/cheese/salami plate with this really great pita bread that was warm. It also had olives and walnuts. Mostly healthy things but high in calories.

Yesterday I had 800 calories left before dinner so I decided to try Chipolte. I got a burrito with chicken, black beans, guacamole, and mild salsa. The whole burrito had 800 calories. I don’t think it was worth it though. I ate about three-fourths of it and had a light cookie with half a cup of milk before bed. I don’t think I’ll be doing chipotle again. I could have enjoyed 800 calories much more on something else.

Hope everyone is doing well! I enjoy reading your blogs. I dont get to comment often because I read them at work and it won’t load the the verification number thing.

Starting Friday I will be off of work for 10 days! Yipeee! I’m so excited. I was surprised that one of the things I’m most excited about is all the exercising I can do without work getting in the way lol. I went online and printed all of my different gyms class schedules and planned out the whole 10 days. We are going to see my dad for fathers day this weekend and I even found that gyms schedule and planned to work out there as well. I went to the gym before work today and did Body pump. When I went to the locker room to get cleaned up I found out there was no hot water. That was the fastest shower I’ve ever taken lol.  Tomorrow is kickboxing before work.

A coworker of mine brought in a ton of beef jerky he made. I bought a half pound bag and I’m going to seperate it into one ounce baggies and take a few on our road trip with some cut up fruits and veggies. I told my dad to buy me some healthy stuff and that I’d like it if my step mom doesn’t cook big dinners for me like she used to. One night we are going to a pool party/bbq so that will be my cheat night but I’ll still try to stick to the best choices I can and avoid alcohol.

I hope you are all doing great, keep up the good work!

I wish I had friends who are trying to live a healthy life style like I am. I have a few friends but they just want to go out to eat or go out for drinks and appetizers or go to the club and get drunk. My dad came here this weekend and he LOVES happy hour. Anywhere. I took him to one at a restaurant. I just had ice tea and since I hadn’t eaten I got the only thing that was healthy which was a tuna tartar with avocado. It was just raw fish and avocado. It was ok but not really the meal I had in mind. After that we went to a british pub where I just had ice tea again, my bf and my dad shared fries with a bacon cheese dip. UGH….  My dad did let me pick where we ate the rest of the weekend though. Instead of going to happy hour last night we went to the movies and snuck in diet soda’s, 100 calorie popcorn, and apples.

My boyfriend is pretty good about eating healthy with me, he really doesn’t mind. I’d still like to have friends who would go to the gym with me or even just do something non-f00d/drink related. I’d like to go to the movies, get pedicures, go shopping…there is so much to do that doesn’t have to do with food.

I went to the outlet malls today and decided I needed a pair of shorts that fit. I got a size 12! In January my I was wearing my 18’s. 5 years ago I was wearing 26’s. This is the smallest I have been since junior high

We went to pf changs, it was delicious. I got orange peel shrimp, two steamed shrimp dumplings, a bowl of egg drop soup, three pieces of my guy’s beef a la sichuan, and a mini apple pie dessert shot glass thing. I didn’t finish the shrimp but I counted all the calories cause I ate most of it. I got all of this for 900 calories and for the day ate 1450 calories. Add kickboxing to that and I think I still had a decifit of about 900 calories. Not too shabby!

What do you guys eat if you have cheat meals?

 These really piss me off. I found there were responses to my blogs that I didn’t even know where there. Almost every time I post a response to someones blog its puts it in moderation. What is the point of getting comments if we don’t even know they exisit. ><

So today is cheat day. My guy and I are going to PF Chang’s tonight for dinner. I L O V E PF changs. They have a new four course dinner thing and I wanted to try it. I know, four courses sounds kinda crazy but I looked up all the nutrition info and I can do it for about 800 calories. Their website is great. It lists all the nutrition info for all thier foods. I know that I need a cheat day, not only for mental reasons but because I tend to cut my calories low throughout the week and from what I’ve read a big meal helps to tell the metabolism everythings ok and to keep burning calories.

This morning I went to the gym and did kickboxing. I was going to do body pump before but I slept too late so body pump will be tomorrow. This is probably a good thing since I am still a little sore from Friday’s body pump. On the way home I was going to stop by subway for lunch but I decided to save my money and see what I had at home.
This is how I created the uber healthy lunch lol. I had a 3.7 ounc salmon fillet, half a cup of black beans and broccoli. As I was eating it, I was thinking, this is sooo freaking healthy and it tastes great! I didn’t even have to add seasoning to anything. My tastebuds have definately started to prefer healthy stuff to surgary crap.

This last weekend we celebrated my boyfriend’s birthday. Thursday night we went to the movies and Howl at the Moon. At the movies I had a diet coke and one tiny piece of the chicken strips he ordered. At Howl at the moon I had one double vodka on the rocks and sipped it all night. I figured that would be better than wasting calories on mixers.

That night when we got home I realized my wallet was gone. I went back the bar and the parking lot and looked everywhere. Then we tore the car apart hoping it had fallen in there. I had to cancel all of my cards and put a notice on my credit report because I was stupid and had my social security card in there too. First thing Friday morning I went to the DMV and the social security office and ordered new ones. That night when I was making dinner I get a call on my cell phone that a man has found my wallet. It was my insurance company, he called them and gave them his number and they called me. I called the guy and my boyfriend and I went to go pick it up. I was SOOOOOO freaking happy! I tried to give him 60 bucks but he wouldn’t take it. He said its just good karma. What a good guy! I told him if I see him down at the bar I’ll buy him lots of drinks and thanked him again. I felt so much better having my wallet and knowing such a good guy was the one who found it. I thanked God for helping me through this and letting everything end up ok.

I made my boyfriend and I some dinner at home that night. I made him baked breaded talapia and baked sweet potato fries and I had scallops that come with an asian sauce and some green beans. I hadn’t really eaten enough calories that day so I splurged and had a Kashi oatmeal cookie.

For some reason, I didn’t work out Friday so Saturday I did double. I did an hour of Body Pump and an hour of kickboxing. This was all in preperation of the upcoming enchiladas and birthday cake my boyfriend’s mom was making for dinner. They were SOOO good. I had a glass of wine instead of the pina coladas they were drinking. I had a few chips and dip before dinner. I had more than two thousand calories left to eat before we went over there since I had worked out so much so I didn’t feel too bad about eating a littla extra. Plus, it was my cheat meal. I had two enchiladas and a few bites of beans and I was stuffed! We sat around and watched tv and chatted and then it was time for cake and presents. He wanted white cake with white icing so his mom made a huge one. I ate a very small piece but I was too full and had to leave most of the icing behind. She also gave us klondike bars. I took two bites and gave the rest to my boyfriend.

Sunday my boyfriend wanted to take me out to lunch so I picked Applebee’s since they have the weight watchers menu. I got the baked talapia. I was too sore and tired to work out. My body had that worn out, sick feeling so I went ahead and listened to it even though I really wanted to go to kickboxing. When my boyfriend went to bed so he could go to work I went shopping and looked at clothes and got some panda express. I know its full of sodium but its the only chinese food I’ve found that is low in calories and you can actually see all the nutritional info on it. I dont’ really worry about sodium since I drink tons of water and don’t have any kinds blood pressure issues or anything. Anyways, I had the asparagus chicken and steamed veggies with no rice. It was very filling and had tons of veggies. Before my boyfriend went to work I made us taco salad with 96% lean beef. They were really good too.

Ok, so the weigh in. It has been one month since my last weigh in which was 158.5 and a body fat % of 40. Today the weight was 153.5 and a body fat % of 37! Woo hoo!!!!

I did some calcuations, and if the body fat thing is right (probably not but its all I have) I have lost over 6 pounds of fat and gained 2 pounds of muscle. I know that’s not a lot of fat to loose in a month but I’m more than 4 months into this and it’s getting slower. I”m still happy. My next goal is another 5 pounds by July 1 and that will put me under my next mini goal!

Yesterday was crappy. I got home from work at 7 am and had a huge fight with my guy. I was so upset I didn’t sleep well. I had already planned to go to Zumba so I decided to go ahead and go, hoping it would put me in a better mood. I got about half way through and I was in a worse mood. I said “screw this” and went and hopped on the treadmill for about 10 minutes before just giving up and taking a shower. I hate cutting my work outs short but I was miserable. This is the first time in months that I have wanted to just give in and go get a big pizza and eat it all to make myself feel better. I didn’t though, I knew I would only feel worse after I did, both physcially and mentally. I went to subway and got a sandwich instead.

When I was getting ready at the gym ( I had to go to work after all this crap and little sleep) this lady came up. I didn’t realize I had my stuff strewn across the counter and she’s like ” UH…..can I use some of your counter space” all bitchy. Now, it was totally my fault for being messy but she could have been a little nicer about it. I said sorry and scooted my stuff over. Then she pulls off everything but a tiny thong she is wearing and looks at herself for a minute. She puts on this little strapless dress. I’m trying to fix my hair and she says “Does this look, like, totally awful?” and points to the top of her dress. So I ask her “What?” and shes like “my chicken fat poking out from the top”.  Shes in very good shape and it was just her skin bulging from the too tight dress. So I say “no, its fine” and go back to fixing my hair. She then goes into this story about how she never gets tube top dresses because she’s afraid someone could pull it down, so she got an extra small instead of a small and she just couldn’t believe she got an extra small.  I’m thinking that I may actually strangle this bitch if she doesn’t shut up. Thankfully some other lady gave her the compliment she was fishing for and she left.

My guy and I have since made up and I am feeling a little better. I left work early and went to visit him and now I”m home resting. I’m going to make him birthday pancakes when he gets home and were going to crash. When I get up today I’m going to go have a long, stress busting work out and then all should be right with the world. Were going out tonight to celebrate his birthday and I’m trying to save a few calories so I can have a drink or two. I’m going to eat oatmeal instead of pancakes this morning. I don’t really LOVE pancakes so I don’t really mind. The big cheat meal this weekend is the home made enchiladas his mom is going to make for him on Saturday. They are the best mexican food I have ever eaten.

I used to always give myself one cheat meal a week and actually eat what I wanted but lately I’m getting harder and harder on myself. I think the cheat meal actually helps me loose weight because it changes my metabolism up and makes up for any days that I didn’t really eat enough. Still, I have gotten more restrictive over the past few months.

My one month weigh in is Monday. I’m nervous.