A long overdue weigh in

What I've been up to

It's been a bit since I've done a weigh in post. July 16th was the last time I did one. I haven't had a whole lot of weight loss since them. I have a bad habit of not posting these weekly if I have no loss to show, but I have also been pretty busy with all of the stuff that I've been doing. I've been working out with Les Mills Combat five times a week so the workouts and posting about them have taken some time. I've also started juicing! Searching for recipes, buying ingredients, juicing and blogging about it is time consuming. I've also added yogurt to my life, but I can't just eat yogurt out of a fridge. I have to mask it with peanut butter and other stuff. I've also added Shakeology to my life. That part isn't time consuming though. 

My Plan for the Coming Week

I've got 11 days left with Les Mills Combat. This week will be six workouts. I don't have a rest day on Thursday like I have been. I'm a bit scared about that! I really relied on those rest days in the beginning, but last week, I didn't do the countdown until rest day. Maybe I'll be okay! I'm going to continue with my Shakeology and my green slime. I'm going to work on my diet a little bit. I'm going to use the eating plan from the PiYo book. Based upon the book, I'm not eating enough calories. I'm not eating enough protein either based on the plan. 

With this plan, I'm supposed to eat 2858 calories. That's at least 1,000 calories more than I normally eat. I don't think I'll be be eating that many calories, but I plan on getting closer to 2,000. The eating plan also says that I should eat 6 servings of Primary Vegetables, 3 servings of Secondary Vegetables and Grains, 3 servings of Fruit, 7 servings of Lean Protein and 4 servings of Healthy Fats.

My primary vegetables for this week will be 4 cups of spring mix in my salad, some vegetables for dinner, and my green slime. The juice has 3 cups of spinach, two stalks of celery, a pear and a whole cucumber. It's a 16 ounce serving. It must count for at least one serving. That might put me over my primary vegetables, but the lettuce in my salad is unlimited, the spinach, cucumber, and celery in the juice are unlimited. My secondary vegetables and grains will be the coconut milk in my Shakeology and two slices of Dave's Killer Bread Good Seed 70. My fresh fruit will be my apple in the morning, grapes during lunch (I'm switching my raisins in the salad for grapes), and the pear in my green slime. My lean proteins will be my Shakeology, two hard boiled eggs (down from three), chicken breast in my salad at lunch, turkey slices in my Dave's Killer bread for an afternoon snack, and some sort of meat for dinner. We'll see where this gets me. I'm pretty nervous about the weekend though. I don't do well on the weekends. I ate horribly today! Part of that was because I knew I was starting a restricted meal plan on Monday, but part of it was that it's the weekend and on the weekend, I don't do so well. I don't plan the weekends. I need to plan them better.

The Results

Weight on July 16 = 282 

Weight on August 3 = 278

Weight Loss = 4 pounds! 

Pants on July 16 = 44s loose fitting

Pants on August 3 = 42s comfortable

I didn't do measurements today. I also keep forgetting to do my fat percentage! I really need to work on that. 

The pictures are from quilts from the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show from 2012 I think. 

30 Day Beachbody Les Mills Weigh In and Update

Okay, so it's been a full 30 days since I started Les Mills Combat. I've been waiting for day 30 because it's the halfway point and if I can get halfway down, I can finish it up. I'm feeling pretty good about how far I've come. I've been getting stronger and doing better on the workouts. I haven't missed a single workout. However, I did goof and do the wrong one last Friday so I just swapped Friday and Saturday last week. So last night was picture and measurement time! I was really excited to see the results.

Hubby came home and took the pictures and then he measured me. The excitement dwindled quickly after he got to the first measurement. We started on my upper arms. He told me the measurement, and I'm like that has to be wrong because I know you said it was like four inches smaller the last time you measured me. So he checked it again and I looked at the tape and it was correct, so the measurements last time have to be wrong. I was pretty bummed, but we moved on to the next one. Pretty much all of them went up and they didn't go up by small numbers either. I was pretty bummed, but I figured I would see some difference in the pics. Nope! I saw no differences at all. Granted, it's only been 30 days and I only lost 8 pounds. I started out at 290, so I didn't really think hat I would see any differences with only 8 pounds gone on a 290 pound body, but people had me convinced that I would see something, but nope. Since I didn't take before pictures when I started this blog in January, I have nothing to look at from my 317 pound body. If I compared the 317 pound body to the 282 pound body maybe I would notice a difference, but from 290 to 282, I can't.

I was so bummed that when we went to bed moments later, I cried silently in bed. I didn't want hubby feeling bad that I was this bummed over it all. Eventually I had to blow my knows and the gig was up. He knew that I was crying. He then wanted to know what was going on. He guessed that it was the pictures so I couldn't lie and say it wasn't. So I cried it out. I had some horrible thoughts about not even bothering to do the workout this morning. If I don't have accurate starting measurements, I don't think I can do the challenge on the Beachbody website that would give me the chance to win money. I think I can still get the T-shirt since I have the pictures. I had convinced myself that I needed to keep doing this workout because it was some great experiment for the blog. If it's for the blog I can keep doing it, but without accurate starting measurements, I felt like the whole 30 days was for nothing. I felt like I should just stop the program and start it over in a few weeks. I'm going to do today's workout though. If I can motivate myself to get up. I'm already 4 minutes late with it. I'll probably end up late for work. Oh joy.

Okay, so here are my stats. The first number is before Les Mills Combat ad the second number is after 30 Days of Les Mills Combat

Weight = 290 pounds - 282 pounds
Bust = 50.75 - 43
Chest = 44 - 49.5(yeah this one is a bit off)
Right Arm = 13 - 16.25 (and this one too)
Left arm = 12.5 - 17 (and this one)
Waist = 49 - 51 (this one seem odd too)
Hips =  51.5 -58.25 (yeah that ain't right)
Right Thigh = 31 - 32.25
Left Thigh = 31.5 - 31.5

I forgot to include that my 44s are loose and I should be wearing 42s, but I don't have any

Sooooooooo, I'm really bummed. I don't have before pictures from January, and I don't have accurate before measurements from Les Mills Combat, but I still did my workout today and I'm going to keep chugging, because in the end......all that matters is that I lose this weight. If I don't have documentation to go along with it, it doesn't matter. I'll be fit an climbing South Sister. Although, it would be nice to take a pick of me holding a before pic while at the top of South Sister. :) Oh well!

(I edited the page to add a pic so I could post this to Pinterest and also to add my clothing sizes and stuff)

Pre-Les Mills Combat Stats

I forgot to post my stats before starting the 60 day workout plan for Beachbody Les Mills Combat. I'm not posting the pictures that my husband took, but I will post the stats.

Weight = 290 pounds (Although the day prior I was 288 so I'm assuming I was holding onto a couple pounds of water)
Bust = 50.75
Chest = 44
Right Arm = 13
Left arm = 12.5
Waist = 49
Hips =  51.5
Right Thigh = 31
Left Thigh = 31.5
Fat Percentage = 46.8% (I think this is lower than reality. I use the one where you hold onto the thing with your hands. Most of my fat is below the waist so I never really trust this thing, but it's a fun gadget)

Funny story about my arms and thighs not being the same. When I was a kid, my mother used to talk about eating things in pairs so her hips would be even. I adopted the same thought process as a joke. I can't tell you how many times I've eaten things in pairs and said the same thing. My arms and legs aren't even though! I was absolutely crushed when I saw that. I didn't have these measurements professionally done or anything. My husband measured me. That was a humbling experience. I've always done it on my own in the bathroom where no one can see. I used the mirror to see if it was even, but I used tunnel vision and didn't actually look at my hugeness.

Looking at these numbers was pretty depressing. Back in like 2002, I wore mens pants that had a waist of 32. My left thigh is 31.5 inches. Those pants would fit one leg now.

I haven't done a weigh in post in a bit so this will count as my weigh in post as well. I've hit some milestones lately. I got to 25 pounds of weight loss which is only the second time that I've done that. I got under 290 pounds. I was 290 yesterday for the weight in before starting this workout, but on Saturday, I was most definitely 288 pounds! I was pretty happy! I've got some more milestones coming up. I'm quickly approaching 30 pounds of weight loss and right behind that will be 10% of my starting weight lost! Shortly after that, I will re-earn my butterfly tattoo.

A few years ago, I decided to lose weight. I started out small by getting a Wii Fit and I did that at home for a bit. I also did some at home DVDs. I then joined a gym and got a trainer. At the beginning of that, I got a Garfield tattoo to remind me of where I had been. Fat and lazy. I decided I wanted to lose 150 pounds. At the time I was 303 pounds. At each 25 pound mark, I was going to get a butterfly tattoo. I got the first tattoo and was scheduled to get the second one, but the tattoo artist bailed on me. I set another appointment and he bailed again. That was pretty much the point where I unraveled and started to gain the weight back. It was very slow to come back, and I can't say that it was his fault that it happened, but that was the beginning of the end for me. I don't really have a reason for it. I know that soon after that I developed this insane cough that just wouldn't go away. I was afraid to go to the gym until I knew what was going on. By the time I figured out what was going on, I had pretty much given up on the gym and working out. I did some, but the diet wasn't under control so I wasn't losing weight so I wasn't getting anywhere but more depressed.

I'm rambling now..........soooooooo 303 - 25 = 278. sooooooooooo I have 10 (or 12 depending on which day you count as the official weight) to lose before I re-earn that butterfly. The tattoo has bothered me ever since I went back over 278. It's been a reminder of how I let myself gain back 50 pounds plus an extra 14 pounds! I never wanted to be over 300 again, but I found myself there. I'm under it now and I need to stay there.

June 1, 2014 Update

Refresher on what I had planned

I had planned on doing Jessica Smith's Thin in 10 exercise plan Tuesday through Friday. I didn't have a set plan for the weekend, but I committed to at least 20 minutes of exercise each day. I was hoping for a hike, but wasn't really sure what was going to happen.

How did I do?

I'm pretty impressed with myself after this week. Well, impressed with my ability to stick to the plan. Not really impressed with the lack of weight loss, but that will come I suppose. I managed to Jessica Smith's Thin in 10 exercise plan Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Feel free to click on the days of the week to see what I did that day and how it went. 

I didn't really think that I would have any problems getting through the Monday through Friday part. I'm pretty good about things during the week. I fall apart on the weekend though, so here's where you should be impressed. We had a graduation party to go to on Saturday. That's a good excuse to say to heck with the diet and exercise plan. The party was two hours from my house, so that was four hours in the car plus the time at the party. I searched through all of our hiking books and I found a short, flat hike that was between us and the party! We were going to do the hike after the party, but when we found out that the party was two hours later than we thought, we left early and did the hike before the party. It was supposed to be a 1 mile out and 1 mile back, but it turned into 2.7 miles round trip. You can read about our hike to the Head of Jack Creek to find out more specific details. 

It gets even better. We didn't have snacks with us which was my fault and not very smart. I knew that I needed to eat before the party. My husband stopped at a grocery store so we could grab something from the deli, but all they had was fried food. I said NO to fried food! I ate a Fiber One bar and hoped for the best. I thought for sure that I would park near a bowl of chips at the party and chow down, but I was just trying to get through the day. I didn't eat a single thing at the party! No chips, no pretzels, no cake, no cookies, NOTHING! Woot Woot.

It continues to get better. After the party, we went to Shari's for dinner. It's like Denny's if you've never heard of Shari's. I immediately looked for the "healthy" section. It was intermingled with the unhealthy stuff, but I picked the turkey burger without any condiments and grapes. I did swap out the bread to get a pretzel bun. I'm no saint you know! The burger was pretty yummy. With the regular bun and the avocado, it was 570 calories. I skipped the avocado and got the pretzel bun, so I'm not sure how many calories I ended up with, but I doubt that it could have been more than 100 to 200 calories more. I could have gotten a 1050 calorie beef burger with 350 calorie fries. So even if I had 770 calories, It was still pretty dang close to half of what I would have eaten before.

You might think that it couldn't get better, but really it does. On Sunday we didn't really have plans. My husband sucked it up and went on another hike. It was actually a two part hike. We went to Lava Butte and then Benham Falls! Neither of these was long or strenuous, but we didn't need long or strenuous. We just needed to get up off of the couch and do something. 

After the hikes though, things got a little sideways. We didn't plan very well and we needed to eat. We still needed to do groceries too. We thought about going out to eat. My husband was super awesome and said we could look for a Subway so I could have something reasonably healthy. We weren't sure where to find one where we were at. We could have Googled it on the phone, but we decided if we really needed to go to Walmart for groceries or if we could just get away with something at Ray's. Walmart is way cheaper, but Ray's is closer to home and less obnoxious to deal with. We decided that we could skip Walmart and go to Ray's. We decided to get food at the deli so we didn't have to cook. I got rotisserie chicken, but we also go jojos. For those of you not familiar with jojos, they are giant steak fries with a batter on them. It's not thick, but it's definitely not health food. I ate 1/4 pound of them! I know I shouldn't have, but I really wanted them. I'm now of the mindset that I need to eat things when I want to eat them. I can't be perfect all of the time. I need to splurge sometimes. Otherwise, I'll end up going on a major bender! While I'm being all honest, I also had ice cream. It was one of those really small Haagen Dasz cups. It's 220 calories, but back in the day, I would have eating a giant bowl and poured chocolate syrup on it so that would have been like 800 calories or maybe even more. 

Current Stats

Weight - 293

Total Weight Loss - 24 pounds

I forgot to check my Body Fat % again. Ugh

Pants - Mens 44 comfortably, but I'm still wearing the 46s since I don't have any 44s after ripping the inner seam of the last pair

Shirt - 3x is comfortable, but I can get away with wearing 2x

My Plan for the Week

I need to finish up the last three days of Jessica Smith's Thin in 10 exercise plan. That will get me to Wednesday. We have a graduation two hours from home on Thursday and I have inventory on Friday. I can't commit to any sort of plan for Thursday or Friday. I'm hoping that we go for a hike on Saturday and possibly Sunday, but hubby has a new shift at work, so he might need the weekend to recoup from the week. If he's not in the mood for a hike, I'll be sure to do something even if it means pulling out the step while we watch TV. I really hope that I can get some exercise in on Thursday and Friday though. I'm doing a 43 day challenge with a Facebook group and by then we'll be on day 27 or something. I don't want to fail on this challenge! 

The pictures are from our trip to Black Butte our first summer in Central Oregon. This can be a difficult hike for people who are in shape. It's two miles uphill. Some parts are pretty steep. We made it to the top. I was about 20 pounds lighter then and in better shape than I am now, but I still made it to the top of Black Butte when I weighed 270ish pounds. That's pretty amazing. I'm looking forward to dropping all of this weight and getting up there again! 

My Week in Review

Refresher of what I had planned

The plan was workout all week. I had to do at least one 1 hour/4 mile workout and I could only do one 10 minute/1 mile workout. I also said that I couldn't have any cookies or chips. You can read the whole post from last Monday. It was titled It's Time to Get Real.

How did I do?

I'm actually pretty proud of myself! On Monday, I did Firm 30 on Walk it Off in 30 Days by Leslie Sansone. On Tuesday, I did Start! Walking at Home with Leslie Sansone 3 Mile. On Wednesday, I did Jessica Smith Latin Spice Walk. On Thursday, I did Leslie Sansone Walk Slim 4 Fast Miles. On Friday, I did Jessica Smith 10 Minute Toning Walk II. I did't come up with a plan for the weekend, but I knew that I had to do something. We went for a walk along the Deschutes River Trail on Saturday and on Sunday, we walked in the Oregon Badlands Wilderness.

I didn't eat any cookies or chips! I watched my husband eat some nachos, but I fought the urge! It was hard, but I did it! Unfortunately, I still ate some soup and some frozen pizza! Both of them were filled with salt and salt fills me with retained water! The hike on Sunday also left me with a couple sore muscles, and sore muscles fill me up with retained water! I also ate a mini ice cream cup worth 220 calories.

Which means......I didn't hit my 25 pounds of weight loss like I had expected. I came sooooo close though. On Thursday, I made it to 293. I just needed one more pound! This morning though for my official weigh in, thanks to the soup and the sore muscles, I weighed in at 294. I'm soooooooooooo bummed! I really wanted to hit 25 pounds! I'm sure I'll get there by Wednesday when I can get rid of some of this excess water, but I'm still bummed. I'm not bummed enough to gorge on sugar and salt though! Not that we have anything like that in the house anyway. I think my husband read my post last week. He bought chips that I don't like and he skipped buying any cookies. He went to the store this morning and bought creamer, but didn't buy donuts. I soooooooo would have eaten one too. I was actually hoping that he would come home with some.

Current Stats

Weight - 294
Total Weight Loss - 23 pounds
I forgot to check my BodyFat % and BMI today
Pants - 44 comfortably, but I wore a pair of 42s for the hike. They were wicked tight though
Shirt 3x mens, but I can wear a 2x, but I feel better in the 3x since it covers more of my belly

My Plan for the Week

I've been trying to come up with a good plan, but it's 6:00 PM on Monday, and I haven't really come up with one. I've been wanting to do the exercise plan in Thin In 10, so I suppose that now is as good a time as any to get this thing going. When I took the test, I was tagged as a Novice, but I'm going to try the Intermediate plan. it's 30 minutes a day. The plan is to do this Tuesday through Friday. I'll probably do the DVD instead of the book exercises, but I might try the book stuff too, but I might let that part wait for another time. I'm not sure yet. I'm not sure what I'll do on the weekend. We might have plans on Saturday. I'm hoping to still get in at least one hike. I don't want to commit to a specific plan for the weekend, but I will do at least 20 minutes of exercise even if I have to pull out the step and do my own routine while we watch TV.

The pictures are from our hike to the top of Smith Rock. Our first winter here, we climbed to the top of misery ridge. I was about 20 pounds lighter then and in much better shape from all of the hiking that we had been doing in the Gorge plus my walking on the treadmill at the gym. The walk to the top was hellish. The walk out was hellish! However, I'm dying to try it again! I just need to give it a little more time. 

It's time to get real

It's time to get real

I haven't done a weigh in for a bit. The last time I put anything in my Weigh In section was April 14th. It's been a month! I haven't done it because I haven't been losing weight. This isn't a plateau or anything. This is me not being honest. I sit there and say that I'm on this mission to lose weight. I wake up Monday through Friday, turn on the DVD player and workout. I buy healthy food and Monday through Friday between the hours of 6:30 AM and 4:00 PM, I actually eat healthy. I pass on donuts and pastries at work. I've had a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup in my desk drawer for ages and I don't eat it. I know it's in the drawer. I see it in the drawer every time I open it, but I can fight the urge to eat it. I look forward to my sweet Graze.com snacks, but I can pass on the unhealthy stuff. Then, I get home and it all gets out of control. 

I have all the self control in the world in the store. I can pass by the donuts, cakes and other sweet goods, but my husband isn't quite into this whole eating better thing. He wants to lose weight, but he's not quite ready to give up the goodies. He buys yummy things like Red Velvet cookies and Ruffles potato chips. He knows that I'm trying to lose weight. He knows how bummed I get when I go an entire month without losing weight. He knows that there are a bazillion things in this world that I don't like eating, but he still buys the bad for me things that I like. Why is it that I can pass up my favorite candy bar at work, but I can't pass up my favorite salty crunch snacks at home. Why can't I walk by the Red Velvet cookies at home? Why can't he just buy something with coconut on it so I wouldn't even be tempted to eat it? I'm not blaming him for my failures. They are my failures to own. Just because I want to lose weight, doesn't mean he should have to give up the things that he wants to eat. This would just be so much easier if we were on the same page. 

This week, it's all about getting real. I need to be all in in this weight loss journey. I need to stop procrastinating when I wake up. I'm never going to drop this weight if all I do are 10 minute or 1 mile workouts. I'm never going to drop this weight if I keep eating potato chips and Red Velvet Cookies. It's time to put it all on the line. It's time to figure out why I can have structure at work, but I can't at home. It's time to make a plan. 

My plan for this week is to only allow myself one short workout. I get one day where I can do one 10 minute or 1 mile workout. That's it. Just one day. With any luck, I won't actually need that day, but I feel like I nee dot give myself the option to do that one day. I also plan to do one day of at least an hour. No more excuses on the weekend either. I need to do some form of exercise on both Saturday and Sunday. No more saying that I can't workout because my husband is watching TV or the kids are here. If he doesn't want to go for a walk with me, I'll go for a walk by myself. If it's raining, I can pull out the step and just do walk on the step while the TV is on. No more excuses that I need to edit in order to make more money to pay the bills. I'm not going to make enough money in 30 minutes to make a dent in the bills, so I need to take some time for me. No more chips and cookies, but I will allow myself to have my Brownie Brittle since it's only 120 calories per serving and a girl can't live without something to look forward to. 

Current Stats

Weight - 297

% Fat - 47.2

BMI - 46

Jeans 44 snug

Shirt 3x mens comfortably, but I can get away with wearing a 2x 

(The pictures are from the Oregon Garden and from the Dahlia Festival.)

My 7 Day Commitment to Food Tracking

Why I did this

My husband and I were laying in bed discussing my up and down results over the past couple of months. At first, he said that maybe I wasn't eating enough calories. We laid there in bed trying to workout how many calories I eat in a day. After we did some math, we came to the conclusion that maybe I was actually eating too many calories in a day instead. Everything that I ate at work was pretty healthy, but when I came home, I would snack on things. Most of them were reasonably healthy like Triscuits but even reasonably healthy things can be bad for you if you eat too much of them. 

In the end, he suggested that I track my food. I was totally against doing it because it's sooooooooooo annoying! I remember spending way too long on the food tracking the last time I tried using the BodyMedia device to help me lose weight. The interface was obnoxious and it just took too long. However, for the same of the blog, I can be convinced to do just about anything. If I can blog about it, I'll do some obnoxious things. Case in point, I actually finished the Denise Austin workout last Monday.

I didn't stick to a specific diet, and I didn't have a specific calorie goal in mind. I just set out to track what I was eating to find out why I wasn't losing weight.

What Happened

Surprisingly, I managed to track all of my food for an entire week. A couple of days into the experiment, I noticed that my calories were pretty low and got to thinking that maybe my husband was right. Maybe I wasn't eating enough calories. However, I then realized something else. I stopped eating appetizers with him at night and I stopped sneaking handfuls of chocolate chips after dinner. It didn't want to deal with adding food or finding food in the food log, so I just didn't eat stuff that I didn't think would be in there. This was't really what I was expecting from this test. I was hoping for an accurate account of the calories that I had been eating. 

I was pleasantly surprised though that just telling myself to track my food was enough to convince myself to not eat. I wasn't hungry and I didn't feel deprived. I didn't eat much fruit last week and I had very few processed foods. I know that fruit is good for me, but it's also got a lot of fructose in it and I'm sooooooo incredibly sensitive to sugar of any kind that even nice, healthy fruit can make me feel hungry. I need to work on having protein with my fruit, but that's an experiment for another week. 

There were a few days where I feel like my deficit was too big. I don't think I should reduce my calories quite that low. I felt a bit shaky one day. My head was not screwed on right. There was also a day where I felt like I had ADHD. I was standing there talking to one of my co-workers and I wasn't listening to him. My mind was going in a bazillion other directions and I just couldn't focus on anything. I eventually made him stop talking so I could look something up because I knew that if I didn't find out the answer at that point in time my head was going to explode. I wasn't listening to him anyway so he was just wasting his breath. 

Oddly enough, I wasn't very hungry with this diet. The only time I've been on a "diet" and not been hungry was with Atkins. I could go most of the day on that and not eat. I had major stomach pain on that diet though. If I don't eat enough, my belly revolts. Well, my belly revolts over a lot of things, but I don't remember having any problems last week. I did a lot of whole foods and not much processed stuff at all. Now that I had a successful week, I hope that it will motivate me to stay on track. Although, I've gone three days now without an official workout. I raked on Saturday, but no workout. I didn't so anything on Sunday other than sit on my couch. My BodyMedia screen shot looks like someone flat lining. I slept horribly last night and didn't have any energy at all for a workout this morning. I have now decided that this week will be an experiment to see how long it takes me to get back on track with my diet and exercise.

The Results

Weight Sunday, April 6, 2014 AM - 304 pounds

Weight Sunday, April 12, 2014 AM - 299 pounds

Total weight loss - 5 pounds

Calorie Deficit over the 7 days - 11,594

(I forgot to do body measurements and my body fat meter)

I finally went under 300 pounds again! On Saturday, I found an old pair of jeans that was one size smaller than what I've been wearing. I put them on to see how far I was from being able to zip them up. Not only did they zip up, but I was still able to breathe! I wore those pants for several hours that day. They are still a little bit snug, but I can function in them. I didn't wear them to work today, but while I was walking around at work and pulling up my pants every five minutes, I told myself that I should have worn the smaller pants! 

If you believe in the 1 pound of fat equals 3,500 calories, I should have only lost 3.31 pounds, but when you consider the fact that a couple days before the 6th, I was down to 302, we can assume the difference between 302 and 304 was water weight since it came on so quickly. If we use that assumption, then I only lost 3 extra pounds, which would agree with the BodyMedia calculation of my Calorie Deficit.

Based on my experiment, I feel that the BodyMedia Link device is a pretty accurate little thing. I'm glad I have it and will continue to use it. Now, I just need to get myself to log my food every day! Once my seven day test was over, I went an entire day without logging my food. I ate a lot of junk like Doritos and chocolate chips! Getting back on track today was difficult. I still haven't logged all of my dinner though. I had a little mishap with my planned meal and ended up eating a back up dinner which wasn't the most healthy. I'll write about that later, but let's just say Doritos and cheese were involved.   

BodyMedia Screen Shots

Below are my BodyMedia screen shots for the week. These are all from the phone until you get to the food at the bottom. I did discover an obnoxious aspect of the nutrition tab on the app versus the computer. I have the Link, which means I don't need to use the computer to sync my device. I can just hit upload on the app. However, if I logged food on the computer and then uploaded through the phone, the food logged on the computer was lost. This happened twice and then I just gave up using the nutrition tab on the computer. I also discovered that they really changed the nutrition tab since I had done this before. it's super easy to put the nutrition in. With that said, it's important to note that it does not have a bar code scanner like many other apps have. However, most fruits and vegetables do not come with bar codes. I want to get rid of as much prepackaged processed food as I can. Making it annoying to log prepackaged foods might be a deterrent to eating them. I do find it odd though that the thing doesn't have Jennie-O bacon, but it has McDonald's chicken nuggets. Makes you wonder who came up with the food log. Jennie-O has a big link with The Biggest Loser and The Biggest Loser has a big link with BodyMedia. One would thing that all of the nice healthy Jennie-O products would be conveniently logged, but no biggie. I will write a post about the Nutrition tab soon. I really wanted to get this post out as soon as possible and didn't want to waste time writing the nutrition tab post first.  

Sunday, April 6, 2014

 

Monday, April 7, 2014

My Workout - Denise Austin Quick Cardio Burn 

  

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

My Workout - Jessica Smith 30 Minute Power Walk

  

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

My Workout - Denise Austin Fat Burning Cardio Walking Workout Beginner 

  

Thursday, April 10, 2014

My Workout - Jessica Smith Stride & Strength

  

Friday, April 11, 2014

My workout - Denise Austin Fat Blasting Cardio Intervals

  

Saturday, April 12, 2014

My Workout - Raking pine needles

 

The Breakdown of what I ate

Sunday, April 6, 2014

I need to work on my Carb/Protein/Fat mix. I'm okay with the fat being higher than what they think it should be, but I'm not okay with my protein being such a small piece of the pie. I thought I was eating a lot of protein. I eat eggs for breakfast, a protein shake for a snack and I have meat at lunch and dinner. I know I need to focus more on my nutrition, but I think I'll focus on making sure to log everything and then analyzing a broader base of days. 

Monday, April 7, 2014

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Wednesday April 9, 2014

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Friday, April 11, 2014

Saturday, April 12, 2014