Portions, Portions, Portions ~Taylor

So it's no secret that my motivation is M.I.A.!!!!! So I've been trying to think of something I can do until I find it!  My answer: PORTIONS!  One of my biggest problems is the size of my portions!  If it tastes good I feel like I need to eat ALOT of it.  NOT TRUE!  I can still eat yummy stuff but cut the portion size in half!  So this is my DAILY goal (yes I went from monthly goal to weekly goal and now to daily goal....don't judge!)   So if I can take the entire day today and watch my portions I'm gonna go to the movies with my very hunky husband! 
Brooke I'm glad you're losing weight!!!!  You are my hero!  Keep it up (well minus the whole passing out thing!)  I think one of our goals should be you guys coming down so we can go up to Mt. Graham and go camping!!!! :)  Have a great day!

The end of HCG

I have been doing soooo good on HCG. This morning when I weighted in I was at 149!! That means I've lost 11 pounds and I get my reward, new shoes! I'm going tonight with Amron to pick them out.

But I'm not doing the HCG diet anymore. Last night I passed out in the shower. Then at 4:30 I woke up and puked twice. Then around 7:30 I passed out when I was going to get Graham out of his high chair and fell and hit my head on a chair. Sooooooo as much as I love losing weight it's not worth it if I can't take care of myself and my kids. We are going to sign up for Life Time fitness tonight and I can start working out there soon. My goals will take longer to reach but it's ok. 

How are you doing with your weight loss/fitness stuff?

YAY!!!!!

I have been doing so good lately! I am 2.3 pounds away from reaching 150! And then I will get new running shoes. I can't wait. I want to wake up and weight 150. What do you think? Should I? haha I scheduled my reward for when I am 140. It's eyelash extensions with Melissa Golbel of I Do Permanent Make-Up. I'm very, very excited. It is scheduled for July 5th and the way things are looking right now I think I will be making that goal. Today I made cupcakes. And I didn't eat them and the crazy things is I wasn't really tempted to. Does this mean I'm getting stronger? I hope.

I need ideas for my reward for 145. I found my ipod arm band so I need something else. This reward isn't as big.  I want to get a facial but that's more of a big reward.... I guess I could get cheaper workout pants and ear buds. We will see once I get my shoes. I'm really excited!

O and we are buying the Silhouette! Amron is going to keep it in the closet until I reach my goal or return it if I don't (I'm totally reaching my goal!). We found it for like 100 bucks less.

Anything else?? Ummm nope. I'm happy. And excited. And tired.

Motivation... ~Taylor

Sorry I've been so ABSENT!!!  In all honesty, my motivation has been non-existent so I haven't posted.  But I still wanted to check in b/c I owe it to myself to keep this up!  I am going on vacation tomorrow and I'll be back Wednesday night.  I only have one month left until I go back to work so I need to get my butt in gear!!! I want to lose at least 10 pounds this next month, so that 2.5 pounds a week!  IT'S DOABLE!!!  I love Brooke's goals so here are some of my own!!!

Week One:  Pedicure
Week Two: Hair Highlights and cut!
Week Three: Massage!!
Week Four:  Hmmmm I'm not sure yet but it'll be gooood!!!

I've been doing really good!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I changed my 140 reward. And I'm really excited about it. Instead of expensive workout pants ill just find some sweats at savers and I'm getting eyelash extensions!!


My goal is the lose 5 pounds for 3 weeks while doing the HCG. Then I will have 15 more to lose over a 6 week period. I think that is pretty realistic.

REWARDS!!!!!!!!

150-  running shoes

145- ipod arm band and ear buds

140- work out pants

135- burberry perfume

130- THE SIHILLOUETTE!

125- scuba certification




i'm so sos os sooooooooooo excited!

HCG

Ok..... This is kind of a funny post because I feel like I'm justifying why I am doing this diet. Well, I started on Monday and have lost 5 pounds since then, I guess that's a good reason!

I did the HCG diet right before I got pregnant with the twins and I lost about 12 pounds. I didn't want to do the diet this time because I wanted to feel healthy. I love the runners high and that comes with exercise and eating healthy. I just feel like with my hurt foot and having 3 small children, right now this is the diet I can do realistically. As soon as the babies are 3 months they can go to the gym day care so then I will be eating healthy and exercising. But for now I'm doing the HCG diet.

I love rewards and for losing 5 pounds I rewarded my self my buying that cute tape from my previous post!

These are my next rewards:

150- workout shoes

145- ipod holder

140- workout clothes!

135-

130-

125- swimsuit!


As you see I still need a few ideas? Have any good ones?

where have I been...

Umm well I know I don't need to explain myself but I think it will make me feel better. haha After I ran my 4 mile run a hurt my foot. That was really had because I was so excited about running and really motivated. And then I didn't eat healthy either, no excuse for that. BUT I'm starting again!! I know it's the middle of the week but I know if I wait until Monday I'll get even farther behind. So here I go! I'm going to start walking with some friends in the evening. I'm excited about this because even though I'm sure I could get a better work out running it will be so good for me to go outside and talk with my girls.

So my goal is to walk everyday (Wednesday -Saturday). And this is my reward.

I'm Back!!! ~Taylor

Well I must say I NEEDED the last 4 days of vacation!  No kids, No stress, NO WEIGHTLOSS!  Okay the last part wasn't the best but I pretty much knew that between Olive Garden, Cheesecake Factory, and Disneyland Churros/Cotton Candy I prob wouldn't lose anything this week.  Oh well that just means I gotta lost more next week! 

I had a bit of self revelation while on our trip!  You see I went with my parents and my older, skinnier, prettier sister (sigh..)  She has always been thinner BUT after spending 4 non stop days with her I can def see how she keep some weight off.  So here are some realizations I noticed from watching her....

1)  I ALWAYS think about food!  We would be leaving a resturant and I'd already be thinking where we'd go for the next meal.  My sister just goes with the flow.  She ate at breakfast, lunch, and dinner and that was it!  Which leads me to my next realization...
2) My meal portions are WAY TOO BIG!!!  At every single meal she would ask my mom if she would split the meal with her (let's face it the portions at resturants are WAY too big anyways!)  I would always order my own meal and eat it all.  Of course everytime I'd feel miserable afterwards! grrr.
3) Finally I noticed I eat everything on my plate...My sister would stop when she was done!  I'm not sure why I feel like if I don't eat it all I might starve but that's kinda how I feel!  So  with all these realizations in place I have made some rules for myself...

RULE ONE:  Try not to think of food all the time!  If it's not meal time and I'm not hungry then I need to go on to something else!  Heaven knows there is a TON I can do around the house so get that food out of my mind and get my buns to work!
RULE TWO:  When making food cut down on my portions!  Most of the time when I get a smaller portion it feels me up without making me feel like I'm going to explode! So I need to remember that and get the smaller portion.
RULE THREE: When I feel full WALK AWAY!!!!  If I LOVE the food I can always put it in the fridge and have the rest for another meal! 

So those are my new goals!  Wish me luck!   OH and b/c posts suck without pictures, here's a pict of the gang in Tomorrowland at Disneyland!

P.S. Brooke CONGRATS on the 2 pounds! YOU ROCK!

Day 8- Brooke

Monday is the way I weight in. And......I lost 2 lbs! Which is my goal! And that makes me really happy. It's also a little hard at the same time because it seems like it's going to take forever to lose all the weight I want to. And I know with other diets I could be losing 2 lbs. a day! But I also feel really good, like healthy. 

I ate really good today.

I didn't exercise. I have been limping since my 4 mile run on Friday. Tomorrow I'm supposed to be running 4 again so I decided to rest and hopefully be healed my tomorrow. 

Day 6- Kinda like a free day

Today I was resting... from my 4 mile run! I have a little limp and my right foot is sore. I hope it goes away soon. My only exercise was swimming but just play swimming. I ate bad. And enjoyed it.

I need to get some vitamins and supplements. I want to make sure my body is getting all that stuff that it needs. My dad takes these hard core one so I'm going to ask him about those. 

Work Out Schedule for the Week:

Monday- Weights Lower Body

Tuesday- 4 mile run

Wednesday- Weights Upper Body

Thursday- 2 miles

Friday- 4 miles

Saturday- Weights Lower Body

Wish Me Luck!!! ~Taylor

Well I wanted to let you know that I will be absent from blogging until Thursday b/c I'll be here:

DISNEYLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wish me luck that I don't gain 1000 pounds!!! Hope you have an awesome week Brooke!

See ya on Thursday!

Day 5- Brooke

Such a good day! I decided I'm going to count calories. It's because I'm a little bit of a control freak. I use The Daily Plate to keep track of my diet and exercise. I found out about it a few years ago from my sister-in-law. It didn't work to good for me at the time but I'm really excited about it now.


The calories for breakfast, lunch and my route 44 diet coke with vanilla (I know I shouldn't have!) were 708. Then I RAN 4 MILES!!!!!!!!!!!! And that burned 711 calories, more then I had consumed in my day so far! So when we went to my parents house and I had a taco, a few bites of a bean and cheese, snickers, and twix ice cream bars, I could totally enjoy it because I still had 1657 calories I could eat for dinner!

Ok so let's talk about running 4 miles. I feel so great! I was really nervous about doing it because I haven't done that for a few years and I didn't know if I could do it. But running is so mental! Yea it hurts and it's uncomfortable but you can do it! I just feel so invincible!

I really feel like I'm getting the hang of this. I know I will have bad days but I can do it! I mean shoot, I just ran 4 miles!

Meals for Day 5~ Taylor

Breakfast: Veggie and Egg wrap (7pts)

Lunch: Subway Veggie Delight, chips, and cookies (27 pts) <---DANG COOKIES!

Snack: Strawberries and Vanilla yogurt  (1pt)

Dinner is still being decided...I'm either going with Cobb Salad or Grilled Chicken Marinara!

GREAT DAY!!! Played some basketball for exercise today and had a blast!!!

Day 4 - Brooke

Good day! Today didn't run because tomorrow I'm going to run 4 miles!! Kinda nervous! I had a piece of pizza for lunch after we went swimming. O well. But I ate really good for the rest of the day. Happy Day!

Day 3- Brooke

     Yesterday was a great day! I ran 2 miles in the morning then did weights focusing on my upper body in the afternoon. I also ate really healthy; watermelon and cottage cheese for breakfast and sandwich on wheat bread and lots of veggies for lunch. For dinner a had 2 tacos from Los Favoritos! And usually I would feel guilty about this and give up and cry or whatever but I don't! I worked hard all day and it was kind of a special occasion (my little bro graduated!) so I don't want to make this an everyday thing but once in awhile is ok!
    The key for being to being successful is make this diet and exercise thing something I can really do. It need's to be realistic.

My New Fav Healthy Snack!

Strawberries, blueberries, vanilla yogurt and a sprinkle of Grapenuts cereal (3pts)

Day 2- Brooke

Ok, so today has been so different then yesterday, in a good way. Yesterday I was stressed to the max about eating 6 meals a day 3 hours a part and getting both work outs in. Maybe that doesn't seem like a lot but with feeing the babies ( I have twins!) every 3 hours and trying to keep Graham ( my 2 year-old) entertained and then actually making 6 meals a day pushed me over the edge. First of all I rarely cook more then one meal a day so to go from 1 to 6 was a big jump. The physical part of the gym wasn't too bad it was finding the time to go.
So today I did the opposite but in a good way. I regrouped. I still ate really healthy food but I didn't worry about doing it every 3 hours.
So this is my new plan. Eat 3 healthy meals a day and healthy snacks if I need to. And lots of water.
For exercising I will go running every morning at 6 (before I was trying to go at 4! which ment I would have to me in bed by 8!) and then I will do weight training Monday, Wednesday, and Friday after Graham's nap so he can go with me.

I'm really excited about my new plan. I feel like this is something I can actually do and have a life too.
Hope you had a great day!

I WILL be a responder!

I. AM. A. REACTER.



react–verb 1. to act quickly in response to an agent or influence

respond-verb 1. to act favorably in response to an agent or influence

I had a crappy day today..."I'm so busy, I'm emotional, I'm tired, I'm HUNGRY, I'm bored, I don't care..." EXCUSES, EXCUSES!!!!

My first response is to REACT!  I want to quit and eat a cookie.  Instead I should RESPOND!  Why am I wanting to eat everything and the kitchen sink?  What can I do instead of eat OR what can I eat that won't screw up my whole day?  YES I can have a cookie but I then need to go for a jog!  Day one was AWESOME! Day two SUCKED!  But I'm "responding" by saying IT'S OK!  I will go to bed and wake up tomorrow and have a new fresh day to make it right!  I refuse to beat myself up because I wanted cheetos instead of carrots! I love me and will kick some major butt tomorrow! Good Night!