Ashleynaye

Hello fellow bloggers. I hope all is well with you. I was out of town this past weekend and of course dieting didn’t go as well as I had hoped. My husband and I went to a conference for a business that we are working on starting. Anyways, the days were long and I wasn’t able to exercise or really stick to much of an eating plan. Luckily, I didn’t gain any weight. I lost about a half a pound last week, which is better than nothing… though I was hoping for more. Hopefully I will be able to hit it hard this week and next week and lose 5 pounds by the end of the month. I know that I can do it with some determination and self control. I just wanted to update you all since it has been a while since I posted. Hope this week is going well for you all!

I am actually suprised that I did as well as I did today with my food. For breakfast I had an organic tropical bar and some water. For lunch I had the weight watchers progresso soup with 10 wheat crackers ( if you haven’t tried these soups they are awesome!!! and only have 120 calories total), a serving of cucumbers and carrots and some more water. For afternoon snack I was really craving some starbucks so I had a chai tea (my one guilty pleasure of the day. And for dinner I had an asian salad and 11 buffalo wings snacks that had 190 calories. I also had a little chicken on my salad. I was pretty impressed with my calories, coming in around 1050 plus the Starbucks. ( i just now added the calories and can’t believe it is that few!!!) The cool thing is that I feel like I ate ALL day!!! I’m not hungry at all…. I am craving something sweet but if I do give in it will be a yogurt or weight watchers fudge sickle.. so either way I am doing pretty good overall today! Just wanted to share my exciting news… hopefully tomorrow will go well too!

So I spent most of my day watching the biggest loser (the australia marathon and also the new season) while I was doing my laundry and dishes and other housework. I got a pretty good workout doing chores ( I did like 6 loads of laundry- I can’t believe I had that much and to be honest it’s not all done!). During the commercials tonight I decided I would exercise more. I jogged during several commercial breaks with 5 pound weights. I also did about 20 pushups (as many as I could before I felt like my arms were jelly). I lifted weights off and on during the 2 hour show tonight and I did 20 crunches today. I am proud of myself for starting new year on a better foot than I usually have. But… I know that I can do better. I know that I have more to give. I am glad that I stuck to it today and did indeed exercise. Tomorrow, my goal, is to go to the gym.

Tonight I also packed my lunch for work tomorrow… which is a new goal of mine. I tend to run late in the morning and choose not to take the 5 minutes it would take to pack my lunch. Thus I end up eating fast food. It will be nice to eat a healthy lunch.

 Good luck tomorrow to everyone!!!! You guys have been great so far!

I would like to have the little train voice in my head going “I think I can, I think I can”. Sometimes I fall away from that and with the start of the New Year I do fear that I will fall back into my old ways. Right now the voice is sort of there (a no I am not hearing a literal voice ) and I need it to grow stronger. I know that a BIG part of my being able to lose weight is growing as a person inside. I need the self confidence to realize that I am ABLE to achieve greatness. I need the voice to say I KNOW I CAN! I’m working towards it and have been reading about growing as a person. MY husband and I also really started a GREAT homebase business that has really been a blessing and lead us to meet some very encouraging person so I am very hopeful for what God has in store for our future.

 That being said today was not the best day food wise. I started out great for breakfast and even lunch, but by dinner time my husband and I decided to go out to Chili’s for dinner.. of course we got chips and salsa.. and I know my diet went off track with dinner. But at least breakfast and lunch were healthy… small steps are good. I know tomorrow I will be more in control.

Tonight we sat down and wrote out several goals that we have.. goals for our personal lives, goals for our business, dreams for our future. It was nice to have that time together and also to be hopeful and writing out things on paper. I really feel that helps make them more realistic and more achievable.

Good luck to all of your out there in blog land! May God Bless you all in 2008!!!

Ash

I have finally decided (well I have been deciding for a while) that I need to lose weight for ME!!! Not because my husband wants me to, or my family wants me to, but because I want to. I want to feel healthy. I want to be active. I want to be able to go running on a nice spring day. I want to be able to walk up a flight of stairs without getting winded. I want to have the energy to work and come home and clean and then walk my dog… basically, I just want to feel good. I have spent too much of my life caring for other people and not enough time caring for myself.

 I know that I can take control of my life and especially my eating. I just need God’s help and the help of some wonderful people out there who are going through what I am going through. My goal weight is 170 partly because I think that I will be healthy if I weigh that and also because that is what my husband weighs. It would be nice to be his size!!!

So, starting tomorrow I will be logging everything on here… and if you are looking at this or my page and things are being logged please hold me accountable!!! I need that sometimes! best of luck to you all.. I know that we can do this if we stand up for ourselves and take charge!! It’s our lives so it should be pretty important to us all.