What I Ate Yesterday #2

Hey Guys!

Did you check out the video from yesterday? Please read that post. It will definitely give you something to think about!

How is your week going? I am busy over here as usual. I was supposed to go to the running shoe store yesterday, but decided time wise today would be better. Wish me luck on not having to spend my entire savings of my poor little allowance!!!

I decided to take some time to make another food summary post. This one includes everything I ate yesterday. Do you guys like these? Should I do something like a weekly summary maybe? That might be better than an everyday one since I don’t eat that differently each day. Let me know in the comments!

Brandi also asked about my food/exercise journal. I am working on a post all about that, so stay tuned!

Anyways, here’s my food summary. Got questions? Leave me a comment!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In other news: check it out! As of my last weigh-in, I am no longer in the obese category! Wahoo! Officially I am simply overweight. As weird as excitement over this sounds….progress is progress!

Thanks for reading,
Monique

Thank You.

Hey There,
I obviously owe you all a HUGE thank you for reading. I had no idea (seriously) that anyone would be reading my blog at all anymore since it was so new to begin with and I had pretty much abandoned it all together. You have no idea what it means to me, and how your awesome comments brightened my day.

That being said...

Here is how my yesterday went:

 

So, here we go....
I do not have to wait until tomorrow or Monday. Now is now, and that's what I hold in my hands. 

I have to do this. 
I will do this. 
I AM doing this. 
I need this.

 Period. 

I have a plan. That plan is not going to go into action for awhile, though. I need to get a little better organized with it and fit it into the other parts of my life a little nicer. Eventually I would love to have a weekly weigh-in video with measurements, charts and all the tools that I feel will keep me visually motivated. Right now, my goal is simply to fill up that chart that I made and have on my office wall with as many smiles as I can before my 27th birthday on January 1st. I also plan on not weighing myself until then. No numbers whatsoever. No calories, no weights, no measurements. I really just need to get my body feeling the workouts, the clean, lower calorie and smaller portioned food and the workouts. I know what I weighed last week and have measurements from last month, so I can just reference  those in 26 days. You know, what usually happens as I go on these escapades is that I get discouraged so easily by the scale depending on which way that it moves, that I  pretty much become paralyzed by each friggin' tenth of a pound...which truly is ridiculous. Elle had (and has had) the most amazingly encouraging post(s) helping me to remember that this is a crazy long and super hard journey. I am so ready. If you're reading, come back to see my fun plans, and I would love to encourage you as well. Please let me know if you're reading and you have a blog and would like to be accountable with me! Even if you don't have a blog, I would still love to "meet" you. Please email me! I just got an email from a month ago and hadn't even realized that I got it because I had trouble with it.

Wow. How amazing it is that things turn out the way that they do, right? When I started this blog, I named it this title and it took a turn that I hadn't planned on it taking. Now, how wonderfully fitting the title is! I will indeed find the courage to change, and dig deep inside to give myself something to be proud of....that came from inside for once. How amazing that will be....and I hope you're here to share it with me.

Thanks for reading,
      Monique 

I am worth it!

Hello Blog World!

My name is Monique, and this is my very first post on my very first blog. I set up my blogs weeks ago, tinkered with it a lot, trying to decide how much I should share, and how much I shouldn't. I then decided that I just needed to do this! I have been reading other blogs for months, and have learned such amazing things about healthy lifestyles, wholesome food choices and of course amazing success stories. Here is where I come in...

I do not yet have a success story. I am a work in progress with my weight loss, and am determined to lose 60lbs slowly, healthily and be happy while I am doing it. I chose to blog because I thought that I would make a support group of people who I could share my daily ups and downs with, as well as continue to get more advice from others who are on the journey, and who are on the other side of the weight loss finish line and are maintaining.

I decided to make today the day I publish a first post because of Caitlin at Healthy Tipping Point. This is the week that her book is to be released, and I wanted to support her on the first day of my blog, because she has inspired me daily for months now. I emailed her once, and one of the first things that she wrote back was that she wanted to give me a hug. A person like that, who doesn't even know me, truly warmed my heart, and really motivated me to feel that I am worth the fight, deserves my first post spot! ;-)

SO, in honor Change the Way You See, Not the Way You Look, I am deciding that my weight loss will be about something other than numbers....numbers on the scale, sizes on jeans, calories, fat grams, carb grams, etc.  Obviously, I have to measure those things in order to continue on with success, but I want my heart to focus on raising my level of self awareness, and knowing my worth ASIDE from the exterior things that other people see.  I decide today that I am worth the small amount of extra time that it will take to make a better food choice, the extra effort that it will take to go to the gym and push myself, and of course, the effort it will take to say no to things that are not the best choice for how I like to feel after I eat....light, healthy and super proud of myself.

I heard a quote once that said, "Be a human being, not a human doing or a human having". That really hit home for me, because all my life, I have been either trying to achieve this or that, or fit into a size this or that. I have never once lived a day thinking....wow, I am pretty funny sometimes...or I am very compassionate and caring at times...or even just I am a good listener. It's so hard to live in a manner that allows you to focus on those qualities that you cannot see, because society does not support an attitude like that, but in determining your worth as a person, you must dig deep to pull those qualities out and put them on display for awhile.You can then experience a sense of happiness from your achievements because your efforts emerge from and affirm who you are.

I feel that Operation Beautiful is such an amazing idea that will inspire people and most importantly future generations to come. I am thankful to Caitlin for stepping out and being brave with her message, and am happy to be able to say....I read her blog before she became a super famous author! :-)

P. S. Today, I feel COMPLETELY EMPOWERED! I was worth the hour of cardio that I did this morning! F.Y.I. I have never done an hour of cardio in one day ever in my life!! Thanks Caitlin!

~Monique