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Much better than the day before!

I went biking in the morning, had an A+ breakfast, an A+ lunch, had a C- Dinner, and a B evening. And no middle-of-the-night eating.

Not perfect, but an improvement!

It’s thunderstorming here, so I’m going to have to work out inside today.

Cheers to a good day for everyone!

So to top off a partially bad day, I ended up getting up in the middle of the night and eating more junk!

What the heck!?!?!

Well, today is a new today. It is beautiful out and I am going biking, I am going to have a protein shake, and I am going to eat well ALL DAY today—-and I will come back here and write all about it.

I don’t know if other people have this experience, but do you sometimes start your day out right—-and then later in the day it just goes waaaay downhill???

 Well, that was my day today.

I got up early and worked out. Yay me!

I ate a healthy protein shake for breakfast. Yay me!

Then—at lunch….I started to slip. I had some french fries and some ice cream.

 Then–the really bad part—my boss brought candy to our meeting and I totally pigged out on it!

Then, at dinner I did pretty good to make up for it

Then, after dinner I was craving sugar and bought some junk food and ate it.

AARRrrrrgggg! It wasn’t until after all of this that I remembered BuddySlim and the people here to support me through this.

I’m sick of eating junk. It makes me feel bad about myself, and it isn’t good for me. Why do I do it?

That’s all for now.

So I apologize to all of my former buddies that I just vanished on you!

 I have been sooooooo busy with working full time, doing my master’s degree part-time, volunteering, and working on a huge grant-sponsered project.

But guess what—–I am going to graduate in 41 days—-and I’ll finally have my life back! (I hope!).

I have gained back a couple of the pounds I lost—but I have also gotten my left leg muscle back, so that could be where most of 6 pounds came from.

I have been making waaaay better choices than before starting my blog with BuddySlim, and have been exercising when I can. For example, yesterday I walked to the post office (1.5 miles) and walked/jogged on the 1.5 miles back! I talked to my mom on the phone on the way there, and I took something to the post office that needed to go, so I accomplished MULTIPLE things—-I talked to my mom, I ran an errand, I got to enjoy the weather, I got exercise, and I saved gas in my car!!! WooHoo!

Even though I have gained a couple pounds back, all of my new skinny clothes still fit. A couple of days ago, I was trying on pants at the Limited and grabbed a ten, because I was guessing that was my size—-but they were too big. I needed an EIGHT! Yay! (they aren’t my only pair of eights, but that’s the size I want to be and stay at).

I want to lose only a couple of more pounds, and certainly just want to not gain any more.

 I have gotten rid of all of my “fat clothes” to a friend that is losing weight, but was bigger than me (she had weight-loss surgery).

I am going to work out on the elliptical this morning, before going to church.

Take care everyone!!!

I’m back! I didn’t  really leave—I still checked in every once in a while—but I did abandon my food plan (though I still made better choices than I would have before buddyslim).

Well-I pretty much reached my goal weight that I set a long time ago—and now that I’m here—I actually feel like I need to lose a little more to be really comfortable with my body again. I set 140 as my new goal weight.

I still can’t walk on my left foot since my surgery in May (I am on crutches and in a cast) :-( I hope the next time I see my doctor (Aug 2) he will let me start to put weight on the whole foot. I’ve been working hard on my foot exercises and physical therapy!

I found out last week on Monday that the doctor will let me go swimming in a pool now—so I have done that 3 times already for about 1 hour each time! It feels great to get some exercise again! I have also been doing situps and arm weights on the off-days when I don’t swim.

I am going to be here posting along so that I can make it to my new goal weight and be healthy! I need all the encouragement I can get with my foot and walking again. I hear (from my physical therapist) that it is NOT going to be easy or comfortable

 I miss everyone!!

 Happy Sunday!

I’m getting down there–but I feel fatter!?!?! I think I’m losing muscle from not being able to work out like I used to. My husband thinks it’s all in my head.

Oh well—at least I’m not gaining weight.

I just got a phone call that I think will motivate me. My family has been in awe of my weight loss and I want to make them proud by keeping it off and keeping healthy for myself, and for them.

That’s all for now!

My husband helped me weigh myself the other day, and I am down a couple pounds. I am worried that it is only muscle mass that I am losing though! My left calf is sooooo skinny—it looks icky! I am actually really close to my goal weight.

 Now I just have to eat right to get there! I haven’t been perfect—so I need some encouragement there! I don’t expect myself to be perfect anymore, but I want to do a little better than I have.

I hope everyone’s doing well!

So my doctor wants me to take off my cast for 15 minutes once a day and exercise by moving my foot up and down. Boy—yesterday it was NOT FUN and hurt sooo bad. I had to do it in stages. I am soooo weak from not moving it so I felt like I was just shaking from how hard it was to do, rather than really going up-down-up-down. My husband was encouraging and said it looked good….I did it to the same music I used to work out to—so that part was fun.

After the painful foot stuff—I felt so motivated I did some arm weights and sit ups! (things my doctor said I could do)

Today my foot exercises went a lot better (though still really tough) and I was able to do the 15 minutes pretty much straight through. I did some sit-ups afterwards but no arms. Today was my first day back at work and I ended up having to walk A LOT—which on crutches means my arms did A LOT of work today!

Hope everyone’s doing well!

If you have the use of both feet right now—be thankful! I am jealous of you!

I’ve been feeling like such a blob since I can’t exercise how I used to because of my foot surgery.

I’ve been eating okay, but not perfect so I was starting to think that I was putting on weight—but not true! I weighed myself this morning and came in at 156 including my cast—–so I am one pound away from my mini-goal ( probably without the cast, I would be there!).

That was motivating to see this morning and should help me keep up the proper eating.

I hope everyone else is doing well!

So, I’m back from foot surgery that I had on Tuesday (5/27) and I’m doing okay. I missed everyone and can’t wait to check in on everyone’s progress over the last week.

I feel like my foot has been run over by a truck, but everyday seems to be a little better than the last.

So—the only exercising I have been doing is getting up to go to the bathroom and back—-and believe me, on crutches, this is actually a work-out!

Since the surgery, I’ve been eating really well and feel really great about that. My mom came to visit to take me to surgery and care for me the day following and my husband has been caring for me since, and they both did a great job of preparing wonderful meals for me that went with my SugarBusters diet. Perhaps my healthy eating will actually help me recover quicker (fingers crossed!!).

The weekend before surgery was not so hot, though. I visited my grandparents for the 3-day weekend and they do not eat the healthiest choices there—but I did what I could. My mom suggested I bring some of my own food there so I’d have something to eat, but I knew they would be offended if I did that, so I managed and ate some foods that weren’t on my list—but oh well! I didn’t go crazy over junk at all!

So, I had my goal as weighing 155 before surgery, but I don’t think I made it—but I never checked

On the day of surgery, the Dr’s weighed me in at 160—which I was actually thrilled about—-since the last time a dr weighed me (a month ago) I was 167—so I am doing great! I am well-within the healthy weight range for my height (5′9″).

My goal during my 6-8 week recovery is to continue to eat good foods so that I recover quickly and do not gain any weight–although I can’t really weigh myself for quite a while since I have a huge cast on and can only put weight on one foot. Oh-well. I’m not worried