janetjohnson

I weighed myself this morning and I am at 150! Yay!

I am going to go work out now. I am going to run 3 miles on the treadmill without any walking.

Here goes!

Well, here I am, a little more than one year after I joined the site.

My goal when I joined—to stay on weight watchers for one whole year. I wrote that I wanted to be healthy, not to lose a specific amount of weight.

How’d I do??

Well, I only stayed on weight watchers for a little while—-but I sure as hell got healthy!!!!!!

I lost over 30 pounds and got back in shape. I am eating better, exercising often, and feeling great!

Way to go, me! You did it!

Hey Buddies! I have been back on the exercise track for a while now and it feels great!

I graduated with my master’s degree on Saturday—-so I finally have my life back! WooHoo!!! I love having the extra time!

I have been reading a couple of books that I thought I would tell you about. Saturday I read a book called “Skinny Bitch” (http://www.skinnybitch.net/)—-about eating healthy. Little did I know, the book was actually trying to convert readers to veganism—and I think it worked for me. It talks a lot about how unhealthy it is for humans to consume meat and dairy—and how it causes a lot of diseases and cancer. I also took the extra step and went to http://www.meat.org/ to see a video on the meat industry. It made me cry to see how horrible animals are treated.

Well, my husband isn’t very happy about my choice (he loves meat)—but he suggested that I first switch to vegetarian, and then work my way to vegan. I think he’s right—though I am giving up milk right away. I bought rice milk in the store. I don’t want to be drinking hormones anymore!

Another book I’ve been reading is called Omnivore’s Dilemma (http://www.michaelpollan.com/omnivore.php)—which is an eye opening book about the stuff we eat. The most fascinating think is the chapters about how much corn we eat everyday. Corn seems to be in almost everything in one form or another—because of how cheap it is. And did you know that the government subsidizes corn farming?? Crazy!?!? I highly suggest reading the book.

I also checked out “Fast Food Nation” and plan on reading that soon—and am reading a book called “Bottlemania—How water went on sale and why we bought it” ( http://www.bottlemania.net/ ).

Well that’s all I have time for today. I hope everyone is doing well!!

-Janet

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!