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WIAW: Whole Foods Plant Based Diet

I stated on Monday that I was going back to a plant-based diet and I am now on day 4 and going strong. I am already feeling lighter with more energy, and lets just say that last night was a whopper, yet I am not feeling tired at all (we’ll see how I feel come this afternoon!). On a side note, I can’t wait until we get our third room finished for our new daughter. She is the NOISIEST sleeper ever! She grunts and makes all sorts of weird noises and when I get up to check on her she is totally asleep! The first 3 months are the hardest, right?

Anyway, onto my Tuesday eats! Thank you to Jenn at Peas and Crayons for hosting this blogger get together every Wednesday!

Breakfast was eaten before I could snap a picture, but it was Oatmeal with ground flax-seed, vanilla soy milk, and frozen berries. Not anything too exciting.

Lunch was leftovers from the night before and they were delicious:

Homemade veggie burgers dipped in BBQ sauce and a salad with mixed greens, cucumbers, avocado, and spicy hummus. The recipe I used for the veggie burgers came from Oh She Glows and it is her Spicy BBQ Chickpea Burgers

I love the crunch that the sunflower seeds added, although, these would have been better on a bun (I forgot to get some from the store). But I mus say they held together really well and it was a lot better than buying sketchy frozen veggie patties from the store with an ingredient list a mile long!

In the afternoon I saw that I had a banana and a zucchini that was on their last legs so I decided to make Chocolate Zucchini Muffins from Happy Herbivore. I love this recipe because my daughter calls them “cupcakes” and she will polish off 2 before I can blink my eyes. She has no idea that is she is getting some fruits and veggies in each muffin. My second pregnancy caused my first daughter to become a picky eater. Too much eating out will do that to someone, so now I’m trying to get her back on the healthy eating band wagon a little at a time.

I added in some mixed fresh berries and it was a filling snack that held me over til dinner.

Dinner was something unexpected. This week I meal planned and told myself that no matter what, I was going to stick to it. Well, last night I realized that I didn’t have a couple of the ingredients I needed for at least two of the meals I was planning so I went in search of a recipe for something that I had the ingredients on hand for.

After a quick check of my Google Reader I found a recipe that looked easy and delicious: Coconut Ginger Curry Rice Bowl From PB Fingers. Who doesn’t love a one pot meal? The only problem is that I had run out of brown rice and had to sub with white. The great thing was that it was done and on the table in less than 30 minutes.

I wish that I had fresh broccoli instead of frozen, but it works in a pinch. I will be having leftovers of this for lunch.

After getting back on the plant-based bandwagon I am feeling great. My cravings are going away and the scale even gave me some motivation this morning by showing me a lighter number. My only concern is that I feel like my breast milk supply has gone down a bit. I can’t tell if I am just being paranoid or if my little babe is eating more than normal. I’m monitoring it for the next few days and it is probably in my head. Other than that I’m feeling great, and only T-4 days until I can start exercising again (hopefully I will get the clear at my 6 week postpartum appointment next Monday).

Have a happy Wednesday!

Happy Mother’s Day to Me!

After having an absolutely horrendous week of eating whatever I could think of I decided to give myself a Mother’s Day present: I’m going back to eating a plant-based diet.

The life of a mom with a newborn is taxing and I can feel it wearing on me daily. The nights are a little rough and the days can get long and demanding. With 2 kids and a husband I often feel like I get pulled in three directions constantly. What better gift to give myself than the gift of health?

I had a wonderful talk with my husband about a week ago and it involved excuses. I was going on about how when I get to six weeks postpartum it will get easier because I can exercise. He totally called me out on my crap and said “you always say it will be easier when…” fill in the blank. I know that I have thought about these excuses before and light bulbs constantly go off in my head and I have plenty of AHA moments. The problem is keeping myself motivated.

Do or do not, there is no try.

I thought I would take a little advice from Yoda and not put the word TRY into this post. I almost wrote that I was going to TRY and get back to a plant-based lifestyle, but then I got taken back to my retail management days and I would get so annoyed when people said they would TRY to do the thing I was asking them to do. It basically meant that they had an easy out clause with the word TRY.

This week will be all about getting myself back on track with eating (it is 70% of weight loss). I’ve given myself permission to eat as much as I want to this week, but the only stipulations are that it has to have vitamins and nutrients of some sort, not be to grain heavy, and cannot come from an animal. I’ve meal planned and I told the hub’s I don’t care if it doesn’t sound good the night I’m suppose to make it, that’s what we are eating. He is surprisingly on board (I will mention that after this last pregnancy he is the heaviest he has ever been, and is motivated to lose some pounds).

I’m hoping that I will see great results like the last time I practiced this diet. I lost weight, started sleeping better, was in a better mood, and I just felt great! I’ve already had a great first day (which was Sunday, Mother’s Day mind you) and I am excited to get through this first week.

And because a post is always better with a picture, here are my two girls hanging out in our 80 degree house in their diapers (Air conditioner gets serviced on the 16th and it can’t happen soon enough!):

Happy Monday!

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by Shrinking Carrie on May 13, 2013 • Permalink

Posted in Challenges, Commitment, Daily Struggles, Diet, Goals, Health, Making It Happen, Meal Planning, Mindless Eating, Motivation, New Mind-set, Nutrition, Plant Based Diet, Postpartum

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on May 13, 2013

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Where’s the Motivation?

I’m sure I’m not the only one nodding their head when I say it is tough to get back into your healthy routine after being sick and having a lot of stress going on. Where’s the motivation? Here is my testimony on motivation: It always comes back, you just have to be patient through the times that it’s not there.

Yesterday it wasn’t there. We put an offer on a house, and the stress of it made me fidgety. I kind of walked around the house like I didn’t know what to do with myself, and then ended up organizing all of my misc. 3 ring binders, sheet protectors, and tab dividers (I know I have mentioned before how much I LOVE office supplies).

So why didn’t I just go to the gym you ask? I was lethargic from all of the horrible foods I was eating to get myself “feeling better”. I wasn’t looking forward to having a sluggish workout that would be challenging at an easier level.

This week I need to focus on getting the checks and balances back where my body needs to be. Dairy has been clear and present these last few days and my body is mad at me!

The thing is, I know that my life is going to get hectic this next couple of months so I really need to be on my game. I need to keep up the momentum I have going. I have had such a wonderful beginning to 2012, and I only want it to continue. I am happy with the change of lifestyle that my diet has brought on, and it keeps me motivated to know that if I eat good I can sustain that level of energy I feel every morning when I jump out of bed.

I am blessed in the fact that the gym is not a hard thing for me to do everyday. As a stay at home mom I have the time to go to the gym without a whole lot of distraction. The area that is hard for me is eating. I especially have a hard time when my life gets crazy and stressful. I kind of shut down, and have no desire to cook healthy and opt for the convenience of fast food.

I will say that since the beginning of the year I have had my eyes opened, and I find it hard to justify convenient foods anymore. They really aren’t convenient. I have decided that journaling is more important than ever in these hectic times. I’m taking a page out of Aimee and Marion’s book and making my food journaling public.

I’ll make sure to keep these post’s interesting and they won’t be everyday, just 2-3 posts a week including a What I ate Wednesday post. Today I am notivated, but who knows what tomorrow will bring. I am arming myself with the tools to get through the un-motivated times, and with that comes success!

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by Shrinking Carrie on February 7, 2012 • Permalink

Posted in Challenges, Diet, Distractions, Energy, Health, Motivation, Planning

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on February 7, 2012

http://shrinkingcarrie.com/2012/02/07/wheres-the-motivation/

An Unnecessary Evil

I am a little late to the show on this subject, but I really wanted to make sure that I was speaking my mind in the most respectful way possible when I comment on the media surrounding Paula Deen & Type II Diabetes.

Let me back up….

I have been pre-diabetic for 4 years (that I know of, it could have been even earlier if I had gotten tests done). I feel weird when I have had too much sugar, I get headaches when my carb intake is too high, and there are times when I just feel….off.

When I found out I was pregnant in March of 2010 I was ecstatic! I remember when I went in for my first appointment with my midwife weighing in at 273 pounds. After doing all the usual first appointment tests and such we started to talk about my weight.

The dreaded weight talk.

This is not the first time I have had this conversation with a medical professional. I braced myself for the honest truth, because I knew what was coming. She told me that she would like me to try to stay as close as I could to the weight I was carrying at that time. I felt overwhelmed by what she was asking me, and I thought to myself ”How on earth am I suppose to do that!? I could barely keep myself from gaining weight in regular circumstances, and now I have to stay the same through my entire pregnancy?”. She even told me that I could lose weight if I wanted to. Of course I wanted to, but at that time I was looking for any reason to excuse my poor eating habits.

I went on my merry way, and enjoyed my food. At 26 weeks I had only gained 3 pounds, and I was pretty proud of myself. This was also the time that they tested me for gestational diabetes. I had heard a lot of icky things about this test, and so I didn’t know what to expect. I drank a 12 oz drink that tasted a lot like Sprite and I thought “that wasn’t so bad”. The nurse told me that I should wait to hear from my midwife, but the readings that she was getting from my blood work had her saying that I would definitely be back for the 3 hour test.

I went in for the 3 hour test later that week, and it was pretty brutal. For those of you who have not had this test done it goes like this: You drink 12 oz’s of a horrendous tasting drink that probably has 10 times the sugar a regular soda has in it. It was the worst tasting drink I have EVER tasted. Then they take your blood every hour for 3 hours and take your glucose readings. In other words, they stick you with a needle every hour, and when you really only have one good vein they continually stick the needle in the same place and it becomes quite painful by the fourth prick.

I started feeling sick around the first 45 minutes. I got light-headed and felt like I was going to throw up. I couldn’t drink any water because they didn’t want me to dilute any of the sugar concentrate, so I just sat in the waiting room feeling sicker, and sicker. It took me two hours to start feeling normal again.

I was diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes. I was devastated. And I was told that if I didn’t lose weight after the pregnancy there was a good chance that I would have Type II Diabetes to deal with.

They immediately sent me to a Dietician and I learned how to document my blood sugar levels, 4 times a day. Once when I woke up (they needed to be below 90), and two hours after every meal (they needed to be below 120). I tracked my blood sugar like it was my job. I could NEVER get my morning reading to be less than 90, and so my midwife put me on Glyburide. I started to slack on my eating and my sugar level’s were all over the place.

Then she threatened me with Insulin injections. In case you didn’t catch it previously, I HATE needles, let alone STICKING MYSELF WITH ONE. I started eating better foods, more often to keep my blood sugars balanced throughout the day.

After my pregnancy I started to get the same feelings that I had when I was pregnant. Whenever I had too many carbs or sugar, I would feel sick. I was scared that I had developed Type II Diabetes. This is about the time that my health insurance dropped and so I haven’t been to the Dr. to be checked, but I have noticed a HUGE difference since I started eating better in June of 2011. I still take blood sugar readings occasionally to make sure that I am on track, and I will say that ever since I started the plant-based diet my readings have been lower than I have ever seen. the interesting thing is that my diet is made up of 60% carbs. I no longer believe in low carb diets. I believe in weighing and measuring your portion sizes, eating whole grains, lots of vegetables and it seems when I do that I can’t go wrong.

Anyway…

Back to the controversy with Paula Deen. I have to say that I am disappointed. I have been taught my entire life to lead by example, and I haven’t been a very good one for the past few years healthy living wise, but I do know that if I had that much influence (like being a celebrity) I would do my best to set a good example. People are watching what I do, and I want to speak my values and standards with my actions. I really wish the world of celebrity was the same way.

I cannot imagine living my entire life the way I lived those last 4 months of my pregnancy, nor could I ever see myself telling people that it is ok by promoting a drug for a pharmaceutical company.

Type II Diabetes is a preventable disease and can be controlled by diet and exercise. It is completely unnecessary to contract this disease, and I will do everything in my power to not have to go through that sickness again.

Please share your thoughts in the comments!

Sheri is a blogger living with Type 1 Diabetes, and after reading her blog I was inspired to share my own experience with diabetes. Check out her site to see her inspiring story (click to link)!

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by Shrinking Carrie on January 26, 2012 • Permalink

Posted in Blogs to Read, Diet, Health, Plant Based Diet, Type 2 Diabetes

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on January 26, 2012

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Things I’ve Learned From Blogging, The Gym, & Eating Healthier (so far)…

Through this little journey of mine I’ve learned a LOT of things so far about different facets that I have added into my life and I thought I would share a few:

Eating Healthier:

Planning is key. Failure to plan is a plan for failure
Tracking is the absolute most important part of me losing weight.
Plan cheat days, or meals or whatever. When I have a cheat day it helps me to plan what I am going to eat ahead of time. It helps me to not go too crazy, but eat the things that I know I crave regularly.
Cravings start to go away after not eating processed, or sugary foods in about 2 days, for me. The more fruits and veggies I consume the quicker the cravings cease.
Always put the “good for you food” in your eye-line. Put the “bad for you” food in a deep dark hole where you forget it exists. I had a bag of Starbursts for over a month because of this strategy, and for anyone who knows me, they know that this a BIG DEAL.
Don’t be too extreme. If you want to cut out certain foods try one food at a time. Don’t become a vegan when your diet consisted of mostly dairy and meat. You are just setting yourself up for failure.
Treat yourself. Even Weight Watchers says that you should give yourself things like you like every now and then.
Stay away from “trigger” foods. I love oatmeal, but if I start my day out with it, I want to eat all day long. Same with bread. I just have to stay away.
Know which foods affect you which ways. Don’t eat vegetable soup full of cabbage when you know you have to be in public in a couple of hours. Also goat cheese is possibly the only food that affects my stomach in a MAJOR BAD WAY.

The Gym

Make a schedule and keep to it. The only time the gym works for me is before 9 AM. If I wait any longer, it won’t happen. Sometimes I have to ditch plans if I know it will interrupt my gym time. The gym is a priority to me and some things have to come second.
Keep the schedule up for at least 3 weeks. I am a big believer in 21 days makes a habit, and when I have gone to the gym consistently for 3 weeks it gets easier.
Follow an exercise routine. You can find all sorts of great workouts on the internet, or in exercise magazines. Keeping your workout interesting, keeps you wanting to do it. When you have a plan you are following you will be less likely into cutting your workout short.
No matter who I do cardio by, whether they are old, young, fat, or skinny, they all want to race. Seriously. I keep tempo with the music that I am listening to, and I can tell a difference when I am working out to the fast songs. The people next to me suddenly start looking over at my machine to see what level I am and start going faster. I liken it to having your car on cruise control. If your car isn’t on cruise control, but mine is, there is going to be some playing of leap-frog.
Most meatheads don’t care if you are in the free weights section. I was extremely self-conscious when I started doing NROLFW because it mostly uses free weights, or what I formerly referred to as the “Men’s Area”, but now I realize that my insecurities were all in my own head (as most usually are).
Be friendly. We’re all in this together people! If I see an over weight person that I’ve never seen, I try to give them a smile and a friendly look. You never know how hard it was for them to take the step to come to the gym. I am no better than anybody in that gym.

Blogging

No matter how many times I type it I will never be able to properly spell the words definitly, or myslef. I am leaving the misspellings so that you know how I spell them EVERY TIME I type them.
People love to hear about periods and poop. If they didn’t, those posts wouldn’t be some of my top read posts.
Keep your heart in your posts. If you are trying to type a canned blog post, your readers will know. Inspiration does not strike everyday, and if you need a day off then take it.
Connect with other bloggers. I had no idea the blogging world was even out there until a few months ago, and since then I have made some solid friendships with people who are supportive and relate to what you’re going through.
Comment on other bloggers post. One of the biggest compliments you can give a blogger is a comment. You don’t have to go crazy and comment on every post, just something that says I enjoyed your post today! I think we put a lot of thought into the content of our blogs and it is nice to have people recognize that.

Is there anything you have learned from Blogging, The Gym, or Eating Healthier?

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by Shrinking Carrie on October 18, 2011 • Permalink

Posted in About Me, Blogging, Goals, Health, Indulgence, Inspiration, Motivation, Poop, The New Rules of Lifting for Women, Vegetables, Weight Watchers, Working Out

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on October 18, 2011

http://shrinkingcarrie.com/2011/10/18/things-ive-learned-from-blogging-the-gym-eating-healthier-so-far/

Up Close & Personal: There is no Short-cut

This post has had a long time coming. I think the reason that I have waited so long to post it is because it is very personal, and I feel that I am really putting myself out there by telling the honest truth about some of my back story. I knew today was the day I had to get it all out when it was all I could think about writing when I was at the gym. I’m hoping that by getting it out it will help my readers to better connect with me and my struggles with weight loss, and maybe even help someone else who has had the same issues. So here goes nothing.

I remember like it was yesterday the first time I noticed I had a problem with secret binge eating. I was fifteen years old. There was a church youth group meeting at my home and my dad had bought 3 dozen glazed donuts. The family was not allowed to eat them until after the youth group had all had one. Whenever anyone told me I couldn’t do something it was all I could think about. I hid at the top of the stairs waiting until there was nobody in the kitchen and then made a quick move for the donuts. I grabbed one and then hauled butt back up the stairs into my bathroom and stuffed that donut in my mouth and down my throat so fast that I didn’t even taste it. I felt a rush, I don’t even know how to explain the feeling that I was having, it was like a drug. I repeated this process 5 more times until I had eaten half a dozen donuts. Each time I stuffed the donut in so fast that I wasn’t really even tasting the food as it was sliding down my esophagus. I went down to the living room feeling sick and acting like nothing happened. I even ate one more donut when the refreshments were starting to be passed out.

This type of eating followed me for a few years until I ended up weighing 262 pounds. I was working in retail going to college and was supposed to be having the typical college life experience, but I felt fat, ugly, and had a permanent label of the funny fat friend. I was tired of feeling like this and knew that I had to make some drastic changes. A woman who I worked with was very into fitness, and looking back she had definite signs of an ED, but I was so desperate I hung on every word she said. I had recently moved across the street from the gym and had started going regularly. I started doing Weight Watchers on my own, and quit drinking Diet Coke. After making some healthier decisions I had lost 15 pounds in 2 weeks. My body was responding well to the changes I had been making, but I wanted more. It was addicting and all I could think about. I started working out longer at the gym and eating less and less points. I was losing 3-5 pounds a week, but I still wasn’t satisfied. I spoke to the woman at work about my results and if she had any advice for me and she told me that I should start taking a certain diet supplement that was meant for energy and would help me work out harder. I immediately went out and bought the supplement and started taking it the second I got home.

I won’t name the supplement since it is still on the market today (minus the active ingredient), but the active ingredient was Ephedra, a chemical that I should have done my research on. I took the minimum amount suggested and was amazed to see that I actually had to FORCE myself to eat! A sensation that I had never felt. I could go days on nothing but a granola bar and gallons of water. I NEVER FELT HUNGRY. I could go to the gym and do cardio with no problems and I was losing between 6-8 pounds a week. I was amazed! I had never been able to lose weight like this before! I was hooked.

I lost 90 pounds in less than 5 months and I remember that my lightest weigh in was 172 pounds. I was surviving on a tortilla shell dipped in some spaghetti sauce and a can of slim fast. My stomach would cramp up if I started to laugh, I got insane charlie horses when I was trying to sleep. I say “trying” to sleep because Ephedra got me so amped that I couldn’t sleep at night. I started taking a sleep aid at night so that I could shut off my brain, which in turn had me taking double the dosage of the supplement to get me awake in the morning.

I had to go shopping for new clothes because my old clothes were literally FALLING off me. I racked up 3 credit cards and got myself into debt that I had to carry around for another 3 years. My hair was starting to thin and I would get handful’s in the shower. I died it darker to mask that it was falling out and styled it curly to make it look thicker. The only time I would eat an actual meal was on Sunday when I had dinner with my family. I was sick. I was thin. Why wasn’t I happy?

I decided when I was 22 that I had an issue with extreme eating on both sides of the spectrum. Either I was eating way too much, or eating way too little. I wanted the cycle to stop. I tried to start eating healthy and started dating my now husband. He made me happy, and my weight showed it. I had messed up my body so badly that it is now hard to lose weight without being almost perfect with my eating and exercise routine.

My point of this post is that there are no short-cuts. There is no magic pill. There is no quick fix solution. The only solution is hard work and dedication. It has taken me a LONG time to learn this. And although I have had a lot of days of frustration, knowing that I am doing it the right and healthy way, helps me sleep better at night. I will always struggle with this issue whether I am a healthy weight or not, but I know I have it in me to fight to be healthy.

if you made it through this novel, thank you for reading. If you were to only read one post from my blog, I would have it be this one. We all deserve to be healthy the right way.

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by Shrinking Carrie on October 5, 2011 • Permalink

Posted in About Me, Challenges, Fear, Food Binge, Health, Sick

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on October 5, 2011

http://shrinkingcarrie.com/2011/10/05/up-close-personal-there-is-no-short-cut/

Kicking & Screaming

I have read weight loss blog success stories that said they “kicked and screamed” their way through losing weight. I never really understood this point of view…….until today. I always kind of thought either you were motivated and you just did it, or you weren’t motivated so your day got tanked. I had no idea there was actually a third option of kicking and screaming, paired with just getting it done. I have been mad all day long. I have made good eating choices all day, but that doesn’t mean that I’ve been happy about it. I tracked (begrudgingly) my food all day long. I went to the gym this morning and did not enjoy the endorphins, and I couldn’t wait to get home to get back into my pajama’s and snuggle with my baby on this gloomy day.

So why did I do it? Because I know there will be a day that I will be happy I did it. And for that, I hope in the future that I have more days like this, and less of the happy-eat-what-I-want-and-don’t-exercise-because-I-do-what-I-want kind of days. It’s not always about what I want, but what I need, and I know that eventually those days add up to a LOT of happiness.

Sometimes you can’t always do what you want to do , and you have to do the things you need to do. But don’t get me wrong, I’m still gonna whine a little on the way.

Now that I’m done whining, here are today’s stat’s:

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

Snacks

Macro’s

Healthy Checks

What did you kick and scream through today?

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by Shrinking Carrie on October 4, 2011 • Permalink

Posted in Cheat Day, Daily Stats, Fear, Frustration, Goals, Health, Motivation, Weight Watchers

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on October 4, 2011

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Perfection Challenge: Day 6 Stat’s

Sweat it Out:
Elliptical 1 Hour

I woke up feeling back to normal from yesterday’s nausea. Got a decent workout at the gym, although I didn’t feel up to my last weights session phase 2 of “The New Rules of Lifting for Women”. I will do the last workout on Friday and then do a recap of Phase 2 on Tuesday.

Made it until about 10:00 and then got nauseated again. I had to take desperate measures, which I won’t scare you with, but I feel a LOT better now and that is what is important. the only thing is that I have had a day with kind of weird eating. I went 1 point over my allotted Weight Watchers Point+, but I had to have some starchy carbs today. My body was SCREAMING for them. A bowl of cereal later and I felt 100% better.

Cheat day will be on the weekend this week, since we won’t get a chance to actually celebrate our anniversary until then. Then we will be going to Texas Roadhouse where I can get a fat New York Strip!

Here is how today rounded out:

After feeling like poop for the middle part of the day, I got lazy and tracked all of my food on The Daily Plate, and then moved the macro info over to the WW Website to get my total point value for the day. So I won’t bore you with the WW screen shots since they are points only and no detail.

Breakfast

Lunch

Snack

Dinner

Macro ‘s

Healthy Checks

I can say that for the last 6 days I have openly and honestly tracked all the food that has passed my lips. Will it pay off on the scale? I’m really not sure. I’m still on my throwing-the-scale-out-till-weigh-in-day thing. Will I be frustrated if it doesn’t turn out the way I want to? Absolutely not. I have said it before and I will say it again, if I have to lose this weight 1 pound at a time, that will just have to do. I will continue to track and go to the gym and I know that if I am doing those two things that it will HAVE to come off eventually.

I hope you are all having a beautiful Wednesday night!

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by Shrinking Carrie on September 28, 2011 • Permalink

Posted in Challenges, Daily Stats, Goals, Good Food, Health, Motivation, Power, Sick, Weight Watchers

Posted by Shrinking Carrie on September 28, 2011

http://shrinkingcarrie.com/2011/09/28/perfection-challenge-day-6-stats-2/

Ugh, I Feel Sick.

I’m sitting here in debate with myself, to decide on whether or not to go to the gym this morning. I feel sick, but not in the I-have-a-cold kind of way. I was up most of the night tossing and turning feeling nauseated, and I have no idea why (and I’m not pregnant). I ate really good yesterday, I checked my blood sugar levels before I went to bed because I thought it may be out of whack, but it was 96 which is basically perfect. I did have broccoli and apples, which could be doing a number on my GI.

And you make my stomach hurt something fierce.

I’ve eaten a banana and a pineapple Cobani yogurt to see if this will help me feel better and then maybe I will try to go after Hanna’s morning nap. I sure hope I feel better, I get paranoid about missing a gym session 2 days before a weigh in.

This morning (feeling sick), I got Hanna up and went to turn on the tv so I could just lay down and not throw up everywhere, and was happy to see that all of the cable channels were at a stand still (sarcasm at its finest). The only channels that worked are the channels with the news on them. Normally, I would have gotten up started some laundry, or just go to the gym earlier than expected, but again I don’t feel well so I watched the news for about 45 minutes and tried not to get too depressed.

That made me really want to go to the gym, so that I could get out of the house. I started feeling a little better, but then after walking around a bit I felt the waves of nausea and decided that I should probably sit down for a bit. Argh! I hate this feeling!

I don’t like surprises. I mentioned this in the past, but I am a COMPLETE creature of habit. If my day does not follow my routine, I feel weird and like something is wrong. I know this relates to my weight loss and I can’t let days like this get to me. So why not make some sick day goals? First off, I really will go to the gym if I start feeling better, I’m hoping that this is just a bathroom issue and will be taken care of before the morning is over.

Continue to drink copious amounts of water. I’m sure this can only help the situation. And of course, continue to track. This could also be because I just started taking my thyroid medication after not having it for a week and a half. I really need to get better at that.

So send some positive vibes to my stomach, in hopes that I will be able to make it to the gym, and hopefully I will be back later with a more motivational post!

Do you have days like this? How Often?

I NEVER get sick so it makes it that much more frustrating when it happens!

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by Shrinking Carrie on September 27, 2011 • Permalink

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Perfection Challenge: Day 3 Stat’s

I get a little nervous on rest days that I will go over my points/calories, but I was very pleased at the end of the day that after being careful and weighing and measuring all of my food I came in just under 1500 calories and 6 points to spare. I got a little tempted at dinner (because I made roast beef & mashed potatoes), but after weighing all of my food it looked like the quantities would be satisfying. And now I am plenty full so I am glad I didn’t let my eyes get bigger than my stomach.

Here is how today rounded out: