Hey there!
I have great news and I have good goals. I wills start with the great news.
Last year I had some blood work done and my Doc was concerned about my high cholesterol. My diet and lack of exercise were no bueno so I was really not surprised when my results came back. My Doc is great and instead of putting me straight on meds, he gave me a chance to see if I would be able to correct the situation naturally. Challenge eventually excepted!
This morning I received a call from my Doc and I quote, "Your cholesterol is Excellent!" Go Scuba, Go Scuba!
I credit my turn around to two primary factors.
1) Changing my diet by cutting out fast food and making more strategic choices all around with the foods I choose to put into my mouth. (eg: egg whites, lean meats, more veggies ect. not all the time but more often than not.)
2) For 6 months now I have been taking doTERRA supplements, namely all 3 of the supplements in the Lifelong Vitality Pack. Many many people have seen seen their cholesterol go down after taking this pack for a few months, and now I am one of them! (Next I am going to work with my Doc to see if I still need to be taking my high blood pressure meds.)
Now I will talk about the good goals I have for this week that are a response to gaining back the 2 lbs that I lost last week. I have this invisible barrier at 280 that I just need to get intense about busting through. This whole journey of mine has been about setting goals and challenges for myself and achieving them. This is my current one.
My 3 week goal is to get past this 280 hurdle and weigh, at most, 278 3 weeks from now. I am at 284 today. 6 lbs in three weeks is totally doable, and it will be a significant statement for me since that has been an allusive achievement for multiple reasons. I have a few theories as to why this is and I have talked about them before so I will not bring them up again now. The bottom line is that I need to get back to my former intensity and Rock the Party that Rocks the Party!
I will get back to regular walking and I am going to add back in some resistance work. If it's heavy, I am going to lift it! I am also going to put increased effort into the portions I am eating and when I am eating them. (My 2 biggest Nemesis.) How much food and how late I am eating continue to be where I struggle. Even though what I am eating is WAY better than what I used to eat, portions and late night eating are battles I have yet to consistently win.
My goals for this week are:
1) Eat only the reasonable portion that is on my plate at the start of a meal and no re-loading the plate.
2) No simple carbs after 7pm. I will only eat a small amount of protein or veggies if I feel like I need to eat something after 7pm.
3) Work even harder on my goal of hydration. I will drink at least 100 oz of H20 every day.
Take away for this week:
It is one thing to stumble. We will stumble. It is quite another thing to learn from our stumbles and the stumbles of others and to set and meet smaller goals to help break on through to the other side of the stumbles. It is by doing this that we will ultimately reach our larger goals.
Have a great week!
Scuba
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Day 145 of 103in365 *Round 3* 38/103
Hey There!
So another week down and another 2 LBS down!
I am looking at the fine tuning that I need to do in my weight loss follow through, because I feel like I can be more consistent than I have been. At the same time, I am losing LBS doing what I am doing right now so I am certainly not complaining!
I am having so much fun and I am feeling so much better all around! I am almost down to my lowest in any round of 103in365 that I have done. I think I have gotten as far down as 40 or 41 LBS. I am going get there in the next week or two and then it will be all uncharted territory. After that, I will weigh less than I have weighed in more than 5 years and when I get down at total of 70 LBS I will be back and my wedding weight almost 11 years ago! CRAZY! I still am going to lose 33 more LBS after that and I will be lighter than I have been in 20 years!
Something really cool happened this week that I wanted to share! I was holding our youngest son and, just for fun, I stood on the scale. He is about 35 LBS right now. He and I combined did not equal how much I weighed this past Christmas! CRAZY!
It was so cool see that I have lost more than a healthy 2 year old! (He is 2 tomorrow!) He is pretty heavy Ya'll. Especially if I hold him for any period of time and that is what I do not have to carry around anymore, (ever again) and I am just getting started!
Take away for this week: Even if things are going good, it is always a good idea to take a look at what you are doing and see if there is anything you can "fine tune." Achieving our goals and evolving more and more as a person requires self refection and self assessment. Don't forget to celebrate the progress you are making towards your goals too! Even you are just a little bit closer to meeting your goals, that is awesome!That is something to build on and feel really good about! Remember what I have been saying for weeks now. It is about Progress not Perfection!
Have a great week!
Scuba
So another week down and another 2 LBS down!
I am looking at the fine tuning that I need to do in my weight loss follow through, because I feel like I can be more consistent than I have been. At the same time, I am losing LBS doing what I am doing right now so I am certainly not complaining!
I am having so much fun and I am feeling so much better all around! I am almost down to my lowest in any round of 103in365 that I have done. I think I have gotten as far down as 40 or 41 LBS. I am going get there in the next week or two and then it will be all uncharted territory. After that, I will weigh less than I have weighed in more than 5 years and when I get down at total of 70 LBS I will be back and my wedding weight almost 11 years ago! CRAZY! I still am going to lose 33 more LBS after that and I will be lighter than I have been in 20 years!
Something really cool happened this week that I wanted to share! I was holding our youngest son and, just for fun, I stood on the scale. He is about 35 LBS right now. He and I combined did not equal how much I weighed this past Christmas! CRAZY!
It was so cool see that I have lost more than a healthy 2 year old! (He is 2 tomorrow!) He is pretty heavy Ya'll. Especially if I hold him for any period of time and that is what I do not have to carry around anymore, (ever again) and I am just getting started!
Take away for this week: Even if things are going good, it is always a good idea to take a look at what you are doing and see if there is anything you can "fine tune." Achieving our goals and evolving more and more as a person requires self refection and self assessment. Don't forget to celebrate the progress you are making towards your goals too! Even you are just a little bit closer to meeting your goals, that is awesome!That is something to build on and feel really good about! Remember what I have been saying for weeks now. It is about Progress not Perfection!
Have a great week!
Scuba
Saturday, May 9, 2015
Day 136 of 103in365 *Round 3* 36/103
Hey There,
I am back on track and I feel the difference in my motivation! I lost 2 LBS this week!
Back on Track Baby!
I have done more walking this week than the past few weeks combined. That helps for sure. I also have been mostly getting myself mentally back in the game. This is such a long journey and it really does take some deliberate refocusing and recharging myself so that I get back being motivated or stay motivated. You know what's easier than losing 103 LBS? Not losing 103 LBS! That is what I am up against on the regular. This is not the easy thing to do, but so worth it that it is worth it to fight the good fight.
Getting me and keeping me motivated this week was not just the product of positive thinking, using my ice axe and getting more intense again. I am also still using, and definitely attribute some of my success to using, essential oils more and more. I continue to find a lot of benefit in a few drops of Slim and Sassy at meal times. It helps me to establish a new routine around healthy eating and helps with eating better portion sizes by helping me feel I can manage my hunger and it has been elevating my mood.
I also have been using TerraZyme daily for the last 5 months and have noticed a huge difference in my digestion and how things feel and work in my gut. I have taken several OTC products that I have not wanted to need to use and I have used them more often than I wanted to use them. I do not take them at all anymore. TerraZyme has taken care of all of that naturally and without nasty chemicals. I take some insoluble fiber from time to time and combined with the TerraZyme, I feel better than I have felt in years. I absolutely contribute part of it to losing 36 LBS so far, walking and getting healthier and to getting my digestion managed in a way that I can feel good about and that really works!
If you want more specifics about my experiences with essentials oils or are curious about them and want to try any, I would love to share a sample with you. You can contact me at onehundredinthreesixtyfive@gmail.com and we can start a conversation and I can help answer any questions you might have.
Have a great week!
Scuba
I am back on track and I feel the difference in my motivation! I lost 2 LBS this week!
Back on Track Baby!
I have done more walking this week than the past few weeks combined. That helps for sure. I also have been mostly getting myself mentally back in the game. This is such a long journey and it really does take some deliberate refocusing and recharging myself so that I get back being motivated or stay motivated. You know what's easier than losing 103 LBS? Not losing 103 LBS! That is what I am up against on the regular. This is not the easy thing to do, but so worth it that it is worth it to fight the good fight.
Getting me and keeping me motivated this week was not just the product of positive thinking, using my ice axe and getting more intense again. I am also still using, and definitely attribute some of my success to using, essential oils more and more. I continue to find a lot of benefit in a few drops of Slim and Sassy at meal times. It helps me to establish a new routine around healthy eating and helps with eating better portion sizes by helping me feel I can manage my hunger and it has been elevating my mood.
I also have been using TerraZyme daily for the last 5 months and have noticed a huge difference in my digestion and how things feel and work in my gut. I have taken several OTC products that I have not wanted to need to use and I have used them more often than I wanted to use them. I do not take them at all anymore. TerraZyme has taken care of all of that naturally and without nasty chemicals. I take some insoluble fiber from time to time and combined with the TerraZyme, I feel better than I have felt in years. I absolutely contribute part of it to losing 36 LBS so far, walking and getting healthier and to getting my digestion managed in a way that I can feel good about and that really works!
If you want more specifics about my experiences with essentials oils or are curious about them and want to try any, I would love to share a sample with you. You can contact me at onehundredinthreesixtyfive@gmail.com and we can start a conversation and I can help answer any questions you might have.
Have a great week!
Scuba
Friday, May 1, 2015
Day 123 of 103in365 *Round 3* 34/103
Hey There!
I have been putting off this weeks blog post because I am bummed that I gained 2 lbs. back.
I said I was going to blog every week so here I am. I will blog the good weeks, and I will also blog the "room for improvement" weeks.
The bottom line for my gain back was complacency. I have been doing well overall, so I just got complacent and lost much of my intensity. My late snacking slipped back in and I did not walk as much as I have been.
I still have a long way to go to get to 103 and as I stated earlier, this is Round 3 and this is the LAST round! I am doing it this time so I need to pick myself up from these here "room for improvement" weeks and get back kicking the tires and lighting the fires!
I am thinking about two things this week to help me get fired up. I have been thinking about the Ice Axe metaphor that I came up with and blogged about in Round 2, and I have been thinking about Dave Ramsey's Gazelle Intensity metaphor.
In my Ice Axe metaphor I talked about how an ice climber carries and ice ax and if they begin to slip down the ice, they jam the ice ax into the side of the of the glacier to slow and eventually stop their descent and then they get back to climbing. They know they are going to slip from time to time but they are prepared so that they don't slip all the way back to the bottom, but rather, slow then stop their descent and, Bob's your uncle, they get right back to heading up the glacier.
We can do that too with our goals. We know that we will not be perfect and we will likely slip up from time to time. We don't have to slip all the way to the bottom, rather we too can make the decision to be prepared and think of ways of stopping our descent and getting back on track again.
Dave Ramsey likes to use the metaphor of Gazelle Intensity. The cheetah is the fastest animal on earth and can accelerate at break neck speeds and reach the top speed of 70 to 75 mph. Cheetahs love to chase and eat gazelles, but even though the cheetah is much much faster than the gazelle, the gazelle gets away safely most of the time. That is because the gazelle is running for its life and zigs and zags until the cheetah gets tired and gives up. The gazelle is running and strategizing with such intensity, that it literally outruns the fastest animal on the planet. That is intensity!
We need to get ourselves that intense about our goals too. We need to out think the barriers that get in our way, persevere and be standing at the end after we have achieved our goals! I am going back to being gazelle intense about losing these 103 lbs and you need to get gazelle intense about your goals too.
Take away for this week: Pull out the ice axe when you realize your are slipping and instead of beating yourself up and giving up, stop your descent and get back on track and don't forget to be gazelle intense!
Have a great week!
Scuba
I have been putting off this weeks blog post because I am bummed that I gained 2 lbs. back.
I said I was going to blog every week so here I am. I will blog the good weeks, and I will also blog the "room for improvement" weeks.
The bottom line for my gain back was complacency. I have been doing well overall, so I just got complacent and lost much of my intensity. My late snacking slipped back in and I did not walk as much as I have been.
I still have a long way to go to get to 103 and as I stated earlier, this is Round 3 and this is the LAST round! I am doing it this time so I need to pick myself up from these here "room for improvement" weeks and get back kicking the tires and lighting the fires!
I am thinking about two things this week to help me get fired up. I have been thinking about the Ice Axe metaphor that I came up with and blogged about in Round 2, and I have been thinking about Dave Ramsey's Gazelle Intensity metaphor.
In my Ice Axe metaphor I talked about how an ice climber carries and ice ax and if they begin to slip down the ice, they jam the ice ax into the side of the of the glacier to slow and eventually stop their descent and then they get back to climbing. They know they are going to slip from time to time but they are prepared so that they don't slip all the way back to the bottom, but rather, slow then stop their descent and, Bob's your uncle, they get right back to heading up the glacier.
We can do that too with our goals. We know that we will not be perfect and we will likely slip up from time to time. We don't have to slip all the way to the bottom, rather we too can make the decision to be prepared and think of ways of stopping our descent and getting back on track again.
Dave Ramsey likes to use the metaphor of Gazelle Intensity. The cheetah is the fastest animal on earth and can accelerate at break neck speeds and reach the top speed of 70 to 75 mph. Cheetahs love to chase and eat gazelles, but even though the cheetah is much much faster than the gazelle, the gazelle gets away safely most of the time. That is because the gazelle is running for its life and zigs and zags until the cheetah gets tired and gives up. The gazelle is running and strategizing with such intensity, that it literally outruns the fastest animal on the planet. That is intensity!
We need to get ourselves that intense about our goals too. We need to out think the barriers that get in our way, persevere and be standing at the end after we have achieved our goals! I am going back to being gazelle intense about losing these 103 lbs and you need to get gazelle intense about your goals too.
Take away for this week: Pull out the ice axe when you realize your are slipping and instead of beating yourself up and giving up, stop your descent and get back on track and don't forget to be gazelle intense!
Have a great week!
Scuba
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