Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Finding Time
It has been a tough week so far. After exercising each weekday for the last 3 weeks while teaching summer camp elective in the afternoon we have switched groups and started at very basic, beginning levels again so a solid hour of doing Yoga went to about 15 minutes. Zumba hasn't happened at all this week due to "movie" afternoon and a trip tomorrow. Good news is I walked around a boat for a few hours on our fishing trip today and will be walking in the sand tomorrow so I guess that counts as some exercise. I am hoping to get motivated after work and do some on my own after our camp class so I can really put more effort into it but being in the sun all day has really wiped me out. I will however, try again tomorrow, and if all else fails for the week I can always kick it up and do more over the weekend.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Spiced Up Eggs
On the weekends I have a lot more time for planning and cooking, so I ended up making eggs. I have heard adding spice to anything and everything you eat is a good way to boost your metabolism so I thought I would give it a try. I normally sprinkle some garlic powder and salt on my eggs while they are frying, and then slather them in cheese. Since I'm trying to cut back on the amount of cheese I eat (I had it at almost every meal and in between) I used about a teaspoon of parmesan cheese.
To kick it up a little in the spice department I thought I would try something new.
Yesterday I made my normal eggs with garlic powder, and then added about a teaspoon of paprika. I just sprinkled some ground paprika on the entire egg after lightly salting. I didn't really taste much difference, they were a little more colorful but the taste was the same. Today, I added ground mustard powder. I figured mustard powder is spicy, and it goes well with eggs since it is normally used in deviled eggs. The mustard powder did add spice and flavored, it was much better then the paprika I thought about combining them next weekend. If I do I think I'll leave out the parmesan cheese and just do the eggs with garlic powder, light salt, teaspoon of mustard powder and a teaspoon of paprika.
Any suggestions on different spices to add to kick up my eggs with out killing my mouth?
To kick it up a little in the spice department I thought I would try something new.
Yesterday I made my normal eggs with garlic powder, and then added about a teaspoon of paprika. I just sprinkled some ground paprika on the entire egg after lightly salting. I didn't really taste much difference, they were a little more colorful but the taste was the same. Today, I added ground mustard powder. I figured mustard powder is spicy, and it goes well with eggs since it is normally used in deviled eggs. The mustard powder did add spice and flavored, it was much better then the paprika I thought about combining them next weekend. If I do I think I'll leave out the parmesan cheese and just do the eggs with garlic powder, light salt, teaspoon of mustard powder and a teaspoon of paprika.
Any suggestions on different spices to add to kick up my eggs with out killing my mouth?
Saturday, July 21, 2012
How It Happened
My name is Vicki. I am 28 years old. I am a wife and "mom" of two dogs. I am a middle school years who doesn't exactly take the summer off. And I am like many others in the United States over weight. I am not just over weight, I am considered morbidly obese by my doctors, my WII Fit, and society. I am, as of today, 189.2 lbs. I have fluctuated between 180 lbs- 188 lbs for the last four years or so. After graduating high school in 2002, I went from 140 to 165 lbs my freshmen year of college. Even at 140 lbs my senior year of high school I was still obese according to my height and BMI but I was much, much healthier.
I think my healthiest weight was 130 lbs, at least that I can remember. It was my junior year of high school. I played three sports that year in high school-soccer, basketball, and softball. Ever year since middle school I played fall softball and summer softball, and I normally played soccer and softball during the school year. I had never really considered playing basketball since I barely had any understanding or interest in the sport, but my softball coach insisted I join the team to increase my running speed so I did. In addition to the constant sport practice and games I took to running a mile on the track as soon as the winter weather cleared up. I was moving one way or another constantly every day that year. I dropped down to a size 8 in almost all of my clothes. At some point, I stopped running the track and just watched my food type and portion sizes. And I went up to a size 10 in most of my clothes, I wore a size 10 dress to my prom and still held a healthy outlook on my life and body.
After going away to college, and eating in the cafeteria for most of my meals my weight began to increase again.
I was not watching what I was eating. I ate late at night, ordered out whenever I could, stayed up to all hours of the night. I was not eating a balanced diet and was certainly not exercising as I had before I went away to college. And unfortunately after college my habits didn't improve much. I was dating my husband at the end of my senior year of college and moved in with him right after. We went out, and ate out a lot. Our small apartment didn't allow for much kitchen space, without drawers our counters space was limited and when the oven/stove were in use the entire place felt it for hours after we were done cooking. Anyway that lead to sizes 14 and more recently size 16. I got married in a size 16 wedding dress, and go back and forth between size 14 and 16 pants though I don't think I've worn the 14s in a while. My newest weight, 189 lbs doesn't exactly help when I am getting dressed for work or buying a new outfit. I barely ever like what I'm wearing and see cute clothes that of course don't look cute on me. I've been just getting by and I am tired of it. I'm tired of being tired and saying I'm going to try to lose weight or get in shape and NOT doing it. I start and don't follow through, and when I rebound from my exercise and diet routine it is always at a higher weight then when I started. I have tried Weightwatches, I was successful on it for a while while home from college between breaks but fell off again after returing. I have tried Nutrisystem but the sodium content made me bloated, and I'm a picky eater with some food allergies so I didn't have much choice, got bored and stopped. I've tried eating using the Paelodiet, I did it and felt ok but I'm not a huge meat eater and again the food allergy thing came up. I have tried eating according to my blood type, and found that some of my food irritations were foods I wasn't supposed to eat, but again foods that my blood type should eat are food I'm highly allergic to so that works in combination with the Paelodiet but I didn't see much weight change with them. So again I am at a loss at 189 lbs. Edging my way slowly to 200 lbs. And I am terrified!
I think my healthiest weight was 130 lbs, at least that I can remember. It was my junior year of high school. I played three sports that year in high school-soccer, basketball, and softball. Ever year since middle school I played fall softball and summer softball, and I normally played soccer and softball during the school year. I had never really considered playing basketball since I barely had any understanding or interest in the sport, but my softball coach insisted I join the team to increase my running speed so I did. In addition to the constant sport practice and games I took to running a mile on the track as soon as the winter weather cleared up. I was moving one way or another constantly every day that year. I dropped down to a size 8 in almost all of my clothes. At some point, I stopped running the track and just watched my food type and portion sizes. And I went up to a size 10 in most of my clothes, I wore a size 10 dress to my prom and still held a healthy outlook on my life and body.After going away to college, and eating in the cafeteria for most of my meals my weight began to increase again.
I was not watching what I was eating. I ate late at night, ordered out whenever I could, stayed up to all hours of the night. I was not eating a balanced diet and was certainly not exercising as I had before I went away to college. And unfortunately after college my habits didn't improve much. I was dating my husband at the end of my senior year of college and moved in with him right after. We went out, and ate out a lot. Our small apartment didn't allow for much kitchen space, without drawers our counters space was limited and when the oven/stove were in use the entire place felt it for hours after we were done cooking. Anyway that lead to sizes 14 and more recently size 16. I got married in a size 16 wedding dress, and go back and forth between size 14 and 16 pants though I don't think I've worn the 14s in a while. My newest weight, 189 lbs doesn't exactly help when I am getting dressed for work or buying a new outfit. I barely ever like what I'm wearing and see cute clothes that of course don't look cute on me. I've been just getting by and I am tired of it. I'm tired of being tired and saying I'm going to try to lose weight or get in shape and NOT doing it. I start and don't follow through, and when I rebound from my exercise and diet routine it is always at a higher weight then when I started. I have tried Weightwatches, I was successful on it for a while while home from college between breaks but fell off again after returing. I have tried Nutrisystem but the sodium content made me bloated, and I'm a picky eater with some food allergies so I didn't have much choice, got bored and stopped. I've tried eating using the Paelodiet, I did it and felt ok but I'm not a huge meat eater and again the food allergy thing came up. I have tried eating according to my blood type, and found that some of my food irritations were foods I wasn't supposed to eat, but again foods that my blood type should eat are food I'm highly allergic to so that works in combination with the Paelodiet but I didn't see much weight change with them. So again I am at a loss at 189 lbs. Edging my way slowly to 200 lbs. And I am terrified!
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