Dare to Advocare! I am getting myself back in a quick way and healthy!

Okay havnt blogged in a while...errrr.. this is why.. I gained about 9 lbs back after loosing 12!  Just from lowering my calorie intake but when i went back to eating healthy but maybe a few more calories I blew UP! I got very down and just ate like crazy comforting myself while I knew I had "failed" my diet! So.. I went back to the drawing board..

Last year I did the advocare 24 day challenge and it was fab and I actually lost about 15 lbs before the summer... Once I got to where I wanted I quit watching my food intake and was great for a little while but didnt keep up with my diet and stress caused me to eat eat eat!  So... I started my 24 day challenge again and I am swearing to stick to it... I am on day 5 and have lost 2 lbs and feel so much better.. no sluggishness.. no yucky feelings.. and Im actually editing and cleaning all in one day .. thats alot :)

So if you want to get on the train with me.. check out the Advocare page and take the challenge with me and get back to being you!!!

https://www.advocare.com/11075384

One week on this horrible journey called dieting...

Okay so obviously if your following this you know Im a photographer and 90% of my time is consumed with my job.  So that being said I may not be able to blog every day but will post daily activity and food to help motivation from days not blogged. 

Okay, today marks week 1.. Im stoked.  I am going to buy a scale today. I am.  I am going to weight myself.  Maybe tomorrow I will have some super exciting post about how I am down a lb or two.  So we will see.

While I was out..

This weekend was the hardest.. I can make it through the week fine since I'm so busy and I went grocery shopping to help with home food and snacks.  Now Friday, Saturdays and Sundays are bad.  Fridays and Saturdays I enjoy family and friends and try to not work much so that means more time to eat or drink calories that I don't need.  I do enjoy an adult beverage but luckily me I don't drink much anyway so calories in drinks don't bother me... so maybe a beer once every two weeks is okay.  Now the only downfall is I love Mexican(as everyone knows this) and I love a margarita.  Those things are super dangerous.  I have to stay away from the 800 calorie drinks. So if I go have a drink with friends, corona light it is. 

Also, This is the season for cooking out so I spend alot of time with friends and family and we usually cookout! This means hotdogs and hamburgers.  No bueno on a diet.  So I'm looking to grill chicken kabobs, tuna steaks and veggies from now on... Sorry Kim Smith.. we must no longer do hamburger cookout dates.. only veggie cookout dates. 

SUNDAY.. how i love it.  I have been going to church with friends and my children really seem to enjoy it as much as I do.. (First Baptist of Brandon) so I'm excited about Sundays.. until 12:30 comes along.. we are eating our Sunday lunches... so that means I need to speak up and say no when we are going to go somewhere that doesn't have options.. I can go home and cook a Sunday meal instead of restaurants.. I must do it.

So tomorrow we will see how much if any I have lost.. and hopefully It will help me correct my mistakes of going over or under this week!  Please join My fitness pal http://www.myfitnesspal.com/ .. its amazing.. really helps me keep track!!!

Until tomorrow (which I will post the fabulous week 2 old navy outfit pic).. good day!

June 3, 2011

Breakfast	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein
Kellogg's - Special K Red Berries With 125ml Skim Milk, 30 g	173	29	3	3
	173	29	3	3
Lunch
Premium Extra Lean All-Natural Turkey Burger, 5.33 oz 1 patty	200	2	6	35
Arnold - Select Multi-Grain Sandwich Thins, 1 roll	100	22	1	4
	300	24	7	39
Dinner
Yoplait - Light Fat Free Yogurt - Harvest Peach, 6 oz.	100	19	0	5
Skinny Cow - Chocolate Fudge Brownie Single Serving Ice Cream, 1 cup 177mL	150	29	2	5
Tomato - Tomato - Sliced, 2 slices	8	2	0	0
Arnold - Select Multi-Grain Sandwich Thins, 1 roll	100	22	1	4
Lay's - Kettle Cooked Mesquite Bbq Potato Chips, 28 g/about 18 chips	150	17	8	2
My Red Wine - Red Wine Glass, 1 glass	77	6	0	0
	585	95	11	16
Snacks
Kellogg's - Raspberry Cheesecake Special K Bar, 1 bar	90	17	2	0
Great Value - Sliced Frozen Peaches, 1 cup	50	13	0	1
	140	30	2	1
Totals	1,198	178	23	59
Your Daily Goal	1,306	179	43	48
Remaining	108	1	20	-11
	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein
	*You've earned 106 extra calories from exercise today 

June 5, 20114

Breakfast	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein
Iceland - Egg, Bacon and Cheese Quiche, 1/4 of quiche	258	22	16	8
Bakery - Banana Nut Muffin - Large, 5.5 oz	210	25	11	3
	468	47	27	11
Lunch
Mission - Whole Wheat Flour Tortilla, 1 tortilla	130	22	3	4
Turkey - Deli - 3 oz - Sliced Deli Meat, 3 oz.	60	4	1	13
	190	26	4	17
Dinner
Generic - Grilled Hamburger 15% Fat, 4 oz.	287	0	23	20
Hot Dog With Bun, 1 hot dog with bun	297	24	18	11
	584	24	41	31
Snacks
Totals	1,242	97	72	59
Your Daily Goal	1,200	165	40	45
Remaining	-42	68	-32	-14
June 5, 2011 Breakfast Calories Carbs Fat Protein Lunch Turkey - Deli - 3 oz - Sliced Deli Meat, 3 oz. 60 4 1 13 Arnold - Select Multi-Grain Sandwich Thins, 1 roll 100 22 1 4 Lay's - Wavy Original Potato Chips, 1 oz. (28g/about 11chips) 160 15 10 2 320 41 12 19 Dinner Homemade Chocolate Brownie, 35 g 128 20 5 2 Fried Catfish - Fried Catfish Filet - One, 5 filet 850 0 50 100 Coleslaw, 114 grams 180 20 10 1 1,158 40 65 103   Totals 1,478 81 77 122 Your Daily Goal 1,200 165 40 45 Remaining -278 84 -37 -77

Day 1..

Who is that fine looking lady? Yup, that's me and all my robot fat 2.0 Katie body.  I took these yesterday before taking a walk with a friend.  I purposely am letting it all hang out so I will want to motivate myself to look better and also keep up with wearing this same outfit (which is the one i posted on yesterday from Oldnavy) in all my weekly progress photos.

So today lets talk about my goals.. I want to lose 40lbs before the end of 2011. May seem like alot but this sister has big dreams. Weighing in at 200lbs, I have decided my goal weight to be 160 for this year. I want to gradually lose weight instead of doing fad diets to eventually gain it all back.  When I say I weigh 200, people are like, No.. your a lie.  Well I'm telling the truth my sisters and brothers.. 200 it is. So, Since I haven't weighed that much since after giving birth to my first child.. keep in mind he is 8 and i weighed only 150 the day after giving birth to Addie Kate, which is 3.  I cant stay this way.. I am on track and I really think that I can stick to it.. if you hold it to me..

So if you see me out.. make sure I have 1. no large margarita since those are like 5 cagillion calories.. 2. am not eating Mexican food.. 3. am not eating sushi 4 times a week.. 

Okay lets start with Day 1.. I am allowed 1200 calories a day(more as bonus if i exercise)

Breakfast	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein
Splenda - Individual Packet, 4 packet	16	4	0	0
Black Coffee - Coffee , 2 cup	10	0	0	0
Coffee-Mate (Original Powder) - 16oz Size - Creamer, 2 Tsp	20	2	1	0
	46	6	1	0
Lunch
Wendy's - Berry Almond Chicken Salad Half-Size, 1 salad half size	270	23	12	21
Wendy's - Sweet Tea (Medium), 1 Medium Drink	140	37	0	0
	410	60	12	21
Dinner
Trader Joe's - Frozen Pineapple Tidbits, 1 cup	60	16	0	1
Dole Frozen Mango - Frozen Mango Chunks, 4 chunks	30	8	0	1
Newk's Cafe - Shrimp Remoulade Salad, 1 salad	290	15	15	33
Newk's Cafe - Remoulade Dressing, 1 oz	118	1	12	0
	498	40	27	35
Totals	954	106	40	56
Your Daily Goal	1,337	183	44	50
Remaining	383	77	4	-6
	Calories	Carbs	Fat	Protein

extra cadded to my goal since i worked out!! :)

I give this swanky recording keeping idea to the coolest website that a friend told me about yesterday, http://www.myfitnesspal.com/  its way cooler than weight watchers, has all the fast food callories, has an online community and coolest part.. its totally free!!  check it and add me as a friend to keep up with progress!

"Im bringing Katie Back" you know your singing the JT song..

Here we go, or here I go.  Today I decided to stop complaining of being fat, not being the Katie I once knew, tired and just miserable.  I think it took me walking into Old Navy today and instead of purchasing a cute pair of white shorts that I desperately wanted (and obviously could not fit in) I purchased a half price sale set of workout clothes.  Instead of buying a bigger size pair of pants,which would of looked stupid on me in my size anyway, I realized i needed the workout pants so i could go back and buy the cute size I wanted. 

Now don't be offended, I am happy being my size (which I will reveal), I love people of all sizes and I think everyone is beautiful.. but this isn't just about looks, its about self esteem, my health and my children.  I want to feel good, when you feel good, you strut your stuff like Megan Fox.. but when you feel bad about yourself.. or in my situation, I eat.  I want to be healthy, have energy to play whenever my kids want to play and of course.. be super smoking hot for my husband (don't lie, you know you want to too). 

But kidding aside.. I need this.  I don't feel like the same person i was last year which was 50lbs lighter.  In one year, I have had so much stress, which causes depression which in my situation causes eating.  I also am a non stop photographer who literally NEVER has time to cook and eats out all the time!  That means my family is being affected by this robot fat Katie (this is what we will call the 2.0 version I am right now) by them also eating unhealthy foods and not getting enough play time as they need with me outside. 

SO... for the next 90 days, I will TRY (please understand I suck at doing anything on time) to blog daily with photographs to show progress, my weight management plan on dieting and working out.. and also my daily thoughts of how life is in general.  I'm happy with who I am today, I just want to be way cooler..

Feel free to keep up with me, add recipes and any of your encouragement.. cause this sister needs help!