Hey all! I am so sorry that it has been so long since the last time I posted. I don't like making excuses but school was crazy this past term. I know what you are wondering...are you still losing weight Becca? The answer to that question is yes and no. It seems that I lose 1 lb one week and then gain it back the next week. For example, last week I had lost exactly 1 lb and this week I gained .5. I know that .5 is not a lot of weight but it was definitely the result of bad choices. I am now out of school and I have more time to exercise but I once again am not following my plan. This next week my goal is to enter all of the food I eat into weightwatchers.com and work out at least 3 times. Well sorry again that I wasn't writing but I plan to get back to it thanks to encouragement from Erik Larson. Thanks again all and I hope that you can all find a way to be more healthy today :]
"Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy." --Izaak Walton
Friday, June 17, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Weigh In Thursday
So this week I have lost another pound making for a total of 20. Although I did OK on the weight part I measured myself and realized that over the past 4 weeks I have gained 2 inches on just about everything. I promised myself that I would be fully honest on this blog and I have to say that I felt really disappointed about that. I am not sure what is going on because I have lost 7.5 lbs since the last time I measured myself. Although I had this set back, I am committed to change. I need to be even better and use my extra points less. I still have a long way to go and I cannot let this bring me down. Sorry ya'll for not doing well today but I hope that I can learn from this and do better. As always I love you guys and hope you all are doing well.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Results!
Yesterday marked the 75th day since my decision to change my life and I couldn't be happier. I have not had a bad thought about myself since I started Weight Watchers. Any of you who know me well know that I just broke all of my personal records. I also feel so great! I don't get winded by doing simple activities and I have less aches and pains. I feel like my body can keep up with my age now.
Another measure of the progress I have made is my fitness test I took last Tuesday. I have taken this teacher about 4 times now and she is awesome! Usually when I take these pre-tests, I expect to not do very well because my fitness has never been great but I rocked it! I was only one of 4 people who held the wall-sits for 3 mins (the maximum) and I held the plank for a full 60 seconds where before I was only able to hold it for 25 seconds. My heat rate test was also much better than last time and my teacher was shocked at the progress I have made. I am not telling you this to brag but I really just wanted to share how I am doing with all of you. It would also be nice if I could give you some inspiration to be healthy. I know that I have said this several times but it feels so nice to be healthy. It has gotten to the point where I don't feel like eating junk food 90% of the time. Well it looks like I need to go but weigh in is tomorrow so you should check back to see the results. Love ya!
Another measure of the progress I have made is my fitness test I took last Tuesday. I have taken this teacher about 4 times now and she is awesome! Usually when I take these pre-tests, I expect to not do very well because my fitness has never been great but I rocked it! I was only one of 4 people who held the wall-sits for 3 mins (the maximum) and I held the plank for a full 60 seconds where before I was only able to hold it for 25 seconds. My heat rate test was also much better than last time and my teacher was shocked at the progress I have made. I am not telling you this to brag but I really just wanted to share how I am doing with all of you. It would also be nice if I could give you some inspiration to be healthy. I know that I have said this several times but it feels so nice to be healthy. It has gotten to the point where I don't feel like eating junk food 90% of the time. Well it looks like I need to go but weigh in is tomorrow so you should check back to see the results. Love ya!
Friday, April 1, 2011
Beautiful People
Beauty noun \ˈbyü-tē\: the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit.
For the past week I have been reflecting a lot about what beauty means to me. I think that beauty is not only physical although that can be part of it. I think that every single decision and word we say can make us beautiful or not. I also believe that you can be more beautiful by loving and showing kindness to others. I can honestly say that there isn't a single person who was kind, compassionate and honest that I didn't think was gorgeous. For the past month I have been trying to be beautiful every day. Mostly by straightening my hair, doing my makeup and wearing cute clothes, but I am realizing that I forgot about that other side of beauty. I keep forgetting that a truly beautiful woman is kind, compassionate and nurturing. It is amazing to me that we can get so caught up in the physical side of beauty that we forget that a smile is more beautiful than a frown and a kind word is more beautiful than an insult. I am still working on being more beautiful and being what God wants me to be but I hope that we can all keep in mind that there are two parts to love and beauty and you can't have one without the other. Love ya'll!
For the past week I have been reflecting a lot about what beauty means to me. I think that beauty is not only physical although that can be part of it. I think that every single decision and word we say can make us beautiful or not. I also believe that you can be more beautiful by loving and showing kindness to others. I can honestly say that there isn't a single person who was kind, compassionate and honest that I didn't think was gorgeous. For the past month I have been trying to be beautiful every day. Mostly by straightening my hair, doing my makeup and wearing cute clothes, but I am realizing that I forgot about that other side of beauty. I keep forgetting that a truly beautiful woman is kind, compassionate and nurturing. It is amazing to me that we can get so caught up in the physical side of beauty that we forget that a smile is more beautiful than a frown and a kind word is more beautiful than an insult. I am still working on being more beautiful and being what God wants me to be but I hope that we can all keep in mind that there are two parts to love and beauty and you can't have one without the other. Love ya'll!
Weight in Thursday
So I know today is Friday but I didn't post yesterday so here it is. I lost 2.5 lbs this week and I forgot to do my measurements so I will post them next week. I am really happy about losing because that means I am only 3.1 lbs away from my first target weight (I am trying to take baby steps).
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Happy, Confident and Loving Life
Hi everyone! Sorry I have been so inconsistent with my posting but hopefully I will be able to get back on schedule with school starting. Today was one of those Sundays where I went to church expecting it to be like any other Sunday and instead I learned so much! Sacrament meeting was awesome and our mission prep class was really inspiring but it was Relief Society and the fireside that moved me to be better! Thanks go to Ellen, my roommate and Elder L. Tom Perry for making my Sunday spiritually awesome!
I also have been so incredibly happy lately! I think it is the combination of trying to look my best and come closer to God that have been making this the best time of my life. Before I started eating healthy and really take care of myself, I was having major confidence issues. It was like I would have times where I felt good and secure and then it seemed like about once a week I would break down and lose all of it. Ever since I was just a little kid I have always thought that I would always feel insecure and never fully be confident in myself. To all of you who feel this way, it is not true. YOU control your own choices, YOU control how you think about yourself, and YOU control your attitude. It would be so easy for me to say to myself that I am not losing the weight quickly enough or that I am still in the obese category for my BMI but we can't do that to ourselves. I was talking to my mom a couple of weeks ago and we were talking about my weight loss and she was saying that I will be so much better if I lost 10 more lbs. I thought about this statement and I came to the conclusion that I can not think that way; I need to be happy with how I am now because if I am not happy now what makes me think that I will be happy then? I will not be happy then if I am not working on myself today. I am not saying that we shouldn't set attainable goals for ourselves but we have to realize that reaching those goals alone will not make us happy.
On a different note I have now lost enough weight that my CTR ring fits on my right hand! I am so excited because I have two rings that I LOVE but neither of them fit on my right hand so I had to choose which one I wanted to wear everyday. Now I can wear both of them and that makes me so happy. I was also in California these past two weeks, as many of you know, and I bought some really cute clothes while I was down there. It is amazing that I have dropped a pant size and I am loving the way I feel and look. I know I still have a long journey ahead of me but I can see the results and I am now more motivated then ever to make this change a permanent part of my life. I am so thankful to all of you who read this blog and support me on my journey. I honestly do not think I could do this without your encouragement and love. Love ya!
I also have been so incredibly happy lately! I think it is the combination of trying to look my best and come closer to God that have been making this the best time of my life. Before I started eating healthy and really take care of myself, I was having major confidence issues. It was like I would have times where I felt good and secure and then it seemed like about once a week I would break down and lose all of it. Ever since I was just a little kid I have always thought that I would always feel insecure and never fully be confident in myself. To all of you who feel this way, it is not true. YOU control your own choices, YOU control how you think about yourself, and YOU control your attitude. It would be so easy for me to say to myself that I am not losing the weight quickly enough or that I am still in the obese category for my BMI but we can't do that to ourselves. I was talking to my mom a couple of weeks ago and we were talking about my weight loss and she was saying that I will be so much better if I lost 10 more lbs. I thought about this statement and I came to the conclusion that I can not think that way; I need to be happy with how I am now because if I am not happy now what makes me think that I will be happy then? I will not be happy then if I am not working on myself today. I am not saying that we shouldn't set attainable goals for ourselves but we have to realize that reaching those goals alone will not make us happy.
On a different note I have now lost enough weight that my CTR ring fits on my right hand! I am so excited because I have two rings that I LOVE but neither of them fit on my right hand so I had to choose which one I wanted to wear everyday. Now I can wear both of them and that makes me so happy. I was also in California these past two weeks, as many of you know, and I bought some really cute clothes while I was down there. It is amazing that I have dropped a pant size and I am loving the way I feel and look. I know I still have a long journey ahead of me but I can see the results and I am now more motivated then ever to make this change a permanent part of my life. I am so thankful to all of you who read this blog and support me on my journey. I honestly do not think I could do this without your encouragement and love. Love ya!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Weigh in Thursday
This week I lost 3.8 lbs making for a total of 16.4 lbs lost total! I am not doing my measurements this week because I am once again at my sister's house in California. I also have reached my 10% milestone and I couldn't be happier about it. There are many benefit to losing 10% and Weight Watchers has an article about it. Click here for the article. If you want to read it for motivation there is it. Well I will post again today but for now I need to go do some chores. Love ya and hope your efforts are going well too!
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