August whole foods month

Ok needed to really get back to it I have been steadily in the 150s bouncing between 159 and 153 for around 3 months now and I'm ready to get going again. The new job is going well and the new boyfriend is going great I think ill keep him. The eating with the boyfriend has gotten better too I am comfortable enough around him to have voiced my needs and feel its ok if we eat completely different meals and I veto restaurant and cooking choices because they do not fit in with what I need.

 I feel a little more settled now and can focus again on weight loss. Weight today was 158 first day of period that's ok I guess. So that will be my starting weight. For the month if August, 2 of my friends and I are going to eat as close to whole foods as we can manage. I will prob be the most extreme of the three of us as when it comes to eating I can pretty much give up anything for a good amount if time and not have huge turmoil. 

So the plan is to eat food that looks like what it is. No packaged food that has more than one ingredient unless its like frozen mixed veggies or something where u can clearly see the ingredients individually.

The boyfriend is actually taking this as a challenge I told him I can't eat bread he said lets make our own bread and got recipes and a bread maker from his mom. When I told him the recipes were full of white flour and things I didn't want to eat he found new recipes. He is a huge meat and carbs and processed foods eater but he really tries to make stuff that is good for me too!

I still need to work on the exercise front I have done terrible lately I walk everyday with my dog but it does not get me breathing heavy and def is not going to shape my arms! 

With that I am still super proud if what I have done! 2 years ago this week I decided to grow up and make my life what I was dreaming about. No one was going to rescue me except me so I did! Since then I have changed inside and out I have grown as a person as I reduced my weight by 90 lbs! 

This is who I am now I have kept at this longer than most! 2 years is slow for most people but of the blogs I read there are kinda 3 camps: the lost in one year ish  and kept it off, the slowly but surely who are consistent and slow and take breaks from loss where they maintain but get there, and the never make progress people that have good intentions but just can't get it together. 

I am and want to be the middle one I will finish in my own time and my own way. I am 18 lbs away from my original goal and I will get there and not take a crazy long time by bouncing up to a higher weight to have to do it all again. 

Ok so I plan to post my food each day here for the clean eating so here we go.

Only breakfast so far this should be the same for a while I made a big batch of kinda fried rice=brown rice peas carrots green beans egg and shrimp salt and pepper to taste. Made 6 servings of rice so this should be breakfast for about a week then ill try something different.

Ill catch u up later on what I eat for lunch and dinner. I prefer very plain food for tracking so prob not going to create any amazing recipes for u but just yummy healthy whole food!

Have a good day! 

Long time no post but still in the game

Thought I would update anyone out there.
I am currently loving my life and still going slow but strong. I am at 156 lbs! Starting at 245 and a goal of 140 i have 16 lbs to go for my original goal but I am almost 100% certain that I will not be happy at 140. But I will have to recognize the effort that took me there once I am there.
I am still somewhere between a 10 and a 12 in clothes and have a goal of being an 8 I don't know if 16 lbs will get me there but I'll see.
I had some serious back problems a year ago and am still very worried about it and have had to stop Zumba classes because of it. I love Zumba but the possible pain and set back and cost it could do for me is not worth it. Mostly what I do is walk and walk and walk let me tell you my doggie loves it and so do I. I do jog and do different workout classes but not consistently so my weight loss lately is pretty much just diet based. It can be done.
I need to get into some strength training classes but they are intimidating as I know I am quite weak and I don't want to have to join an expensive gym and still not know what to do. I need to strengthn my back and my arms. I have lose skin on my upper arms that I am very ashamed of and would love to decrease. This is my next goal.
In other news my life has changed a ton this year! I have a new job doing something completely different and really liking it. I was drowning in my old job and was super unhappy so I am happy to be somewhere sane finally!
Its a fresh start no one at this job knows me at a bigger size so they think I'm just a normal person not someone who has lost a bunch of weight. I like this as this is who I am now and I am never going back to that girl!
I also have a boyfriend now! It is amazing! I never felt cute enough to date anyone I was attracted to so I dated people that I thought I was good enough for and so never really got close to them. Now I am finally at a place that I can attract a cute wonderful boy and am so happy about it. I'm sure there are tons of mental issues that I will need to deal with including self esteem that made me think this way forever but I'm working through it on my own and living my life and it can only get better.
I love reading all of your healthy living and weight loss blogs it gets me through sometimes knowing that I am not alone in all this. Thanks for blogging much better than me and sharing all your stories!

Birthday look around

Yay Its my birthday tomorrow!!!! Not a big year or anything just 26. Going to celebrate with some good girlfriends and share some good foods and some good laughs over dinner.

On Saturday my mommy will be taking me shoe shopping since all of my shoes no longer fit-to big:)

So I will get to spend a great day with her and then prob end up at my parents' house with my doggie for dinner on Saturday.

After that my holidays will be finally done, so I'll spend Sunday cleaning and putting away all the Christmas decorations. My living room always feels much bigger when that stuff is all put away!

I also am going to work on my grocery list this weekend I need some new ideas I am getting board with my current food choices. I got a slow cooker for Christmas so hopefully I can find some yummy healthy things to make that don't involve buying lots of different ingredients.

As always alot of bloggers out there are needing to reset after their holiday gains. I am happily not one of them yesterday for the first time I wore a size 10 pair of pants to work. They were only a bit tight but nothing compared to what I was squeezing into when I was deluding myself that I was still an 18. I think I have just gotten so used to pants fitting great or a bit to loose that a little tightness seemed like alot until I really thought about what I used to do.

Well I really do think that this year I will hit my goal weight of 140 (I'm at 165 currently) and be able to see what I want to do from there. I really do think the changes that I have made I can sustain forever and defiantly don't want to go back to where I was. In this year of life I plan to actually sign up and do a 5K race. I did get up to running a 5K this summer but was to chicken to sign up for any because I wanted to be able to finish in less than 30 min and was clocking in at 34 min being my fastest time.

My goals while being 26 then are hit goal weight, and run a race 5K, get a new job, date more and add one more state to my states I have visited as an adult.

Should not be too difficult:)