A Long Lazy Period....

I haven't been really lazy, just haven't been keeping up on my fitness or eating routine....obviously it isn't habit yet.....time to start AGAIN!   Now that I am married, my new career is getting a routine and my move will be done soon....it is time to get back to me.   Starting June 1st, I will be doing a 21 day sugar detox and going back to yoga (AT LEAST 3x a week).  I am glad that my husband supports me in this and I really look forward to getting back to the place where I feel super great about myself and my health :)

Cheers!
Puddles

AAAAAHHHHHHH

Made it to yoga last night and I am a happy, happy girl!   It was liking coming home to the warm, non judgemental embrace of a close friend!  The warmth surrounded me, my mind shut off and I just moved.  PEACE!!

Love,
Charmaine
aka Puddles

Still trying....

I keep attempting to get to yoga...but nothing seems to give and my motivation is lacking with all the work/career, wedding, kids, life stress I am experiencing right now.  I need a vacation and I know yoga would help me relax.....

Please help me to get there!!

Charmaine
aka Puddles

Falling off the wagon and still getting results!

So my yoga routine has laspsed.....not more than a class or two a week for the last month, however, my eating habits have stayed roughly the same.  My blogging time has decreased significantly, but I am keeping better mental note of what I am eating and the choices I am making.  I started doing some short (20 minute) yoga sessions at home and toning in my spare moments.

Last week, after years of them being too tight, I slipped into my lucky interview pants (results still pending) and I can feel that other items are fitting differently as well.  I looked at myself naked in the mirror this weekend and I was convinced something more had changed : )

I got out the tape measure this morning, and in fact there was a change!

Chest: 49-50 "  *same

Waist : 41" *down .75

Muffin Top: 42"  *down 1.5

Hips: 52" *same

Thigh: 28" *down .5

Bicep: 15" *down .5

*total inches lost since last check (1/16/12)

3.5 inches

For a total lost of 10.25 inches overall!!!

Our wedding is 33 days away, with my future mother in law coming to stay with us for the next month I am hoping to find more time for yoga and some special date nights with my future husband : )  He has been such great support in this process and I truly appreciate all he does!

We are discussing doing a "Juice" fast together....watch the documentary "Fat, Sick and almost Dead"...inspiring!

I still plan to train for my first 5k!

Here's to not giving up, even when life doesn't let you have your routine!

Charmaine

aka Puddles

Falling off the wagon!

I fell off the wagon, my 2+ months of yoga and a healthier diet, well it didn't completely stop....but my blogging did.  My daughter got sick for almost 3 weeks, the lack of sleep on all  of us drastically changed our routine.  I have only been getting to yoga 2-3 times a week...I have also added pilates and zumba at least once a week.  My water intake is down, my coffee intake is up.  My eating habits have remained pretty much the same, just haven't been journaled in almost a month.

I am trying to be flexible and continue to use what I know to get me by, trying to keep off the inches and lbs I lost and continue to lose.

I am planning a juice fast after our wedding : )

Latest Measurements 1/16/12

Chest: 49-50 *same

Waist: 41 3/4 *same

Muffine top: 43 1/2 *same

Hips: 52 *same

Thighs: 28.5 *same

Bicep: 15.5 *same

no change.

Food Journal Days - 14,15,16,17

Grace and Gratitude

two attributes I have found within my own body this last week

I have come further down the scale from the fertility goddess body I began with,

to a more Rubenesque body that I am enjoying.

I found a great blog that has made me laugh, think and enjoy my imperfections.

http://www.elizabethpatch.com/

She draws plus sized figures and has a great way of looking at plus sized life.

I have continued my yoga path.  My stretches are deeper, my standing bow is more profound, my concentration comes and goes, by body feels better.  My abs and thighs get sore....and I LOVE IT!  I am finding the actual *feeling* of energy flowing through me during poses, much like when I did Tai Chi in college.  I am aware of my breath and body, and my body continues to change for the better.

I have now official dropped 7 1/2 inches overall.

(I will have to get the actual measurement chart up tomorrow)

So onto my foods:

Day 14 - Thursday Jan 12,2012

Breakfast

16oz black coffee

16oz SF hazlenut non-fat latte

raspberry white chocolate scone

Lunch

Healthy Choice sundried tomato chicken entree

Supper

2c. deer sausage, saur kraut, boiled potatoes

evening snack

1 serving hot cocoa

1 sm cookie

5oz red wine

Fitness

nothing extra...had Bible study

Water

56oz. (below 8 cups a day)

**I didn't do great today, no extra exercise, less water...was very close to my calorie intake goal**

Day 15 - Friday Jan. 13, 2012

Breakfast

32oz black coffee

eclaire

1/2 cinnamon roll

**AWFUL**

(but so yummy)

Lunch

Lean Cuisine steak tips and mushrooms with broccoli

Supper

1.5 cups low fat chicken marsala

2 low fat bisquick biscuits

2tbsp butter

Fitness

60 minutes Forest Yoga (intense)

Water

120 oz

*Yoga was challenging tonight, but I made it and my abs have felt it since : ) *

Day 16 - Saturday Jan. 14, 2012

Breakfast

32 oz black coffee

20 tortilla chips

Lunch

1 serving Ceasar Salad

6oz chicken breast

Supper

2 small baked cod fillets

1.5 cups broccoli

Evening Snack

1 hardboiled egg

18 oz apple pie liquor

1/2 bag smart ones popcorn

Fitness

45 minutes HPF yoga

Water

88 oz

*Even with my extra goodies, I was still under my calorie goal, however I am starting to see my -protien,fat, carb- pie graph and want to change the fat and carb areas to be smaller*

Day 17 - Sunday Jan. 15, 2012

Breakfast

32oz coffee

4oz greek yogurt

Lunch

1 deviled egg (2 halves)

1/2 sicilian pizza

Mid-afternoon

1 mimosa

turkey club sandwich

cup of chicken wild rice soup

1/2 slice of salted caramel cheesecake

***I WAS STUFFED**

Supper

Lean Cuisine Chicken Fried Rice

*didn't eat this until  8pm*

Fitness

90 minutes THY

**difficult night, as the room was 108 degree, humidity was high and I was stuffed from my mid-day meal...it made me miserable during yoga and made me feel nauseous at points.....I won't be doing that again!**

Water

120 oz

Overall, I am feeling great.  My health is the best it has been in years!! The humidity of the hot yoga clears my sinuses everyday and hence, I haven't had a terrible cold yet this year.  My flexibility is way up, my stamina is up, my energy is up, my mood is up : )

My wedding dress should be here this week

and I am excited to see how it fits on my new and improved curves!

Also...in addition to doing my ab exercises at home with my excersice ball, I also want to get some kettle bells and do more tri-cep work, as my bi-ceps are looking great, but I want to get rid of the under arm flab.

Gleeful and Graceful,

Charmaine

aka Puddles

Food Journal Days - 11,12 and 13

We are about 1/2 way through this month of food journaling : )

This is what I have learned:

The more water I drink, the more water I crave

I am more attentive to what I am eating and when I am eating

I don't *NOT* have things, I just pay attention to my overall intake

Day 11- Monday Jan. 9, 2012

Breakfast

4oz greek yogurt

16oz black coffee

Lunch

Health Choice Turkey Medallion Entree

Supper

2c. turkey nachos and chips

Snack

10 bacon strips

(I was craving meat)

Water intake

136 oz

Fitness

45 minutes HPF yoga

Day 12- Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012

Breakfast

4oz. greek yogurt

24oz black coffee

2 pastries  *bad girl*

Lunch

Healthy Choice Basalmic Chicken Entree

Supper

1.5 cups beef stir-fry

Water

120 oz

Fitness

45 minutes HPF yoga

Day 13- Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012

Breakfast

16oz black coffee

20oz SF caramel non-fat latte

granola bar

Lunch

4oz pork loin

1 cup mashed potatoes

1/4 c. gravy

1/2 cup corn

dinner roll

1 tbsp. butter

1 can Coke

Supper

6oz. chicken breast

1.5 cups veggie noodle mix

water

96 oz.

Fitness

90 minutes THY

Journaling has gotten easier.

I am excited to hit a scale and see if anything has been lost.

I will do measurements again tonight : )

Feeling great!

Charmaine

aka Puddles

Food Journal Days 8,9,10

ABSOLUTELY!

The last week of December, I was in an awful mood.  Wedding stuff wasn't coming together, I felt frazzled and tired.  My fiance talked to me about it, and I made a concious change for the new year....and so did he.  I have kept my cool better and he has been more supportive when life disappoints me : )  He recognizes the benefits yoga is giving me, not just physically but mentally and he has been very encouraging and supportive! Plus it gives him an hour or so each night to do his own thing too!

I have to say that while keeping track of my intake over the weekend, I have fallen more in love with http://www.livestrong.com/ 

I love the graphs, charts, food data base.....just about everything.

It makes it so much easier to keep track.

I can't say I am the best, I did eat out this weekend and I find it hard to be certain that I am tracking the correct calorie intake, but at least it is a good guideline and I am consistently keeping my calories below my target calories per day.

Day 8, Friday Jan 6, 2012

Breakfast

16oz black coffee

4oz greek yogurt

20oz SF caramel non-fat latte

granola bar

Lunch

Lean Cuisine Lasagna with meat sauce

2 certs mints

Supper

Thai peanut chicken pasta

1-5oz glass of red wine

Water

104 oz

Fitness :

90 minutes Traditional Hot Yoga

Great day!!

I need to add more protein and veggies and cut some more carbs.

Day 9, Saturday Jan. 7, 2012

(Company Christmas Party)

Breakfast

32 oz black coffee

4oz greek yogurt

Lunch

1/2 Great Value Cheese Steak Pizza

Supper

McDonald's Sm. Value Fries

McChicken Sandwich

Christmas Party

1 serving Chislic

1/2 buffalo chicken nachos

9 Jack and Diets

2 chuck norris shots

Fitness:

45 minutes HPF yoga

30 minute walk

45 minutes dancing

Water

136 oz +

I didn't do too bad for a Christmas Party.  I got pretty wasted, and the alcohol calories added up, but with exercise throughout the day, I made it pretty close to goal anyway.  And I kept drinking water during the night, so I didn't wake up hung over the next day : )

Day 10, Sunday Jan.8, 2012

Breakfast

4oz greek yogurt

and lots of water :)

Lunch

10 bacon strips : )  *I LOVE BACON

2 chicken tacos with beans

Supper

2 cups Chicken Ceasar Salad

Fitness

Slow walking for 75 minutes

Water

136+ oz.

I ate crap food because I was slow and lethargic from drinking the night before.  I kept my water intake up, but didn't do much for excersise (went shopping).  I was really stiff and sore.

The new grocery list worked well, and many of this next week's supper meals will reflect a larger vegetable intake and different meats.

Alive after Christmas Party---WIN!

Charmaine

aka Puddles

Food Journal Day 7 --- Struggling to Find a GOOD Journal Online

(you will notice LOTS of coffe in my food journal, cause I LOVE IT!)

I have stuggled to find a great food journal!

I thought I liked everydayhealth.com, but it didn't have the graphs and charts that fitday.com has.

I have friends that suggest myfitnesspal.com, but they don't track Bikram yoga.....

SO NOW I HAVE MOVED ALL MY INFO TO

http://www.livestrong.com/

and I will try http://www.myfitnesspal.com/ again to see if I like it

I found that *livestrong* has more of the food I eat in it's date base and bikram yoga in the exercise datebase.  I know that the calories for bikram yoga isn't as high as it was in my-calorie-counter, but I feel the calories of my food are more accurate.

If my calories are more accurate, and my fitness calories burned is lower and I am still making it under my calories for the day, GREAT!  If I am burning more calories, I am just having MORE WIN!!!

Measurements as of Today:

Chest: 49-50  *same

Waist: 41 3/4  *down 1/4"

Muffin Top: 43.5 *same

Hips: 52 *down 3/4

Thigh: 28.5 *same

Bicep:15.5 *same

Lost 1" this week : )

Total inches lost:  6.75

Day 7 Food Journal

Breakfast

24 oz black coffee

4oz non fat greek yogurt

Mid Morning Snack

2oz smoked turkey breast

Lunch

1.5 cups homemade speghetti

Dinner

2 cups red beans and rice with deer sausage


Total water :  80 oz.

Fitness:  45 minutes HPF  (burns roughly 531 calories for my weight)

I am not sure if people are interested in the actual calorie intake each day, I keep track of my calorie counter and have been below 2000 EVERYDAY...and below my calorie intake goal of 1800, 5 days of 7 thus far.

If you are more interested in keeping track of my calorie intake with me, please let me know : )  I would be happy to share  more information, but since this is the first week I have just been trying to work all the bugs out and develope a bit of a routine.

Also, I have been reading about how to eat for my blood type!!

I am O positive and this is what I found: (make sense now why I crave MEAT all the time)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_diet

http://www.bewellbuzz.com/general/eating-blood-type-o/

Now my fiance is A+....we are bit opposite, but we can make it work : )

I am sitting down tonight with this weeks calories and what I have learned about eating for OUR (my fiance too) blood types and will be working on a new grocery list.

Wish me luck!

Grocery List Revising

Charmaine

aka Puddles

Food Journal Days 5 and 6

Well, after LOTS of searching, I decided to go with online tracker my-calorie-counter.com through http://www.everydayhealth.com/

This is the ONLY site I found that had Bikram yoga listed as an exercise and could calculate calories burned based on your personal statistics! 


Day 5 - Tuesday Jan. 3, 2012

Breakfast

24 oz black coffee

1/2 bag microwave popcorn

Lunch

Healthy Choice Sundried Tomato Chicken Entree

16 oz water

Supper

6oz chicken breast

1.5 cups veggie noodle mix

Total water for the day 80oz

Fitness:  45 minutes of HPF

I was in the ZONE for HPF tonight...the 45 minutes flew by and I felt great!

Day 6 - Wed. Jan 4, 2012

Breakfast

24 oz black coffee

Lunch
Weight Watchers Smart Ones Sante Fe Rice and Beans

Supper

3 cups homemade speghetti

16oz flavored water

total water for the day  104 oz

Fitness - 90 minutes THY : )

Getting in the groove,

Charmaine

aka Puddles

Food Journal Days 3 and 4

Sunday January 1, 2012

6-9am - 32 oz black coffee

m&m, chex mix snack (1/2 cup)

16 oz water

9am - 2 pancakes with butter and pure maple syrup

8oz black coffee

12pm - 16 oz flavored water

4 small slices of pizza

3pm - FITNESS

1.5 hours THY

24 oz of water

4-5 pm - 48 oz water

6pm - 2 cups cheesy hashbrown casserole

Had a great time at YOGA!  Felt superb!

Monday January 2, 2012

8am - 4oz greek non-fat yogurt

8:30am - 20oz sugar free caramel non-fat latte

9:30am - a butterscotch chip cookie

8oz water

11:30 am - 24 oz water

20 oz wheat beer

Napa Valley burger with fries (ketchup)

cup of cheddar ale soup with croutons

12-2pm  FITNESS

Low intensity walking while shopping

6pm - 1 cup cheesy hashbrown casserole

16oz flavored water

**I definately need to drink more water than I did today!!**

Trying to get a food journal routine,

Charmaine

aka Puddles

Food Journal Day 2

Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011

4am - 8 oz water

Breakfast

7:30am - 2 eggs

   1/2 cup chorizo

16 oz coffee (black)

24 oz water


11:15am - 4oz greek non-fat yogurt
24 oz water


12-1pm  FITNESS - HPF Yoga
24 oz water

1:30 pm - Chicken Ceasar Salad
24 oz water

6-7pm - 24 oz water

8-midnight - 20oz of wine

11pm 1/2 bag microwave popcorn




I found the site http://www.fitday.com/

I will start finding a way to use this and keep better track of my calories in the next week : )

Goodbye 2011, it's been fun!

Charmaine

aka Puddles