A little bump in the road...

Okay. So it's been a long while since my last blog. I do seriously apologize!
I have to keep regular appointments with my doctor. I had an appointment a couple of weeks ago. It wasn't too good. I'm okay. I was told to hold off on the "dieting" and exercising for a while. I can go for walks but nothing to physical.
So this is my speed bump in my road. It sucks BIG TIME!
He didn't say I couldn't get obsessed about my house. That in itself keeps me pretty physical!
So now these days instead of doing my cardio and restricting what I eat, I am now a clean freak! I have to be doing something every minute of the day! It's unbelievable!
So now my house is organized. When I'm done organizing it, I have to go and rearrange it just to have something to do. When I sit down and try to relax, I end up thinking about what I have to do next or what I can do next. So I end up getting up and doing it instead of resting. It's crazy!
It's the same here at work. I have reorganized our supply closet like 50 million times, cleaned out my desk, and organized the files. Now my next mission is to tackle the file room.
I started this keeping busy stuff on Monday, so I can tell now that it's working. I feel more energized. I feel like I can do anything! My pants are as tight as they were before. I haven't gotten on the scale to see if I have actually lost pounds but I know for a fact that I have lost inches. That's good!
I encourage everyone to get up and move around their house or office. You'll feel the difference in a couple of days I can almost guarantee it!
Well this is it for now. I know it's pretty short. If y'all have any questions or comments let me know! Thank you for reading today!

waiting, how long do I have to wait?

So, I have gone on just about all the Fitness Trainers websites. I have filled out my questionnaires, health surveys, and all the information they need to see what i the heck they can do to help me. It's been over a week already and I have only heard from 1 trainer so far! At that, the trainer wanted MORE information to get my fitness analysis and needs done.
So what do you do? I went ahead and e-mailed her all the information she requested. She also requested a picture of me in a bikini! Can you believe it? ME in a bikini??? YEAH RIGHT! I don't think so! She said she needs it to evaluate what I look like. So after much consideration and careful thought I figured, if she really needs it then I'll go ahead and do it! First thing first, I need to go buy a bikini.
So I am on a mission this week to find a bikini that doesn't make me look that bad. Is there such a thing? If anyone out there knows of any, let me know where to find it! Good luck to myself in bikini hunting!
I have been eating like there has been no tomorrow! I bought all good food. I'm going to try and stay on a low fat or at least under 1200 calories. At least until they give me a diet plan. I vary rarely go out to eat so that is not a problem for me. What is the problem is I am addicted to ice cream and cookies! Occasionally chips, (Doritos to be exact). So I eat healthy for a couple of days and then out of no where I find I have a cookie in my mouth or a bowl full of ice cream. Naturally I don't feel at all guilty about it until after it's all gone and I have licked the bowl clean!
Part of this challenge is to learn how to avoid those foods. I have them in the house and I don't think I'll ever have a home without them. I have children in the house. Yes, I do limit what they can eat and try to get them to eat healthy, but the occasional cookies and ice cream or chips with their sandwich won't hurt THEM. So I will continue to buy them. I just have to build up my will power, tolerance, and strength to stay away from them. I know I can do it! I did it just last year up until May of this year! I just wish that there was a switch in the back of my head that I can turn off so I don't crave those foods anymore.
I've cleared up a space to work out in. I have a TV set up and my DVD player in there too. All I have to do is start. I have a whole library of DVDs and I have a friend who is going to lend me some of hers. I can't wait. I am seriously going to start tonight. I am not going to go out and buy any specialized work out equipment. I don't have the money for it or the space. I specified that to the trainers I have picked out and asked them to work around this. I do have the 5 pound hand weights and I think some where in my storage area I have some 3 pound leg weights. When the time is right, I will start using them. I'm a weakling right now and can barley handle my limbs on there own!
So, there you have it! I'm still alive and kicking. I'm still looking for a trainer. But in the meantime, I will tackle this on my own.
If any one of you out there have any suggestions on any work out DVDs, email me: Gallegos503@msn.com . I'd really appreciate it! Thank you for reading and I'll post again in a couple of days.

My new Plan of Attack. WATCH OUT!

Okay so it's been a couple of days since I last posted on here for you guys. I have been eating good. I've been cooking my breakfast and lunches. I've had chicken breast, boiled and eggs, scrambled and hard boiled. Si I pretty much have a bland diet. It's not to exciting for me and hard to keep me motivated. I do appreciate all the calls and emails you guys have been sending me cheering me on! That helps a whole lot!
So I started walking again. I walk 13 blocks one way and back. I haven't weighed myself yet and I think I'm going to hold off until next week. I have been researching the net again to see what kind of meals and recipes I can find to spice up my food. So I decided, I want a personal trainer! Okay I know we are not rich and realistically we cannot afford one. But I found a site that has free on\line personal training with meal plans. It's called Freetrainers.com. They give me a week at a time meal plan with a week at a time exercises program. Of course I have to input on a daily basis what I ate what exercises I did. If I don't it won't give me the next weeks plan. I figure I want to look and feel good. If this plan can give it to me then so be it! I am excited! I am going to start it on Sunday. I am so stoked about it. My real goal in my head is to actually find one of those fitness competitions near by like sometime next year and enter it. So how realistic that is I really don't know. That's hat I want to do. So, my journey is only getting better. I really wanted to lose weight like super fast. I wanted to hopefully lose my 20 pounds that I gained before August first but I know that cannot happen in a healthy way.
My plan for my body transformation:
I would like to get my belly as close to a six pack as I can get.I want to get my arms nice and toned.
I would like to walk around with out a bra, sorry guys but it's true, with out having my boobs sag down to my waist.
I want some definition in my pencil legs.
I want to wear a bra and not make it look like I have 20 rolls around my bra in the back!
Last but not least, I would like to have my butt transformed! It is flatter than a wall right now. I want to actually have a booty! and not a jiggly one either!
I have a mental picture of what I want to look like and I know it can be done. I have seen before and after pictures n different Trainers websites. I would post a picture of what I look like now, in a bikini, but I have a couple of problems with that. First, I don't own a bikini. Next, I don't want you guys to get either sick to your stomach, or get super nightmares and never want to read my blog again! So I'll spare you. I'll see if I can get a picture of me in jeans and a t-shirt. I'll post that! That will keep this more G rated! lol
Just to let you all know what I am starting out at, I'll give you some stats that I haven't given to you guys in the past posts.
I'm 5'4", I weigh in at 171 pounds, I am in a size 12, and my bra size is a 36 F.
So there you all go! All the gory details of my body. That should give y'all a mental picture of what I look like.
This is a short post, and I do apologize. I will post again on Monday morning. The day after my first day of training. I hope everyone has a fun, happy, and safe 4Th of July! Enjoy the fireworks! Oh yeah and I fixed this site so you can post comments. Sorry about that!
Have a super fabulous weekend!!!!!!!!!

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Ok so I started late! Forgive me please! Day one...

Hello to everyone!

Well I kind of put this blog off for a couple of days. As we all know Michael Jackson has passed on to a better place. Well I needed time to get over the shock, now I'M BACK!

So, day one started out just fine, (yesterday). I surfed the net to see what kind of FREE diet program I could follow. I found several. The one that really caught my eye was The Biggest Loser Challenge.
I made up my profile and got my results. The thing I liked about this is it gives you a daily menu of REAL food. Also, it gives you a workout program. I liked my stuff!
Unfortunately I didn't start it like I was supposed to. I took all day long looking for this program that by the time I found it, it happened to be to late in the day.
I tried my hardest to stick to eating less! It's hard! I'm talking about me, a big lady who could eat 2 full servings of food, sometimes even 3! So to limit myself, it was torture! I think I almost cried, seriously, about 3 times. I did however drink a whole lot of water. I don't remember where I heard it but I did, that when you drink a lot of water, the less hungry you feel. I downed about 25, 20 ounce glasses of water in 8 hours. That is so not natural. I have a feeling it might have worked. My stomach didn't growl as much. Oh yes, my stomach did growl, and LOUD too!
When I got to work in the morning about 6:45 am, I was so hungry. Usually I bring 3 packets of instant oatmeal, or I bring a couple yogurts, or even some eggs and bacon. Yesterday, on my day one, I was so unprepared and I brought nothing! I thought to myself if I just drink a couple glasses of water maybe I won't be so hungry. Well I did and guess what, I was still hungry! So I went into our morning meeting. My stomach is growling loud! I sat in my usual place, next to my co-worker Martin. We joke and laugh as always like any other normal day. But that day, I wasn't in much of a laughing mood! I was super hungry! I saw that Martin was eating my absolute favorite thing in the whole entire world! An iced oatmeal cookie. OH YUMMY! I think I may have been drooling but I didn't notice. I was to focused on watching him eat it. Martin must have seen me drooling because he snapped me out of my trance and asked if I wanted one. But of course I want one! I really wanted the whole stinkin' package! Trying to stick to my eating less, I opted for just one. Can you believe that? Just one iced oatmeal cookie! I waited until after the meeting to eat it because I didn't want to seem like a ravenous pig! Especially in front of 23 guys! I would have never heard the end of it! So I get to my desk, cookie in hand. Sit down with a tall glass of water and the cookie. I take my first bite, oh god I think I'm enjoying this more than anything in the world right now. My office could be up in flames and falling down all around me but I just don't care at this point! It's all about me and my iced oatmeal cookie! Oh yum! I'm in heaven! I can hear the angels singing to me with every bite that I take! What a wonderful morning this was!
My day goes on. I drank a whole lot of water between breakfast and lunch. I must have went to the restroom like 20 times in that short period. That's just great! I am taking into account that I have to walk clear across the building to the other side to use my restroom. That means, in my eyes, that I am getting in my physical fitness! At times I was even running! That got my heartbeat up so it counted!
For lunch, I went ahead and bought a package of cream cheese and chives crackers and a diet coke. Hey at least I had a diet coke! That didn't satisfy me at all! I was still hungry!! I had to suck it up and take it. I should've known to bring a lunch and some breakfast right?
So time goes on, I still drink like a million glasses of water. I think I'm going to drown!
I get home. I am so glad I am home. I look all over for snacks, anything I can get my hands on. With my luck, I didn't have any in the house. So I go into my room and watch TV. I'm so mad that I just don't feel like working out much. I want some easy snack food. I'm so weak at this point!
So dinner rolls around, my choices are a tamale or some beans. I chose the beans. I made me a bean and cheese burrito. YUMMY! I ate that thing in 30 seconds flat! It went down good too! I so wanted another but I convinced myself that one would be enough. I ate the burrito at 7:00 pm.
I get the kids bathed and ready for bed. I change into my pajamas and lay down to watch a movie with my son. All was fine until about 10:00pm. I wanted to cry so bad because I was hungry!!! Somebody please help me. Thank goodness the day was over! I fell asleep.

Past behavior predicts future behavior, right? Let's get this started!

Happy day to all! Thank you for taking the time to enjoy my blog!
I am a 32 year old mother of 4 and wife to a wonderful husband.
I have always battled with my weight since around junior high school. That's when the boys start noticing you, you start noticing them and we want to look our best. It's hard, I was boy crazy at that age and I wanted to be the one they wanted! Who didn't, right? So I started restricting what I ate.
I never was the skinny girl in my group of friends. I always had the thicker body, kind of like an athletic build. So in my prepubescent eyes I wasn't skinny enough.
I restricted what I ate to sometimes only allowing myself a snickers bar and a diet coke all day. This stuck with me all the through high school. By the time my senior year came around I was 100 pounds and a size 3. I was pretty proud of myself because I thought I looked good. But my family and close friends thought differently.
I got pregnant in May of 1995 and had my first daughter. As soon as I had her I immediately started restricting what I ate again, who wants to be a fat teenage mom? So I got back down to my size 3. Well watch out world because I got pregnant with my other daughter not that long after! (Those boy crazy hormones!!!) Again I restricted what I ate and lost all the weight after my second daughter was born. Easy as pie, I thought!
Yeah right!
So I live my life. A couple of years pass.
I fall in love and get married. I moved from Gilroy California all the way to Artesia New Mexico.
In my mind, I got the man I was going to spend the rest of my life with. He loved me for me and everything about me. So I relaxed and started eating real food again. YUMMY!
Two more kids later, (for those who are counting all my kids equal to 4!), I am at a whopping 250 pounds!!! Watch out world, here comes a big mamma! I can't even tell you what pant size I wore because all I wore was sweats and t shirts. I thought I looked good. My husband never complained!
I didn't realize how big I was until I started my current job. I landed an awesome job at a natural gas processing plant. I am the only lady with 23 guys. Of course these guys never said anything about my weight. They were much to wise and mature for that.
It wasn't until we had to pose for a group picture! OH NO!! Were they serious? In my head I thought to myself, I'll do it, I'll just hide in the back and let my head peak through. Sounds like I had my plan working. Only one problem, I work with a bunch of abnormally tall guys! So me being 5"4', the photographer wanted me in the front. So be it, I wanted to get this over with already.
Oh my goodness. If you could only see how big I was! I took up the whole first row!
I decided I was going to go on a diet. So I mentioned it to some guys at work and they joined in. We had a weight loss contest going on.
I started the Atkins diet and I stuck to that, it was what I thought about all day every day. I became obsessed.
It worked! I went from 250 pounds down to 170. The contest was over but I wanted to lose more. I kept on going. I got down to 150 pounds. I was impressed. I thought to myself, this is where I want to be. So I stopped the diet. I was, in my eyes, skinny. I could eat whatever I wanted now!
Two months later, bringing us to today. I have since gained 20 pounds back!! 20 whole pounds!
I went to the doctor last week and asked for a diet plan. He described to me the Atkins diet AGAIN and prescribed some diet pills for me. Shoot,I wasn't going to pass that up! He gave me a magic little diet pill!
Well it came with strict instructions! Instructions that I am having trouble following.
The typical eat healthy and exercise instructions. I am really lazy when it comes to physical fitness!
So I welcome you all to my blog. My Fat Lady on a diet blog! I figure that I am not the only one in the world struggling to make a lifestyle change!
I've done my research on the Internet. Do you know how many "diet" plans there are on the net?? So I looked up books. I'll find me a book that I can read that has words like gold to help me lose the weight. YEAH RIGHT! There are even more "diet" books then there are "diet" plans on the Internet! Of course you can't chose a book because now, they are all written by doctors and nutritionist! So who is right? Which one works?
I want to do the easiest most convenient change to my diet. I don't want to have to go buy only certain brands of food. Or specialty food that I would have to order off the Internet because I live 300 miles away from a big city that has specialty food stores. Even more so, I'd hate to go buy those expensive meal plans. If I was able to afford those then I think I could afford a personal chef! Who wants to eat frozen foods anyway? I want a home cooked meal!
I start this journey today. I want ciber space and all it's people to see me through this. I am not going to start a certain diet, follow any ones books, or even starve myself.
I am going to watch what I eat. I'll try my hardest to stay away from the starchy foods and the sweets. I will be posting what I have eaten through the day and what I have done that is physical. I also will be sharing my current weight and my pant size. I figure if I do it this way, I will have to report to the world about my progress and not just myself.
I will be posting up pictures of me now. I will then post them of me while on my journey.
I will welcome any advice and suggestions you may have.
Also, if you live in my area, I welcome you to join me walking in the evenings or maybe even work out.
Thank you for reading today. I hope you enjoyed it! I'll be checking in tomorrow, day 1!
Let's get this started already!