Yes, I know...

I know, I know....  Its been almost a week since I have posted anything.  We have been insanely busy around here with a whole bunch of things!  First thing is first, lets talk about this week's weight loss so far.  Now, tomorrow is the official cheat day so, I still have another day until the OFFICIAL weigh in but, I have lost 2.5 lbs so far this week for a total of 7.5 since October 24.  Another confession:  I didn't work out this week like I had wanted to.  No excuses.  It WILL be done this week and my goal again for this week is 7lbs. 
     I did have a couple days where I didn't lose any weight and I was discouraged but, I powered through it and came out on top.  I have found that if I go online to different websites that have info on the 4 Hour Body, it definitely encourages me.  There is also a website that is dedicated to people on the 4 Hour Body plan and there is a section for women  4hourpeople.com.  Check it out if you have any questions.  It has helped me a lot!

If you are a dude I will only tell you this:  Dan has lost 13.5 lbs since October 24.  It works great for men.  Jerks.

Well, Dan is home and I need to finish up lunch so he can eat before he hits the road.  It's drill week and he has a long drive to Lake Worth.

First Cheat Day~ Weeeeeeeeee!

Ah, cheat day!  I was SO ready for you! I couldn't wait to sink my teeth into something tasty and full of carbs/sugar that had been off limits for the last 5 days.  I do have to say we actually didn't go all fat girl crazy on our cheat day.  We had sausage biscuits and fruit and yogurt parfaits for breakfast and, the best part: a big, fat Dr. Pepper!  After getting our order, I quickly ripped the paper of the straw, popped the straw in the lid and took a big ol' swig...... whoa..whoa..  This isn't what I had been waiting to indulge in!  This wasn't the carbonated goodness that God had bestowed to us directly from his own cup!  This tasted like....not Dr.Pepper.  Well, it was Dr Pepper but, not MY Dr. Pepper.  It just didn't taste right.  Evan Dan agreed, the Dr. Pepper tasted different to him since he last had one.  I guess it not tasting as good as I remembered isn't a such a bad thing.  Lunch consisted of chicken fajita nachos from Rosa's. I pointed out to Dan as we were waiting to order that we could always have the chicken fajita salad when it wasn't our cheat day.  Just had to cut out the cheese and sour cream.  I have, in fact, had this salad(it was by mistake when our order was wrong) and it was very good.  There is just something about the chicken fajita meat from that place!  I didn't eat much at the football game mainly because Dan ate all of what we should have been sharing.  He is such a FAT girl!  I told him I need my own fridge and pantry because he eats everything!  *sigh*  After leaving the game, we headed home to drop off my brother and Angela and to let Duchess out to do her business and then we headed to Lorenzo to pick up our Little Love.  We then both agreed that on the way back, we needed to stop at Sonic for a cheese burger before our cheat day was over.  And that is just what we did and it was SO good.  NOM NOM NOM

Now, the writer of The 4 Hour Body does tell you will have some weight gain after cheat day that could be up to 5lbs.  Not to worry!  Your body needs this spike in calories and since it is not used to breaking down dairy, sugar, carbs, etc that you have not been eating, it will take it a little longer to digest your food.  Just jump back on the Slow Carb train the day after your cheat day and keep on going!  Dan and I both did see a 3 pound gain today but,m we will both be working out today and hopefully, that 3lbs plus some lost will be reflected on the scale in the morning.

Speaking of scales, I personally like to weigh myself every morning.  That was I can monitor my proogress.  If I dont lose or if I gain, I know I need to tweek something that day to see results.  It also is VERY encouraging to see the number grow smaller every day.  Some people do prefer to weigh themselves on a weekly basis and there is nothing wrong with that.  It is really personal prference.

Well,  the house is clean, Daniel is napping and Dan ran up to campus to get me some papers (I am a couponer also in my spare time!) and I think I am going to relax and enjoy the quiet with Duchess!
~Until tomorrow!

First Week results

Days four and five were very uneventful: eggs, beans, meat, eggs, beans, meat, veggies, beans, meat, veggies...  You get the picture.  The thing that keeps us going is our cheat day which is today(Saturday) but, I'll get to that shortly.  So, Dan and I weighed in today for our official weight in for 5 days.  From here on out, it will be every six days but, we started Monday and we wanted to today to be our cheat day.  Since Monday, Dan has lost 10.5lbs!  His goal is to be 220lbs before Thanksgiving and I'm pretty sure he will make it.  Now, my weight loss wasn't as much but, it was consistent...*drum roll please* I have lost 5lbs since Monday!  I told Dan just imagine how much more I could have lost if I was working out!  He worked out twice this week with his P90X but, he walks on campus everyday and that really adds up.

Now that I have a baseline on my weight loss, my next phase will be adding the workout the our new way of life.  This week I will work out every day doing Zumba 40 minutes 3 days and then doing the 20 minute workout the other 2 days.  Then, week after that, I will add the kettle bell.  If I was a betting woman, I would think I would be able to lose at least 7 lbs this coming week as long as I don't plateau.

Cheat day.  The day that we have been waiting for since Monday.  I'm not going to lie, beans and eggs get ridiculously old but, I weight myself everyday so I can see my progress and that motivates me to keep on going!  This morning we have didn't do too bad for breakfast but, lunch, will be epic....  ROSA'S!  I cant explain how excited we are.  Kinda funny and sad at the sames time!  We will round out our splurge day at the Texas Tech game with a scrump-tastic hot dog!  I have never really been a fan of hot dogs but, since having Daniel, I like them.  My dad would be proud!

Time to get dressed and go to the grocery store and then take my Little Honey to my in-laws in Lorenzo since they are babysitting while we go to the game.  WRECK EM TECH!!!!!!
~Until next time!

50/50

I have been writing about my weight loss and I will continue to do it but, this Fat Momma has other stuff going on in her life!  I'll breeze through the weight loss update right quick.  Yesterday was going great until the afternoon and I got SUPER stressed out and all I wanted was a Dr Pepper!  If you know me at all you know I love me some DP!!  I powered through it but, I did buy a 2 liter of the wal-mart brand of Diet Dr. Pepper which I can have 15oz daily.  I personally think that wal-mart brand tastes better than the real stuff.  And its cheaper.  The results of my weigh in the morning reflected another pound lost.  That makes 4.5 since Monday!  Suck it, fat cells!  No, really, suck it!

Ok, now the life stuff.  I have been blessed with being able to stay home with my son for six months and I have loved every minute of it but, it is time to go back to work.  I have been looking for awhile but, nothing had panned out for me.  I kept telling myself that the right opportunity will come along and God has prepared the right place for me to be.  A few months ago, I had talked to a gentleman about a sales position at a hotel here in town.  The hotel has been open for awhile and is under new ownership, newly renovated, and open under a new name.  The pay wasn't what I was looking for and honestly, I wasn't really ready to go back to work.  Fast forward to yesterday and I saw the same posting online.  Now, the hotel market has been very slim this year and I am chomping at the bit to get back in the biz.  One thing I know and do well is work in the hospitality industry.  I am more an operations girl (General Manager) but, I can still rock in the sales department.  So, I went for an interview today and it turns out the guy working as the interim GM used to run the two full service Holiday Inns here and was the President of the Lubbock Hotel/Motel association!  I didn't recognize him because he had shaved off his bears and had cut his hair.  This man is a Rockstar in the hotel world.  I was sold!  Knowing his back ground and what he is capable of, I knew what ever property he was working at would be golden.  The interview went well and now I just have to charm and win over the owner and his wife next week and HOPEFULLY I will be gainfully employed!  I'm very excited!  Already doing so research for some new business.  The hotel is BEAUTIFUL.  Very modern and clean. Selling the product will not be an issue.  Just praying this is what God has been preparing for me!
~Until tomorrow!

Day 2:  So the second day was pretty much a normal day.  Just not eating when I'm bored or when I think I am hungry.  Eating all the protein really does keep me fuller longer!  Also, I'm focused on doing other things rather than find stuff to shove in my mouth.  My thing with food is not because I feel emotionally empty and I use it to fill a "void' or that I hide behind food or that food is a comfort for me...  I just love food!  the flavor, the smell, the texture.  It's great!  Anyways, the most interesting part of yesterday was dinner.  We happened to have a package of deer meat in the freezer that had already been cut for kabobs.  Deer meat is exxxtremely lean and has a lot of protein which is perfect for us.  I ended up making a stir fry using the deer meat and  used a lot of veggies.  Since noodles and rice are a big no no, I needed to find something to pair with our stir fry.  Lentils.  Never made them.  They are apart of the legume family(bean-ish) and I had never eaten let alone prepared them.  I read the directions of course and they weren't bad but, gotta figure out a way to pump up the flavor.  Any suggestions are welcome!

Now the most important thing!  Since Monday, I am down 3.5lbs!  Which is great because the book states that women will generally not see an impact on the scale until 6 weeks but we will see inches lost instead.  Now, I KNOW that this weight lost is water weight and bloat but, a loss is a loss, right???  I found a great excel spread sheet to  track weight loss.  All it needs is a graph  I <3 graphs!  So, now that I am figuring out the menu thing for the 4 Hour Body diet, I move on to the work out aspect.  The book really endorses using a kettle bell and the kettlebell swing:


I'm definitely going to check this out.  I have heard lots of good stuff about the kettlebell and I have seen the competitions on ESPN and them girls are in RIDICULOUSLY good shape.  Until then, I will be Zumba-ing!  I really like the Zumba work outs because they are lots of fun and i find myself laughing because I know I look hilarious trying to do those dance moves.  Sometimes if it is too complicated, I just freestyle!  *Dunananana Cant touch this!*


I am definitely looking forward to tomorrow! It is supposed to be cold and rainy. My favorite kind of weather! I would love to live in Seattle! I also found a great recipe for a stew that I am going to try out in the crock pot. Now, the crock pot and I have become BFFs! I can make lots of good dishes in it that go along with our new eating regiment. I also found out, that we can have sugar free jello in MODERATION! I stopped by my brother's last night while I was walking Duchess and was telling him about my newly found treat and he happened to have a package of sugar free jello. As much as I wanted to run home and tear that little envelope open and make the jello, I refrained and waited until this morning to make it. Is it really sad that I am this excited about jello???

Daniel is down for his nap and I need to call my mom and chat with her. I haven't talked to her in a couple days and I need to catch up with her.
~Until we meet again tomorrow!~

In the begininng...

God created the heavens and the earth, light, the sky, vegetation, animals and man and woman.  He also created chocolate, chicken fajita nachos from Rosa's, chili cheese french fries, cheese burgers, swiss cake rolls, chicken fried steak, loaded baked potatoes...  you get the picture.  He also created me and I LOVE all the previous mentioned delicacies.  My whole life I have always been big.  Wait, that's not true.  The very end of my senior year in high school and the first couple months of my freshman year in college, I was at about 155lbs. Not bad on a 5'7 frame and curves to boot.  I have tried several ways to loose weight and some worked moderately but, most of the time, it was nothing but failure.  And failure is NOT something I am good at.  Not in my vocabulary. 

Fast forward to January 2010.  I was at my heaviest and at a crossroads emotionally in my life.  A guy I had been dating off and on for 3 years had come back in my life for the millionth time and I was thinking maybe it would work this time between us but, I new deep down it would not.  I had joined eHarmony months before after my mom and nagged and nagged me to give it a try.  After no serious bites, I quit paying for the service.  Little did I know, that my profile was still active, meaning that paying members could see my pic and my profile.  Since it was the beginning of the year,  eHarmony of course was running a free communication special.  I ended up getting an email from a 23 year old guy.  Red flag!  I didn't date younger guys.  I wanted an older, refined man!  I read his profile and liked what I read: he was a veteran in the air force, was very family oriented, was going to school at Tech.  Ok, maybe I would give him a chance.  We started to email back and forth and eventually went on a date, then a second date and then four months later, we were married!  Dan was very different from any man I had ever dated but, it was so right.  A little less than 4 months later, we found out we were expecting our first child!  People always say life changes when you have a baby.  Boy were they right!  We welcomed Daniel Steven Minor into the world April 21, 2011 at 10:19pm and my life has never been the same.  There is absolutely no way to express how much I love my son.  I cant even try because there is no way. Its overwhelming.  I never though I could love as much and as deeply as I love that little boy!

Once you become a parent, you begin thinking about the future and I thought hard.  I thought of all the things that I wanted for my son.  and the things I didn't want.  Most of all, I wanted Daniel to be proud of me.  To tell people, "That's my Momma" and for him to look up to me and admire me.  And as shallow as it may seem, I don't ever want to embarrass him.  I don't want to be a Fat Momma.  Period.  By chance, I saw a segment on "The Doctors" about a book called "4 Hour Body".  I researched the book and ended up in a bookstore reading the book.  It made sense.  I could do this.  Slow carb.  Lots of protein.  No sugar or dairy.  I talked to Dan about it and he agreed, we could do this together.

So,  here we are:

Day 1:   Weighed myself.  Ouch.  Not my heaviest but, close. Nice big breakfast.  Eggs will be a challenge for me since I don't really like eggs.  Scrambled with homemade hot sauce is the only way.  oh, and boiled.  Beans and broccoli topped of breakfast.  Definitely different.  Surprisingly, I didn't get hungry for about 5 hours.  Had a big chicken salad with salsa for the dressing and beans.  Not bad either.  I didn't start to get restless until about 3:30.  I wanted to eat!  I opted for a big glass of water with a slice of lemon and i overcame my urge!!!  Dinner was a chili with lots of means and meat.  Also, pretty tasty.  I did kind of get hungry about 9pm but, a half cup of cottage cheese(only dairy allowed) and a glass of water got me over my hunger.  End of day one and it wasn't so bad!