Friday 11/16/12

Breakfast- McDonald's- sausage patty and egg

Lunch- Wendy's grilled chicken out of sandwich and a Caesar salad

Dinner- Golden Corral- pot roast meat, turkey, steak, meat loaf, green beans, salad with boiled eggs, cheddar cheese, bacon, & ranch

Thursday 11/15/12

Lunch- home style bun less burger from McDonalds with water

Dinner- avo-Cobb-o salad from red robin (not pictured) unsweetened tea

I forgot to take a picture of my dinner, I think I was too excited waiting on our movie to start, Breaking Dawn 2

Wednesday 11/14/12

Early lunch- bunless double whopper & tea from Burger King

Afternoon snack- inside of a foot long from Sonic with a tea

Dinner- tops of two beef fajita tostadas from Teotihuacan and a water

Tuesday 11/13/12

Lunch- Hungry Farmer- chopped brisket Cobb salad, ranch dressing, unsweetened tea, 1 sweet n low

Dinner- wings n more- grilled chicken Caesar salad, unsweetened tea with sweet n low, very few croutons, no jalapeño tortilla strips.

Gym- 1 mile on the high bike, it's kinda like a video game hooked up to the bike, it kicked my ass, I had to stay in the 8th gear and got last place :(
3 miles on regular bike
Worked out legs & arms today

Back at it...

Day 1 back on low carb & gym time!

Lunch-bunless grilled chicken sandwich from chick fil a, lettuce, tomato & pickle dipped in yellow mustard & mayo mix & unsweetened tea with 1 sweet n low

Dinner- grilled chicken Caesar salad at Chillis and an unsweetened tea, very few croutons

Gym- 3 miles on bike 1 mile on treadmill

Weighed myself for the first time in a loooong time, I've gained 25 of the 35 pounds I had initially lost on the first go around. Excited to see the weight drop in the next couple of weeks!!!

Embarrassed...

So my last post was in July, I was so sure I was gonna go back on living a low carb diet, but that didn't work out exactly as planned, in fact it didn't work out at all. With wedding planning, open houses at venues, tasting all of the caterers different foods, and wedding cake samples, the only good that has come out of all of this is that I did find a wedding venue. Lots of other things have happened in my life have contributed to eating comfortably I guess you could say. Not that any of this is to blame, but it definitely didn't make it easy to pass up on my favorite comfort foods. I had 3 deaths in my family between August -September. One uncle, an aunt and the closest to me which was my grandfather. I kept busy and ate, a lot, as much as I could, this is how I've coped and grieved. I picked out all of the sweets for the viewing, and everything that was left over we brought home, and I ate a little everyday until it was all gone, every twinkie, chocolate cupcake, powdered doughnut, oatmeal cream pie, and wafer. Then I just ate, I wasn't so big on fries anymore, but I couldn't stop eating bread, I was consuming so much bread, it was embarrassing, the sad part which I feel completely guilty about is that I was taking down my fiancé with me, we started this diet together, and here we were, breaking it together. It was a lot of fun don't get me wrong, but it had a horrible effect in our bodies, we'd eat and come home and go straight to bed. At one point we were pretty positive that my fiancé's diabetes were close to being rid of. I know that is not the case anymore. We both feel horrible, and have promised each other that this is it!!!! No looking back, no giving up, no cheating, we have no choice. I'm not even sure how much weight we have gained back this time but I'm not looking forward to find out, tonight will be our 1st time back in the gym in a loooooong while. I'll weigh myself tonight. And I'll probably cry, very hard. But, I'm staying positive from here on out, I've got wedding dress shopping in about 9 months, and I need to be in the best shape. Then I've gotta maintain that size/weight for a year after that. Weddings in less than two years, here goes nothing!!!

This is the most recent pic of me.

One month later...

It's been about a month since my last post, so much has happened since then, on 6/23/12, I got engaged, and decided to celebrate with cookies n cream ice cream. Up until two weeks ago, I was doing good, but allowing myself to eat more carbs than usual, especially when we were celebrating our engagement. Two weeks ago, I decided that I'd carb out carelessly for two weeks straight. I did, and I feel yucky. Yesterday (Monday) marked day 1 back at it. Yesterday for lunch I had a taco salad, for dinner I had the inside of a grilled chicken sandwich from Wendy's and one of their delicious side caesar salads. Today I had the inside of a bacon ranch chicken quesadilla from Chilli's, 1/2 of a small bowl of chili and a side salad w/ranch. For dinner I had beef and chicken fajitas and charro beans with a little bit of guacamole. I'm excited to see how this will work this time around, now that I've "jump started" this diet again. And somehow I've managed to maintain 30lbs lost... even though I feel like I've gained at least 20. Strange, the only good about it, is my bra's fit again!! hahaha

Low Carb Plateau

I've maintained 30lbs lost for a couple of weeks now, and I'v heard of people on Atkins hitting a plateau and only one thing seems to work to jump start the diet back up again, and that's what I like to call, "carbing out". So this is exactly what I did, it started on Sunday night, I did good for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, but it was the dessert that started it all, we were celebrating my future step son's birthday and we ordered the volcano dessert from Rainforest Cafe, well, I couldn't resist, at first telling myself that I should allow myself to cheat on special occasions. It weighed on my head the rest of the night and the next day. At lunch, I was a good girl and grilled chicken. It was when dinner rolled around that I decided why not just carb out, I had already cheated, and after reading about people carbing out and jump starting their diet again, I knew it was the right choice. So we are sitting at Logan's Roadhouse and I can order anything on the menu, I ordered what I would ordinarily order before low carb, chicken strips, mashed potatoes with country gravy, macaroni and cheese and had more rolls than I care to admit. I was almost shaking ordering this, I didn't even get a salad, I mean I went all out. I felt guilty the entire time, and to my surprise, I didn't even finish half of it. I went to the gym after that and did some cardio on the treadmill & on the bike. That was yesterday, today is a rainy day but I made my way to Chick Fil A for a grilled chicken sandwich with a side salad and an unsweet tea. My tummy has been rumbling all day, so so loudly, louder than this thunder but nothing drastic has really happened, I'm nervous but I think I'm gonna carb out again tonight and then go back to my strict diet tomorrow. I can't wait to see how much weight I lose in the next two weeks after jump starting this diet again... that is if it works.... =/

My oh so bad horrible fattening dinner last night... NOT PROUD AT ALL!!!!!

 My dessert from Sunday night and my step son, I only had a fraction of this volcano, I'm talking like 3 spoons.

Days 102-119

I've been so busy lately, I haven't updated my blog in a while, 18 days to be exact, below are some pictures of what I've been eating, and up until yesterday, were all low carb. This is because I've hit a plateau, read my next blog to find out what drastic measures I did next!

Random photo's of my food in the last 18 days...

Inside of a beef fajita torta @ some random mexican restaurant

 Tops of 2 beef fajita tostadas @ Teotihuacan

 Inside of a beef & chicken taco @ Teotihuacan

 Beef fajitas @ El Tiempo Cantina

 Bunless homestyle burger @ Mc Donalds

 Grilled chicken caesar salad @ Wings N More

 Inside of 3 chili dogs @ James Coney Island (Before)

(After)

 Chopped beef steak @ Luby's

 Bunless double burger @ Steak N' Shake

Bunless double cheese burger @ Sonic 

 Biscuit-less sausage & egg @ McDonalds

 Chicken caesar salad @ Wings N' More

 Bunless grilled chicken sandwich @ Wendy's

 Grilled chicken caesar salad @ Wings N' More

 Bunless homestyle burger @ McDonalds

 Salad w/ ranch @ Luby's

 Bunless grilled chicken club sandwich @ Chick Fil A

 Bacon & eggs w/cheese @ Denny's

 Grilled chicken w/melted cheese & guacamole @ Fiesta En Guadalajara

 Bunless whopper w/cheese @ Burger King

 Bunless Original chicken sandwich @ Chick Fil A (I heard it only had 10 carbs)

 1/2 side of green beans @ Luby's

 Salad w/ranch @ Steak N' Shake

 Forgot my walet @ work one day, so I had scrambled eggs w/cheese @ my moms house

 chip-less beef nachos @ Taco Cabana

 Grilled chicken sandwich w/extra pickles @ Chick Fil A

 Grilled chicken w/melted cheese and pinto bean juice w/guacamole @ Teotihuacan

& a few other meals that I didn't take pics of...

Day 101

Lunch- Logan's Roadhouse- grilled chicken w/melted cheese and a salad w/ranch, i also disappointed myself and had half of one roll... at 13 carbs... =/ Not proud of myself...

Dinner- Inside of two taco stand tacos, beef fajita

After dinner-Whiskey River Houston- 2, or 3, or maybe 4 sugar free red bulls & vodka! :)

Day one hundred!

Lunch- Sweet Tomatoes- Salad w/ boiled eggs, cucumbers, tomatoes, cheese, ranch, & real bacon bits

Dinner- Burger King

Day ninety nine

Lunch- Chick Fil A grilled chicken sandwich, bunless of course, not pictured

Dinner- McDonalds- Bunless homestyle burger

Day ninety eight

Breakfast- Burger King- Bunless Whopper Jr.

Lunch- Golden Corral- Salad w/ ranch, pot roast, green beans, a little bit of meat loaf, and a tiny bit of green bean casserole

Dinner- Teotihuacan, (the one 10 more minutes away =/ ) inside of a beef taco, and inside of a chicken taco, cheese out of the cheese enchilada with some bean juice