Winter's A'coming

With winter right around the corner, I am starting to feel like warm food instead of just my cold salads. So, I googled some vegetarian recipes and found some pretty good looking ones on the Food Network's website! The first one I want to try is the Spicy Vegan Sloppy Joe. This looks amazing! And most of all, easy to make. I REALLY don't enjoy cooking, so these recipes seem to be not too hard to do.

I really hate winter. It is such a depressing time. With the shorten daylight hours, I am so tired when I get home from work. This makes me not want to go to the gym or do anything active after working. Thank goodness my current job is not very stressful. But, the little daylight hours and the COLD and the SNOW (because seriously, being parked at the gym for at least an hour is going to accumulate at least an inch or two of snow on top of the car).

Report on the weight watching... My goal was to get to 155 lbs by 10/14. Last week, this was super easy. The weight was just meling off without me doing much. This week, that number jumped back up to the 158 range. This is probably because I had some yummy Famous Dave cornbread muffin. (SO DELICIOUS!) But, now I'm back to focusing on eating right again and getting to the gym to work out. I need to find a new workout routine. Seems like my current routine is not as hard anymore. Will talk more on that another time.

A Little Bit of Before, A little Bit of After

The last two weeks were AMAZING! The weight was just dropping off like crazy. This past weekend, something changed. I started going back up on the scale. My lowest so far was 155.9 lbs, and then yesterday and today, it has slowly been creeping up. I've been to the gym all weekend... eat nothing but raw foods on Saturday. Although, on Sunday I did have some rib tips at Famous Dave's. I don't think that ONE meal would add over 2 lbs to my weight in the last two days! I mean, I was already inching up Saturday.

With my trip coming up, I will REALLY need to focus on getting down to my short term goal of 155 lbs. One more week to lose these 2 additional pounds.

This is a photo of me. The top photos are me at about 175 lbs. I was happy that I've lost almost 20 lbs, but when comparing photos side by side, I am a little sadden that there isn't more 'visible' changes in my body. Even though the top photos were taken in 2013, I didn't really start working out until February 2014. So, the 20 lbs loss is within 8 months. I did weigh myself in March 2014 that I was 179 lb. I tend to fluctuate up and down 5 lbs with my weight. Is this normal? I don't know.

Hopefully, in a few more months I can do some more before and after photos that will show more visiable changes. Even though I am disappointed, I cannot give up. I must keep on going. Twenty pounds is something to celebrate! Twenty more pounds will be even MORE to celebrate!

I'm Melting!!

I have been stuck between 160 - 164 lbs for months! And in the last two weeks, I've dropped almost 9 lbs! I have cut back on the weight training. This might be the reason why the lbs seem to just be melting off. I have decided that I am not going to train as hard on weights for a little while. I am going to do less weights and concentrate on cardio to get to a lower weight and then add in the weight training again. This will hopefully give me a leaner look. After all, I'm not that tall so I don't want to look stocky. That is not a very feminine look.

I also found some older photos of myself that my sister took of me for recording my weight "loss" from 2 years ago. I have to admit, I did look bigger at 175 lbs.

I'm so happy and excited to see the pounds melting off! My goal is to reach 150 lbs by the end of this year. If this trend continues, I might reach that BEFORE the end of this year. And, that means I have less to loss in 2015! Hopefully, come summer again, I will be at my goal weight.