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Soooo whats to tell ya?  I did another day of RAM it up :) and I think I may have pulled something.  My boyfriend told me to take it easy until i feel it is FULLY better, so I will listen :)  I may have to resort to the crunching video and jogging in place, power walking, etc for the next few days opposed to all the squats.  I think during one part of the squats i squatted too far, so the inside of my leg next to my 'privates' feels pulled.  Its not bad, just uncomfortable.  Glad today is my 'off' day.  I decided on Wednesdays because this is 'laundry mat' night :).  I'll probably pick up a turkey sandwich (6" wheat, turkey, pickles, lettuce, salt and pepper. YUM) from Subway and head to do the laundry.  Subway is a god for bringing in the apples!  Top that off with a diet coke and I am in Subway heaven :)

Aside from that, my weight hasn't changed!  I fought with the scale this morning (tehe) just to make it go lower.  We had a fight.  I stepped on, and then told it "okayyy stop lying to meeee!" then stepped off... the fight continued until it finally displayed a lower number.  Haha :) So officially i'm somewhere between 199.0 and 198.6.  So SUE me :) No big deal.  I was sucking in my stomach looking in the mirror and I can already tell my Slim in 6 work is paying off.  I gotta suck to see the muscles in there cuz I still have a lot of cush on the outside.  I also know that muscle holds onto more water than fat does.  So yea, I may weight a little more, but I'm already noticing the way my body is being reshaped.  My engagement ring is completely falling off.  It is currently a size 9 1/2 which was fine when I was 96 pounds heavier, but now it should be a 7 1/2.  You see my struggle LoL.  And i'm only finishing out my first week :) Even though the scale is being a bum, I'm still feeling good. 

Thanks for reading!  I hope everyone is staying strong.  You all rawk and we all have the knowhow and drive inside of us to shed the pounds, and become healthy.  Our bodies should be respected not only by others, but by ourselves as well.  To feed it the right nutritious foods, we are not only helping us stay away from being uncomfortable in our own skin and unhealthy beings, but we are also paving the road for our offspring to come to stop obesity. Also, diet and exercise alone are the top two factors to helping prevent cancers and heart diseases.  How's that for motivation?

PS: In the beginning my venture was to become skinny, then my thoughts were to become healthy, and now that I am working out I know FIT is how I want to be :)


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Not much new :) Lets see... Yesterday I ate as normal, a little low on the calories by the time I got home from work, but I made sure to eat them all anyway :) Gotta love those 100 calorie smart pop!  I ate, drank some water, and worked out doing slim in 6 RAM it up.  Haha thats what it felt like anyway.  I am so out of shape but I know that this is not supposed to be easy for me.  I will build up to where the people in the video are, its just going to take time.. and thats okay :)

This morning the scale continues to say 198.8, but my body tells me lower :) I just feel good, my legs, abs, and arms, feel tighter and I can feel my bum muscles when I walk.  I'm enjoying the burn!  Just wish it didnt take up so much of my time.  Normally I wake up around 6am, hop in the shower, go to work, come home at 7pm, make dinner, work out, and sleep.  I DO live with my fiance, and I dont feel like we're spending any time together anymore.  I mean he can work out WITH me, but he does his own working out stuff with bar bells I cant even begin to lift.  That boy is strong.  He doesnt look all that strong, but anyone who can lift me and allow me to wrap my legs around them is pretty buff.  haha.

So life is pretty great and I'm enjoying this.  The only thing right now that has been bothering me is my neighbors.  I live in a fourplex, meaning there are 2 people on either side of my apartment, and we just had a new set of neighbors move in.  Now im FAR from racist, but just to give you a stereotypical image, there is 4 mexican men living in a 2 bedroom apartment, and they come home around 1130PM - 130AM and stand right outside my bedroom window and laugh up a storm, talking in spanish for nearly an hour!  It is SO hard to sleep like that.  They have only lived there a week, and already my neck feels more tense.  I mean take for instance last saturday, they came home at 1130PM, parked their truck right outside our window, and started vaccuming out their car!!! What the heck are these peoples problem?  It is quite irritating.  Even when they are inside the house, they talk so loud you can hear them through the walls.  I normally pack up my pillow and blanket and sleep on the couch because I cant fall asleep with them yapping away on the other side of my wall.  I wouldnt mind them at all if their schedule was similar to mine :)  It's just very disruptive and I dont NEED this.  Glad I'm only in a 6 month lease at this place.  In a good 3-4 months I'll move out of there and make sure that I move into a duplex so there are no walls back to back.  I was so spoiled growing up in a house :)

Anywhooooo thanks for letting me vent.  You guys are awesome.


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Okay okay so I gained .4 pounds, but i know its either water or muscle.  No biggy, it should come off by tomorrows scale weigh in.  This is typical for me :)  I didnt get enough water yesterday and I know it! 

Yesterday was pretty great tho.  I woke up, did my exercise routine, got a sweaty mess and took a shower with my fiance.  Ate my lunch, and THEN was invited to a sit down dinner with my boyfriend, his mom, and cousin.  I opted to go didnt eat anything but the side fruit my boyfriends plate came with.   Sipping on diet coke the whole time, I felt SO awkward.  They kept buggin me to eat, but I had already eaten before I we were invited out.  I'm on a strict schedule here!  Then we went to the mall, I bought my first pair of REAL sunglasses (Oakleys) and a pair for my boyfriend as well.  Since the time flew by there, I missed out on my 3PM snack.  So when I got home, went straight for the nuts to up my calories.

As the day went on, I got so busy cooking grilled chicken that I chop up and put in baggies, throw them in the meat drawer, that I forgot it was dinner time!  So again I didnt get to eat around my right time.  Eventually ate at 8pm, went to sleep at 11, so I suppose I'm okay.  Right now I am SO sleepy.

I planned on eating strawberry yogert, my fiber one, and my vitatop muffin for breakfast, but when I opened the yogert there was strawberry parts in there. LOL! I'm a big freak when it comes to parts in my food.  If its yogert, it has to be smooth or I cant eat it.  Same goes for orange juice pulp :)

So I'm a little off my calories.  Today I did bring fruit leather and an extra vitatop muffin with me just incase my original plan didnt pan out like I expected.  So I can always venture into those later on :)

Thennn I get to go home and play slim in 6 and die again! Then off to the shower and into bed.  There is SO much on TV tonight I wish I had a mini TV so I could both exercise anddd watch my tv shows lol. Reality TV junkie.


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Hey guys!  I need your advice for a brief moment.  Can too much fiber stop you up?  I upped my fiber about 2 weeks ago and I was 'going' fine and now I feel stopped up!  I am still drinking plenty of water.. but it just seems odd.  Maybe I should 1/2 my fiber one, eat some yogert, and have my vitatop muffin instead of double fiber.  Makes my breakfast sound yummier anyway :)

But can it stop you up?

EDIT:  Thanks you guys.  I eat a TON of fiber.  I know theres at least 6 grams in my muffin for breakfast, teamed up with 1 cup of fiber one... so I'm well over 30g's just for breakfast alone. Hehe.  I'll keep eating it tho. I wanna poo like clockwork! :)


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:) Yet again another new low.  Not much from yesterday but ill take any piece of a pound, as long as that scale keeps going down!

198.4!!!

With the blink of an eye I will hit my goal of 140 in no time.  I give myself until december and calorie count agrees that will be good for me :)  And if it doesnt happen, *shrugs* oh well I have my life ahead of me and I will keep truckin.  I've already come to terms that this is a life long change, and not a quick solution to look good in some blue jeans for a few months.

I just finished my third day of Slim in 6 and again POOPED! Sorry Erica, I told ya this would be our off day but I was just too sore to not exercise.  When you exercise it really loosens your muscles back up.  Feels so good!  This time I did it and didn't die as much.  Noticed my knee was hurting at one point and fixed my form.  I need to keep a closer eye on that.  Gosh I feel so good tho.  I really need a shower, this sweat is getting to me :) So salty!

Gunna hop in the shower with my fiance.  Woo how great does it feel to not hide all the time?  When we first got together I wouldnt even take my shirt off (and all i wear are long sleeves) so running around in some boy shorts and my bra tell me that my self confidence has really come a long way.  Id like to tone my arms more because they are the most abnormally large part of me.  I just want to be comfortable with my body, and be able to go in the sun without hiding my arms.  I live in Arizona for pete sake!  If I dont get these pounds off of me, this first summer is going to be horrible.  It's already keeping around 90 degrees at night.  Gosh I wish I had a pool!


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You guys!!! I hit a new low :) 198.8.  What the heck huh?  Who knew more food would equal more pounds lost? I really dont want to get all psyched about this.  What if it turns in the other direction? Or is my body already able to start losing like this again?  I'm estatic.  Now I HAVE to shop today.  Woo.

PS: And I havnt even poo'd yet!  Haha TMI. Sorry guys :)

I'm thinking about eating a filet migon breakfast sandwich for breakfast!  Sounds yummy lol.

EDIT: I just finished my second day of slim in 6.  Yay it wasnt as hard today! :) Still I am totally POOPED!  But at least I didnt quit.  Now tomorrow will be on to day 3! :) I was going to make sunday my 'off' day, but since i'm doing so well.. why quit now?


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UGH! I just went to take some before photos of me, and all of a sudden the batteries in my camera died! They are rechargable so I will sit here and sip on some water until they are usable again.  How frusterating :)  I'll letcha know how the exercise goes.

Heres todays plan:
- Slim & Limber
- Start it up!
- Slim & Six Pack

Oh man am I going to sweat!
I'm on the six week plan for now, and I'm stickin to it.  Yeaaa Erica lets do this!  *flexes droopy muscles* Haha.

Starting weight: 199.4

Bust: 42"
Waist:36.5"
Hips: 46"

EDIT:  Dear christ that SI6 is NO joke.  Got through most of what I planned but I'm nearly 200 pounds!  Couldnt get even half way through the Slim & Six Pack, and I'll have to do the Start it Up routine for probably more than the week I planned.  Bah! Wish I could do more.  I need a bath! Icky icky sweat. :)


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Okay so I've eaten a TON it feels like, but this morning I woke up feeling really good.  I looked in the mirror and told myself "well if i did gain any weight, I sure the heck can't tell from the mirror so there's nothing to get upset about if I did."  Stepped on the scale and I lost the dang pound and a half I put on yesterday!!!  Plus another .2 pounds clocking me in at 199.4lbs.  This is a new low, and I've been eating more.  How exciting.

I can't get too excited until I see the trend continue, but it felt really nice this morning to know that I wasn't totally screwed.  And I don't have to gain that 5-7 pounds, because my body is smart.  It knows... trust me, I talk to it enough lol.

So today's menu for breakfast and lunch will be quite familiar as it is the same thing i ate yesterday.  Hey I'm still trying to figure out how to make these calories work for me. Today I've already power walked for 20 minutes to the bus stop.  I know 20 minutes isn't much, but I burned about 150 calories just with that walk alone.  It felt great, and my lungs feel good.  I am more alert and awake and food is to thank for all that.

Haha last night I was running around the house in my boy shorts dancing around and sliding across the tile.  My boyfriend thought I was on something :) I swear eating too little was draining me down.  Now I'm a ball of energy. What to do?  Let's go shopping!

Happy Friday!


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I can do this!  SEE!

Date               Calories  Grams     Fat     Carbs     Protein Grade

2007-03-14     1,106     976     27     197     85     A
2007-03-15     1,191     671     39     199     71     A-

I didnt add in my crystal lite for the day, so I was just over 1200 calories today. MAN I rock.  So glad I ate those nuts. Yesterdays grams were way too high. :)

I've also noticed that i'm feeling more awake. Weird huh?

*skippity skip skip*



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Okay here is what I have consumed so far today:

DOLE Light Caesar - Packaged Salad 1/3 = 100 calories
Boneless Skinless Breast Fillets = 100 calories
Broccoli Raw = 15 calories
Cauliflower Raw = 13 calories
Velvety Chocolate = 80 calories
Fiber One = 120  calories
Apples (medium size) = 72 calories
PLANTERS MIXED NUTS LIGHTLY SALTED (1.2 servings) = 206 calories

I'm at 706 calories right now and its almost 3:30pm meaning that I'm right on track.  My pita tonight along with a light 'tv watching' snack should set me at 1200 calories or just above that.  YAY ME!

PS: I did gain a pound and a half this morning. I felt fluffy with water, so maybe it was just that.  My ring was tight and now its falling off so I know its going away. However, I'm stickin to this because its the only way i'm going to be healthy.  Last weight: 199.6 - Current weight: 201.0


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