Biggest Loser Mid-Point Weigh-in and Whole 30 Day 25

Today was our midpoint weigh-in for the Biggest Loser contest, which also started the day I started The Whole 30.  I am down 13.6 pounds!!!  That's in 25 days! 

I am really proud of myself for having stuck to this plan.  I sort of felt like I cheated last Sunday when I ate wafer at during communion, but my friend assures me that wafer is merely Styrofoam, and there is nothing in all my Whole 30 readings about not eating Styrofoam, so I'm good.

I have not been craving sweets at all, which is awesome.  During the third week though I sure was craving some beer.  I got through a happy hour with my friend, Beth, who is one of my usual drinking buddies.  She has been super supportive throughout this whole adventure and made sure I had a full glass of water at all times.  One thing I did not enjoy doing with out a beer, was bowling.  We had a staff bowling party.  Don't get me wrong, I love bowling, but I love bowling more with beer and pizza. 

 On this diet I told myself that I wasn't going to take any pills, even advil.  I did take some advil that first week because of some sugar withdrawal headaches, and I took some Benadryl one night because I cleaned some shrimp and accidentally touched my eye, which swelled shut.  In the past I have been pretty dependent on melatonin and the occasional Ambien to get to sleep.  I have had no problems going to sleep while on this plan, and I have been staying asleep.  I have been truly getting a great night's sleep, but these past 5 days, I just haven't wanted to wake up.  My alarm is typically set for 5:00 AM, and I wake just before it, refreshed and ready to go, but this week I have been so sluggish in the morning and it's often 6:15 before I get out of bed.  I don't think it has anything to do with the diet, I think this week has just been crazy busy, and it is wearing me out.  Luckily, we have spring break coming up and hopefully I can get some damn rest. 

Exercise...umm, it hasn't really been happening.  I need to change that.  The first week, I did a great job exercising.  I have big plans to get back into some sort of exercise routine during spring break.  Just think how much healthier I will be if I not only eat well, but actually move my fat ass!  Also I have had a revelation.  I know why we (as a whole) are fat and lazy... It's because of these little things:

The last couple of weeks I have been driving my husband's truck.  It has manual window roller downers.  They are a lot of work!  Just try pulling up to the bank or to get a pass at a gated community.  Your left are will be shaking and you will be winded.


I have 5 days left of The Whole 30.  People keep asking me how it's been and if I am looking forward to eating normally again.  The thing is I don't think I will be eating normally again.  I have seen that this works for me and I feel good doing it, so why would I stop?  It doesn't mean I will never eat a cupcake or a piece of cheese again, but it's not going to be an everyday thing.  Also when I do reintroduce food, I am supposed to monitor how it makes me feel.  I am going to work very hard to make sure I don't get back to the terrible habits I had just 25 days ago. 

Week 2 Weigh-in

This week I lost 4.8lbs!!!  Down a total of 10.6 lbs in two weeks.  I am awesome!

The Whole 30: Week 2 - I Am Stronger Than a Stupid Little Marshmallow Chick

I am on the 14th day of The Whole 30!  This week has been much better than the headache-ridden week 1. I have stuck to the plan and not strayed once, even while at a birthday party where the cookies looked delicious, and while being surrounded by Easter candy. It was tempting while I was stuffing plastic eggs with jelly beans, Cadbury mini-eggs, and especially Reese's eggs.  I LOVE Reese's, but I realized I am stronger than a candy egg and  sugary marshmallow bunny or chick, so I wasn't going to give in.  Besides, I like my Peeps stale, and the ones we have are fresh in a package, so I wouldn't have enjoyed them anyway.


So this week I have felt really great.  No headaches.  At no point did I feel extremely hungry.  I guess what they say about eating sugary junk is true, it doesn't hold you over long.  On The Whole 30, you really have no choice but to eat a lot of protein, which definitely keeps me full longer. 


Some of the foods I have made this week:


Sweet Potato chips:  Ok, so they are not exactly the texture of chips, but they are delicious.  I thinly slice a sweet potato, make a mixture of sea salt, cumin, and chili powder, and olive oil.  Then I toss the sweet potatoes in it and bake them for about 20ish minutes. 

For lunch I have been making "chicken salad"  which is actually just grilled chicken mixed with mashed avocado.  It's pretty delicious.  I eat it in a lettuce wrap.

Dinner is a bit more difficult.  Although my husband is supportive in the sense that he too probably wants me to lose weight and he will say things like "good job,"  he is not supportive enough to completely change his ways and eat what I am eating.  It pisses me off how he can manage to eat junk, drink beer, and stay so skinny. Sometimes, I want to reach across the dinner table and throat punch him, but I don't.  So when it comes to dinner, most nights I am making two meals.  I try really hard to make it where we have the same meat, but different sides.  Or I try to get creative.  Last night my husband and daughter wanted tacos.  I know I can't eat the tortilla, refried beans, cheese, or packaged seasoning.  I decided to make myself a taco substitute.  I found a Whole 30 acceptable recipe on-line for seasoning.  I ate it on a lettuce wrap with avocado.  It was not really amazing.  Tacos are meant to be cheesy and with a tortilla.  I will not likely make my faux tacos again. One night last week, we were having burgers.  My skinny ass husband loves cheeseburgers and could eat them 4 nights a week.  I too had a burger, but my bun was a lettuce wrap.  Instead of cheese, I grilled a slice of pineapple to put on it.  I also put bacon on it.  Instead of fries, I had roasted parsnips. It was absolutely delicious.  I plan to make it again one night this week. 



I can't believe that I am almost at the halfway point.  I weigh in again tomorrow, hoping for a loss. 

Week 1 Weigh-In

It's been a week and I lost 5.8 lbs.  I did however do the initial weigh in in the afternoon after I at all day and did this one first thing in the morning, so that might not be totally accurate, but I am cool with it.

The Whole 30: In the Beginning...Putting it all out there

What the hell is The Whole 30?  To be completely honest, I don't know if I truly know.  I haven't read the book.  1. I am not paying for it because I am a cheapskate.  2.  I don't have time to read anything other than the epic saga, Lonesome Dove, which I have promised my dear friend I would do.  My knowledge of The Whole 30 comes from talking to people who have done it, Google searches, and of course, Pinterest.  Here is what I know, well what I think I know.  You cut out sugar, bread, grains, dairy, alcohol, and artificial junk you can't pronounce. You do this for 30 days.  I have read that the first 10-11 days are brutal and really tough, but then people feel amazing around day 14.  It's sort of like a month long detox plan.  Here is a cheat sheet I found on line.

So, I have heard about this plan for awhile, but I haven't been ready to give up alcohol.  I love happy hour on Friday afternoon, but I can do this for 30 days.

The Whole 30 plan suggests you don't step on a scale through the course of the 30 days.  Well, that's just crazy.  I am participating in a Biggest Loser contest at school, so I will need to weigh in weekly. I brought in my scale to be used for the contest, so at least this way, I can't weigh myself everyday.

So getting started, I did what every normal person does and pinned a bajillion Whole 30 recipes on Pinterest.  That was Sunday.  Then shit got real. Monday came.  I realized there would be no time for those recipes I pinned.  I would not be making any zucchini noodles.  On Monday morning,  attempted to make 2-ingredient banana pancakes.  It's just pancakes and eggs.  They didn't quite turn out like they were supposed to.  They just didn't hold together.  I don't consider it a complete Pinterest fail.  I ended up just scrambling them.  I also tossed some strawberries and cinnamon in them.  They looked like barf, but were very delicious.

Tuesday and Wednesday I experienced, what I think was sugar withdrawal.  I had a terrible headache most of the day and night.  That combined with my allergies (pollen season) it was pretty miserable.  I hadn't planned to take any additional medications on this plan, but I seriously couldn't bear it, so I gave in and took some pain reliever.  

So since I am not going to be making Pinterest meals here is basically what I eat:

Breakfast: Eggs mixed with bananas or sweet potatoes

Lunch: Salad with Oil and Vinegar dressing and grilled chicken. and some fruit.

Dinner: Some piece of meat (fish, chicken, steak, shrimp) and veggies.  

Snacks: Celery with almond butter, apples, nuts

I may have overdone it with the sweet potatoes for a couple days.  I had them in my eggs a couple days in a row and I also thinly sliced them and baked them to make "chips."  I seriously had some bright orange runny shits for two days, actually I have been having mostly runny shits all week, but maybe that's part of the detox thing.  I don't know.  I didn't read the book.  

Parsnips:  I am in love.  I toss them with some olive oil and sea salt and roast them.  Delish!

Thursday I felt amazing and I really wasn't all that hungry.  I didn't get a chance to eat my lunch at work that day, and I didn't get hangry at all.  Usually I am hungry all the time, and when I don't eat the hanger sets in and I am an irritable bitch.  

Friday, I wasn't hungry, but I was an irritable bitch all day.  Later that night I got my period and I realized I hadn't taken my birth control pill since Sunday.  No worries, I don't take it for pregnancy prevention, but for the hormones, which I seem to lack.  So there shouldn't be any surprise babies or anything. So I don't know if my irritable bitch day was sugar withdrawal or effing up my pill.  I try to remember to take it from here on out and hopefully know.

Drinking:  It's just been water.  Plain old water.  It's fine, even though missing happy hour makes me sad.  I know I don't have to miss it, but I don't want to go if I can't partake.  I can do it for 30 days, and I already gave up the really hard part (soda) 3 months ago.  

So many of the recipes I pinned originally call for bacon.  I couldn't find any bacon in the regular grocery story that doesn't contain sugar.  Today I made a trip to Whole Foods.  I already felt like a tool pulling up in my big ass pick up truck, which was hard to park in between the to Priuses (how the hell do you pluralize Prius?) but I managed with a 37-point turn. I felt completely out of place because I was not wearing yoga pants, but none of that matters.  I found bacon!!  Life is good. 

I weigh in on Monday!  I can't wait to see how I do. 

Update and a New Plan

Update: It's been awhile! I'm still fat. If you have followed this blog or know me in general, you know this is a constant struggle for me. I do well for awhile then fall off the wagon and eat and drink whatever the hell I want. I am obviously allergic to that shit because it makes me swell (get fatter). When I was younger, it was so easy to just run or do some other exercise and lose weight, but now I am pushing forty and it seems no matter how hard I work nothing effing changes! On Christmas Day, I drank my last pop (soda). I definitely feel better as far as not being tired in the morning. I started running again and for a few weeks there I was running 3 miles a day.  No results! Nothing, my weight has just hovers around a super high number. Usually I have no damn shame in posting a picture of my scale, as you know from previous posts, but for real, it's bad. I am ashamed and I am embarrassed, so it's not happening at this point. I need to do something about and I need to follow through and be serious about it. Of course I would love to look hot in a swimsuit or anything for that matter, but right now I would be cool with just not looking repulsive. Most importantly I need to be healthy. I need to be here for my kid. Not only be alive, but physically be able to do things with her like frolick in fields of wild flowers. So here I am ready to make a change...again.  Are you rolling your eyes? It's ok I am too, but am not going to quit starting over when I fall. Who knows? Maybe one of these times, I will actually stick with something.  I have committed to sticking to The Whole 30. I can do anything for 30 days right? I have already completed 5 days. Follow me on my adventure. I likely won't post everyday, because I am lazy.

Disclaimer: If you are reading this and are thinking of reaching out to sell me your weight loss/better health products (Advocare, Thrive, Wraps, Arbonne...) or to get me to join your gym or exercise program, please don't. I wish you the best of luck in your business, and I am sure they are great products, but money is tight and have you seen the damn prices of healthy food? Plus I feel really bad saying no, and you don't want to make me feel bad, because that will make you feel bad. It's a vicious cycle.