Showing posts with label weight loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weight loss. Show all posts

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Pushing Myself At The Gym Really Helped

After 2 weeks of no results I put it in high gear at the gym trying out a more challenging cardio machine and increasing my time on it throughout the week. It paid off with a 3.6 pounds weight loss. I even ate out last night and had lasagna this past week. My son recently asked me to make lasagna, so I decided to play around with the traditional recipe and created a lower fat version that is less than 400 calories per serving and fantastic! My husband and the kids are still talking about how good it is and they had it a couple of days ago. I used ground bison meat instead of sausage or regular ground beef. Bison has much less fat and calories than beef. I also used low fat ricotta and low fat mozzarella. Here's the recipe (click on it to make it larger). If you decide to try it, please let me know what you think. Take care.







Sunday, January 17, 2010

10 pounds so far!

I've lost almost 10 pounds so far (9.4 to be exact) and it's been 2 weeks on my journey. I lost 2 pounds this past week. If I can continue to lose 2 pounds per week over the next 10 weeks, I will be able to get under the 200 mark just in time for my vacation (at the beginning of April) which is a cruise to Key West and Mexico. That is the mini goal I am reaching for right now. I can't remember the last time I was under 200 pounds. I think it's been at least 9 years--probably longer.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

No more chest pain & irregular heart beat!

It's been 10 days with a weight loss of 10lbs. so far. I don't see much of a difference in my clothes, but I feel so much better. I'm sleeping better and my husband reports that he hasn't heard me snore during the last couple of nights. (I have sleep apnea, but was not able to adapt to using the C-Pap machine). I also noticed that when I walked down the stairs this morning, it didn't hurt and I wasn't even holding on to the railing. I used to have to hold on and go down one step at a time when I would first wake up, and the bottoms of my feet would hurt. This morning, I just walked down like a normal healthy person. I have also noticed that my head is clearer and I'm able to manage my emotions better. There has also been a huge difference with my heart. It's beating normally this week! Before I started my weight loss and during the very first days, I had trouble with dull chest pains and my heart was beating irregularly. That problem seems to be gone and I hope it never returns! It's a scary feeling when you can't count on your heart! I knew that I would see these type of improvements over time, but am so very pleasantly surprised that it was this soon. Instead of laying on the couch after dinner, I actually had enough energy to go to the gym last night!