March to April Progress

This weekend was April 1st and time to update my progress pictures. I am so happy at my progress for this month, I know I had a few slip ups but I still came out on top.

Overall Weight Loss: 4.6 pounds

Overall Inches Loss: 2.25 inches

I am hoping that by next month I will have dropped another 4-5 pounds and hopefully more inches so that I might fit into a smaller pants size.

Love,

Jamie Lynn

Monday Motivation: Staying focused

Happy Monday!!!

Right now I am in a reverse with my macros, that means that I am gradually increasing my macros in the attempt to give my body a break and allow it my metabolism to use those calories more efficiently. That means more food and more energy for my workouts.

Hot Duck Doughnuts

These also means the scale is not moving down as quickly and as I progress it might actually go up some. That is quiet a mental game and it almost feels like you are working against your end goals. I just keep reminding myself that I could not eat in a deficiency the rest of my life and my metabolism is already so bad due to Hashimoto's Thyroiditis that I needed to try to help my body by taking a break.  I plan on starting back into a cut at the first of March and will have Poppy calculate my macro numbers again.

Through this whole macro lifestyle I have learned so much. First, the scale does not show how strong I am physically and now mentally. I have learned that pictures and measurements speak so much more vs. the scale.

1/26/2017          5/14/16

I took the picture on the left last week after working out at the gym and remembered that I had taken a picture back last year in the same top and felt so much smaller in it. While it is the same shirt, I am down another pants size and had to have my mom take in some of my favorites clothes because there is a definite size difference between the then and now. This picture motivates me to keep going and not give up towards my goals. I am very close to my goal and know that as soon as I start my cut again that I WILL hit my size and my weight goal.

Love,

 

Jamie Lynn 

Progress Pictures

Hello! It has almost been a year since my last post because life got crazy, so this got put on the backburner. I have decided that blogging helps to hold me accountable and I often get asked how I have lost so much weight. With all of that said I am going to try my best to keep up with the blog much better this summer. Let me get you started with some progress pictures.

210 lbs (June 2013) vs. 167 lbs (June 2015)

210 lbs (June 2013)  vs. 167 lbs (June 2015)

Summer 2013 vs. Summer 2015
 (I wore this black dress in my engagement announcement pictures 8 years ago)

 

It has taken me a while to get here and I am so excited to say that I have only 17 lbs to go before I reach my overall goal of 150 lbs. I have fallen off the wagon a couple of times in the past two years, but I have never gained more than ten of it back when I did and I would quickly get it back off. My goal is that by the end of the summer I am to my goal weight.

 

 

How far have you came since the beginning of your journey? What are your goals for this summer?

 

Love,

 JamieLynn  

Back at it Again! (Progress Picture Included)

Sorry, that I have been gone so long. I had A LOT going on at work, at home, and at me.

We spent one day of my fall break biking The Creeper Trail! I loved it. My backside REALLY hurt the next day, but it was so worth it.

 

I got my hair cut short! I love how easy it is to deal with. I have let it grow out a little bit, but will definitely get it trimmed back up nicely before the beach.

 

I got to see my beautiful Baby C dance in the Russian Ballet's Nutcracker, a once in a lifetime moment.

 

Celebrated my 28th birthday in November with new smaller clothes (I even purchased skinny jeans) and Cheesecake Factory. Yum!

 

In May we celebrated Mr. SB's birthday with Kayaks and Chop House. We are really loving the Kayaks, they are a great way to exercise.

 

We did a whole lot more in there. I planned two field trips and got snowed on. I took some really sweet kids to the TASC (Tennessee Association of Student Councils) and got rained on at Dollywood on a cool spring day. This was a very busy school year and trying to stay focused on my healthy lifestyle was not easy. In December I thought I was crazy because I was feeling sick to my stomach like I had rode amusement park rides all day. My lovely co-workers were all placing bets on when the baby was due. After a visit to the doctor I was informed that I had vertigo. So after one month of not working out and not dieting I had to ensue a second month because of therapy. That vertigo is a bad word, you can select which ever bad word you would like.

 

Well here is a progress picture from May.

I am happy with my results despite not being to my goal.

 

Are you where you want to be? Are you still working toward your goal?

 

 

Love,

Jamielynn

 

 

 

Weekly Weigh-In #2

My week was good and I could tell I was doing great with my goals. Bam! Then the weekend came and it set me back some.  It was a great weekend filled with several events, events with great food.

My weight loss this week was going to be pretty great before the weekend came but I am still pleased with my loss.

This morning I weighed in at...

191.2

That is down by 1.4 lbs!

 

 

Here is some progress pictures, not a ton of difference but still progress.

 

Week 11 Weight 194.4

Week 15 Weight 191.2

 

 

Week 11 Weight 194.4

Week 15 Weight 191.2

Weekly Weigh-In

 

Sorry that I have been gone for a full week. I have finally wrapped up summer school and am able to work on some things around the house. Like....


Cleaning the Adirondack chairs so that they can have a fresh coat of stain.



Cleaning the deck so it can be stained.



The finished project, I love how much cleaner it looks now and how many people we can sit out here.

 

 

So much easier to maintain now, I am too young to be spending my free time weeding flowerbeds.

 

Well I will shut up and get to the chase. I have not worked out as much as I would like to this week but I know all this yard work has kicked my butt. I did go for a couple of runs and did 30 DS a couple of times.

 

So, last Monday I weighed 195.6, up from 193. I knew it was going to happen and I was upset, but this week I am happy because I am down to...

192.6! 

 

I am hoping this week that I fit more workouts and runs in. I know that the yard work was strenuous because my fat was crying a lot this week. I am not normally a person who sweats, but sometimes I would come inside the house for a drink of water and I would be completely saturated and my hair would be wet like I had taken a shower. GROSS!

 

Did you weigh-in today? Did you make your goal?

 

Love,

Jamielynn

 

My Story- The Present

Sorry for taking a week off, my lovely mother came to visit and I spent all my free time with her.

 

Here is Part III of my story, The Present. You can find Part I here and you can find Part II here.

 

I left you off at the end of my surgery. I felt like a new person, a person who had energy to move and did not take several naps a day. A person who could eat and enjoy food.   After being denied food for so long I began eating what I wanted and when I wanted. This is where a new battle began, my obsession with the ability of being able to eat. Had I been smart I would have started a diet at this moment because my stomach had shrunk so much and I had a fresh start on my hands. Hindsight.

 

So here I am almost three years later. So much has happened in that time: About 20 lbs gained, given the news of high cholesterol, my niece getting diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, and watching my mom's battle with cancer. I have had a wake up call. I need to be healthy for my myself, for the quality of my life, as a model of healthy living for my niece. I need to be healthy for me.

 

Tomorrow will be the 13th week of my healthy lifestyle change and as of last week I had lost 17 pounds. Here are some before pictures

 

Here I am on week 7 and 9 lbs down. I hated taking this picture and I hate even more saying the numbers I weighed in this picture, 200 lbs.

 

Here I am week 11 and my weight is 194.4 lbs. I am down by six pounds. It does not seem like much but the difference between the pictures to me are dramatic.

 

Here is a side by side.

 

I have to admit all weeks are not good and I do not make my goal all the times. My goal for the beginning of the school year was 180. I am concerned though that it will not happen. This week while my mom was visiting we enjoyed healthy meals together, figuring points, discussing meal ideas, and packing snacks. We ran/walked one day but the other times we did yardwork, shopping, and stayed busy other ways. So overall it did not seem like a bad week, but I gained. The lesson learned was some people (like my mom) can lose weight by just eating right and staying active, I on the other hand need the physical activity along with the eating. 

Maybe I will not make my goal, but I am going to get back on the horse tomorrow and bust my butt to try to make my goal. I will not do anything unhealthy. I will eat healthy, work out, stay active, and try to make my goal.

So what happens if I do not make my goal? I will shoot for the moon, if I do not make it I will land amongst the stars. Even if I do not make it I will be more pounds closer to my goal.

 

What is your goal? What habits do you have to change to make your goals a reality?

 

Love,

Jamielynn  

My Trip to the Big D

So Tuesday I flew out to Dallas for work. We managed to fit a little fun in after our conference everyday. I will admit I was scared how my weight-loss goals would go on this trip. I did not hit my goal before I left for Dallas, which was to be down 15 lbs from my start weight. I had a little over a pound to go.

 

My fun part of the trip was composed of:

 

Good food with good co-workers. We had Spaghetti Warehouse, Iron Cactus, and Colt's Bar-B-

Que. It was all good. I even had Tres Leche one night. I tried to eat healthy throughout the day and then splurge within reason at night. Come on, I was not at home and wanted to enjoy the local food places.

 

If it was not for all of the following though I would have been concerned.

We did a whole lot of walking in the couple of days that I was there. The last day we were there the expected high was 106 degrees! Oh my and we busted our butt walking that day trying to catch a train that left us. I am so glad I had my Fitbit to document our steps and miles.

 

I woke up every morning to this:

I woke up at 5:00 to workout two of the three mornings. I did about 20 minutes on the bicycle, then lifted weights with 50 jumping jacks between each set, and finished it out on the treadmill for a couple of minutes.

 

My goal was to work off what I was enjoying for dinner each night. I did not splurge the whole day, just enjoyed my dinner. I made sure not to overeat, especially because I had to walk back to the hotel.

 

So my weigh-in...... I lost two pounds! Yes! Finally I have broke the 15 lb mark.

 

Today, I decided while my out-of-commission honey was sleeping in I would go for a little wogging (jogging and walking). I had not gotten a run in for 2 weeks in and it was my best time yet, down by about 2-3 minutes for the mile and a half. I know the time is not great, but I have grown so much as a runner and I am proud of myself.

 

Stay tuned for some recipes.

 

Love,

Jamielynn

 

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