Am I the Biggest Loser????

Macedonia's Biggest Loser

Well, the results are in...............Am I the biggest loser???????

Nope. Not this year. I am the second biggest loser. I will take that. In 8 weeks, I lost 11 pounds, 6.6% of my weight. I know I didn't work as hard as I could have. I had a few not so great weeks during the competition that hurt me, so to finish second place is okay with me. Now I am focused on winning the Biggest Loser title at FUN 2B FIT. Going to kick it in high gear from here on out. Look out FUN 2B FIT ladies.....I love y'all, but I am on a mission to WIN!!! 2nd place is not an option. :)

How I am losing Weight

I have had several people come up to me and ask, "What are you doing? How are you losing your weight?" So here goes....

1. Exercise. I try to do an hour of Zumba 3 times a week. I also try to walk for an hour on days I don't have Zumba, when weather permits.

2. I have cut back my calories. I try to stay around 1,100 calories a day. I have recently started keeping a food journal to stay on track. I also try not to eat past 5 pm. This has always worked well for me.

3. Drink water. This is one that I struggle with. I am trying to do better.

Eat right and exercise! Unfortunately there is no secret trick to losing weight. Believe me, if there was I would know about it. Not giving up and staying on track is the hardest part of a diet, for me.


How to Start:

No more saying, "Tomorrow, I will start a diet." Start today! Right now! First, you need to set a goal. Where do you want to be? What is your ultimate goal weight? Visualize what you want to look like. Make a plan that suits you. How many calories are you going to consume every day? What kind of exercise are you going to do and how long every day? Make a cut off time. "I will not eat past ___ o'clock." Decide how many glasses or bottles of water you are going to drink every day. Do things to motivate you!!! Hang your dream jeans (those jeans you want to get in one day) where you can see them. Make Pounds to Go and Pounds Gone jars (Fill a jar with stones representing the pounds you have to lose. Move the stones to the pounds gone jar as you lose them). Hang a picture on the fridge of how you used to look. Post motivational sayings aound your house. Start a blog of your own. Keep a journal. Find a workout buddy. Start a ZUMBA class. I recommend Fun 2B Fit in Underwood if you live in the Florence, AL area. Most importantly you have to believe in yourself and be determined to reach your goal!! Also, remember it took time to put it on, it will take time to get it off! Trust me, if I can do this, ANYONE can!!! Good Luck! You got this!!! :)

The Dreaded Cake Walk!!!

Why do my boys have to be so lucky!?!?!?

My plan to stay on track until I reached my goal weight went down the drain today!! We had a benefit fish fry today at church, and we always have a cake walk. My boys LOVE to walk in it. Today they won 2 pans of brownies, a cookie cake, and 6 cupcakes. Unfortunately, I gave in to the temptation and ate a piece of cookie cake. :( Not good!!! Especially since this week is one of the weigh in weeks for Biggest Loser at Fun 2B Fit! Then tonight we had my mother a surprise party at Logans. Again, I could not resist temptation!!! I had to eat peanuts and a roll. :( Other than that I did just eat a baked potato (loaded) :( On the upside, I did not eat a piece of birthday cake. So with the fish, fries, hushpuppies, cookie cake, peanuts, roll, and loaded baked potato today was not the best diet day!! Back on track tomorrow!!

Stay the Course!!

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." ~Confucius~


It is so easy to get off track while dieting. One bad diet day leads to two, then three. Before you know it a week has gone by and you realize you have lost 7 days of opportunity to get off some more weight. Then you get SO disappointed in yourself. At least that is how it goes for me. That is exactly what happened to me this past week. I didn't completely blow my diet, I just didn't really try to lose either. To me that was a wasted week! When you get off track, you can make one of two choices: GIVE UP or START BACK WITH A VENGENCE!!! Being this close to my goal weight, it would be so stupid of me to give up now. I have worked so hard to get this far. Giving up is not an option. So that leaves choice number two, START BACK WITH A VENGENCE!!! Which is what I intend to do. I hope if you have had a bad week, a bad day, or even a bad month you will NOT give up! Giving up is probably the easier of the two options, but easier is not always better. The truth is if I had stayed on track since the day I began this blog, I would have been at my goal weight several months ago. If you have been following my blog since the beginning you know that I have had bad days, weeks, and yes, months, BUT I have never given up. I have always eventually got myself back on track and I am so proud I did. After my last wasted week I have decided, NOW is the time to START BACK WITH A VENGENCE! Now it is time to STAY THE COURSE!! Now it is time for me to finally reach my goal weight! I will not GIVE UP! I will NOT stop!! I will NOT fall of track again! I am too close to getting where I want to be! GIVING UP IS NOT AN OPTION!!!

So here are a few new things I am going to start doing...

1. Keep a food journal. (No, I haven't been doing this.)
I know how important this is while dieting. I am surprised I have done so well without this, but now I am going to start.

2. Drink Water! (No, I have not been doing this either!)
Again, I know how important this is not just while dieting, but all the time. I just am not a water drinker, except while exercising. Now is the time to start!

3. Stop eating past 5 o'clock. (I have done this!)
I have always done well when I stick to this rule, but I haven't been doing it lately. It is time to start back.

I hope that by adding these three rules to my diet plan, I will reach my goal weight by the end of this month. Thanks again for reading my blog and for liking my new Fat to Fabulous facebook page. AND REMEMBER.......