Day 30!

Day 30! Day 30!

I'm SO excited and so proud of myself. Seriously, the feeling of accomplishment is better than the results.

So, today I ate 1,359 calories, 2 liters of water, and I finished the 30 Day Shred.

My results:

	Start	Finish
Waist	31.8"	28.5"
Hips	38.5"	35.5"
Thighs	23.5"	22.75"
Arm	11.75"	11.25"
Arm	11.5"	11"
Weight	148	146

I'm pretty happy with that :)

Here are my pictures, even though you still can't tell a difference:





I'm obviously going to continue this thing, but the other website is much easier to keep up with, so I'm moving over there. If you want to continue to follow my progress (and there WILL be more progress... maybe even one day you'll be able to SEE the progress), head over here.

And thanks again for keeping me accountable! I really appreciate it a TON!

Day 29

ONE MORE DAY! Well, for the Shred. I want a break SOOOO bad. I have to say though, level 3 is MUCH easier than level 2. Level 2 left me exhausted. Level 3 just kills my muscles.

Anyway, 1,284 calories, 2 liters of water, and 30 Day Shred Level 3, Day NINE. Woohoo!!!

Day 28: Weigh-in #4

I'm not doing a weigh-in today. I have 2 more days of this shred left, so instead of doing one now and one in 2 days, I'll just keep you in suspense ;)

I did 1,232 calories today, 2 1/2 liters of water, and 30 Day Shred Level 3, Day 8!

Day 27

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! I'm done Thursday!!

I'll be back later to update, but I just wanted to mention something I learned that should be obvious but wasn't to me. When you eat things that are healthier (eg - granola instead of pop-tarts) they actually keep you fuller longer. I know, you're all thinking I'm crazy for not realizing this earlier in life, but I didn't! I was eating granola for breakfast before and it was really filling me up and getting me by until lunchtime. But I also have several boxes of pop-tarts. I would have pop-tarts as a snack (because I'm one of the only people in the world who likes them) and that's 200 more calories. So I brilliantly thought that I should replace the granola with the pop-tarts and eliminate the snack. I really wasn't hungry for the snack anyway... I just wanted the deliciousness. I figured the calories in a big bowl of granola are the same as 2 pop-tarts, so it's the same thing. Wrong. The 2 pop-tarts DID fill me up. For about an hour or two. Then I wanted more food. The granola keeps me full for 4 or 5 hours. Crazy, right? I still wanted to eat the pop-tarts though, so I modified it a bit. I eat 1 pop-tart instead of 2 (200 calories instead of 400) and 1/2 of a cup of granola instead of 1 cup (193 calories instead of 380something). I'm still getting the same calories. I'm still getting my pop-tart. But it gets be by until lunch. Woohoo! I'm a genius :p

Edited:
Ok, so for the day, I ended up with 1,288 calories, 2 liters of water, and 30 Day Shred Level 3, Day 7. 3 more days!!!

Day 26

Good day again today :) 1345 calories, 2 1/2 liters of water, and 30 Day Shred Level 3 day 6! I'm sooo close! 4 MORE DAYS!

Once again, to see my food, click here

I also weighed myself today and my weight has gone back down. I'll get the official weight and measurements Tuesday though.

Day 25

Now I'm back on track :) Well, I found a cool new website that's better for tracking food and things, so my chart will be there from now on. If you want to see, go here. I did pretty well today... 1416 calories... carbs were a little high, but still in the range... missed protein by 1 gram.

AND, 30 Day Shred Level 3, Day 5 = done! I seriously can't believe I'm going to do this entire thing without stopping. I started it with a cold and 2 weeks of killer poison ivy. Around day 16 I almost talked myself into skipping a day and making it up at the end. But I've done it. It was one of my New Year's resolutions to do the entire thing with no breaks. So even if I didn't get any results, the satisfaction of crossing that off of my resolution list is totally worth it! You know... that and the fact that I just FEEL healthier overall.

I'm trying not to let my lack of weight loss get me down. Seriously, with the calories I've cut, I should be losing the weight. My body must be taking time to adjust. I also may have completely destroyed my metabolism before... maybe that's why it's not coming off. I used to eat once or twice a day (and a LOT of food). I've gone weeks at a time living off of only frog-eye salad (it's delicious). I know (and knew) that's not healthy and maybe I'm paying for it now with an extra long adjustment period. OR, maybe I really am gaining muscle. I do actually have muscles in my arms now. It's amazing.

Day 24

Today was another off day. We went to the city to do a process that the woman on the phone said we could do. We couldn't. They sent us somewhere else. Wrong place. We went to the right place. They told us we had to file papers somewhere else first and then come back. Went to another place. Completely wrong. Went to ANOTHER place. Got some info, but the people we needed to talk to were gone for the day. Went to another place. Closed. Moral of the story: we walked all over the fricken city. It was seriously a significant amount of walking, and most of it fast because things were closing. Moral #2: 98% of Brazilians are completely incompetent at their jobs. But they won't tell you they don't know something... they just make things up.

Once we gave up for the day we needed food. The mall was right there... home was a half hour walk to the train station, a 40 minute train ride, and another 10 minute walk away. We obviously went to the mall. I tried to choose well. I really did. But have you ever tried to choose healthy food from a food court? Pretty impossible. Anyway, I don't know the nutrition facts (yet again), so no chart (estimating around 1750 calories), but here's the rest:

Breakfast:
2 poptarts (I still have a lot of these from the box)

Lunch:
PB&J
Apple

Supper:
Rice and beans (baby L ate most of this)
Grilled fish in an orange sauce (I know the sauce is the killer)
Some french fries (I really didn't eat many... maybe 10)

Exercise:
30 Day Shred Level 3, Day 4 (and I was already dead when I started it)

Water:
Maybe a liter. Oh, we also got a 2 liter bottle of gatorade-ish stuff. 90 calories per serving. I had about 3 servings. A bunch more somehow got dumped in baby L's shoe.

I'm EXHAUSTED. Good night!!