Tips on Tuesday

I don't have any wonderful over the top tips today (actually it's Wednesday I couldn't think of what to write yesterday).  But I did run across a recipe that I though was worth trying out.  I found this on one of the many weight loss blogs that I read and it was for Yummy Berry Cheesecake Smoothie.  I though, I love cheesecake and would love to drink anything that tasted like a cheesecake.  So, I gave it a go.

Very few things needed 

Yummy delicious berry smoothie

The only thing I would do differently is add a packet of Splenda or other non-calorie sweetener to it.  It needed just a hint of more sweetness.  I'm always up to try something once.

What's something new that you've tried lately?

~Crystal

Motivational Monday

Yes, it's Monday.  Ho, hum day Monday!  We all could have used more weekend, but we have to face the fact that Monday comes around every week. 

How do you face Monday? 

Do you say, "The diet starts today"?  Do you look at it as a fresh start?  Or do you just absolutely dread Mondays?

Well, I say yes to all three. 

There is never enough weekend, and the fact that I ate bad over the weekend causes me to say that the diet starts back up on Monday, therefore I look at it as a fresh start and then I also dread it.

So much for motivational, right?!

Well, there has to be an end to the mentality that the diet starts on Monday.  In reality the diet never should have stopped.  You can eat what you like, but do so in moderation so that you don't ruin what you've worked so hard to achieve. 

Look to Monday as a fresh start, but look at it as a fresh start to the next step in your journey not as a starting over point.

Those are my motivational words on this Monday.
~Crystal

Sensational Sunday

I've been MIA again lately...the busyness of life is getting in the way of me getting back on track the way I need to.  I expect almost too much from myself and when I don't succeed I feel defeated.

I was going back over some notes I've been taking at church and not to make this blog a spiritual thing, but I found something that related to life in general not just church life.  "If you don't expect anything, you get nothing."

This is so true!  If we expect to fail, we will fail.  If we expect to achieve, we will achieve. 

I've been coasting along not really trying and it's showing.  As of this post I have put almost all of the weight that I've lost over the last year back on.  I can look at this and feel defeated and give up or I can look at it and chose to move past it.  I am choosing to move past and move beyond it.  I WILL NOT let it get me down or keep me from losing focus. 

I'm sorry to anyone that has looked to me for motivation, but sometimes we all stumble and fall.  We just have to pull ourselves up by the proverbial bootstraps and move on.

I'm choosing to move on!  Come move on with me!
~Crystal

Thoughtful Thursday

As part of my new blogging schedule and themed posts, here on my thoughts on this Thursday...

As I sit here pondering what to type my thoughts wonder to why it is that I'm doing this whole weight loss thing and blogging about it. 

For one thing I HATE the way I look/feel.  I know we should be happy with ourselves, but I have been taking a good hard look at myself in the proverbial mirror and I do not like what I see.  Not only am I very much overweight, it just isn't pleasant to look at.  Then my mind starts to wonder to how I got like this.  I know it wasn't overnight, I'm no dummy!  I try to rack my brain and figure out how I have stayed like this.  Is it a lack of motivation, a lack of will-power, a lack of caring? 

WHO KNOWS!! 

All I can do is look at what I need to do to change the way I look/feel.  Thus, the reason I started this blog.  And while I haven't been doing what I should/need to do, I am doing my best to get back on track and get back to a more consistent and normal routine when it comes to exercise and eating right. 

So...those are my thoughts on this Thursday.
~Crystal

Works For Me Wednesday

Or should I say..."What doesn't work for me Wednesday"? 

Hello all!  Or should I just say hello to those of you who actually still read this blog.  I am so far behind and so much has happened in the last few months.  Lots of stresses have taken place and I won't go into all of them here. 

I seems to have fallen into some of the same habits/routines that I fell into from before I started this blog.  And let me tell you the excuses are flying around here like crazy...I don't have time to exercise, I hate tracking, I've been under so much stress, those chips looked so good. 

I'm not really sure of my exact weight, but it's creeping back up.  I just got it in my mind today that I was going to start writing in a journal about the struggles I'm having and I thought, "Duh!!  Go blog about it!"

So, here I am humbly crawling back to the computer to try and regain the motivation to get back on this weight loss journey. 

I have taken some small steps into getting back into the swing of things.  I have gone cold turkey again off the Diet Coke.  It was around this time last year that I did it and I know I can do it again.  I have started having a more substantial breakfast to get me through work at the preschool without wanting to snack on what the kids are snacking on.  I started taking my vitamins again in order to start feeling better.  I am looking to planning my lunches for when I get home from work. 

While I haven't put on all the weight that I lost last year, I am starting to notice an uptick in the scale.  So...here I go again!  My goal though is to do a post a day and they will be themed posts.  Like today's post is "Works For Me Wednesday."  Here's the rundown of the new blog schedule:
Motivational Monday
Tips on Tuesday
Works For Me Wednesday
Thoughtful Thursday
Fit Friday
Sensational Saturday
I'll be taking Sundays off from blogging because they are just too hectic.

So, that is the new and improved plan for now.  I hope to stick with it and re-motivate whoever reads this blog and be re-motivated by all of you.
~Crystal