Yep. I'm back on the wagon

Since my bridesmaid dress didn't fit, my boyfriend decided to go all Harvey (from Celebrity Fit Club) on my ass. Since Monday, I've been on the first phase of the Fat Smash Diet. Yep. Fruits & Veggies - all I want. Tofu. 2 cups of brown rice. 1 cup of Oatmeal. 2 cups of milk. 2 - 6oz containers of yogurt. That's all I get to eat for 9 days. I'm on day 3. So far -- so good.

Along with that, I've been working out every night. 500 calories on the treadmill. :) It isn't so bad... it's just... tiring. It helps that my kids are gone. Add to that the weight lifting every other day.

If it kills me, I'll be down to 180 by the wedding. AND my dress will fit!!!

First Monday in July

Hello and welcome to July. I can't believe its here already. 1 1/2 months to wedding!

My Monday check in is this...

• Did a good job this weekend of not eating till I was stuffed. I tried to only eat when I was hungry.
  
• Did not so great on the car snacks for the drive (Lots of Cheezits, and licorice)
• Thanks to Linda's variety of food I had a good mix of fruits along with higher fat foods like hamburgers and bratwurst.
• Weigh in about 166 lbs. I say about because I ate breakfast and got partway dressed before weighing myself so I subtracted 2 lbs off what the scale said.
  

Future Plans

• Three 30 min exercise sessions this week. Starting after work today, mow grass or walk if its nice out, treadmill and weights if it is not. One session will be more than covered by Thursday's Kayaking adventure.
  
• The holiday week means no overtime for me, and I am taking 1 additional vacation day. No overtime means more time for wedding stuff and for working out. Like a vacation almost!
  

It's Official

We are engaged :) Kind of late I know, but we didn't get or engagement announcement in the paper till just this week.

http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=42337%A7ion=celebrations&freebie_check&CFID=41492045&CFTOKEN=89546500&jsessionid=883026676c414f2d553e

We put it in the New Salem ND paper, Bismarck Tribune, and the Grand Forks Herald.

Monday Check-In

Monday June 25th. 8 weeks till the wedding. I have about 7-10 lbs to lose to start to feel a bit better about fitting into my dress and all that. Not to mention just maintaining muscle mass now that I am almost old.

Monday June 25th: 166.5

I have been hovering around this weight for many weeks now. Being too busy to workout and eat healthy.

Enough is enough...

Something happened to me the last few days. Something made me really tired of not looking my best physically.

1. My friend Jossie's getting back into eating right and working out, it has inspired me quite a bit.
   
2. I tried on my wedding dress for a fitting and they couldn't get the top clasp together in the back.
3. Conversations recently about family history of various diseases.
4. Trying to be a good role model for young ladies in my Girl Scout troop and my siblings.
5. Its summer and hot and I have shorts and tank tops that I used to wear that now look bad on me or just plain don't fit.
6. I came up 1 flight of stairs on Friday and was out of breath enough that I couldn't carry on a conversation right after getting to my desk at work.
7. I have been having digestive issues lately and I have been eating pretty much anything in sight and indulging in fast food, big meals out and other food vices a lot lately.
8. Having a clean house makes me feel like I want to get other areas of my life in order as well.
9. Seeing the garden start to grow reminds me of how great it is to grow and eat fresh vegetables!
   

That is a lot of reasons, but they all culminated into an action.

This morning I went for a walk outside. It was a bit hard especially since I chose a hill to walk up first thing, but it felt great. I followed that up with reading a bit of my old diet book "Change One: Lose weight simple, safely and forever" and following one of their breakfast guidelines.

• FF Cottage Cheese,
  
• wheat toast (with strawberry preserves),
  
• watermelon
  
• and a couple glasses of water.

I'm not to the point yet where I am going to commit to a 6 day a week workout plan, a restricted calorie diet, or a weight loss goal of x lbs by x date.... but I am to the point where I just want to do something... so I did.

Wedding Website

For those of you who were not on my email a few weeks back, here is my wedding website!!
http://www.theknot.com/ourwedding/DanielleBurkhart&BrandonSchulz

Tell me what you think, and if I misspelled or said something wrong as far as you know!

-Danielle

Oh my...

This past weekend was our Bride-To-Be's Bachlorette party. I ate way too much, but had a blast...

I came home yesterday, Sunday, and watched Inside Brookhaven Obesity Clinic on TLC. Talk about scary! I think that everyone should watch this at least once. As they were talking about their food addictions, I realized that maybe, per chance, I am a food addict. Seriously. It's the first thing I think about in the morning and the last thing I think about at night. Stepping on the scale 300 times a day is a reminder that I shouldn't be eating what I'm eating... (I'm writing this as I eat my breakfast of watermelon and lots of water.)

The thing that broke my heart the most about the Brookhaven show was that some of the 700 and 800 lb folks are smuggling in food and completely cheating. They are allowing it, because, if you don't have access to your addicitons, you can't truly fight them. However, for the half of the 75 residents that AREN'T cheating, that has to be SO difficult!!! I cannot imagine being big enough to have to check myself into a rehab center only to have people smuggle in food crack like french fries and pizza.

Anyway, as I was watching that, I was thinking that I needed to go work out. I didn't, since Im so damn sore from either the bed at the hotel, or from dancing. :( I will run a little today if the kids give me time. I'm home with them since daycare is closed.

There's also a show called Big Medicine that I'm going to try to catch tonight.

Oh, and I'm up 1lb from the weekend of partying. :) But, that should be gone by tomorrow!