The Road so far...

The past year has been a struggle, getting sick and injury, but 2015 is the year. I have motivation. There is a person that used to be in my life, that has given me the motivation to reach my goal. I also look like a beached Whale in my Jared Padalecki Photo Op. And I don't like it.
So I digress, here I am on Day 2 of Body Combat 90 Days.

I did Day 1 yesterday, had to modify some stuff, since it's been my first day in forever to actually workout. But I made it thru the 30mins and I felt awesome. I didn't feel like i had to take a nap. And after the workout I cried. Yup I cried, but not because I hurt, but I felt bad. How could I have let myself go? How could I have let this person, control my life? Why did I ever quit working at the gym? All these guilty feelings came up and I cried.
But then I stood up, shook them off and was proud, I made the first step. I finished Day 1.

I am about to do the Day 2 workout and then hit the Grocery Store. I have to get food to fuel the fight. I really like that Les Mills has Combat now to do at home. I missed doing it and I wanna stay with the good fight and eat right again.

I can do it. I don't want to go thru drastic measures like surgery. Cause after surgery you still have to change your whole lifestyle which you have to do anyways to loose weight.

I can do this... I've done it before. My goal is to get to this again:

I know it's a long road, but I will get there eventually. Thanks for sticking with me reading all this. I try my best this time around to blog consistently.

Sigh...

This is an emotional roller coaster. I haven't been in the gym in 2 weeks, I am eating ok, but I have not lost any weight. I am depressed. I don't know why, but I feel a bit down lately. So I need to pick myself up and get going again. A friend of mine lost 177lb. she is such an inspiration. Another friend always posts really motivational stuff on her FB and I love reading them. But somehow, I am in the downy dumps.
Well what am I going to do?
The last weekend of Faire approaches and that is good, it will lift a huge stress factor off my shoulders. I don't have to worry about politics, stepping on nobody's toes, dont' have to worry about my daughter's grades, or if she did her homework. I can breathe, well somewhat as I am doing a convention right after with my small business SewGeekAustin . But that is my stuff, I don't have to make stuff for others or depend on them, it's just me. So I can breathe again.
Also I got swamped with orders and feel like I need to take care of my customers, but that is not true, they can wait one more day, I need to be healthy for me, cause if I am not, then they won't get their stuff at all.
Oh wow, that just made a bunch of sense.
So I am going to blog more again and I will have more recipe's in my food blog as well.
I bet you are looking forward to my rambelings... see you soon.

Claudia

Running after the Wagon...

So the last week has been pretty terrible. Not just eating wise but emotional as well. So I kind of fell of the Wagon and the scales showed it.
So this morning I woke up and decided it's time to get back on the Wagon, well chase after it and then get back on.
I made Banana Pancakes, gluten free and they are delicious. You can find my recipe in my other Blog: Cooking for Jared Padalecki and decide for yourself. They didn't look like much, but they filled me up and were tasty.
I need to remember drinking more water and tea again, since my mom has been here, I have been drinking to much coffee. So that's my goal for this week, log food and drink water. I am also going to a convention this weekend, but the good thing is, I can make Salads in a Jar and I am staying at my house, so I don't have to worry to much about bad foods.
Then we have only one more weekend at the Faire and one more Con right after that and then I have 2 months with nothing going on on the weekends. So I can get my gym schedule back on track.
This week there is no Gym at all, I have to make merchandise and fill orders for the convention and I hope to maybe get a walk in the next two days.
We shall see.
Anyways, I am back on the Wagon.

It's cold which needs Comfort food...

Winter this year here in Texas has been weird. We had more than usual freezing days. Today is one of those days and it is March...
So I was sitting in my office working when I got a hankering for Lentil Soup. It's something that reminds me of my childhood. We used to get the canned Lentil Soup from Germany (as I am from Switzerland, Germany was only 20mins away)... and my mom would cut up hot dogs and put them in. I always loved that soup and I made many variations of it.
So I braved the cold and got the stuff I needed for my Soup... and this is not a runny soup it is thick and hearty cause that is how I like it.

Here is what went into the pot today:
1 box of organic Beef Broth (4 cups)
1 yellow onion chopped
3 celery stalks chopped
4 medium carrots, peeled and chopped
8 slices of Turkey Bacon
3 cups of uncooked lentils
12 ounces of organic pork Kielbasa (optional)
4 cups of water

First you heat ups some oil, I use coconut oil. Sautee the onions and the celery, once they are glassy looking add the bacon, cook for a couple of minutes. Then add seasoning. I like salt and pepper and thyme. You can use whatever you like. Then add the lentils, I gave them a quick rinse and mix them up. Then add the broth and 4 cups of water, add the carrots and let this simmer for a bit. You might have to add more water as I let mine simmer all afternoon I know I need to add more water, as the lentils will absorb it.
Then about an 30mins before you eat add the kielbasa... This makes about 12 servings.
1 Serving is: 212 calories, 9grams of fat, 2.5g saturated fat, 24 Carbs, 12g of fiber, 4.4 sugars and 19g of Protein. Pretty dang healthy.

Bon Apetit

Breakfast and headaches...

The Importance of Breakfast...

This morning it occured to me, how important breakfast is. When I don't eat breakfast which doesn't happen that often anymore... i start craving "stupid" foods and will eat them. But when I make myself a good breakfast I don't... hmmm wonder why.
I have some standard Breakfasts that I make, I love spinach and mushroom omelets, oatmeal. When we are at the Faire, I precook an egg scramble with some Turkey sausage and whatever veggies I have. Heat that up some days I just eat it as a scramble some days I eat it in a Tortilla. But yes I need to remember to eat breakfast, it gives me energy, it makes me eat right for the rest of the day.
I really enjoy cooking it.

Now my headaches...
I don't know why but sometimes when I work out really hard I get a headache afterwards and not just a small one, pretty bad ones too. They don't occur often enough for me to stress out about them. I think it's just that I went harder than I thought. It's a throbbing headache, but they usually go away after a nap and drinking water. I think hydration has a lot to do with this as well. I know I didn't hydrate properly yesterday and I am sure that had something to do with it.

Other than that I am still on the train... I am enjoying Body Combat again and look forward to those classes...

So drink your water and eat your breakfast.

Weigh In... Sam Winchester is tough on me...

I had weigh in this am at 266. Which is 9lb. since January 15th... So yes I am getting there one step at a time. I know this weight didn't get eaten back on over night, so it will take a while to get it off. But in hindsight almost 10lb in a month is actually pretty good.
So what did I change? WELL: I started to track my foods again. Yes I still have pizza on Mondays, but I have chicken on mine and I make sure I only eat 2 pieces. I drink a lot of water at least 64oz. a day. I also started to go to the gym again. I do a full body workout on Tuesdays with some cardio and then Wednesday and Friday I do Body Combat which is awesome... The two instructors at the YMCA are amazing. Then on the weekends I walk at the Renaissance Faire... this weekend I walked 16miles. I also make sure I have a good breakfast and I don't buy faire food... I eat pretty healhty... with the stuff I bring. So yes, it is possible to camp and eat healthy. I am at a really good place in my head space finally it took to long, but I am getting there. Who knew that recovering from a really bad place can take this long. I also realized that there are still things in my life I have to re learn from what I had been told in the past, but I also can do that. I have a really great support group of friends on FB and we are all trying to loose weight, so that is awesome as well.
Oh and that same group is doing a little thing, we are walking to Mordor together. Each week we log how many miles we walked and then combine them in our Journey to Mordor. We left Hobbiton a little over week ago and are on our way to Rivendell. There were times this weekend where I didn't want to go back out but then was like Oh Shoot we gotta walk to Mordor... So off I went. If you would like to know more about this check out this cool site... http://www.nerdfitness.com/blog/2012/07/23/walking/

Today I took a rest day and apparently I needed it, I fell asleep reading and took a 2hrs nap Body is also a bit sore all over, but drinking the water will help with this and flush out some of it.

That's it for now...

Frustration

So I haven't been able to workout for almost 2 weeks, I hit a depression and it is getting frustrating. I thought i've been doing good but hell no, I've gained 4lb. I am so tired and pissed off at myself. And then this am I wake up and my left foot where i had the fracture last year is just throbbing. The same spot.
I am calling my doctor today and hope that this can be taken care of. That is the foot that also swells up at random in the evenings.
I have no idea what is going on, so I better get to a Doctor.
I also decided I can still swim. So that is what I will be doing today. I am taking the kids to the pool and while they splash I can do my swim. I can't give up now and I am also tracking my food intake again. I havent logged into lose it in almost 3 weeks and that is not good.
To be successfull I have to track my food intake. So that's what I will be doing.

Yummy Glutenfree and very low Carb Stuffed Bell Peppers...

I love stuffed Bell Peppers, I made a healthy version before whith Quinoa instead of rice. But today I tried something different. And it came out delicious.

This makes 5 Bell Peppers:
5 bell peppers, core removed
1lb lean ground beef
1 shallot
6 large mushrooms
4 cups of fresh baby spinach
1 cup of Italian Cheese mix shredded
Pre heat oven at 350F
brown the beef
chop shallot and mushrooms into tiny pieces sautee with baby spinach. Combine with beef and 3/4 cup of cheese in a bowl. Season to taste, I used basil, no salt.
Fill the peppers to the top and then spinkle with the remaining Cheese. Put in the oven and bake for 40mins.
Enjoy!!!

Workouts...

I am so happy to say, that out of the 12x I went to the gym this month 9 have been in the past two weeks. yup last week I went and this week 5x. I am enjoying working out again, I remember that's how it was the first time I lost the weight. I am still mad at myself for letting this happening. But I am also proud that I now am working really hard to changing it.
Today was one of those days, where things just didn't flow right. On my way to the gym, a guy tried to run me off the road, I hit a bird with the car. But then my Pilates session rocked, I learned new moves and laughed my head off. Then onto the treadmill for 50mins of fatburn/cardio. It helps that I can watch Supernatural while doing Cardio.
So then I got home and find out that the post office messed up one of my packages, and just slapped my label onto an envelope and my customer got two bills. Not the Pillow cases she ordered, those are missing now. Oh and to top it off, my tablets screen cracked and it doesn't work anymore. So I need to find a place to fix that.
But back to working out. I am really already seeing improvement in my endurance and I am not so easy out of breath after a workout.
Swimming is an amazing workout. The first time I swam 15mins. Then 20mins and the last two times I swam 30mins. My goal is to work up to 45mins - 1hrs.

So that's my workouts at the moment.

Glad to be back in the gym :D

sore and headache...

4 days in a row at the gym. I feel great, not overly sore, but I know tomorrow I will be. Bootcamp is always killing me. Today was lots of Cardio, I had to modify some of the moves, but it is fun.
I think I have one more boot camp and then that's done.
What I don't like about high intensity workouts, they give me headaches. I am usually fine for a couple of hours but then the headache sneaks up and I know it's from working out. The cure for that is usually lots of water. 32oz. of ice cold water seemed to have eased the pain a bit. I am definitely taking an Ibu-profen before bed, not just for the headache but also for the soreness.
My abs are sore, inner thighs and my shoulders are slowly getting there. So tomorrow I won't be going to the gym. Cause I am going to the dentist and then afterwards we are heading to Austin. I have a fun weekend planned, but I also know that I have to watch what I eat and I love that my friend Mylissa, asked me to go and workout with her on Saturday at her gym. So I am packing my swim suit and hope to get some laps in.
Sneakers are going in the bag as well, just in case.

Also for motivation, I printed out the following picture. Yup that is me in 2007 I weighed 185lb. was a size 12. I love the way I felt and looked. So one is hanging in the bathroom, one on the fridge and it's my new profile picture on FB.

So drink lots of water peeps.