It’s been a minute since I truly “tumbled”, but I think it’s time to start again. I want to use this platform once again to help motivate me with my weight loss.

I am not sure where to start with this entrance of me back into the weight loss world.

Back in the day (ugh, that makes me sound so old- but it really was 14 years ago) I was overweight and I lost almost 300lbs (which was 9 years ago) . Currently, I find myself back to where I used to be with all my weight gained back. I used to play it off to the fact that I found the love of my life and got married – and everyone gains weight when they get married. Well, its been 5 years of being married and I can’t play that card anymore.

I am tired of feeling heavy and that feeling of standing out from the others, but not in the good way. I am a very happy person, but I just need to be healthier. I will never hate myself for how much I weigh or how I look –I  just realistically know I need to work on my eating and movement.

I want to get back to being able to walk around without getting out of breath - #BIG-GOAL-HERE!

So, I have decided starting today, November 11, 2024, I am going to start a 1 Year Goal on working on my health and fitness.

365 days of posting the good and the not so good as I work on me again!

In the past I mostly stuck to weight watchers – and while it did work – I am not a fan of the direction weight watchers has taken in the past years. Their mindset of losing weight isn’t what it used to be about, and it throws my motivation off. So, for right now I am going to stick with my own personal plan of healthy intuitive eating.

Currently I don’t know how much I weigh – I just know it’s too much and my scale says #ERROR – meaning tooooo heavy. Yikes!

So, I welcome you to my 1 Year Goal and appreciate any feedback, all the positivity, and happiness along the way.

Some #’s I plan to use with my blog if you so wish to keep up are:

First, thank you for the people who “hearted” and responded to my “I’m back on tumblr” post. Feeling the love already and happy to see it still exists here! 💛

Secondly, today has been so busy at work that I haven’t had a chance to post yet and I really don’t want to let this fall off again. I want to stick to it for the accountability and the releases of all the thoughts of Michelle….well maybe most of them anyways. lol

So, this morning I did stop and get a Starbucks coffee (coffee will never be off limit to my trying to eat more from home - tho I don’t exclusively buy it). However I did cave and buy some egg white bites for breakfast. Personally, I would like to blame Mother Nature for starting the day after I decided to start this weight loss/eat healthy journey. What a time to come in! But really it’s egg white bites - could have been worse and it’s Day 2 - so owning it and moving on.

I would also like to give another shout out to the best husband ever @hrstories1234 who packed my lunch/snacks this morning (on his day off) because I was too tired to do it last night. Swear I am going to work on that!

Here is what I have eaten so far (obligatory photos at the bottom 😜)

Breakfast: SB coffee (Pecan Crunch Oat milk Latte) & egg white bites

Snack: Blueberry overnight oats and SWEET NOTE FROM HUBBY!

Lunch: Lean Cuisine cheese pizza and avocado salad, coke (maybe didn’t need that coke but I was crashing)

So far today is going well - except my water intake has been zip. Goal is to down at least three bottles by the end of the day.

We are planning to make spaghetti for dinner with a salad. So I set myself a goal to be aware of my spaghetti portion - cause I could go to town if I don’t think about it.

For a Day 1 today has been okay so far with eating choices.

Except, I am hungry - or at least I feel hungry, but work has been super slow and so I know part of wanting more to eat is just straight up boredom. This is the first time in a long time I have thought logically about this and didn't go and find a snack just to knock back because I am bored. #winning!

Anyways - when packing my lunch bag (well @hrstories1234 my lovely husband did after I told him what I wanted in it - cause he is AWESOME!) I chose to have some fruit in it. I haven't been the best with fruit during the day this year - and I want to change this habit.

Breakfast: Light blueberry yogurt, peanut butter granola bars, and blueberries

Snack: Cheese Stick

Lunch: Lemon Tuna w/ mayo & tomato sandwich, Progresso Soup, and granny smith apple

Snack: 1 tbsp peanut butter and a few mini cracker - side note: was going to have more but then realized the crackers were stale and I wasn't really enjoying it so put the PB away and tossed the crackers.

I kind of have an idea what I want for dinner, but dinner time is where I suck at making a proper meal. I get home from traffic and take care of the pets and just want to lay down and nap. But I really need to make a real meal instead of chips and dip or something like that.

Wish me luck for later!

I am currently at work – and I need to update for the last two days. I had every intention of posting, but then I got tired and was like meh – the struggle to type words!

Anyways, I pulled up a Word Document at work to type what I want and then copy and paste. Work is slow à but this makes me look busy. Mawhahaha

ANYWAYS!

Sunday (Nov. 17) DAY 7 of trying to get my healthier life on track.

 Before I break down my eating, I will say I did end up grabbing food not from home for both lunch and dinner. I almost made it a whole week fully sticking to my plan (minus the sandwich Saturday while at moms). BABY STEPS!

Breakfast – Pancakes, cheesy scrambled eggs, and a clementine – Oh and coffee!

                I started of good in the morning – I chose not to eat all the pancakes I made and shared them with my husband. That was a tough choice, but once I was done eating I felt stratified in my food intake.

Lunch – Ordered Moes to the house – I had a burrito bowl, cup of queso, and chips.

                I know I had food at home I could have made, but once I got home from dropping Hayden off at work and spending time outside with the dog I just wasn’t feeling putting something together. So, I caved. I probably should have skipped on the queso or gotten the smaller size. I am however not made at myself – and I didn’t go off any rails eating more once I was done with my meal. It was yummy and end of story.

Snack – Oreo pack (4 cookies) and some milk

Dinner – McDonalds 6 piece Nugget Happy Meal & Double Cheeseburger

So I ended up napping Sunday evening and missed dinner time – but when I was out picking up Hayden for work (which is around 10pm) I was hungry – so I stopped and got a McDonalds Happy Meal (because I had points for it) and a double cheeseburger. I know I shouldn’t have gotten the burger – it wasn’t even that great because the burger was burnt. Reflection here is key and I will keep that in mind going forward. Don’t eat what you are not enjoying – I know that’s hard sometimes when you feel like you don’t want to waste your money, but sometimes an unsatisfying meal is not worth saving the cost. The small happy meal would have been find on it’s on.

And that’s how I ended my 7th day of getting myself back on track. I can’t say it was a great finish, but it also could have been worse.

I think the one take away here is that my water intake really sucks. I really have to keep working on it.

Monday (November 18) DAY 8 and the start of week 2!

Started off strong, but the evening didn’t go as planned.

Breakfast – Overnight Oats ( Greek yogurt, apple, vanilla almond milk, and oats) & coffee

Lunch – Chef Boyardee Ravioli, Salad (lettuce, cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, goat cheese, pecans, and balsamic dressing), and 1 small bag of chili Fritos.

Snack – Small bag of chili Fritos (another one) & 2 mini boxes of Milk Duds

                This snack was spread out through the rest of the day, but it really happened because work is slow and I got bored. ☹

Dinner – Zaxbys – Blue Buffalo Fried Chicken Salad & Ranch Chicken Fries appetizer

                I didn’t go home after work and hung out in my car waiting for Hayden to get off work so that’s why I didn’t eat at home. Two takeaways – I didn’t need both items, and I should have gotten the salad with grilled chicken. It’s clear I am still in the huge process of working on my relationship with food.

I think if I had made a post about Sundays eating it may have made an impact on my meal choices last night – only because it would have had my accountability more in the forefront of my mind.

TBH – I even thought about skipping posting about my eating, but that is the whole point of coming back and trying to get myself together.

As, I said in my previous posts – I am on the “baby steps” route and I have only just started. Just need to keep on going and thinking.

My next post will be a reflection of the first week – to help put things into perspective.

It was still a good meal - I added some baby corn to go with it. And I was satisfied, but not stuffed for the evening. I did make an effort to finish off my water goal and had water with my dinner.

Tomorrow Hayden is off - so it’s a guarantee we will cook some kind of meal for dinner.

I had brought a frozen meal for lunch and then proceeded to look on DoorDash for about an hour on possible choices to order for lunch.

Ended up talking myself out of it and ended up eating my frozen meal, which was delicious because it was a sesame chicken bowl.

Ended up working from home because worked deemed it so for possible weather conditions.

Made me a healthy lunch…. Full loaded salad and some leftover hot and sour soup.

I didn’t do great with tracking or making good eating choices.

Between mom’s move and my sick cat 😿 I have been stressed out.

Going to try and stick to it this week.

This morning I kept hitting snooze so I didn’t grab a breakfast to take to work besides a banana . I stopped at McDonald’s and ordered only sausage and eggs (tracked it on WW). I figured it was better than having a biscuit and hash brown with it.