blacKandi Fitness

It’s funny because my body now wants the take it upon itself to burn calories at a faster rate. I was 173 on Friday, 172.2 yesterday and now I’m 171.8lbs today. It will be cool to move into another decade…the 60s…wow! I’m going to go with the gusto and make a new weight loss goal for myself. This journey is going to be a little different because I’m weight training at the same time so it’s going to start off a bit difficult, but not impossible.

This morning I tried WebMD’s BMR PLUS calculator – to lose 2lbs per week and if you want to, my results can be read by clicking here.

So…technically I’m still “overweight”, but I don’t look like it if you ask everybody I know. I understand what it means though so I have setup a new ticker and retired my old one (which I will keep for to remember sweet memories). I really want to see what I’ll look like at 153. I was 150lbs after I gave birth to my first daughter…I cannot remember what I wore or how I looked. It couldn’t have been bad because I was me back then and nobody had any changes to compare it too. The WebMD BMI Plus Calculator is a general reference so one needs to take it as a grain of salt or just take it as advice and come up with a plan on his/her own on. Not everything fits everybody.

On to other news, I was playing with my Garmin today and I took my resting heart rate. It says it’s 67 beats per minute. I now how to find a good calculator to plug it in so I can find out what my maximum heart rate should be so I can start doing my HIIT training (w/o a tread-which sucks). I’ll write more about this later.

Next, I want to talk about my addiction. I’m over it now, I guess. I am addicted to any Slim Fast with a chocolate flavor. I buy a lot of it when they go on sale and I buy when they are not on sale. When I go into the market, after I pick up my veggies on aisle 1, get the baby’s food on aisle 2…I move onto aisle 3 automatically and pick up a box of Slim Fast. I went to the market this past Friday and I said to myself before I go in that I wouldn’t get any Slim Fast. I get to the market and I do my regular shopping and then I unconsciously start to turn my cart into aisle 3 and then BOOM! My brain said to me, “STOP DO NOT GO DOWN THIS AISLE. NO MORE SLIM FAST!” I start to laugh and I move on to aisle four and then back to where the fish and poultry is located. I then found where the sugar-free chocolate milk mix was located and settled on Hershey’s sugar-free chocolate syrup. I like it. Two tablespoons per 8oz of milk. Since Friday, night I’ve have chocolate milk. I use 1% milk and I put three tablespoons because I’m greedy.

So, I’ve given up the Slim Fast and the sugar-free fudgesicles and have settled on the Hershey’s sugar-free chocolate milk syrup because it has about three time less calories and no sugar! It tastes like fudgesicles so I’m cool. I go the idea to go with the sugar-free syrup from my SBD sisters on 3FC. Sweet!

I’m done with putting that sugar in my body. The Slim Fast wasn’t making me gain, but I was craving Slim Fast all the time. I was making it a habit of having two cans a day as snacks. I’m sure that would have caught up with me in the long run. Again, I’m done being the fat girl.

Lastly, I’m having a hard time dealing with the fact that I’m thin now. Yes, I’m a dud. But seriously, I do. I look in the mirror and I still have a lot of work to do, but I’m afraid of my ticker moving back to the left. Moving to the right isn’t so bad when compared, but I just don’t want to mess up! I fear getting fat again. I don’t want to be that again. I was ugly, out of shape, heavy, sick and unattractive. No more! So, I expressed my feelings over on the SBD team forum over on the Spark and NurseShark (a team member of mine) recommended that I go ahead and read a book called, “Joining the Thin Club” by J. Lederman. There is also a blog online that goes with the book and it’s located at www.thethinclub.com and I’m going through it now. If I feel that I like the blog then I’ll go to B&N to go read it (I buy books sometimes so it evens out if I read books there and don’t buy them ha!). If I like the book I’ll buy it and I’ll recommend it to others.

I’m off to the Spark to see if there is a “thin club” team there. If not, then I’ll probably start a new team although I hate doing that because I’m already a leader of two slow teams right now.

Have a good day!