I was just trying to figure out about how much I could lose by February 14, 2010.
If I lose at least 2 pounds a week, I could lose a total of 26 pounds by 2/14/2010 & if I were to lose at least 3 pounds a week, then I could have a weight loss of 36 pounds by 2/14/2010.

This is just a summarization. I'm not sure how my weight loss will actually go, but I just wanted to see this process. And yes, I know it's healthier to only lose 1-2 pounds a week.

What has me concerned is how are some people losing more than 3-4 pounds a week? Seriously... are they starving themselves??? There's no way that's healthy to lose more than that a week and keep it up. I bet they're taking diet pills or something like that to help! Hmm...

Also, I noticed that since I had been drinking the "slimfasts" every day for the past two weeks, my nails have been growing fast!!!!

I've discovered this yummy stuff on accident from watching some girl's youtube video about how she did a certain makeup technique! lol Who'd have known she'd talk about the makeup and then about this chocolate hemp shake!

http://nutivahempshake.com/choc.htm

~Comparison between Creamy Milk Chocolate Slim Fast shake & Choc. Nutiva Hemp Shake~

Creamy Milk Chocolate Slimfast shake:
Calories: 220 - Fat Calories: 25
Total Fat: 3 g
Trans Fat: 0 g
Saturated Fat: 1 g
Cholesterol: 5 mg
Sodium: 220 mg
Potassium: 600 mg
Total Carb: 40 g
Fiber: 5 g
Sugars: 34 g
Protein: 10 g
Vitamin A: 35%
Calcium: 40%
Vitamin C: 100%
Iron: 15%

Chocolate Nutiva Hemp Shake (please note these are withOUT skim milk):
Calories: 80 - Fat Calories: 15
Total Fat: 2 g
Trans Fat: 0 g
Saturated Fat: <1 g - 0%
Cholesterol: 0 mg
Sodium: 5 mg
Total Carb: 19 g
Fiber: 12 g
Sugars: 7 g
Protein: 7 g
Vitamin A: 0%
Calcium: 2%
Vitamin C: 0%
Iron: 15%

Skim Milk :
Calories: 80 - Fat Calories: 0
Trans Fat: 0 g
Saturated Fat: 0 g
Cholesterol: 5 mg
Sodium: 120 mg
Total Carbs: 12 g
Dietary Fiber: 0 g
Sugars: 12 g
Protein: 8 g
Vitamin A: 10%
Calcium: 30%
Vitamin C: 0%
Iron: 0%

Ahh!! I got excited this morning when I got on the scale. I know I'm only counting each WEEKly weigh in which is only once a week and that's every Monday, but I was curious if my weight went up because of last night with me eating spaghetti after 7 PM...

It actually declined 2 pounds which is a total of 5 pounds loss so far!! BUT I am not actually counting it until Monday, so we'll see what my weigh in will be and if it stays.

:D

I woke up this morning at 6 to use my elliptical for about 15-20 minutes and to do a few other exercises. I ended up using my elliptical for 15 minutes and boy did I break a sweat! After that I did a little stretching for about 5 minutes and then I did a few crunches & cross-crunches.

Today when I go home I will try to walk for at least 30 minutes!!!!

Saturday was an okay day for me. My exercise plan was the following:

Use my elliptical for 10 minutes, take a 15-minute break, do another 10 minutes on the elliptical, take another 15-minute break & do my last 10 minutes on the elliptical.

What actually happened was this...

I got on my elliptical for 10 minutes, took a 15-minute break, got on it again for 10 minutes. I got hungry so I fixed a small salad and drank a Weight Loss shake. I waited 5-10 minutes then got back on my elliptical, but my stomach felt nausious so I told mysself to go for at least 5 minutes, then get off which I did.

So I did a total of 25 minutes on my elliptical on Saturday.


Sunday was a great, beautiful day! I went walking around my apartment complex's tennis court for 35 minutes!! Only bad thing is I ate 2 1/2 servings of spaghetti for lunch!! It wasn't too bad because it was the whole grain wheat (Healhty Harvest Ronozini) noodles and  a little Prego Mini Meatbal meat sauce. I restricted my whole week except for my Sunday dinner, so I'm still proud of myself! I'm still down 3 pounds. Woohoo!!!!!!!


Today I will try to do some stretching & other exercises like a few crunches and maybe use my pilates for beginners DVD.