Loving Life with Diabetes

5 ways to jump start your weight loss

Many people say I just can’t lose weight, I hear it from my mother all the time. She’s watching me lose and saying that she can’t do it because she doesn’t have time. Okay I get that but there are still things that beginners can do to lose weight.

5. Watch your carb intake, now if your diabetic, you should have seen a nutritionist and gotten a meal plan. If you haven’t stick to 60 grams of carbs per meal. If your a women you can bring it down to 45.

4. Snack, you should not go more then 4 hours without a snack. Snacks keep you energized and keep you from going crazy later.

3. Do workouts in short burst. If your stretched for time, remember 5 or 10 minutes is better then nothing. I have found that if I don’t have time to do much. I take 5 minutes and stretch and lift weights. At least this way your building muscle that will help you burn fat later.

2. Do something you love to do. Yoga or dancing. If you don’t like going to the gym get a workout video and do it in the comfort of your own home. If you like to dance, put on some music and dance. It doesn’t matter what you do as long as you move.

1. Remember weight loss is not just a number on the scale. Muscle weighs more the fat so you may find you actually gain weight at first or every so often, just keep going. Measure yourself when you start and keep track of those measurements, they will tell you if your really losing weight.

Weight loss weigh in

Here are my stats for this week

Weight

 276lb.

Measurements:

(I’m including my measurements from the second of Jan. when I finally found that measuring tape!)

  (Measurements are in inches)

A bad day

I was so sore today that I couldn’t move, so I wasn’t able to get in my daily workout. I’ve found if I don’t I start to get depressed and thats not a good thing. My life sucks, but I can usually stay positive about it. I don’t go out, even though I would love to. My friends have kids and life’s that don’t involve night time outings where I can actually meet people. The ones that are single used me so I stopped talking to them.

So on top of not having that I did a good workout feeling I am stuck at home bored. I’ve lost interest in everything but blogging and even that is not as much fun as it use to be. I think I’m ready for a change, but I have no idea where to start.

I want to move, but I can’t yet, hopefully the blogging starts bringing in some good cash so I can afford my meds and a rent. I have a feeling though that it’s going to be a while. I just hate that I’m 25, not horrible looking and I have been on 2 dates in my lifetime. Theres alot more that has to do with that including I’m scared, but now I also have to worry about the diabetes and how a guy will react to that. My friends bf’s didn’t like it at all and told them to stay away from me cause now I’m a druggie.

Yep I had great friends.

Anyway I’m hoping tomorrow will be better, I have a weigh in, but I don’t think it’s going to be that good. I’ll keep trying though. I have to lose this weight.

Breakfast Bites: Bacon N’ Egg Pockets

Makes 4 servings

Need

2 Eggs

4 Egg whites

3 onces Canadian style bacon, chopped

3 tablespoons water

2 tablespoons green onion chopped (optional

Nonstick cooking spray

2 large whole wheat Peta brad rounds, halved

1/2 cup shredded cheese. (optional, use any kind you like)

Combine Eggs, egg whites, Canadian bacon, water and green onion. Beat with wire whisk until mixed.

Lightly coat unheated large nonstick skillet with cooking spray. Preheat over medium heat.

Add egg mixture, cook without stirring, until moisture begins to set on the bottom and around the edge

Using a spatula lift and fold the partly cooked eggs so the uncooked eggs flow underneath the cooked eggs.

Continue cooking about 2 minutes or more or until the egg moisture is cooked through.

Fill pita half’s with eggs and sprinkle with cheese.

Nutrition:

162 cal, 4 grams fat, 188mg chol. 18 g carbohydrates. 2 g fiber

I found this recipe in The better Homes and Gardens Diabetic cookbook. I have modified it a little to reduce the salt.

This sucks

I went to sign up for the biggest loser challenge I wrote about the other day and they want you to have a partner. Now this would be easy if I had friends that needed/wanted to lose weight, I don’t I thought this would help me do it because I would have the support of a bunch of people online. I was wrong. I don’t like the set up and I’m sure they have lost alot of people because of this.

Pretty much I’m now turned off to the challenge. I will still continue to lose weight, I have to for health reasons. So I’m on my own for now and my weight loss won’t contribute the the million so if you have a friend and need to lose weight join. This is still a goal I would like to see America achieve.

As for me. My blog will be my motivation. I hate telling people I’ve gained weight. Which btw I’m now up to 278lbs. I got on the scale today. But….. yes there is a but. I did alot of weight lifting and my birthday was yesterday and I ate out twice. It was my birthday I had to do something special. Now it’s time to get going again. I’m still sore from 2 days ago so I will be taking it easier though. I did 200 sit ups and I think I went a little overboard. It felt good until today. Now I can hardly move!

Lets lose some weight

Sounds good right. Well I am happy to say I started last year and did pretty well. I’ve lost about 55lbs and plan on losing more then that this year.

I’m going to try to post my weekly weight loss/weight gain on this blog. Yes I said weight gain. I’m being realistic, one I may not have time to do much one week, being a student and all. The other reason is that muscle weighs more then fat, if I gain muscle thats fine. I am also going to post my measurements as well. So I will hopefully see a difference week to week and month to month.

Weight loss info for this week:

weight 274 lbs

measurements: I can’t find my measuring tape so I will have these up next week ( I hope!)

If you would like to join me, I invite you to come back next Monday and leave a comment with a link to your weight loss post.  I am also going to be joining the biggest loser challenge for America, they want America to lose 1 million lbs. Think we can do it? I do.

If you want more info you can check it out here

Million Pound Match Up

Good luck!