First big milestone!

I have been setting small goals for myself but I finally have reached one of the big milestones. 20 POUNDS!!! I'm one fifth of the way there. I'm so excited. This week was very challenging. Holidays, dates, movies,parties, pizza tours, I tried but wasn't sure if I was going to lose anything. I did make better choice this week. I planned out the holiday dinner, didn't have any pizza at the pizza tour. Tried to find at least a semi healthy dinner at MOG for movie night. Date night what can I say ;) I had chicken, but also rolls and creme brulee for dessert. I mean really ya gotta live sometimes :)

I know that I said I was going to get back on the workout track. I worked out Monday and Tuesday but stopped because I was so hunger. I'm currently trying to find something that will help curb the hunger when I workout. I'm just starving. I think that I will try the biggest loser protein drink. You mix it up with your water, its only 40 calories and has something like 7 grams of fiber and protein. So I'll give it a shot. I'll let you know what I think.

This week looks better easy. Nothing big going on to worry about. I've been reading Jillian's and Bob's books, getting some good tips. I already have read them before, just reviewing the information. Did my numbers, want a two pounds lost again this week. It funny but when you say two pounds it doesn't seem like a lot to me, but it is 7000 calories less then your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) That's a lot. Basically without working out its not going to be happening. This is the formula for anyone that wants to figure theirs out. 655+ (4.3 x weight in lbs) + (4.7 x heights in inches) - (4.7 X age in years) After you have that number you multiply it by your daily activity level. Mine is light physical activity, normal for a stay at home mom, that number is 1.2

This is how my numbers worked out 655+1023.4+314.9-192.7 = 1800 x 1.2 = 2160 So that is my daily calories I need to stay at my current weight. Now if I want to lose two pounds a week I need to have 1000 calories less a day. So that would be 1160 daily, don't know about you but that is crazy low for me. And you shouldn't go under 1200 anyway. So this is where exercise come in. Whatever you burn during you workout you can add those calories in to up your daily calorie count. Roughly on cardio days my calories are 1490 and on cardio weight day my calories are 1590. But here is another trick. To help with plateau you should vary your caloric intake daily. Just make sure that at the end of 7 days you have a deficit of 7000 calories. So now that I have confused you totally let me show you what my daily intake is.
Monday - 1500
Tuesday - 1435
Wednesday - 1227
Thursday - 1583
Friday - 1474
Saturday - 1400
Sunday - 1400

For a total of 10033 calories for the week. My BMR is 16658 for a deficit of 6625. So if I want to lose a total of two pounds I need to either workout more or eat less. I'll have to go back and play with my numbers a bit more to get that magic -7000 calories. I might need to workout 7 days a week instead of taking Sundays off. We will see how the hunger goes. Anyway that is this week.

Stats for this week. Lost 2.2 pounds for a total of 20.2 pounds. I have lost a total of 4 inches around my waist.