# Fail, what keeps you motivated? :: Mcfatty Monday week 5 #

This resume my week!!!

We were sick, David's birthday was on saturday, we went to the Chocolate festival so I ate like pig (pizza, wings, cake, ice cream, an entire HUGE turkey leg, taco, chocolate, pancakes), I didn't do ANY exercise and now I feel guilty and unmotivated!

I'm afraid to get on the scale or take my measurements because I know better.

I would love to know, what keeps you motivated?

I don't want to give up but sometimes is just too hard keep going.

Happy week, see you next monday!

#Mcfatty monday :: Scale or tape measure? #

Here we go again, another week and all I have to say is WTF?!?!?!?! I have been working my butt off and cuting calories like if my life depends on that & yet I just lose ONE pound this week.

Not that I don't like to lose at least 1lb because adding the other 8 I already lost that is a gran total of 9 lbs in a month and that makes me very happy but I can't stop feeling dissapointed.

We live in Arizona for God's sake so 2/3 of the year I have to wear shorts, tank tops and sandals and the other 1/3 is not that cold so I can't hide my fluffy self with a lot of winter clothes.

So there is my motivation to keep going, I'm visualizing how good I will look on my new bathing suit for the summer or how comfortable I will feel for spring training wearing shorts and sleevless shirts not to worrying about my super fat arms.

Which makes me think about this, what do you trust more the scale or the tape measure?

The other day I weighed myself on that freaking, ugly, devil scale of mine and I weigh more than before I started to working out so I was in shock and about to go and eat all the chocolate I could find on my way because I was sad and dissapointed, I mean if you are working your butt off the less you are expecting is to see some results, right? Well I asked my friends on facebook and most of them agreed that the tape measure is better than the scale or the way your clothes fits you.

I definitely can feel a difference but it would be great to SEE a change on the numbers on the scale.

This week I kinda going to start over and not to pay attention to the number on the scale but the numbers on the tape measure so (please don't laugh) my numbers are as follows:

Waist: 34"
Breast: 38.5"
Tight: 22.5"
Arms: 11.5"
Hips: 39.5"

We will see if I can see a difference next week.

Overall I'm happy so far and as my husband says it's always better something than nothing or "pian pianito" as my grandma used to say (That its a say in spanish that means little by little).

So what do you do, scale or tape measure? Any feedback would be greatly appreciate.

Happy week and see you next monday!!!

#Mcfatty monday :: week 4#

As I'm eating a full bag of popcorn I'm very happy to announce that I lost 1.8 more pounds this week!!!

I have been very good at counting calories so I don't end up eating more that I should and I really think is not that complicated and the best part is that I can still eat whatever I want just being careful about the serving sizes.

I haven't drink anything but water and I feel good about it, I don't miss soda at all.

Now let's talk about exercise, I'm lazy and I don't like it but I realize that if I want to reach my goal in less time I need to get up and work my butt off.

I found a very cool gadget on my phone call cardio trainer where you can setup everything about your weight loss program, how many lbs you want to loose, how many calories you are eating everyday, your BMI, everything about your work out, it tells you if you are wlaking or running, for how long, how many calories you burned, it also has a GPS !!! I'm in love with this application but I found it yesterday so I didnt do to much exercise this week, I just walked 5 miles yesterday and I'm planning on doing this everyday, 3 miles with my baby on her stroller and 2 more miles with my dog at the dog park!

(Note for myself: Get a jogging stroller)

This is the longest that I have ever follow a plan to lose weight and I'm happy, energized and motivated to keep going.

I want to thank to my wonderful husband for all of his support because I couldn't do this without him cheering me on!!! Love you babe!

My goal for this week is to lose at least 2 more pounds and start walking faster everytime so I might be able to start jogging in no time.

Until next monday

#Mcfatty Monday Week 3 #

Yes, y'all!!! (As Blair, the creator of Mcfatty monday would say) I already lost *EIGHT* lbs and I'm so very happy and proud of myself.

I have to say that it haven't been easy to count calories and restricted the amount of food that goes to my tummy everyday or drink just plain water mostly because 1. I do like to eat like a pig and 2. because I love soda and sugary drinks.


But the results oh! the results are wonderful, 6 lbs this week and my skin looks much more hydrated.

Love it!

The bad:

I haven't done exercise AT ALL! Not even 10 minutes
I'm obsessed with the scale and weighed myself every single day which some day made me so frustrated as I wasn't seeing any changes.

The good:

I drank lots of water

I didn't have ANY soda not even diet.

I scrumptiosly counted my calories every day

Goals for this week

Do some exercise (I don't promise I will but at least I will try)

Keep counting calories (5 days - 1500, 1 day - 1700, 1 day - 2200)

Hide the scale until next monday

So yeah! I still have a long way to go but I can feel this time I will do it!!!

Until next monday

#Mcfatty monday# Week 2

Today is Monday Mcfatty and I have to say I didn't do anything to acomplish my goal.

Shame on me!

I know but I just love food so much and I'm lazy (Wow! I say it loud).

Somehow I managed to lose 2lbs which is great I guess!

My goal for this week is NOT to drink soda at all. Just water, hopefully 64oz a day!

Exercise? uhmmm I have like 500 excuses. so we can discuss that another time.

Until next week!

Mcfatty Monday

Ever since Grace was born (13 months ago) I've been struggling with the whole "lose weight" thing but the reality is that I haven't really been commited or willing to make sacrifices about my diet.

Not anymore.

I want to lose weight because:

1. I want to be healthy
2. I want to look better
3. I want my clothes to fit again
4. I want to feel better about myself

So starting today I will slowly make changes on my diet and take some time to do some exercise, I don't want to say I will eat just salads or I will go to the gym everyday for 2 hours because I know I won't but at least I'll try.

My goal is to lose 30lbs in 6 months but if it takes longer it's OK too.

Every monday I will write about my achievements just to keep a record.

I think Blair's idea is a fantastic idea!

Bring the scale on!

Current weight: 153lbs (ouch!!!) ...