Day 7 Pictures

I am not going to post too much right now. Got so much to say, so much to do :) But I am still going to post my pics from yesterday. I have two sets. One is the clothes that I wore to work, and the next is in a more "intimate" set of clothes that I wear to exercise (went on a nice 1.5 mile walk last night). So ... here ya go!

and just to give a comparison ... Day 1 versus Day 7

 

Middle of the Road: Days 5 and 6

Holy CRAP! Is today REALLY day #7?! I start back up on the Fiber Drinks in the AM (and, kind of weird, I'm looking forward to them ... for reals?! what is WRONG with me?! lol) 

So I am beginning to have "issues" ... like I always do. I'm not even tracking my weight progress at this time, yet I am fearful that I am not going to lose weight, or the weight that I lose isn't going to satisfy me. When people are coming in after the 10 day cleanse noting 9 pound losses, I'm fearful mine will only be 2. *rolls eyes* augh! I am still battling the scale, though I know that that number shouldn't matter to me :-/ it does!! I will keep on it, because I FEEL GREAT! I feel SO GREAT only a week in to the 24 day challenge, that I am actually a distributor now :O

For reals :) I have a facebook page called "AdvoCare Independent Distributor, Nina Coffey" that you can "like" if you would like! I have a web site at http://www.advocare.com/11087959 where you can do some shopping. BUT I recommend that you browse the products on the website and then give me a call, an e-mail, or a facebook message, because I am offering 10% off AND free shipping to all NEW CUSTOMERS! ;-) something to think about!

I have found that while I am going through this diet that I am so full!!!!!!!! I find myself munching on fruit or veggies constantly, so my goal today is to eat my meal or snack in 20 minutes and then stop until next meal or snack. breakfast was at 8am (banana and a clementine with my spark), snack is at 11 and I am having 2 hard boiled eggs and about 4oz of raw baby carrots. lunch is at 1, next snack at 3, dinner at 6, and then night time snack between 9 and 10 if I even feel like it. I have been tracking my calories, and I have been between just under 1,200 calories and 1,800 calories a day. If this doesn't help, my caloric intake should at least be aiding my weight loss! I NEED to get in to more intentional physical activity. Chasing the kids around, doing chores, and all that jazz is great and all, but I need to set aside that time for exercise. 

Anyways :) I wasn't on yesterday, so I have pictures to catch up on....

Pics from day 5 ...

Okay and from yesterday here are some more pics of me :)

The jeans that I was wearing yesterday were a size 32 ... and they were too big! I had to wear a belt! I could have worn a 31 comfortably, and could have "fit" in to a 30 if I wanted to!! that is about a 10/12 right there :D sure as hell beats my old 12/14, huh???? I have also been tanning on the package that miss Kayla got for me :) fried myself yesterday, so no tanning for me today :-/ will go again tomorrow and back down to 6 minutes (damn fair skin). I went to get my hair trimmed, and was talked in to "glazing" it too, so my hair has a cinnamon caramel glaze on it as well :) my hair feels better, I am tanning my skin, working on losing weight, and all around bettering my health! I am sleeping better at night, and feeling more energy in the morning (even getting up earlier!) ... wow! these changes are AMAZING and in a short short short 7 days!!!! 

My 14 day Max Phase starts on Monday. I have to admit, that I am NOT looking forward to the handfuls of pills that I am going to have to take! :-/ I will have to utilize my alarms on my iPhone so that I can keep track of when to take them. I am thankful it's ONLY for two weeks! Over that two weeks I will weigh myself the Monday that I start (right after the 10 day challenge) and then the next monday, one week in, and then the following monday, at the end of the 24 day challenge. I am HOPING to lose between 10 and 15 pounds in the 24 days. I am taking it pretty easy on my body with exercise during the 10 day cleanse as I'm not consuming very many calories and would HAVE to put my body in to starvation mode! but when I start the 14 day Max Phase I will incorporate a minimum 20 minutes of high intensity cardio 3 days a week and get in some calisthetics a few days a week (crunches, primarily, perhaps some weights for my arms).

Well ... Hmmm! I will be posting more here soon about the products that I will be selling as I learn more about them. Until then ... Imma get my fanny in gear :)

See you on the flip side of skinny,

:)NiCo

Already DAY 5?!?!

So I just realized that today is already day 5. At the end of today I am 1/2 way done :-O when did THIS happen?! I have to say, that I am thoroughly enjoying this!!! The fresh fruit, the lean meats, the complex carbs, the Sparks ;-) This is all so yummy and good. I feel so freaking fantastic, I have energy until I decide to go to bed (no falling asleep on my couch sitting there watching TV). 

yesterday I felt was a total fail :-/ I was going to be SO good! Have a pork spare rib and green beans for dinner after having a PERFECT breakfast and a DELICIOUS lunch

I took a can of tuna, mixed it with a chopped up pickle, sprinkled a little bit of red pepper on it, hollowed out a tomato, crammed it all inside, and baked it at 350 for about 10/12 minutes :) de-flippin-licious!

I never did eat dinner because we were going to see Transformer's 3 :) oh yeah, finally!!!! I wasn't going to have ANYTHING at the theater, until my oh so wonderful husband said "well, let's get some popcorn" and the guy asked for butter, I start to say "no thank you, but can we get some yeast" as my husband says "YEAH!!" and then adds Parmesan, and a sprinkle of garlic ... I ate about 1/3 of the Large popcorn :( terrible! I felt like crap afterwards ... all bloated and icky! blech! So I got home, decided I wanted something more substantial in my tummy, so I had a tomato. Didn't want to even deal with the guilt of the calories, so I didn't log it until this morning ... surprise? I was well under my caloric intake of 1,200 calories eating the popcorn and not dinner ... oops!!!!!! I didn't eat nearly as much as I had thought I did (it just made me feel icky like I had). So YAY ME!

This was my "style" for the day :) It's making me feel good to go to my closet and pick ANY pair of pants and ANY shirt and HAVE IT FIT! Looking at myself in the mirror the BIGGEST issue is still my profile. I want that tummy flatter!!! I will get there :) Keep up on this, keep up on my cardio, and add in some strength training (boo crunches and sit ups!) and I will have the body that I like some day! I am still thinking that at 170 pounds I will be MUCH MUCH MUCH happier with myself. 

well, today is going great :) even with my popcorn faux pas, I am starting fresh. I have my Spark, I had 26 mini strawberries (fresh picked by miss Bridgette) and I have 2 cutie clementines and a fiber one bar sitting here. I ate the strawberries :P LOL I don't even know if I will get around to eating the fiber one bar (leaving that for last IF I still need food after my clemetines). Snack is 3oz of pork spare rib from dinner last night and a tomato (I cut all the fat off). BTW I need a kitchen scale ... where in this town do I get one?!

Lunch today ... not so sure?! I made my husband pulled pork bbq sandwich *drool* I'll figure out something! maybe I'll make myself that cowboy lunch from the other day ... THAT was damn good!!! Dinner tonight is more burger patties with veggies (gotta use up this food in my fridge :-/ such a small amount of food that I bought and I'm having a hard time eating it quick enough!

I'm gonna get my caboose moving and get 'er done! I'll be sure to check in again soon! (probably tonight, as school is back in session, and we all know that I love my distractions :P LOL)

see ya on the flip side of skinny pretty ladies ;-)

NiCo

DAY 3: SUCCESS!!!

Things are going so well they seem! I know that AdvoCare isn't about calories, but yesterday I consumed 1,547 calories and then walked off 149 calories before bed :) I am doing "okay" without night time snacking. The boy child brought home popcorn from the movie theater that is STILL in my house :-/ so I think I had about 3 cups of that total (oil-popped at about 55 calories per cup). Not too shabby :) though I SHOULD be staying away from these "white foods". And my other faux pas was having potatoes with my roast :-O It wasn't my fault though!!! We cut the potatoes so small when we set up the roast that they just kind of so perfectly mixed with the carrots and broccoli ... I had NO choice BUT to eat the potatoes! BUT I didn't eat much .. I only had about 1/2 a cup of the steamed veggies TOTAL. With gravy :-/ BUT that is all included in my calorie count :) The issue that I find myself running in to is remember to take the Omega-plex before dinner. That is such a GO GO GO time of day with the kids, and the making of the dinner, and the running around like a chicken with my head cut off, that I sit down for dinner, take the first bite and go "dammit!!!" But I read the omega-plex bottle, and it says to take two twice daily preferably with food, so I think taking my 6 sometime in the middle of my dinner is okay ... though tonight my goal is to take it BEFORE dinner!

Yesterday lunch was OMGoodness SO YUMMY!! I over spiced it though :-/ but it was delicious! 

I sauteed up 1/2 a red bell pepper, 1/2 a medium sized roma tomato, and about 1/4 pound of lean thin cut beef. I did the same for my husband, expect I didn't put in the bell pepper, and I used a whole tomato. I sprinkled on some cajun spice and some crushed red pepper (which is stronger than I thought it was!)

 I had all of this over black beans, my complex carb. Somewhat high in calories, but that is okay. I need to remind myself from time to time that I NEED to eat calories ... duh Nina!!

 I had it, of course, with a bottle of water (I have been drinking a gallon a day like a breeze!!) On my husband's, I shredded up about 1 ounce of swiss cheese. 

And then I enjoyed my spicy Cowboy lunch on the back deck in the sunshine :) Oh it was OH SO GOOD!! I am actually EXCITED to get it again in the coming week! :-D

Weighing myself ... a whole other story! I have one week from this AM until I can step on that damn scale. My husband put it "UP" But I can still see it 8-| and I want to climb up there and get it!! But I haven't ... yet *bows head in shame* All I want to know is if my attempt here is worth it. If it is successful and I am losing weight?! BUT I suppose it's not even really that ... the whole losing weight thing. I am sleeping better. I am capable of getting out of bed in the morning without dragging ass! At the end of the day I still have energy to do the things that I need to do. This is really what it is about, is feeling healthy. Which, at this point, I'm getting there :)

Breakfast this AM I have four clementines (mmmmm *drool*) and 10 strawberries to eat. I have my spark mixed with my emergen-c. Snack is 3 oz of left over roast from last night and 1/2 a canteloupe :) Lunch today ... I am going to swing by and buy some tomatoes before heading home and I'm going to stuff some tomatoes again. Snack is going to be sliced cucumber. Dinner tonight is pork ribs with veggies. And night time snack is probably more clementines. MY GOAL is to avoid that damn popcorn (hopefully Grandma will feed it to the kids during the day). Oh, and we're going to the movies tonight TRANSFORMER'S 3 but we are not eating while we are there :) we can't afford it anyways LOL

so yeah ... everybody have a good day. I'm gonna keep on keeping on, and I'll see you all on the flip side of skinny ;-)

NiCo

Day 2: Doing GREAT

So far so good :) I am a day late posting for yesterday but at least I am doing it!! :) LOL Yesterday went well, there were only two snags. 1) I forgot to take my omega-plex 30 minutes before dinner (always been bad about taking pills at certain times, oops!) and 2) Big son went to see Transformer's 3 with a friend of ours and he brought home a BIG bowl of theater popcorn (no butter or salt, but had yeast on it) and I ate about 1/4 cup of that :-/ Other than that did DAMN good! :)

This morning's fiber drink was a bit more bearable. I mixed it with 8oz of raspberry crystal light. It went down a bit easier. Breakfast was freakin' AWESOME! I had to fight my 2 year old for it :-/ lol health nut he is! Lunch was damn good too, had a left over chicken tenderloin from the night before, 3/4 cup of brown rice (i think, might have been 1/2 a cup, i don't remember now) and then a cucumber. Never did finish the cucumber, Ash helped with that too :) No pics of dinner, but I made 90% lean burger patties with tomato on top and broccoli. To help my husband, I added cheese on top of his (probably not even an ounce). I ate 3oz of burger and a cup of broccoli. It was divine :) snack before dinner was lightly steamed carrots, after dinner was ... hmmm can't remember now LOL this is where myfitnesspal.com comes in handy :) just don't feel like lookin' it up!

I hit Sally Ann's the other day, and spent a little bit of money getting myself some new clothes that fit better! I realized that my picture from day 1 was TERRIBLE partially because my bottoms didn't fit "quite right". 

Wearing clothes that fit makes a difference. My button up top is a size 18 (eek) and my bottoms are a 12 (thank you docker's favorite fit capris). I felt like I looked good, and i was comfortable all day. That matters! I even went through my closet and GOT RID of SO MUCH clothes that doesn't fit me right (the too big and the too small) just so that when I do get dressed in the AM, I'm not having that emotional struggle, ya know? That felt real good :) 

By the end of the day (in my jammies here) i realized that there is more than just my front view :-/ so figured I'd try to add in the side and back view. From behind, not so bad. Front is even pretty okay. It's my profile that I DESPISE!!!! This is where I want to see improvements. 

So I said that I wasn't going to weigh myself until the end of the 10 day cleanse. In one of my stronger moments I asked my husband if he would please put the scale where I couldn't reach it. I had hoped that he hadn't ... but he did! LOL so when i was weak this morning, I couldn't weigh myself :) I thank him, so so much, for his support! 

Today is not day three, and things are going well ... I will blog later about today!!

UNTIL THEN see ya on the flip side of skinny ;-)

NiCo

end of day one

well i spaced pictures ... oops LOL but I did well! Travis surprised me with lunch in town :) he crammed a tomato with a can of tuna, added some spiced and roasted it :) he even brought me a pickle! I didn't get an afternoon snack because I didn't get to come home, but I was just fine! I had a spark when I got home, with emergen-c in it, and it was oh so good! dinner I had 2 chicken tenderloins that travis spiced up just right, cooked in a pan with barely any olive oil, and then I had green beans and half a tomato. I took 6 omega-plex before dinner, about 30-45 minutes 'til. That's a lotta pills! I just had a banana for night time snack, and I have consumed 1,111 calories today. myfitnesspal.com is yelling at me for not consuming enough ... is my metabolism going to slow down and go in to starvation mode during this 10 day cleanse?! I sure hope not! I am, however, looking forward to the max phase where more foods are introduced ... I need to look at make sure, but i'm sure hoping I can have cheese again during that phase!

But for now I am going to try to stretch out my pinched nerve, gonna take my herbal cleanse pills around 11 (it's almost 10 now) and then head to bed around midnight. If i don't get my zumba in in the AM before Ash gets up, then I am going to plan for his first nap! I am going to 20 minutes Zumba and then play Kinect Adventure for a while. gotta go see Dad tomorrow too and talk to him about getting his stuff on eBay from the pawn shop ...

Well ... I think that's it for tonight! ... not looking forward to the damn fiber drink in the AM, but at least I'm prepared for it this time!!

:) goodnight! see ya on the flip side of skinny

NiCo

Day One: Morning :)

Height:         5'3"

Weight:        200 (for reals, what the hell happened?!?!)

BMI:           35.4 (normal 18.5-25, overweight 25-30, 30-35 class 1 obese, 35-40 class 2 obese)

So yeah, um, wow. Eww. TOTALLY hating these numbers (although I truly don't put much belief in BMI as it does not take in to account muscle mass or body structure ... both of which I have a lot of!! LOL I have pretty dense muscle and a large bone structure). I am NOT happy with a 35.4 BMI by ANY Stretch of the imagination, but, right now, it is what it is. At this point my Goal is to get my BMI 30, which is about 170 pounds (which is my ULTIMATE goal). To get to a 25 BMI I would have to be 140 pounds (which they consider the HIGH END of "normal" range ... wow!) That is a 30 pound weight loss, that I am hoping to reach by my Birthday (4 months). That still puts me in the "over weight" category, but with my body structure and muscle mass (which will only increase as I continue to work out) I think that 170 is a GREAT goal for right now :)

So ... for the 10 DAY CLEANSE! I started last night by going through everything and dividing it out in to big baggies, one for each day, of what I will be taking that day. This is kind of what it looked like ...

I also decided that I think I am going to take a body picture and a face picture each morning, as well as photo document what I am consuming. This morning I had a banana and 6 strawberries on the menu for breakfast (it is a quarter to 10 am and I am STILL trying to finish my strawberries). I drank the damn fiber drink this morning (*gag*, literally, soooooooooo gross) and downed the 2 cups of water right after wards (that is 24oz of water already, and I need to drink 128oz a day). I then made my spark drink (one packet in 24 oz of water, just finished that, about to refill my water bottle). I came to work with my banana and strawberries and have 2 hard boiled eggs and 2 clementines for snack (that I'm planning to eat between 11 and 12) and then lunch today at 1pm, another snack around 3pm, and then dinner around 6ish. I figure, if I'm even still hungry, I'll have another fruit snack around 9 after I put the kids to bed, and then take the herbal cleanse tablets at 11 AFTER my night time walk with  my husband (anywhere from 1-2 miles). Oh, and I started my morning with 20 minutes of Zumba on the Xbox Kinect.

This is what I had for drink, breakfast, first snack!

Looking at it, it doesn't look like "tons" of food ... but seriously, that damn fiber drink FILLS YOU UP!!!!!! 

Here is my 200 pound (eeeewwwww) Day 1 (oh, btw ... i'm not weighing myself again until the 10 days is up :-/ eek! hide the scale!!) full body and face picture (so I can document if there is even a visual change in myself)

I will be checking in, blog style, a few times a day (probably 2 or 3) to document my mornings and then my afternoon evenings. I will be posting pictures of what foods I am consuming and how I am doing following the "rules". I decided to stop tracking calories for this 24 day period (what's the point?!)

So there :) There's my Day 1 morning in a nut shell!!!!

See you all on the flip side of skinny! ;-)

NiCo