My Weight Loss Journey - January Review

Welcome, Welcome again to my weekly Weight Loss post with my updates and because you are so cool with me I've decided to put some pictures of my horrible feets on the scale this morning. So.. if you pinch on the picture of my feets and put it in the normal size for the photo you will see that the scale it's actually marking 73,6 kg but at that you have to add 2 kg to have the accurate weight so it is 75,6 kg.

After that I have to say I'm very proud of myself and my journey. It's not been an easy road for me this month but I stick to my goals, my wants and I did accomplish a little. I have to admit too that I didn't do it alone, I've pretty little gorgeous people behind me, helping, pushing, keeping me on track and accountable of my workouts: Alice, Sandra H, Preethi (Filofit) and Romi Morris. This girls have been with me and giving great ideas for not get bored and keep working out so I have to say it...

THANK YOU GIRLS!

Off course when it comes to my measurements I have decided that it's not so cool to be putting them here week after week and I finaly made a template for my Filofax to keep myself in check and post it here as a picture at the end of every month. In that way I can keep myself in check and also show you what and how I have been doing in my measurements.

Here we have the review of my measurements in the easy, simple template I made in Excel for my Domino A5 and I will be putting it in my Personal size too. According to my measurements I have lost 2 cm of my bust, my hips are the same, my waist it's 2 cm less and my arms and legs are about the same. I do know now that I took wrong the measurements of my arms and legs, that's why I say they are about the same. For next month I will be making sure I take them correctly.

I lost 1.4 Kgs

YAY!

When it's time to check my Goals I realized that maybe I'm being a little too... Don't know how to say it but I imitated a pretty girl when about Goals it's concerned so I have decided to make my own Goals at my own way and keep it like that, in my Filofax too and show you guys an update with my measurements at the end of each month.

Weight Loss Goals for February

No drinking Coke for a Month

Eat more fruits

Excersise 60 minutes a day

Keep a daily food journal

Try a new recipe for a meal or shake once a week

Next I leave you with a few pictures of meals I ate this past week between saturday and today, wich is thursday... Hope you enjoy (n.n)

This I ate the 25 at the Pinedo Shopping... fdafs

This I ate last Friday at my home, in a family dinner...

My Filofax Week #04

Well, it's Sunday again and that means... *waits a little* Yes! Exactly, Filofax weekly post (n.n)

Very Good Boys and Girls! *applauds* Now... lets see...

As you can see this week was a little packed with stuff to do some days and repited actions on other days, but most stuff were wroted down on the weekends so... And also, you can see I did stamped the dates again this week, I think it's fun to do it so I will be doing that until it's not fun anymore LOL...

Using some shiny tape and Pascualina old sticker and color pencil I did make the page a little more colorful and not so empty... *sigh* I know, I know... my flowers look like those made of kinder garden kids... I know... And I mostly transfer some repited actions like workout day after day so I don't leave any blank spaces...

Talking about writting stuff down and don't do it... All the stuff in brackets are the stuff I didn't do even when there are important like study and stuff (u.u) That little doodle and quote is from a music that stuck in my head from Simple Plan... And for next week I have change completly the layout so we will see and for being Sunday and starting to use that layout I would have to say that I love it so far (n.n)

My Weight Loss Journey - Take 4

Well my fellow friends and followers of this journey... I know, I know... I should have posted this on Tuesday but didn't feel like it and also couldn't find my measuring tape so... I did weight myself on tuesday and today again and also take my measurements... So lets start with that...

This week my measuments were:

Weight: 76,8 kg

Waist: 105

Bust: 106 cm

Hips: 110 cm

Belly: 111 cm

Reviewing my goals...

Lose 10 kg by the 10th of August, 2013

    -Gain 200 grams again

Be able to jog 4 laps around the plaza by the 10th of August, 2013

    -Started to walk again around the plaza on tuesday

Eat more natural fruits and vegetables

    -Still with problems with emotional eating, more now that I have the finals so close and decision to make about people in my life

Reduce only to weekends the intake of frizzy drinks and only up to 2 glasses

    -Drank 1 liter of Coke since Sunday until today

Workout at least 4 or 5 times a week without excuses

    -Like I said before, started working out again on tuesday, not taking more breaks though

Being honest and fair, it's not going to be easy. I couldn't keep up with the food journal thing but I really need to do it because with all the stress on top of me I will end up getting heavier and gain more weight instead of loosing it. Need to be more relaxed but since I made up my mind about a friendship situation I won't be getting any time fo myself and I need more time for myself.

Filofax Help (?)

Hi to all of you out there

This is my first ever poll about planners and particularly about Filofax

If you ever read my blog you may know that I usually stalk Ebay just looking for Filofax planners to drool over the picture and the idea of getting one (Stalker post 1 - Stalker post 2)

A few weeks ago I think, I posted something about saving to get a Filofax Aston and just a few days later I saw it brand new on sale on the Filofax website for 50$ and I didn't have the money to pay for it without touching my savings from my aunt's.

Soon the days went by and I wanted more and more a new Filofax even if I'm not taking all the juice of my Domino that I absolutely adore and my Mini Malden wich it's the one that it's well used right now and since she arrived it's been by my side all the time.

I do have a problem with all this... I ask Joy to help me get a Malden in a very good sale on Canada when she found one but... I don't think I can wait and I have seen the Black Chameleon on sale on the Filofax website and I was thinking it's gorgeous and perfect for working with me and specially considering I love snakes, but... for some reason I feel like something it's not right...

Talking here and there, I have the chance to get a red Finsbury for only 35$ shipping on the US included, but even with that chance I feel something it's not right. Don't know what it is. I want to believe that it's just my head being crazy and wanting all but at the same time I'm worried to cause discoloration on the leather because I do have extremely oily hands but at the same time don't want to wait and don't get a Filofax of my own.

I can always get a Metropol (or wait for one) or get a Dakota and don't worry about that oily situation... or change brand and get a Day Timer or Franklin Covey leather like planner... And at the same time my head it's thinking that I can get washi tape, stickers, Coleto pens, scrapbook paper for dividers, etc, etc, etc, if I don't buy the planner...

Very confusing situation for myself right now... I spend most of my days thinking and thinking... Yesterday I almost made the bank transfer to get the Chameleon but I waited and got a better deal with the company and now they just ask were bank account should I want to put the money so they make the purchase for me already and I'm bitting my fingers to say "YES, DO IT!" and put the money on their account already.

Honestly I don't know what to do... I want a leather planner but at the same time I don't see the point of making the purchase if I don't actually have a functional system yet...

The Filofax that I have in mind are: Metropol, Finsbury, Malden, Chameleon, Cuban and then Daytimer or Franklin Covey leather like covers. If it was for me and I didn't have any problem getting it because of the money I still would get an Aston or a Holborn but those are just for being fancy and having something really expensive.

What do you think? Help me out on this dilema, please?

My Filofax Week #03

Another week has gone by and it's not a very full with stuff to do or writte down. I did made some thinking wile I was at my cousin house in Corrientes. I realized so many stuff and the changes I made in myself without even notice it and that I don't know if I want to go back but if I don't I will lose someone very important for me... A very dear friend that I consider my brother...

As you all can see, because of the picture above, my week wasn't so packed with stuff to do and some didn't accomplished but it's ok for me... was vacation...

Again I wrote in Spanish and English according to my mood and was very good mood considering I was kind of a free person of my family but well... Not everything it's great all the time, right?

This second half of the week was in English, not so much to do, honestly was less than last week but it's ok... Like I said... I'm on vacations...

My Weight Loss Journey - Take 3

Today I'm writting from Corrientes, Argentina. We just arrived and it's 12:03 hs (using military hours) and I also just weight myself, considering that the only food that I ingested today until know it's half a cup of coffee with milk and one tea spoon of sugar, 3 coco cookies and half a plastic glass of soda...

The important thing it's this... I just realized that my weight in my previous post was wrong... *sigh* I know... You may ask: How it's that even possible? And the answer it's quite simple... My scale it's not digital and I forgot that I needed to add up 2 more kilograms to the weight that my scale marks...

This means I actually weighted 77 kg this past two weeks and know I'm proud and happy to say that I weight 76.4 kg *jumps of excitement* I lost 600 grams and I'm so proud of myself and I have some extra good news... My cousin's wife goes to a gym, so I will probably expend a little money and go with her for the time that I'm here so I won't stop excercising and I will be able to eat, with control, but not have to restrain myself sooo much *jumps even more*

I don't have a measure tape right now so I can't take my measurement's but I promise I will do it tomorrow  morning, I will ask to my cousin's wife to give me hers for a few minutes and then I will update again this post and I will let you know over Twitter that I did. My aunt said that she notice that I lost centimeters of my belly and my face it's not so fat as it was before when she saw me prior to Christmas.

Reviewing my goals...

Lose 10 kg by the 10th of August, 2013

    -I already loss 600 grams in 2 weeks

Be able to jog 4 laps around the plaza by the 10th of August, 2013

    -This week I varely went to the plaza, I stayed playing StepMania most of the days

Eat more natural fruits and vegetables

    -Doing good, my eating habits are quite healthy, it's my emotional eating problems the ones making me fat with my thyroid situation too

Reduce only to weekends the intake of frizzy drinks and only up to 2 glasses

    -Drank 1 liter of Coke since Saturday until Monday night

Workout at least 4 or 5 times a week without excuses

    -Was doing ok until I took a break on Saturday and haven't re-started again yet

I think that if a digital scale it's not too expensive here, I will get one because I need it to be more accurate in my weight loss journey... This week it's gonna be a challenge since I'm gonna be here, in Argentina until Saturday, so... we will see what happens...

The Sleeping Filofax (Belzira's Blog Competition)

This is a pretty little story for Belzira's Blog Competition

The Sleeping Filofax

The night of Christmas Eve was as hectic as you all may imagine. Elf running around from here to there, picking up toys from all over the place and bringing them to the gigant red bag with the golden ropes around the edges to keep it shut during Santa's fly so nothing will fall out. Yelling and screaming about were that present was or the ribbons or tape it was what you can hear al around Santa's workshop because they need to finish loading the bag before ten before midnight so Santa could be out on time to be able to deliver all the presents in time.

A big man with a very puffy beard came into the room and everyone keep yelling like nothing was going to stop them and then the old big man said out loud in a hard commanding voice: "Were is the book?". Inmediately there was not even a nail dropping on the floor, all the eyes were on that man figure and he repited the question again: "I'll said it again... Were is the book?". Nobody mooved.

"It should be on your desk... Santa", said a little elf looking at him but the man in red denied and pointed to his desk inside the room that he was in just a few seconds ago: It's not in there, it was but now it's not and if I don't get the book how on earth I will be able to deliver all the toys? You all know that the addresses of every little boy and girl it's in that book"

Nobody know were the book was and the chief elf went to Santa's desk and look but didn't found anything and everybody started to really worry because the clock was ticking and getting more and more close to midnight. "We need to find the book now... Everybody needs to search... Go, go... hurry up" said the chief elf and the search of that precious book started, but this time was in silence, nobody screaming or yelling, and everyone was very sharp to where or what they may found happened to Santa's book.

In the mean time, in a corner well protected from the noise and the light of that huge place, someone was asleep, deeply asleep, in a comfy, brown, puffy, smooth, cold and leatherly like pillow. She didn't snore because she coudn't but the new bed she found in the old huge belly man was all that she wanted from the first time she arrived on that workshop that never has a moment of peace and quiet, and that tick her sences, something was off, too much quiet and so little movement but she stay still in her new found bed and trying to go back to sleep.

Mrs. Claus got into the workshop smiling a little and almost laughing but still holding herself: "I found it". She said and everyone followed her to that cold, dark corner were she was sleeping. It was Lily who took the book, the snake pet, and used it like her own private pillow so she can rest. Santa carefully pick her up and take the book with him, Lily wasn't happy but Mrs. Claus reasure her that Santa will bring back the book to her after that night. Santa delivered all the presents in time and give back the book to Lily so she can rest again and protected for the rest of the year from every other who wanted to make it disapear.

The End