I weighed today and I am 8 pounds away from my first huge goal, 50 lbs lost!! I have also lost 17 inches overall! I have made major changes in my diet in the last two weeks and I am increasing my physical activity. I had to have a pain block in my back one week ago due to a fall in my home 5 weeks ago. This has prevented me from doing most of my exercise I love but I am slowly moving again. I am looking forward to resuming full exercise in 2 weeks.<\/p>\n
My diet changes have consisted of adding more whole grain, fish and fruit to my diet. Oatmeal is now my staple breakfast and IF I eat bread it is a whole grain bread instead of wheat. I have also added granola bars as my staple snack. Now, for dinner most nights, my meats consist of lean protein, lots of fish and one night a week, steak.<\/p>\n
My fruits consist of grapes, apples, pineapple, strawberries, and bananas. As far as vegetables, I try to eat them mostly steamed. I have found that the different\u00c2\u00a0varieties\u00c2\u00a0of flash frozen steam-in bags at the grocery store work very well for me considering the long hours I work.<\/p>\n
I was speaking with someone yesterday at work, and they asked me what as been the most challenging of all through this journey, and I told them adjusting to a lifestyle change<\/strong>. That is truly what you have to learn to do, if you successfully want to lose weight, is make a lifestyle change. Eating right and exercise become part of your daily routine.<\/p>\n I no longer eat the way I used to. I no longer eat fried foods, I don’t crave sweets like I used to, and I drink tons of water. If you are contemplating a weight loss journey, you have to mentally ready to accept that your life has<\/strong> to change. You also have to take it one day at a time. Nothing worth doing is ever easy. This has been hard and there are days I just want to splurge and eat whatever I want, and then I look at the app on my phone and see that BIG number that I have lost, and I quickly change my mind, that is power!<\/p>\n So, finding a way to stay motivated is important, and my app on my phone does that for me. As well, I have an amazing diet support group that keeps me motivated. I also added the weight loss ticker here on my blog to keep me honest and accountable.<\/p>\n I am looking forward to my next goal, 100 lbs lost which I hope to hit by the end of the year! I will keep you posted on my progress. If you are on a weight loss journey, good luck and maybe we can keep each other motivated!<\/p>\n thegeekwife<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I weighed today and I am 8 pounds away from my first huge goal, 50 lbs lost!! I have also lost 17 inches overall! I have made major changes in my diet in the last two weeks and I am…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,119],"tags":[41,42,39,43,49,38],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-weight-loss-2","tag-diet","tag-fitness","tag-goals","tag-journey","tag-lifestyle","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thegeekwife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}