December 2017

December starts at 179 Lbs.
Hopefully, I will control myself and continue losing slowly.
One positive point is that I become more flexible and better at the gym and dance classes. 
December 1st : 179 Lbs
December 4: 178 Lbs
December 13: 177 Lbs
Hanouka week, very serious...

So, Latkes, potato pancakes,  are 60 cal/each
Half this simple donut is 120 cal (240 cal the whole)
Small glass of wine and green salad are total of 180 cal
The whole dinner was 480 cal.

December 18: 177 Lbs. I think I am stuck for a while because I indulge a tiny bit because of the Holidays. It is not a disaster, but it immediately stops my weight loss.
December 31st : 177 Lbs

November 2017

November is the month of Thanksgiving and the beginning of the Holiday season. It is the time of the cold coming back, cravings for comfort food, hot chocolate and first Holiday, Hanouka food. Always a hard time for me.

November 1st: 182 Lbs
San Diego for a week (+2 Lbs, then -2 Lbs)
November 15: 182 Lbs
November 18: 181 Lbs (at last !)
November 23: 180 Lbs
Thanksgiving is gone and I have been very good ! no sugar or over eating and everything was quite healthy, the roasted turkey, vegetables, baked sweet potatoes, stuffed Brussels sprouts... I am very proud of myself. I know that I must not touch any sweet and everything will be ok. Also, I have been exercising a lot, and I think the slowness of losing some weight comes from changing my fat weight in muscle. I received a bunch of dance stuff, leotard, pointe shoes, warmers, ect... and it uplifts my spirits and helps staying on track.That is lovely :)
Next challenge is Hanouka, coming on December 12.....
November 26 : 179 Lbs !
November 30: 180 Lbs

Interesting archive....

I was curious to see the evolution of my wight along the years and I went to what I have recorded. Unfortunately, I could not access more because my previous blog was on a platform that closed and discarded all my data !!! Although I was furious, it was nothing we could have done. I have been too late for saving them in a new format. So I just got some history from 2015. I remember this slow loss of weight during the spring of 2016. I was feeling so good after ! I wish I can do that again and keep this weight in the future.
Since I started to dance again one year ago, I am suffering from these extra pounds, particularly on my belly. 
Help me G.od....

Here I am !!! October 2017

After months of inactivity, eating disorders and complete down of everything I was trying to achieve.....
Starting end of September 2017. I jumped on my scale and found 187 Lbs. I have been gaining more than 10 Lbs this Summer.

September 28: 186 Lbs. No exercise, nothing. Starting slowly to get back to being healthy again. It will take months and months.....

October 5: still 186 Lbs. Doesn't look like something is moving down....Started yoga this Wednesday, and going back to the gym.

This makes me laugh !!!She is so cute and hilarious. Title: Mila hit the gym......Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvFTJvXdF8U

October 10: 185 Lbs

October 15: 184 Lbs
I cooked for the week on Sunday: big pot of vegetable soup, pasta with vegetables. First day of returning to the ballet classes: first barre of the season ! it was epic ! I suffered a lot....

October 21: 183 Lbs
I have been very serious about my diet recently. Food, exercise, portions....But it looks like I cannot lose more than a Lbs a week....  I just cooked a whole cauliflower for the week, and a big pot of mini artichokes.

I am also back to regularly exercising, including dance barre three times a week, plus yoga and Pilates (so five hours a week) I evaluated the extend of the disaster to having 35 to 40 Lbs to lose. But, if I lose 20 already, it should already be much better. 
So, first objective is 162 Lbs, then 143 Lbs, final goal !
My favorite machine at the gym: work on thighs resistance. 

October 23: still 183 Lbs. I really eat very little and exercise, so I have difficulty to understand why it is not going down faster. At this pace, it will take me a year to lose 40 Lbs !!!!

October 26: 183 Lbs. My weight oscillates between 183-184. It looks like it will take years for me to lose a little weight; I do not eat sugar anymore (since almost a month) and have a very managed diet with lot of vegetables, some fruits, small portions and healthy habits back. I feel very demotivated. 
But I really enjoy my exercise 5 times a week !
Tuesday night: Pilates; Wednesday night: yoga; Thursday night : barre; Friday afternoon: barre; Sunday morning: barre.

October 29: 182 Lbs. I am going to finish this month 4 lbs lighter, meaning it will be difficult for me to lose more than a pound a week. Projecting myself entering the Holiday season still in a way too high range is scaring me (best scenario, will be 178 end of Nov and 174 end of Dec)

October 31: 183 Lbs.

June 2017

Starting at 178 Lbs.
June 9: 176 Lbs. I have increased my exercise and added a Yoga class on Wednesday nights, on the top of two dance classes on Tuesday and Thursday and Pilates on Sunday. I think I cannot do more.
June 10: 175 Lbs.

Another typical Shabat dinner...

May 2017

May starts at 173 Lbs.  I continue my dance classes with assiduity. At least, my routine is healthy, even if my eating will always be erratic !
Typical breakfast: whole cereals with soymilk, a fruit, a coffee
Typical Shabat dinner: tomato soup, green salad with mushrooms, asparagus with lemon sauce. And a desert of course, berries generally.

End of May: 178 Lbs. I have been hosting my aunt, we went from breakfasts to dinners, snacks, celebrations, bakeries and pizza, skipping the gym. I am not surprised by the results. So, June will be austere. 

April 2017

April 19, 2017: 175 Lbs.
I have been going through Passover over eating, then a Severe Flu with no appetite.
So, it ended with a slight loss of weight, and I should continue this way...
April 21: 174 Lbs.
April 24: 172 Lbs.I am dreaming of going back at least to 169 Lbs, where I look pretty normal...

March 2017

New challenges...
March 4: 176 Lbs. My weight is already on a plateau ! I cannot believe after all my strict discipline. My only failure in 15 days was half a bagel with a little bit of cream cheese (something like 200 cal) and 2 squares of dark chocolate (80 cal) with my banana for a snack, twice. Otherwise, I strictly follow the vegan diet started couple weeks ago. Today for example, I had cereals and soymilk and a clementine for breakfast, a banana for a snack, a big green salad, a small bowl of soup, some steamed asparagus, and a kiwi for dinner. It illustrates pretty well what I generally have every day. 
March 10: 175 Lbs at last !!!! I thought I was stuck at a fix weight.
What a long way to lose 1 Lbs. 

I bought these fabulous tomatoes !!! they smell good.

March 25: 177 Lbs. It has been a rough time, again going through celebrations. I think gaining 2 Lbs is not proportional to all the excess I did. Again, on the road to lose weight.... 

February 2017

Feb 20: 178 Lbs
I already lost one Lbs with this green diet. I know at the beginning losing weight is easy. I hope it will continue that way....

Typical lunch

Feb 23: 177 Lbs
Dance classes are so difficult....

Feb 25: 176 Lbs. I start seeing a difference on my belly. I know that at 169 Lbs, my shape is becoming normal again. So my first objective is to lose these 7 Lbs.

Feb 28: 176 Lbs ; was thinking finishing the month with 175Lbs :(.....

February 2017

February is my birthday month. 

I started by craving some "Crepes Suzette" crepes with orange alcohol flambeed. I prepared them and was very satisfied, it was absolutely delicious. Then I had some celebrations at work, and a decadent hot chocolate, brioche and cake afternoon on the previous Friday. But this year I really limited the overeating because my "so called" best friends, Liliane and Vladimir, skipped my birthday totally. I was so hurt ! I am a so good friend, always celebrating, organizing and gifting my friends... So, I decided to cut my ties with them and take some distance.
My weight  is still in the upper 170s and I cannot believe I gained so much weight this Winter. Fortunately I had a conversation with my dance teacher and she told me she was following Dr Fuhrman diet. She advised me to buy his book "eat to live" and read what it is about, which I did (I bought 3 of them on Amazon for $30) and started to read.....

Well, it's a strict vegetarian diet, with lot of common sense. The 6 aggressive first weeks are very difficult I think but the reward is really loosing weight and re balancing health. I am conditioning myself to do it soon, while I am emptying my cabinets and eating the left crap I still have. But I already added a lot of fruits and vegetables to my current bad diet :) Going tomorrow for some grocery shopping of organic vegetables and fruits. 
It's a strict diet with nothing else than green veggy, fruits, nuts and grains. No dressings, zero fat, zero sugar, zero carbs, zero animal proteins, zero drinks, zero caffeine. For me it's lacking some proteins and light dressings such as olive oil, tea, my morning coffee. So, I will probably adapt. In any case, a diet has to be adapted depending on the taste and preferences. For example, I don't like raw peppers and don't digest them and the starting weeks are full of raw peppers...And I can't eat a raw green salad without dressing at all ! So I plan using a spoon of olive oil in my salads, an olive oil spray to sauteed my vegetables too.  
The diet is associated with intense exercise, one hour a day. I think I could increase mine to 4 or 5 days a week, but the body and muscles need to rest, so I don't believe in an every day exercising. 
More over the diet is totally unsocial, meaning while you do it, you eat home all the time or with your Tupperware at work. No,  zero possibility of adapting anything, that I found not realizable long term. And 6 weeks is pretty long....
I will see how it goes. But on the deep principle, I agree that it could work well for me too. 
I love a lot of greens, steamed vegetables, fruits, nuts and grains, so it should be ok. 

2017

So, I left for the Caribbeans the first week of January (Dec 29, 2016 to Jan 6, 2017) and celebrated the new year a little too much....
Since I came back, same pace: I don't know what's going on, I am starving in the evening, craving everyday for sugar and fat food. Jumping from crepes to whipped cream puffs, from cream pasta to chocolate. I am dying.....
I think I have 60 Lbs extra.....

Feb 2, 2017: 179 Lbs. I did a quick jump on the bathroom scale and was just horrified. But I even don't need the scale, because I see myself in the mirror, and  believe me, it 's ugly. I have this buoy all around my waist...
The only good point: I never stopped exercising, 3 times a week, regularly. From intense dance classes to Pilates. I know I grow a stronger muscular body, my legs are way stronger, and my flexibility improves. My studio is going to add more dance classes starting September, and I will add a barre class. So, the goal is to lose the max weight I can before September (24 Lbs would already be great)
I need a huge motivation for that. But how could I explain,  how not motivated I am with the political situation in my country ? My job on hold ;  The huge permanent stress, the oppression, the anxiety to discover what the night brought us new. In the middle of the Winter, with a gloomy weather, you have to be so strong not to fall now !