Sunday February 23rd, 2014 somewhat Daily Check In:

Breakfast: Two Egg Scramble
Workout: 5 mile run to break in new running shoes. 
Lunch/Dinner: I was bad, I had fast food. (Just being Honest) This is not a huge slip, just starving after a five mile run and Jesse wanted a Lego Movie cup. 
Evening Snack: Blue Organic Corn Chips.

The run felt great and I feel like I could have done more be 1.) I was starving, 2.) I was afraid to run too much further in brand new shoes.
I also finished my DDPYoga Challenge Group Wrap and Burn challenge.

Thursday February 20, 2014 Daily Check In (Day One all over again but in a good way)

Breakfast: Two Egg Scramble
Lunch: Huge Salad with the last of the leftover Chicken
Afternoon snack: One Ounce Raw Almonds
Afternoon Workout: DDPYoga Extreme: Hip, Back, and Knee Opener TUTORIAL followed by RHC
Dinner: Panera Pick Two, Cup of Chicken Noodle Soup and 1/2 Winter Power Salad (highly recommend)

So, the HBK tutorial was a real wake up call.  I truly felt like it was Day One Diamond Dozen all over again.  I felt awkward and clueless.  BUT on the same note at the end I FELT GREAT!!!!!  If you have the extreme DVDs I highly recommend popping that in when you feel adventurous.  I will try to add that to my weekly schedule, just the tutorial for now though.

Monday February 17th, 2014 Daily Check In: (plus my weekly challenge video)

Today I woke up feeling better than yesterday and I am glad for it. When I get sick I think it is the end of the world. I will never get better. THIS is the illness that I will die with, not kill me, but be with me for the rest of my life. I am sure some of you know what I mean.
Breakfast: Two Egg Scramble
Morning Snack: one ounce Raw Almonds
Lunch: Huge Salad
Dinner: Some breast of a roasted Chicken, asparagus, and brussell sprouts.
Evening Workout: Red Hot Core

While I feel that I could have done a full length workout today I felt it was better to just let my body recover.

Friday, February 14, 2014 Daily Check In:

Breakfast: Two Egg Scramble
Morning Workout: warmed up with RHC, then into Fat Burner
Lunch: Huge Salad and a nuked Potato
Afternoon Snack: One ounce Raw Almonds
Dinner: Panera pick two; Half Greek Salad, Cup of Turkey Chili, they are both Phase One compliant.

My workout was quite pitiful. Very little engagement. I even struggled with the 3 count pushups in FBer, which is down right shameful since I can normally handle the 10 count in Level One, but for whatever reason I was weak, but I DID NOT give up (trust me I wanted to). I do think that my sinuses are weighing me down, but I will not waste time with excuses.

Wednesday February 12, 2014 Daily Check In:

Breakfast: One serving of GF Oatmeal with a Banana cooked into it.
Lunch: Huge Salad followed by a nuked potato
Afternoon Snack: One ounce of Raw Almonds
Afternoon Workout: Red Hot Core (still healing the tattoo)
Dinner: Vegetable Tomato soup on a bed of One Cup of White Rice. (I know white rice is not the best, but it is what we had)


Today was my second day wearing my brand new 38x32 5.11 pants.  I love these pants, and I LOVE that I am in a 38!!!! Today I also wore a Large tech shirt all day.  It is a little snug, but I am proud to wear a snug Large!!!!! Loving life right now.
Today was a good day.

Monday February 10, 2014 Daily Check In:

Breakfast: A juice from our local organic market.
Lunch: HUGE salad added Almonds for fuel.
Dinner: Vegetable Soup with Pesto. 
Again no workout today due to tattoo healing. Tomorrow will be back to working out.
I know this does not sounds like a whole lot of food, but I never felt hungry today. Not once. If I had I would have eaten more.

Sunday February 9th, 2014: (tried something new)

Breakfast: Apple followed a Panera "Power Bowl" two egg whites, sliced turkey breast, spinach, some peppers I had not had before (very good) and a pesto sause.
Morning Snack: raw almonds
Lunch: Huge Salad
Afternoon snack: Raw Almonds, and this is where the plan fell apart, Eight Chips Ahoy Chocolate Chip cookies. That is a success only because there are some left in the house
Dinner: Thai Resturant something or other. Mostly grilled veggies. I am pretty sure it was healthy but not 100% sure. 
No workouts today, not even my RHC challenge. SORRY PHILLY. When my arm heals I will do two-a-days to make up for however many I miss, hopefully only two at the most. I just don't want to mess up my beautiful artwork on my forearm.

Thursday February 6th, 2014 Daily Check In (plus new side by side pictures)

Breakfast: Two Egg Scramble
Morning Workout: DDPYoga Fat Burner followed by Red Hot Core
Morning Snack: One ounce of Raw Almonds
Lunch: Huge Salad.  I forgot to eat my potato today.
Afternoon Snack: One ounce of Raw Almonds
Afternoon Workout: 3.1 mile run/walk in my Fat Burning Zone (ran at 5.5mph until I went over my limit, then 4.0mph until I started to get close to the bottom of my zone)
Dinner: Porkchop, Cooked Spinach, and Green Beans.

Today started out rough. I guess I woke up on the wrong side of the bed.  But then I was asked for a before/after (during) picture.  So I took the pictures and as I uploaded them I was in shock at how much my body has changed in just nine months.  WOW.  How can I not be happy with this:

Wednesday February 5, 2014 Daily Check In

Wednesday February 5, 2014 Daily Check In:
Breakfast: two egg scramble
Morning Workout: DDPYoga Level One
Morning Snack: Oatmeal Banana cookie (two ingredients: oatmeal, banana) They are okay but not worth the energy it took for Brook to make them.
Lunch: Huge Salad and a Potato
Afternoon Snack: one ounce of Raw Almonds
Dinner: Some beef cubes, grilled peppers onions and mushrooms, baked Brussel Sprouts, and Lima Beans (I am now aware that lima BEANS count as a carb, so I will be cutting down on those :(
Evening Workout: Red Hot Core

Overall today was a good day.  Jesse had a little trouble as practice, but he made up for that by doing RHC with me.

Tuesday February 4, 2014 Daily Check In, PLUS a little extra.

Breakfast: Surprise!!! Two egg scramble
Morning Workout: Rest
Morning Snack: half a banana
Lunch: Huge Salad and wait for it, wait for it, a microwaved Potato
Evening snack: Organic nonGMO Blue Corn Chips
Evening Workout: Red Hot Core
Dinner: Panera pick two: 1.)Asian Chicken Salad (250ish calories) 2.)Low Fat Chicken Noodle (80 calories) Black Coffee


The extra is that the TeamDDPYoga YoutubeYogaFreaks challenge, Plank with a silly hat on Exploded in popularity over last night and today.  I am really happy that this happened and it even brought one person back in from their fall.  I thank Liz (http://lizddpyoga.com/) and Christina ( http://www.bodyrebooted.com/) for keeping it alive while I got my ass in gear and did it.  Now it has spread like wildfire.
I can't figure out how to post all the videos here so I will link to the group:
http://www.teamddpyoga.com/groups/group/show?groupUrl=youtube-yoga-freaks

Monday February 3, 2014 Daily Check In

Breakfast: two egg scramble
Morning Workout: Diamond Cutter followed by Red Hot Core
Morning Snack: Handful of Blackberries
Lunch: Huge Salad and a microwaved Potato
Afternoon Snack: One ounces of Raw Almonds
Afternoon Workout: 3.1 miles on the treadmill in my fat burning zone
Dinner: Not too good here. We ran late and decided to go the the Mexican Rest. I had three soft tacos with Chicken. They were full of peppers and onions. Not near as unhealthy as I could have been. No rice and beans. Black coffee. So not great, but not horrible.

Day 273. Accountability.

Yesterday I posted a video proclaiming I had lost 102 pounds.  I am very proud of that.  And it only took nine months!!!!....I am not so proud of that way?  Because I could have done it about six weeks sooner had I let someone know I was slipping.
You see, Thanksgiving was my first "Food Holiday" since starting my Journey to Fitness.  I did not handle it well, and I did not let people know that.  I stopped posting on TeamDDPYoga.com, I didn't do my update videos. I didn't post on Facebook that I was sliding out of control.  I didn't call the people that have kept me most accountable (Philly and Petey).  I was VERY LUCKY in the fact that I got to met Rich Graham in person during this slide.  Had it not been for that, I fear that I my have lost it all together and gained dozens of pounds.  I know that the holidays are that dangerous.
Two weeks ago I decided enough was enough, and I started to eat MUCH better and started to exercise more regularly.  Then this past Monday I fully recommitted myself to 100% clean eating and daily exercise. I started an "Accountability Group" on Facebook and logged daily my food intake and workout.
IN ONE WEEK I lost 12 pounds pushing me over that beautiful "100 pounds off" mark.  All because I made myself accountable for my actions. Twelve pounds in six days, when I could not lose them over the previous two months of not making myself accountable for my own actions.
I ask all of you that read this Blog. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, make yourself accountable.  If you can't make yourself "self-accountable" reach out and find someone that will do it for you. I am sure if you ask someone will do it.  You are always more than welcome to join my Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1428977520662287/

102 Pounds Down in Nine Months. Today I celebrate. Tomorrow we talk about Accountability.