A Hippo with a Headband

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

New Look, New Journal Blog

You might have noticed a slight change to the blog this week... I'm still not 100% in love with the new look so it might change a bit over the next few days, but I'd love you opinion. You look at my blog too so I want to hear what you like and don't like about it. Is it readable? Do the colors give you a headache? lol I'm loving the rainbow thing just not too sure about the backgrounds. I'll also be editing my sidebar widgets this week to get them updated to where I am now in my journey. I'm really losing weight following the Weight Watchers plan and I want to get a fresh start. Those last two years were depressing and very rough on me. I'm so ready to put them behind me and move on from here: physically, emotionally, and mentally.

I have also added a new blog to the group. Check out the link in the navigation bar for my new journal. From now on I'll be using A Hippo With a Headband to host Motivation Monday, update on my challenges, and post useful weight loss and healthy living tips I find. My journal will be more of a day to day on how I'm doing, feeling, what I'm going through; my troubles and triumphs. The journal is a whole different blog so if you'd like to keep track of my day to day weight loss journey you'll want to either check back often or go ahead and subscribe to that blog as well. There is a Google friend connect over there in case you like to keep up with me in your reader. I hope you are all doing well. Be on the lookout here and on my new journal blog for big changes this month! See y'all around.

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Monday, September 12, 2011

Motivation Monday, September 12

Motivation Monday

Welcome to Motivation Monday! I will be chronicling my journey back to a healthy body, mind, and spirit. Each week I will discuss how the previous week was and set some goals for the next week. I will also be listing my progress. If you would like to see past progress you can click on the Motivation Monday photo above for other Motivation Monday posts. If you would like to get motivated with me please link up your post using the link form below. Your post can be in any format you want.Whether you are trying to get healthier physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually or if you just have a task you need some motivation to complete...please link up so we can help support each other. I would love to hear about your progress and help keep you motivated!

Healthy Steps:

This week I decided I was going to stay within my daily allotted points each day and I did it! I didn't use even one weekly point! I didn't see the kind of weight loss I had hoped to see for the amount I was hungry... but I proved to myself that it could be done. I have the discipline to limit my food intake if I really want to. My goal this week is to keep my weekly point usage to a minimum.

My Weekly Weight Watchers Progress Report:

{The orange thing is a multi-vitamin. I have trouble taking mine. They make me sick. I need to find another brand. The drop is healthy oils. I also have problems with this one since I don't cook with oils, but I need healthy fat to lose fat so I need to work on that too.}

My Numbers

Green is Improvement, Red is Bad, Mmkay?, Blue is Stayed the Same

Weight -211

Body Fat % - 49.1

Water % -38

Muscle Mass % -33.5

How did you do this week?

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Sunday, September 4, 2011

Christmas Dress Countdown Week 1

My Starting Weight for CDC 2011: 212.4lbs
Size of Dress I'm Aiming For: 18/16 Juniors {not Woman's}
Book I'll Be Using: Made to Crave by Lysa TerKeurst
My Caloric Limit: Sticking to my Weight Watchers' allotted points
Exercise I Plan to Do at Least 3x Per Week: Walking, Yoga, and maybe add in Swimming and/or Zumba
Number of Glasses of Water Each Day: 8
My Goal Dress: This isn't quite a Christmas time dress, but it is one that I own and would LOVE to fit into. It's a 1950's style dress which is an era I just adore! I can do up 5 out of the 10 buttons right now.

As you can see I can't button up all the way and it's VERY snug in the hips.

This dress is also very snug across the rear and back/bust areas. I would also like to work on my upper arms so they look slimmer and more toned when I am ready to wear this sleeveless dress.

I'm linking up here for the Christmas Dress Countdown! Check out all the other contestants and see how they're doing this week.