Man, I haven't written on this blog in forever. You wanna know why? The raw truth? I'm embarrassed. My wishes for weight loss and a healthier body are constantly dashed by my own inconsistencies/laziness. My body has been absolutely crazy lately, and I have partly been scared to push it, to see what it can do. Given, it's probably because I don't push it!

Here are some good things:

• I have almost completely stopped drinking soda. I don't feel the need for caffeine that I used to. aka - no longer addicted to caffeine! 
• I am pretty limber and my back is better for it! Yoga is amazing, I feel so good after. However, you really need something extra to lose weight.
• I <3 Tofu. I grill some mean tofu. 

Here are goals for next week:

• Work out 3-5 days.
• Nightly push-ups/crunches
• Nightly yoga. 
• No sugar. (The bad kind)
• Less carbs, more whole grains and protein. 
• Meat only 3 times
• Take pictures of myself in my clothes. How do they fit now and do I notice changes as I work for it?

Lets try this again...

I'm doing better I swear! 

So when I did the last post I was SO motivated. The next day I got so sick it was insane.

So just in the past few days I have been able to do cardio type things without feeling like my lungs are going to collapse!

I met my last goal of drinking LOTS of water. I pee all the time.

I worked out seriously once but since being sick I have just been trying to be active! I have been doing really well with that. I walked to school yesterday, (which is harder than you'd think. straight uphill.) and I have just been trying to walk/bike more.

GOALS:

 Work out at least 2 times this week, (as it's Wednesday,) and not just a big walk, like hardcore workout. 

More veggies, less fried foods.

Keep up with drinking lots of water

Crunches and push-ups every night before bed. (This is something I do a lot!)

I had a moment this past weekend where I felt massive. We went boating and I already felt huge cause all my friends are skinny and gorgeous and then someone, (not naming names, it was harmless) said that he thought I wouldn't be able to fit into a wetsuit because it was bought for someone more...(then he started gesturing slimmer.) He really wasn't trying to be mean. But I almost started crying. However, NO PITY PARTIES ALLOWED! LETS DO THIS!

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I have been totally avoiding this blog because of how terrible I did at it. I had such high hopes! I wanted to be 40 pounds lighter! But I'm 8 pounds heavier. I also didn't delete this blog because I am not one to just give up. So here it goes, try number 2. 

I am slightly lumpier than when I started but I gotta do something! It is seriously so discouraging to be this big. It is super hard for me to lose weight too. It's easy for people to say, "just do it", but they haven't been 175 lbs. Last week was my birthday and there were a lot of pictures taken. There wasn't one picture where I wasn't amazed at how big I looked. In my head I am NOT that big, but there it is, wide load. An ex-boyfriend added me on facebook the other day and I was so bitter that I have gotten so big so I couldn't shove my hotness in his face.

Okay, this is sounding so depressing. I don't just wanna be a negative nancy so lets try this again.

Goals for the week: 

Don't eat out and only have 1 small treat

Go to the gym at least 4 times for at least 30 minutes

Drink more water

Another plus is that I have gotten a lot better on my board this year. My back has healed up pretty good from my accident a few years ago and I'm more consistent and just so much more comfortable on my board than ever before! Just imagine, if I lost a bunch of weight I would be SO GOOD! hehe.

Haha I am really bad about keeping up with this blog. I am thinking I might just combine this one with my other blog because it is just too high maintenance! Trent and I have been doing pretty good with our workouts but eating right is so hard! I just get so grumpy when I'm hungry that Trent will just shove a burrito in my mouth so I quit whining! (it's not just me, mountain dews are trents kryptonite and like a bottle to a crying baby.) I am sooooo determined to be a good runner! I can almost run a full mile and can walk well past a mile at 3.5 mph on a steep incline. This is such a huge improvement for me! Trent can run 3 miles but is this blog called "Diary of a Slightly Lumpy Boy"? Nope. Okay I'm just jealous. After we run we will come home and do our insanity work out if I'm not completely dead. It's been really hard to do both because my legs hurt so bad after running that I can't hardly move. The doc says it's either shin splints or the fibromyalgia actin up but I don't care!!! I want to run a marathon like all skinny people do!! Anyway, I am currently down a solid 10 pounds and that dear hubby o' mine is down 20. Jdjdhhajjsbfrhriio!!!! But I still love him.

A few reasons why I might miss my Bob belly.

When I got to college my tummy started growing! It started to gain it's own entity and because it reminded some friends of a middle aged man with a beer belly in a tank top, we named it "Bob". I have been trying to divorce Bob for a while but it has been a drawn out affair. After one week of P90x Insanity I can actually feel him shrinking and I started to realize, I use my belly for a lot of things and may miss it a little bit!

1. When I am lounging on the couch and drinking a nummy drink, I can rest it on my belly and drink it with a straw.

2. I can hold babies so easily on my love handles, it's hardly any work!

3. Sometimes when there are jerks about town doin jerky stuff, (like cut me off driving, or some little turd girl who elbows past me at the sales rack,) I stick out my belly to full capacity and act like I'm pregnant. This also helped us get more money out of our car we sold. (The dude was low balling us!!! $1,500 for a great car plus snow tires?!?! Yeah right!!)

 4. When my hands are full I can use my belly to close my car door or balance something against a wall to dig my keys out of my pocket.

5. When Trent and I are upset at each other, I start bumping him with my belly like Friar Tuck on the cartoon version of Robin Hood and yell, "Get out of my church!"


Here are some reasons I won't miss my belly:


1. I won't have a muffin top. My tooshie and thighs are probably about a size 8 right now but I gotta squish in the muffin top so I wear size 11. Yay smaller pants and a waist!

2. My back won't hurt as bad if I actually have ab muscles.

3. I can scoot in closer to my desk.

4. When Trent and I kiss our belly's won't be the first things to touch. (I'm not sure what will be but it sure as heck won't be our belly buttons!)

5. Scuz the phraseology but my watermelon won't protrude further than my grapefruits . That just doesn't look good.

6. I can wear a bathing suit around my super skinny friends and not be self conscious. (Um all the girls I hang out with here in Idaho are TINY!! I feel like the BFG or a Norse Godess!)

Hola, mi llamo McKenzie.

Hah, so it's been a while!! Holiday's really throw off schedules and we really didn't know what we were going to do for a long time. We thought we might move to Colorado for an internship or that we would stay here and I would work full time at the school. Well neither of those worked out so we are still in Rexburg with no job, no school, and extremely happy! So far we have worked out 5 times and woke up before 9:00 a.m. 4 times and not left the house at all, 7 times. It's been, AWESOME. But I would feel morally remiss if we had all this time and didn't try and get healthy and lose some weight. Here are some lovely "before" pictures so that we can compare them to some "after" pictures. I warn you, these aren't pretty! (Oh yeah and Trent forgot we were taking pictures and put his sweats on too soon, so I made him drop them for the pictures)

I realized the last time around that I was so worried about how many calories I was eating that I wasn't thinking about what I was eating. So my goal now is to still post what I'm eating and think more about portion control. Also to work out more AND we are thinking of training for a marathon....cause that's what cha do when you're trying to lose weight, you train for a marathon. I say thinking because I currently can't run a full mile..so there's that.

Crash and Burned

So yesterday I totally broke down. I was thinking about not eating out all day that all I could think about was eating out! So here is what I ate.

• 1 Granola Bar - 90 Cal
• 1 Trail Mix Bar - 140 Cal
• 3 bites of a co-worker's burrito - 100 Cal
• 1 Lean Cuisine - 300

Yeah doing good up til there.....

• 1/2 CALIFORNIA BURRITO FROM RAMIREZ - 500,000 Cal
• 1/4 OF THE HALF SUPER NACHOS FROM RAMIREZ!!! 1,000,000 Cal

Okay, I don't know how much that crap was. Lets say....900 Cal? The point is, I messed up and I am totally bummed. I just gotta get back on the horse.

Also, I feel like crap today. This always happens when I eat really unhealthy foods. My back is burning, my tummy aches, and I just hurt all over. So there ya go.

On the upside I got told I look like a blond Audry Hepburn. Please excuse the massive roots.