Happy New Year Guys, Hey don't judge me, Close your eyes and pretend like it January jare, whats ya own sef. So I am back *Standing Ovation* No? and better i guess. It was an awesome and in fact weird 2015 and i''m unhappy to say i gained a few of those miserable pound back *insert sad face* I don't want to say it wasn't my fault because really, I was the one making the food choices and shoving them down my throat so yes it is my fault! and sadly i was aware every step of the way as i was putting on those miserable pounds. You know for we food lovers, the best part of the year is always and always the end of the year: there is Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year, all the parties, all the food, the glorious, amazing, tasty, beautiful food! *sigh* memories. And also over here in the states, winter is my best time of the year by the way but it also means less motivation to go out there and sweat it out after all that summer barbecues. So that pretty much sums up the story of how i got to this point. This point right here.
I put back on about 10 more pounds of beautiful fat, and i almost fainted when i got on that scale. I could actually hear the sarcastic laugh from the scale and then i started thinking about my many sins. I started reflecting and i realized this is the heaviest i have ever bee in in my life and i haven't even had kids yet, that reality was enough to wake a sister up! So people, i am back on my paleo diet grind and i have a focus and a timeline. Feel free to join me and biko pray for me ehn that i don't fall of the damn wagon again.
I am now at a very annoying and hefty 292 pounds. Yes i said it 292!!! scary right? And then there's those people who keep saying "Vivian, you are losing weight o" But ehn, when you know you just know. Its hard to deceive yourself, I just smile and say "You think so? I'm not tho" and then the conversation goes on and on about weight loss. I started my reset officially on the 3rd of March after a month of procrastination and face stuffing with food and i'm happy to say its been a week and i feel Amazing!!! Yes, i really do, I know i'm making progress but only the scale can confirm it, i'll weigh myself in a week or so. I bought a waist trainer too to aid in the process and i do fitness blender workouts on you tube for now. Will eventually have to add some gym cardio by the end of the month and that's pretty much my routine for now and i guess i'm on the right track.
Now lets talk about food that's what we're here for anyways. So my diet routine is more of a lifestyle choice to 'hep masef'. Its the paleo diet life that i'm adopting mainly because i have used it before and its pretty straight forward and it worked wonders but i tweak mine just a teeny bit because i'm Nigerian and a very picky eater and also because i can. I am not really a breakfast person but in order to lose weight I have to eat and not starve so my body doesn't protest (more about that in another post). I'm just going to briefly state what i eat then probably in later posts do like a table with choices. Mornings are for Green Tea and an Apple if i'm not too hungry, or 2 scrambled eggs if i'm very hungry and Green tea, At about noon, i grab a snack which is usually, a handful peanuts/groundnuts and a handful of granola bits or a handful of plain plantain chips and raisins. I always drink water like a fish, that's standard, then for lunch i have a cup of quinoa and Kale with some stew and baked chicken thigh for a heavy lunch, or just a piece chicken thigh and stew for a light lunch, then i snack again on an apple or green tea. For dinner i love spinach with stew and chicken thigh, then if before bed time i'm still feeling peckish, a fruit comes in handy, preferably an Apple. I love Apples, i never get tired of eating apples, but to change it up sometimes, i eat a handful of grapes or an orange. I'm still working on adding more paleo friendly varieties to my menu but for now this just works.
So there we have it, what i have been doing for the past week and a half, my goal is to lose like 60 pounds by my birthday 25th July. Yes i'm a Leo! Strong, Brave, Loyal, Courageous Leo and i'm thinking of giving myself that as a birthday gift marking a milestone. I will keep everyone in the loop on how its going, I'm going to shed more light on Paleo Diet in my Next Post.
Have a wonderful Week ahead!
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
First of all..INTRODUCTION!!!
This is officially my first blog post *applause*?No? *standing ovation*? No? Oh well, I'll settle for the silence then...My name is Vivian and i am currently what society calls a "Plus size girl" US size 16, 5 feet 11 inches tall, 24 years old and i have a weight problem as you will find out later.. I have actually had this problem for as long as i can remember. I remember in Secondary school I'd watch my best friend (Morenike) prance around and actually wish i could be like her. I am not saying being however you are is bad, its just that in the mind of a 12 year old girl, living in Lagos, accompanied with shouts of "Orobo", " Biggy" from classmates, people in the marketplace, people in your neighbourhood, some relatives and all that, you start to feel after a while that you have been cursed forever and you start to wish you were not the way you are. Some would say its Low self esteem, but i personally feel its totally normal for a teenager, moving on.
Lets go back in time for a bit, It all started one beautiful day in July, specifically on the 25th morning in July a healthy, beautiful 10 pound baby girl was brought into the world by an amazing woman and she was named Vivian :). The amazing woman could not walk on her own for about 2 days due to the size of that baby and everybody in the hospital "ooh-ed" and "aah-ed" at such a "big" bundle of Joy.
Fast forward to 9 years after that when the healthy little girl first started Secondary School, she was the biggest and tallest in her class but never realized there was a name for that until a classmate of her described her as "an overgrown baby" that was when she realized what she was or rather what people called her.
Again fast forward to a couple of years after that, college, finally! There she met all sorts of People from different parts of the country and dare i say, the world. Tall, Not so Tall a.k.a Short, Slim, Not so slim or Fat, Average or Normal (side note: what is normal anyways?, who decides what normal is? Topic for another day) and she thought to herself, "I just might blend in here". She became active in basketball and judo but still maintained her normal eating habits, the weight kept dropping off and coming back on, and every of her friend that knew her, knew she always obsessed about her weight.
And the one beautiful day, on January 11th 2015, an amazing Aunt of hers first mentioned " The Paleo Diet"(okay I'm getting tired of this third person thing, back to reality).
I first heard about Paleo Diet on the 11th of January 2015 from an Amazing Aunt of mine and her Super cool Husband, and as usual, i went online and began my research on it. I became enlightened but as is normal with Nigerians very skeptical but i decided to start the diet with my aunt mainly because i had tried mostly everything, i just needed to lose weight. I was weighing a hefty 286 pounds after the merriment that is associated with Thanksgiving, Christmas and New year. We started the Paleo Life on the 12th of January and i was very dedicated to it without any form of exercise, by the 7th of February, i was down to 268 pounds. I went on the scale to weigh-in and i could not believe my eyes,i never hexperrect it, i went back on the scale five more times and i still saw the same result, i had gone down one dress size, it was like a dream come true. I became truly ecstatic and it all went downhill from there, i gradually went back to my regular eating habits and in two months i gained it all back beautifully. Lol.
As of 9th June 2015, i was still 285 pounds, still wearing a size 16, still 6 feet tall, and still obese. I restarted my Paleo way of Life and as at today i am 279 pounds, 7 pounds lighter. All i did was eat a balanced meal, with the right combination of food, workout, drinking water and lots of sleep. And so a friend of mine (Chinwe) said, why don't you blog about it, that way you would be able to stay accountable and in the process, help other people who struggle with weight loss but don't want to resort to harmful means to lose the weight and that's how PALEOCHOPS was born.
I hope i did not bore you with this long story but i just felt i should put this out there. Look out for my next post where i discuss what Paleo diet is and how we can continue this journey to wellness together...xoxo
Again fast forward to a couple of years after that, college, finally! There she met all sorts of People from different parts of the country and dare i say, the world. Tall, Not so Tall a.k.a Short, Slim, Not so slim or Fat, Average or Normal (side note: what is normal anyways?, who decides what normal is? Topic for another day) and she thought to herself, "I just might blend in here". She became active in basketball and judo but still maintained her normal eating habits, the weight kept dropping off and coming back on, and every of her friend that knew her, knew she always obsessed about her weight.
And the one beautiful day, on January 11th 2015, an amazing Aunt of hers first mentioned " The Paleo Diet"(okay I'm getting tired of this third person thing, back to reality).
I first heard about Paleo Diet on the 11th of January 2015 from an Amazing Aunt of mine and her Super cool Husband, and as usual, i went online and began my research on it. I became enlightened but as is normal with Nigerians very skeptical but i decided to start the diet with my aunt mainly because i had tried mostly everything, i just needed to lose weight. I was weighing a hefty 286 pounds after the merriment that is associated with Thanksgiving, Christmas and New year. We started the Paleo Life on the 12th of January and i was very dedicated to it without any form of exercise, by the 7th of February, i was down to 268 pounds. I went on the scale to weigh-in and i could not believe my eyes,i never hexperrect it, i went back on the scale five more times and i still saw the same result, i had gone down one dress size, it was like a dream come true. I became truly ecstatic and it all went downhill from there, i gradually went back to my regular eating habits and in two months i gained it all back beautifully. Lol.
As of 9th June 2015, i was still 285 pounds, still wearing a size 16, still 6 feet tall, and still obese. I restarted my Paleo way of Life and as at today i am 279 pounds, 7 pounds lighter. All i did was eat a balanced meal, with the right combination of food, workout, drinking water and lots of sleep. And so a friend of mine (Chinwe) said, why don't you blog about it, that way you would be able to stay accountable and in the process, help other people who struggle with weight loss but don't want to resort to harmful means to lose the weight and that's how PALEOCHOPS was born.
I hope i did not bore you with this long story but i just felt i should put this out there. Look out for my next post where i discuss what Paleo diet is and how we can continue this journey to wellness together...xoxo
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