Day 168 Where Have I Been?

I have lot to catch you up on for the past 11 days, but for now I am going to have to wait. I am currently on antibiotics and fighting a infection in my finger. I got a hangnail that got really infected , I went to the ER to get it lanced my finger didn't have much pus in the infection; it was mostly infected blood. The doctor was very surprised that they were no pus mostly blood and also very worried too. As I am writing this I am writing with one hand it takes alot of time to write this post.

Hopefully I'll be back in a week or sooner, it solely depends on how my finger is. I have lot to write up about my journey on getting healthy but it's going to wait until I feel better.

Question does anyone have any good suggestions to fight upset stomach from antibiotics?

179 Days To Reset My Life

The title is pretty interesting huh? Curious what it's about me wanting to really take control of my weight issues that I have. I have 179 days until my 24th birthday, when I was younger I had imagine myself being at a health weight by then and not being overweight. 

I have always been overweight except for a few years where I was at a healthy weight and I liked being at a healthy weight. I want to go back to my healthy weight , I want to be proud of myself and not unhappy with the way I look.So I look at the next 179 days as a chance to reset my life and to learn how to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

As of today I am typing this because I am going to be writing about this journey , I will still my vegan reviews of places and food. However I am going to blog about my journey during these next 179 days, it's something that is dear to me. I am doing these journey without a trainer or a weight loss program, this will be something I will be figuring out on my own.

Some thing's that will assist in me with this journey are my food scale that I recently had gotten, my dumbbells 3lbs & 5lbs, my Wii Fit Plus & Just Dance 3 game. Also the apartment I live in has a swimming pool plus a workout room with cable. I know that with the things listed above will help me during the next 179 days, now on to the important details where I am at right now.

My current weight is at 251.6 pounds as of right now, I used my mom's scale to get that number. I know I need a scale myself to keep track of my weight loss. My ultimate goal is to get down to 165-175 range I would be happy and pleased.

My Past Week Via Pictures ( Warning Pic Heavy)

My new favorite plant based milk. It's so good.

Homemade Pizza

Homemade Vegan Coleslaw.

Salad with homemade green dressing.

Messy Kitchen almost everyday.

Blister from new shoes after 10 minutes. 

Failed Cupcakes :-(.

Chickpea Popper's too spicy this time.

Marini's Avocado & SW Black bean  Empandas with salad.

Burnt my finger's so it hurts to type.

Weight loss update & Weekend Fun pt.1

I have alot about this weekend to post so I am going to break it down into two post's so that I don't scary you off with alot of words. However I did good this week on weight loss I lost 4.4 lbs but gained +1.8lbs so I figured I am still doing good with my weight loss journey. I didn't really keep track of what I eat this past week but this upcoming week I'll start posting what I eat week to week while I lose weight.

Source

Beside's the weight loss update , I had a great weekend. I am going to break down my weekend into multiple post's for this week because I splurged and got things that I normally don't get. I loved that I got to go to the Farmer's Market on Kirby in Houston; I am not sure if that's the right street or not. It was beautiful weekend , great weather and beautiful tomato's.

My mom showing how big the tomato is compared to the others.

This is just a quick short post I am working on the other parts of this post of this past weekend. I didn't get any photo's of remaining part of the farmer's market except for a few awesome photo's of the things I splurged on.

Beautiful tomato's from farmer's market

What's your favorite thing about going to Farmer's Market, leave a comment below.

My experience on this journey

I have been absent from blogging due multiple things going on, for one I am looking for a job. Well looking for a job is not easy in this economy so it demands alot of me. I have been working out more with my free time and I love it. Before I start this blog I was very overweight in fact I almost weigh about 290 at my highest, that was when I was very unhealthy.

It's took me about 1 year of learning how to get in a groove of wanting to get healthy. This year I will be able  to lose my weight and will be able to keep it off. This past year before I went vegan it was a very rough year or two. I went from being vegetarian to vegan overnight due high sensitive to milk and all milk products.

I really didn't understand until a few months ago what the exact healthy benefits where of a plant based diet (vegan). It was like overnight results and they are still continuing. The picture on the left is from November 2009 and the picture on the right is from November 2011.

I didn't really notice the different until I found my pictures on my camera from the past year's and noticed the weight different. However this is the only the begin I am going to continue to this process to lose weight, I am at 250 now. I know it's not the best weight but I have kept it off and I am continuing to lose the weight.

I am really putting myself out here to explain that my blog is going to be changing alot , after thinking this over. I am going to keep the name but however my focus on going to be primarily on weight loss journey while here in Texas. I am going to keep on doing reviews of everything that comes my way that is part of the plant based diet; notice that I am not really using the word vegan. I feel that it's way overused these days but yes I will consider myself vegan.

What do you think of my new direction for my blog? Be honest please I am open to feedback.