Day #67 Weight loss goal met, now what? The first 100 days: A journey to health & wellness.
Day # 67 Sean: I hit my weight loss goal! I have lost 20 lbs. My weight loss had plateaued for a few weeks and to be honest I was becoming a bit discouraged. Since making a few changes suggested by Dr. Sferra, I have lost weight two […]
Day #60 Progress Update. The first 100 days: A journey to health & wellness
Day #60 On Sunday 3/16/14 (yesterday) we ran the NYC ½ marathon (see pics above). It was an amazing experience! We ran around Central Park (with a dip into Harlem), through Times Square, down the West Side Highway and finished on Wall Street. We both did well, surprisingly well. We give a lot […]
Week 5 (Day 31 – 38) Make healthy food choices while on vacation. The first 100 days: A journey to health and wellness
Week 5 (Day 31-38) : Learning how to make healthy food choices and create new habits while on vacation at Disney World. This week was our first weight management test. Up until this point, minus the initial 7 day detox we have found it fairly easy to follow the weight management plan. Each day […]
Day #30 Progress Update. The first 100 days: A journey to health and wellness
We have 10 weeks left to go for this project – The first 100 days: A journey to health and wellness. Going forward we will post an update each Monday (instead of daily) and we will continue to post progress updates (including pictures and measurements) every 15 days. Each week we will post: Our goals for […]
Day #27- #29 The first 100 days: A journey to health and wellness
Day #27- #29 Over the weekend we have been busy getting ready for our trip to Disney, working out at the gym and preparing for our 30 day progress update. We are surprised by our physical changes even though we haven’t seen any changes on the scale for 2 weeks. Tomorrow we will post our […]
Day #26 Valentine’s Day. The first 100 days: A journey to health and wellness
Day #26 Happy Valentine’s Day! Sean: Every holiday I make Kristen a holiday themed breakfast. I had to search a bit to find a healthy Valentine’s Day breakfast recipe. (A lot of recipes claim to be healthy.) This morning I made Kristen Ezekiel bread French toast topped with berries and mini egg and veggie muffins […]
Day #24- #25 Healthy comfort food. The first 100 days: A journey to health and wellness
Day #24 – #25 It isn’t easy sticking to the weight management plan on a Snow Day. We both really wanted to eat comfort food and snuggle under a blanket all day. We made Ground Turkey and Sweet Potato Chili, a healthy alternative to typical comfort food. We forced ourselves to exercise too, besides the snow shoveling we also […]
Day #23 Portion Control. The first 100 days: A journey to health and wellness.
Day #23 Portion control is not something we have discussed in the past but it has been a big part of our success. Dr. Sferra gave us portion control advice when we began this journey. He told us to follow the hand chart (shown above) because it is a good reference to have when making […]
Day #22 – Week 3 progress. The first 100 days: A journey to health and wellness
Day #22 Progress update and week 4 plans and goals. Week 3 weight management progress update: Neither of us lost weight during week 3. Although we didn’t see any changes on the scale, we feel great. We also feel noticeably stronger (and slightly sore) as a result of our weight training during the week. Sean: Although it […]
Day #19 and Day #20 The first 100 days: A journey to health and wellness
Day #19 and #20 Sean: “It’s not easy, but it’s worth it.” I have repeated that quote in my head about 100 times this week. Most of the week I felt hungry, despite eating hearty portions of food and drinking 4-5 glasses of water per day. Then to make it worse, at work there were […]
