Welcome to Toppling Goliaths! I’m Christy and this is the unabashed, often embarrassing, story of me owning up to my own bullshit and toppling the goliaths in my life. I am married to James who has been my partner in crime, my “ride or die” and the love of my life for the past twenty-one years. Together we are the parents to six kiddo’s, Koda, …
My name is Christy and this blog is dedicated to following my journey as I attempt to get my body and my mind to a healthier state of being. For the last decade trying to get and stay healthy has been an uphill battle for me that finally culminated with a heart attack and a double bypass at the ripe old age of forty one. …
“You can’t solve a problem on the same level it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.” Albert Einstein Yesterday and today are both big days for me. I see the cardiologist today and I am anxious to see what he has to say about my labs I had drawn yesterday morning. I weighed in at 179 pounds so I …
My ADD has officially kicked in this week. I’m bored with Keto now. I’m sick of eating chicken thighs, and I am super sick of cheese. I should clarify though, every single Keto recipe we have tried has been delicious. Seriously. Ninety percent of the recipes we have tried have come from the Diet Doctor website and they have been fantastic. There doesn’t seem to …
It was easier following Keto when I had preplanned meals laid out for me from Diet Doctor. We don’t know enough Keto recipes to come up with our own meal plans just yet. We tried winging it by picking a protein and vegetable but I found myself just eating meat, cheese and vegetables. I can’t eat the same thing everyday, that’s far too monotonous for …
As many of you know the last week has been crazy hectic for us as a family. Between our daughter being hospitalized and my mom being released from the rehab facility to come stay with us, it was a very long week. With everything going on I chose to not follow my Keto diet, it was stressing me out trying to food that would keep …
Today I cheated on my Keto diet. I wasn’t going to blog about, but then I remembered I promised to own up to my own bullshit, so here we are. I don’t know why I did it. Maybe it was because I weighed myself and I was disappointed when I hadn’t lost anymore weight since last Weds. I shouldn’t have weighed myself yet I know …
Well, week 1 is officially in the books. It has been a long week for all of us. Keto Update: We made it through our first official week of Keto! It wasn’t a perfect week for either of us, and we aren’t in Ketosis yet according to our keto meters, but we made it through. In order to be in the range for weight loss …
As promised here are the starting numbers from the labwork I had done at my most recent doctor visit on January 10th. The body measurements are from today, January 30th. I didn’t think to take them before we started so I’m sure some of them have already changed. For example I weighed 191 pounds on the 10th at the doctors visit and when I weighed …
“Quarantined for 10 days” was what the guy from the Iowa Department of Health said when I asked him how long we needed to quarantine since Kierra tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday. Everything else he said didnt really register after that. Where had she been the last week, what schools do all of our kids attend, had we traveled to other counties, question after question. …
Every Wednesday I am weighing myself. I know that some diets have you not weigh yourself, but I can’t help it, I have to. I loved the accountability of the weekly weigh-in when I did Weight Watchers so I am implementing it again. This way I can formally track my progress and hold myself accountable. The picture is from my Fitbit app, taken after my …
