Saturday!

I actually had a Saturday off! Wow! I'm still doing good on my eating, but I haven't worked out again yet. The kids even BEGGED me to take them to the track and walk tonight, but I'm still really sore and I'm SO enjoying the day off from work, so I promised I'd take them on Monday.

Food/Water from yesterday:

8am: banana & 8 oz chocolate milk
11:30am: celery & fat free dip
3:00pm: salad w/baked breaded chk patty, corn, cheese, salsa & ff sour cream
7:30pm: salad w/boiled egg, ham, cheese, craisins & ff Catalina dressing
10pm: banana
I drank lots and lots of water again! I felt very yucky and water logged... I swear I need bread to soak up the water in my tummy LOL

Food/Water today:

11am: two scrambled eggs w/cheddar cheese
12:30pm: "cutie" orange & 8 oz chocolate milk
5:30pm: bbq grilled chicken salad from Applebees
7pm: 1 chocolate kiss
9pm: herbal tea w/2 tsp sugar & small amount skim milk
I didn't drink as much water today, but I still drank at least 8 cups. After the yucky watery feeling of yesterday I decided to lay off just a bit.

Hooray for day three of healthy eating!

It's Been Forever!

I have SO slacked on this blog, but even worse than that I've slacked on being healthy, at all!

Instead of making this posting a confession time, I'm instead going to make this a I'm-back-on-the-wagon-and-from-here-on-out-going-to-be-better posting :)

Yesterday's Food/Water/Exercise:

8am- 8oz 1% chocolate milk & a banana
11:30am- romaine lettuce salad w/low fat ham, cheese, boiled egg, craisins & ff Catalina dressing
2:30pm- 30 minutes on exercise bike (did 6 miles of rolling hills), 15 minutes weight lifting
3:30pm- banana & boiled egg
4:30pm- 1 can Healthy Request soup
7:00pm- mug of Pero w/2 tsp sugar & a bit of skim milk
9:30pm- 4 celery stalks w/ff dip made of cream cheese, cottage cheese & sour cream
all day- drank lots and lots of water (and peed like every 30 minutes LOL)
10:30pm- did a bit of stretching

Measurements 1-14-10

Waist: 37"
Hips: 44"
R. Arm: 14"
L. Arm: 14 1/4"
R. Thigh: 25 1/4"
L. Thigh: 25"
Weight: 174

I seem to be right at my standard measurements... I sometimes go up and down, but when I'm not working out and eating right then this is where I am. I've packed healthy food for lunch and dinner again, so today should be another good day. I'm also planning on working out again tonight, even though I'm way sore.

I'm trying to avoid carbs for a week to work the cravings out of my body and then I'll introduce whole grains back in. Wish me luck!!!

I'm finally posting

I've been doing a 20 minute work-out every night before bed. It's not a lot, but it's something. I've been big time craving chocolate this past week and I keep picking at it. I need to just sit down and have a giant candy bar or something, because the picking here and there isn't satisfying the craving and I'm sure I'm taking in more fat and calories than if I just pigged out once and got over it.

I've been good at throwing away things that I'm full of or don't like instead of feeling like I'm "wasting" it and finishing it even if I don't want it. The other day I bought a natural sugar Pepsi because I was having a rough day and really needing some carbonation. The drink was really gross and I threw half away. I was proud of myself for tossing it since that would have been another 100-something calories and I wasn't getting any enjoyment out of it. Also at Costco, the kids and I had frozen yogurt. I ate half and threw the rest away because I was full. Usually I would just finish it, so it wasn't going to "waste".

Hopefully these little things are adding up???

Eating Out

I've eaten out four times this week! Four! It was my birthday on Wednesday, so we did lunch then and on Thursday I went out with family that's in town. Friday and today I worked all day and night so I ate out a meal for each of those. No wonder why I'm feeling extra fat. Other than the eating out I've been making healthier choices, but restaurant food... bleh

Hmmm...

I haven't got any exercise squeezed in yet. (and that sentence sounds like I'm illiterate... LOL)

I'm working days and nights, plus taking care of 3 kids and doing school stuff and church stuff. Ugh!

I've been doing ok on eating. I've been sticking to the no eating past 9pm thing and although I've been going to bed hungry and grouchy, I know it's something I need to do. Also, I have been only having one sweet in a sitting instead picking and picking at them.

Yesterday I had to take a salad and dessert to someone in my ward and I just bought them donuts instead of making something so I wouldn't be tempted to eat them (I had a horrible afternoon and would have chowed way too much). And I only made a really small batch of cookies for my kids' afternoon snack today so there was only enough for me to have two small cookies and the rest were for them. That way I don't have cookies floating around my house for days.

So... I'm making little changes! Baby steps, right?

Today

I did ok. Not great, but not horrendous. I resisted the soda pop at work and I limited myself to one rice crispy treat at work and no other treats, even though there were TONS available.

At home I had two small brownies (at different times) and some low fat ice cream. Like I said, not great. But I did limit myself even though I really, really wanted more.

I drank a lot of water. Overall, blah.... but it is an improvement over what I've been doing.

Uggghhhh

Here are the measurements... *sniff, sniff*

waist: 37 1/2"
hips: 43 1/2"
r arm: 14"
l arm: 14 1/2"
r thigh: 25"
l thigh: 24 3/4"

I'm not even going to post these on my sidebar. It's too depressing. I've put on a lot in the last month. Obviously the play I'm directing was too much to take on. The stress is showing in my inches gained. Well...

I did a 30 minute dance work-out tonight. My food today was so-so. I did pretty good until this evening... then I blew it with the cheese sauce and chocolate bunny.

2 muffins
1 small slice oatmeal bread
granola bar
turkey & swiss on whole wheat
turkey chili w/ lowfat sour cream & cheese
a few bites of a dark chocolate bunny
baked french fries w/cheese sauce, cheese & ketchup
lots and lots and lots of water

Did I mention lots of water? I think I peed every half an hour all day!

Look at Me Go!

Posting twice in one day!

I did a good 30 minute dance work-out this evening. It kicked my butt! I'm so uncoordinated when it comes to dancing! One of the segments I did tonight was a swing dancing one and I just couldn't get it down. Oh well... I'm hot and sweaty and worn out, so even uncoordinated I'm burning calories :)

Today for food I had:

*3 tortillas filled with fat-free refried beans, cheese, light sour cream and salsa
*low fat oatmeal peach bread
*herbal tea
*water
*100 calorie snack thingy

I'm planning to do my measurements in the morning. I haven't done them for a while and I need a starting point. I'm determined to not buy bigger pants!!! If I have to wear the same thing everyday until I can fit back in my clothes then I will!

Slacker

Yes, I am a slacker :(

Although yesterday when we went out to eat I desperately wanted a burger and fries... but instead I ordered a chicken/steak/steamed veggies bowl with brown rice since I had eaten nachos and chocolate cake the night before. I thought I better not blow it too much two days in a row.

Last night for dinner I had a turkey and swiss on whole wheat and some bbq beans. Not too bad yesterday.

I'm so sad that my clothes are getting too small for me. I really need to start losing again. It's depressing how big the pile of clothes is that I can no longer squeeze into. I haven't seen my hubby since the first of January and he's gonna be very disappointed when he sees me in three weeks and realizes how fat I am.

For anyone who's curious, the dvd I'm doing is called 10 Minute Solution... Dance Off Fat Fast. And I swear the girl is a stripper... LOL So, not only will I learn to stripper dance in the "flirty fat burner" segment, I'll be skinny too! Won't my hubby be happy :) ha ha ha... if only I wasn't completely uncoordinated and stuffing my face with nachos!

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Monday :)

I had someone ask me what Pero is so I thought I'd share. I really enjoy it. I put a bit of sugar and some skim milk in mine. Mmmm


You can see by the nutritional facts it's a pretty good drink. I like to drink herbal tea or Pero at night when I'm really craving goodies.


I thought I'd also show what I made for dinner tonight. The kids hated it. Caleb even spit out the one bite he took into the garbage. So... it was pb&j for them (with no bed-time snacks) and I ate up my spinach bake like a good girl :)


I've been doing ok on my food. I need to get into the exercise habit, but after last time when I hurt myself I haven't wanted to risk it. My goal last week was to squeeze 90 minutes of exercise into my busy schedule and I only got 30 minutes... at least it's better than the week before, which was 0. This week I'm gonna try and improve.

Checkin' In...

I'm just pluggin' along. My eating has been so-so. I haven't totally blown it or anything, but I did eat a lot of pumpkin bread last night which would've been really low fat except it had white chocolate chips in it. But I also had lots of spinach salad... yum and some meatloaf and corn. I had a cabbage chicken salad for lunch. Breakfast was whole wheat toast and scrambled eggs w/ a bit of cheese. So, you can see... so-so. Would've been fantastic if it wasn't for that blasted delicious pumpkin bread... good thing it's all gone!

Now I'm off to eat breakfast :)

Food Today

big glass of Pero
granola bar
string cheese
Healthy Choice frozen chicken & rice meal
homemade chicken noodle soup... yum!
corn muffin
cookies
water

You can see, besides the cookies, I did really well today. Yesterday I did pretty well too :)

LOL

I was uploading cookie pictures for my other blog and caught a glimpse of myself in the web cam. I thought I'd snap a pic and share the moment with all of you. Thank goodness those cookies are gone!!!!!!!!

New Week, New Start and A Couple of Bubbles Burst

Yesterdays food:
bowl of cheerios w/skim milk
banana
big bowl of minestrone soup
2 slices french bread
smores...lol
water

Bubble #1- I was mentioning to my hubby that I did great all week, but blew it on the weekend. I was feeling pretty good about the week overall until my hubby said, "If you blow it on the weekend you ruin everything you did all week. You probably did more damage than if you just wouldn't have tried at all." *POP* So then I felt like crap. Thanks hubby :(


Bubble #2- So, my morning today has been insanely crazy. But a food highlight of it was when I got up to make french toast for my kids. They love french toast and I rarely make it. I used whole wheat bread of course, which isn't as good as white, but healthier. It's been months since I've made french toast so I thought they'd be all excited. My daughter walks in the kitchen, "Nikee (her dads' girlfriend) made french toast for dinner last night with french bread and homemade syrup that was the best I've ever had." *POP* Well... I pretty much wanted to throw my french toast out the window. So much for doing something nice for my kids. And Nikee probably used my recipe for the stupid homemade syrup because I know Matt has it in a cookbook I made.

Anyways.... This week I'm gonna try and do good all week, even on the weekend.

Wednesday Food

Breakfast:
huge bowl of oatmeal
natural apple butter
slivered almonds
1 T brown sugar
splash skim milk
1 c chocolate milk

Lunch:
granola bar
string cheese
snack baggie stuffed with carrots
water

Snack:
banana
20 oz cherry coke (I had a massive headache coming on)

Dinner:
large salad filled with:
romaine lettuce
shredded pork
kidney beans
corn
cucumbers
1 T sour cream
a bit of 20 calorie dressing
water

Snack:
1 square bliss chocolate

After work snack:
herbal tea
banana

Not too bad, I think. I felt full most of the day and I didn't really crave anything other than caffeine to get rid of the headache. I'm not sure if it's stress (most likely) or lack of sleep or the need for glasses, but I've been getting headaches frequently.

Brave or Crazy?

I'm directing a children's play at my kids school. There are 50 kids in it. I send emails to the parents all the time and I have my American Homemaker blog link in the signature, which means lots of parents at our school can easily find their way here to my list of measurements and weight. (Welcome school parents!) I was told by a nice (and skinny) mom today that I'm really brave to post my measurements and weight. So I ask, is it brave or stupid? Should I advertise what I weigh to everyone I know?

I also had someone tell me today I look like I'm getting skinny. Is it just because they saw my weight-loss blog and they want me to feel good?

I'm obviously not going to stop posting my weight. I truly think there is no greater motivator than knowing everyone I know sees if I succeed of fail, but it's just something I was thinking about. I had a friend that stopped donating plasma because my ex got a part-time job there as a phlebotomist and she didn't want someone she knew to know her weight. She lost out on extra grocery money and hello, it's not like his wife was a size 2! Anyways... I'm just rambling now.

Hope everyone is having a good week so far! I'm doing ok. I had blueberries, mushrooms and squash today. I've eaten other things too, but I'm proud of myself for sticking to my goal of eating more fresh fruits and veggies. I've slacked at the sleep thing. I DESPERATELY want more sleep, but my schedule is so hectic I just haven't been able to make it happen. But tonight I am determined!!! to get to bed by 11pm. Working out. Hhmmm.... yeah..... honestly I don't have any desire at all to exercise. Sad but true. I'm physically and emotionally exhausted every day and I think if I tried to fit in exercise I'd start crying. I'm not even joking.

Today:
1 egg
1 slice whole wheat toast
blueberries
2 granola bars
string cheese
stroganoff
mushrooms
squash
water

We won't even talk about yesterdays 1/4lb polish dog, coke and frozen yogurt I had at Costco :(

It's been a long week

I finally feel mostly better from my accident, but my week has just been insane. I have so many things going on right now at work, home and my kids school I'm barely keeping up. I did have a good evening with friends tonight. (It's mine and hubby's first anniversary)

I also had some salad and blackberries with my dinner. (yea! fresh fruit & veggies!) I finally got to go shopping this week after four weeks of living off my food storage. I'm loving having fresh food again. We had eggplant parmesan which I fried, so it wasn't that healthy, but just having the fresh veggies makes me soooo happy.

I also got a book in the mail this week from Jen. I'm so excited to start digging through it and try out the recipes. Thanks Jen! You are an amazing inspiration.

Hopefully I will be better at posting this coming week. I'll try but with all that I have going on, I'll be happy to get in a posting here every other day, so that's my goal for the week.

I'm directing a play (with a cast of 50 little kids), doing "Val-o-grams" at our school, I have activity days for my church, my Kid Time activity at work, regular work, keeping up with three kids and a house by myself and getting stuff ready for three swaps. What was I thinking? But honestly when I signed up for the swaps I didn't know I'd be in an accident, which put me behind on EVERYTHING or that I'd be directing a play. The director backed out and took his script with him, so I'm frantically trying to take over a cast of 50 kindergarten through 3rd graders and starting from scratch. Crazy!!!

So anyways.... Hope everyone else's week will be a lot less stress than mine!

Monday's Measurements

I'm really slacking. It's one thing after another that keeps me from eating right and exercising and what it comes down to is I'm just not motivated. I have no healthy foods in my house that are easy to fix. I'm tired and worn out and now sore so I don't want to work out. I feel like a big loser with this blog and not the good kind of loser... lol. I basically just post my failings every day. Pay day is Thursday (hip-hip-hooray!) and I'll be going grocery shopping for the first time in four weeks. I'm planning on big-time buying fruits and veggies. But I know my hubby and I will be going out to dinner on Saturday night, so once again, one more thing to throw me off :(

Here are todays stats:

1/12/09:
weight: 168
waist: 35 1/2
hips: 43 1/2
r thigh: 25
l thigh: 24 1/2
r arm: 14
l arm: 14 1/2

Here are my stats two weeks ago:

12/29/08:
weight: 166
waist: 36
hips: 43
r thigh: 25
l thigh: 24 1/2
r arm: 14
l arm: 14 1/2

By looking at my food, you can see I don't eat a large amount of food, it's just the wrong kind of food. Once I can go buy fruits and veggies again that will change. I'll be able to eat more and take in less calories.

So far today (it's about 12:30) all I've eaten:

two granola bars
two string cheese
reduced fat wheat thins
water
already eaten 656 calories and I'm hungry!!!
I've really, really, really need to buy some good food!

Yesterdays food:
2 eggs
3 pieces bacon
5 muffins
chili made with steak
bread bowl
water
orange juice
about 2300 calories

Saturdays food:
bagel
reduced fat cream cheese
root beer float
hawaiian pizza
orange juice
two small pasteries
about 2500 calories

To eat less than 1700 calories I really need to cool it. One problem I'm running into is when I'm at work I'm really hungry. Then someone offers me whatever junk at the moment and I take it. In my upcoming grocery shopping I'm going to plan in food to take to work. This year has not gotten off to a very healthy start :(

I am doing ok on my sleep goal... LOL But it's just because I'm on muscle relaxers. I'm not going to take any more of them, so I need to focus on getting to bed on time. I think I'm going to plan out a breakfast and lunch menu for myself also to get me back on track!

FitDay.com

My friend Karalee reminded me about FitDay.com. I used to use it all the time when I was working on weight loss. I went back through and tracked my calories for the last couple of days just to see what I'm taking in. I also put in my height, weight, age, blah, blah and whatever else. I find it funny that at a size 12 I'm obese, but whatever. I do have a 32% body fat (sick)... but at least it's not 100%... lol And my "healthy weight" is between 101 and 136 lbs... LOL If I was 101 lbs I'd be dead. In high school I was totally in shape and a curvy 125 lbs. According to them to meet my goal of 140 lbs by June 1st I have to lose 1.26 lbs per week. To do that I need to restrict my caloric intake by 632 calories a day. Not too hard... LOL I just need to drop the doughnuts and pumpkin bars. It says I should be eating around 1700 calories a day. So there ya go. I'm not really into counting calories, but I need to kick butt and get over this loss of motivation.