Breakfast: packet of oatmeal, banana and coffee (w/cream and sugar)
Snack: apple with TBSP of peanutbutter
Lunch: 4 oz chicken with veggie soup and 1/2 cup brown rice added to the soup
Snack: hummus with veggies and 94% fat free microwave popcorn
Dinner: veggie burger, collard greens/onion/garlic sauteed in a little bit of olive oil and a baked potato with 1 tsp butter and 1 TBSP of sour cream
The total points for this is roughly 29 points, which is right around what I should be having. I'm also going to try and exercise again.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Another good day!
I did well today. I didn't stick quite to what I was going to eat but the calorie intake was roughly the same. Here is what I ended up eating:
Breakfast: Toast w/ a little butter and one egg and two egg whites
coffee with cream and sugar
Snack: banana
Lunch: 1/2 turkey sandwich with a little mayo
veggie soup with about 1/4 cup of added rice
snack: 94% fat free microwave popcorn
a few handfuls of fishy crackers
2 tortilla chips
Dinner: Lasagna and green beans
two bites of a granola bar
All these "bites" of something or just "2 or 3" of something all has to do with me having samples of my kid's snacks. I'm not going to get upset about a few bites here and there for now, but my goal is to stop sampling food I wasn't planning on eating in the first place.
All in all - a great day!! Oh, and if you've read my post from earlier today I should let you know that I'm VERY sore....Jillian beat me up GOOD!
Breakfast: Toast w/ a little butter and one egg and two egg whites
coffee with cream and sugar
Snack: banana
Lunch: 1/2 turkey sandwich with a little mayo
veggie soup with about 1/4 cup of added rice
snack: 94% fat free microwave popcorn
a few handfuls of fishy crackers
2 tortilla chips
Dinner: Lasagna and green beans
two bites of a granola bar
All these "bites" of something or just "2 or 3" of something all has to do with me having samples of my kid's snacks. I'm not going to get upset about a few bites here and there for now, but my goal is to stop sampling food I wasn't planning on eating in the first place.
All in all - a great day!! Oh, and if you've read my post from earlier today I should let you know that I'm VERY sore....Jillian beat me up GOOD!
Sweating
A forty five minute Jillian Michael's "Cardio Blast" workout is DONE!
I dropped my older two kids off at preschool, stuck the little one in front of a video, and I got my workout in.
Today is a victory.
However, it was hard to put the DVD in and do it in the first place. The "mother's guilt" set in and I thought, "I should be playing with my daughter right now instead of sticking her in front of the t.v.", but I had to change that thinking and tell myself "it's OK!". I also looked around at a dirty kitchen, living room, bathroom etc. and thought, I really need to get some cleaning done. I then had to tell myself, "it will get done later and you'll feel better about yourself for exercising."
So it's a victory because a. I put the DVD IN in the first place, and b. I completed the workout.
I AM going to lose this weight!!!!!!
I dropped my older two kids off at preschool, stuck the little one in front of a video, and I got my workout in.
Today is a victory.
However, it was hard to put the DVD in and do it in the first place. The "mother's guilt" set in and I thought, "I should be playing with my daughter right now instead of sticking her in front of the t.v.", but I had to change that thinking and tell myself "it's OK!". I also looked around at a dirty kitchen, living room, bathroom etc. and thought, I really need to get some cleaning done. I then had to tell myself, "it will get done later and you'll feel better about yourself for exercising."
So it's a victory because a. I put the DVD IN in the first place, and b. I completed the workout.
I AM going to lose this weight!!!!!!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
I DID IT!!!
I stuck to my plan today AND I managed to get in a 40 minute aerobic workout. I wasn't absolutely perfect (a little extra dessert and lasagna), but it was close and I'm VERY proud of myself!!!
Tomorrow's Meal Plan:
You know what? I'm going to do the exact same thing as today, minus the dessert. This means I'll be able to have a little bit more "healthy" food during the day. I'll probably add a glass or milk and a yogurt. I'm also going to try to get in at least 30 minutes of cardio. Oh, and coffee...I forgot about that...one cup of coffee w/ a little cream and sugar. :-)
Wish me luck!
Tomorrow's Meal Plan:
You know what? I'm going to do the exact same thing as today, minus the dessert. This means I'll be able to have a little bit more "healthy" food during the day. I'll probably add a glass or milk and a yogurt. I'm also going to try to get in at least 30 minutes of cardio. Oh, and coffee...I forgot about that...one cup of coffee w/ a little cream and sugar. :-)
Wish me luck!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Reality Check and a Plan
Wow, the Holiday season coupled with Winter is sure doing a number on me. What's the date now, January 29th!?, and I finally feel like I'm mentally getting back in the game. I'm either going to do this or I'm not, it's that simple. I'm sorry if I seem like a crazy person to some of you with all my back and forth thought patterns, ideas and strategies for weight loss. One of the reasons I wanted to do this blog (in addition, to having it be a way of keeping myself held accountable) was that I wanted it to be a place people could come to and read about one person's day to day triumphs and struggles on a weight loss journey.
Just last week People magazine put out an issue called "Half My Size." It was all these success stories of how people lost a ton of weight, and it truly WAS inspiring and made me think, "YES, *I* CAN do this!" However, the thing I don't like about those stories and other ones like them, is there is no mention of the day back in November of last year when Betty Lou had a setback and ate half a bakery and how she felt like I failure on her diet and it took everything she had to rise above it, or how in May of last year Joe Schmo didn't get to exercise for a whole weekend and it took him a full week to get back on track again, or how Sally May had plans to exercise and then two of her three kids ended up getting sick, and at the end of the day she was proud of herself for managing to brush her teeth.
I'm not making up excuses for myself but I will tell you right now that if I were working and on some type of a schedule, and I wasn't in the kitchen most of the day either preparing food, feeding people or cleaning up, this journey that I'm on would be a WHOLE lot easier. But it is what it is. I can't exercise for hours and hours each day to lose the weight, and as healthy as I try to feed my children, I am ALWAYS going to be surrounded by extra food because of them. So I'm going to do my best and I'm going to have to be happy with that.
So what the heck is my plan now? I'm taking it one day at a time. I went to the gym today and did 40 minutes of cardio (burning 500 calories) and I lifted some weights (working mainly on chest/back and triceps/biceps). I also HAVE TO commit to sticking to an eating plan. For this ONE week I'm going to post what I'm going to eat the following day and then at the end of that day I'll post as to whether or not I stuck with it. Please GOD let me stick to this ONE WEEK goal I have for myself!!
Here it is - My meal plan for Sunday, January 30th (Oh, I should mention that I'm going to let Sunday be the day I can have a dessert, and I have to eat it with my husband :-) I need to get used to having dessert and then stopping, so Sunday is the day for dessert with the family.)
Weight Watchers is what I'm used to using to keep track of the amount of food I should eat in a day. This day is roughly 26-27 points, and I should be having 28 points per day. SO, even with the dessert this day is right on track :-)
Breakfast: 1 egg with two egg whites on a slice of Ezekiel bread (toasted) with a little butter
Snack: apple with a TBSP of peanut butter
Lunch: 4oz chicken breast (cooked in a little olive oil), with veggie/rice soup (probably 1 1/2 cups)
Snack: 1/4 cup almonds with an orange
Dinner: One serving of lasagna with brussel sprouts
Dessert: One "No Pudge Fudge Brownie" with 1/2 cup strawberry ice cream
Wish me luck and if you pray, say a prayer for me!!
Just last week People magazine put out an issue called "Half My Size." It was all these success stories of how people lost a ton of weight, and it truly WAS inspiring and made me think, "YES, *I* CAN do this!" However, the thing I don't like about those stories and other ones like them, is there is no mention of the day back in November of last year when Betty Lou had a setback and ate half a bakery and how she felt like I failure on her diet and it took everything she had to rise above it, or how in May of last year Joe Schmo didn't get to exercise for a whole weekend and it took him a full week to get back on track again, or how Sally May had plans to exercise and then two of her three kids ended up getting sick, and at the end of the day she was proud of herself for managing to brush her teeth.
I'm not making up excuses for myself but I will tell you right now that if I were working and on some type of a schedule, and I wasn't in the kitchen most of the day either preparing food, feeding people or cleaning up, this journey that I'm on would be a WHOLE lot easier. But it is what it is. I can't exercise for hours and hours each day to lose the weight, and as healthy as I try to feed my children, I am ALWAYS going to be surrounded by extra food because of them. So I'm going to do my best and I'm going to have to be happy with that.
So what the heck is my plan now? I'm taking it one day at a time. I went to the gym today and did 40 minutes of cardio (burning 500 calories) and I lifted some weights (working mainly on chest/back and triceps/biceps). I also HAVE TO commit to sticking to an eating plan. For this ONE week I'm going to post what I'm going to eat the following day and then at the end of that day I'll post as to whether or not I stuck with it. Please GOD let me stick to this ONE WEEK goal I have for myself!!
Here it is - My meal plan for Sunday, January 30th (Oh, I should mention that I'm going to let Sunday be the day I can have a dessert, and I have to eat it with my husband :-) I need to get used to having dessert and then stopping, so Sunday is the day for dessert with the family.)
Weight Watchers is what I'm used to using to keep track of the amount of food I should eat in a day. This day is roughly 26-27 points, and I should be having 28 points per day. SO, even with the dessert this day is right on track :-)
Breakfast: 1 egg with two egg whites on a slice of Ezekiel bread (toasted) with a little butter
Snack: apple with a TBSP of peanut butter
Lunch: 4oz chicken breast (cooked in a little olive oil), with veggie/rice soup (probably 1 1/2 cups)
Snack: 1/4 cup almonds with an orange
Dinner: One serving of lasagna with brussel sprouts
Dessert: One "No Pudge Fudge Brownie" with 1/2 cup strawberry ice cream
Wish me luck and if you pray, say a prayer for me!!
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Oh my head!
I had great plans for myself this week in terms of exercise, but a three day migraine has all but ruined those plans. I exercised my butt of (well not completely off, maybe a centimeter?) on Saturday, didn't get around to exercising on Sunday, and was going to do an aerobics DVD Monday morning. Well, a migraine spoiled that on Monday, and then on Tuesday, and now today. It's now 9pm on Wednesday night and my head is finally feeling okay, however I feel like if I make any sudden movements the pain is going to come back again. Tomorrow is a new day and my plan is to do some low impact aerobics at some point in the day while my kids watch a movie. I'm just nervous though because the aerobics on Saturday may have been what caused this mess in the first place. It seems like I get headaches after I do any type of higher intensity working out i.e., aerobics or running, which is why I'm going to keep the impact low and pray that my head doesn't start pounding, or fall off. Hey, but doesn't the human head weigh like 20 pounds? That could be an easy 20 pound loss...maybe I should jump around a lot! :-)
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