Got in 2.5 miles at lunch yesterday and another 1.5 last night walking down to see how far the lake levels have dropped. Not enough to get the damn boat launched but almost enough to reconnect the walking trails so that the walking loop at night is closer to 3.5 miles than 1.5.
While I am holding steady at 176 I really want to see the scale start moving south. I was thinking about things last night and remember that when I had a personal trainer he always said that I would have to do 1 ½ hours of cardio a day in order to lose weight. I’m not sure if he was talking about me specifically or if that was his stance for everyone. Then I remembered that the last time I got serious about weight loss I was doing this aerobic tape each morning and it amounted to about an hour of cardio – it was a step tape and unfortunately it was long enough ago that it was actually a tape and we only have DVD players in our house now. A shame because it was a good tape and worked wonders in helping me drop pounds – guess I need to stop by the nearest sports store and see what DVD’s are available these days as I still have that durn step.
I do believe that I really need to up the duration and intensity of the workouts so that the scale finally starts to move. Best I can tell I’m getting 30 minutes 5 days a week as I’m not getting on the treadmill on the weekends even though I am active cleaning house and / or doing yard work / not being a slug so I think that I just need to bite the bullet and plan on getting in another half a hour either in the morning or when I get home from work and then try to get in at least 30 minutes of intense exercise on the weekends. That and I’m slowly upping the intensity (i.e. mph) on the treadmill at lunch and will probably be back to jogging by next week.
So the focus for now is to attempt to get in an hour of cardio 5 or 6 days a week for the next 2 weeks to see if that makes a difference in the scales.
In other news – a current pet peeve of mine is why the hell do manufacturers feel the need to put ‘fillers’ in vitamins? I absolutely HATE having to swallow a fucking horse pill and do believe that if they would just cut out some of the fillers they could come up with a pill HALF the size and lots easier to swallow. I don’t usually have trouble swallowing pills but can almost guarantee that at least 2 or 3 times a week I will gag on my vitamin.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Monday, August 27, 2007
Maintain
176 still this morning and I will so take it as I had the munchies this weekend and ate waffles with too much butter and syrup, about 1 tray of oreo cookies with whole milk (not all in the same sitting but over the course of the weekend), rice crispy treat, shortbread cookies, chips and chicken nuggets from Braums along with french fries one night.
On the flip side I did deep clean my whole house Saturday, both floors and all 3,000 sq feet of it which took almost all day to do then me and the little blond monster went outside to color on the driveway with chalk - well she did while I pulled weeds out of both the flowerbeds and the front yard so maybe the movement / exercise offset the major munchies attack that I was experiencing.
Made a pretty yummy meal last nite - not sure how healthy it is but here is the recipe:
3 chicken breast
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1/4 cup Fire roasted green salsa
1 Tablespoon cumin
1 can quartered artichoke hearts
1 small package sliced baby bella mushroms
1/4 cup sliced black olives
Preheat oven to 350. Salt and pepper chicken breast, place in a baking dish and bake for 20 minutes. While baking mix together the soup, cumin and salsa and drain the artichoke hearts. After the chicken has cooked for 20 minutes place the artichoke hearts and mushrooms on and around chicken and pour soup mixture on top then sprinkle with olives. Cook for another 25 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink.
This was yummy but a bit spicy so next time I will probably try to cut it with some 2% milk or evaporated milk. Then I served it over some Basmati rice and a huge salad with my new favorite dressing - Paul Newmans Low Fat Sesame Ginger Dressing. Seriously this stuff is like crack dressing and it only has 1.5 grams of fat and 35 calories per serving which is 2 Tbsp - that and it has all natural ingredients and nothing unprounceable in it. Plus the company gives heavily to charities.
Had 1 breast left over after the Mr. and I ate dinner and I took the other half of my breast for lunch today so tonight's dinner will consist of the remaining chicken boobie warmed and sliced then rolled up in a whole wheat tortilla along with the artichoke hearts, mushrooms, some of the sauce and lots of lettuce - spring mix lettuce as that is what we eat. The sauce will serve as a dressing and will keep the wrap moist enough (I think - will see). I will serve the rest of the green salsa with some tortilla chips to the Mr. to round out his meal but the wrap will be enough for me. Little miss blond thangie will get fish sticks, salad and corn as this chicken is definately too hot for her delicate little palate.
Did 2.5 miles on the treadmill at lunch and can tell that my strength is almost back to normal. Will try to fit in another 1.5 miles down to check on the lake levels tonight if this evening's activities allow such grand plans. Still need to reach my goal of 100 miles but that ole ticker is creeping up there every week.
On the flip side I did deep clean my whole house Saturday, both floors and all 3,000 sq feet of it which took almost all day to do then me and the little blond monster went outside to color on the driveway with chalk - well she did while I pulled weeds out of both the flowerbeds and the front yard so maybe the movement / exercise offset the major munchies attack that I was experiencing.
Made a pretty yummy meal last nite - not sure how healthy it is but here is the recipe:
3 chicken breast
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1/4 cup Fire roasted green salsa
1 Tablespoon cumin
1 can quartered artichoke hearts
1 small package sliced baby bella mushroms
1/4 cup sliced black olives
Preheat oven to 350. Salt and pepper chicken breast, place in a baking dish and bake for 20 minutes. While baking mix together the soup, cumin and salsa and drain the artichoke hearts. After the chicken has cooked for 20 minutes place the artichoke hearts and mushrooms on and around chicken and pour soup mixture on top then sprinkle with olives. Cook for another 25 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink.
This was yummy but a bit spicy so next time I will probably try to cut it with some 2% milk or evaporated milk. Then I served it over some Basmati rice and a huge salad with my new favorite dressing - Paul Newmans Low Fat Sesame Ginger Dressing. Seriously this stuff is like crack dressing and it only has 1.5 grams of fat and 35 calories per serving which is 2 Tbsp - that and it has all natural ingredients and nothing unprounceable in it. Plus the company gives heavily to charities.
Had 1 breast left over after the Mr. and I ate dinner and I took the other half of my breast for lunch today so tonight's dinner will consist of the remaining chicken boobie warmed and sliced then rolled up in a whole wheat tortilla along with the artichoke hearts, mushrooms, some of the sauce and lots of lettuce - spring mix lettuce as that is what we eat. The sauce will serve as a dressing and will keep the wrap moist enough (I think - will see). I will serve the rest of the green salsa with some tortilla chips to the Mr. to round out his meal but the wrap will be enough for me. Little miss blond thangie will get fish sticks, salad and corn as this chicken is definately too hot for her delicate little palate.
Did 2.5 miles on the treadmill at lunch and can tell that my strength is almost back to normal. Will try to fit in another 1.5 miles down to check on the lake levels tonight if this evening's activities allow such grand plans. Still need to reach my goal of 100 miles but that ole ticker is creeping up there every week.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Well, what do you know!
Yesterday I had someone stop me and say "you've lost weight! Haven't you? Then again today someone else stopped me and asked what I was doing to lose weight and commented that I looked good.
So . . .
Even though it has really only been about 6 pounds apparently whatever I'm doing is paying off even more than I can tell if 2 different people have noticed.
Think I will keep doing it!
Was able to go a bit faster on the treadmill at lunch today so I can tell that I'm regaining my strength and returning a bit to normal - as normal as I can be but I can honestly say that Normal really isn't something I've ever been accused of. Tomorrow is Yoga but I'm thinking that I really might want to just get back on the treadmill instead. Peer pressure will probably make me buckle and go to Yoga as quit a few people here go to Yoga on Friday and I just know that every single one of em will harrass me if I miss.
The Mr. is dead-set to haul the RV down to the farm this weekend but I have opted out. The meds I'm on have a warning about heat-stroke and that I will be more sensitive to the sun so I'm thinking that I probably don't need to go and take any chances. He is threatening to take the little monster with him but I'm pretty sure that it is an empty threat and that he is just trying to bully me into going. Exercise this weekend will depend largely on whether his threat is empty or not. If she is gone then I can most certainly log some time on the treadmill, if she is there then it will be next to impossible except during nap-time as she is facinated with the treadmill and tries to get on there with me when she is awake. I can try to walk her down to the lake and back but she prefers to walk instead of ride so that means it will be closer to a stroll than a walk while she is out of the stroller.
So . . .
Even though it has really only been about 6 pounds apparently whatever I'm doing is paying off even more than I can tell if 2 different people have noticed.
Think I will keep doing it!
Was able to go a bit faster on the treadmill at lunch today so I can tell that I'm regaining my strength and returning a bit to normal - as normal as I can be but I can honestly say that Normal really isn't something I've ever been accused of. Tomorrow is Yoga but I'm thinking that I really might want to just get back on the treadmill instead. Peer pressure will probably make me buckle and go to Yoga as quit a few people here go to Yoga on Friday and I just know that every single one of em will harrass me if I miss.
The Mr. is dead-set to haul the RV down to the farm this weekend but I have opted out. The meds I'm on have a warning about heat-stroke and that I will be more sensitive to the sun so I'm thinking that I probably don't need to go and take any chances. He is threatening to take the little monster with him but I'm pretty sure that it is an empty threat and that he is just trying to bully me into going. Exercise this weekend will depend largely on whether his threat is empty or not. If she is gone then I can most certainly log some time on the treadmill, if she is there then it will be next to impossible except during nap-time as she is facinated with the treadmill and tries to get on there with me when she is awake. I can try to walk her down to the lake and back but she prefers to walk instead of ride so that means it will be closer to a stroll than a walk while she is out of the stroller.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
More, More, More
Managed another 1.5 miles last night down to the lake and back and it was closer to a stroll than anything but I still had sweat pouring out of my pores when I got back so know that I'm still in the detox process.
One of the meds they have me on, either Protonix or Chlordiazepoxide, is really jacking with my sleep cycle and I'm having a bit of insomnia so am pretty tired and really, really wanted to go to my truck and take a nap during lunch but went ahead and went to the gym and logged another 2 miles because I still have that 100 mile goal out there hanging over my header. I know that it would be easy to talk myself out of exercising every day and especially now since I had such a rough week last week but I also know that I have to start somewhere and figure why not today? That plus I saw 176.0 yesterday morning which is a 4 lb drop and I'm thinking that if I go ahead and start back exercising maybe I can stave off gaining those 4 pounds back.
Keeping the food choices to as natural as possible and made some homemade roasted red pepper hummus last night that I'm munching on right now with some 'Natural Ry Krisp' crackers which don't have anything un-natural or unpronounceable in them. Ate 2 boiled eggs along with 2 pieces of pumpernickel toast with a tablespoon of natural boysenberry jelly on them for breakfast. The bread is the natural kind that doesn't have anything processed in it but it also has a shelf-life of only 4 or 5 days once you open it - good thing there are only about 8 slices in the package but damn is that stuff expensive. I'm trying to keep my food as close to natural as I can to help flush out all the toxins and I'm DEFINATELY staying away from High Fruitcose syrup of any kind - that stuff is hard on your gut and hard for your body to process when you are healthy. I'm on my 3rd - 32 oz glass - of water so far and still have about 2 hours of work left. Then it will be 2 more (at least) between the time I get home and go to bed and another 16 oz bottle if we can fit in another 1.5 mile walk tonight. I'm also watching the sodium content of my consumption since the nasty stuff they used to flush my colon tasted like Baking Soda combined with Epsom Salt and even though I have lost 4 lbs I still can't get my wedding ring back on my finger so figure it was all the salt.
Speaking of colon - the reason I was put in the hospital was because my colon shut down completely and caused everything to back up into my kidneys and liver and I couldn't even keep down sips of water since there wasn't anywhere for it to go. Now the meds they have me on cause the exact opposite effect which means that if my tummy even thinks about grumbling I have to make a mad dash down the hallway to the little girls room - just in case. That and the side effects of one of them is that it causes you to feel weak and can cause a B-12 deficiency so I need to be extra careful to take my daily vitamin. I have a pretty consistant headache but think that is a nasty side-effect as well.
One of the meds they have me on, either Protonix or Chlordiazepoxide, is really jacking with my sleep cycle and I'm having a bit of insomnia so am pretty tired and really, really wanted to go to my truck and take a nap during lunch but went ahead and went to the gym and logged another 2 miles because I still have that 100 mile goal out there hanging over my header. I know that it would be easy to talk myself out of exercising every day and especially now since I had such a rough week last week but I also know that I have to start somewhere and figure why not today? That plus I saw 176.0 yesterday morning which is a 4 lb drop and I'm thinking that if I go ahead and start back exercising maybe I can stave off gaining those 4 pounds back.
Keeping the food choices to as natural as possible and made some homemade roasted red pepper hummus last night that I'm munching on right now with some 'Natural Ry Krisp' crackers which don't have anything un-natural or unpronounceable in them. Ate 2 boiled eggs along with 2 pieces of pumpernickel toast with a tablespoon of natural boysenberry jelly on them for breakfast. The bread is the natural kind that doesn't have anything processed in it but it also has a shelf-life of only 4 or 5 days once you open it - good thing there are only about 8 slices in the package but damn is that stuff expensive. I'm trying to keep my food as close to natural as I can to help flush out all the toxins and I'm DEFINATELY staying away from High Fruitcose syrup of any kind - that stuff is hard on your gut and hard for your body to process when you are healthy. I'm on my 3rd - 32 oz glass - of water so far and still have about 2 hours of work left. Then it will be 2 more (at least) between the time I get home and go to bed and another 16 oz bottle if we can fit in another 1.5 mile walk tonight. I'm also watching the sodium content of my consumption since the nasty stuff they used to flush my colon tasted like Baking Soda combined with Epsom Salt and even though I have lost 4 lbs I still can't get my wedding ring back on my finger so figure it was all the salt.
Speaking of colon - the reason I was put in the hospital was because my colon shut down completely and caused everything to back up into my kidneys and liver and I couldn't even keep down sips of water since there wasn't anywhere for it to go. Now the meds they have me on cause the exact opposite effect which means that if my tummy even thinks about grumbling I have to make a mad dash down the hallway to the little girls room - just in case. That and the side effects of one of them is that it causes you to feel weak and can cause a B-12 deficiency so I need to be extra careful to take my daily vitamin. I have a pretty consistant headache but think that is a nasty side-effect as well.
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Scratch
Ok - we start back at square 1 on the fitness level due to being in the hospital for 4 days last week and all of the in-organic crap that was flowing through my veins. Initially I wasn't going to go over to the gym during lunch but at the last minute decided that I needed to start somewhere even if it was a rather snails pace and I sweated like a little piggy due to the toxins in my body. Managed 1.5 miles which I will gladly take because it is a mile and a half more than I would've walked if I had sat at my desk. I am still extremely weak so didn't push but walked at a 3.5 mph pace which still made me sweat. I can smell the stuff that they pumped into me coming out of my pores and it stinks - Hospital smell - YECH!
Still have the goal of 100 miles but just don't have a particular date in mind. I am just going to continue counting mileage until I reach 100 miles.
Still have the goal of 100 miles but just don't have a particular date in mind. I am just going to continue counting mileage until I reach 100 miles.
Monday, August 20, 2007
WTF
176.0
Even if I did get put into the hospital for 4 days to get there. My lower GI tract froze up / shut down / stopped working and it caused terrible pain and 4 days for them to figure out what the fuck was going on with my body.
Got released Saturday nite and am back at work today - what can I say - my work ethics are off the chart. I'm starting back eating rather slow and am weak from the hospital experience so we will see if I can keep the weight off and loose more.
I need to change my thinking a bit and get serious about life changes and getting this body healthy so that it doesn't crap (pun intended) out on me again. I need to stop smoking/ keep exercising/ keep making healthy food choices so that my body will last another 40 years.
Am probably going to lay off of the exercise this week (will see how I feel) so that I can completely recoup from last weeks events but plan on trying yoga on Friday because I know that I can pace myself.
Even if I did get put into the hospital for 4 days to get there. My lower GI tract froze up / shut down / stopped working and it caused terrible pain and 4 days for them to figure out what the fuck was going on with my body.
Got released Saturday nite and am back at work today - what can I say - my work ethics are off the chart. I'm starting back eating rather slow and am weak from the hospital experience so we will see if I can keep the weight off and loose more.
I need to change my thinking a bit and get serious about life changes and getting this body healthy so that it doesn't crap (pun intended) out on me again. I need to stop smoking/ keep exercising/ keep making healthy food choices so that my body will last another 40 years.
Am probably going to lay off of the exercise this week (will see how I feel) so that I can completely recoup from last weeks events but plan on trying yoga on Friday because I know that I can pace myself.
Monday, August 13, 2007
5 points
Finally broke through the 180 threshold.
Saw 179.5 on the scales this morning but saw 175 yesterday afternoon around 4pm. Didn't get in my 10 miles in order to beat last weeks mileage but also didn't sit down this weekend. Not even sure if I watched anything on TV - at all! It was a busy weekend and I pulled a durn muscle in my back wrestling with middle child in the pool Saturday night trying desperately to keep him from drowning me. Slept on a heating pad last night so didn't sleep very well - that plus I got nauseated while eating dinner so only 2 bites of fajitas then I crawled in bed as early as possible to put heat on the pulled muscle.
Going to gym today to walk my mile and then lift weights. It is 101 here so I won't be walking the 1 1/2 mile circuit outside but will try to get on the treadmill (in the air conditioner) later tonight - the heat plus the fact that we have a Red ozone day and the radio said something along the lines of it being a "lung scaring" ozone day. I am still going to try and log as many miles as possible but think that I might change my focus up a bit and try to lift weights more to see if building muscle really will burn fat faster.
The other thing is that now when my stomach growls - I grin (inside) and think "hey, I'm burning fat reserves now instead of consumed calories" so the hungry feeling really isn't bothering me for the last couple of days. Been a bit hit and miss on taking vitamins and have added that as a goal - to take at least 1 vitamin a day - I say 1 because my daily dosage is split into 2 vitamins (half the daily recommended amount in each pill) because taking 1 that has the whole day's supply makes me sick to my stomach so 1 pill = half my daily recommended allowance. I feel that that, along with my healthy eating, will meet my daily recommended allowance on most vitamins on most days.
We grilled fajitas last night so that will be leftovers for dinner tonight and if I forgo the tortilla and sour cream and sautee some broccolini in a bit of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice to pare with it should be a pretty healthy dinner.
Saw 179.5 on the scales this morning but saw 175 yesterday afternoon around 4pm. Didn't get in my 10 miles in order to beat last weeks mileage but also didn't sit down this weekend. Not even sure if I watched anything on TV - at all! It was a busy weekend and I pulled a durn muscle in my back wrestling with middle child in the pool Saturday night trying desperately to keep him from drowning me. Slept on a heating pad last night so didn't sleep very well - that plus I got nauseated while eating dinner so only 2 bites of fajitas then I crawled in bed as early as possible to put heat on the pulled muscle.
Going to gym today to walk my mile and then lift weights. It is 101 here so I won't be walking the 1 1/2 mile circuit outside but will try to get on the treadmill (in the air conditioner) later tonight - the heat plus the fact that we have a Red ozone day and the radio said something along the lines of it being a "lung scaring" ozone day. I am still going to try and log as many miles as possible but think that I might change my focus up a bit and try to lift weights more to see if building muscle really will burn fat faster.
The other thing is that now when my stomach growls - I grin (inside) and think "hey, I'm burning fat reserves now instead of consumed calories" so the hungry feeling really isn't bothering me for the last couple of days. Been a bit hit and miss on taking vitamins and have added that as a goal - to take at least 1 vitamin a day - I say 1 because my daily dosage is split into 2 vitamins (half the daily recommended amount in each pill) because taking 1 that has the whole day's supply makes me sick to my stomach so 1 pill = half my daily recommended allowance. I feel that that, along with my healthy eating, will meet my daily recommended allowance on most vitamins on most days.
We grilled fajitas last night so that will be leftovers for dinner tonight and if I forgo the tortilla and sour cream and sautee some broccolini in a bit of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice to pare with it should be a pretty healthy dinner.
Friday, August 10, 2007
Holy Crap Bat-Man
Damn - 3 miles this week!
I'm so gonna have to bust a nut tonight and this weekend in order to break last week's almost 13 miles - that means I need to do 10 miles in the next 3 days - saying it like that sounds horrible but when I break out the ole calculator it means just 3.33 miles a day so for the next 3 days I need to do around 3.5 miles. I know I can fit in 1.5 tonight after daughter's swim lessons so that means that I will need to get in another 2 on the treadmill and then fit in 3.5 tomorrow and Sunday. The 2 miles tonight can be broken down into 2 1-mile sessions because I can usually sneak upstairs and finish a mile on the treadmill before the girl-child in my household notices and comes looking for me. It takes about 10 minutes to run/jog a mile so if I can sneak away twice the cat is in the bag.
This week was absolutely NUTS and I only managed to make it to the gym 1 day - I'm so looking forward to next week when both co-workers are back because I'm going to the gym come hell or high-water. Weight is neither up nor down this week and I will take that as I wasn't able to move as much as I wanted to and ate far more bread than I should. Now all I have to do is condition myself into getting up early in order to fit in another mile or so in the morning before work - that way if I don't get to go to the gym I will still have logged some mileage for the day. I have been in the pool for 45 minutes everynight because the swim lessons are "Mommy & Me" so that means Mommy has to don said bathingsuit and splash around in the water with daughter showing her that she won't melt if she puts her face in the water.
Besides the 10 miles this weekend - the weekend plans are to sand and re-shellac the bench in the front yard, dig up some plants at a friend's house and replant them in my yard, get the cannas out of their pots and into the ground so they can multiply like rabbits, purchase annual plants for the pots and get them potted and possible finally start putting some color on the walls of this very beige house we moved into. Somewhere along the way I plan on making time for some sun and fun in the pool at a friend's house for me and daughter and anyone else that wants to tag along.
I'm so gonna have to bust a nut tonight and this weekend in order to break last week's almost 13 miles - that means I need to do 10 miles in the next 3 days - saying it like that sounds horrible but when I break out the ole calculator it means just 3.33 miles a day so for the next 3 days I need to do around 3.5 miles. I know I can fit in 1.5 tonight after daughter's swim lessons so that means that I will need to get in another 2 on the treadmill and then fit in 3.5 tomorrow and Sunday. The 2 miles tonight can be broken down into 2 1-mile sessions because I can usually sneak upstairs and finish a mile on the treadmill before the girl-child in my household notices and comes looking for me. It takes about 10 minutes to run/jog a mile so if I can sneak away twice the cat is in the bag.
This week was absolutely NUTS and I only managed to make it to the gym 1 day - I'm so looking forward to next week when both co-workers are back because I'm going to the gym come hell or high-water. Weight is neither up nor down this week and I will take that as I wasn't able to move as much as I wanted to and ate far more bread than I should. Now all I have to do is condition myself into getting up early in order to fit in another mile or so in the morning before work - that way if I don't get to go to the gym I will still have logged some mileage for the day. I have been in the pool for 45 minutes everynight because the swim lessons are "Mommy & Me" so that means Mommy has to don said bathingsuit and splash around in the water with daughter showing her that she won't melt if she puts her face in the water.
Besides the 10 miles this weekend - the weekend plans are to sand and re-shellac the bench in the front yard, dig up some plants at a friend's house and replant them in my yard, get the cannas out of their pots and into the ground so they can multiply like rabbits, purchase annual plants for the pots and get them potted and possible finally start putting some color on the walls of this very beige house we moved into. Somewhere along the way I plan on making time for some sun and fun in the pool at a friend's house for me and daughter and anyone else that wants to tag along.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Quickie
I only have time for a quickie today.
Hopped on the ole scales this morning and saw 181.
**blinks**
WTF is going on with that?
Things are going a bit crazy this week, 2 gals are out, we have a new person on the floor and another that has been here about 2 months and I have to teach new hires training 2 days this week. 181 - finally lost a pound but due to the craziness the last 3 days I can't even tell you what I have eaten or even if I have eaten. I know that I've brought my breakfast and lunch but did I eat it????? Didn't get to exercise yesterday and today doesn't look like it is going to be any better unless I manage to get some type of movement in after work. Have to bust a nut home because my daughter is in swimming lessons this week so I'm going to get in the pool with her tonight and then maybe I can jump on the treadmill or talk her into letting me do some yoga tonight.
I say talk her into it because I have to use her tv (with built in dvd player) in her room and she doesn't really like to share and when I finally bribe her into letting me use it she thinks it is fantastic that I'm finally up in her room so takes full advantage of showing me ALL of her toys.
I will fit in some exercise today . . . I will fit in some exercise today . . . I will fit in some exercise today!
Hopped on the ole scales this morning and saw 181.
**blinks**
WTF is going on with that?
Things are going a bit crazy this week, 2 gals are out, we have a new person on the floor and another that has been here about 2 months and I have to teach new hires training 2 days this week. 181 - finally lost a pound but due to the craziness the last 3 days I can't even tell you what I have eaten or even if I have eaten. I know that I've brought my breakfast and lunch but did I eat it????? Didn't get to exercise yesterday and today doesn't look like it is going to be any better unless I manage to get some type of movement in after work. Have to bust a nut home because my daughter is in swimming lessons this week so I'm going to get in the pool with her tonight and then maybe I can jump on the treadmill or talk her into letting me do some yoga tonight.
I say talk her into it because I have to use her tv (with built in dvd player) in her room and she doesn't really like to share and when I finally bribe her into letting me use it she thinks it is fantastic that I'm finally up in her room so takes full advantage of showing me ALL of her toys.
I will fit in some exercise today . . . I will fit in some exercise today . . . I will fit in some exercise today!
Sunday, August 05, 2007
What I made tonight
This is what I made tonight to take for my 2nd lunch this week. Because of the running/working out during lunch I eat about 270 - 300 calories around 11 am and then another 270 - 300 around 3:00 pm. I get to work before 7:30 so usually eat breakfast between 7:30 and 8 am and breakfast consists of steel cut oatmeal, flax seed, cinnamon and blueberries. Lunch #1 is usually a frozen Healthy Choice meal and lunch #2 is usually soup - preferrably Black Bean soup but this is what I have made to take for lunch #2 this week.
The whole fixings consisted of the following but I figure that I can make it last the whole week for lunch #2:
2 limes, zest and juice
3 tomatoes
1 Jalapeno
1 red bellpepper, diced small
2 cans black beans, drained and rinsed
3 ears of corn, roasted and cut off the cob
1 bunch cilantro
1 medium red onion, diced small
1/2 cup organic tomato juice
cumin
Tabasco - about 20 dashes
and lastly - we grilled 4 zucchini last night but I had stubbed my toe in the salt when preparing them so they were pretty salty. There was about 1 whole grilled zucchini left so I just chopped it up and threw it into the mix since it was too salty to eat by itself and I haden't added any salt to this mixture.
The good news is that I have 3 ears of corn, deer steak, chicken breast that was marinated in olive oil, 2 Chipolte peppers and a handful of chopped Rosemary, Cantelope and Watermelon to take for work this week for lunch #1 as I am looking to cut back on the amount of processed foods items I eat and get more natural foods into my tummy. I also bought apples, nectarines and oranges to take with me so hopefully I can finally see the fucking scales drop a couple of pounds and register something besides 182.
On other news - I was lamenting to the Mr. this morning about how all of the working out hasn't netted a negative on the scales yet and he replied "Yes but I can tell a difference - you are less jiggley". This made me laught out loud but he is right I can feel a difference in the less jiggley department even if the fucking scales don't reflect anything yet.
I missed yoga this morning as it started at 8:30 instead of 9 but I did go to Adacemy and get some more running shorts, a yoga mat and a yoga tape and went ahead and did yoga watching the tape after I did yard work for 2 hours. Unfortunately my shirt didn't quite meet the top of my shorts so I have this EXTREMELY nice half moon shape burnt spot across the small of my back which was obtained while doing yard work and I just bet that my new neighbors just loved the fact that I was practically mooning them while doing yard work today.
Friday, August 03, 2007
Yogurt
I did yoga at lunch today - it feels good to loosen up the muscles in my back.
Still 182 on the scales this morning but I'm not giving up - I'm going to keep plugging away because there is just no way in hell that this weight is going to stay on me if I keep exercising. I'm just going to be as active as I can and not sit down at night until I collapse in bed. The other thing I'm thinking about is that I'm going to start cooking/bringing my lunches to work. I already bring my lunch so that I can fit in a workout - but it is frozen meals and maybe there is too much processed crap in them. I'm going to try to fit in 7 fruits and veggies (not 7 of each but 7 combined) each day. I'm also going to substitute beans for meat in my lunchtime meals so that I can still get protein but keep my fiber up. I've made a grocery list and will be doing lots of cooking this weekend and portioning food items into lunch portions and freezing them so that they are convinent and easy. I'm starting to consider if maybe I need to cut out 1 of my morning latte's - can't quit caffeine cold-turkey but can cut back a bit. The herbal tea can stay but those latte's sure have alot of calories.
Need to splash some color on the very beige walls of this new house so this weekend will be spent definately cleaning, yard work, gardening and possibly some painting - not sure what the Mr. has plans for but maybe I can talk him into going out on the boat. This skin is the palest it has been by the end of the summer in years and I need some color along with the house needing color.
Still 182 on the scales this morning but I'm not giving up - I'm going to keep plugging away because there is just no way in hell that this weight is going to stay on me if I keep exercising. I'm just going to be as active as I can and not sit down at night until I collapse in bed. The other thing I'm thinking about is that I'm going to start cooking/bringing my lunches to work. I already bring my lunch so that I can fit in a workout - but it is frozen meals and maybe there is too much processed crap in them. I'm going to try to fit in 7 fruits and veggies (not 7 of each but 7 combined) each day. I'm also going to substitute beans for meat in my lunchtime meals so that I can still get protein but keep my fiber up. I've made a grocery list and will be doing lots of cooking this weekend and portioning food items into lunch portions and freezing them so that they are convinent and easy. I'm starting to consider if maybe I need to cut out 1 of my morning latte's - can't quit caffeine cold-turkey but can cut back a bit. The herbal tea can stay but those latte's sure have alot of calories.
Need to splash some color on the very beige walls of this new house so this weekend will be spent definately cleaning, yard work, gardening and possibly some painting - not sure what the Mr. has plans for but maybe I can talk him into going out on the boat. This skin is the palest it has been by the end of the summer in years and I need some color along with the house needing color.
Thursday, August 02, 2007
A marathon
Still 182 on the scales this morning so come Monday we will be adding another 1.5 miles to our daily run, first thing in the morning before work and still keep the weights/running at lunch, walking in the evenings and yoga on Friday's. This working out just has to pay off sometime soon - you can't log over 12 miles in one week and not see some kind of change besides being sore. My semi-long term goal is to do 100 miles in 45 days but another goal is simply to log more miles this week than I did last week and then more miles the week after that and so on and so forth until I can run a marathon in 1 week or less.
It looks wierd to me to see the 26.2 miles up there on my tracker. Basically I have ran a marathon even if it has taken almost 3 weeks to do so. I'm going to yoga on Sunday as well as this Friday at lunch and have some weights at home that I can do a little arm routine on Saturday because I'm afraid that if I wait from Wednesday until next Monday to lift weights again I will be extremely sore again and my thinking is if I lift on Saturday it might keep the soreness at bay a bit.
It looks wierd to me to see the 26.2 miles up there on my tracker. Basically I have ran a marathon even if it has taken almost 3 weeks to do so. I'm going to yoga on Sunday as well as this Friday at lunch and have some weights at home that I can do a little arm routine on Saturday because I'm afraid that if I wait from Wednesday until next Monday to lift weights again I will be extremely sore again and my thinking is if I lift on Saturday it might keep the soreness at bay a bit.
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
I am stronger than you are and you know it
Dear body:
I don't know what the fuck you think you are doing showing me 182 on the scales this morning but you better stop it right now and back the fuck back down. You know that if need be I will resort to drastic measures to get the numbers to reverse on the scale. I'm not really asking you for much - just 10% - surely you can give up 10%. I'm also not asking for this 10% immediately and am willing to give you a couple of months to give up the 18 or so pounds I need you to drop. While I do appreciate your letting go of a huge toxic poop this morning I just don't think it was enough.
and you know that you don't either!
I WILL keep exercising and will keep increasing it so you just better get it through your thick scull, right now, that this is just the way things are going to be from now on so the sooner you settle in and conform to what I want you to be the happier we will both be. You have lolly-gagged around in your sluggish ways for WAY too long and if you want to live to see your daughter grow up then things need to change. If this increase in expenditure of energy doesn't net some kind of loss by the end of the week I will add another 1 to 1 1/2 miles first thing in the morning along with the 4 a day for a total of 5+ a day and you know just how much you HATE being drug out of bed that early in the morning. If that doesn't work then consider yourself severely grounded and the next drastic measure will be the loss of food.
Bread and water - we will just see how the fuck you like that!
You know that I am stronger than you are and based on past experiences you know that you are fighting a battle that you most certainly will lose so can we just play nice and try to get along - if you dig deep down you know that I am doing this for us. For us and our family so please try to conform this time and give the shit up. I'm not starving you at all and as a matter of fact - unlike past experiences - I'm actually shoveling food type items into your pie-hole when you feign hunger pains. What I'm shoveling in is so much better for you than the chips and chocolate you think you want - that stuff is so very over-rated anyways and is bad for you in large quantities. Please, please don't force me to resort back to just dribbling in 1 coke a day.
Love
I Can't Fit
I don't know what the fuck you think you are doing showing me 182 on the scales this morning but you better stop it right now and back the fuck back down. You know that if need be I will resort to drastic measures to get the numbers to reverse on the scale. I'm not really asking you for much - just 10% - surely you can give up 10%. I'm also not asking for this 10% immediately and am willing to give you a couple of months to give up the 18 or so pounds I need you to drop. While I do appreciate your letting go of a huge toxic poop this morning I just don't think it was enough.
and you know that you don't either!
I WILL keep exercising and will keep increasing it so you just better get it through your thick scull, right now, that this is just the way things are going to be from now on so the sooner you settle in and conform to what I want you to be the happier we will both be. You have lolly-gagged around in your sluggish ways for WAY too long and if you want to live to see your daughter grow up then things need to change. If this increase in expenditure of energy doesn't net some kind of loss by the end of the week I will add another 1 to 1 1/2 miles first thing in the morning along with the 4 a day for a total of 5+ a day and you know just how much you HATE being drug out of bed that early in the morning. If that doesn't work then consider yourself severely grounded and the next drastic measure will be the loss of food.
Bread and water - we will just see how the fuck you like that!
You know that I am stronger than you are and based on past experiences you know that you are fighting a battle that you most certainly will lose so can we just play nice and try to get along - if you dig deep down you know that I am doing this for us. For us and our family so please try to conform this time and give the shit up. I'm not starving you at all and as a matter of fact - unlike past experiences - I'm actually shoveling food type items into your pie-hole when you feign hunger pains. What I'm shoveling in is so much better for you than the chips and chocolate you think you want - that stuff is so very over-rated anyways and is bad for you in large quantities. Please, please don't force me to resort back to just dribbling in 1 coke a day.
Love
I Can't Fit
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