8/29/08

Happy Friday!  This morning I tweeted “It’s a beautiful Friday in the Queen City – what are you going to do with it?”  And I realized that we really do get to decide how we spend each and every day! And I am doing several things with my day:

1. Planning a healthy and inexpensive lunch with a friend – then time to go to Wal Mart and figure out a new iPod carrying plan for working out!

2. Walking again!

3. Planning menus and grocery list for next week

4. Working – listening to music, moving forward with what I need to accomplish!

So…to fuel all that…

Breakfast:

whole wheat english muffin, egg, lowfat cheese, mandarin orange fruit cup (juice drained – ugh! I hate the juice in fruit cups!)

Lunch:

lean cuisine, veggies

Dinner:

Not sure yet – we are probably going out.  Maybe Mexican!

Exercise: Walk 1 – 1/2 hours!!

And….my facial is tomorrow~ my first one ever~ my first reward for 10 pounds lost!!

In Better Shape Than I Thought!

I walked for an hour and fifteen minutes tonight – outside, on a track – and I could have kept going but it got dark!
It seems like just a couple of weeks ago that I could barely do a half hour!!

Wow.

Oh, and my knee doesn’t hurt! But I’m going to ice it anyway, just in case.

I am way excited! Like way!!

8-25-08

Happy Monday!

I am finishing up my healthy lunch as I type this, defying all recommendations to EAT when you eat and not do anything else.  That doesn’t work for me – the more I pay attention to food, the more I want!

Eating today:

Breakfast: WW english muffin, peanut butter, milk, fruit cup

Lunch – Lean Cuisine (with 2x the usual veggies), cucumber salad (cucumbers sliced very thin, onions sliced very thin, hot red pepper, rice vinegar)

Dinner – Mexican Pizza – vegetarian meal – ww crust, salsa, black beans, shredded cheese, red onion, tomatoes

WATER, Lemon Water after dinner tonight

Weigh loss: 8.2 pounds

GO ME!

Exercise – WATP 3 mile or the gym

My husband is out of town tomorrow night so I will have to work out at home, so maybe the gym would be a good thing tonight. I was up with the little one last night (nosebleed again) so getting up early this morning didn’t happen.

Sigh.

But – just because it didn’t happen today doesn’t mean it won’t happen tomorrow!

I just have to talk myself into it – HOW BAD DO I WANT IT??? RED BIKINI RED BIKINI RED BIKINI!!!!

What do you know about Hoodia?

Wednesday – gym day – and the kids ASKED to go to the track with me and they want to take soccer balls so when they get bored on the playground they can play soccer and practice kicking.

WHA? This good example thing is working already??

So…

Breakfast – english muffin, peanut butter, nectarine, milk

Lunch – ???

Dinner – Small turkey sandwich, salad

Snack – Tomatoes, cottage cheese

Today is going to be a bit weird because my husband has to work late but I still want to get to the track by 7:30 so I can finish up by dark.  Totally doable – he may just have to hang out and wait for us to be done before we go pick him up.

So what do you know about Hoodia? I started hearing the stories about it a couple of years ago and I was DYING to try it, but I waited until a couple of months ago to actually buy it because I was waiting to hear about all the horrible side effects.  The worst I heard is that it doesn’t really work…and I have to be honest and say most of the time I completely forget that I have it.  You’re supposed to take it an hour before your biggest meal.  I just plain forget – so I guess my question is – is it worth remembering?

Evening Workout

I implemented the new plan and I went to the Y after dinner and I walked around the outdoor track for awhile and when it got dark I went inside and finished my 4 1/2 miles. !!!!!!!!!

There was a woman walking in front of me and guess what she was doing? Go ahead. Guess.

…

SHE WAS SMOKING!!

I have no words.

What the fuck is wrong with people that they can’t stop smoking long enough to walk?

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There is a large area of the track that’s bordered by wild honeysuckle.  The first time around I don’t smell it. The second time around I notice it, and by the end of my walk it’s overpowering.  Do my sinuses open up that much as I exercise? What else am I missing?

***

Small epiphany.

It was a bit of a battle to get myself to go to the Y tonight. It’s hot. I’m tired. It would have been easy to just hang out in front of the TV. But I looked at the clock, and I said, “I’m going to the gym. It’s better than sitting here feeling guilty and making myself not eat.”

And as I was walking, a thought came to me. “I must commit to myself before I can truly commit to anyone else.”

So there I was. Committed. Walking. Proving something to someone.

***

There were a lot of people from another culture at the track. Families, grandparents, people playing soccer and people on the playground and people walking and running and women in sweats and women in their customary dress and people having fun. But see, I had a very difficult “friend break up” with a person from that culture recently and I had extrapolated my feelings about him and the situation we found ourselves in and projected them onto the entire culture. And I was muttering to myself some very unladylike, un-Christianlike things and I thought hey. You know what? Quit.  These people are not that person, and how can you think such awful things about an entire group of people based on one unfortunate situation? These people are playing, exercising, hanging out with friends and family and kids and they are happy and connected and have a culture, and it’s possible that you are a bit jealous of all that connectedness.

So. There you go.

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That’s about it.  It was a great workout!

Monday, Monday

So. Being at the gym at 5 am is harder than it looks on paper. Well, I assume it’s harder, since I haven’t done it yet!!

Maybe, right now, this just isn’t going to work for me. So, I have a NEW PLAN!

MWF – Gym after dinner, 1 hour

T – workout at home for 30 mins – hour (depending on which DVD I decide to use)

Th – rest day

Sat- Track, early, kids in tow if need be, 1 hour

Sun – ASS KICKING with Jeff, 2 hours plus

I know this seems like a lot, but I am not just trying to lose weight, I am training for the Avon 2Day Walk that I signed up for! So it’s necessary! Apparently!!

Food Plan for today:

Brekfast: Egg, multigrain english muffin, 8 oz lowfat (1%) milk, (just can’t do skim!), grapes

Snack: protein bar

Lunch: grilled chicken wrap, salad…only used a BIT of dressing – did you know that one packet of dressing from Chick-Fil-A is 2.5 servings??????

Snack: nectarine, peanut butter (1 tbsp)

Dinner – Meatloaf patties, broccoli, carrots, potatoes

Snack (if needed after workout) Cottage cheese and grape tomoatoes

WATER WATER WATER

Gym after dinner…I am still struggling with snacking after dinner so I think exercising then will be very helpful – and kill two bird with one stone!

My husband remarked that I am spending more at Trader Joe’s and less at the Harris Teeter – which I think is a GOOD thing! Trader Joe’s is WAY CHEAPER and has much less processed food, no soda, things with no preservatives and HFCS and all that stuff. I never intended to be an HFCS activist, but it really is bad for you, along with trans-fats and preservatives and processed food – I know, I know, we have been hearing this for years.  Somehow, now, suddenly, it matters.

I don’t want my kids to deal with this the way I have to. I want them to be strong and healthy and happy. And the only place they are going to learn how to do that is at home.

Oh, and I haven’t watched Food Network all week. And holing steady at one diet coke in the middle of the day, although not DYING for it, and I have lost 6.2 pounds.

TAKE THAT, WHITE FLOUR!

Sunday is the Day I Get My Booty Kicked

Jeff and I walked SIX MILES! SIX MILES!!!!

I am so proud of me! He runs marathons, so this was not such a big deal for him, but for me it was a BREAKTHROUGH. 4 miles was my record. WOOOOOO HOOOOOO!!!!

Breakfast: The usual, although I did use plain non-fat yogurt, 1 tsp honey, 1/2 tsp vanilla, and I added a nectarine and it was not as sweet as the high-fructose corn syrup yogurt , but it was totally healthy and I knew what was in it, because I made it!

Lunch – Leftover whole wheat pasta primavera and cheese

Dinner – Japanese – Salad, Shrimp and Broccoli, extra veggies, NO RICE!

I do need to get better about menu planning.  The weekends are especially hard for some reason.

Day Two

Healthy Breakfast: English muffin, 1/2 tsp margarine, poached egg, light yogurt, strawberries, giant cup of tea with lemon (antioxidants, also good for the sinus infection I think is brewing!)

Exercise: Walking a 5k cross country trail with my friend Jeff. Jeff used to be fat but, being gay, he knew he had to lose weight to catch himself a man!   Now he and his partner run marathons. He understands the struggles of losing weight and, since we have been friends for almost 10 years, he knows how much of a THING this is for me.  Update: we walked for an hour and 15 minutes!

Then, if it DOESN’T rain I will finish the freaking grass!

Lunch – london broil, salad, pita, water and lemon

Snack – depends on what I find at the grocery store, some sort of fruit and protein

Dinner – Meatloaf, green beans, mashed potatoes, kale

Also, I just turned OFF the Food Network. I love love love it BUT the chef said something about needing bacon on everything to make it taste good and I thought – I CANNOT lose weight and listen to this all the time!

And Candi – welcome to blogging! IT’S SO MUCH FUN! And I am such a nerd!