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!

Chocolate Chip Cookies and Regret

What does regret taste like? Well, it tastes like over processed chocolate chip cookies.

And I ate THREE of them last night!  And I am not beating myself up, that really doesn’t do any good. What I DO want to do is figure out why.

I had already posted and said I didn’t eat them and I was in bed and getting close to sleep and I just had to have them! So I got out of bed, got 4 cookies out of the package, and ate 3 of them. The other I left on my nightstand, a sad, stale reminder of the strength of old habits and the necessity of new ones.

So, new habits to fight this urge for eating unhealthy things -

1. All food is stored downstairs. Normally I keep some snacks upstairs for the kids.  No more. Their snacks need to be planned just as much as mine do!

2. No eating after 8 PM. (I realize that there will be special occasions where this will be broken. So this is definitely more of a “guideline” than a rule!)

That should do it! Well, that and remembering that those cookies did not taste nearly as good as I wanted them to.

So today -

Breakfast – the usual

Snack -Protein bar, water

Lunch – grilled chicken wrap, 10 fries

Snack-  water

Dinner – tofu veggie stir fry! No matter what the kids say!!

ONCE A WEEK TREAT – Caramel Banana Crunch Ice Cream from ColdStone! I made a decision, got my kids out of the house, and enjoyed a few minutes in the (almost) bearable summer evening.  It was wonderful!

OH! And another thing!

I am VERY ANNOYED to discover that my LIGHT yogurt has, as the SECOND ingredient, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP!!

WHAT!!!???

I will be taking plain low-fat yogurt and adding fruit to it from now on.  It just goes to show how very important it is to read the WHOLE label!