Monday, July 19, 2010 (Day 177)

I’m feeling good.  I’m down to 165.  However, we went to a family reunion Saturday.  I was planning to eat well, but they had some of my favorite things there.  I had to eat the spaghetti noodle pasta salad.  I didn’t feel bad about it.  But they also had dutch oven beef and potatoes.  Had to have some of that!  Then Chris didn’t finish all his food, and I couldn’t let the funeral potatoes go to waste, so I ate them.  And is left over ham.  And seconds of the yummy green salad with almonds and cranberries.  And the apples and peaches in pudding.  All so good!  Still didn’t feel bad about it.  I hadn’t eaten breakfast and I was just gonna have Slim-Fast for dinner.  So really I wouldn’t have been too far out of my calorie range.  But then I went to a wedding reception.  Completely planning to not eat anything.  But when I saw the cookies!!!! I about died.  My favorite thing in the whole wide world is Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.  And peanut butter cookies.  They had peanut butter cookies with peanut butter cups stuck in the middle!  Had to have 2 of those.  Plus yummy sugar cookies, had to have one.  Then I had to go back for seconds and get a peanut butter cookie with Hershey’s kiss in the middle.  And a chocolate cookie with powdered sugar all over it.  Then, Angela didn’t finish her cookies. So I did.  YUM!!!  Then I went home and was lonely ‘cause everyone was asleep and I wasn’t tired.  So I sat and ate from the 2 gallon container of cheese balls Ray bought a few weeks ago.  I went to bed thinking I’d just throw in the towel on the whole weekend and eat pancakes for breakfast Sunday, and hot dogs for lunch, and chips and salsa (I would have eaten them Saturday night except my stomach was gonna explode).  I woke up Sunday with a different attitude and stuck with my diet.  Felt great to do good.  Weighed in this morning at 165, so Saturday didn’t completely kill my diet.  I’m glad about that.  If I’d have eaten yucky yesterday, I would have gone to lunch with my friend Lani today and eaten bad.  Then Wednesday is the monthly firm birthday party – I would have eaten badly then.  All in all, I’m SO happy to report Saturday didn’t turn into a week of binging!  I’ve already reached my second or third goal for my 31^st birthday.  So now I think I’ll move my weight goal to 160 by my birthday (2.5 weeks).  And if I hit 160 before then, I’ll move it again.  J  I feel really good about how things are going.  I just wish I was there already.  And by “there” I mean, weighing 135.

Friday, July 16, 2010 (Day 174) - I'M NOT OBESE!!!

After forever, I’m FINALLY not obese!  This is going off the Body Mass Index chart.  I officially hit 166 pounds, which puts me in the “overweight” category now.  I need to be 140 to get in the “normal” range.  I’m glad the overweight range is small.  I can hit 140 soon – I hope!  I’m so excited to hit this milestone!  Go me!

Tag

I took the kids to the park last night.  While we were there, Cayden wanted to play tag.  As I was running around chasing them and running away from them, I thought about the fact that I would never have been able to do that just a few months ago.  I was climbing up the park equipment, sliding down the slides, etc.  It was great to be able to give them a fun and energetic mom!  Even though they still run faster than me. J  It was a good break from the typical exercising.  I’m a bit perturbed that the scale isn’t moving.  It’s saying 167.  I don’t know how I feel about it.  I’ve still managed to stay on track since Sunday, even though I usually go off track when the scale is being mean.  We’ll see what it looks like in a few days, this coming Sunday.  Whatever it says, I’m thrilled with the way I look and the energy I have!

Monday, July 12, 2010 (Day 170)

The scale read 169 yesterday morning.  That’s crap.  I didn’t gain a pound last week.  I should be at 165.  I haven’t had a bowel movement in about 4 days, so that’s probably why.  But, I guess it still bothered me subconsciously because I ate everything except the kitchen sink last night.  Homemade ice cream (2 cups), cheese balls, fruit snacks, popcorn … That’s it?  Wow, it sure seemed like I ate more than that!  I was able to lay off the chips and salsa (because, even though my brain wanted it, I knew my stomach would explode if I ate any more).  Oh, and I ate one of each flavor of tootsie roll.  I was telling myself that my body thought I was starving and I needed to show it otherwise.  Maybe true, maybe not.  Who knows!  All I know is that I’ve eaten under 1200 calories every day last week and I’ve worked out longer than I ever have every day last week.  So for the scale to be up a pound pissed me off, big time!  It better fix itself before I fall off the wagon!

 

Wednesday, July 7, 2010 (Day 165)

So, despite being in a really good mood yesterday morning and despite how motivated I was yesterday morning, I had a rough evening.  Ray made bbq chicken.  I made corn on the cob and mac & cheese.  I was actually REALLY good.  I had a piece of chicken and two corns on the cob.  I didn’t even take one tiny bite of the mac (it has 270 calories in one cup!).  I was feeling good about myself.  But , I wasn’t satisfied at ALL.  Even though my stomach was full.  I was SO tempted to eat all the mac in the pan, but I DIDN’T.  But I did get a bag of my diet popcorn out and make it.  Ate the whole thing – 240 calories.  Still feeling fine about my day because I was still within my calorie limit.  Then I had a diet popsicle – 10 calories.  Still feeling good about myself because I was still within my calories.  But STILL not satisfied.  I went to get in bed and Cayden’s salt and vinegar Pringles were sitting there right by my alarm clock.  I broke, after all the willpower I had with the other stuff (did I mention Ray was eating caramel popcorn and it smelled SO good!  BUT, I only ate 4 of the Pringles – about 40 calories.  So, really I did AWESOME yesterday considering how bad I wanted to eat everything, and a lot of it.

I didn’t realize what the problem was last night, but this afternoon when my period started, last night made sense.  I’m SO happy that I didn’t cave!  I feel really good about myself for getting through the night.  I could have easily eaten ALL of Cayden’s chips.  Oh, did I mention Ray brought home a HUGE barrel of cheese balls (like cheetos, but round)?  I’ve been able to avoid them – which was nearly impossible last night.

And I did my hour on the treadmill this morning too.  Go me!

Tuesday, July 6, 2010 (Day 164)

Feeling awesome today!  Finally!  I’m down to 168.  I was able to eat super well all 4^th of July weekend.  And exercise!  In fact, I did 90 minutes each day instead of 60.  I was going to wear a shirt this morning, but it was totally falling off me.  It looked like I was a little kid trying to wear my dad’s clothes or something.  While that was a pain to take off and find something else, I was thrilled with it. Time to throw it in the D.I. bag.  I’ve found it REALLY hard to get 10,000 steps on the pedometer!  It’s okay if I walk on the treadmill for an hour (because that gives me nearly 8,000 already).  But if I do Gilad, or mow the grass, or anything else for exercise, it doesn’t do well.  And, besides my hour of exercise, I realize I don’t walk hardly at all!  I would have guessed I walk a lot, with all the housework and stuff.  Not so!  It’s been an eye opener, for sure.  I hope I don’t get obsessed with the whole how-many-steps-have-I-taken thing.  I brought my walking shoes to work so I can go out at lunch.  That will be in addition to my morning treadmill or other exercise.  Did I mention I feel awesome!  I’m 8 pounds away from my goal of 160 by my birthday.  Then I’ll be 25 pounds away from the ULTIMATE goal of 135!  Insane!!! 

P.S. – I also tried a couple diet frozen meals and I LOVE them.  Terriyaki chicken (Smart Ones, I think) and Jumbo [some kind of pasta] with Meatballs (Lean Cuisine, I think).  They are great!!!  I pair them with some peas or corn.  I also had a Smart Ones Mexican dish, and it was great paired with some extra black beans.  Yummo!

 

Pedometer Information

I bought the pedometers for work last night.  I did the treadmill for an hour and 15 minutes.  One full hour on the treadmill was about 8,000 steps.  The treadmill showed 4.5 miles and the pedometer showed 4.08 miles.  Close enough.  Neither are calibrated to the length of my stride anyway.  I did exercise this morning, but I did Gilad, so I didn’t wear the pedometer.  From the time I got completely dressed and put on the pedometer (all I’ve done after that is walk around the house grabbing my purse, walking from the car to train, from train to work, etc.), I’ve gone 1147 steps.  That’s cool!  I’m impressed that it doesn’t count the bumps while in the car or on the train.  It really does just count steps.  And I’m confident it’s getting all my steps.  I’m excited for this.  I know they “want” you to get 10,000 steps per day.  And one of the girls here at work said her friend is doing this at their work and the highest is 18,000 steps per day.  It’ll be fun to see how many we can take!  I’m glad I’ve finally got something that’s excited me about the whole exercise thing and diet too.  Wahoo!