So thanks to Anne I know that there is only 3 months, 20 days until Christmas. And like her, I have that day as a goal to be at goal. (well obviously I'd like it earlier, mid November would be ideal but being realistic).
And you know what I have been doing alright. But I haven't been doing the things that used to really work. Why have a switched it up? Because I thought it was a cake walk. But I realized it's not. Even if I think I don't do anything differently I must. What am I talking about? Irregular weigh-ins. And not recording weight. Also, no weekly goals. And of course, being happy with any loss and realizing this is a marathon not a sprint! So starting..............NOW I'm back at it. Please help me out if you see me slipping from these. So the goals I want FOREVER that you need to keep me to are:
Friday morning weigh ins. Just worked the best for me.
Blog every day (that I work, not holidays and weekends)
Post weekly goals every monday
Exercise minimum 3 days a week
Eat 5 mini-meals
Monthly measurements (end of month)
Track food - this is a new one for me. i'll just put it in here, i may not check calories etc every time.
I know there's more but that's all I can think of right now. There's not much in there that will actually help me lose weight, just keep track of what I'm doing, much more structured. i'll see when I go off track.
And here's why I need that. I'm slipping. for the first time EVER! I never understood the f*ck it attitude and pigging out. I never got it. The well I already feel off the wagon, I'll start again tomorrow and pig out tonight. Well I had that last night! I just wanted to eat. Well I always want to eat. (I used to say that it's my favorite thing to do). But I'd eaten supper, and dessert, but there was so much good food in my house that I just wanted to try it all. So I ate probably 2 suppers worth last night. My stomach was actually uncomfortable but my mouth liked the taste of the poppy seed loaf and wanted more so I had another slice. I actually felt the little angel and devil on my shoulder. I never hear the devil! So something's going on. therefore I need an intervention. Hence - goals!
Again, as I am a positive person and don't get upset and can find the good in everything, I'm listening to the fitcast right now (podcast, just google it) and it's a guy talking about the Cheat to Lose diet and this pig out could totally help kick start my losses again. Let's hope!
So weekly goals:
- No seconds at any meal. You know what you're planning on eating, stop letting your mouth dictate your stomach!
- Plan out suppers in advance. (I'll do this tonight for the rest of the week)
- Get on the bike at least once (big ride is this weekend!)
- Only weigh in on friday! this couple times a day is messing with my emotions!
- Stay on track on the weekend! I can eat more - as I'll be burning calories and will need the energy. But eat healthy, fresh, unprocessed foods.
- eat cottage cheese 3 times!
I'm definately out of practice for this! I can't think of any goals! I'm going too easy. Hopefully I'll have better ones next week.
here's my food today:
breakfast - chocolate protein and plain yogurt, granola bar (unhealthy one, chocolate chip, this was a dessert for breakfast. that's why there's no seconds allowed this week, I didn't need this extra!)
snack - protein bar
lunch - beef veggie soup from MIL, I think it's fairly healthy. Lots of veggies, broth soup. But I brought a lot, cantaloup, yogurt
snack - black bean brownie, kiwi
supper - beef quesadillas (left over steak) I'll try and load in the onions and peppers, maybe have myself a mostly veggie one with less cheese.
dessert - (I know I'm going to have it!) cottage cheese smoothie! get a goal in with it!
ok, well I feel like this will be alright. I don't think I'm doing badly, I just feel like it should be melting off faster, seeing more changes in my clothes or whatever. I did an informal measurement this morning because I felt like I was getting fatter (the mirror and my eyes told me so) but things haven't increased and there was a slight decrease in a few areas. So I know what I have to do and it's working. My girlie issues seem to be coming out or something ("I feel fat"). I just have to trust that it's working, and stop checking so frequently. Really once a week is PLENTY! Anybody else feel like this ever? How'd you get over it?
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Monday, September 10, 2007
I know I promised but....
So I broke a few promises it turns out. My little experiment was a failure. Well not a failure. but not quite what I wanted. I know I promised I'd be ok if I didn't make my goal and I am ok. But I had hoped for a little more than I got. I weighed in this morning and it was 142.0. So I only lost like 0.6 lbs. And it was a hard core week. But then again, was it? I did run every day of the week. But not at all on the weekend (broken promise 2). I also said all my snacks would be fruit or yogurt, but I had 2 bad days during the week, with cookies and banana bread (promise 3). Plus saturday and sunday, while generally healthy and not calorie fests, involved more banana bread and more cookies and honey with my pb toast and then jam a different time. I was already treating with the pb toast compared to wasa bread or whatever. So I would say it was more of a typical week except for like 1 or 2 extra runs. and I don't know what I thought no bread during the week was going to do. I think when I eat bread I eat more calories as I put pb and jam or honey and a banana. just too starchy and calorie-y. what else did I do? that's basically all. I did get lots of sleep. but I always do. So I guess a 0.6 loss in a week or weekend (the scale's been so random it's hard to say) is pretty good.
anyway. the weekend was alright. I didn't get every fun thing I wanted to do done. But I did revel in my aloneness. I rented movies friday and cut the grass and picked up poop and snuggled with Daisy. I watched Breach which isn't a chick flick but is my kind of movie and not hubby's kind of movie so I wouldn't really watch it except alone. It was really good. monday I went to the farmer's market early in the morning. I bought myself some flowers, made up my own bouquet for $2.50. and bought some buns from this old lady with a moustache for my potluck later one, and bought a lemon verbena plant because mine is dying. Pretty cool. I wanted to buy potatoes and beans and stuff but it was so expensive. I know I could support local growers and organic and blah blah blah, but instead when I was done there I went to Sobeys for Dollar days and bought the rest of the groceries I needed. So I got home around noon and watched a few Entourages. Read some books and magazines and made some fancy orange juice punch and rosemary potatoes for the potluck with I had at 6:00. I also harvested my garden. I took some pictures so I'll try and put them up. I have a garden the size of most people's cucumber patch. My 3 cucumber plants took over half of my garden. I planted lots of stuff but quite a bit just died as I forgot to water during a key growth stage or something. I had 2 tomato plants grow and got about 15 good size tomatoes off it. 1 hot pepper plant and it had 24 peppers on it (holy crap) and 3 mini bell pepper plants that gave my 1 small pepper and 4 the size of raspberries. I had a lot of onions planted that looked great in July but some how they all shrunk or disappeared or the dog ate them because I found one in the lawn the dog was chewing on that was normal sized, but all that I picked were barely bigger than what I planted! I also had a bunch of garlic. And too many cucumbers. Just a few carrots. I felt so cool having produced my own food. Not tons but enough for a few meals. Sunday I made salsa out of it. Well I used canned tomatoes as most of mine were still green. All of my onions. half of my peppers. I was nervous about it. And I was nervous about canning since I'd never done it before and was scared of botulism or whatever. Anyway it turned out really well and even tasted good and all but 1 jar sealed. I also went to a buddy's on Sunday to watch the Rider game which turned out TERRIBLE! the one game I watch of our 1st place team who were on a 6 game win streak or something. We lose. Badly. Very badly. we never even had the ball. Disappointing. Then sunday night hubby got home and we just a great night alone together (as SIL didn't get home until later). It was very family feeling. We walked the dog together which always makes me feel family like. So cute. Anyway, he brought home a ton of leftovers from hunting and was craving nachos (and wanted to try my salsa) so he made some with cheese and chips and everything and I had a few. So there's promise #4 - no cheese, that I broke. So no wonder I didn't lose 2 lbs! Plus I had some poppyseed loaf and more cookies. oh well. I did eat quite good for the past week and I much prefer one splurge day to the same food spread out over a week.
Anyway. I've got a meeting now so I may post later if I remember anything else.
anyway. the weekend was alright. I didn't get every fun thing I wanted to do done. But I did revel in my aloneness. I rented movies friday and cut the grass and picked up poop and snuggled with Daisy. I watched Breach which isn't a chick flick but is my kind of movie and not hubby's kind of movie so I wouldn't really watch it except alone. It was really good. monday I went to the farmer's market early in the morning. I bought myself some flowers, made up my own bouquet for $2.50. and bought some buns from this old lady with a moustache for my potluck later one, and bought a lemon verbena plant because mine is dying. Pretty cool. I wanted to buy potatoes and beans and stuff but it was so expensive. I know I could support local growers and organic and blah blah blah, but instead when I was done there I went to Sobeys for Dollar days and bought the rest of the groceries I needed. So I got home around noon and watched a few Entourages. Read some books and magazines and made some fancy orange juice punch and rosemary potatoes for the potluck with I had at 6:00. I also harvested my garden. I took some pictures so I'll try and put them up. I have a garden the size of most people's cucumber patch. My 3 cucumber plants took over half of my garden. I planted lots of stuff but quite a bit just died as I forgot to water during a key growth stage or something. I had 2 tomato plants grow and got about 15 good size tomatoes off it. 1 hot pepper plant and it had 24 peppers on it (holy crap) and 3 mini bell pepper plants that gave my 1 small pepper and 4 the size of raspberries. I had a lot of onions planted that looked great in July but some how they all shrunk or disappeared or the dog ate them because I found one in the lawn the dog was chewing on that was normal sized, but all that I picked were barely bigger than what I planted! I also had a bunch of garlic. And too many cucumbers. Just a few carrots. I felt so cool having produced my own food. Not tons but enough for a few meals. Sunday I made salsa out of it. Well I used canned tomatoes as most of mine were still green. All of my onions. half of my peppers. I was nervous about it. And I was nervous about canning since I'd never done it before and was scared of botulism or whatever. Anyway it turned out really well and even tasted good and all but 1 jar sealed. I also went to a buddy's on Sunday to watch the Rider game which turned out TERRIBLE! the one game I watch of our 1st place team who were on a 6 game win streak or something. We lose. Badly. Very badly. we never even had the ball. Disappointing. Then sunday night hubby got home and we just a great night alone together (as SIL didn't get home until later). It was very family feeling. We walked the dog together which always makes me feel family like. So cute. Anyway, he brought home a ton of leftovers from hunting and was craving nachos (and wanted to try my salsa) so he made some with cheese and chips and everything and I had a few. So there's promise #4 - no cheese, that I broke. So no wonder I didn't lose 2 lbs! Plus I had some poppyseed loaf and more cookies. oh well. I did eat quite good for the past week and I much prefer one splurge day to the same food spread out over a week.
Anyway. I've got a meeting now so I may post later if I remember anything else.
Friday, September 7, 2007
Official day
So it's the official weigh in friday for me. And I got a 141.8. I don't feel bad about it though. I feel like that's an authentic number. As in, before when I'd see 141.0 it was a bit of a suprise and I didn't really feel like I was there. Then the next day when I'd see 142.6 I was dissapointed because it looked like nearly a 3 lb gain, but it was probably a more realistic number. If that is the case. Then I acutally had a loss. So in my continuing habit of always being happy and looking on the bright side, that's what I'm going with! yay! a loss!
Though it isn't looking good for a big number monday morning. I mean a small number. I think if I can just be down at all from 141 I'll be happy. I haven't really done a lot different this week. No bread for breakfast is starting to bug me, thank goodness tomorrow is weekend when it's allowed. I don't know why I make up these strange rules. I just think I eat too many calories when I eat bread for breaky. I always do 2 slices w/ pb and a banana. Compared to wasa bread with the same it's too much. I had eggs one day and this morning was yogurt with protein powder. I just have to be more creative to think of things besides the old standard. The other thing that's slightly different is a run every day. though I was almost doing that, it wasn't official. It was too cold this morning for me (chicken) but I promise I'll do a quick run tonight. even if it's raining. (which it didn't yesterday)
Running yesterday I did intervals. And i changed it up, i did 1.5 sprint and 1.5 recovery (compared to 1 and 2 before) it was great. I did 5 intervals instead of my usual 4 as well. It was great. I had gotten quite used to the 1 minute and 2 minutes recovery was really long. So this was a nice challenge again. Yet nothign I couldn't handle. I hope this means I'm actually in kick ass shape (my cardiovascular fitness and endurance and whatever else) I may not quite look it, but I feel like I am an athlete. I love being able to go faster or longer or higher than other people with out wimping out. Hence my love of the armwrestle?
anyway. I've been doing some snacking that wasn't great on both the past 2 nights. I had my cookie incident first, then last night with my strawberry snack I had some banana choclate chip bread. I'm the idiot who made it and I hate when things go bad. And when i'm home alone, who did I expect to eat it. I suppose it might be slightly healthier than straight out cake. But frankly I just don't need the sugar!
Food today was much better, like I said, protein yogurt for breaky, and a banana. lunch was left over lean cuisine from last night (I checked it out and it's really low calorie, like 230 for half a bag. I ate more than half last night so we'll say 200 for lunch. Sodium was 35% of RDI though. ouch) Plus of course a yogurt, cantaloup and veggies and hummus. Probably a 450 cal lunch. That's aiming high I think. I've still got a pear for snack if I think I need it, plus my emergency mixed nuts for the drive home. But remember we're doing office drinks (we only do this like 6 times a year max) so I needed to save some cal's for that. Supper today I don't know. Tonight is my home alone night so I'm planning on eating snacks and watching movies as well as working out. Maybe I'll just have toast. And I think some soup as it's so chilly. That should be low cal so I can have my cheeca crisps or (a few) chips and salsa. no cheese though! I'm craving some salt. hopefully it will be out of my system by monday though!
I hope everyone has a great weekend. I'm super excited for mine. besides working out I'm going to clean up the yard, get rid of my dead flowers etc. seed some more grass in the bare areas. clean up puppy poop. Going to the farmer's market tomorrow morning. that should be awesome. gonna read some books and hopefully scrapbook a few pages. yay! I hope you all do something fun too!
Though it isn't looking good for a big number monday morning. I mean a small number. I think if I can just be down at all from 141 I'll be happy. I haven't really done a lot different this week. No bread for breakfast is starting to bug me, thank goodness tomorrow is weekend when it's allowed. I don't know why I make up these strange rules. I just think I eat too many calories when I eat bread for breaky. I always do 2 slices w/ pb and a banana. Compared to wasa bread with the same it's too much. I had eggs one day and this morning was yogurt with protein powder. I just have to be more creative to think of things besides the old standard. The other thing that's slightly different is a run every day. though I was almost doing that, it wasn't official. It was too cold this morning for me (chicken) but I promise I'll do a quick run tonight. even if it's raining. (which it didn't yesterday)
Running yesterday I did intervals. And i changed it up, i did 1.5 sprint and 1.5 recovery (compared to 1 and 2 before) it was great. I did 5 intervals instead of my usual 4 as well. It was great. I had gotten quite used to the 1 minute and 2 minutes recovery was really long. So this was a nice challenge again. Yet nothign I couldn't handle. I hope this means I'm actually in kick ass shape (my cardiovascular fitness and endurance and whatever else) I may not quite look it, but I feel like I am an athlete. I love being able to go faster or longer or higher than other people with out wimping out. Hence my love of the armwrestle?
anyway. I've been doing some snacking that wasn't great on both the past 2 nights. I had my cookie incident first, then last night with my strawberry snack I had some banana choclate chip bread. I'm the idiot who made it and I hate when things go bad. And when i'm home alone, who did I expect to eat it. I suppose it might be slightly healthier than straight out cake. But frankly I just don't need the sugar!
Food today was much better, like I said, protein yogurt for breaky, and a banana. lunch was left over lean cuisine from last night (I checked it out and it's really low calorie, like 230 for half a bag. I ate more than half last night so we'll say 200 for lunch. Sodium was 35% of RDI though. ouch) Plus of course a yogurt, cantaloup and veggies and hummus. Probably a 450 cal lunch. That's aiming high I think. I've still got a pear for snack if I think I need it, plus my emergency mixed nuts for the drive home. But remember we're doing office drinks (we only do this like 6 times a year max) so I needed to save some cal's for that. Supper today I don't know. Tonight is my home alone night so I'm planning on eating snacks and watching movies as well as working out. Maybe I'll just have toast. And I think some soup as it's so chilly. That should be low cal so I can have my cheeca crisps or (a few) chips and salsa. no cheese though! I'm craving some salt. hopefully it will be out of my system by monday though!
I hope everyone has a great weekend. I'm super excited for mine. besides working out I'm going to clean up the yard, get rid of my dead flowers etc. seed some more grass in the bare areas. clean up puppy poop. Going to the farmer's market tomorrow morning. that should be awesome. gonna read some books and hopefully scrapbook a few pages. yay! I hope you all do something fun too!
Thursday, September 6, 2007
workin'
Well I feel much better about work. I got in a crap load of time on my thesis. As well as sorta figuring out that model from yesterday. Now tomorrow I just have to write up a little memo and it's all good. Plus I found out that tomorrow we'll be doing an office outting at 4:00 to the bar for drinks and nasty food. I'm not worried. I'll have 1 drink and minimal food. I don't tend to eat bar food very much, especially in front of other people. a) I don't like it much and b) I remember how completely horrible most of it is for you. I'll try and remember that when I'm planning food for tomorrow as well. No afternoon snack.
Well last night did my strength training. Had a minor run in with some cookies but I'm over it. Just have to hide them. Outta sight outta mind. supper was pretty light anyway, 1 salmon filet and 1/2 plate of peas. mmm peas. And of course milk and a banana. If I have bananas i'll eat 3 a day. Not the greatest fruit to have, quite starchy. But hey, still a fruit, it's got vitamins etc. Ready for my run tonight. Well that's not quite true. I'm not looking forward to it. I just wanna veg. But I'll do it anyway. It's sorta yucky outside. making me feel blah. like popcorn and movies. But I also enjoy the few runs I've had in the rain. (one I was balling my face off and everytime I'd feel a new sob coming on I'd run even faster. that's a long story but one of the greatest runs i've ever had, all in pouring rain) So I'll put a few good tunes on and do some HIIT. Then, I'll get up and do a quick regular jog tomorrow morning. Just 15 minutes or something. I hate being rushed in the morning and heaven forbid I wake up earlier! hehe.
I have been going to bed before 10:00 for the last couple nights and loving it. I love waking up halfway ready to get up. That's like 8.5 hours a night. I know that my body will gladly accept 9 or 10 hours, that's what it was when I was a student and didn't have class until 9:30. HEAVEN!
anyway. scale's so far not cooperating with my little plan. i know it's only been a couple days but still. Showing me that 142.something instead of even a 141 something. Long way to 140. I'll keep trucking.
Other news...pretty much ready to step it up in TT. I've been doing beginner bodyweight exercises and I think I need to move on to intermediate. Some of these things are just too easy. Lunges and squats for example, with no weights I'm just breezing through them. Need to up the ante. But then again, I've got my bike ride at the end of next week. Dont' want to be sore going in to it. And then the week after my classes start and that will be my weight training. It's 1/2 hour tae boxing and 1 hr weights on monday, then 1 hour step and 1/2 hour weights on wednesday. I may through in a second weight thing on friday or saturday. But when you do full body you have to have a day off in between for recovery. so only if it fits in my schedule. I would really like to though as she does high reps lower weights in her class and I'd like to mix it up with some heavy weigts and low reps (as I hear that's important). I also think it's back to elliptical for the winter. It's better than nothing right. I do it while I watch tv. So just about every night for at least 1/2 hour. I still have my cardio from my class and a pile of DVDs. Again, I need to get a jump rope for some intervals on weekends. Anybody know where you can find a decent jump rope for cheap? nothing fancy. just an adult sized one. I could steal one from a school maybe. hehe.
Hubby keeps talking about wanting to lose some weight and since I have he feels bad about himself. I'm trying not to tell him to drop a few pounds but rather if he wants to do something about it I can help him. because you can't make somebody want to lose weight and that's where it all comes down to. I don't want him resenting me by pushing him to work out. It'll come off like I think he needs to lose. he's already got an active job (on his feet, in a lumber yard, helping load customers etc) but his eating is sh*t. He hasn't realized he's not 19 any more and can't eat chips and chocolate bars for lunch. some days he won't eat anything for supper if he's working in the garage or something. Then when he comes in at 10:00 he'll just munch on cheese and Doritos. Not healthy. Again if you all remember, one of the major pushes for me to lose weight was health issues as I had high cholesterol at 25. I already ate healthier than he did before that. He also has family history of that so he's got just as much reason as I do. anybody else have any issues about trying to help a spouse but not be mean about it? he REALLY likes his unhealthy eating! He'll pass on something even if it tastes good because it's "diet" food. (free samples of WW cereal at Costco, he gave his to me. I asked if he didn't like it he said, "naw, it's WW. It's for you not me." and for the record it was really good). Let me know if any of you have any great ideas for helping me/him out!
Well last night did my strength training. Had a minor run in with some cookies but I'm over it. Just have to hide them. Outta sight outta mind. supper was pretty light anyway, 1 salmon filet and 1/2 plate of peas. mmm peas. And of course milk and a banana. If I have bananas i'll eat 3 a day. Not the greatest fruit to have, quite starchy. But hey, still a fruit, it's got vitamins etc. Ready for my run tonight. Well that's not quite true. I'm not looking forward to it. I just wanna veg. But I'll do it anyway. It's sorta yucky outside. making me feel blah. like popcorn and movies. But I also enjoy the few runs I've had in the rain. (one I was balling my face off and everytime I'd feel a new sob coming on I'd run even faster. that's a long story but one of the greatest runs i've ever had, all in pouring rain) So I'll put a few good tunes on and do some HIIT. Then, I'll get up and do a quick regular jog tomorrow morning. Just 15 minutes or something. I hate being rushed in the morning and heaven forbid I wake up earlier! hehe.
I have been going to bed before 10:00 for the last couple nights and loving it. I love waking up halfway ready to get up. That's like 8.5 hours a night. I know that my body will gladly accept 9 or 10 hours, that's what it was when I was a student and didn't have class until 9:30. HEAVEN!
anyway. scale's so far not cooperating with my little plan. i know it's only been a couple days but still. Showing me that 142.something instead of even a 141 something. Long way to 140. I'll keep trucking.
Other news...pretty much ready to step it up in TT. I've been doing beginner bodyweight exercises and I think I need to move on to intermediate. Some of these things are just too easy. Lunges and squats for example, with no weights I'm just breezing through them. Need to up the ante. But then again, I've got my bike ride at the end of next week. Dont' want to be sore going in to it. And then the week after my classes start and that will be my weight training. It's 1/2 hour tae boxing and 1 hr weights on monday, then 1 hour step and 1/2 hour weights on wednesday. I may through in a second weight thing on friday or saturday. But when you do full body you have to have a day off in between for recovery. so only if it fits in my schedule. I would really like to though as she does high reps lower weights in her class and I'd like to mix it up with some heavy weigts and low reps (as I hear that's important). I also think it's back to elliptical for the winter. It's better than nothing right. I do it while I watch tv. So just about every night for at least 1/2 hour. I still have my cardio from my class and a pile of DVDs. Again, I need to get a jump rope for some intervals on weekends. Anybody know where you can find a decent jump rope for cheap? nothing fancy. just an adult sized one. I could steal one from a school maybe. hehe.
Hubby keeps talking about wanting to lose some weight and since I have he feels bad about himself. I'm trying not to tell him to drop a few pounds but rather if he wants to do something about it I can help him. because you can't make somebody want to lose weight and that's where it all comes down to. I don't want him resenting me by pushing him to work out. It'll come off like I think he needs to lose. he's already got an active job (on his feet, in a lumber yard, helping load customers etc) but his eating is sh*t. He hasn't realized he's not 19 any more and can't eat chips and chocolate bars for lunch. some days he won't eat anything for supper if he's working in the garage or something. Then when he comes in at 10:00 he'll just munch on cheese and Doritos. Not healthy. Again if you all remember, one of the major pushes for me to lose weight was health issues as I had high cholesterol at 25. I already ate healthier than he did before that. He also has family history of that so he's got just as much reason as I do. anybody else have any issues about trying to help a spouse but not be mean about it? he REALLY likes his unhealthy eating! He'll pass on something even if it tastes good because it's "diet" food. (free samples of WW cereal at Costco, he gave his to me. I asked if he didn't like it he said, "naw, it's WW. It's for you not me." and for the record it was really good). Let me know if any of you have any great ideas for helping me/him out!
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
I'm not being awesome at work...
so I might as well be an awesome blogger. I feel bad about something at work, not my fault, but I could have let somebody know in advance that there was a crap load of work for them due at the end of the month. I didn't realize it but maybe I should have and told him about it. I just feel guilty about it so I'm keeping quite in my office for a bit. Plus i'm frustrated by this model I'm running, I don't quite understand something but I don't want to ask today as I'm sitting quiet in my office like I said. Oh well I can ask in the morning and just kill 1/2 an hour now doing this.
So I AM awesome because I got up this am and did my run already. I went last night too. Hurray! I could have given up but I never. Here's the story:
Daisy was running really well beside me about 8 minutes in, so I didn't even notice I dropped the leash. oops. So I try and step on it to get her to stop, but I did step on it and the collar broke away from her neck (probably a good thing I guess or I would have chocked her) so she's running down the street and i've got her leash and broken collar in my hands. Luckily I figured out recently that she loves to chase me and play tag so I called her and ran the other way. she got back to me and I just looped her collar around her neck and used the clip on the leash to hold it shut. I was gonna call it a day and go home there, but decided to keep running and hope Daisy didn't get free again. Well success. Made it home together. Then did the same thing this morning as I didn't have time to buy a collar yet! yay me! Plus breakfast was wasa bread, feta and tomato. I know I said no cheese, but I did not mean feta, because when I wrote no bread, this is exactly what I was picturing. I meant no cheese and nacho's which is what I can feel a craving coming on for. It's my home alone snack of choice. Luckily I've realized this and am trying to outwit it with other low cal tempting snacks. stay tuned.
Anyway, hubby left last night. Sad/happy. I went shopping for girly food and bought hummus. yay! I know I can eat it when he's home but it's a special treat for me. so lunch today included hummus and veggies and a spinach salad with a hard boiled egg I did up last night. I was so productive. After my run I washed and cut up veggies and then boiled eggs and did laundry (all my workout clothes so they were a bit damp this morning for the run, oops). Felt great.
supper tonight might be a bit of salmon. Try and cook it up with some dill and lemon which is my favorite. Maybe some more hummus because I really liked it (it's roasted red pepper hummus). i'm also going to do my TT workout tonight. And hopefully come up with a list of awesome things I'm going to do while hubby's away. Plans already for saturday night with some girls doing a potluck and then chick flicks (another girl's hubby is outta town too). Then I think I'm going to watch the game Sunday afternoon so I have to have all my fun alone time things done during the week. Luckily I won't get hooked into tv as the only thing I'm even sorta watching lately is BB and I keep missing it so that's fine. I can watch online at noon too.
I don't know if anybody else is doing any HIIT, and after readign that article I posted I realized I'm not doing it exactly. I do 30 minutes of it, and apparently that should kill me if I'm doing it right. oops. I did just regular jogging last night and I completely noticed a difference since I started though. I am fast! and I like going faster! Super exciting thing to realize. Now I just wish I had trained for biking as well. We ride in less than 2 weeks and I've gone on 1 ride all summer. Luckily I figured out that it can take no longer than 4 hours. Plus lots of our friends are in terrible shape for it so I think I'm good. I'm IN SHAPE, just not for biking necessarily, just my butt will be hurting hopefully. there's lots of breaks all the time too so that should help. It'll be like 1 hour then a break 4 times. Piece of cake. I don't really care how fast I go anyway. In case anybody forgot I'm doing the MS bike Tour which is a 64 km bike ride. Anybody bike regularly? How fast do you go on just a leisurely pace? I hope it's like 20k/hr. I can totally handle it then.
Anyway almost killed all the time...hmmm. what else can I blab about?
The scale hasn't showed me that happy number again yet but I do feel leaner than before. I did a super killer ab workout with my TT the other day and it seriously hurt for 2 days. That always makes a person feel tight in the midsection hey? Also, I'm starting to like my legs a little more. I do bulk up fairly easily, but I also found I was giving myself that excuse when my legs were big. saying it was muscle. Well yeah they were really muscular, but they were covered in a couple inches of fat. That's what made them look bulky, otherwise they'd just look muscular. (that's what I was talking about before Meg) anyway, they're still bigger, but they are starting to have a nicer shape, not so much lumpy areas of fat, rather just a little trouble zone in the upper inner and then a small layer of fat to get rid of. Like if I pull my fat and skin around I can make it look like I've got nice legs! It will happen! I'm already pretty happy about how I look with most clothes on. Just need to work on the naked part!
Has anybody else noticed that whether or not you're actually smaller (scale or measurement wise) once you start working out and eating right, you feel like you look better? You're wearing the same clothes but when you used to never take your coat off over this shirt you will now? even though you probably look exactly the same? I do that. I think it has to do with posture. Also, if my abs are burning, I have the impression they look alright, the fat on top doesn't bother me as much. anybody else?
ok well that's enough time killing. gotta go buy a new collar for my Daisy, maybe a pink one. then get cooking some fish. Fish and veggies and hummus and a banana. Probably that. mmm...
So I AM awesome because I got up this am and did my run already. I went last night too. Hurray! I could have given up but I never. Here's the story:
Daisy was running really well beside me about 8 minutes in, so I didn't even notice I dropped the leash. oops. So I try and step on it to get her to stop, but I did step on it and the collar broke away from her neck (probably a good thing I guess or I would have chocked her) so she's running down the street and i've got her leash and broken collar in my hands. Luckily I figured out recently that she loves to chase me and play tag so I called her and ran the other way. she got back to me and I just looped her collar around her neck and used the clip on the leash to hold it shut. I was gonna call it a day and go home there, but decided to keep running and hope Daisy didn't get free again. Well success. Made it home together. Then did the same thing this morning as I didn't have time to buy a collar yet! yay me! Plus breakfast was wasa bread, feta and tomato. I know I said no cheese, but I did not mean feta, because when I wrote no bread, this is exactly what I was picturing. I meant no cheese and nacho's which is what I can feel a craving coming on for. It's my home alone snack of choice. Luckily I've realized this and am trying to outwit it with other low cal tempting snacks. stay tuned.
Anyway, hubby left last night. Sad/happy. I went shopping for girly food and bought hummus. yay! I know I can eat it when he's home but it's a special treat for me. so lunch today included hummus and veggies and a spinach salad with a hard boiled egg I did up last night. I was so productive. After my run I washed and cut up veggies and then boiled eggs and did laundry (all my workout clothes so they were a bit damp this morning for the run, oops). Felt great.
supper tonight might be a bit of salmon. Try and cook it up with some dill and lemon which is my favorite. Maybe some more hummus because I really liked it (it's roasted red pepper hummus). i'm also going to do my TT workout tonight. And hopefully come up with a list of awesome things I'm going to do while hubby's away. Plans already for saturday night with some girls doing a potluck and then chick flicks (another girl's hubby is outta town too). Then I think I'm going to watch the game Sunday afternoon so I have to have all my fun alone time things done during the week. Luckily I won't get hooked into tv as the only thing I'm even sorta watching lately is BB and I keep missing it so that's fine. I can watch online at noon too.
I don't know if anybody else is doing any HIIT, and after readign that article I posted I realized I'm not doing it exactly. I do 30 minutes of it, and apparently that should kill me if I'm doing it right. oops. I did just regular jogging last night and I completely noticed a difference since I started though. I am fast! and I like going faster! Super exciting thing to realize. Now I just wish I had trained for biking as well. We ride in less than 2 weeks and I've gone on 1 ride all summer. Luckily I figured out that it can take no longer than 4 hours. Plus lots of our friends are in terrible shape for it so I think I'm good. I'm IN SHAPE, just not for biking necessarily, just my butt will be hurting hopefully. there's lots of breaks all the time too so that should help. It'll be like 1 hour then a break 4 times. Piece of cake. I don't really care how fast I go anyway. In case anybody forgot I'm doing the MS bike Tour which is a 64 km bike ride. Anybody bike regularly? How fast do you go on just a leisurely pace? I hope it's like 20k/hr. I can totally handle it then.
Anyway almost killed all the time...hmmm. what else can I blab about?
The scale hasn't showed me that happy number again yet but I do feel leaner than before. I did a super killer ab workout with my TT the other day and it seriously hurt for 2 days. That always makes a person feel tight in the midsection hey? Also, I'm starting to like my legs a little more. I do bulk up fairly easily, but I also found I was giving myself that excuse when my legs were big. saying it was muscle. Well yeah they were really muscular, but they were covered in a couple inches of fat. That's what made them look bulky, otherwise they'd just look muscular. (that's what I was talking about before Meg) anyway, they're still bigger, but they are starting to have a nicer shape, not so much lumpy areas of fat, rather just a little trouble zone in the upper inner and then a small layer of fat to get rid of. Like if I pull my fat and skin around I can make it look like I've got nice legs! It will happen! I'm already pretty happy about how I look with most clothes on. Just need to work on the naked part!
Has anybody else noticed that whether or not you're actually smaller (scale or measurement wise) once you start working out and eating right, you feel like you look better? You're wearing the same clothes but when you used to never take your coat off over this shirt you will now? even though you probably look exactly the same? I do that. I think it has to do with posture. Also, if my abs are burning, I have the impression they look alright, the fat on top doesn't bother me as much. anybody else?
ok well that's enough time killing. gotta go buy a new collar for my Daisy, maybe a pink one. then get cooking some fish. Fish and veggies and hummus and a banana. Probably that. mmm...
Tuesday, September 4, 2007
2 steps forward 1 step back
I was going to say 2 back 1 forward but I'm being positive. I know that one Bad Weekend will not be 2 steps back. I didn't gain any inches so we'll call those step 1. however step 2, the scale, did show a gain. another 1.4 lbs. I think what's going on is that I haven't really changed weight in the last couple weeks, I've been seeing 141 and 142.4 back and forth. I need to do a hard core week to break through this rut I've hit. And it's about to happen. Ok I'll back up.
I didn't work out friday because I thought hubby and I were gonna have a date but he stood me up (i was pissed, he lied to me and broke a promise and then lied again, but we're moving on). Then saturday I just hung out until SIL and family showed up. They were visiting for the weekend. Hubby was working sat so I had to entertain alone while making supper and I just can't do that. I just feel like they should just make themselves at home and either entertain themselves or join me in the kitchen and just chat. But instead they sort of were just awkward. I mean they're FAMILY, I shouldn't have to bring out the "how's the weather" talk right? grr. so I made some baked spaghetti and meatballs for supper. Plus SIL brought a white salad, which was more like dessert, marshmallows and cream cheese etc. plus green beans. Then after I had all these snacks and stuff to eat because I cleaned out the freezer but nobody was really eating it all. Unfortunately I'd eat it, hoping everyone would join me. no such luck. So I started my pigging out here. I also had a cooler and did no activity. We played some board games and poker later on and I drank d.coke so that was alright. It was sorta fun.
Sunday I got a run in, sorta. I took the kids with me. They're 5 and 8. And the dog. So I did my regular route but I went nice and slow, with lots of stops. the 8 y.o. couldn't keep up, she's a little chunkier and likes to eat and just is less active. the 5 y.o. kept up much better. He's just a wirey little boy who always is running around anyway. It's funny how you can see how they're going to be as adults even when they're so young. Poor girl is gonna have weight issues I think. It doesn't help that her dad not so subtly tells her she's fat and doesn't need to eat any more chips etc (which she doesn't but he certainly should say it differently).
ANYWAY, Sunday we went to the zoo in town (not a terribly awesome zoo, they have mostly animals that you can see in the ditch any day as road kill but whatever) It was ok. Hubby's going hunting Elk this week so it was interesting to see the elk there. Made me sad though, I can eat meat when I pretend it just comes from the store and that's it. But when I see it as part of an animal I get grossed out and sad. Which is really too bad because I was excited to get the elk meat but now I have to disassociate it from the animal, may take some time. But I was completely choked because we missed THE GAME OF THE DECADE! The labour day classic Rider football game. I was supposed to go to my sister's bf's house and watch it but couldn't as we had company to entertain. Grrr! It was an amazing game apparently. Lead went back and forth like 10 times and we won with a play with 12 seconds left (quarterback sneak!). So pissed cause everyone is talking about it now saying how it was the best game ever. I still haven't even seen a game this year! boo! whatever it's over.
So then sunday night was just relaxing and movie watching and bed sorta early. Then company left early monday. So FINALLY I think I can do what I wanted to do all weekend. My long weekend plans were to do a "project" in the basement, like get rid of clothes that don't fit or something. And go see a movie in a theatre and just hang out in my pj's with my hubby and maybe scrapbook. And do relaxing workouts with no time constraints or pressure. Didn't do any of it. Monday turned into a blah day as well. I did make cookies for hubby's hunting trip, and got rid of all my black bananas with muffins and bread. Messed around on the computer and with my dog but I am completely frustrated with my weekend. I always build long weekends up too much I suppose. Plus I completely ate like crap (don't even know how many cookies or cinnamon buns or saskatoon crisps or more cookies I ate, not to mention A&W).
However, this week is back on track. Like I said, hubby's hunting. Leaving tonight. So it's just gonna be me and SIL. So I'm eating nothing but girl food! salads and veggies! Fruit for dessert. Not to mention, I'm gonna rent girly movies and live in my workout clothes. I'm going to be totally on track and perfect while hubby's gone. Gonna buy a couple things of diet coke and maybe some other fancy flavour and drink nothing but that and water and maybe make something crazy like hummus and veggies for snacks. I'm pretty excited about it. I also can scrapbook and do a project and everything this week since it's sorta like a holiday. It'll keep me busy and not missing hubby at least! Maybe I'll even sew something! It does sorta suck that I'm not ALONE as SIL lives with us now, but the check she just gave us makes up for it I guess.
So the plan this week is to knock of 2 lbs! here's how:
- run every day! even if it's just a short one.
- Weights on wed, friday and a video on the weekend
- eat 3 meals that are primarily veggies
- don't eat bread for breakfast all week (until weekend)
- "treats" will be fruit, veggies and dip, or yogurt/smoothies, one night can be cheeca crips
- NO CHIPS, FAST FOOD, CHEESE, COOKIES, OR CHOCOLATE
How does that sound to the rest of you? I know that I really like treats of fruit etc, it just requires a little planning to make sure I have it. It still feels like a treat. Plus if I plan "projects" it helps keep me distracted from food. So working out obviously will be one. But I'm also going to do some yard work, some scrapbooking, some visiting with family and friends. Maybe try and finally hang some pictures in the house. Quite exciting. I'm gonna make a list. I love crossing things off a list.
So that's a fun goal huh? Just a wed to sunday plan with a goal of losing 2 lbs? Well let's put it this way, to weigh 140.0 on Monday morning. no I'm not going to be pissed off if I don't make it. Don't you know me at all? I just think I'll be able to handle going totally strict if I've got a short term goal like that. Should be fun. Wish me luck! Anybody else wanna do something like this?
I didn't work out friday because I thought hubby and I were gonna have a date but he stood me up (i was pissed, he lied to me and broke a promise and then lied again, but we're moving on). Then saturday I just hung out until SIL and family showed up. They were visiting for the weekend. Hubby was working sat so I had to entertain alone while making supper and I just can't do that. I just feel like they should just make themselves at home and either entertain themselves or join me in the kitchen and just chat. But instead they sort of were just awkward. I mean they're FAMILY, I shouldn't have to bring out the "how's the weather" talk right? grr. so I made some baked spaghetti and meatballs for supper. Plus SIL brought a white salad, which was more like dessert, marshmallows and cream cheese etc. plus green beans. Then after I had all these snacks and stuff to eat because I cleaned out the freezer but nobody was really eating it all. Unfortunately I'd eat it, hoping everyone would join me. no such luck. So I started my pigging out here. I also had a cooler and did no activity. We played some board games and poker later on and I drank d.coke so that was alright. It was sorta fun.
Sunday I got a run in, sorta. I took the kids with me. They're 5 and 8. And the dog. So I did my regular route but I went nice and slow, with lots of stops. the 8 y.o. couldn't keep up, she's a little chunkier and likes to eat and just is less active. the 5 y.o. kept up much better. He's just a wirey little boy who always is running around anyway. It's funny how you can see how they're going to be as adults even when they're so young. Poor girl is gonna have weight issues I think. It doesn't help that her dad not so subtly tells her she's fat and doesn't need to eat any more chips etc (which she doesn't but he certainly should say it differently).
ANYWAY, Sunday we went to the zoo in town (not a terribly awesome zoo, they have mostly animals that you can see in the ditch any day as road kill but whatever) It was ok. Hubby's going hunting Elk this week so it was interesting to see the elk there. Made me sad though, I can eat meat when I pretend it just comes from the store and that's it. But when I see it as part of an animal I get grossed out and sad. Which is really too bad because I was excited to get the elk meat but now I have to disassociate it from the animal, may take some time. But I was completely choked because we missed THE GAME OF THE DECADE! The labour day classic Rider football game. I was supposed to go to my sister's bf's house and watch it but couldn't as we had company to entertain. Grrr! It was an amazing game apparently. Lead went back and forth like 10 times and we won with a play with 12 seconds left (quarterback sneak!). So pissed cause everyone is talking about it now saying how it was the best game ever. I still haven't even seen a game this year! boo! whatever it's over.
So then sunday night was just relaxing and movie watching and bed sorta early. Then company left early monday. So FINALLY I think I can do what I wanted to do all weekend. My long weekend plans were to do a "project" in the basement, like get rid of clothes that don't fit or something. And go see a movie in a theatre and just hang out in my pj's with my hubby and maybe scrapbook. And do relaxing workouts with no time constraints or pressure. Didn't do any of it. Monday turned into a blah day as well. I did make cookies for hubby's hunting trip, and got rid of all my black bananas with muffins and bread. Messed around on the computer and with my dog but I am completely frustrated with my weekend. I always build long weekends up too much I suppose. Plus I completely ate like crap (don't even know how many cookies or cinnamon buns or saskatoon crisps or more cookies I ate, not to mention A&W).
However, this week is back on track. Like I said, hubby's hunting. Leaving tonight. So it's just gonna be me and SIL. So I'm eating nothing but girl food! salads and veggies! Fruit for dessert. Not to mention, I'm gonna rent girly movies and live in my workout clothes. I'm going to be totally on track and perfect while hubby's gone. Gonna buy a couple things of diet coke and maybe some other fancy flavour and drink nothing but that and water and maybe make something crazy like hummus and veggies for snacks. I'm pretty excited about it. I also can scrapbook and do a project and everything this week since it's sorta like a holiday. It'll keep me busy and not missing hubby at least! Maybe I'll even sew something! It does sorta suck that I'm not ALONE as SIL lives with us now, but the check she just gave us makes up for it I guess.
So the plan this week is to knock of 2 lbs! here's how:
- run every day! even if it's just a short one.
- Weights on wed, friday and a video on the weekend
- eat 3 meals that are primarily veggies
- don't eat bread for breakfast all week (until weekend)
- "treats" will be fruit, veggies and dip, or yogurt/smoothies, one night can be cheeca crips
- NO CHIPS, FAST FOOD, CHEESE, COOKIES, OR CHOCOLATE
How does that sound to the rest of you? I know that I really like treats of fruit etc, it just requires a little planning to make sure I have it. It still feels like a treat. Plus if I plan "projects" it helps keep me distracted from food. So working out obviously will be one. But I'm also going to do some yard work, some scrapbooking, some visiting with family and friends. Maybe try and finally hang some pictures in the house. Quite exciting. I'm gonna make a list. I love crossing things off a list.
So that's a fun goal huh? Just a wed to sunday plan with a goal of losing 2 lbs? Well let's put it this way, to weigh 140.0 on Monday morning. no I'm not going to be pissed off if I don't make it. Don't you know me at all? I just think I'll be able to handle going totally strict if I've got a short term goal like that. Should be fun. Wish me luck! Anybody else wanna do something like this?
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