Thursday, right?

I'm so losing track of what day it is! lol

Well, I'm doing my Friday weigh in today :) since we have a babysitter and we'll probably go out to dinner tonight. I don't plan on going crazy, but ya know how it is with restaurant food, all the sodium, even if you order something "good for you." I think we're doing sushi, so it'll be a lot of rice too.

Anyway, today my weight was at 151.2 which I was super happy with. Only 1.4 lbs until my lowest pre-Christmas weight.

This morning I'm going over to my mom's so she can help me with a sewing pattern, so my goal is not to eat any sweets (or not a crazy amount for 8 in the a.m. anyway) while I'm there.

Other goals:
Drink at least 12 glasses of water
eat relatively well

ALso our disposal went crazy last night... actually, Aaron says it's the pipes, not the disposal, so that's even worse. Uh, I put raw potatoe skins down it and apparently you shouldn't do that. So that's what Aaron is fixing this morning when he wakes up. Yay for hubbies doing gross stuff and me not! lol

Wednesday

152.4 this morning, which is .2 down from Monday... which is alright b/c Monday was baaadd. I tried to eat well, but then my brother was in town and we had dinner over there (including dessert) and I was over there the majority of the day. So, I didn't weigh myself yesterday and was hoping that it was back to normal today, which it was. I still am 2.6 lbs up from my lowest weight, but I'm sure I'll get back down there. It also doesn't help that I haven't worked out in like a week and a half b/c of this darned cold. I'm now on antibiotics for the sinus infection and starting to feel a little better.... however I could still sleep 16 hrs a day and still be tired. I'm hoping by Monday I'll be back at the gym.

General Wednesday Thoughts

I weighed myself and I was only up 1.2 pounds from my lowest weight so I am doing pretty good. Yesterday was kind of a salty day being over 2000 and I only had three bottles of water. I have been hardcore craving cheese so that is part of the problem.

I have been thinking a lot about my next goal, I was going to have it be 200 by Valentine's day but I just don't know. That would put me in the 3 pound per week range, which wouldn't leave a lot of room for error. A 2 pound per week loss would put me at 207 which is pretty good. I don't know, I kinda think I should be kinda hardcore for 7 weeks to get under 200 pounds. Because seriously that would be really nice. IDK. Either way, I know I can do it and whatever I set my mind to and work toward I can achieve!

More good news: I went to JCP and bought a pair of pants, they are a size 16!!! OMG! They are a little tight but the 18's were too big so even if I wasn't losing weight I would have bought the size 16. I remember how sad I was when I started buying size 18 because that means a lot of stores don't have 18's in their regular section. It is totally amazing to me! And awesome, totally awesome. Also, they were 9.99, yay pants!

Wednesday goals

Today my goals are to:

Drink water
Stay within my calorie limit

Tuesday Goals

My plan for today is to go over to my mom's and do some cleaning at her house. I am taking my chicken that I have baked and some tortillas and so I plan on eating some of that! I weighed myself this morning and I was 233.0 Which is down 1.4 lbs from yesterday. Yay for water! I NEED to drink more today. and I need to either not drink soda or I need to drink more water to compensate.

Goals for today:

Drink water
Track

Scale

I just have to say that my scale is the BEST thing ever! I mean EVER! If I would have known just how awesome it would be I would have bought one months ago. It makes my life 100 times easier! I LOVE IT!!!!!

Monday Weigh In

171.4, down 2 pounds from yesterday! Oh water, you miracle elixir, how I love thee! I had 3.5 bottles of water yesterday. That's the most water I've had in a long time. And I'm with Mallory and Lori - it could have been worse. I'm now only up two pounds from Dec. 16, which was my lowest weight since I started this little process. Yay!

Since I'll be on the road today, my goals are to drink at least 2 bottles of water and take a healthy lunch so I don't feel the need to stop for fast food somewhere along the way.

Monday

152.6 This morning. I'm with Mallory - totally could have been worse. I did really great eating/drinking yesterday but then had a few cookies at my parents' house (UUUGH! My parents' house! WHY can't they get rid of sweets!?!?!) when I went up to see my brother and sister in law. But, I'm still down from yesterday, so I'm super happy about that.

Today:
12 - 16 glasses of water
track on livestrong
get my bodybugg up to date with food tracking - I haven't been doing this and have about a week or so to make up.
go buy more eggs. I only have one in the fridge. Sad day.
Make a big thing of chicken (ckn parmesan or something like that) that I can just heat up and eat for meals instead of taking so much time to do it fresh all the time.
That seems like a lot to me.... but notice how I'm not saying I might have another cookie at my mom's? Yeah. That's b/c I'm weak. And honest. But at least I'm honest. lol

In other news, my parents have offered to watch the kids overnight for New Year's Eve. I don't even remember the last time we did anything cool for New Years Eve... now what to do!?

Monday Weigh In

This morning my weight was 224.4 which is up three pounds. It totally could have been worse. I realized today that it's been a week since I have tracked my food on livestrong. It was just so hard over Christmas, I ate things that I didn't want to eat. Kelly and Paul brought the most amazing truffles. Seriously they just melted in your mouth and I could not stay away from them. I also did a little bit of stress eating especially when everyone was there.

Today's plan:

Drink 4 bottles of water, I can use my new brita pitcher, which I am super excited about!!

Track everything I eat on livestrong

I think that's enough, especially since I will be detoxing from sugar and generally feeling yucky!

Sunday Sunday Sunday

Hope you used your best monster truck announcer voice when reading the caption! :)

Anyway, today I am getting back on track. I tried yesterday, but I had A LOT of calories and my only exercise was wandering around JCPenney's awesome sale. I weighed myself this morning: 173.4. That's up four pounds from December 16. I actually thought it would be a lot higher, so I'm kind of ok with that. That's still down 4.4 pounds from my original starting weight. And I really think if I can get back on track with my eating it will come back off.

I am finally really getting over my cold, so working out actually feels like an option again. I did the elliptical today after work. It's the first time I've worked out in about two weeks. It felt good. How weird is that?

Tomorrow I'm heading to Denver for almost two weeks to house sit again and see some friends and family. I'm pretty excited, but I'm a little nervous that I'm going to get all out of control on the eating thing again and not do enough exercising. I guess the key is to be mindful of what I'm doing. I'll keep tracking my calories and try to make time for exercise everyday.

I need to set some new goals. Jan. 1 is only 5 days from now and I really don't see myself dropping eight pounds to meet my 165 goal by then. So, I'm going to think about while I'm cleaning and packing.

Goals for the rest of today:
track calories
stay under livestrong limit
drink 2 more bottles of water (I've got 1 down)

Restarting

Ok all, today I stepped on the scale again. It was 154.0, which isn't as bad as it could of been (I tried to exercise some restraint... just maybe not a lot) but still, that's 4.8 lbs up. It's ok. That's my philosphy right now -it'll come off pretty quickly as long as I stick strictly with it. So, I started out with good intentions yesterday and then went over to my parents' to spend time with my sissy and well, you all know what I do over there - eat. So I did. A few, ok 3 or 4, cookies. Then we went out to lunch. But the day ended on an up note and I used my new kitchen food scale for the first time for chicken and was kinda surprised. 4 oz cooked is a lot. LOL!

I'm still feeling like crap and that sucks. Brielle is still sick, Sophie has a stuffy nose, and Daddy is saying he's sick too. It *sucks*. And it doubly sucks b/c then I can't really work out either. And generally feel like crap. (Oh, and I'm on my period too)

Anyway, here's the goals for today:
- drink lots of water - at least 12 glasses
- track my calories
- keep calories between 1200 and 1300.


- Here's to starting again and feeling better soon! Wahoo.

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas, you guys! I hope you've all had a very happy holiday and are enjoy spending time with loved ones and all that good stuff. :-)

I don't know about you all, but I feel stuffed and lathargic and just kind of gross. And I think (although I don't know because I refuse to get on a scale on Christmas) that I've gained back all the weight that I had previously lost. And I have the desire to cleanse my body. I want to work out so bad. Not so much right now. But tomorrow. My plan is to brave the craziness of the after Christmas sales and then hit the gym. And I'm going to try to track my calories tomorrow and really try to be healthy. I'm heading to Denver on Monday for 10 days and I want to try to get back into the healthy mindset before I leave. I think I'll even weigh myself in the morning, just so I know where I stand. I think I better go drink some water now...

So Not On Top of Things

I'm house-sitting and I'm sure there's a scale somewhere, but since it didn't jump out and bite me, I'm not sure where. I meant to weigh myself after I got off the phone with Mallory this morning, but then Lisa from Crossroads called and needed someone to fill in a morning shift, so I got dressed and went down there.

So, now it's a little after 3 in the afternoon and I've already had almost all my calories for the day - less than 200 left. Awesome. I have to go back to work at 5, so I think I will take a packet of oatmeal with me and eat that for dinner. If I can manage to eat that and only that for the rest of the day, it will salvage the calories. I have been eating really poorly and in large quantities the last few days and not tracking a lot of it. Mostly due to laziness. Some of it due to denial.

And I need to drink water. I've had 1 glass so far today and it's already late afternoon. I think I'll skip the exercise today. I'm almost over this cold and I think my body could use another day of rest. Lori, I'm awed that you even bothered to get on the scale feeling the way you do.

Sick

So I am soooo sick. I kinda want to go crawl back in bed and die. Or at least sleep. I took a nyquil type thing last night and once I fell asleep I didn't hear anything, roll over, anything until Aaron poked me this morning at 6 when Sophie woke up and didn't want him. Right now he's in a meeting, but I'm hoping to go back to bed once he's done.

Too bad for kickboxing this morning. I was really looking forward to going - the two best instructors are 'team teaching' it today as our Christmas present, lol. Ah well.

Anyway, my weight this morning was 149.8. That's kinda amazing to me. I mean, I've been eating really well and whatnot, but being in the 140's is a first for me and if I wasn't so sick, I'd be jumping up and down probably.

Ok, signing off to go and vaguelly watch my children until Aaron comes back out. Which I hope is soon. Oh yeah, and make some tea too.

Monday weigh in

So I STILL haven't been drinking water. I feel crappy, totally filled with salt and yuck and now I am getting ready to go to dad's Ug, I am pretty sure it will be ok eventually but right now I am pretty upset that I did so bad all day yesterday. I mean I could have had fun at the party on Saturday without it turning into an eat fest Sunday. I have a million excuses, mostly that I don't have any chicken and don't want to buy any. I think I will just do eggs. Again. So my weight was 227.0 which was up 4 pounds. Ug.

Saturday

Ok, so I'm being lame and instead of commenting on everyone's post on their actual post - here are my comments....

Mallory - I think those are great goals/plans for tonight. Eating before people get there will help you stay away from some of the not so great stuff for you and make sure you get some protein too. Yay for water! And I agree, I think it'll come off pretty quickly after the holidays :)

Molly - uhhhh.... weiiirrrdd. I think drawing is such an important quality to have for a firefighter. I don't want anyone fighting MY fires if they can't even draw flames. Pishawww. ;)


Ok, on to my day....
I weighed in this morning at 150.4! Can I get a Woot! Woot! This is definitely the thinnest I have ever been in my adult life, counting high school. Maybe middle school... I don't know. It's definitely the lowest my bmi has been in like 20 years.

We aren't going to our church Christmas party tonight after all... Aaron's parents called and told us that we're doing a family dinner tonight. Nice of them to give us some warning, or ask us our opinion, right?! Anyway, I'm trying not to be too bitter.... but I am. That's just how I roll sometimes.

So, my mom was nice enough to make the dessert that I was supposed to make and take to the church thing so I can take the dessert that I DID make to Aaron's parents' house. Niiicce. So I made "special K" bars. They're like a peanut butter rice crispy treat covered in butterscotch and milk chocolate. They are Fab. u. lous. So, I was curious what damage it would do if I ate one. Or nine. So I sat down and figured out the calories (not even the fat or sodium) and get this, for 1/15 of the pan, it is 454 calories. Hopefully THAT will keep me from eating nine of them. I think that in a Walgreens world (ya know, the perfect ones), all food would be w/o calories. But if they did have calories, everything would be labeled with how many.
Like: Here, this chicken is 130 calories. This salad is 20 calories. HELLO - this dessert bar is 450 calories. Do you realize that's more than 1/3 of our daily calorie intake? ha haa haa... but they're sooo goooooood.

Hopefully tonight goes ok. I'm also with Mallory in that I'm going to eat a little before we even go to dinner and probably take a salad along with my dessert so there is something that I can eat at dinner (ya know, instead of potatoes and gravy, stuffing, all that crap that I don't even really like but I eat anyway).

Goals today:
water 3 or 4 bottles. I've only had one today, so I'd better get on it.
Protein at 100.
Exercise (already did)
Meet my step goal of at least 10,000 steps.


Another funny thing. Yesterday I didn't work out and I was so far from my step goal that when I was watching a movie last night on tv (before Aaron got home and the girls were already in bed), I jogged during most of it. By the end of the day (with working and jogging to my tv) I burned more calories than if I did kickboxing. lol

Saturday

Last night I was feeling bad that I didn't do any exercise yesterday. But my cold got worse yesterday and I couldn't stop coughing and it was not fun. Then I woke up this morning and my abs are sore from all the coughing, so I no longer feel bad about not working out. ;-)

On a side note, I took several different types of drugs before I went to sleep last night (mostly because I find it easier to sleep if I can breathe and not cough for a few minutes.) Anyway, I had the WEIRDEST dream. I was trying to become a firefighter and I was passing all the physical tests (how, I'm not sure) but I couldn't pass the drawing test. You had to draw a picture using whatever you could find and they didn't tell you what to draw. So I tried to draw some flames because that's the first thing that came to mind, but no matter what I did they ended up looking like cacti. And I totally failed. So the woman that was grading our drawings said I should give up and find something else to do because I was never going to become a firefighter. And I was sooo mad. And there was a baby cow in a pen. Yeeeaaah, just thought I'd share some of the crazy.

Goals for today:
drink 3 bottles of water
track calories
stay under 1300
work on/finish some of my Christmas projects

Saturday - The Big Day

So I weighed myself this morning - I was at 222.3 so that's better than yesterday. I only drank one bottle of water yesterday so I am working on a theory that once I start back to eating well and drinking water I am going to be so skinny! LOL Here is my strategy for tonight's party:

1. Drink water
2. Eat before people get here: I am planning on eating some eggs at 6 or so
3. Have fun!!

I am not sure if I will track everything that I have today or not. My main goal for today is to Drink water.

Friday again. Huh.

I almost forgot to weigh in cuz I didn't realize it was Friday. So, my weight is up to 171.8 this morning. And I gotta say, I'm ok with that. I've had a TON of salt in the last two days and I don't regret any of it. It'll come back off. I'm not really worried. Or discouraged. Everything I ate was in a happy celebratory type mood with friends and I while I did eat too much, I didn't go completely crazy. I mean, I did eat 2 dinners, but that's not completely crazy, right??

So, my weight is up .8 from Monday and I'm pretty sure there's no way I'm going to make my Jan. 1 goal of 165. And that's ok. I've thought about it and while weightloss is important to me, it's not the most important thing. Yesterday I had a really great day. I spent the afternoon at the neighbor's house making earrings and chatting. Then April and I went for a walk around a park in Clifton and went to dinner at Starvin' Arvins (love that place). Then I went over to Leasa's for the bunco Christmas party. We didn't play bunco because there were only 5 of us, but we had nachos and sweet treats and talked and laughed and it was really fun! And I need that kind of interaction more than I need to be skinny. I want to be thin and I will get there, but I'm not going to deprive myself of social funness just because I don't want to be tempted to eat. And I really know in my heart that I will be able to keep working out and keep tracking my calories. And I'm staying mostly on track. A few bad days of eating isn't the end of the world and when all the Christmas hullabaloo is over and done, I'll be able to re-focus.

Having said that, here are my goals for the day:
Drink 2 bottles of water - I'd like to drink 3, but I'm trying to be realistic
track calories
stay under 1300
track my calories from yesterday, just see what the damage was
exercise (I'm thinking it might be a good day for a dance party!)
work on my dad's Christmas present - he has a way of showing up just when I'm getting ready to print pictures, so I haven't gotten very on it.

Oh. My. Gosh!

So I weighed myself today not because I thought it would be different than yesterday (or at least in a good way) but b/c today is Friday weigh in day. And I was so amazed.

152.0

That's what the scale said. Can you believe it?! I was hesitant to, so I weighed myself again. And it was the same. Holy cow! Wahoooo!

I am SO not eating at my parents' anymore (I didn't again last night)

Goals:

4 bottles of water

calories between 1200 and 1300

stay motivated!

I haven't decided on working out today. I work tonight, need to go grocery shopping, and if I add in another workout, I'm not sure I'll get the grocery shopping done. What I really need is diapers. And you just can't go without diapers. Plus, my legs are *killing* me. And there's kickboxing tomorrow morning so I'd like to go to that and not die. Idk, I'll think about it some more. I'd like to not go, but I've been losing so good that I don't want to mess it up, ya know.

Motivation

So now I am halfway through my second cup of coffee, and I am about ready to start on some stuff. Put some music on and work my way through the house!! I just wanted to re-affirm to myself why I am doing this. It's not because I am torturing myself by not eating yummy foods, it's because I want to look and feel better! Here is a picture of me when I started, and here is yesterday's pic ALMOST 30 POUNDS LIGHTER!!! It's so worth it and I could kick my own ass for being whiny!
On a separate note holy cow, my legs are so white, maybe I will just go with pants!!!!

Friday Weigh In

So I have just not had my heart in this the past couple days. I would like to say it's because I have been so busy getting ready for Christmas that I haven't had time to eat well. But that's not it. I think I am getting anxious about everything. The party, going to dad's, Christmas. And all of the things that I have planned and need to do, but I am not really doing any of it. I feel like time is going by so fast and instead of getting it together and doing all of those things that I know I need to do, I am just spinning my wheels.

Things are getting done, but they aren't really the most pertinent things. I generally like this time of year but right now it seems overwhelming and ridiculous. I am making some coffee, and I am going to stay focused on the most immediate thing, getting ready for the party.

So, now that we have discussed Mallory's personal emotional crisis, let's move on to weight loss. I have been terrible about tracking for the past two days. I didn't drink a single bottle of water yesterday. I have eaten fast food three times in the past two days. I haven't exercised for two days. I have been generally sucking it up. When I weighed myself this morning I was 223.4. Yes it's up two pounds, however considering how bad it could have been I am ok.

Today is a new day and my expectations are going to be high for myself.

Goals:
Track 20 min of exercise
Drink 4 bottles of water
Track everything I eat.

Yay!

So this morning I weighed in at 153.4 - Yay! So I'm now only 1.4 lbs away from my Christmas Eve goal of 152. Christmas Eve is only a week away.... HOW'D that happen!?!?! Ack!!!! Anyway, so I hope I can do it. I'm gonna just stick with what I've been doing and make up some excuse not to eat with my parents tonight and then make sure that I take snacks and dinner to work tomorrow. I find myself wanting to eat the animal crackers when I'm there :(

Here's what I think the differences are in when I'm losing good and when I'm not. (I know these aren't rocket science or something, but for some reason it helps me to write it down and have a concrete good vs bad.)

-- Exercising every day. I've gone and worked out *every* day this week. From my bodybugg I realize that I not only burn the calories while I'm there, but my metabolism is way higher throughout the day (or at least for a couple of hours afterward).

--- I think we all know this one, but eating at my parents' house. I was doing so good when I wasn't eating with them. It's nice to have the company though :(

---- Protein intake. I seem to lose quicker if my protein is high (maybe b/c all my calories go there and not somewhere else, lol!)

So, these are my goals, my normal ones with some new added:
- water, 3 bottles
- exercise (check, kickboxing this morning. I've also just decided that even if there's not a class I want to do at 9:15 - there only is 2 days of the week - I'm going to go at this time anyway. It's a good time for the kids, after bkfst, before nap, and it's a routine. If it's a routine, I'm more likely to do it.)
- calories between 1200 and 1300
- high protein, like over 100.
- don't eat at my parents. And if I do, take something over for dinner, eat first, or ask for my dad to bring something specific (he always brings home dinner. My mom rarely cooks anymore)


And in other news, my house is a wreck, my decorations still aren't put up, but Aaron will be home probably Sat morning so I'm trying not to care too much. He can help me when he gets home. Also, Sat night is our church Christmas party. I have to take a dessert. I'm really trying to figure out how I'm not going to eat everything in site there. BUT, where I actually was going with this (yes, I'm rambling, I know) is - Molly, do you want to come? I don't know if you're doing anything Sat, but if you're not, it starts at 6. Vanessa and Carrie should be there too. :)

Thursday

Goals for today:

Drink 3 bottles of water

Track calories
Stay under livestrong goal
clean
go for a walk
get over this stupid cold

Doing good

So this morning I weighed myself and I was up a whopping pound, just from freaking taco bell. Mallory, I know you said it sounded good, but seriously, a pound? If I'm gonna gain a pound, I'd rather have cheesecake.... Mmmm, cheesecake. Anyway, I'm digressing. Cheesecake has magical powers over me.

So I gained a pound, but I've done uber well today. In fact, I am only 12 calories (under) my goal of 1250 for the day, which is kinda like a miracle (to be that close). AND my sodium is only at 75% and my protein is 116 g. Wahoo for me. I've already drank my water for today and exercised too. I think the biggest difference is that I didn't go to my parents' house for dinner. The kids are still driving me crazy, but ah well. I am on Aaron count down now. T minus 48 hours (hopefully). So I am feeling pretty positive about stuff today and hopefully I can keep it going on. I plan on kickboxing in the morning (Wanna come Molly?) and don't have to watch Allison's kids Thursday or Friday (wahoo). (Also, have you noticed my affinity for the use of parentheses?)

Happy Hump Day!

I got on the scale this morning out of curiosity. I actually worked out two days in a row (holy crap!) and I was curious if it made a difference since I haven't been eating all that well. And I'm happy to report that my weight was down to 169.4, .4 lower than last Friday and 1.6 lower than Monday. Yay! That made me want to be good today.

Goals for today:

drink 3 bottles of water
track calories
stay under 1300
exercise (day 5 of the fitness challenge)
clean the bathroom
work on my Dad's Christmas present

wednesday goals

Ok, so I am feeling pretty un-motivated today. I just put a movie on for the kids so I could "get stuff done and here I am on facebook. On top of it all I just want to EAT. I know Lori that you were upset about Taco Bell and I know I would be too, but right now it sounds so good. So good.

So I need to get the other bathroom clean, and make pumpkin roll. Right now. Go. I haven't gone yet.

Arg!

Ok, I am done eating at my parents' house. I do so well during the day and then I eat dinner there and it all goes to pot. Tonight my dad brought home Taco Bell. Seriously? Yeah. Do you even freaking know how many calories and sodium are in those things? I didn't until I went to log my food tonight. And now I'm 527 calories *over* my budget for the day and my sodium is at 175% of what livestrong says I should have. Argh. Wednesday is my offical day of weigh ins for bodybugg too. I can't imagine that I'll get rid of all this extra sodium in that amount of time. Arrrrrgggghhh.

January

I am so unfocused. This is the way I get when I feel that you are set up for failure. So instead of posting goals that i probably won't make, I'm going to go the way the rest of the world goes, and be entirely cliche and get back on the bandwagon 1-1-10. I can feel it in my bones, this is my year. So until then, I'm not going to beat myself up for the holiday goodies that clients keep bringing in my office, and I'm going to try to just not go overboard. I hate this time of year!

Apt with bodybugg

I just got off the phone with the bodybugg lady. Pretty much it was just making sure that I knew how to use all the features of the site - which I hadn't used all of them, but really could have figured it out by myself, however it's nice of them to make sure that you know what you're doing.

A few questions that I did get answered and thought you might want to know too:
- She said to weigh your meat *after* it is cooked.
I remember when I did LAWL in Louisiana that they said if you weigh it before hand, to add 1 to 2 oz. Like if you want 4 oz of chicken after you cook it, then weigh out 5 to 6 oz of raw chicken.

- She also said that for normal cardio and workouts, you need to eat at least 1/2 gram of protein per pound that you weigh. She said if you do harder workouts or if you're doing resistance training, then to go more towards 1 gram per pound. So, if you weigh 200 lbs, that's 100 to 200 grams of protein, depending on what you're doing for your workouts (yes, I know that you're not stupid and can do that math. I don't know why I put it in there.)

At one point she said "well you're pretty little" - talking about my weight for my height - and I thought, and then said, "that's the first time anyone has every called me 'little.'" lol It felt good.

And according to my food chart, I should lose another two lbs this week (I weigh in for bodybugg on Wednesdays), but I know that's not going to happen. For the burrito and the cookies I had no idea what to put for my nutrition info, so I just eyeballed it and averaged. I hope that it's not too bad anyway. I was at 155.8 this morning, which is .6 lbs lower than last Wednesday. I hope that by tomorrow it's at least a pound. My official goal for bodybugg is 1 lb a week.

Anyway, I'm thinking about getting Brielle up from her nap pretty soon so I can go to the gym before the kid's club closes (I hate that it closes from 1 to 4). I need to go *sometime* today anyway.

Goals:
Keep my calories between 1200 and 1300
Drink 3 to 4 bottles of water
exercise


Oh, on another note, I bought the Kashi TLC pumpkin spice bar (kinda like a granola bar) and boooooyyyy, is it yummy!

Molly's Tuesday

My goals are pretty much the same as yesterday and pretty much every other day:

Drink 3 bottles of water
track calories
stay under 1300
exercise

Hope everyone has a good day!

Tuesday

Holy Crap how did I lose an entire day? I'll tell you, I slept all day yesterday. I don't know why I just felt so TIRED. I got up and posted and fed the kids breakfast and then turned on the tv and slept until noon. Justin was worried so he came home, we went for a walk and then he put the kids down for nap while I took my second nap until about 4. Yeah, not much gets accomplished when you are only awake for 6 hours. Then I went to bed at about 9.

Ok, so today I am freaking out a little about Justin's Christmas party. There is so much cleaning that needs to be done. It's mostly organized I just was looking at the walls and everything and they need to be scrubbed, no decorating has been done, Arg. Ok so today's goals are as follows:

- UNDER 2000 mg of sodium
- drink 4 bottles of water
- get all christmas cards ready to mail out
- try to dig christmas stuff out of the shed
- take the ink back to office depot
- deep clean both bathrooms so all I have to do is a quick clean on Saturday
- Take a bucket around to wash spots on walls then tomorrow I can touch up the paint where the kids used marker on the walls.
- make pumpkin roll

Ug, that's a little bit of a long list. I better get going.

Tomorrow...

I have an over-the-phone apt with a bodybugg trainer. I'm sure they'll look at my food log, which isn't the greatest b/c of the weekend and tonight. I HATE that if I go up to my parents' house, I always eat bad. Of course, if I stay home, I eat better, but then I feel so isolated and depressed. Arrrgh. I'm just mad at myself. I ate *two* big bakery cookies. My dad also brought home subway and I put it into livestrong and was so sad at how many calories and mg of sodium it had for a stinkin' sandwich. Also, I tried to put in my mexican burrito from Saturday and who the hell knows how much it was!? All the stuff on livestrong and bodybugg are so different. So I ended up putting an exorbiant amount of calories down (which it probably was, but who knows!) and same with the cookies from tonight. Shouldn't they have to make that info available? Arg.

Ok, I'm done venting. I'm just frustrated and mad at myself for not behaving better when I know that it's just me that it's hurting... and I have an apt tomorrow with the trainer. I'm retarted. I hope that tomorrow I am not up! Luckily, Paula at the gym kicked my butt today, so my deficit is still ok.

Not only am I done venting, I'm done feeling sorry for myself... for the time being ;) lol
I'm going to go get some more ice in my water and drink away. I've already had 3, but given my short comings on salt again today, I think I need 30. I'll let you know tomorrow how everything goes.

Lori's Monday

Ok, so apparently there was quite some activity over the weekend. Wahoo Mallory!
I was MIA b/c I was out eating. A lot. lol We spent most of the weekend with my parents, which was nice b/c I wasn't alone. The weekends are my hardest time without Aaron here and it was nice to have something to do. However, it came with a lot of food that I otherwise wouldn't have eaten - like Mexican food. And A LOT of salt!! Anyway, today I was at 156.0 which I actually am thrilled with since my weekend was crazy. I was terrified that it would be a lot higher. BUT we're starting again and plugging away. I've already burned 1640 calories and it's only 1:00 pm, so I'm off to a great roll. I <3 kickboxing. And I was telling this to Mallory earlier, but it's interesting - so I've worn my bodybugg to all my exercise classes and whatnot since I got it and when Paula teaches, I burn about 100 more calories in the same amount of time. That's awesome. I should tell her that, but I'm kinda scared of her, lol.

Anyway, today:
4 bottles of water (gotta flush some salt out!)
one, if any, piece of dessert at my parents' house, including candy.
Eat salad to fill up on for dinner, then the other stuff
go back and fill out my livestrong and bodybugg for the weekend so I'm all caught up and up to date.

No More Whining Monday Weigh In

Turns out I should have been a man - I get really whiny when I don't feel good. So, sorry about that. The chewy chocolate cookies got the better of my will power last night. And this morning. Doh! They just go so perfectly with coffee....

Anyway my weight is up to 171.0, a 1.2 pound gain from Friday. So goals for today:

Drink 3 bottles of water
track calories
stay under 1300
Exercise (day 3 of the fitness challenge and I have to make up for day two totally sucking - so I will be kicking my own ass on the elliptical after work tonight)

Monday Weigh In

This morning my weight was 221.6 which is up .2 pounds. I am pretty pleased with that weight. This week my goal is to get under 22o. That will be a pretty big accomplishment I think. Justin's party is on Saturday and I am going to be doing all the cooking and baking for it so that will be pretty tempting. I am baking up some chicken this morning.

Today's goals:

Drink water
Track calories

Sunday not Fun-Day

My attitude is crappy. I have this head cold thing going on and all I want in the world is for my head to stop hurting and to be able to breathe (and a million dollars, but that's probably not going to happen). UGH!! I was going to go to the gym today, but I decided it was in everyone's best interest if I didn't. I think I'm going to try to do 20 minutes on my dad's Nordic Track skier thingy. I hate that thing, but at least it would be exercise. And I need exercise. All I've eaten today is carbs.

This is kind of a late post, but I didn't wake up until 11 because I drugged the crap out of myself last night. The first round of drugs didn't really do much, so I took some more. Brilliant! But anyway here are my goals for the day:

drink 3 bottles of water
get 20 minutes of exercise
track calories
stay under 1300

Sunday Goals

Since I have officially made my Christmas goal, I am now working toward 219. Today we are doing laundry, then my mom is coming over later to stay with the kids while we go christmas shopping for the kids and for the stuff from Justin's party. I also plan to drag all the Christmas stuff out from the shed and see what we can use to decorate!!

Today my goals are:
Keep sodium under 2000
Get trackable exercise
Keep calories under 1300

Saturday Goals

Goals for today:

Actually Drink 3 bottles of water, not just say I'm going to
track calories, stay under 1300
exercise (day 1 of the fitness challenge! Woohooo!)
chew gum while baking goodies for the neighbors

So, about the exercising: yesterday I was feeling really restless, but didn't feel like going all the way out to the gym. Then last night before bed I decided to watch the latest episode of Glee. When it was over it was 11:30 pm and all I wanted to do was sing and dance!! So I went down into the basement with my ipod, pushed some crap out of the way and danced for almost an hour. The cat did not know what to make of this. I don't know if I should count this as today's exercise or not. Probably not. Technically it happened today, but really it was at the end of my day yesterday. Ok, thanks for helping me work that out, people.

HOLY CRAP PEOPLE!

I just want you all to know that it was all I could do to not call you all and wake you up!!!!! I got up and I stepped on the scale, more out of habit than actual hope and I was 221.4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously! It's awesome. AND I started my period this morning. What? Weight loss and that time of the month. UNHEARD OF

Pre-Christmas Fitness Challenge 2009

In order to stave off some of those obnoxious holiday pounds (did somebody say Christmas cookies???) Mallory and I have decided to do a fitness challenge! And we challenge you to join us!!

Here's the challenge: do 20 minutes of trackable exercise every day for the next 13 days! We start tomorrow, Saturday, Dec. 12 and the final day of the challenge is Dec. 24. The prize: feeling better about yourself! Yay! I recommend tracking your exercise on livestrong and make sure your privacy filters are set to public so we can keep an eye on each other. :-)

I know everyone is busy, but I also know that we can all find 20 minutes to do some sort of exercise each day!

Good luck!!

Molly's Friday

169.8!! That's below 170! Barely, but it still counts. And it's a 2.8 lb loss from Monday! And it's down a full 8 lbs from from my starting weight of 177.8. That means I have 4.8 pounds to lose by Jan. 1. I think I can do that. It's going to be tough with Christmas in there, but I think I can do it!

This weekend is going to be a challenge. My mom and I are baking cooking for all the neighbors. And I have been craving cookies!!! Of course as I sit here I'm having coffee and chocolate chip biscotti that my aunt brought by yesterday. So, I'm already off to a good start. ;-)

Goals for today:
Drink 3 bottles of water
track calories
stay under 1400
chew gum while making cookies

Friday

155.4 - worse than Monday - a full pound up in fact and 1.2 lbs up from where I was the middle of last week. I haven't been able to work out a lot this week b/c of the snow and Brielle being sick (still) so I don't know if that's what's wrong or what. My calories haven't been over an ony day except that day of the unfortunate pumpkin bread insident. I had a bad emotional/depression day and ate three pieces, gained two pounds, and now I'm trying to get those stupid 3 little pieces of bread off my butt. What's with that!? 3 pieces = 2 lbs!?!?!

Anyway, I'm over my rant. I've been doing really well on sodium and calories and my calorie deficit, so I'm thinking that I must lose weight sometime. I'm really hoping for a food scale for Christmas so I can measure my meat and stuff, right now I'm just eye-balling it since my scale broke. I guess I just keep plugging away at what I'm doing. I've been consistantly having a 1000 calorie deficit every day, so theoretically I should be losing 2 lbs a week. Theoretically obviously.

Goals for today:
take something healthy to work for dinner
under 1300 on calories
a 1000 calorie deficit

Mallory's Friday Weigh In

This morning my weight was 222.4. That's down yay! It's down 1 pound from last friday but down almost 3 pounds from Monday since I had a really bad weekend.

That's a 26.8 pound overall loss. And my BMI is under 35 now, I am creeping up on just being over weight! LOL

My goal is to lose .8 of a pound so I can have Christmas by next Friday.

I also would like to be at 219.2 by Christmas for sure so that if anyone asks I can say I have lost 30 pounds! Whoo hooo.

Goals for this weekend:

Justin will be home and it's always harder for me to do well when he is here, but I am pretty focused and we have lots to do so my goal for this week is to not have any bad days.

Today's goals:
Drink 4 bottles of water.
Stay under 1500 mg of sodium
Stay under 1300 cal
Exercise - Justin has a meeting tonight so I plan on doing the dreaded video sometime today!

I hope everyone has a great Friday!

Molly's Thursday

It's already been a long day and it's not even 1 pm yet. My dad and I had to take my grandma to the doctor this morning (I had to go do to his hernia surgery last week - he can't lift her if she falls). And it was a good thing I went. Family Practice really needs to try to shovel or at least put down some de-icer. Seriously, everyone in there today was using a walker - old people and ice are not a good combination! Anyway, Gram slipped trying to get into the car and I had to try to lift her enough that I could shove her into the seat. Awesome. And did you know that bladder infections can make people really confused? I hope that's why she couldn't figure out how to unzip her coat. But we shall see. Anyway, this is a weightloss blog, not a day-in-life of Molly's grandma blog.

I don't feel too hot. I have a scratchy throat and a stuffy nose. I've lost my taste for food, which sucks because I'm hungry and nothing sounds good. I barely slept last night and am kind of whiny and grouchy right now. I need a nap.

Goals for today:
drink 3 bottles of water (I think I only managed 1 bottle of water yesterday - not good)
track calories
stay under 1300
take a nap

Um, Thursday, I think.

So today I am hoping for a good day. Yesterday was ok, I was overestimating my target. My actual goal is to be at 221.6 and this morning I was at 224.6 so really I have 3 pounds to go. I think I should be ok tomorrow as long as I have a good day today. I am still hoping that another pound is sodium. I am on my third bottle of water already so I hope to flush out some weight my the morning.

So this is a topic Lori and I have talked about some but do you guys weigh your meat before you cook it or after? I always weigh it after because I don't want to mess around with raw meat. I am sure it's lighter after but eeew.

Molly's Wednesday

I weighed myself out of curiosity this morning. I was feeling not very bloated for the first time in a few days. I'm at 171.8, which is down .8 from Monday. It's still up .4 from the Monday before Thanksgiving. And that was only two and half weeks ago. So special.

I did ok yesterday. My sodium ended up being over 3,000 and I wasn't too thrilled about that. And I only drank 2 bottles of water.

Today I'm going to shovel the shop doors out of the snow. The wind was nice enough to drift it the snow up against the front of the front of the shop and the doors are made of wood. But I'm going to wait until it gets out of the single digits to do that. Yay winter!

Right now I'm going to figure out something for dinner. Hopefully something healthy I can put in the crock pot. I don't know about you guys, but I love the crock pot, especially in the winter!

Ok, goals for today:

Drink 3 bottles of water
shovel snow
track calories, stay under 1300
make a healthy dinner

wednesday goals

so I weighed myself and I am right where I was on Monday. BOO. Oh well, I have a few days until official weigh in! I am proud of yesterday so I think I am ok. I have 4 pounds to lose until my goal and 10 days to do it in.

Today's goals:

Work out
Eat well
drink water

Re-motivated

So today is a better day so far, I was lacking in motivation yesterday but I got to sleep in and then Justin and I have been working on the house this morning. I have been drinking water today, we had a good breakfast this morning. I will weigh in tomorrow.

Today's goals:

1300 cal, 2000 sodium
shovel snow
drink 4 waters

Holy Snowy Tuesday, Batman

I agree with Lori - all this snow makes me want to stay in and eat things! I already did some shovelling. My dad can't due to his hernia surgery last week and my mom had to leave for work at 7. So I was out there shoveling and Karl, our neighbor, was out with his tractor and came and cleared the drive enough that she could get out. It was awesome!! I still had to do some shovelling in the front and I cleared a path to my car in the back. The wind is blowing and creating drifts and it has started snowing again. I'll have to do more shoveling later, particularly if I have to go to work. I love the snow. I think it's so beautiful! And shoveling snow is such a good way to burn calories!! And contrary to what my facebook post may have sounded like, I can appreciate that not everyone loves snow. :)

Anyway, I will only be going to gym today if I have to work. And I'm hoping that they decide I don't need to come in. I did really well on my eating yesterday and was going to weigh myself this morning, but I totally forgot after seeing how much snow we got. So, I'm going to try to continue that trend today.

Goals:
Drink 3 bottles of water
track calories
stay under 1300

A little sad

For the last two days my weight has been up. I know that in the grand scheme of the last week, that .4 lb isn't a big deal, but it does make me a little sad. I *really* tried to do good yesterday, although Sun wasn't as good as I would have liked.

Sun was: about 1100 calories and 2216 burned (1116 deficit).
Mon was: 985 calories and 2791 burned (1806 deficit).

I guess I just expected to get on the scale today and see a negative difference from yesterday.... not a gain. I hope that tomorrow I do.

Holy snow here! It's a little crazy, especially with little kids. I kinda hate it. I mean, fun for the kids, but the getting everything together and on and whatnot and then outside, takes forever, plus you can't stay out for too long... yeah, I kinda hate it. Ah well.

So goals today:
Get a little exercise by shoveling the walk or playing in the snow with the kids. I probably won't get to the gym today.
3 bottles of water
Stay under 1300 for calories
Have a 700 calorie burn, if not more.
Try not to eat everything in sight, which is what I want to do.

Where's My Motivation????

I weighed in at 172.6 this morning, up .6 from Friday. I could barely find the motivation to even post something on the blog today. I did manage to drink 4 bottles of water yesterday, so I'm sure I flushed out a majority of the sodium from Saturday night's salt fest. I'm just having a hard time caring. Last night I was feeling sorry for myself for various reasons and finally came around to the fact that I need to stop thinking like that. So, about midnight I was all ready to get up and go to kickboxing this morning. Too bad I was still asleep when kickboxing class started this morning. I'm sure it would have been good for me! So, I'm going to hit the elliptical after work today.

Goals for today:

Drink 3 bottles of water
Track calories
stay under 1400
exercise

Lori's Monday

This morning was 154.4, which is .2 higher than yesterday. I'm fine with that, b/c it's still a really big loss for over all for a week. Yesterday just wasn't a good day. This weekend has been a hard one not having Aaron home (and he won't be home for another 2 wks) and I let it get to me. I still did ok on my food, around 1100 calories, but didn't get to my 1400 calorie deficit (1000 instead) but a lot of those calories were from banana chips that I was "making for the kids." Today I am promising myself that I am bagging up the remaining chips and putting them in the cupboard so hopefully I won't eat them all.

I am not feeling motivated at all yet today - - I'm still at my pity party about Aaron being gone, I'm tired (thanks to a lovely night of texting with my sister and the girls getting up way too early), and it's stinking cold and dark. I just want to crawl back in bed. Or eat. Yes, eat a million different things that I shouldn't have.

Anyway, I am going to give myself another 20 mins, but then I've gotta snap out of it and get myself and the kids ready for kickboxing this morning.

Goals:
No more banana chips
3 bottles of water
Calories around 1200 or under
1400 deficit
exercise
stop feeling so sorry for myself and trying to make myself feel better by eating. Isn't this the story of my life!?!

Mallory's Monday Weigh In and Goals

With being out of my routine and my house I have been pretty un-motivated. I weighed this morning at 235.0 which is less than I expected given my Saturday of 4000ish mg of sodium and yesterday wasn't any better.

This morning after breakfast I have already eaten 1200 cal and almost 2000 mg of sodium. DOH!

So: Todays goals are as follows
Drink water
Bake Chicken

Try not to eat too much stuff.

Oh yeah and on a personal note: Do Laundry! seriously

um, not good

so McDonald's tonight for dinner, tacos for lunch with full sodium salsa at my mom's. I was STARVING! Bad times, I haven't tracked yet but I don't have much hope that it's great.

Delusions of Self Control

You would think that after all this time I would know that I can't be trusted. I've been craving some salty cheesy goodness, so I went to the store. I stood there in the chip aisle and weighed the options and finally decided on cheddar cheese Quakes. Serving size is 9 little rice cakes. And the calories and sodium weren't that bad for that serving size. I thought I would be able to actually just eat a serving and move on. So, I bought two of the little bags (they were on sale!). Then I went home and ate both bags. And decided halfway through the first bag that some red wine would go really great with these delicious little things.

Mallory said in her post that her rings were tight. I don't wear rings, but I looked at my fingers this morning and I'm pretty sure they're twice the size they were yesterday. I'm not mad at myself, I just feel icky and salty.

So, let the cleansing begin! Goals for today:

Drink 4 bottles of water
Track calories
Stay under 1300
Keep sodium under 2000 and preferably around 1500

Wait... It's Sunday!?

I can't believe it's already Sunday. I guess it's b/c Aaron's not home and the weekend (especially Sat) is just like a normal day. I can't wait until he gets home!

Anyway, it's kinda nice for my weight that he's not home b/c it's a lot easier to cook all meals healthy and plan portions and left overs and whatnot when it's just me... basically when Aaron isn't eating the left overs or more than I thought he would or asking "what else" is with dinner. Lol. I've been able to cook really healthy chicken meals for dinner or lunch every day, some days both. I think that meal planning has really helped. So has making a strong commitment to tracking my food. Since getting the bodybugg I'm tracking on both livestrong (thanks again Carrie for recommending it, it's a *great* site!) and the bodybugg one. The bodybugg one just doens't have very many foods in it and I have to add 50% or more of what I eat. So I put it into livestrong, then into bodybugg b/c I can just steal the info off of livestrong! lol You'd think a site that you're paying for would be better, lol. Ah well.

Ok, so I can't really believe how quickly the weight is coming off with really making a commitment to eating good, tracking, and using my bodybugg. I like to see the big calorie deficits, so I eat better and exercise more... and that's what it's all about, right!? Anyway, this morning I was at... dum dum dummmm... 154.2. I can't believe it. I figure that I was probably at 160 a week ago without counting the weight that I'm attributing to iv fluids. So that's 6 lbs in a week! Crazy - I've *never* lost that much in a week! If I had the moolaa, I'd totally buy us all a bodybugg for Christmas!

Goals today:
*3 bottles of water
*calories under 1300
*meal plan for the next couple of days
*have a calorie deficit of 1400 (yesterday was 1875 - I'm also making a commitment to tell you my calorie deficit every day so I have to keep it up!)

tired, so so tired

I went out with Justin last night and that could have gone worse for sure but also could have gone better. I am up 1 pound this morning but I am sure it's just because of the salt. My rings are tight.

Goals:

track on livestrong
drink water
eat healthy snacks

Goals

So I know we said we'd tell our weights on Mon and Fri, but since I weigh myself every day, I might as well post now too. I was 155.2 this morning! Yipee! I was *so* excited!

I've been thinking a lot about my goals b/c I don't really know what to do about them and how quickly weight will come off, but this is what I've decided:
I want to be 152 (where I was in June, and also the lowest weight of my adult life) by Christmas Eve. I know that I'll end up eating some bad stuff on Christmas Eve and Christmas, so I'd like to be at 152 before it, then I'll get back down after Christmas (but I'm going to try not to go crazy on all the food goodness).

Then, I want to be back down to 152 (assuming I'll gain a little from Christmas) by Jan 4th. I know this sounds totally silly, but I have an OB apt that day. He was the one that actually got me started dieting again after Sophie was born and it was a big turning point for me. Plus he's largely responisble for teaching me a lot about sugar and how it affects my body. So anyway, I'd like to be down to 152 by then, if not 150.

Frankly I'm not sure what a long term goal looks like for me... I know that one of my goals is to stay in the low 150's instead of this bouncing that I was doing around 158-160. But, if I can get down lower than 150, how cool would that be?! Also, a goal of mine is to have better endurance in kickboxing. I've come a long way from where I started, but I still feel like I lose a lot of steam half way through class (Paula's class especially). LOL I want to be "front row" worthy. I would like to be able to *run* a 5k or 10k instead of run, walk, run, walk, run.... but I also know that I *hate* to run... so pretty sure that's not gonna happen.

Anyway, here are my daily goals:
*exercise (check, already went to kickboxing this morning)
*Eat good - stay under 1300 for my calories
*Have at least a 1400 calorie deficit (yesterday was 1512 and the day before was 1750... I LOVE the bodybugg!)
*3 bottles of water

Molly's Saturday

Today I'm going antiquing with my mom in downtown GJ. The winter festival (I think that's what it's called) is going on and the parade of lights is tonight. We're going watch the parade if we can stand the cold. So, I'm going to count all the walking around downtown as my exercise for the day.

So, goals for today:

Drink 3 bottles of water
track calories
stay under 1300

Goat Cheese Diet

Apparently I found a great way to shed about 3 pounds in 3 days.......eat goat cheese. On Thursday one of the executives came in to work and bought us all Pablo's Pizza for lunch. I had a piece of pizza called earth mama and it had goat cheese on it, which I have never tried. I then spent the next 2 days on the toilet and now have miraculously lost 3 pounds. I am now at 263.2, but I don't think I will continue the Goat Cheese diet I have bonded enough with the toilet this week.
Goals for next week:

Exercise at least 30 minutes a day
Drink 4 nalgenes.
Get my fruit and vegetable servings in everyday!

Saturday Goals

Today I am going to work so I am up, I have packed veggies and apples and I am going to pack some eggs as soon as they are done boiling.

My goals:
go somewhere healthy for lunch.
Drink water
Maybe walk at lunch break?

Molly's Friday

Today I'm down to 172.0, which is a 3 pound loss from Monday. I'm still up .8 from the Monday before Thanksgiving, but I'll get there. I have 7 pounds to lose to reach my 165 goal by Jan. 1. That should be more than doable.

Goals for today:

drink 3 bottles of water
track calories
stay under livestrong limit

Lori's Friday

157.0 this morning! Wahoo! I'm pretty excited about it. It's about a pound to a pound and a half down from before Thanksgiving and if we want to count Monday's weigh in (which I don't think we do), it's 11 lbs down from Monday. Rock on IV fluids.

So I totally think the bodybugg is really helping. Here's why. It's two fold. On one hand I can really measure calories in, calories out and make sure that I'm buring more calories than I'm taking in. (Yesterday I burned aprox 1400 more than I ate :) The the other hand, like Mallory said, I'm a numbers girl. Maybe that's why I have a math degree. Anyway, I am way more motivated to keep my intake calories good and my output calories good too b/c I can SEE them. I like to see that calorie deficit.

Also, surprisingly, it's not that annoying to wear, so yay!

My goals:
3 bottles of water
keep my calories good (under 1300 or 1400)
burn at least 2200 calories
clean this pig sty called my house.
Stay away from candy while at my grandma's.

Friday Weigh In

Today my weight was 223.2 which is down 1.6 pounds from my pre-thanksgiving weight.

And down 26 pounds from my starting weight. I have 2 pounds to go to make my December 18th goal so I can have Christmas and I would like to weigh 215 by Christmas. That's three pounds a week, which is what I have my livestrong set at so it should be doable. But with it being the Christmas season it will be somewhat difficult I think. So I am not going to be upset with myself if it doesn't happen.

Theoretically if I make 215 my christmas goal, that would give me 7 weeks to lose that other 15 pounds which is 2.14 pounds per week to be at 200 by Valentines day. I don't want to get ahead of myself but I also think that if I look at it in short measurable steps on the way to my bigger goals it seems a lot better. Well and 2.14, that has to be a sign right? Feb 14th, valentines day 2.14 pounds a week. Yeah, I think so.

So today's goals are the same as always,

I am going to pop that workout DVD in right now and then get a shower before Osina comes.
Drink 4 bottles of water
stay within calorie and sodium ranges

Molly's Thursday Goals

I have errands to run and Christmas presents to find today. I need to find the perfect photo binder style photo album for my dad. And I have no idea what to get my brother or my mom. They're both so difficult. Mom doesn't want anything and Jake just buys whatever he wants. Anyway, this is what I will be up to today. I probably should have gone to kickboxing with Lori, but I swear I will go Monday - no excuses!

Goals for today:
track calories
stay under 1300
Drink 3 bottles of water

Thursday Goals

I have to majorly clean my house today it is kinda a wreck!

Goals:
Drink water
stay under goal on calories
low sodium

I think that's it for today.

It Came!

My bodybugg came in the mail today! :) Woot! Woot!
I have it all set up online and I'm wearing it now. I'm sure that today won't exactly be accurate since I didn't start wearing it until 3:00 or so, but I'm super excited! I'll let you all know how it goes :)

Molly's Wednesday Goals

I love how everyone is putting so much thought into this weightloss process. You all are having some really fantastic insights!!

I'm feeling very distracted and having a hard time focusing on this stuff. I'm still tracking and trying to eat healthy and exercise, but I'm not feeling very deep about it. My grandma fell again yesterday and this time landed on her face. She split her chin open and had to have stitches. She broke her dentures and her face is all bruised up. And she told my mom that she had been on her way home from the school where she teaches dance class and she wasn't sure if she would go back to teaching. In reality she was walking with her walker in the assisted living place and bumped into something and fell. Just within the last year I have gotten to know her and have a real relationship with her and now she's slipping away. So, this is mostly what's been on my mind since Thanksgiving.

Anyway, I'm covering a closing shift for a girl tonight, so I plan on doing some cardio afterward.

Goals for today:
Track calories
Stay below 1300
drink 3 bottles of water
exercise

Getting Closer

160.8 today - 2 lbs down from yesterday, 8 lbs in 2 days, so I think it's safe to say that most of that horrid 10 lbs was from the sodium IV solution! However, I think now I'm down to where it's actually weight and not salt/water. And it's still 2 lbs up from a week ago and 8 lbs up from June. My goal is to get back to 158 by next Monday and then not get back up.

I'm starting to think about a long term goal. I've had so much trouble getting down, or staying down, now that I'm lighter than before, so I don't know what my goal should be. Right now it's to not see 160 again. But I don't know about a different long term goal. I'd like to be down to at least 152 (where I was in June, and which is right smack in the middle of my bmi range) but I don't know what time frame to put on it. It's only 8 lbs, but it's taking me a lot lot lot of exerising and watching what I eat to get anything off these days. Hmmmm, I will keep thinking about it.

My goals today:
*3 bottles of water
*track on livestrong and with exercise, stay under 1200 calories.
*do some form of exercise. I don't know what. Brielle is running a fever, so I don't think we'll be at the gym. I think I need a good dvd that I can do on days that I don't go. Any suggestions?

I'm also hoping that my bodybugg will be here today! Keep your fingers crossed!!

It's snowing today

It's so peaceful. Now if only people weren't coming to my house and the kids would stay asleep. I woke up about 15 minutes ago when my mom called me. Oops! Oh well at least no one was knocking on my door.

So I weighed myself just now and my weight was 225! That's only .2 higher than before thanksgiving. I am so tracking it!

Today's goals:

Drink 4 bottles of water
Eat under my new calorie goal (ug, it's going to be low once I put my new weight in)
Do 1/2 hr of cardio
stay under 2000 mg of sodium

Monday Recap / Tuesday Goals

I did ok yesterday: my calories were about a hundred over, but it's way better than I've been doing. I drank 3.5 bottles of water and my sodium ended up being almost 2500, which is slightly over what livestrong thinks I should have. But, it was totally worth it for that last piece of pumpkin pie! I didn't weigh myself this morning. It actually never crossed my mind until I saw Lori and Mallory's posts and by then I was well into my first cup of coffee.

My goals for today:

Drink 3 bottles of water
track calories
stay under 1300

Yay for Tuesday

162.8 Today, so that's 6 lbs down from yesterday, so at least a large majority was water/salt weight! I'm hoping that even more of it comes off for tomorrow's weigh in too. Darn that IV fluid! lol

I talked with my mom last night and she put up the candy (not that I don't know where it is, but at least out of sight, out of mind), so it's a start. I was really good while I was there, no candy and was really good about the portion control. And overall, yesterday was a good day - all my daily goals were met.

Today's goals:
Drink 3 bottles of water (12 glasses)
track all my food on livestrong
exercise (this is hard for me when I don't have a class that I want to go to, but I'll DO it!)
no sweets

Yay for Tuesday!

So I weighed myself this morning after a good water/sodium day and my weight was 227.6. Ok, it's going in the right direction. So I have 6 pounds to go until I make my Christmas goal. I had a talk with Justin last night about how I needed his help and support and for him to not enable me to make bad choices (um, PIZZA). And he agreed, so that's good but he has his own issues so I can't count on him to help me make the best choices. Ideally I would like to be a little less than 221 by christmas.

So, here is today's plan:

buy no salt added tomatoes for salsa today
Bake some chicken
stay under 1500 for sodium
zoo trip?


I have been thinking a lot about Thanksgiving, it's really the first holiday that I have been committed to weight loss. And although it could have gone worse for sure, eating pie and pumpkin roll and everything salty was delicious but now that good feeling from the food is gone but the weight remains. And the good feeling from the food didn't last it wasn't even 20 minutes after I ate that I wanted something else. I just am not the kind of person who eats one piece of pumpkin roll and then is done. Ug, well it's something to think about for Christmas. My mom was talking about her desire to eat the other half of the pecan pie and she said, "I only get pecan pie once a year, I should be able to eat it and enjoy it." Let me just tell you that of all the pies, pecan is the worst. Half of a pie, which is what she wanted to eat, is 2150 calories.

And I didn't know how to argue with that. Now it seems totally clear to me, the question is that is that pie worth a week or two of working hard to re-lose the weight that you gain. I think it must be about balance and everyone's scales are different. To me, (after the fact) It doesn't seem even remotely worth it to have gained 3 or 6 pounds. Maybe to her it is, or maybe she is regretting her holiday binge as much as I am. I don't know. The good news is that I know that given enough time and commitment I can and will accomplish my goals!

Busy Work

So, in finding things to do to keep myself busy, so I won't eat I am posting a pic of me in my new jacket. Whoo hooo! I also wanted to go over my long term goals again.

Goal: 221 before December 18th
199 pounds (no deadline yet! Maybe my birthday?)

Eww

Ok, so I'm going to just put it out there and then let you be shocked and then explain it.

168.8.

Yes, you read that right.

Ok, now that you're over the "HOLY CRAP" let me say that yesterday I was in the ER for some weird abdominal pain. They don't really know what it was. My blood work, urine analysis, and Xray were good. It could be kidney stones. It could have been a muscle spams in my intestines. I could be the beginning of an appendicitis. Basically unless it comes back, we may never know... which is ok with me. HOWEVER they did have me on IV fluids yesterday which is basically salt water, so I have no idea what my sodium was yesterday. Coupling that with the holiday, I have no idea what is actual weight gain and what is from the IV fluids. I hope that in the next few days I'll shed them pretty quickly no matter where they're from. But yes, that's 10 lbs in less than a week. I think I might cry.

While I was complaining about it this morning though, Aaron did tell me that my bodybugg (I confirmed it earlier in the week) will be here maybe Tue or Wed.... so I'm pretty sure he'll be ok if I open it and start using it, even before he's home. So, that's good. I'm really excited about it and to see how many calories I normally burn in a day. I also think that it'll motivate me to track my calories more b/c I'll have an exact number for calories in, calories out. And as Mallory put it this morning, I'm an exact number person, so hopefully it'll really help. lol

My goals:
work out (already did, so *check*)
track my food
3 bottles of water (12 glasses)
talk to my mom about all the sweets in her house. I go over thinking "I just won't eat them" but then I always do.... so if they want me and the girls to come over, then they have to get rid of them... or at least hide them, lol!

Monday Post-Thanksgiving Weigh-In

It's not good, but it could be worse: 175.0, up 3.8 from a week ago. I now have 10 pounds to lose to reach my Jan. 1st goal of 165.

Like Mallory, my sodium intake has been really high. Unlike Mallory, so have my calories. So, those are what I'm really going to focus on this week.

Goals for today:
track calories, stay within limit
watch sodium
drink 3 Nalgenes of water (I haven't done very well with this for the past week, either)

Monday Morning Official Post-Turkey Day Weigh In

So my weight has not gotten better yet, I am pretty sure it is because of the sodium. I have been in the 4000 mg range every day. Although I have been having better calorie days my weigh in this morning was 231.0 Which is up 6.2 pounds from my pre thanksgiving weigh in. It also means I have 10 pounds to lose to reach my target goal so I can have Christmas!

Goals:

Control Sodium
Track
Work out

Excited!

So after reading everyone's posts I am excited to be on the same page at the same time. It is so much easier if more people doing it, because there is always someone logging on to comment on your posts!

Lori - I have been thinking about your body bugg (hopefully that's what it is because I am excited now too!) and I think it will be a great resource, especially coupled with a calorie tracking software (which it comes with, right?)

Carrie - It's good to have you back! And with the support of your husband, it's gonna be great!

Molly - Thanks for being there, to chat or lend support!

You ladies are awesome and I am so thankful to have you all in my life!

It's Another New Day

Yesterday turned into an eating disaster. I ate all the pumpkin bread (at least the stuff without nuts and raisins) and had reached my calorie limit by 1 in the afternoon. So of course I had a GIANT helping of turkey enchiladas for dinner and a glass of wine. And some cheese. And a piece of pie. Ok. So.

I'm actually going to try. The relatives are gone, my stress level is down, and I've come up with a couple of projects for Christmas presents for my dad and Gram. I'll have things to do and can't sit around and eat all day. Plus, I kind of feel gross. After eating well for several weeks and then binging for the last few days, I feel just sort of icky. Not sick, just icky, if ya know what I mean.

Goals for today:
Drink 3 water bottles of water
Track Calories
Stay with the limit

I'm Flakey, Now it's Time to Commit!

I don't know what's been going on with me lately, but I have been on a constant binge for the past three weeks. Depressing I know. I hate to start out with being negative since I haven't posted in so long, but I got on the scale today and weighed in at 266.2, and I have officially gained 22 pounds since June. Thanksgiving was painful for me. I went to Dustin's family on Thursday and got to hang out with all of my adorable nieces and nephews, and then got super depressed because I still don't have any children of my own. Then you get your family asking you if you're still trying to have kids, and it just adds to the pressure to lose weight since I know that's what's holding me back. I sat down last night and ate an entire pint of Hagen Daz Ice Cream, and now I have a major sugar headache, because I'm pretty sure that I have type 2 diabetes.

And that is all the negativity that I will let myself speak, because it's time to quit feeling sorry for myself and just do what I need to do. You guys have been so inspiring these past few weeks,(Mallory you're doing awesome!) and its time to get back in the swing of things. I was stoked when my husband came to me and told me that he needs to start working out on his off weeks because he has no energy and he needs to lose weight. I am so excited because we are finally on the same page. It makes it so much easier when you're partner has the same goals as you. Here are my goals for this upcoming week:

Exercise 5 times with at least 30 minutes of cardio.
Drink half my weight in ounces of water everyday, 133 oz.'s. that's about 4 1/2 Nalgene's.
Track my calories on Livestrong.
Daily positive affirmations.
Support Dustin in making changes and losing weight and no enabling!

Back on Track

Ok, so yesterday was MUCH better than the past two days. I still had 4000 mg of sodium. Holy Cow! I know it's so wrong, but I bit into my first bite of pizza and it tasted like heaven. Seriously like bliss in my mouth. So, today is a day for getting back on track with the program. I plan to eat some egg whites for breakfast and then hopefully that will get me going. My kitchen is still sort of a disaster from the baking extravaganza from yesterday so I plan to clean dishes, go to the store and buy printable buisness cards. Yay!

Today's goals:
sodium 1500 mg
drink 4 bottles of water
exercise

An Early Present!

So I'm pretty sure that Aaron ordered me a bodybugg for Christmas! WAHOO! It's definitely something that I wouldn't have spent that kind of money on, but that's what hubbies are for, right!? I'm SO excited. How I know - - last night Aaron goes "so, while I'm gone, a package will arrive. You *cannot* open it!" So, of course I barrage him with an onslaught of questions... and I'm 95% sure it's a bodybugg. NOW, I just have to convince him to let me open it and use it before Christmas :)

And NO, I didn't weigh myself either. It'll be bad I'm sure. So I'm putting it off for a bit. I have already drank my quota of water for today and went to the gym this morning :) Now just to stay away from sweets and keep at it!

Molly's Saturday Goals

It's gloomy today, I'm going to try not to just sit around and eat. My goals for today are:

track calories
stay within calorie goal
drink 3 bottles of water
exercise

Friday No Way In

See what I did there?? He he, so clever. Right. So, I could not bring myself to get on the scale this morning. I thought about it, but just really couldn't do it. I did figure out that I was trying to eat away the tension I feel around my family regarding my grandma and how frustrated and sad the whole situation makes me. I started on Wednesday with the pumpkin bread and it wasn't until I was sitting out in the garage by myself crying yesterday afternoon that I realized what was going on. Ugh. I had myself convinced that I was eating so much because it's a holiday all about food and that it was ok! But, now I'm aware and when these feelings come up I will try to do things such as exercising and writing instead of stuffing my face with mashed potatoes and gravy.

Goals for today:

Drink lots of water
track calories
stay within calorie goal
go to work
exercise

The day after

So I weighed myself and it was not so great 230.0 which is up 4.2 pounds from yesterday. Ha ha ha.

Today's goals:

Drink tons of water
stay within calories
get some exercise

Thanksgiving Day!

Today started out great, I lost some more so I was down to 224.8! Which wasn't quite 224.2, but I gave my jacket to myself anyway! Then we started the day with a 700 calorie breakfast. And now, after thanksgiving dinner I am up to 2052 calories (it could be worse) and 2600 mg of sodium.

I have had 3 bottles of water so far today though! Yay me!

Have a happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you all have very happy and fun Thanksgiving!!

Goals for today:

Eat, Drink and Be Merry
Drink Water
Track calories

Cheers!

Wednesday Weigh In

Um, so, who's idea was this? My weight was up exactly 2 pounds this morning to 173.2. Not awesome. On the other hand, it's not that hard to figure out: I've eaten a lot of not particularly healthy stuff in the last few days. So, while this is somewhat discouraging, it's also a good reminder for me to not go completely crazy with the potatoes and rolls and pie over the next few days.

Are you ladies planning to track your Thanksgiving dinner calories? I'm tempted to, but I kinda don't want to know.

To Weigh in or not to weigh in?

So what's the plan ladies?

Are we weighing in after Thanksgiving or no? So we usually weigh on Friday, which I can totally see the merits of me weighing, however, at the same time I don't want to be depressed. I will go along with whatever you guys want to do. I was thinking we could weigh in on Saturday but Lori is doing her Thanksgiving on Friday so that wouldn't be fair to have her weigh the day after she ate Thanksgiving meal when we all have a day to flush the salt out of our systems. So then there is Sunday but then we might as well wait until normal weigh in day. So at this point I am leaning toward weighing on Friday because then I will know the damage and be motivated to keep it going.

I hate trying to lose weight...

... especially around all the holidays. I really love to bake. And eat. The eating is the problem. I bake and bake and bake. And then I give some away, eat, bake some more, eat, give more away. It's bad. I think that later today I'm going to make pumpkin bread too to bring to some of my friends at church... let's hope I'm able to get it out of the house before I eat it.

Anyway, Mon I was up - back to 160.4. What's up with me? Well, I started my period again on Sun, so I'm chalking it up to that... although that's just trying to fool myself. I AM however hoping that it accounts for a pound or so. The other is all me.... and my hubby who loves desserts too much.

Because of watching kids, and then going to work (crazy to say that) and watching more kids, I haven't been to the gym since like last Tue or Wed. Man I suck. BUT it'll get better. Training is over, so I'll just be working on Fridays (Thanks Molly!) and should be able to go whenever I want to the gym (for FREE now) except on Thur or Fridays.

I too am not going to feel guilt over Thanksgiving. I typically don't like most Thanksgiving/Christmas meal fixin's - but I do love dessert and rolls, so I will try to keep that in check.

Ok, I've been rambling and also started this like an hour or two ago, so I will just hit publish before I start talking anymore! lol

Molly's Tuesday

Today has started with a bang! With Lori's help I got a job working in the nursery at her gym, so, along with minimum wage, I will be getting a free pass! I'm so excited!! :)

Up next, some serious cleaning and then heading back to Crossroads for training on how to close.

Goals for today:
drink 3 bottles of water
Clean/exercise
track calories, stay under goal

Mallory's Tuesday Goals

And countdown to Thanksgiving two days. Poo, I weighed myself again this morning and I was down .4 pound. But I drank tons of water, got good sleep, was under on my calories, I drank my water. I was expecting to be back where I was two days ago. So looking at my livestrong I got way too much sodium. I ate two hotdogs which were so terrible.

Today's goals:
Be under on sodium I'm thinking 1500 mg.
Drink 4 bottles of water
Look at my tracking and see what has been different in the last week.

Monday Pre-Thanksgiving Weigh-In

Weight today: 171.2, down .4 from Friday. I'm happy with that!

Thanksgiving is looming on the horizon. I want to do really well for the next 3 days because I plan to enjoy Thanksgiving! I'm not talking about stuffing myself silly, but I'm going to have wine and mashed potatoes and gravy and pie. And I'm not going to feel bad about that. However, I will feel a lot better about it if I do really well for the next three days.

So, goals for today:
Drink at least 3 bottles of water
Track Calories, stay at or under livestrong goal
Exercise at least 15 minutes
Mail a letter

Uh oh! Monday weigh in

So my weight today was 228.o that's up 1.6 pounds. I am pretty sure it's just because I ate some pretty salty stuff and didn't drink enough water. I am going to weigh myself again on Wednesday. I also am going to try really hard to do well today and tomorrow. I am so sad about not having my jacket yet! Seriously, we went to city park and were meeting will and Nicole there and I wanted to wear my new jacket so bad, but I didn't. *sigh*

Today's goals:
EAT NO SUGAR and drink no soda, it seems that I crave sweets more when I am drinking soda.
Drink 4 bottles of water
at least 15 minutes of exercise
Yesterday I was also sloppy about measuring so today's goal is to measure measure measure!

Molly's Sunday Goals

Drink 3 bottles of water
Get at least 15 minutes of exercise
Track calories

It's going to be a good day!

Sunday Goals

1. Get at least 15 min of exercise
2. Grocery shopping
3. Work on laundry
4. Drink 4 bottles of water
5. Track on livestrong


I hope everyone has a great day!

An Exercise Challenge

I am challenging myself to track at least 15 minutes of exercise on livestrong everyday for the next 5 days. Thanksgiving is only 5 days away and I want to burn some calories before the big day! I have yet to manage to track exercise for more than 2 days in a row, but I think I can do better.

So who's with me?

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday

Last night I could not go to sleep. There's a few reasons: 1) I started playing stupid cafe world on facebook and couldn't stop. Sometimes I really hate facebook. 2) I finally turned the computer off after realizing it was 12:48 a.m. and I decided I really should shower before bed. In the shower I started thinking about something that makes me angry and I got all fired up. 3) I decided to read my book to take my mind off the thing that angers me. Fortunately and unfortunately, I find the book I'm reading facsinating and have a hard time putting it down. 4) So, at 3:08 this morning my stomach was growling because it had been 8 hours since dinner. So, I had two clementines. It was the healthiest, easiest and most delicious thing I could think of that I wouldn't be mad at myself for eating. I think I really need some vigorous exercise.

Goals for today:

Drink 3 bottles of water
track calories
EXERCISE

I found a recipe in a cookbook called The Everyday Gourmet Diabetic Cookbook for barbeque chicken pizza that it claims tastes like the bbq chicken pizza at California Pizza Kitchen. We'll see. I'm going to make it for dinner, but make it with a super thin crust to reduce the amount of carbs.

Rough Days/Possible Break Through

So I have been doing yoga with this book that I have right? And for the last couple of days my muscles have been sore and my back hurts. I thought I was getting sick because I just was feeling generally crappy. Then JoyAnn (the lady whose kids I watch) sent me an email saying that she can't afford to pay me. So now (yesterday) I am worried about money and I feel like crap, and I am worried about Justin and the kids are screaming. And I found a weekend job that I would like to apply for but I can't cause I have three kids hanging on me. And man, I was just like F-it. I am eating something. So I am wandering around my house trying to justfy eating something I know I shouldn't and the front door opens and it's Justin. Early. Thank god. I said will you go with me to apply for this job and just generally get me out of the house. So we pack the kids up and we are driving. And it's better because I know he isn't going to let me eat something I would regret later.

But we start talking about it and about how I need to stick with it and just work through the times I am not into it as much because what it is going to take is long term commitment to eating a sensible diet. And that it's not going to happen overnight and if I get frustrated and quit, it's only going to make me 1)Rebound 2)Feel bad about myself. And I felt better.

Then we came home and we were late so Osina's dad had to wait (well he was a little early but sometimes he is) and we had a fabulous dinner and I was a little bit overly full. But then I started looking at the house which was a mess, and I didn't get to take a nap, and all the other stuff from earlier. And there were pizza commercials on T.V. and while I was not hungry I kinda wanted to suggest we order some. So we got the kids in bed and I was thinking and thinking and I was tired. Finally after everyone was away, I sat down to think about what was really wrong and I realized that I was so unhappy because I was not allowing myself to stress eat. I wasn't hungry, but I wanted to shove food in my mouth left and right because I was stressed.

So I went and talked to Justin about what I was thinking, and we talked about JoyAnn and I cried about all that was going on. And I felt better. Talking about it helped me put it in perspective and acknowledge what was going on. And this morning I feel great!!!!

Today's Goals:

Track food
Exercize
Drink 4 bottles of water

Molly's Friday Weigh-In

Today's weight: 171.6, which is a 1.4 pound loss from Monday, a 2.4 pound loss from last Friday and a 6.2 loss over all. I have 6.6 more pounds to lose to reach my goal by Jan. 1.

So, I was shooting for a 2 pound loss this week, but I'm pretty happy with what I did. I had a lot of sodium - I was over my sodium 4 days this week, one day was really high. But I'm just glad it was a loss. I was a little worried that it wouldn't be. And I found myself sucking in my stomach this morning when I got on the scale - cuz that's going to help.

All righty, goals for today:

drink 3 bottles of water
track calories
don't go over my livestrong calories
I think we're cleaning the garage out today (at least the part that isn't all my stuff), so I'm counting that as exercise if it happens. And if it doesn't, I'll try to get a walk in there.

And I'm going to change my weight to 172 on the recommended caloric intake thing to more accurately determine what I should be eating for the next week.

Lori's Friday

158.2 this morning, which is about 2 lbs since Sat/Sun (I can't remember). However, I was telling Mallory that I don't feel great about it since the last couple days I haven't been great. Well, let me rephrase that. I have worked out the last two days. I also have had dessert both days. And not drank as much water as I normally try to. So it's odd to see a loss when I'm not doing it all but not see a loss when I'm working really hard at it. It's odd.

Anyway, I'm happy that at least I'm down - that's good. And I plan to try to get to the gym tomorrow (today I can't, tonight is the movie, and I'm a realist... it's not happening after the movie). And I'm really going to just focus on eating good, and good portions. Right now, I'm going to focus on taking a shower! lol

Have a great weekend girls!

BTW Molly, I have a free 30 day pass to the gym if you want it. ACTUALLY - I just came up with a brillant idea - I'm going to call you.... or you call me if you see this first and I haven't talked to you yet.

Mallory's Friday Weigh In and Goals

Today's weight was 226.4 which is a 2.8 pound loss from Monday, a 5.6 pound loss from last friday and a 22.8 pound loss overall. Yay!

Today's goals are:

exercise
stay under my new calorie goal on livestrong
drink water

So hopefully I should be able to get to my next goal (halfway to 200) in this upcoming week, which will be awesome because the jacket is so cute! I am super excited to wear it! Then to reach my ammended Christmas goal I will need to lose an average of 2.5 pounds a week so it will be tough, but I know I can make it if I try!

Chicken and Vegetable Tostadas

I tried this recipe the other night and really liked it! So, I'm sharing:

1 tsp ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
2 teaspoons canola oil
12 ounces chicken breast tenders (I used chicken breasts that I chopped into approx. 1" cubes)
1 cup chopped red onion (about 1)
1 cup fresh corn kernels - I used canned corn, but if you use fresh it's about 2 ears
1 cup chopped zuchini - I hate zuchini, so I substitued yellow and red bell pepper
1/2 cup green salsa - I substitued one 7 ounce can of diced green chilies
3 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro, divided
4 (8 inch) fat-free flour tortillas
cooking spray
1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Monterey Jack cheese

Optional: black beans - I added 1 14.5 ounce can, rinsed. It was delicious!

Preheat Broiler.

Combine first three ingredients, stirring well. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Sprinkle the spice mixture evenly over chicken. Add chicken to pan; saute for 3 minutes. Add onion, corn, and zuchini to pan (and black beans); saute for 2 minutes or until chicken is done. Stir in salsa and 2 tablespoons cilantro. Cook 2 minutes or until liquid almost evaporates, stirring frequently.

Working with 2 tortillas at a time, arrange tortillas in a single layer on a baking sheet; lightly coat tortillas with cooking spray. Broil 3 minutes or until lightly browned. Spoon about 3/4 cup chicken mixture in the center fo each tortilla; sprinkle each serving with 1/4 cup cheese. Broil an additional 2 minutes or until cheese melts. Repeat procedure with remaining tortillas, chicken mixture, an dcheese. Sprinkle each serving with about 3/4 teaspoon of remaining cilantro. Serve immediately

yield: 4 servings

Calories: 393 (30% from fat)
Fat: 13.1g
Carbs: 36.7g
Calcium:236mg
Sodium: 799mg
Protien: 32.5g
Fiber:3.1g

The above nutrition info is if you follow the recipe. The beans add a bit more fat and protein and calories.

I found this recipe on http://www.CookingLight.com

Slow Start Thursday

So last night I thought it would be a good idea to drink some tea before bed. Instead of drinking chamomile or sleep time or something without caffine I drank some actual green tea. Could not keep my eyes closed. So, now I'm freaking tired and my eyes hurt and all I want to do is lay around and eat things and watch movies. But, I am going to resist these things and find productive things to do. And also, I thought today was Saturday. And I was really worried I missed the Friday weigh in. I think maybe I was having some crazy dreams.

Ok. Goals for today:

Drink at least 3 bottles of water
track calories
1350 calories or less
Clean bathroom
continue doing laundry
Go for walk

Sluggish Thursday

Ug, so I have been getting out of bed before my alarm clock goes off and today I reset it. Blah. I have banana bread in the oven, yum! It's so bad for you. It's my grandma's recipe and it's fabulous but it is made with shortening, white flour and sugar. I should try recipes that are more healthy. At least it has bananas in it right?

LOL, so here are todays goals:

Wash Ryan and Samantha's blankets and sheets.
work on laundry
track calories
no banana bread today (it's better after it sits overnight in the fridge so I plan to have A piece tomorrow.)
Drink 4 bottles of water.

Like I said I am feeling fairly sluggish so I feel that if I accomplish those things without letting the house be destroyed, it will be a successful day!

An Official Proclamation (and Wednesday Goals)

So, I am amending my goal - officially - from losing 10 pounds by Jan. 1, to having my weight be 165 by Jan. 1. That adds 2.8 pounds of loss to my goals. As of Monday I weighed 173.0, so I have 8 pounds to go for a total of 12.8 pounds shed from my rotund form. By Jan. 1. It's gonna be awesome!

Goals for today:
Drink 3 bottles of water
Track calories, Stay under 1350
Exercise - I'm thinking dance party
And I really need to do laundry. Seriously!!

Really!?!?

Ok, so this morning I was 160.2. WTH. So I think that I'm going to post my menu for the previous day on here. I'm just frustrated. I really expected it to be down.

Bkfst - 2 eggs, 2 pieces of toast, 1/3 of a banana, a sm serving of cheerios.
I've read that if you eat a large bkfst, that you consume less calories over the entire day. I definitely was less snacky.

Lunch - Taco bake - which is hamburger, beans, green chilies, low carb tortillas, a little bit of low fat sour cream.

Pre-work out snack - banana

Dinner - spaghetti squash lasgana - a small to med portion and no seconds.

snack - (ok, I realize I should have had a snack after dinner... it's such a weakness) apple and a little bit of pb

I drank FOUR waterbottles of water yesterday - which is 128 oz. Plus I have worked out Sat, Mon, and yesterday. I'm frustrated. And now have children vying (is that how you spell it? Eh, I don't know have time to figure it out, lol) for my lap and wanting to "help" me type... so I'm getting off the computer.

What's today? Oh yeah, Wednesday

Wednesday goals:

Mop my freaking kitchen
Drink water 4 bottles
track and have under 1300 calories
exercise of some type

Molly's Tuesday

Goals for today:

Drink 3 bottles of water
Track calories
1350 or less
Go for walk

Mallory Tuesday Goals and Ammended Big Goal

Ok, I am officially changing my big goals to:

224.2 - "Halfway to 200 Goal" - reward, jacket
215 - "Christmas Goal" - reward, Christmas presents instead of weight loss membership.
200 - "200 Pound goal" - reward, maybe a massage? we will see when it gets closer!

So today's goals are:

Take kids to zoo
Drink 4 bottles of water
Track my food eaten.
1300 cal

I have been MIA

But I'm still around. I check the blog when I get a minute, and sometimes comment, but it seems I don't have the time to sit and type out a new post. Why can Mallory do it with 4 kids and me with just 2? Idk.

Anyway, I started again on Sat... well, half way through Sat really - when Aaron got home. My parents' house is just too filled with yummy candy and cookies ALL THE STINKING TIME. How my mom is not 400 lbs is a mystery to me. B/c I would be.

Anyway, I started at 160 point something on Sunday. Yesterday I was at 159.0. Today I'm at 160 point something. WTH. I've been trying to be good. There are probably some things that I need to take out I suppose - I had a few Craisins to stop my candy/cookie craving that I spent the last week building up. And also, it seems that I'm always a little heavier after kickboxing the day before. Idk why. Maybe your muscles hold onto water or something or the lactic acid? hmmmm, idk. I just hope tomorrow is better.

And btw, I am super proud of you girls, Mallory and Molly, for how much you guys are losing and whatnot.

KUDOS to Mallory for getting to her first goal! YAY!

Molly's Monday

I some how lost 1 whole pound over the weekend. Not sure what happened there, but I'll take it! So, my weight today is 173.0, down 4.8 from my starting weight of 177.8. I'm 5.2 pounds from my ten pound loss goal, which is 167.8. I think I may modify that to 165. I like round numbers. To reach 165 I will need to lose 8 more pounds by Jan 1. That is doable. This week my goal is to lose 2 pounds.

Goals for today:

Drink 3 bottles of water
track calories: keep it under 1400
clean tile floors, vacuum, dust, do laundry