Thursday Goals

Things will be great today, I can just tell!

Goals:
track calories
Drink 4 bottles of water
stay under 2000 mg of sodium
try to take a nap (for reasons unknown Samantha was up several times in the night plus we are trying to night time potty train Ryan) ug, soooo tired.

Darn Being A Woman

So this morning brought the arrival of my period and with it came bloaty feeling and a cloud of darkness. Picture Grumpy Bear from the Care Bears with his lightning cloud over him. Yep, that's me today. Fat, bad mood and cloud of crabby following me wherever I go. Awesome. I did weigh myself this morning (I don't know why, obviously if I had been thinking clearly I would not have done that) and all I could think was, "being a woman sucks, men suck". Here is the plan for today:

Pity party for 1 (done)
Drink water - 4 bottles
I set out 100 calories of chocolate to eat today, I will eat it and no more
Do Laundry
Track food and stay under goal

Go for a walk with the kids (no matter how long it is I know I will feel better if I do it but I am already justifying not so we will see.

Tuesday Re-Weigh

Since I ate approximately a zillion rice cakes Sunday night, I decided to re-weigh myself today after drinking 3.5 32 ounce bottles of water yesterday. I am down .8 from yesterday to 174.0, only .2 above where I was on Friday. And I feel less bloaty and icky. Yay!

Goals for the day:

Drink at 3 bottles of water
Track calories
Keep it under 1400

My family is going to Texas Roadhouse for dinner tonight to celebrate my brother's birthday. So, I am going to limit myself to 2 rolls and make other healthy choices.

Tuesday Goals

I know these are pretty much my goals from yesterday, however, it helps me to have a better day if I organize my thoughts and re-affirm my goals in the morning. So, I am 4.4 pounds away from my first goal and 12.8 pounds away from my goal for before Christmas.

I am going for a walk today with the kids
I am going to drink 4 bottles of water
I am going to track everything I eat.

I am having breakfast with Justin because he is working a late night tonight so I am having a little bit bigger breakfast and then a smaller dinner and lunch.

I can do this, I will meet my goals!

Little Weekend Slip

My current weight is 174.8 up exactly one pound. That one pound I spent all of last week losing. And because this can't possibly be my fault, I would like to blame City Market for putting Dove Dark Chocolate bars on sale for 2 for $.88. I went in there to get some wrapping paper and came out with a ton of dark chocolate (it's good for you - it has anti-oxidants!). Turns out it's also got a ridiculous amount of calories and fat and sugar (duh!). And then there was the package of white cheddar rice cakes I ate last night. That's right, the entire package gone in about an hour and a half. Good times. Who doesn't love retaining water???

Here's the cup-half-full stuff: I'm still down 3 pounds from my start weight of 177.8. I ate all the chocolate bars, so there's none left to tempt me. This is going to be a busy week, so I won't have time to sit around and think about what I would like to be munching on. In theory.

Goals for the week:

Drink 3 bottles of water every day.
Track my calories - for real, not just what I want to acknowledge having eaten.
Eat between 1250 and 1400 calories each day
Control myself at Texas Roadhouse when we go out for my brother's birthday

Monday Morning!

I ate BBQ ribs last night, between the pork and the salt I was sure I would not be in a good place. However this morning's weigh in was 234.4 which is a 1.2 pound loss from Friday and a 14.8 pound loss overall. I plan to kill it this week. My next weight goal is 230, so I am only 4.4 pounds away!

My goals this week are as follows:
Lose at least 2 pounds this week, hopefully more to set me up to be at my mini goal next week.
Work out 3 times this week (I went yesterday so I need 2 more)
Track every food every day.
Stay within my calorie goal of 1338
Watch my condiment use
Bake chicken to snack on and use for salads etc.
Drink 4 bottles of water

I have had more thoughts on what success is to me but I need to organize my thoughts. Stay tuned!

"Diet Starts Monday!"

I hope you all got the title reference to a Saturday Night Live Skit with the gap girls. If not watch it and bask in the 90's top memories!

Anyway, after working out 4 times last week and watching what I ate I lost a big fat nothing. I think I'm not being accurate on my livestrong tracking. This week I vow to measure my food so that I am tracking accurately. Here are my goal for this next week:

1. Find different ways to make oatmeal enjoyable. (that's tough!)

2. No energy drinks, no matter how bad I want them, and no matter how tire I get!

3. Go to the gym 5 times this week! I was so close last week!

4. Use my brand new Vita-mixer to make different types of protein smoothies for lunch.

5. Come home for lunch everyday! No fast food, even if you think your making a good decision!

I know from the past just cutting out carbonation, I will automatically lose 3 pounds, and feel less bloaty. Also, I should probably watch my sodium intake, I feel it in my hands when I've had too much. I feel so much better now that I have written down my goals, and feel like I have a plan of attack. Hope everyone has a good week!