friday WI

I did pretty good - lost 1.2 lbs this morning, so I'm down to 169.8 - I'm so excited to be in the 160's and I am DETERMINED not to get back into them while I'm on vacation, which will be VERY hard.

I succeeded in doing my Shred last night, I did it right when I got home, which is new for me, I usually don't work out until later. I'm definitely getting used to doing the workout, I only had to take a 3 second breath twice, I think. I turned the TV down and put my itunes on though, I'm gettin sick of Jillian's jokes and "motivation" aka meanness.

I felt so good knowing that I worked out earlier and I could relax the rest of the evening. I would love to be able to do this every day, but I know I can't really because I want to have dinner ready for hubby when he comes home from work. I know I don't have to, but I want to. He works hard all day, while I just sit at my desk, he's hungry and deserves a good meal when he comes home. He'd be okay if I told him I was going to work out before making dinner, but I would feel bad. So I guess I'll just stick with working out at night.

Finally, I believe I found the solution for motivating myself to lose weight and the answer has been sitting in front of me all the time - God! Yes, God. My July goals included praying and reading my Bible 2 times each day, and until this week, I've kind of slacked on that. I make excuses which I know is terrible, I either am too tired, or hubby's sleeping and I don't want to wake it. Well no excuses anymore. I started praying on Tuesday morning, and reading my Bible again and I feel so much better! God really is wonderful and He'll help me get through this.

Oh, I tried my first Green Monster this morning, for those of you who don't know what it is - greenmonstermovement.com

Mine was more of a purple monster - maybe I didn't put enough spinach in? Anyways, I followed the first recipe and just added 2 c. spinach, 1 container vanilla yogurt, 1/2 c. skim milk, 1 banana, 1/2 c. blackberries and ice. The blackberries gave it a purple-y color, but it was pretty good. I added 1 tbsp. of PB2 - a ground peanut butter sub. - bellplantation.com - it's pretty awesome and only 1 pt. for 2 tbsp of this stuff (it's ground peanuts basically, that you mix with water).

So that was my breakfast, I could definitely taste the peanut butter and bananas. I think I'll make them a couple times a week, we'll see if it affects my energy like "they" claim.

Menu:
B - "Green" Monster: 5pts.

S - 1 c. grapes: 1pt.

L - WW lasagna (again, I'm so sick of this!): 4.5pts.
1 c. mixed berries: 1pt.
2 containers of Fiber One yogurt: 1pt.

D - Classic Shepherd's Pie (I didn't make this last night, with hubby sick, he didn't want to eat and we still had lasagna, so I had leftovers - AGAIN!): 5pts.
2 c. skim milk: 3.5pts.
3 tbsp. part skim mozzarella cheese: 1pt.

That leaves me with 1.5pts. for the day and all my GHG's filled except whole grains, so I might have toast later tonight.

Goals today:
-Read Bible 2x (half done)
-Shred tonight at some point
-Follow my eating plan
-Drink 72 ounces of water

Let's see how I did with yesterday's goals:
-stick to my food plan - done, even though I subbed lasagna for shepherd's pie, I didn't go over
-do my 30 Day Shred tonight - done, very successfully I might add :)
-drink 72 ounces of water - done again, and I'm getting used to so much water, I don't have to run to the bathroom all the time.

I'll check in tomorrow!

“Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” – Matthew 7:7-8 KJV