Quick Update.

Thanks for the encouragement! Every little bit counts, keep 'em coming!

Yesterdays food:

B - same as the day before, 1 c. strawberries, 1 c. Kashi, 1/2 c. banilla yogurt

S - apple and 1 tbsp. peanut butter

L - leftovers, 2 c. cantaloupe

S - banana w/ 1 tbsp. peanut butter

D - 3/4 c. feta cheese mashed potatoes, 2 chicken rollatini, 1 1/2 c. roasted green beans, 1 c. skim milk

Dessert - 1 small squares Dove dark chocolate

Exercise - W2D1 of C25K, 15 min. bike, and weights burning a total of 560 calories!

Every single bite was tracked accurately! Success!

Maybe it would be more fun if I took pictures of my food... What do you think?

Today's dinner plan is up in the air, it's Pub Crawl tonight. I'm only planning on having one drink, but I'm not sure what's for dinner. I don't have a ton of points left, but my week did just start yesterday, so I have extra points. We'll see.

i played tennis! well, tried to...

Good morning!

I'm sore, but I'm still in a good mood this morning. I got suckered into a lifetime movie last night, so I didn't go to bed until 11 last night, which I knew was dumb, but I still did it. Hubby and I started watching it, so I had to finish the movie, even though he went to bed. It wasn't the best decision to watch it though, it was about a woman who became a prostitute so she could make money for her family, but she basically became addicted to the money and couldn't give it up. She was so tired, she started snorting crack to stay awake. The "massage therapy" place she worked got busted and she gave a list of 69 prominent members of the community in return for a shorter jail time, so she only got 30 days in jail. It was interesting, but I like Hallmark movies better, I like happy ending. In my opinion, happy endings aren't a shorter time in jail.

I got up at 5:30 and did my shred rather than go for a run. My legs are sore from either running or tennis yesterday, so I didn't want to push it and run again today. I'll hopefully run tomorrow morning.

Hubby and I attempted to play tennis last night. We bought rackets over the weekend decided to try it out. Man, we are terrible! I didn't think it would be that hard, it seems easier. I think we only successfully hit the ball back and forth about 3 times. I was sweating though! I get so proud of myself when I sweat, I show it off to hubby and he just laughs at me. He comes home from work everyday and it looks like he jumped in a pool he's so sweaty.

My menu for today?

Breakfast:
-egg white omelet with 1 slice canadian bacon, mozz cheese on a wheat bagel thin (4pts.)
-1 c. V8 fusion light (1pt.)

Snack:
-3 c. light popcorn (1pt.)

Lunch:
-Salad with spinach, romaine, 1 tbsp. feta cheese, 3 slices turkey lunch meat and light balsamic vinegarette (3pts.)
-100 cal. pack of choc. chip cookies (2pts.)
-Fiber One yogurt (0pts.)

Snack:
-maybe 1/4 c. trail mix (4pts.)

Dinner:
-Reuben Sandwich (5pts.)
-Classic coleslaw (3pts.)
-2 ears corn on the cob - no butter (2pts.)
-2 c. skim milk (3.5pts.)

I'm going over with my trail mix honestly, so I'll try not to eat that, but if I'm hungry, I'm going for it. With all my activity this week, I already kicked the butt any points in the red (yay!), so I don't mind going a few more over just if I'm hungry.

As for yesterdays goals:
- I need to lose this week before the beach, I want to get in the solid 160s before I blow it all at the beach so I need to do my Shred tonight, and maybe another run, or play some tennis. Anyways, I need some kind of activiy tonight. / done, played tennis last night and earned 6 APs!
- Follow my food plan / also done, I didn't go over at all night
- Drink 72 oz. of water / finished as well! I thought I wasn't going to do it, but I sucked down water like it was my job!

Today's goals? I need some new goals, like try to compliment someone everyday. I'm getting bored with eat right, drink water, workout and read my Bible. I do those, so they aren't goals.
- drink 80 ounces of water (let's increase it and see if I can do it!)
- follow food plan
- workout
- read my Bible tonight, already read it this morning. I read it last night, and it was just what I needed.
- compliment someone today (new goal!)


"Actions, looks, words and steps form the alphabet by which you may spell character."
-Johann Kasper Lavater

the weekend confessional...

Okay, so I need to do a confession on this Monday morning. Sigh.. I was hoping that I would stay OP all weekend, and I failed, kind of miserably.

Let's start with Friday's goals:
Read Bible 2x (half done) /didn't finish reading the other half = fail
Shred tonight at some point /nope, didn't do that either
Follow my eating plan /I did, but then I added KFC
Drink 72 ounces of water /The only goal I did complete - I drank 83 ounces!

Friday night - we decided to go to Walmart, well we were starving after we left Walmart and where do we go? KFC.. I didn't do too bad, I had 2 strips, 1 drumstick and individual size of mac and cheese for a total of 13 points. I had 3 points left from the day, so that I only went overboard 10 points and I was okay with it.

Saturday - I had a green monster for breakfast (5pts.) and a sandwich for lunch (3pts.). We met one of my friends at the mall and walked around, and she bought me Starbucks, I couldn't say no! So I got a light mocha frap, and I didn't count the pts. After we left the mall, Hubby said we couldn't spend any money, and I know we shouldn't, so we went home, despite my complaining, and had leftover shepherd's pie for dinner (5pts.) with milk (of course! - 3.5pts.).

Well Hubby was on call this weekend to fix pipes in DC if someone busted their pipe, and guess what? At 10:30pm, we were on our way to DC. I knew I had to be a good wife and go with him, he was tired, so we went, with our Colt .45 because it's a sketchy area, yes, awesome, I know.

We didn't get home until 2am, and we were starving when we came home, so we stopped at Sheetz. I know I didn't pick the best choices (caesar wrap & fries) but it was delicious! I tracked it and moved on.

Sunday morning, we slept in since we had such a late night, and wouldn't you know - we get another call at 11am for another busted pipe. I made my green monster for breakfast, and we headed off to DC, again. I'm just grateful we got 8 hrs of sleep! We went down and Hubby fixed the pipe, then we were hungry. Well, I was craving Red Robin (YUM!).. so we had to find a Red Robin. I got my Whiskey River BBQ Burger with fries and 2 glasses of freckled lemonade for a total of 37 points, yes, 37 points!!! I'll say though, it was SO worth it! Oh man was it good. I was kind of surprised that I ate the whole thing, I thought maybe my stomach had shrunk since I started WW and oh no, I ate the WHOLE thing, AND all my fries! Mmm, it was delicious.

We went to Arundel Mills, too, which is this HUGE mall, and I bought a new sports bra for my goal of losing 10 lbs. I was so excited when I tried it on - it actually fits! I don't think I've ever had a bra that fit before. I can jump around and there's so little bounce! It's awesome!

I tracked, and right now I'm in the red 13 points. But (NSV) I went for a run this morning! I ran for 15 minutes, which is a HUGE thing for me. It was great, I feel so good now!

Now for my daily goals:
- I need to lose this week before the beach, I want to get in the solid 160s before I blow it all at the beach so I need to do my Shred tonight, and maybe another run, or play some tennis. Anyways, I need some kind of activiy tonight.
- Follow my food plan
- Drink 72 oz. of water

My menu?
Breakfast: Green Monster (5pts.)
2 pieces of WW bread w/ 3 tbsp. part skim mozzarella cheese (2pts.)
Lunch: Leftover shepherd's pie (3.5pts.)
Banana (2pts.)
Plum (0.5pts)
Fiber One Yogurt (0pts.)
Snack: Celery (0pts.)
Dinner: Pork Chops with Sauteed Apples and Sauerkraut (5pts.)
Small baked potato w/ 3 tbsp. mozz. cheese (2.5pts.)
2 c. skim milk (3.5pts.)

That's exactly 24 points.

I feel better now that I confessed my WW weekend sins. I'm determined to see a loss this week though, now with me starting to run, and drinking green monsters, hopefully I'll see a loss.

"Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever."
- Lance Armstrong

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

quick menu

Thought I would just put my menu out there for today since I need to stay accountable:

B - awesome egg burrito w/ egg whites, part skim mozzarella cheese, 1 slice of canadian bacon, taco sauce on a whole wheat tortilla: 4 pts.
1 c. V8 fusion light: 1 pt.

L - salad with turkey and feta, balsamic vinegarette: 4.5 pts.
lf vanilla yogurt (activia) w/ 1 c. mixed berries: 2 pts.
1 c. watermelon: 1 pt.

S - plum: 0.5 pt.

D - 1/2 serving WW lasagna: 4.5 pts. (leftovers from last night)
green beans with parmesan cheese & butter: 2.5 pts.
2 c. skim milk: 3.5 pts.

So I have 0.5 pts. left for the day, I'm sure I won't use them, but really, I've been not proportioning my food very well, and I know it. I'm waiting for it to catch up on my weight loss, and then I'll actually do something about it. Once I get to 165 then I'll buy myself a food scale so that I have it, and I already have a spot for it on my counter.

Depending on how much water I drink, I have all my GHGs in today, whew! I still don't have any urge to exercise, and I know that I need to. Hopefully tonight since I won't be cooking I can get my butt into gear and do my Shred. I'll walk 2x today at work, too, so that's 2 APs for the day.

I snuck a look at the scale this morning and I was 170.8, so I have 2 more days to get under 170. I'm so sick of being stuck right around 170!! You think that would motivate me enough to actually do something, and it doesn't.

I read my Bible for the first time in a couple days last night, and I got down on my knees and prayed before I crawled into bed, too. When I got up this morning I had extra time too, so I read my little Bible verse and the explanation from Charles Stanley. I really think I need to turn to God to help me now, I'm getting to that point, and I haven't been as close to God as I need to be, and He's showing me that I will only fail without Him. I'm starting to see it again and I'm praying and involving Him more in my life than I was.

Well maybe I'll post later and let you all know if I actually did my Shred or not, I hope so. I need to kick my butt into gear if I ever want to lose this weight.

"And Jesus said unto them ... , "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to younder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you."
Romans 1:17

confessional is finished, now looking at today and this week

Since I completed my confessional for my fun, but so so weight watcher-wise weekend, I though I would start fresh with this week's plan.

Hubby and I didn't get back home until 11:30 last night, and he's in construction, so he needed to be up at 4:30 this morning. I talked to him already, and he said that he's doing okay, but he's going to bed early tonight. He's such a great guy, he knows I didn't do so well this weekend food wise, so he said we can go for a run tonight, even though he's dead tired! Oh man, am I blessed to have this wonderful man in my life, helping me every step of the way.

Anyways, because we got home so late last night, we couldn't go food shopping. We normally do our food shopping over the weekend so that hubby can come with me and help me carry the groceries up to our 3rd story appt, up the rickety, rusty stairs. Since we didn't go food shopping, I'll be making salmon and baked potatoes tonight for dinner. I'll probably just make bag of broccoli for the veggies.

This morning for breakfast, I had two pieces of WW toast with this new peanut butter my aunt (who's on WW) introduced me to. It's called PB2, and it's ground up peanuts, which you just have to mix with water and it's SO WW friendly. I can tell it's NOT pb, but it's a pretty good sub. for it. I had a little jelly on my toast, too, and 1/2 c of my V8 fusion juice.

I grabbed a Lean Cuisine for lunch, which is 5 pts., my Fiber One strawberry yogurt, which is awesomely good and 0 points! I grabbed 1 c. of watermelon, too. For my 10am and after work snacks, I have 1/4 c. of trail mix, which is 4 points all together, but I LOVE trail mix.

Tomorrow I'll be going to the doctors, boo, and going grocery shopping for us for this week. Hubby does the checkbook and pays the bills - I'm terrible with math, even with a calculator! - and so my job is to pick out cheap recipes. Hubby and I will be going to the beach the last week of July, and he'll be taking off two work days without pay since he just started 4 months ago and doesn't get any vacation days until he's there one year. So we'll be losing around $100, so I have to try to save that in food, tons of fun. If anyone knows any cheap WW friendly recipes, please let me know!

All in all, today I'm borrowing 1.5 points from my weeklies for today, which I really shouldn't do because I probably used them all already, but anyways, we're starting fresh today.