I made it

It seems like a long month, but I made it through all my goals (just as soon as this is written and I'm in bed by midnight). Phew!

Exercise today was walking a lot.

Breakfast:

• Protein bar
• Cereal

Lunch:

• Steak quesadilla
• Bean burrito
• Watermelon

Dinner:

• Hamburger
• Sun Chips
• Watermelon

Snacks:

• 1/2 cookie
• Watermelon
• Cupcake

Talk to you next week. I'm doin' the whole "family reunion" thing the rest of this week! Wahoo!

I like it

I have been soooo lazy today! I just could not find the motivation to work out at all. Not good if I want to keep my money. Thankfully, that thought gave me the motivation I lacked earlier. I ended up going for a brisk walk around my neighborhood with my dog.....at 10:30 at night. I really did put it off as long as possible.  That gave me just enough time to do 1/2 an hour and do everything else in order to be in bed by midnight.

I really liked the walk. It was very peaceful. There was cloud cover and a slight breeze. I wish I could do that more often.

Breakfast:

• Protein bar
• Cereal

Lunch:

• Black bean quesadilla

Dinner:

• Panda Express:
• Mixed veggies
• Steamed rice
• Honey Pecan Shrimp (soooo yummy!)
• Manderine Chicken

Snacks:

• Watermelon
• Fruit snacks
• Popcorn
• Watermelon

It counts!

Today I cleaned my house for a couple hours. I'm totally counting it as my workout for the day.

As for the weekend. I didn't blog. I don't know if you noticed. :) Just know, I met all my goals.

Breakfast:

• Protein bar
• Graham crackers and milk

Lunch:

• 1/2 peanut butter and honey sandwich 
• Ramon noodles
• Orange

Dinner:

• Chicken
• Yams
• A few baked Lays chips

Snacks:

• Strawberries
• Grapes
• Popcorn

Very tired

Holy cow! This has been a long day! Between taking my dog to the vet, a meeting for my new job, seeing the Blue Angels do their dress rehearsal, and a celebratory dinner and movie for my sister, I didn't  get any exercise in until 11:30. I did it, but my heart wasn't in it. Too bad. It still counts. :)


Breakfast:

• Protein bar
• Graham crackers and milk

Lunch:

• Black bean quesadilla
• Watermelon

Dinner:

• Went to the Olive Garden....I had a new shrimp and crab dish and 2 1/2 breadsticks. It was DE-LICIOUS!

Snacks:

• Cookie
• Strawberries
• Watermelon

P.S. I was still 199 this morning. I gotta re-think this stuff.

Long walks

Today was "Library Day" with the kids (I'm a nanny by occupation).  That happens on Thursdays because the maid comes that day and I like to be out of the house. However, it makes my workouts a little difficult.....mainly because I don't bother showering until after my workout, so I go to work looking all lovely in my exercise clothes. Didn't really want to look like that at the library. I mean, one never knows if I'd meet a cute guy who might fall madly in love with me. I'd never know if it was just for my looks. No, it's best to look....well, different than that.

ANYWAY....I decided that a good workout would be a long walk around the river. That was fun. I wore the wrong shoes, forgot sunscreen and occasionally had to carry Lucas (my nephew) on my shoulders, but I got my workout in!

Breakfast:

• Graham crackers and milk

Lunch:

• Black bean quesadilla
• Watermelon

Dinner:

• Ribs (very small piece)
• Few chips
• Grapes

Snacks:

• Watermelon
• Ice cream sandwich
• Small slice of pie

Okay....looking at my food intake for today....No WONDER I'm so hungry! Gotta do better tomorrow!

Resistance is no longer futile

I decided to make things slightly more difficult on the Elliptical today. I decided to increase the resistance up to a 5 (thus far, I'd been at the lowest setting.....it goes up to 15). I definitely felt it and didn't go as fast as I usually do. When I was finished, I noticed I had burned more calories that way. Perhaps in a couple weeks I'll change that incline. I figure if I start gradually increasing the resistance and incline I might kick my behind out of the plateau it seems to be stuck in. We'll see how it goes.


Breakfast:

• Protein bar
• Graham crackers and milk

Lunch:

• Black bean quesadilla 
• Orange

Dinner:

• Chicken
• Potatoes
• Carrots

Snacks:

• Watermelon
• Cookie
• Fruit & ice cream popsicle thingy

Is my clavicle showing?

I keep looking in the mirror to see if I can see my clavicle. I really want to. For some reason, that is a milestone in my book. Does that make me strange? Probably. But you know you love strange people!

Breakfast:

• German pancake

Lunch:

• Peanut butter and honey sandwich
• Watermelon

Dinner:

• Chicken
• Green salad
• Watermelon

Snacks:

• Watermelon
• Snickerdoodle cookie
• Rice Crispy treat
• Sucker

Exercise:

• Elliptical for 30 minutes

Carb Cravings

That's what I've been dealing with all day. I just wanted flour! What'supwiththat? Of course, I could go for some watermelon about now. Unfortunately it's WAAAAYYYY past 8:00, so I'd never be able to justify it. :)

Breakfast:

• Protein bar
• Cereal

Lunch:

• Green salad with black beans

Dinner:

• Eggs, toast, bacon, milk

Snacks:

• Watermelon
• Banana
• 2 cookies

Exercise:

• 30+ minutes on Elliptical (I was into the show I was watching)
• Toning

As time goes by

Time seems to go by so fast. It's getting to be the latter end of July already. Does anyone else find that crazy? Wow. It seems just a few months ago we were all worried about the Y2K bug, now we are wondering if we'll survive the world destruction of 2012. Crazy stuff, man.


Breakfast:

• Protein bar
• Cereal with fruit

Lunch:

• Peanut butter and honey sandwich
• Strawberries

Dinner:

• Roast beef
• Mashed potatoes and gravy
• Carrots (they were super yummy)
• 3 rolls - they were home made and delicious, okay! Plus, they were small. 

Snacks:

• Cake
• Ice cream

Interpretative blogging

And yesterday's post is meant to be read while asleep, as that is how it was written. I've got journal entries like that too....only the writing slowly slopes to the bottom of the page as well. It's not so effective in blog land.

Anyway....to interpret yesterday: It was a busy day, and extremely eventful. Dinner would have been a hamburger, but they went up in flames.....literally.....along with the grill, the hose connection to the propane and almost the propane tank as well. So.....we ended up ordering pizza.

I did go to a movie (Knight and Day.....excellent, by the way) and I did take some strawberries along with my M&M's. The strawberries were delicious! I didn't eat all the M&M's I took.

I failed to mention yesterday (can't imagine why) my weigh-in results: I'm back down to 199. That means last week was the last week I will ever be 200 pounds.....again! Wahahahaha!

So, today I didn't do any formal exercise. Just didn't make the time for it.



Breakfast:

• Protein bar
• Cereal

Lunch:

• Chicken
• Watermelon

Dinner:

• Hamburger* (we tried the grilling thing again at another sister's house.....this time it worked!)
• Cheetos

Snacks:

• Strawberries
• Watermelon
• Cake*
• Ice cream*

*It was my nephew's birthday Friday. He had requested hamburger's for dinner, that's why we didn't give up the first time :)

So tired

I'm super tired....I hope I make it through this. I'm going to post it as it is when I'm done. I'm not going to edit it at all. It could be interesting to see what we get.

So, this has been quite the day.....busy, busy, busy. But, I haven't doon too bad. We went to a movie tonight and although I did have some new kind of m &m' that were pretty good. I don't know if that made sense. Don't ask me

Anyway, at the movie, I had nwew peanutbutter strawberry m&m's but  I also took some strawberries. They were yummy. Enough for two servings, cause I wasn't able to do fruits/veggies during a couple meals and forgot during another.

Breakfast:

• Protein bar
• Pancakes
• Milk

Lunch:

• Grilled chicken sandwich from KFC

Dinner:

• 2 pieces of pizza (fairly small)
• Orange

Snacks:

• M&M's 
• Strawberries x2
• Cheese stick

Exercise:

• 1/2 hour on Elliptical
• Toning

Better today

Although the issues I had to deal with yesterday have not gone away, I feel stronger to deal with them and have lots of support. 'S'all good. :)

Today went well. My nieces and a nephew I watch usually have swimming lessons in the morning. I like to try and exercise while they are gone and I only have one more nephew to watch. However, I ended up having to take the kids to swimming lessons, so that didn't work out so well. Thankfully I still found time during water time outside and nap time. :)

Breakfast:

• Protein bar
• Cereal - with fruit in it

Lunch:

• Peanut butter and honey sandwich
• Orange

Dinner:

• Chicken Cordon Blue
• Yams
• Orange

Snacks:

• Small, cherry-dipped ice cream cone from Dairy Queen

Exercise:

• 1/2 hour on Elliptical
• Toning

Tough day

I cannot explain how difficult today was.....emotionally, psychologically. I really cannot. Just know that things happened today that I cannot share, but threw me into a tailspin for a while....well, every time I thought about things. I did get some distractions, so that was good. And, even better, I met my goals, despite how difficult it was.

I exercised on the Elliptical for 30 minutes, plus did some toning.

My food log today is not going to be divided into meals. I didn't really get "meals" today (except dinner), but just ate when I can, what I could. So, I'm gonna lump them it all together:

• 2 protein bars
• Cereal - fruit in it
• Watermelon
• 1/2 peanut butter and honey sandwich
• Cheese stick
• Sucker
• Chicken
• Rice
• Peas
• Bread

I wonder if it will effect the color of anything

Tonight I ended up going to Red Robin for dinner. Instead of fries, I asked for "as much broccoli as I can get." Usually they bring me just a little cup of it and it's never enough. Well, sure enough they brought out the little cup, but the waiter later asked if I wanted more and brought out two more cups. I knew they had "bottomless fries" but apparently they have "bottomless broccoli" as well. They should totally market that. :)

Breakfast:

• Protein bar
• Cereal with fruit in it

Lunch:

• Salad with black beans

Dinner:

• Chicken sandwich
• Lots of broccoli (and I felt obligated to eat every last bit....and it was delicious)
• Okay, I still had a few fries....but only a few

Snacks:

• Lots of watermelon (I really love that stuff)
• Another protein bar
• Some strawberry-banana milkshake

Exercise:

• Elliptical for 30 minutes
• Crunches and reverse crunches

Aaaannnnd.....here we go again

Man. This motivation stuff is tough! And it doesn't help that I'm so lazy! What does help is that I have a friend who recently made it to day 50 of her goal of walking 30 minutes a day for 100 pounds. And, she's lost 50 pounds from it. Good heavens, Kristi! If I've been at this for, what 6 months, and have only 30 some odd pounds to show for it....well, that's pretty pathetic. Get off your lazy, lazy bum and do something. Whatever it takes to be motivated, do it!

Desperate times call for desperate measures! I'm just gonna have to bite the bullet and make me a month-long commitment at least! It's the 12th of July. Wait....the date just changed cause it's midnight. Okay....it's the 13th of July. I can set some short-term goals to get me shrinking again. Y'all know what my consequence (your reward) will be if I fall short of my goals ($10 each). Of course, y'all also know there will be a few exceptions. SO.....here are my new goals:

Goals:

1. Bed by midnight on "school" nights
2. No eating after 8:00 on "school" nights
3. Exercise Monday-Friday at least 30 minutes
4. Eat at least one fruit/vegetable for each meal of the day (or at least 3 times a day....if I happen to forget for a meal, I can make up for it with a snack)
5. Blog daily.....of course

Exceptions:

1. Weekends are really tough....during the summer especially. I am going to go easy on myself on the weekends. No, I won't go crazy, but I won't stress too much either. If I miss blogging on Saturday or Sunday, well, that won't count against me. Besides, it'll just mean there's nothing too exciting to report and y'all will probably be bored anyway. 
2. I have a family reunion coming up at the end of the month.....so, I'm certainly not going to focus on any of this stuff.....so, these goals are in effect from now (excluding "bed by midnight," obviously) through July 27. 
3. I reserve the right to add any exceptions I may have not thought about before they arise (within reason) :)

 Wow....I'm really pulling out all the stops with 5 goals and only 3 exceptions. Hehehe


Breakfast:

• Protein bar
• Baked oatmeal with peaches

Lunch:

• Green salad with cheese, crackers and black beans (amazingly yummy)
• Apple slices

Dinner:

• Salmon
• Fried rice

Snacks:

• Some fudge
• Watermelon

Exercise:

• Elliptical at Kathi's - 30 minutes
• Crunches, reverse crunches and side exercise stuff with a stretchy exercise thingy - 10(?) minutes

P.S. Have you heard about/checked out my new blog on my bird watching experiences? myfinefeatheredfriends.blogspot.com/

um....something

I'm only doing this because I love you. I really don't have anything special to report, but I know how much you look forward to hearing about my extremely exciting and entertaining weight loss endeavors. :)

Yes, I got my exercise in. No, I haven't committed to make any formal goals yet. Yes, I know I should, but I don't want to, okay!

Breakfast:

• Protein bar
• Cereal

Lunch:

• Pasta salad
• 1/2 peach

Dinner:

• Sushi

Snacks:

• Little bit of caramel popcorn
• Lots of watermelon
• Pudding pop

July already?

That's not good. July is the end of my Tai Slim challenge. Oh dear! I've really got to get on the ball.

So, tonight for my exercise, I went for a walk around the greenbelt. It was great! It was so pretty! I loved it and plan on doing it more often.

Breakfast:

• Pancakes with homemade strawberry jam (yum)
• Milk

Lunch:

• Pasta salad

Dinner:

• Chicken and broccoli panini
• Pasta salad

Snacks:

• Watermelon
• Sucker
• Watermelon
• Kit Kat
• Watermelon