I have been really pretty proud of myself for incorporating a lot more veggies into my diet and I put on a pair of jeans today that are still snug but don’t put me into a rage so I went ahead and wore them. The last time I wore these jeans I seriously had to unbutton my pants halfway through the day because they were really hurting me! yikes! So there is a deffo improvement. I feel like I have lost a little weight but I don’t want to get on the scale yet because the numbers could ruin my outlook (silly I know).
I get a big F for exercise. I think in the last few weeks I have only exercised 4 times which is not good. There is a good news though, there is a nurse on site at my work who was looking to put together a wellness program and I told her about my bootcamp classes from the summer and I think they are going to start doing them right on site in a few weeks! How awesome would that be? If that does happen I will deffo weigh myself before I start because I’m curious to know how much weight I lost before I may start gaining back some muscle.
What are your thoughts about waiting until the end of February for my weigh in? Do you think that’s too long? I used to be an every day weigher (when I was at or around my happy weight) and it became a little compulsive so I’m looking for a happy medium.
If you are going to a Super Bowl party this weekend make healthy choices! Easier said than done right? 
So I was thinking about what I could do to exercise more regularly in the cold weather. As much as I love classes I decided I’m not going to join a gym right now because I don’t think I would go enough and hopefully I will be starting bootcamp again in April so I would rather put the money towards that.
I came up with some great circuit workouts either for 30 minutes or 60 minutes is a mix of cardio and strength training. It’s a solid chunk of non-stop movement.
So now the next question is….when will I do this? And here is the answer….Two days a week I am going to get up at 5:15 a.m. and get this done. I am NOT a morning person but life is too hectic after work so I figure if I ease into it by doing this 2 days a week it won’t be as bad.
I also came up with a re-use of the old “power hour” drinking game. Instead of doing a shot when the song changes I will switch my exercise. Tonight I’m going to cut my favorite “minute” of all my workout songs and burn it on one CD. I’ll let you know how that goes tomorrow. Until then!
You know that really bad thing I said I was doing yesterday? I did it again today and have done it every week day for at least the past two weeks…. I’m skipping breakfast! At first it wasn’t something I did on purpose, it started innocently enough. I was running late for work one day so I brought my breakfast with me but my morning got so crazy I never ended up eating it. That happened the first few times and then it became a choice. I decided I was easily making it through the morning with no breakfast so why not keep it up to cut calories.
Rational, logical me knows that is a terrible way to think and it’s not healthy of effective but after being at various levels of my unhappy weight for more than a year I thought if this was going to give me an edge I would do it. I am in no way starving myself, I definitely eat enough calories throughout the day and have made a real effort to incorporate tons of veggies in my diet but I feel like I need to re-introduce breakfast. I got in an oats rut so I think I’m going to challenge myself this weekend to find some quick and easy breakfast recipes that I can eat during the week. If you have any good ones feel free to share!
For my food recap yesterday I had a latte with skim for b-fast, a big mixed green salad with light Italian dressing for lunch, greek yogurt for my afternoon snack and a serving of Shepard’s Pie and side salad for dinner. No exercise for the past few days. I did get out on Saturday for a nice 3 mile walk/run but I need to up my cardio.
I’m going to do some thinking about committing to an excercise plan (at home) tonight and hopefully write about a plan I can and will follow tomorrow. Happy Tuesday!
Lack of posting doesn’t mean lack of commitment……wait nevermind, yes it does. I don’t know why I can’t get it together on the blog front or the exercise front. Eating healthy has been going pretty well but I’m all over the place with exercise and blogging. I really need to get into a rhythm with both! Work is just dragging me down.
This is just a quick post before I head out into the miserable wind and rain of Boston. Tomorrow I will have a post that is really bad. Like I’m doing something really bad in my diet and fitness routine..you know the one thing you should never do…I’m doing. Any guesses? More on that tomorrow. FYI…I will not get on the scale or take a measurement until the last day of Feb so I don’t get discouraged but so far I feel just as fat and my “skinny” jeans don’t fit me any better so…..keep up the good work I guess? Happy Monday!
Seriously… why did we buy so much candy at Christmas and why can’t I stop eating it? The week in between Christmas and New Years I went completely overboard on candy but lately I have tried to limit myself to a few pieces a day but it’s just so hard when they are there!! And out of site isn’t always out of mind for me. Should I just throw them away?
The most evil thing about them is the size because just popping one mini Snickers doesn’t seem that bad but eating about 12 through the course of the day is horrible. At least if you succumb to temptation and eat a regular sized candy bar you usually register how full and yucky it makes you feel and adjust….with tiny bites all day I hardly realize I’m eating it!
And to top this whole rant off….I don’t even really have a sweet tooth. I don’t know if it’s a seasonal thing or not but I prefer salty/savory things over sweet. Oh well.
Yesterday was another good eating day. WW toast with PB for b-fast, turkey and cheese on an Arnold Flat Bread for lunch and a fruit salad for a snack. YUM! For dinner I visited a friend and had some chix breast served in broth and onion based sauce with grapes! It was delish. I also had a scoop of rice pilaf, 2 Pillsbury crescent rolls and a glass of wine.
The circuit training I did in my basement on Monday must have worked a little because my legs were sore yesterday and still sore today. Hopefully there is some toning going on!
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I’ll be honest with you. I like the taste of baby food. Not the meats and spaghetti and stuff but the fruit combos are pretty good. I’m not a regular baby food eater but on a few occasions I have bought a few jars to keep at my desk when I need a quick snack. I prefer to actually have the real fruit, but it’s a good option when you want to have a variety of emergency snacks that won’t spoil quickly. When I recently read about the Baby Food Diet that Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon allegedly partake in, I have to admit I was curious.
In the past I have been very interested in crash diets because I was always looking for a quick fix but at this point in my life I want to be happy and healthy (and 12 pounds thinner!) and I don’t think substituting a real meal for a jar of prunes is a healthy option! Has anyone tried this diet or tried to incorporate baby food into their current diet because they like it?
Yesterday’s eating was so good until I got home 
I had oatmeal for breakfast, veggie soup for lunch with a side of pickles (weird I know) and then Oikos for a snack. We had some left over BBQ chicken pizza that I knew we were going to have for dinner so I purposely tried to keep it light. Well I had two slices of the pizza and it was not hitting the spot so I ended up melting some low-fat shredded swiss on 4 pieces of whole grain Melba Toast and then had a few mini Snickers left over from our holiday candy.
Before the binge I did try to do a circuit in my basement but I just wasn’t feeling it. I only ended up doing 10 minutes. I did a warm up and then one minute each squats, lunges, push ups, plank, seal jacks, squat with leg lift, crunches, bicycles, mountain climbers and inch worms. I couldn’t bring myself to do the second circuit but it was ten minutes of non-stop movement so its better than nothing. I got my heart rate up and got a little sweaty!
It’s been too long without a post to keep me honest!!! I took some time off from work around the holidays and I made a conscious decision to unplug since I spend most of my waking hours in front of a computer screen.
Basically this is where I am right now. Based on how my clothes fit I didn’t really gain weight over the holiday season, but I am no closer to fitting into my pre-weight gain pants. I, like many other people I’m sure, am using the new year to take a bit more control over my life. After some self-reflection over the holidays I realize that I am very lucky and have a pretty great life. It’s not perfect by any means but at this point in my life my good stuff to bad stuff ratio is definitely tipped towards the good and most of the “bad” are things well within my control to change. I will then do whatever I can to put a positive spin on the things I can’t change. Nothing lasts forever (good or bad) so its important not to get to bogged down in the bad or get careless or passive because you have a lot of good.
Preachy enough for you? 
So for a brief update, I still have not joined a gym, I have been irregularly doing circuit training in my basement and although eating healthy is a constant battle for me, I think I’ve been doing ok. My last recorded weight was 129 pounds and I decided not to weigh myself until Sunday, February 28 to give me enough time to really make some good consistent changes.
Any one make any interesting resolutions or start a new fitness plan? I’m curious what other people are doing.
I was really excited when I opened my crockpot at my wedding. I had a feeling that it was something I would use all the time. In the winter I could load everything in to the crockpot and come home to a nice warm house with the smell of a great meal wafting through the air.
Fast forward one year and I have used it twice. The first time I used it I made spaghetti and meatballs, but I didn’t bake the meatballs first or use breadcrumbs in them so they were like rubber balls. So gross. The second time was last night. I decided to make a chicken dish that called for a whole chicken, Russian dressing, aprioct preserves and a package of dry onion soup mix (I’ll post the recipe in the uncook series). I had a fresh 4 pounds chicken to use and when I was unwrapping it to clean it and take out whatever that bloody thing they put up bird’s butts I thought I was going to vom.
I’m not a huge meat eater, to me chicken always tastes dry, and I was told by someone that cooking the chicken on the bone keeps it moist, hence the whole chicken, but I was having a major guilt attack looking at the carcass of this dead bird. I’m grossed out enough by ground hamburg that doesn’t look anything like the animal it came from, but this poor chicken looked like a chicken. It kind of bummed me out.
Anyway… I managed to prep the chicken without hurling and got it situated in the crockpot and started cooking it. My husband was in and out of the house all day and said it smelled awesome. By the time I came home the house was warm in toasty and the smell of a great meal was wafting through the air. The chicken was so moist I actually enjoyed eating it! I’m an official crockpot fan. It doesn’t make a huge mess and it was nice to have dinner ready for me when I walked in the door.
Does anyone have any easy crockpot recipes they want to share? I’m anxious to use it again and try to cook some healthy stuff.
My food intake for the last few days have been pretty good. Here is my breakdown for yesterday:
b-fast: 1/2 c oats, 1/2 c water, 1 hershey kiss, 1 Chai Tea Latte from my Tassimo (300 cals)
lunch: butter lettuce with feta and sun dried tomato dressing (200 cals)
snack: home made sugar cookie and some of the pita I meant to eat with my salad but forgot (160 cals)
dinner: crockpot chix, brown rice, mixed veggies (500 cals)
dessert: small piece of choco truffle bomb..soooo good (300 cals)
total: 1460
exercise: 2.5 mile walk at lunch
Life has been crazy lately. I had a great Thanksgiving holiday and then went back to craziness at work, a battle with what I thought might be strep throat but ended up being a virus. I have been a bad blogger. Sorry about that!
I have to say my Thanksgiving weekend was pretty healthy. I definitely over indulged (who doesn’t on Thanksgiving) but I didn’t feel uncomfortably stuffed and I was able to try a little bit of everything. The weather on Thanksgiving was great so I was able to get outside and run/walk for a bit which was nice. The day after Thanksgiving was when the start of the virus reared its ugly head and I slept until almost 11:00 a.m. which was good because I needed the rest and I slept through a meal so it’s a calorie saver!
Back to present-day, my meals have been pretty decent. We were eating out way to much and we have scaled that back. I haven’t weighed myself because I let the number bother me too much, but I feel like I have lost a little and I tried on some “skinny” jeans last Friday and although they were still too tight they were a little bit better. I’m on the right track, but don’t think I will come close to meeting my 12 by 12 goal since the 12 is on Saturday and if I had lost anywhere near 12 my jeans would fit much better then they do. Oh well… I have to stay on track.
I thought I would share a new blog with you that I’m really excited to read. Tina from Carrots N Cake has started Trading Up Downtown about living healthy on a budget. Aside from health and fitness the other thing that takes up a lot of space in my brain is finance and budgeting. I’m terrible at math but for some reason I love tracking my finances etc… And I do notice that healthy food is usually much more expensive and fresh produce, veggies etc… which I love, often go bad before I get a chance to eat. I’m anxious to learn and get some more tips from Tina and I encourage anyone who hasn’t checked out either of her blogs to do so because they are great reads.
Ok..onwards and upwards. I brought my breakfast to work this morning because I was running late and I have been non-stop since I got in so it will be breakfast for lunch today…Bet you can’t guess what I’m having!
Sooo…. I feel like I have been fighting off something. Not the flu but maybe a cold or some sort of bug because I have been feeling a little ehhh for the past few days. As I was driving home yesterday nausea started to kick in which was unfortunate because my husband and I were meeting some friends to try a new restaurant. I cracked my window, the air made me feel better, so crisis averted.
When I got home I wasn’t feeling great but we had to rush right out to pick up our friends so I didn’t dwell on it. We got to the restaurant only to find out it was closed on Monday. No problem, we picked another place and as we were on our way nausea started to kick in again. We arrive at the next place and find that it to is closed on Mondays. More nausea ensues as we bang a u-ey and head down the street to a place we noticed was open when we first drove by.
By then I’m feeling pretty queasy so I start with some crackers that come with a complimentary bean dip and then I ask about the soup selection. The only soups they had that night was Hot & Sour Soup (Vom!) and New England Clam Chowder (double vom!). I like both of those soups very much but the thought of eating either of them was making my stomach turn even more.
I decided to use some forward thinking and order a salad with dressing on the side that I could bring for my lunch the next day because I knew I wasn’t going to be able to eat anything more than crackers during this outing.
So basically nausea kept me from eating dinner and most of my lunch and after all that it just passed. No getting sick or anything. Still not feeling too great but hopefully the worst has passed.
So here is yesterday’s food recap
b-fast: 1/2 c oats, 1/2 c water, 1 tbsp PB (250 cals)
lunch: pad thai soba, a healthier version of pad thai made with buckwheat noodles. My stomach started feeling eeehh right before my food came so I really only had about 1/4 of the dish. Very unlike me sitting in front of a plate of noodles. (300 cals)
dinner: crackers (50 cals?)
total: 600 cals
exercise: none
