Jan. 5, 2009

January 5th already? Cuh-razy... 256.0

Yesterday was a great day. Meals went as planned, even had ice cream last night and enjoyed it without regret. It's all part of the plan...

Today, I was late on the planning, but here we go:

Breakfast:

• cereal, one cup with milk
  
• half banana
• water

Snack:

• fat-free yogurt
• banana
• tea latte with FF milk and SF syrup (note to self...YUCK...no London Fogs again...barf)

Lunch

• Lean Cuisine Chicken Carbonara
• tomato and 1/2 cucumber

Snack

• apple and cheese stick

Dinner

• 1 1/2 cup Chili with 1/4 cup measured grated cheese, onions
• Caesar salad with homemade caesar dressing and croutons! YUM!

Book Club:

This will pose a dilemma... I think a hot chocolate and drink it slow? Will be a challenge, but I think if I focus on the conversation and be mindful of drinking it slow, then it will do. Veggie plate if they have it. Worried that today is too thin on food and then I will be starving...

Jan. 4, 2008

Weigh in 257.0

Off to the gym!

Staying true...

I did fairly well, with some derailments today. I did follow the meal plan almost to the T. I had some homemade nougat, some trail mix (1/2 cup) and a handful of M&Ms. I did NOT have my end of night snack, so on the whole, I think I did ok.

Tomorrow's plan:

Pre-workout:

• grape nuts serving
  
• banana

Post-workout:

• omelette-2eggs, veggies, cheese

Lunch:

• out at Whole Foods...salad bar?

Dinner;

• salmon steak
• baked potato with cottage cheese (1/2 cup)
• green beans

That's all I can think of for now...might update things tomorrow if I get organized.

Hooray! I actually remembered to weigh in this morning. The results were not positive I am sad to report! LOL 258.8 pounds. Nowhere to go but down!

I had a good morning so far. I had my pre-workout breakfast and then discovered that the exercise class I wanted to do was cancelled. BAH! Doesn't the gym realize it is hard enough to get there without someone ELSE making excuses for me? So, I met my hilarious workout buddy for coffee and even managed to have my bottle of water and banana only! Yay (killing two resolutions with one stone!)

And then, here's the best part...after she went off to her appointment...I went to the gym! I did 40 minutes of cardio and felt great when I was done. I also did one minute total of skipping. My goal is to work up to one minute without stopping with my final goal of 5 minutes solid. Who knew that a kids playground activity would be so hard??? Cinder-ella...dressed in yell-a...went upstairs to kiss a fell-a...

Upon my glorious return, I created a lovely omelette breakfast for me as seen here:



It was so yummy! I still have some fruit to eat and then its on to cleaning the house.

Until then...

Stay on target...stay on target...

Well, I missed the shot and didn't blow up the Death Star...good thing is, I did well on most fronts, so I am pleased. I had a chat with 4 cookies (they didn't make it...) so I cut out one of my dips. On the whole, the plan was followed! Now for tomorrow...

Pre-workout breakfast: -4

• Yogurt
• banana
• water
  

Breakfast upon return: -7

• 2 eggs
  
• orange
• pepper and mushrooms
• shredded cheese, 1/4 cup
• water
• multivitamin

Snack: 4

• almonds
• apple slices

Lunch: 8

• sausage
  
• half baked potato with cheese, butter
  
• salad with dressing

Dinner: 6

• smoked pork chop
• broccoli
  
• peas
• apple sauce

Ice cream sundae if I don't derail... 8 points

Forgot to weigh again today, so I need to tomorrow for sure.

For tomorrow, if I am heading for derailment, I need to choose a chore. Procrastination is my enemy...

Future post: Hubby as an inspiration.

Hmm...derailment...2:30 I had another portion of Cowboy Caviar and a cracker and 1/2 cup of soup. I need to get busy on something to take my mind off it. No guilt...moving on.

So far so good...

Breakfast has gone off without a hitch. With the banana, orange and cereal, I am feeling full...perhaps even a bit too full. It will be interesting to see if 6g of protein from cereal and the small amount from the milk will be enough to keep me going until snack time!