October 18, 2010

So, today I did fairly well although I went over on carbs. This is what I ate today.....

Breakfast:
3/4c Just Right cereal
1/2c milk
1/4c apricot/mango yogurt
1/2c OJ

Lunch
85g penne
1/2 c spaghetti sauce

Supper
2 mini meatloaves
1c mashed potatoes
1/2c peas
1/2c corn

Snacks
8 crackers
1 laughing cow
165g apricots

We did a 40 minute walk today. We were supposed to do our strength exercises, but they didn't get done. That will happen on Wednesday.

Starting again ................

It's been ages since I last wrote in this blog and everything I am reading about today speaks of the importance of writing everything down that I eat and the exercise which I do. I will start all that tomorrow. For this blog, I want to talk about how I am going to keep better track of what I am eating. I also want to have to write down what I do for exercise because that part of my healthy plan has been very lacking lately. Between feeling tired and feeling stressed (from teaching full-time again - if only for five weeks), I find myself slacking off the exercising and Mike is okay with not going as well so he doesn't encourage me to get out and get moving. I know that it will make me feel better and so I want to make a pact with myself (and I will talk it over with Mike) to make sure that I do some kind of exercising every day (but Sunday, my lovely day of rest :-) Having to keep track of my eating and my exercising again will be really helpful, especially since we are going back to Canada in a month. I would really like to be down at least three pounds by then (to 185lbs). It's hard to believe that a few years ago, I was down at 152lbs. and I felt and looked great. I know I can do it - I just need to make that commitment again. I find it easier to lose weight when I have a goal like 'I want to look good for this or that' and right now, there isn't anything like that to spur me on. So, I am just going to make a commitment to eat healthy, exercise, and keep track of both.

Oops - missed yesterday

Yesterday started out well - egg and cheese on toast (sandwich) with ketchup of course :-) I did discover that a whole sandwich is too much (although it was so yummy, so I did finish it) and so next time I decide to have this for breakfast, I will haved one slice of bread and half the cheese. Lunch was vegetable soup and yogurt. Then, we had a busy day and by the time we got home for dinner, it was late and so we decided to have something fast and easy - it was pizza. Yummy, but not exactly healthy (although it does have parts of all four food groups :-) We did go for a walk, so that was something. Today was Fast Sunday and so no meals 'til supper. We decided to eat leftovers and so I had mashed potatoes and baked beans and an egg on toast. Not too bad I think. We like to have a little dessert on this day and so today we had low cal chocolate pudding. :-) Not exactly fabulous, but I love chocolate, so it's all good. :-)

Not as good as I could have been

Today, at home, I did very well with my eating. For breakfast, I had granola with milk and orange juice. Since we ate breakfast so late, I didn't have a snack. Lunch was half a package of Kraft Dinner with ketchup of course. :-) After a hard day's work (I mowed the back and front lawn today), we went for a date night out. We went to Swiss Chalet and I was still good re: the eating. First, we ordered the spring rolls for an appetizer (we shared it) and then I ordered the chicken quesadilla with a salad. As soon as it was delivered, I could tell that I wouldn't be able to eat all of it and so I asked the girl right away to bring me a doggie bag and I put half the quesadilla into it right away. So, I figure that I was still not doing too bad. Then, Mike asked me if I wanted to bring something with us to the movies to eat. I really should have said 'no', but I didn't. We shared peanut butter cups and Starbursts and I checked out the calories and fat content and it wasn't too bad. But still, I shouldn't have eaten them. I found afterwards that I wasn't feeling so well - I think that I ate too much sugar with eating the Starbursts - I am not really a candy person, so I think that between it being sugar and my body not being used to it, my body was probably just rebelling. Then, we had to do a lot of work when we got home (garbage, recycle, compost, bring a bed from Jennifer's old room to outside, measure rooms for painting) and so I wanted something to eat just to wind down. I chose a low cal chocolate pudding and a freezie. So, all in all, not TOO bad a day, but I must stay on track a bit better in the future.

Feeling like eating healthy

Well, today was another good day. I printed the two pictures of me today - side by side. I got the photo back of me with my weight lost and although you can't tell a difference in my legs, the upper part of my body looks great. Mike says it's hard to do it (make the picture with weight loss) in such a short time so that is probably why there is little difference in the bottom, but at least I look really good on the top (with the weight loss) and it's enough (or it was today) to spur me on not to eat more than I should. Tonight, we took Colin and Caleb to McDonald's - we knew we were going there and so had looked up the nutritional information online before we went. I do not feel like eating hamburgers these days - so I checked out their chicken and their grilled chicken classic sandwich was really good for calories and fat. I had never had one before and was pleasantly surprised that it tasted very yummy. The price of one, with tax, was about $5. so it's not as cheap as the double cheeseburger I normally get, but it's healthier and tasty and even tastes healthy. Breakfast was late and I had Shreddies, milk, orange juice and half a bagel with cream cheese, lunch - dagwood sandwich, snack - banana, supper - the chicken sandwich. We didn't get our walk in today as we were tidying up the house and then had date night with the boys. But tomorrow, hopefully, the weather will hold up and we will get a walk in. Mike also fixed the bikes yesterday and so we can start using them as well which I am really looking forward to it.

Not bad at all :-)

With much trepidation, I got on the scales today and much to my surprise, and delight, I had only gained one pound. Yippee! :-) It really gave me motivation to be good today. I had Life cereal with raisins, milk and orange juice for breakfast. Lunch was a dagwood sandwich (half a sub bun with miracle whip, honey ham, salami, tomato, cucumber, red onion, cheese, pickled beets), snack - crispy mini rice cakes, supper - oregano chicken (chicken with onions, red and green peppers, lemon, oregano) with mashed potatoes, carrots, peas, and mixed vegetables. I also was able to find a site to send in my photo today (Mike took a photo of me wearing jogging pants and a t-shirt) and hope to get an answer in three days to show me what I will look like when I lose the weight that I have set as my goal. I am really looking forward to getting it and hope that by putting up both photos, I will be even more motivated to stay on track.

Back at it again!

Well, it's been ages since I last wrote - and I'm scared to check out the scales. I knew that things would not be good during report card writing time, but unfortunately, then came the rest of the end of the year stuff. So, tomorrow, I have to stand on the scale again - I'm going to be really mad at myself if I have put on all the weight that I worked so hard to take off in the previous two months. Anyway, although we have all sorts of things happening in the next two weeks and it would be easy to say 'let's get serious after that', we decided to start back at it today. So, this morning, I ate Select cereal with milk, for lunch, I ate a tuna sandwich with pickled beets, snack was yogurt and fruit and supper was barbecued chicken, mashed potatoes, and green beans. I was talking with Mike about how much better I feel after just one day of eating healthy. Mike says he even notices how his skin feels better when he eats better. I had my picture taken with some friends at the end of school and I couldn't believe how big I looked. It's weird how I don't see myself like that - I rarely look in the mirror - so, this was a good wake-up call. I think that I will get Mike to make a photo of one of the shots that I can put on the fridge so I am reminded of what I look like. I have heard of sites on the net, too, where you can put in a photo of yourself and then it will take pounds off the photo so that you can see what you will look like when you lose weight. I think that having that on the fridge, too, will keep me positive. :-)