Back on Track

Okay, i put on about 3.5 pounds during the holidays. I know it is terrible, but I am back on track. I did 30 minutes on the elliptical this morning and I am eating right again! I have three Christmas parties in a week so I am motivated to take it back off! I can already see the difference in my face. Here's a picture!

Getting Tired

It is only Wednesday and it has already been a long week. I haven't gotten to exercise yet this week but I will tomorrow. I ate more than I was supposed to today, but that is ok. I won't let food become my obsession. Feeling optimistic about my eating during the holidays.

Tuesday

Today is Tuesday, so no exercise. I am doing well on my eating. Ready to get back to exercising. I have lost a total of 12 pounds, I am at 180 now! WOO HOO!

Sorry

Sorry there have been no blogs for a few days. I have been very busy. Saturday I did good and Sunday I took an off day and really enjoyed it. Today, Monday has been good. I had to take my son to Jackson and I packed a lunch and ate healthy. I have lost another pound so I am up to 11 pounds lost, weighing 181.

Doing okay

I had too many calories yesterday. At the end of the day I just wanted to eat, so I did. Today I am doing better. Dinner at the In-Laws will be good. Hamburgers. I can handle that. I will have to exercise tonight. Life tends to keep me from it sometimes. Busy, busy day.

Over the hump

I am over the nine pound hump! I thought it was going to take forever! It only took a week, but still it seemed like an eternity! Odd thing was, last night I had cookies. I did not go over my max calories, but I did my minimum. Maybe I am restricting my calories too much. I will try to get at least 1281 calories. I am back on track and excited again. I had a bad few days, but I will not let it stop me. The holidays are coming and I want to be able to eat some without worring about gaining it all back. I need to have the momentum and weight loss behind me so I can be motivated to eat well.

Honesty

Ok guys, I promised to be honest. I am losing my enthusiasm. It is the fourth day in a row I have not exercised in the morning and I am dragging. I am tired. I am still eating good and I keep a check on my weight and it has not increased, but I have lost my momentum. I am going to keep going, but it is hard. It is so hard to try to learn new habits at 29. I want to just eat a piece of cake and be done with it, but I am not going to. Just having a bad day.

Dragging

After four days of not getting up in the morning to exercise, I am dragging! I miss the feeling of exercising in the morning. I never thought that would happen to me! I have always hated exercise, but not anymore! I am loving it! I will hopefully be back on track tomorrow. With a second flu shot for the baby at 9:30 it will be tough, but I will try really hard! Tonight I am cooking a black and bleu burger with homemade BBQ sauce.

Schedule, what schedule?

There was no schedule today. Michael was at home and last night he had a house fire to go to at 11:00 and got home about 2:00 am and we got in bed at 3:00. We got up late and had a day of errands to do. No exercise this morning, but we will be doing mat work tonight. I stayed on the eating plan though.

Sunday

Sundays are always hard. We usually sleep later and eat at my in-laws where I don't control what goes in the food (but it is always so delicious). So, I never know how many calories I am consuming, so this is where portion control is very important. Today we had chicken and dumplings and rolls. I had one serving spoon full and one roll. The roll had 100 calories. I had a Special K waffle for breakfast and a roast beef sandwich for supper. I think I did good. I did not exercise this morning because with the kids gone we slept in. I did a high intensity workout tonight but could only last 15 minutes. I hate waiting until night to exercise, but it is better than skipping it.

I did good yesterday even though I took the day off. I ate healthy all the way up until dinner, then I enjoyed myself. I did not pig out, but I enjoyed myself. Even though I did not exercise, I was very active all day and felt I did good.

Tomorrow I can be back on my schedule. Good. I like schedules!

Garlic baked chicken with rosemary

Garlic Baked Chicken with Rosemary

1 T onion powder
1/4 c red wine vinegar
1 T deli style mustard (or dijon mustard)
1 t dried rosemary, crushed
2 T minced garlic (either fresh or out of the jar)
1/2 t salt
2 large boneless skinless chicken breasts, halved or 4 small ones
Salt and pepper
1 cup chicken broth or 1 chicken bouillion cube dissolved in 1 cup of hot water

Preheat oven to 400.
Wisk all ingredients together except chicken and broth. Place breasts in a 9x13 pan and salt and pepper each side. Spoon wisked ingredients over the top of all the breasts. Then pour the broth in the spaces around the chicken. Cover with foil and cook 45 minutes, or until done through.

Serve with wild rice or brown rice prepared as the package says and pour the excess broth from the chicken over it.

Chicken has 155 calories per serving
Rice has 145 calories per serving (for the rice I used, check your rice's label)

Upped the intensity...again

I upped it again. I kept a fast pace the whole time! I listened to Addison Road and Barlow girl! I am looking and feeling better, but I still want to see numbers go down on the scale. I am stuck at 183 right now. I know nine pounds in a little over 2 weeks is great, but I want to see more! I am not much of a marathoner, I am a sprinter! But, I have to remind myself a sprint will keep it off a week, a marathon will keep it off a lifetime!
Ended yesterday with 100 cals left over but went low and consumed 200 so I was at 1381. Not bad, still below 1500. I calculated my BMR. It is 1624.95. So that means, my body burns that many calories with no exertion. That is how much it takes to run my organs. That is good. I also calculated my BMI when I started and now. I started out at 31.05 which is considered obese and I am now at 29.6 which is considered overweight. That is great! I need to get to 150 to be a normal weight. That is my goal weight and has been from the beginning. I don't want to be stick skinny and only eat celery, I want to be healthy and fit. I feel better and look better already and that needs to be good enough for now, and just keep going.
Tomorrow, I will not be exercising. I have a Premier show at the FM108 day all day long and a date night that evening. I will be burning more calories all day at French Camp. I also am allowing myself a "cheat day." I will not go off the deep end, but I will allow myself to eat what I want since we don't get many date nights these days with three small kids. I will not be posting tomorrow so I will post an extra today. I will post the recipe for the chicken we had last night. It was fabulous!!

Upped the intensity

I upped the intensity today. I used a great CD, Addison Road, and the music is both uplifting and upbeat. I had a hard time doing it but it is worth it. Had canned peaches for breakfast. They had 60 calories. They were canned in water and Splenda and were very good! Today I will recalculate my calories. For rapid weight loss you do your current weight times seven, for a one to two pound a week loss you do your goal weight times ten. I use the smaller number as my goal and the larger as my max on a splurge or bad day. At 183, my minimum number is 1281 and my max is still 15oo since 150 is my goal weight.
I use a unique aproach to my eating. I use my calories like a budget. I start out the day with 1281 calories to spend. Every time I eat, my budget goes down. At the end of the day if I am hungry and there is only 100 calories left, I find something to fit those calories. Just like money, I don't spend it if I don't have it. Just a tip! Maybe it will help you. I have an accountant's mind and it works for me!

Low Fat Meat loaf meatballs and mashed potatoes

Meatloaf Balls
1 pound lean ground beef
salt and pepper to taste
1 T onion powder
1 egg
1/6 of a package of stove top stuffing, pork

Roll into 24 balls and bake at 400 for 20-25 minutes on parchment paper to absorb excess grease. Take out of oven, and change parment paper and cook five minutes more to get out the rest of the grease.

Top with 1 can tomato paste and 2 pkts of Equal or splenda mixed together.

Total calories per ball: 42


Low cal mashed potatoes
6 medium sized potatoes
1/2 cup ff sour cream
1/2 cup ff cream cheese
Salt and pepper to taste
Parsley

Boil potatoes and mash with other ingredients, adding parsley on top. Add skim milk a little at a time until desired consistency is reached.

Total calories for 1/2 cup about 120

Serve with green beans cooked with onion powder, garlic powder, 1 pkt of equal, and 1 beef bouillion cube.

One serving of beans has about 35 calories

Keeping it up

Today was hard, but I pushed through. I woke up with a lot on my mind and a lot I needed to do today and it fogged my head up. But, I kept going. I had my old iPod music put on my new iPod (thanks Mandy) and it made it better. I exercised to Francesca Battistelli. She is really good! I started using the supplement Slimquick. I have used it before. It helps with bloat and stress weight and gives you energy. I need some more of that. I have a busy weekend ahead. Tonight we are going to have meatloaf balls, made in balls to allow the grease to drain better, and mashed potatoes made with FF sourcream instead of butter. YUM!

Good for a Tuesday

I am doing good. Tuesdays I do not exercise because I take my son to the therapist. To be honest, I miss it. I feel better when I have it. I am eating good, though. For supper, burrittos I had made and frozen a week or two back. I must have been bloated when I weighed myself the other day, cause now I am down to 183! I have lost nine pounds total! YaYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

High Blood Sugar

Thanks to a high blood sugar at bedtime, I had to go over my calories. Here how it works: It was almost 300 and if I were to give a shot and not eat, I would go low, so I had to give a shot and eat. I figured I was going to go over because of eating at the in-laws. Oh well, I won't let it stop me. Today, I will cut back more to make up for it. It was also hard to get the intensity I wanted today on the elliptical. My mind was thinking of all the things I have to do today, but I kept at it until I had my 30 minutes. I need to update my iPod Mandy gave me with the music I like to exercise to. I like music that inspires me to be a better Christian. It's like spiritual mulitasking LOL! Well, got a lot to do. I have training for Premier tonight. I feel more confident about my appearance so I am looking forward to it!

Proud of myself

I did good today and it was Sunday. Had dinner with the in-laws and made good food choices. I ate the same as everyone else, just smaller portions. Then we had a lunchable for supper. I made good choices and did not eat the dessert that came with it. Instead I will have a sugar free fudgesicle. I exercised this morning and thankfully I do not have to tonight because my early appt. was cancelled. Yayyy! I have now lost a total of 7 pounds. I now weigh 185. Not great, but not horrible either. It is going slowly, but I know I am working off real weight, not water. Gotta go. Bath and tv time!