TGIF

Yesterday...um, yesterday was a very calorie filled day. I made the wrong choice of going to McDonald's for breakfast. I was craving it bad, so I went. I need to work on making better choices when I feel the need to get fast food. I'll get there one day.

Thursday
Breakfast: sausage and egg McMuffin, hashbrown, coca-cola
Snack: 3 chocolate chip cookies
Lunch: chicken breast, rice, mashed potatoes (I forgot my cup of broccoli), chocolate pudding
snack: oats and chocolate bar, apple
Dinner: Lasagna, bread, Birthday cake

It was my boyfriend's niece's birthday so I allowed myself some birthday cake. God, I love cake!

Exercise: 30 minutes on the elliptical. I did the full 30 minutes straight!! No breaks for me!

I stepped on the scale this morning. It doesn't look good. But the thing is, I don't feel as fluffy as I used to. So I would think the scale would be going down more. Maybe I'm losing inches or something. But I haven't done any strength training so I don't think that's it.

ZZZZ...Boring!

Yesterday was an ok day.

Wednesday
Breakfast: oatmeal, raisins, peanuts, white chocolate chips
Lunch: Lentils, rice, hamburger
snack: apple, Oats and Chocolate bar
Dinner: chicken breast, rice, mashed potatoes, tomatoes
Snack: small piece of banana bread

Wow, that was a lot of carbs and hardly any fruits and vegetables. We have to go grocery shopping very soon.

No exercise last night. I was feeling really crampy and my head started hurting. It just wasn't a good night. I've been going to sleep later than usual. I'm an HGTV junkie and they've been showing my favorite shows late at night and I stay up to watch them. I think it's starting to catch up to me. I'm exhausted!

That's about all I got!

And she's back in the game...

It's only been one day, but it's good to be back.

Tuesday
Breakfast: oatmeal, almonds, raisins
Lunch: chicken lasagna, chocolate pudding
Snack: apple, Oats and Chocolate bar
Dinner: Rice, Lentils, hamburger, 2 tostones, slice of tomato
Snack: slice of banana bread

Exercise: Late night 30 minutes on the elliptical machine

I have to stop working out so late. I'm exhausted!

I was reading the June issue of Health magazine, and I came across this:

"Weigh in daily. The scale is not your enemy. People who weigh themselves each day seem to lose more weight than people who ignore the scale completely or even once a week."

Hmmm...I'm going to have to disagree. Personally, I find weighing myself daily to be a hindrance to my weight loss efforts. If I do not see it moving down fast enough, I tend to give up. After a very good day of eating right and working out, it's discouraging to not see the scale going down. But we all know how erratic our weight's can be, i.e. that time of the month, water retention, etc., etc. That's why I find it more accurate and more reasonable to have one set day of the week where I weigh myself and use that day's weight as my progress point.

What do you think?

A Long Weekend...

I survived last week and with a loss!

I was down on the scale 0.2 pounds! It ain't much but I will sure take it!!

Food wise, this weekend was a blur. I know I ate lots of junk food.

But I did get exercise in!

Friday: none
Saturday: 30 minutes on the elliptical
Sunday: 30 minutes on the elliptical
Monday: I almost didn't work out but ended up doing it at 10 o'clock at night while watching Paul Blart: Mall Cop. 30 minutes on the elliptical

I have finally come to the realization it's very counterproductive to be making the effort to work out if I'm not being conscious on what I'm eating. They just cancel each other out. And it kind of makes me mad because I could have had a bigger loss if I had been eating right.

I never seem to get working out and eating right at the same time. It's always one or the other. Grr!

P.S. I saw lots of movies this weekend: Bolt, My Bloody Valentine, Valkyrie (I was very surprised by this one. I thought I wasn't going to like it, but it was really good), Paul Blart: Mall Cop, and Angels and Demons. I <3 movies!

Another Bad Day

Oy vey! I'm getting into bad habits again. No, no, no! I was doing so good and now I've sort of thrown all my hard work down the drain because the scale was up this morning. Grrr!! What a waste!

Thursday
Breakfast: Sausage McMuffin with Egg, Hash brown, Coke
I was craving McD's so bad. So I went. No biggie. I ate my breakfast and got the craving out of the way. The rest of the day should of been gravy, right? Wrong!

Snack: Rice Krispie Treat.
Not the small square, the huge long one. I don't really know why I got this.

Lunch: Roasted Chicken, Rice, 1 baby potato, beet salad

Snack: cantaloupe, strawberries, red globe grapes

Here's where I went crazy:
When I got home: 3 Zaxby's chocolate chip cookies, 1 chicken strip, 1 buffalo wing, and a lot of fries
Again, I have no idea why I ate that food.

Dinner: Chicken soup, rice, avocado

No exercise.

Another fail day under my belt. Go me!!

Ummm...

I wasn't going to post today because yesterday wasn't such a great day for me. I got one of those "throw everything in your mouth" urges. And when I got home from work, I did just that.

Wednesday
Breakfast: oatmeal, almonds, raisins, orange juice
Snack: 2 toffee-ettes
Lunch: rice, chicken breast, chard
snack: Fiber one Bar, Cantaloupe, strawberries
Mini Binge: more toffee-ettes, handful of doritos, 1 black bean brownie, 2 tootsie rolls, handful of dried apricots
Dinner: rice, 2 baby potatoes, roasted chicken, beet salad (beets, carrots, tomatoes, avocado...so good!), coke

No exercise.

My binge could have been a lot worse. Good thing there isn't much in the house that can do much damage. I don't know what happened. I wasn't hungry or anything. I just wanted to eat. It was just something to do. I really have to work on that.

I was going through some old photos last night. There were some of me when I lost a ton of weight about 5 years ago. I want to look like that again. I want that feeling of accomplishment I used to get when I saw how small I was getting. I want to be that disciplined again. I still have the clothes that I bought when I lost the weight and I want to fit into them. I can see my mind starting to think like it did back then, but I have a long way to go.

Satan says I think about it way too much. I think about how hard it's going to be, about how long it's going to take, about how much longer I have to go, etc., etc. He says to just do it already! It's just hard not to think about it because it's such a big deal right now. That's another thing I have to work on.

My brain hurts.

ZZZZZZZ

I am so sleepy again this morning. Last night, I went to watch Satan play soccer. We didn't get home until 12:30 am. Way past my bedtime.

Tuesday
Breakfast: oatmeal, raisins, almonds, honey

Lunch: tilapia, 2 shrimp, rice and salad, dr. pepper

snack: cantaloupe, red globe grapes, Fiber one Bar

Dinner: rice, chicken breast, aselgas (My bf and his mom swore this was seaweed, but I looked it up and it's chard...so yum!)

snack: 2 black bean brownies (I think it's time to throw these out).

Exercise: 30 min. on the elliptical

I'm a little upset with myself for having that soft drink during the day. I really shouldn't be drinking them during the week. And those little brownies are getting the best of me. Satan said he was going to throw them out because he catches me sneaking one. Maybe, he shouldn't be called Satan anymore since he has become more supportive. We'll see if he truly deserves a new name.