... of 110 lbs, it will be the first time I've been that small since I gained the weight the year we got married, over 7 years ago. I think I was 105 or so when we got married. Wow. That would be amazing!
I really hope I stay with it this time. I always seem to get to 115 and then peter out. I don't know if I just always stall there and get discouraged, or if I just start to slack off when I get to 115 (of course, that's always a goal weight, so maybe this time will be different since my goal is not 115 but 110 instead.) but I really really really want to make it past that this time. I want to see numbers I haven't seen since I gained them!
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Whose lousy idea was THAT?!!
Really... I want to know! WHO decided that there would be NO PULLED PORK SANDWICHES at Sweet Pea this year??? I have been wanting one, craving one, and saving myself for one! I had 3 eggwhites for breakfast and grapes for lunch in anticipation of the glorious pulled pork sandwich I always get at Sweet Pea. And you know what I got instead? A pork chop sandwich. It's SO not the same. Very disappointing. *sigh*
And I forgot to weigh myself before I ate breakfast and drank tea, but I weighed afterwards, before I hopped into the shower, and I was at 118.8 (a teeny tiny bit lower than yesterday's 119.0) which means I was really lighter since I'd already eaten and had tea!! Maybe not by much, but it's still nice to see 118 on the scale. I hope I can keep it that way through tomorrow so I have a good weigh in on Monday!
I did fine on calories today. I actually had enough calories for a second dinner when I came home from Sweet Pea! I really thought I'd need to snack more during the day than I did, so I had calories to spare. That helped emotionally, though, after I was so sad about my pulled pork sandwich, LOL!
Tomorrow... well, I don't know what the plan for tomorrow is. We'll go to church and then go to Sweet Pea, but I don't have a definite plan for food. Maybe we'll get lunch before we go and then come home and eat dinner. There wasn't that much there (other than cotton candy! Which I love! Ha ha!) that interested me in the way of food, so I won't be tempted, but I will get hungry at some point. We'll have grapes and cherries along to snack on, so maybe that will be enough.
And I forgot to weigh myself before I ate breakfast and drank tea, but I weighed afterwards, before I hopped into the shower, and I was at 118.8 (a teeny tiny bit lower than yesterday's 119.0) which means I was really lighter since I'd already eaten and had tea!! Maybe not by much, but it's still nice to see 118 on the scale. I hope I can keep it that way through tomorrow so I have a good weigh in on Monday!
I did fine on calories today. I actually had enough calories for a second dinner when I came home from Sweet Pea! I really thought I'd need to snack more during the day than I did, so I had calories to spare. That helped emotionally, though, after I was so sad about my pulled pork sandwich, LOL!
Tomorrow... well, I don't know what the plan for tomorrow is. We'll go to church and then go to Sweet Pea, but I don't have a definite plan for food. Maybe we'll get lunch before we go and then come home and eat dinner. There wasn't that much there (other than cotton candy! Which I love! Ha ha!) that interested me in the way of food, so I won't be tempted, but I will get hungry at some point. We'll have grapes and cherries along to snack on, so maybe that will be enough.
Friday, August 1, 2008
Sweet Pea Day 1
Well, we got there a little late, but we did make it to Sweet Pea with our picnic dinner tonight! We just went to see the ballet, and not so much for us to see it as for Eliana to. We knew she'd enjoy the music and dance along with it, and sure enough, she did! It was pretty funny to watch her imitate the dancers on stage. She did lots of twirling and slow, gliding movements. We enjoyed sitting outside in the shade and Leif got to use his new 500 lens, which was nice since we were sitting back so far!
As for the kebabs... they were yummy! Mine didn't end up really being kebabs after all, since I was supposed to use short wooden skewers. I have long metal ones that I use for kebabs, but this was not a grilled meal, and my long skewers didn't fit in the pan, so I gave up on using them and just pan fried the chicken without them. They turned out just fine that way! I wish I'd had time to make rice with them before we went, or stir fried veggies, or something. I felt like they needed a side dish, but we were running late as is, so we didn't get one. BUT it was one of the recipes from Deceptively Delicious, so there was a serving of sweet potato hidden in the chicken kebabs! Hee hee! 
It's the first recipe I've made from this cookbook, so I'm glad it turned out well! I will definitely be making it again, especially since I have the sweet potato puree made up and ready in the freezer this time.
I stayed under for calories, and I did get all my water in, so I splurged and shared a Splenda pop with Leif over dinner! I don't know why I love pop so much, but I do. Now that we have some in the house again, though, I think I will have to work especially hard to make sure to get 2 liters of water in and THEN drink a pop. Water is so important! I got the Jones Cola this time, and I have to say that it's not nearly as good as the Shasta Splenda Cola. I don't know why, but Leif and I agree on that point. It's just not as good.
Well, planning ahead tomorrow and I've already recorded my dinner. Every year I have to get a pulled pork sandwich at Sweet Pea, and tomorrow for dinner is the time!!! So that's already in Spark People and I will plan my day around it. We will eat breakfast here, probably late-ish, and skip the formal lunch, eating Sweet Pea food for dinner. I've packed snacks in the backpack for tomorrow so I'll have something healthy (dried blueberries and apple slices!) to munch on between breakfast and dinner and I'll bring lots of water to keep me hydrated! Hopefully there will be lots of walking in my day and I can count that as exercise. With a little planning this can be a very successful weekend!!
It's the first recipe I've made from this cookbook, so I'm glad it turned out well! I will definitely be making it again, especially since I have the sweet potato puree made up and ready in the freezer this time.
I stayed under for calories, and I did get all my water in, so I splurged and shared a Splenda pop with Leif over dinner! I don't know why I love pop so much, but I do. Now that we have some in the house again, though, I think I will have to work especially hard to make sure to get 2 liters of water in and THEN drink a pop. Water is so important! I got the Jones Cola this time, and I have to say that it's not nearly as good as the Shasta Splenda Cola. I don't know why, but Leif and I agree on that point. It's just not as good.
Well, planning ahead tomorrow and I've already recorded my dinner. Every year I have to get a pulled pork sandwich at Sweet Pea, and tomorrow for dinner is the time!!! So that's already in Spark People and I will plan my day around it. We will eat breakfast here, probably late-ish, and skip the formal lunch, eating Sweet Pea food for dinner. I've packed snacks in the backpack for tomorrow so I'll have something healthy (dried blueberries and apple slices!) to munch on between breakfast and dinner and I'll bring lots of water to keep me hydrated! Hopefully there will be lots of walking in my day and I can count that as exercise. With a little planning this can be a very successful weekend!!
Up a smidge today
I'm up to 119.0 this morning, but it's still under my goal for Monday, so I'm okay with it! I did manage to get in a 200 calorie DDR workout last night, and even though I didn't eat a terribly balanced set of foods yesterday (no breakfast, a slice and a half of pizza for lunch, no snacks, and 2 fajitas for dinner) I stayed just under 1200 calories, so that was good! I was sure I would have to do a 400 calorie workout to make up for the extras on my fajitas (I put some cheddar cheese on! mmm!) but it turned out fine. Oh, and I got all my water in, though the last liter was just before bed and I had to get up in the middle of the night because of it! I never do that, not even when I was pregnant! Then Ellie woke up at the unheard of hour of 6 am and came to find us, then crawled into bed with us and played. Combine those and I am fairly tired this morning!
Today marks the start of Sweet Pea. We always eat at Sweet Pea, so I'm going to have to make sure I'm really careful this year. Tonight we are going to watch the main act and instead of getting food there I'm going to make some chicken kabobs (a new recipe I've never tried, so it should be interesting!) and we'll eat a picnic dinner. That should be nice! Maybe I'll have time to head into town a little early (or stop by Albertson's on the way back from the splash park) and get some Splenda pop. I've really been wanting pop and so far I've resisted the full sugar stuff we have left over from the camping trip. It would be nice to take some with me tonight to enjoy, especially if I get all my water in before then!
Today marks the start of Sweet Pea. We always eat at Sweet Pea, so I'm going to have to make sure I'm really careful this year. Tonight we are going to watch the main act and instead of getting food there I'm going to make some chicken kabobs (a new recipe I've never tried, so it should be interesting!) and we'll eat a picnic dinner. That should be nice! Maybe I'll have time to head into town a little early (or stop by Albertson's on the way back from the splash park) and get some Splenda pop. I've really been wanting pop and so far I've resisted the full sugar stuff we have left over from the camping trip. It would be nice to take some with me tonight to enjoy, especially if I get all my water in before then!
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Some perspective for today....
I just read back to when I started this blog, in January 2007. Eliana was just 6 months old! And I was 135 lbs with a BMI of 27. A healthy BMI is 25 or lower, and I was officially overweight.
In a year and a half I have lost about 30 lbs, if you count the last 5 lbs I keep losing and regaining. Right now I am down 17 lbs from where I was when I started the blog, and while I have been recording, I have been as low as 114 lbs, or 21 lbs lower than my starting point.
So on those days when I feel discouraged because I'm not making any progress, I need to remember that I HAVE made progress, and lots of it. I now have a BMI of 23, which is not only in the healthy range, but it's in the middle of the range, not on the "just barely" end! I have learned LOTS of healthy habits, and even if I slip away from them for a period of time it is easier and easier to return to them each time I do. I make better choices now than I did a year and a half ago. I have a better idea of proportion and calorie content in foods. Two years ago there is NO WAY I could have gone to the Bite of Bozeman and limited myself to 100 grams of turkey leg. I wouldn't have even been able to estimate what 100 grams is!
And so, while I have not reached perfection, I have made a lot of progress over the last year and a half. And that's what it's about, right? Progress, not perfection... This is a journey and I am trekking along. No matter what the scale is, I am on my way.
In a year and a half I have lost about 30 lbs, if you count the last 5 lbs I keep losing and regaining. Right now I am down 17 lbs from where I was when I started the blog, and while I have been recording, I have been as low as 114 lbs, or 21 lbs lower than my starting point.
So on those days when I feel discouraged because I'm not making any progress, I need to remember that I HAVE made progress, and lots of it. I now have a BMI of 23, which is not only in the healthy range, but it's in the middle of the range, not on the "just barely" end! I have learned LOTS of healthy habits, and even if I slip away from them for a period of time it is easier and easier to return to them each time I do. I make better choices now than I did a year and a half ago. I have a better idea of proportion and calorie content in foods. Two years ago there is NO WAY I could have gone to the Bite of Bozeman and limited myself to 100 grams of turkey leg. I wouldn't have even been able to estimate what 100 grams is!
And so, while I have not reached perfection, I have made a lot of progress over the last year and a half. And that's what it's about, right? Progress, not perfection... This is a journey and I am trekking along. No matter what the scale is, I am on my way.
Maybe I SHOULD have joined the challenge!
I didn't want to join the weightloss challenge (you know, against other people, for money) because I just don't lose weight that quickly, and I'm getting down to the part where I have fewer lbs to come off, so they just come off slowly. But this week makes me think that maybe I SHOULD have joined the challenge!!! I weighed in this morning at...
118.4
WOW! I was at 122.0 on Monday, and today is Thursday. That's 3.6 lbs this week so far and I still have until Monday before my next official weigh in! I'm glad to be building in a buffer for the week(s) that I stall, as I inevitably will. But right now I'm high as a kite!!
118.4
WOW! I was at 122.0 on Monday, and today is Thursday. That's 3.6 lbs this week so far and I still have until Monday before my next official weigh in! I'm glad to be building in a buffer for the week(s) that I stall, as I inevitably will. But right now I'm high as a kite!!
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
I survived the Bite!!
And I even survived with calories to spare! Hooray! I was moderate and let Leif eat the larger portion of the turkey leg (though I do love those turkey legs! I'll eat more of one next year now that I know they're not nearly as caloric as I thought they were!) and I just had nibbles and bites of the other things we got. It wasn't nearly as fun this year, and I'm blaming it on the fact that I was keeping track of calories and writing things down. I wish I could have just gone and not worried about it at all, but I am BOUND AND DETERMINED not to fall by the wayside this time around! I have a weight loss schedule and I'm going to stick to it! And that means counting my calories.
I also drank my water today, a full 2 liters. That makes such a difference! As does starting my day in the Word, as I mentioned before. Oh, and Taylor and I went for a walk today, which means my morning walk was about 5 miles! It's better than nothing and I'm pretty sure I burned my 200 calories in that time. I hope I did at least!
Well, it's midnight thirty, so I ought to head to bed. The alarm is set for 7 and Ellie will most likely be up around that time, so I should be too. G'night!
I also drank my water today, a full 2 liters. That makes such a difference! As does starting my day in the Word, as I mentioned before. Oh, and Taylor and I went for a walk today, which means my morning walk was about 5 miles! It's better than nothing and I'm pretty sure I burned my 200 calories in that time. I hope I did at least!
Well, it's midnight thirty, so I ought to head to bed. The alarm is set for 7 and Ellie will most likely be up around that time, so I should be too. G'night!
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