Oh hormones, why do you hate me so?

Another blah day, but at least the blahs didn't happen until the afternoon. I was able to do my exercises with no problems. :)

So!

Breakfast:10oz coffee 1tbsp creamer, 2 tsp sugar granola with milk and strawberries

Snack: strawberry smoothie...1cup

Lunch: cucumbers with egg salad on them and a salad with my homemade dressing

Snack: strawberry smoothie...1cup and a handful of puffs (hormones made me do it)

Dinner: BBQ chicken with cheese on a bun, beans and spinach, 2 slices of tomatoes and vitamin water

Exercises:4 miles on the greenway and Tuesdays workout list....oye.

And this is the first day I've had a headache in two weeks....must be due to the hormones....sigh.

Monday monday....

Welcome to the new week. Today was a blah day. Hormones put me in a...eh, could care less mood. But I powered through. I really wanted to do more exercises, but just didn't feel like it. This will be the nemesis I will have to deal with every month......sigh.

Breakfast: 3/4 cup of flake cereal with sliced strawberries, 1% milk, 10oz coffee, 1tbsp creamer, 2 tsp sugar

Snack: mint granola bar

Lunch: large salad with romaine and spinach, 1/4 cup black beans, 1/2 avocado and 3tbsp of homemade Mexican dressing

Snack: 1 cup spinach smoothie

Dinner: turkey meatloaf, spinach/black bean side, cucumbers and a little cornbread dressing

Exercise: 3 miles on Greenway, yoga abs video, and 40 sit-ups on ball

The first weigh in

Food Intake for the day:

Breakfast:2 waffles with butter, 10oz coffee with 1tbsp creamer and 2 tsp sugar

Snack: 1 apple

Lunch: 2 1/2 pieces of pizza....yikes....and an iced tea

Dinner: 1 pork chop (breaded and fried of course), spinach and mushrooms, green beans, a little bit of cornbread stuffing and some chunky applesauce.

Dessert! 1 60z chocolate banana strawberry smoothie :)

Drum roll please! I lost 2 and 1/2 pounds!!! Woooo Hooo! :)~

Considering I wasn't really a full week, i'll take it. And yeah, yeah, I know...water weight....but I have to start somewhere. :)

I do have to say that knowing I have to post on this blog is good motivation for writing stuff down. I'm paying attention to what I'm eating. Now, I may not be eating perfectly or am counting calories yet, but I think as first weeks go, I'm pleased and I know what I need to improve upon. And I'm digging the smoothies. Yum. And the kids like it too. AND I get to sneak in spinach into their diet! Woo Woo!! Good mommy. :)

I'm going to start adding more salads into my day. I think one a day would be good, either as my lunch or part of dinner. I'm just afraid i'll get burned out...so dressings will be my search this week. Maybe I can make some.....hmmmmm.

And I'm in love with Pinterest.com. The site has a lot of cool exercises to do for each day of the week; which helps keep it less predictable.

So, tomorrow's another day! Let hope for another good week!

Weekend bound

Made it to Saturday! Nothing real exciting today. I was good and walked on the trail for two miles and did my yoga tape again (barf) and once I'm done with this, I'll do my sit-ups on the ball. :)

Breakfast: 2 waffles with butter, 10oz coffee, two tsp sugar, 1tbsp creamer

Snack: mmmmmmmm smoothie...2 cups...i was bad. :)

Lunch: 2 pieces of pizza, 1 glass of sierra mist

Snack: mint granola bar

Dinner: rotisserie chicken, green beans, cucumbers, a little bit of mashed potatoes and some mushrooms

Excerise: 2 miles, yoga tape on working your behind :) and 40 situps

I look forward to Sunday and posting my first weigh in. Until tomorrow!

Chinese New Year

Ni Hao! :) Today we went to a friends house for a Chinese New Year party. It basically set the stage for how the day went simply because I decided I had to bring a cake to the party. (the night before)

The lucky thing for me is that I had already had cake in the freezer, and I had almost all my ingredients! But it meant what time I had to exercise, I used to work on the cake....I know excuses, excuses...but I finished the cake 45 minutes before we left!

And because it was a party, I ate like it was a party. So I made it my day of rest day :)~

Breakfast: Oatmeal with banana, 10oz coffee with 2 tsp sugar and tbsp creamer

Snack: strawberry, pinapple, peach smoothie around 6 oz.

Lunch: salad with 1 chicken breast, 1/2 cup of black beans and yum yum sauce for dressing :)

Snack: mint granola bar

Dinner: ooooooooooooh yum.....low mein, 2 dumplings. 1 crab rangoon, a curry thing, and some spicy thing...moo goo gai pan maybe (pathetic, but I had NO idea what I ate) and OF COURSE a piece of lemon cake. :) Oh, and a glass of Mr. Pibb.

So, tomorrows another day!

Day three....so far so good.

Well, I've made it to day three! So far so good.

Breakfast: brown sugar oatmeal with half a banana, 10oz coffee, 1tbsp creamer, 2 tsp sugar

Snack....i didn't have time!!!! That sucked cuz I was hungry. (made up for it with lunch)

Lunch: 1 lasagna cup (lasagna in a muffin form), caesar salad, one parmesan knot (crescant roll with parmesan cheese and spices on it).......oh yeah, and two oreo truffles. :)~

Snack : 10oz coffee, 1tbsp creamer, 2tsp sugar......couple chips (again, I'm weak)

Dinner: 1 lasagna cup and caesar salad, sweet tea.

Exercise: 2 mile walk on the greenway, yoga arms DVD, 40 sit-ups on ball

(I have to say that I do get the reason for yoga...its really good at getting you to be flexible and another way to work your core....but OMG. The lady on the DVD talks is such a way that its supposed to calm you so you can be in a happy place while you bend in crazy positions. But I have to tell you, she makes me want to punch the screen! Her voice is literally like nails on a chalk board. Sigh.

Tomorrows another day. :)

I do know that I need to watch what I eat more, but for now adding exercise is a big step. :)

I made it to day two!!

Well, i made it to day two! And i feel like I was run over by a truck. This is the worst part about working out....the start up. Today I took it a bit easier and did a yoga/pilates tape on just abdominals to go with my walk. But now comes my first real challenge: Nighttime. Oh MY GOODNESS, I'm hungry after 8pm. I'm dying as I write this. So, i'm trying to keep busy and just drink water. And keep busy.......oye.

Breakfast:2 slices of raisin bread, banana, 10oz coffee, tbsp creamer, 2 tsp sugar

Snack: rest of smoothie

Exercise: 2 miles on the greenway, abdominal part on yoga/pilates tape, 40 situps on ball

Lunch: Buffalo chicken salad, water

Snack: mint granola bar, coffee 10 oz, 1tbsp creamer, 2 tsp sugar ( I can't kick this one yet)

Dinner: turkey burgers, kidney bean salad, fruit salad, a couple potato chips (I'm weak)

I am mildly interested to see what Sunday brings.....that will be the official day to weigh in and have my say for the week. Til then, Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.~ Voltaire

(I'm gonna keep working)

Official list of food and exercise for 1/24/12

Tuesday January 24th 2012

I weigh......sigh....186 lbs. (gross)

Breakfast: 14oz coffee, with 3 tsp sugar 60 c, and 2 tsp peppermint mocha creamer 70c

2 pieces of raisin bread with butter 190c

Exercise: walked on the greenway roughly 2 miles at a pretty brisk pace

Pilates exercises (most of the j.michaels exercises) at least 10 reps once (these are flippin hard)

Snack: smoothie 1/4 of the blender(1 cup strawberries 50c, 1 cup pinapple 85c, 1 cup plain vanilla

yogurt 140c, 2 handfuls of spinach, 1 tbsp honey60 c, 1/2 cup water)=335c=84 calories

Lunch: Egg salad lettuce wraps 114 calories, celery, water and 1/2 bottle of vitamin water

(have to watch my intake of this stuff....too much and i get headaches and have a long visit

with the commode)

Exercise: ran 1.84 miles on the Wii with my son and other assorted nonsense with Wii Fit.

Snack: small smoothie-42 calories and water

Exercise: Since it was such a nice day, we walked the greenway (again) so 2 miles, at a moderate pace

Dinner: Piece of lightly fried chicken with yum yum sauce, salad with 1 tbsp light ceasar, 1/2 can green beans,

1/3 cup macaroni salad and water to drink

This is WAY more exercise than i'm used to, so I Guarantee I will be sore tomorrow. :)

Gotta start some day, why not today?

Ok, tried everything at one point of my life, so why not a blog?

I have a simple goal. To lose 40 lbs by 40. I've been overweight since I had my daughter (now 9) and my son (now 5). I think this is reasonable, i mean, i have roughly 2 years to do it (ok more like, a year and a half) and I think that's a good goal.

Major roadblocks 1) I love food, and not just the healthy stuff. Who doesn't like a bag of BBQ potato chips? And I mean BAG. Sigh, 2) I really don't like to exercise. Who does? Ok, so maybe some of you do, but I.....don't. 3) I have a 2-4 week block. Doesn't matter what I do, somewhere around 2-4 weeks, I just give up. I think it has to do with hormones, or laziness....I haven't ruled out either.

So, I'm starting today!

For the week, i'll just post my info: food intake and excerises. But once a week, i'll assess how the week went.

The picture's statement will be my mission statement. I can't give up after 4 weeks, I need to keep moving. So, here I go!