I'm BACK

Hey Everyone...long time, no see!!

I know, I know it HAS been a while but now that we ALL have some big events to attend this year it's time to really jump back on the wagon!! I've done pretty well thus far:

Monday
3 Donut Holes-Breakfast
Terriyaki Chicken Bowl (white rice, broccoli, and terriyaki chicken)-Lunch
Chicken (chicken and guacamole) Burrito-Dinner
Played Catch with Ryan (running around)-Exercise

Tuesday
Kix- Breakfast
??-Lunch
Turkey Burger without Bun (tomato, grilled onions, bbq sauce, lettuce) and Blanched Green Beans- Dinner
Walk to my parents and back

Wednesday
No breakfast (bad, I know)
Ham Sandwich (ham, cheese, cucumber, tomato, tapatio0 and a small bag of Sun Chips-Lunch
Meat and Tomato Thing (FIL making Dinner)- Dinner (I may make something healthy for myself instead)
45 Min Walk-Exercise

I'm feeling good and ready to start doing a WHOLE lot better!!

Miss ya girls!!

Out and About with NO Eating Out

I was running some errands in Valencia today and I hadn't had brekfast before I left. Yes, I know "brekfast is the most important meal of the day" however, I wanted to be out of the house as early as possible. The bad part was, not only did I not have breakfast but I already knew where I wanted to go for lunch! After I was done with most of the errands and only had one more place to stop (again....Khols) I went to where I thought a San Sai was and unfortunately my memory was wrong and it wasn't there. Hot and hungry, I went to Khols and ended up coming straight home. I had a tuna sandwich with TWO servings of reduced fat wheat thins. Yay me!

HumpDay!

Happy Hump Day ladies!

Yesterday was pretty good:

Coffee/creamer
Breakfast: Plain yogurt w/ fresh blueberries and banana
Snack: Almonds
Lunch: Homemade veggie soup/grilled fish/cardboard chicken from the night before :)
Snack: Grapes
Dinner: 2 crunchy tacos from Taco Bell* (dinner on the go- Kohl's outing!)

*Note about the tacos: 170 calories each- 16 grams of protein total. Not bad AT ALL! Of course I wanted like 2 more but didn't do it :)

I did my lunch time stair workout- 20 minutes, including lunges. Heart was POUNDING and my legs were a bit wobbly afterwards! That means I made the most of my time.

I was running around yesterday evening but managed to squeeze in 3 sets of (40 each) of biclycle situps, 3 sets of push ups and a couple sets of power squats! (jump up, full squat down). I would have liked to have gotten in a longer workout but felt pretty good since I got a well rounded workout including my lunch time activity. (cardio, legs, abs, arms)

The scale showed about a pound lighter than yesterday but I am exactly where I was last week so technically no pound progress made but that is OK.

Israel is home tonight so I am hoping to get into the garage gym and hit some weights in addition to some cardio. Not sure what is on the dinner menu tonight but it's gotta be healthy!

Back in Action

I did it! I worked out last night!! And, I did the 2nd video of my Slim in 6 (not the shorter one). I was dreading popping that DVD in at 9pm last night but once I started moving, I already felt so much better.
So, eating was another pretty good day. I was frosting my sugar cookies so I did have a few broken pieces but not a whole cookie.
Breakfast: Oatmeal and banana
Lunch: Chiken enchilada soup (from Vons, small cup and I don't know what the nutrition info is)
Snack: Snap Peas, oatmeal bar, yogurt
Dinner: Ham sandwich with pepperjack cheese, mustard and lettuce and a handful of BAKED doritos
Snack: pieces of cheese (Colby's), broken sugar cookies

So today is my first WOW and I'm looking forward to trying Zumba. I've heard about it and it sounds like fun. And it was so cute last night. When Colby and I got home, Scott was in the living room doing the P90X and Colby stood right beside him and started jumping around. It was so cute! I definitely want him to be an active kid and I'm glad Scott and I are trying to be more active ourselves so that we set a good example for our boys.

Hope you all have a great day! xoxoox

Keeping it real

Ok ladies! I'm trying to stick to this writing my meals but sometimes it just sucks to have to list them and admit when I make bad choices. Guess I shouldn't make them then huh? =)
But here it goes:

Breakfast - a handful of peanuts & raisins. I realize I need to have something more substantial but until I get to the store...the peanuts will have to do it.

Lunch - A wrap with grilled chicken, bell peppers, broccoli & rice. It came with fries and I'll admit I had a couple but did not eat them all and I'm proud of that. It also came with a fruit cup which I had later as my snack but I was also bad and had a couple Red Vines as well. UGH! I am so not a sweets person but when it's in front of me it's hard to turn down!

Dinner - Whole wheat penne pasta with grilled chicken and Cajun spices (no sauce) & a salad with non-fat raspberry balsamic vinaigrette dressing.

Dessert - 1 snack pack of sugar free chocolate pudding.

And that's it! Not too bad if you ask me. I had a few bad moments but for the most part it was a fairly good day. I took the dog for 2 walks again today but I was running late for work (what else is new) so the morning walk was much shorter than the evening walk.

Looking forward to WOW tomorrow!

Nothing Exciting

There hasn't been anything too exciting recently. I did pretty well over the weekend except kind of broke down on Sunday. Mr.M got home Saturday night (exciting!) and that led to a semi bad Sunday (eating wise). We woke up and lounged around for most of the morning. Time flew by and it was luchtime (we didn't even have breakfast!). We had a couple of errands to run in Valencia so we went and had a sushi lunch. It was so good! I'm claiming lunch a success because I didn't have a LARGE Asahi like I ALWAYS do...I just had water. By the time we were hungry again, it was around 7:30pm and Mr.M wanted TACO BELL! Ugh...I said I would eat cereal but that didn't fly with him so I splurged and got two beef tacos fresco style (no cheese, added pico de gallo). I didn't some walking but no exercising :(

Monday went very well with eating. Mr.M is on board with the new "healthy eating habits me" and that is going to help greatly. For brekfast I had one egg and two egg whites on a slice of whole wheat bread. Lunch was a simple 1/2 tuna sandwich and a single serving of reduced fat wheat thins and dinner was a salad. Once again I didn't exercise AT ALL. No walking, no work out dvd, no exercise tv show, no nada! I definitely need to change that. I'm chalking it up to bad weather. Gloomy weather just puts me in a lazy mood! It better get hot and soon quick! ;)

Staying Strong

Yesterday, eating was really good:

Breakfast: scrambled eggs with beans
Snack: 110 cal yogurt w/half a banana
Lunch: Salad w/ light balsamic dressing
Snack: 90 cal instant soup
Dinner: Baked chicken breast (that was about as dry as a freakin' paper plate) & home made veggie soup

Didn't work out last night :( Made dinner, got our stuff ready for today, did the baby's bath then my shower.... She had a rough night on Sunday night and she stayed up until about 9:30 last night so by the time she was out, I had dozed off too and I was completely exhausted. I have my stuff for my lunch workout today though! And I am still sore from my Sunday workout so that is nice... I like the soreness, I know it means the workouts are effective right?!

The scale this morning was the same as yesterday but that is OK. (I have been annoyingly weighing myself every day but personally, I think it pushes me to be more conscious.) Like Ang, for me it is not as much about the weight (even though I want to lose some), it is more about my appearance and that means inches baby! Even though fat doesn't necessarily weigh a lot, it definiately takes up space!

WOW for me too- but I will be at the sattelite location! LOL!!

Good and Bad

It's hard to confess something that you really don't want to. Today, I must tell my girls that I did NOT exercise last night. I just didn't have it in me after playing with Colby, making dinner, making cookies, cleaning... I know they are all excuses. I really should have just done the 27 minute video but I didn't it. I got in bed and watched The Biggest Loser!! This is the first season I've watched and it's so awesome to see how far the contestants have come. Very inspiring!! So I really am going to exercise tonight, NO EXCUSES.
I do have to say that I at least ate good yesterday!!
Morning: Coffee (with creamer), half a banana and oatmeal
Snack : Snap peas
Lunch: Salad
Snack: Granola Bar and two blue M&Ms
Dinner: Turkey Burger with pepper jack cheese
Snack: pieces of broken sugar cookies (I couldn't resist)

Not sure what I'm doing for dinner. I have to frost all the sugar cookies and don't really feel like cooking on top of that. I kinda want to have special K night and maybe Scott and the boys will settle for waffles. They love breakfast for dinner!!! That will give me time to work out too. It's all about time management.

Food Tip: We had turkey burgers last week too and instead of buying regular hamburger buns, I bought buns that were super thin. Only 100 cals each and they had a decent amount of fiber. I've purchased that Sara Lee Sandwich thins before but I can't remember the brand of the kind we had last night. I'll let you know but it's a good option for sandwiches and hamburgers. The turkey burgers were fast and easy. I just season the already prepared pattys with salt and pepper and grilled them in my grill pan with some PAM.

Tomorrow I hope to post that I actually worked out today. That is my goal at least :)

A new day, a new start

Ok. So today was a new start. I didn't end up getting to the gym this morning but since I am dog sitting I took the dog I'm looking after on two walks. One this morning and another this afternoon. Until my co-worker gets back I don't know if I'll be able to make it to the gym because of having to check on the dog before and after work, but at least I'll get some walking in. Plus I'm looking forward to WOW this Wed.

Ok so meals for the day.

Breakfast - A fiber one bar and some peanuts. The peanuts were really a morning snack but I'm just gonna count it as part of my breakfast.

Lunch - Turkey sandwich from Subway on wheat bread & unsweetened iced tea.

Dinner - My mum made tacos with ground turkey and brown rice & a diet coke. I normally don't drink much coke but there wasn't any cold water. LOL

So I'm considering this day a success. I ate and was able to get full but didn't eat anything that was too bad for me. And I got a little bit of exercise in. Not as much as I was planning on but some is always better than none! =)

Hope all you ladies had a good day too!

Fresh new start

Back to work after a long fun weekend. I did not think about my diet one bit though but that is not a surprise. But, I can say I ate and drank everything that sounded good to me so I am starting off fresh today not craving anything. :)
We went to the grocery store last night. I wasn't prepared with ideas of healthy meals to make for the week so I was stuck as far as what to bring for lunch this week or dinner ideas. I have been bringing salads for lunch but have been so burned out on them. Luckily they are so versatile so I changed the ingredients up a bit. This week it's grilled chicken (already prepared and cut in strips), carrots, cucumbers, tomato, and feta cheese. So far I've only had coffee but I'm about to grub a banana and some oatmeal later. It's going to be a busy week at work and home but I really need to focus on getting a work out in. I'm starting my Slim in 6 today and need to at least do the shorter video. The temptation for the night? Not eating any sugar cookies that I'm making for a work shower on Wednesday. It's always something I tell ya.
Good luck to you girls! I have to say catching up on all the blogs was a great way to start the day. I'm motivated to do good today!!!

A new start?

Ok...so here it is Sunday night and after reading the posts from you lovely ladies I'm sad. I didn't do as good as I know I could have this weekend. OF course it could have always been worse but still.

I went up to Rhoni's this weekend for the fab Paramore concert and we got it started right. We had a game plan to get up early and go for a walk but with my lazy arse sleeping in til it was too hot to go, we ended up having to scrap that idea. For breakfast we had some bagel thins and fruit with a cup of black coffee (how I like it). Lunch wasn't the worst. I got a chicken wrap but the onion rings didn't help (although they only gave like 5 so how bad could it have been?)...neither did the bloody mary...lol. On a side note...the bloody marys were fab and only $3!
Anyway we did do some shopping and I suppose that was our exercise for the day (and believe me, between walking the mall and trying on clothes I sweat more than I did with the P90X! LOL)

We didn't have time for dinner but did manage to throw back a quick vodka cran before the concert and then 3 vodka tonics AT the concert. LOL. This is just terrible! We were so counting on the hot dog vendors so that we could SHARE a hot dog after the concert but they were no where to be seen. So with hours since our last meal and a good amount of alcohol in us...we ended up with some late night chicken nugget happy meals (well Rhonda's was a nugget happy meal...mine mysteriously only had 3 nuggets with a surprise 3 chicken STRIPS...I'm convinced the workers were high when they put our meals together).

This morning I just had a cup of black coffee and then lost track of time. I didn't end up eating until almost 5pm this evening. I was not in the mood to wait for food so I grabbed TB. UGH!

So obviously this weekend did not go as well as it could have and therefore I'm calling this weekend a wash....BUT...I'm motivated to start again tomorrow.

I can't beat myself up for my choices but I CAN learn from them and move on. Tomorrow is a new day and I'm going to start it off right by going to the gym before work! I have to and WILL get back on track. Plus my weigh in day at the gym is only a week away and I refuse to accept a gain! Yikes!

Thurs Food Diary

Ok so here goes. I can say that today was definitely not my best day but it was definitely not my worst either. It's still the beginning and I know that I really need to make better choices with my food but I also know that with time I'll start to see where I'm messing up and will learn what I need to eliminate from my diet. I know we have the nutrition guides to follow and will be using it as a guideline but I also know what works for me and my body and so I'm starting off with what worked for me last time. I'm going to be more conscious of what I eat but I'm mostly focusing on eating less right now. That is MY start. So that being said...here is my food intake for the day:

Breakfast - 1/2 bacon egg & cheese biscuit & a large coffee. I know that the biscuit wasn't the best but at least it was only half.

Lunch - SMFCO...lol. Tuna on fire with rice and wontons. Yes I could have done without the wontons I know but it is what it is.

Dinner - The smallest tuna melt you will ever see in your life with light mayo and fat free cheese on top of whole wheat bagel thins.

And the worst part of my day...2 Pyramids with orange. I'm NOT a big drinker anymore but I will admit I like to have a beer or 2 once a week.

Ugh...after actually listing it I see that it isn't the best start but again...it's not the worst. Whew! Actually writing it out really makes you accountable for what you eat! I know it will only get better though!

Semi Great Success

My semi great success of Thursday May 13th started with a SMALL bowl of Rice Krispies...and I mean it was SMALL. So small that whoever left the amount in the box could have totally just poured it all into their bowl...but they saved it and I ate it.

B and I had some errands to run in Moorpark. We had to go to Target and Michael's, both which are in the same shopping center. I'm very proud to report that B and I found the farthest parking spot in front of Target and walked to all the other stores. This is something I'd NEVER do in the past. I've drive up and down just to find the closest parking space available AND drive to the other stores! I had a veggie sandwich on wheat from Subway for lunch...but I had a 12"! I know, I know, I probably could have stuck with 6" but I figured if it was a veggie it was (kinda) okay to do.

For dinner I had two bean burritos (from home). My parents had to go grocery shopping so it was bean burritos or pizza, in which I made a household decision to make the beans. Mashed pinto beans without and fat added and two flour tortillas (not so good I know). Oh! that reminds me...at around 3:30pm I was craving sourdough toast SLATHERED with butter and a smidgen of preserves. I "called in" for support and didn't go for the toast but went in for a medium sized bowl of cheerios. Throughout the day I drank water. Another goal for me is to only drink water from now on...and the occasional "drink."

After dinner B, my Mom and I went for a walk. I'm not sure how long it was but I'll be driving the same route today to find out ;) All in all I was pretty happy with the choices I made today...ugh...I mean yesterday.

Lunch Time workout!

On Tuesdays and Thursdays during my lunch break, I am planning on hitting the stairway! That's right, stairway :) There are a set of stairs right next to my office that lead down to the basement and I need to make good use of them! Today I did 20 minutes of activity consisting of running/walking the stairs, squats and calf raises. I definitely felt the burn and felt my heart pumping! Aiming for some arm and ab work tonight, and a healthy dinner of course :)