Friday Already?!?

Oh my goodness, where did the week go? I'm sorry I've not posted this week, but I've been busy at night getting my chores done. Wow, make a list and I feel totally guilty when the items aren't marked off on their respective day. And I'm not talking about tasks of epic proportion, I'm talking, put away laundry, sweep floors, wash 2 loads of laundry, but with a list I can see all of the little things that need to be taken care of. So, my house is a little cleaner - but I must tell everyone that Jay did a large part of the cleaning. He was off from work on Monday and did tons of stuff, he got the oil changed in my car, got new tires put on my car, painted the window seals on the back of our house, washed, folded and PUT AWAY 3 or 4 loads of laundry, swept the floors in the "main" part of the house and cleaned the toilet in the guest bathroom and if that wasn't enough, he'd had a shower and was dressed and ready to head out the door for his belated b-day dinner with his parents all by 5pm. He totally gets the Hubby of the week award. Way to go Honey and a great big Thank You!! :)



Along with my chores, I've done well this week with sticking to my menu plan and exercise schedule. We've only been to the gym once, but it was the best and longest workout I've done, umm, probably since we joined... in February... I'm struggling with my water again, my goal was to drink 48 ozs. per day, and I've only been getting about 40, but I'm trying not to get discouraged, I'm just keepin' on keepin' on, as the saying goes.



I'm a little ahead for next week, I've already planned our menu for next week, because I needed to go the the grocery store, on Thursday, to pick up a few thing that I needed for 2 dishes that I'm cooking for work and thought I might as well go ahead and make this my weekly shopping trip. I've found that if I make a menu, buy only the things needed for those meals and a few healthy snacks, it does 2 things: 1. it cuts down on the grocery bill and 2. it makes me stick to the menu, which in turn makes me stick to my diet... I'm finally getting it, slowly by surely!!

This weekend looks to be quiet. This Saturday is Jay's Saturday to work and we have no Saturday evening plans, yay!!! Then it's Sunday as usual, church (oh, nursery "duty" - that's always fun), lunch, loonngg NAP (to recover from nursery), back to church, out to dinner and bedtime!!

Hope you all have a great weekend, I think it's going to be a scorcher here...

Week 3's wrap up

This week was not a good one for dieting, with the aforementioned birthday lunch at work, Jay’s Birthday and Father’s Day celebrations with both my parents and Jay’s, the scale was not kind for my Sunday weigh in. I have 1.8 pounds to re-lose… I hate when I have a plan that is working and I stray from it, but as Michele commented on my previous weight loss post the great thing about WW is you can pick up right where you left off.

So for this week I’ve already planned our dinner menu for the entire week with enough leftovers that I can have lunch every day, (that was a huge part of my problem last week, no dinner planning. We ate junk for dinner and then I had to “find” something for lunch the next day.) I’ve made myself a chore list (to keep me active at home and cut down on the TV/snack time) and I’m just about to make a “workout” list of thing to achieve at the gym.

So there you have it: THIS WEEK THERE WILL BE NO EXCUSES.

Here are my Week 4 goals:

• Use my lists to stay on track
• Drink at least 48 ozs. of water per day
• 3 days at the gym
• Only eat the allowed amount of points
• Write down everything when it’s eaten with its point value
• Lose 2 pounds
  

I hope everyone has a successful weight loss week.

Wasted Days

I've been in a rut yesterday and today, not only with my eating habits, but with life. We call this being blah - kind of ho-hum, not really caring about what's going on around you. Yesterday didn't start out well with my diet, my office has a monthly birthday luncheon and yesterday was the day. I was to bring peach cobbler so at 6:00am yesterday I was making peach cobbler. In order to get myself, my peach cobbler and my daily "snack basket" ready and at work by 8:00am there was no time for breakfast. I grabbed a 2 point package of Quaker Oatmeal-chocolate snacks and ate those on the way to work. I did pretty good until about 10:30 at which point I had to have another snack, seeing as lunch wasn't until about 12:15 or 12:30. Got a snack. Fast forward to lunch, OMG at the food. We had hamburgers and hot dogs, chips, potato salad, pasta salad, deviled eggs, chocolate cake, peach cobbler, blackberry pies, key lime pie, blueberry cobbler, a huge fruit tray with cream cheese/marshmallow dip and carmel drizzled brownies. SOOOO, this is where my diet started heading DOWN hill. I had a hamburger, a tiny spoonful of potato salad, lots of fruit, a little taste of my peach cobbler (I had to know what I was feeding everyone else) and diet coke. Not bad... It could have been MUCH worse. Then for dinner I opted for Jay to make waffles, my thought was hey I've blown the diet for today might as have a dinner that I want. And did I mention the we had bacon. OOPS!

This morning didn't start off much better. I had 2 pieces of cheese toast and a pack of grits for breakfast. Not too bad, but lunch again was my demise. LEFTOVERS at the office. I only had a hamburger and grapes today. I've had a couple of 2 point snacks thru-out the day, but I've not done too bad. We had chicken tenders and chips and salsa for dinner. Again not bad, but it could have been much better. I've not been doing meal planning this week, I'm flying by the seat of my pants, not good. Anyhoo, I think the lack of meal planning and then feeling like I've failed is what has gotten my down and blah, as we say. Wish me luck for a better day tomorrow - its back on track - no excuses.

Week 2's Wrap Up!

WOW, what an exhausting weekend. I can't believe that tomorrow is already Monday. Jay and I left yesterday morning about 10:30 a.m. heading to his parents for the night. We arrived there about 1:00, we only stopped for a quick bite to eat. Lunch is where my struggle started... The only place to eat was McDonald's, I was very good, I had a Happy Meal with only 4 chicken nuggets, fries and diet coke. When we arrived at Nana and Papa's we attuned a small birthday party for one of the nephews, yeah, I know what your thinking, but stop, I was good, AGAIN!!! I only had a small piece of cake AND I forfeited the chocolate ice cream. So, birthday party winds down about 4:30p.m. and family reunion kicks up about 6:00 p.m. Thanks to Nana for baked chicken, green beans, corn on the cob and a small piece of bread. I did splurge and have some dessert, it was a chocolate chip, vanilla wafer, pudding - yummy, yummy, yummy dessert. And get this the label said "sugar free" - HA that was my ticket. I know that sugar free doesn't always mean low cal., but hey I was at a family reunion with IN-LAW distant relatives - give a girl a break!!!! (Sugar-free chocolate chip vanilla wafer, pudding - yummy was the strongest thing I could find - trust me, we looked) So, anyway, I've digressed again, that was that for meals on Saturday. I'm thinking Sunday is going to be a breeze, until I see Nana getting out the breakfast fixin's - powder-sugar covered donuts, cinnamon-sugar covered donuts, fried apple pies (from a local N. Ga. apple orchard) and sticky buns... GREAT I'm doomed. We leave the reunion location and go to the house where were to sleep - fast forward to Sunday AM. Jay and I decided that we'd skip Nana's version of breakfast and we went to Waffle House (I know, your thinking NOT MUCH BETTER, well give me a minute to explain) I opted for 1 single waffle with a little bit of butter and some syrup. I'm at the Waffle House and did not have bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs OR grits. Does a girl get a pat on the back??!?!? So we finish breakfast and head over to the reunion were lunch is served at 11:45 - Hello, do they not realize that I just ate breakfast at 10??? SO, I skipped lunch - fired chicken tenders - Nana had no sympathy on my diet today. Anyway, we visited for a while and then left there at 1:30 and headed home (ah, home sweet home). Came home took a little nap, grabbed Hubby and headed out for dinner, where I had "Hawaiian Chicken" and a baked potato with butter and 2 very small sliced of bread. I have enough left overs to have lunch tomorrow, woo hoo.

OK, now that I've bored you with my weekend let me get down to business - in spite of my weekend with Nana's menu and Waffle House I still lost 2 pounds this week. YAY!!!!!

I think I'll stick with the same goals this week (they need some perfecting):

• 48 ozs. of water a day;
• gym 3 times and
• 2 more pounds lost

Good Luck to all of you May Day Challenge girls for your Tuesday weigh in. I'll be checking up on you.

Mid-Week Check Up

I've had a really good week, so far. We finally made it to the gym today. I did 1 mile on the treadmill, 10 LONG minutes on the bike, 35 crunches (with 40 lbs. of weight) and 3 reps on "twisty" machine (with 40 lbs of weight).

see picture for explanation of "twisty machine"

(OK, so it's called a Rotary Torso machine, la te da)

My challenge this week has been drinking my water. I met my goal Monday, only got 32 ozs. Tuesday and just a little over 32 ozs. today. I'm really going to work on that Thursday and Friday, getting in 48 oz for 2 days may be my incentive for a treat this week. I know there will be NO Mexican this week because we are spending the weekend with Jay's parents, thus I'll need another "light at the end of the tunnel" or treat at the end of the week - in this case. I picked up some new cereal that came recommended by Jodi, so I'll try that tomorrow and give you a review.

Hope everyone is having a great week.

Week 1's Wrap Up

My, here it is Sunday already. I have great news for week 1's ending. I'm down 2.5 pounds from the first time I posted which was Saturday, May 26th. I've had a great week with my points, my exercise, however, did not go so well. I only made it to the gym once this week, but this is a new week!! I met my water goal everyday this week with the exception of Saturday and today. (Weekends tend to be a "deal breaker" for me). We didn't go out tonight for Mexican, but I did get a treat this week!! We went out last night with another couple and stopped off at and I indulged in a Reese’s® Peanut Butter Cup Sundae, and oh my was it sinful...

Tomorrow starts a new week of flex points and goals.

My goals for Week 2 are:

• to bump up the water consumption to 48 oz. a day
• to get to the gym THREE times with activities to include: at least 1.5 miles on the treadmill, 7-10 minutes on the bike, 35 crunches and 3 reps of "twists" - OK, so I don't know what the "twisty" machine is called, but I DO know that it gets rid of the dreaded love handles - and that's all that matters) :)
• to drop another 2 pounds

I'll check in during the week to let you know how it's going. Hope everyone has a wonderful week.

Baby Steps, RIGHT?!?!

Today was a good day all in all. I'm at 28 points, 4 over, but that's OK, thanks to flex. (now flex "weighs in" at 28) I did however get in all of my water plus about 5 oz extra, hey baby steps. We did not get to the gym again, Errrr. Maybe tomorrow... I did take a sneak peak at the scales earlier and it says I'm down 3 pounds (and that was after dinner)!!!! Can't wait for Sunday for the official weigh-in.



I wanted to thank Jodi over at http://www.jodiyork.com/ for the great chicken recipe. We tried it over the weekend and loved it. We'll be adding it to our menu often. Also, to Roni over at http://www.weightwatchen.com/ for the chocolate almond cupcake recipe, they are to die for and only 2 points each, what a treat (I had 2 for breakfast this morning)!!



Hope you all are having a great week, hang in there it's almost Friday, YAY!!!!



Until tomorrow...

Goals - Week 1

Well, here we go...

My goals for week 1 are:

• to drink at least 32oz. of water a day (I know that is only 1/2 of what I should drink, but this will be a HUGE step)
• to only eat my allowed amount of points a day (24)
• to exercise 3 times this week (I'd like this to consist of: 1 mile on the treadmill, 10 minutes on the bike and a few weights - time permitting)
• to lose 1-2 pounds

Wish me luck!! I'll check in daily to update my progress and I think Sunday will be my "weigh in days", there is a reason. We always go out to dinner on Sunday nights with our Sunday School class and we usually eat Mexican (ever tried to refrain from cheese dip when everybody else is eating it?!?). So, as an incentive if I meet my weekly goals by Sunday, cheese dip will be my reward. For those of you who don't know I'm easily bribed and work better/more diligently when there is a reward! (Keep that in mind).

A New Beginning

Welcome me to the world of blogging... I'm primarily starting this blog as a way to hold myself accountable for my current diet plan. I think if I put my goals in writing and have some of you encourage me, I can do it. I currently am at an all time high with my weight and would like to lose a total of 30 pounds. However, I do not want to just focus on losing the 30 pounds, I want to focus on getting healthy and in shape (an hour glass would be nice). My husband and I would like to start a family, sooner than later, but first I'd like to "condition" my body to be able to endure pregnancy. I'm currently on the Weight Watchers program and think I'll set up weekly goals for weight loss, but will post daily or ever other day my eating and exercise habits/goals. So, bear with me as I ease into the world of blogging and weight lose.