Busy day

And omg is it hot outside??!! I'm not ready for summer weather but it looks like it's about here.

It was a low day on calories, but not intentionally. I had a granola bar on the way to the gym. Then for lunch we hit up IHOP. I got the same thing as last time...the Two By Two By Two. Two scrambled eggs, two pancakes (sugarfree syrup) and two slices of bacon. I added two more slices...lol was hungry! After running some errands I had a smoothie from Smoothie King, with a shot of energy. And later at the park, I had some popcorn. This had me at 1280 calories at 9pm, which is not really a good thing with all the activity today...lol so I had some mashed potatoes and a little left over chicken to end my day at 1603 calories. Low, but one day won't hurt.


Workout: no elliptical today, my calves were SORE after the 20 yesterday. So I did 30 minutes on the treadmill, and then 30 min of weight training.

Slight splurge

So this morning I had to take D to get bloodwork done. He did a great job so we stopped to get donuts on the way to school. That kind of set the tone for the whole day so I had a tough time with it. I stayed ok on cals, but it was difficult. On the way home from the gym, it killed me to not stop and grab fast food, but I held out. The soreness in my legs was a great reminder though.

So I had a protein shake on the way to the hospital. Then at the donut shop, I had 3 kolaches and 5 donut holes, plus orange juice. Lunch was a frozen meal at work, plus a string cheese and applesauce. They had catered in lunch for the agents at work, so there was a ton of food leftover. I ended up having a mini dinner in the afternoon. Some tortilla chips, a bit of sourcream, some fajita chicken, and lots of salsa. I did not eat before the gym due to that, but afterward I had 1/2 a PBJ to end my day at 2174 calories.

Exercise: TWENTY minutes on the elliptical!!! And then 30 min of weight training and 10 minutes on the treadmill.

Elliptical fun

I pushed it a bit more...and did 15 minutes on the elliptical tonite! Woohoo! Crazy that 2 weeks ago I couldn't even do a minute.

Food was kinda high but I was so hungry from the workout! I'm not trying to starve myself...lol
Breakfast was a protein shake and some cheese crackers. Lunch was a frozen meal (pasta with spinach and a ricotta sauce: LOTS of spinach, but way good!). In the afternoon I had a string cheese and applesauce. And then a fun size pack of M&Ms (100 calories??? Yikes!). Before the workout, I had half a pbj. Afterward, we met some friends at IHOP. I had 2 scrambled eggs, 2 pancakes with sugarfree syrup, and bacon. Mmmmmm bacon. And a bit later, I had some Lipton butter noodles (without extra butter), to end my day at 2455 calories (with the workout that left me with another 339 calories I could have eaten.). However, geez, I need to add in more veggies or I need to go back to morning spinach smoothies!

Workout: 15 minutes on elliptical (almost 300 calories burned!) and then about 30 minutes in weight training.

I'm feeling good and stronger. Though I know I have a long way to go.

Ouch

Yup, just as I thought yesterday, I'm sore today. My abs weren't sore this morning but I started feeling it through the day and by this evening, they are super tight and achy. I guess that means it was a great work out. So I'll take it, but ouch. Tonite I didn't do weights at all, just plenty of cardio.

Food: I did stray and hit up Sonic this morning, but only got a Jr Breakfast Burrito and an unsweet tea. Woot! Midmorning, I had a protein shake and some almonds. For lunch, I really debated getting fast food again, but I knew I couldn't go down that road as I'm in a great groove for work lunches, so I hit up the store for some frozen meals to replenish my stash at work. I had a pepperoni pizza pocket. In the afternoon, I had a string cheese and some apple sauce. When we got home, I had a PBJ, and then after the gym, I DID run by KFC. This was more of a bribe for D as he's been having accidents at the gym. I only got some popcorn chicken though. I was feeling off this evening, so I had another protein shake to end my day at 2343 calories.

Workout: I started with 10 minutes on the treadmill to warm up. Then I did ELEVEN minutes on the elliptical (woo!). Then 10 minutes on the recumbent bike and finally, back to the treadmill for 25 minutes.

Trainer day

So today I had my first meeting with a personal trainer at the gym. I'm not so sure about this chick, but I'll give it another meeting or two. After the preliminary weight analysis, etc (which I felt very shameful through, which I think was kind of exacerbated by how she approached it all), she put me through the paces of some ab exercises to strengthen my core. I'm supposed to do these every day and work up to 3 sets of each by next week. I will say, it did make me feel good when she finally said I was further along than she originally thought I'd be. I didn't really feel it at the time, in fact I went on to do TEN minutes on the elliptical (that's right, ten!!!) and then joined my workout buddy for a few minutes on the hip machines. But it started creeping in once I got home. I will likely be sore tomorrow.

Ok on to food. It was a decent enough day. I had a protein shake for breakfast. Then some almonds mid morning. Lunch was ravioli and some fritos. Before the gym, I had a pbj. And when we got home, I had a frozen Steamfresh thing, which was rotini, broccoli, and a cheese sauce. I was hungry and kinda low on cals so I added some more noodles to it. I'm ending my day at 2053 calories.

Workout, I did 10 min on the treadmill while waiting on my trainer. Spent 30 minutes with her. Then 10 min on the elliptical, and about 20 minutes on some of the machines.

Rest day

And it was much needed.

Food...breakfast was Easy Mac. Lunch was some beef stew and then some Fritos. Dinner, I made baked chicken, potatoes and green beans. I was up late and had a craving for noodles so I made some plain ones with just a little I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray and garlic salt to end my day at 1933 calories.

Workout: not one bit, and it was awesome. :P Tomorrow I meet with a personal trainer at the gym. I paid for 4 sessions, just to get a good handle on my gym rotations, make sure I'm doing things right.

Day before a rest day

Today was a day where I knew that I was on my own to workout, and it was a day that I like to sleep in. Ordinarily, I would have had to talk myself into going to workout, and likely would have bailed, but today, it wasn't a problem. I did sleep in my workout attire, but I was up and ready to go, looking forward to it!

For food, I kinda drank a lot of my cals today! lol Breakfast was a PBJ again. And then after the workout and a shower at home, we met up with friends for lunch at Torchy's Tacos. I had some chips and queso, and then 2 potato, egg and cheese tacos. YUMMY! However, I also had their awesome Black Cherry soda. Mmmmm, nothing light about that. On the way home, we grabbed a drink from Sonic, I had sweet tea. This evening for dinner, I just had some simple nachos to end my day at 2275 calories. Geez, almost 600 of those cals were on drink alone. Yeah I'll be sticking to unsweet tea and/or diet soda now (which I've been doing good with overall, not sure what happened today). (I would like it noted that to lose two pounds a week, I can technically have up to 2350 cals...so I'm not too worried about cals, and I did workout so that gives me even more. Hence why my cals have been ranging around 2100 or so. On my rest days, I plan to drop that down to 1700ish. Just FYI if you are wondering why I've been over 2000 most days.)

Exercise...I did a hard workout today as I know tomorrow is a rest day. So I did 30 min on the treadmill. Then, I did SIX minutes on the Precor Elliptical (remember, yesterday's 5 minutes...yeah bumped that UP today). And then about 30-40 minutes on the weights. My triceps are kinda sore but otherwise, I'm feeling decent. (But I will def enjoy tomorrow's rest day!)

Unexpected progress

So...it's been over a full week since we started working and today I noticed some neat progress. If you'll remember last week, I tried the Precor Elliptical. Yeah, I barely made it a minute before I had to stop for a second. I stayed on it for 5 minutes but it wasn't pretty. Plus, after that, my legs would barely hold me up, and my thighs were SO sore the next day! Well, today, I hopped on it, and was able to do 5 minutes straight! Ok, it was a SLOW 5 minutes at times, but I did not stop once. Even better, no leg weakness and no soreness! Score! It was neat to see the difference in just one week. So that was cool.

Ok on to food...breakfast was a PBJ before the workout. Afterward, we hit up Chili's. I had some chips and salsa, a house salad (no croutons) and then the Lighter Side sirloin steak which just came with broccoli, no rice or potatoes. That steak was freakin awesome. lol I had kind of an early dinner after some park time for D, a corn dog and then some tater tots. Later on in the evening, I had a bowl of spaghetti and a glass of milk since I was a bit hungry. This ended my day at 2168 calories.

Workout was 15 min on the treadmill, 5 min on the elliptical, and about 30 min doing weight training.

Crap food day

I started off with good intentions today. I had my now usual Easy Mac and a banana for breakfast, and added a small bottle of gatorade as I was feeling kinda dehydrated. Lunch, I was planning on having a slice of pizza that they catered in at work, and then I went and drove around to enjoy the weather and swung by Chick Fil A. I asked for grilled nuggets, a fruit cup and an unsweet tea. (Trying to be good). Well they gave me regular nuggets. So I had 1.5 slices of pizza (I caved on that half and it screwed me up the rest of the day), plus the nuggets, fruit cup and unsweet tea. No snack. After work, I didn't wanna go home, was feeling emotional and was kinda upset, and had no one to join us for dinner. I remembered that I had two free passes to the Studio Movie Grill, so I took D to see the Lorax. It was super cute, but that was a BAD place for me to be! Ended up splitting cheese fries with D, and got a pizza to eat. Boo. Blech. Need to work on this emotional eating crap. Story of my life. Not sure on the cals but I think I was around 2500 or so. Tomorrow is a new day.

Today was a forced rest day from the gym as they closed early for renovations. I've found this week that I do really well with eating when I've worked out. It's a mental thing, I don't wanna kill it after working so hard. So I'll be glad to get back to it tomorrow. No actual workout, though I have been cleaning house this evening like a crazy person. Maybe some sleep will help this mood I'm in.

Longest day at the gym

But it feels so good! I think I may be gettin addicted to this adrenaline rush...lol

Ok on to food...breakfast was Easy Mac (yeah I know but its easy...lol) and a banana. I had a protein bar midday. Lunch was a turkey sandwich from Jimmy Johns and a pickle. In the afternoon, I had some yogurt. Right before the workout, I had a PBJ. And this evening, I tried some of this broccoli cheese rice frozen thing, but it was yucky, so I settled for leftover spaghetti to end my day at 2185 cals.

Workout was 30 minutes on the weight machines, plus 30 min on the treadmill, 10 min on the bike, 5 min on the elliptical which whoops my butt!, and then this one machine in the ab room that I am SO goin to feel tomorrow in my abs! lol

Workin it out

Another day, another workout!

Food today was: breakfast was Easy Mac and a banana. Lunch was a frozen meal and an applesauce. Then early afternoon I had a protein shake. I took D to the doc this afternoon so nothing else til right before the workout, we skimmed by Taco Bell and I had a couple crunchy tacos. This evening after the gym, I had a pbj sandwich and am ending my day at, oddly enough, exactly 1700 calories.

Workout was 30 minutes on the treadmill, and then about 30 min or so going through the weight machines.

Back from a rest day

Made sure to go get my groove on this evening at the gym! So yay, that makes 4/5 days this week so far! I'm pretty tired after being up most of last night due to the storms and D's fear of thunder, so going to make this brief and head to bed.

Food: Breakfast was a protein shake, but then I was kinda hungry midmorning so had a cup of Easy Mac and a banana. Lunch was ravioli, some Fritos, and apple sauce. I had a yogurt in the afternoon. Then I had a PBJ before my workout. I was going to have salad afterward, but my lettuce was yucky. BOO. So I had some spaghetti and a Vitamin Water to end my day at 2111 calories.

For my workout, I did 30 min on the treadmill, and then my usual weight machine routine. It took about 30 minutes to get through that.

Rest day

Yay I got to rest my poor thighs today. They are still pretty sore but I'll be back tomorrow working them to get strengthened. Can't wait!

Food today wasn't stellar. I forgot this evening that we had to run an errand so ended up grabbing fast food. Blah. Breakfast was a protein shake, and then a yogurt midmorning. Lunch was a frozen meal plus some fritos and applesauce. Dinner was a burger and small fries. It could have been worse I guess, but blech. This evening I had my tbsp of honey to end my day at 1980 calories.

No workout today. Yay! :P

Sore sore sore

SO I woke up this morning with my thighs aching from the workout yesterday. I guess that means it was a good one! Ha. After falling yesterday, I am now determined to strengthen my thighs more so that this doesn't happen again. So I made sure to work that area today at the gym. I'm paying for it though. OUCH. I'm so glad that tomorrow is a rest day. I realized last night that it's SO not gonna go well with D if I keep him up late every night of the week to workout, so I'm taking off Mondays and maybe Thursdays. My body will need the rest as well. I want to be smart about this but also get into a good routine.

Food was decent today. I made a huge grocery shopping trip so this week should be good too! I didn't have much for breakfast, just some cheese and crackers, and then 2 small bottles of gatorade during the workout. Afterward, we went to go eat at Jason's Deli. Yes, again. lol I had a cup of broc cheese soup, a big salad, and added some grilled chicken to it. I also had some apple slices and a small choc ice cream. This afternoon, I had a bottle of Vitamin Water. This evening, I had my tbsp of local honey, and then a banana, Lipton Butter noodles (no butter added), and a glass of 1% milk. Yummy! I ended my day at 2026 calories.

Workout...20 minutes on the treadmill, then 10 minutes on the stationary bike, and then about an hour doing the weight machines. My workout buddy and I have kinda gotten into a routine of what to do. We spent over an hour at the grocery store too. Mommy is ready for bed!

Long day

But a good day. I overslept a bit so was about 10 minutes late to the gym. I'm so glad I have a workout buddy because odds are, without knowing she was waiting, I likely would have skipped it. But we did good. Spent about 1.5 hours there. And apparently I worked out SO good that my legs had no more energy left in them when we left. I stepped down off the step and BAM, my knee gave way and I hit the ground. Fortunately, I'd already changed into my jeans so the concrete didn't tear my knee up too bad.

Ok on to food. I did pretty good today. Before the workout, I had some peanut butter crackers and 1.25 bottles of gatorade during it. Afterward, my workout buddy and I took our kiddos to Chili's for lunch. I had some chips and salsa, and then the sweet and spicy chicken (grilled chicken with a sauce, plus rice and broccoli). I added a house salad to that with ranch (but took off the croutons), and unsweet tea. In the afternoon, I had another bottle of gatorade. And for dinner, D and I hit up Jason's Deli. I had a cup of broccoli cheese soup, a salad, and some apple slices to end my day at 2020 calories.

For workout, I did 5 minutes on the elliptical (which is what got my legs all trembly and weak...lol). Then 15 min on the treadmill, 10 minutes on the stationary bike, and then the weight training. Yesterday, we did just 1 set of 15 reps each on everything. Today we bumped to 3 sets of 15 reps each for most things. Then after eating lunch, we walked around the outlet mall near us for over 2 hours, and ended up circling the entire mall. I'm tired!! But feeling good...even my knee doesn't feel too bad from where I fell on it. Gotta keep moving!

Let's get this started

Ok day 1. It's not a pretty picture. I weighed in at 347.2. Now granted that's not the highest I've been. I've topped out at 360lbs so...yeah. But still. BAD. According to Lose It, where I track my food, I can have 2339 calories a day to lose 2 lbs a week. Well, my goals are more than that, so I likely won't be near that many cals. I'd like to keep it around 1700-1800 a day. But we'll see.

Ok on to the food tracking. Due to extenuating circumstances (have been fighting a nasty sore throat the last two weeks), I need to have something hot and soft for breakfast. So I've taken to having a bowl of Easy Mac. It works well enough to soothe my throat. I added a banana to it this morning as well afterward, and a glass of unsweet tea for abit of caffeine. Lunch was chicken noodle soup and applesauce. I had two tbsps of local honey (hoping it helps my allergies), one of those was in a cup of lemon echinacea hot tea. For an afternoon snack, I had some yogurt (and 4 starburst), and then some peanut butter crackers. Before working out tonite I had some popcorn chicken. And then late this evening I had a bowl of noodles with some I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and garlic salt to end my day at 2099 calories.

For exercise, my friend and I hit the gym for the first time and did 18 minutes on the treadmill, and then about 40 minutes of weight training. We ran through most of the machines, so worked all our muscles. My arms and legs feel like rubber...but it's a good feeling. I'll be ramping up the treadmill work too. Getting it going!

Oops here we go again

So apparently life gets in the way FAST. It's been two months since I updated. Uggh, sorry, folks. It's been an interesting 2 months, but nothing too bad. We've dealt with some D issues., I've been sick the last two weeks as well, and have turned solely to comfort food, which has NOT been good. So, I gotta turn this around.

Tonite, my friend and I joined a gym. It's nothing fancy, a small place, with a ton of cardio and weight equipment. No pool, no smoothie bar. Oh and they have childcare. LOVE that. SO we are starting tomorrow. I'm making a sticker chart for myself. If I go 3 days in a week, I get one sticker. For every extra day I go, I get an extra sticker. Not sure what the reward will be, but it's going to be a smallish one every 10 stickers, and a big one like a night out, at 50 stickers. I dunno, that one is fluid right now.

Also, as of tomorrow I'm going to start posting everything I eat on here every day. So feel free to take a look, comment, whatever. I need all the support I can get. I'll weigh in the morning too. Blah. It's bad...really bad. But...starting over is better than continuing to go backward. I'm glad my friend joined the gym with me, I'll have some accountability.

So there ya have it...this is becoming a weight loss blog again. Woot! I might even post some pics of what I eat...who knows...stay tuned.