Wednesday July 5th

Breakfast: vanilla Chobani yogurt w/strawberries and blueberries = 3 points = 188 calories

Lunch: subway turkey sandwich (7) and sour cream and onion baked lays (4) = 11 points= 450 calories

Total before dinner= 14 points = 638 calories

Dinner: Caution - Wednesday is my splurge night and me and Betsy did it up right. I had a salad and 2 pieces of pizza at the Wedge. Then we had drinks at Purple Bar. I had 2 white sangrias (so good!) and then we topped off the night with a cuppies and joe cupcake. Do I have any idea what all of that was calorie/point wise? No. Could I have done better? oh yes. Could I have done worse? Oh yeah. I probably should be a little more careful but I look forward to Wednesdays to just kick back and do what I want and tonight was great so no regrets. I really wanted to come home and run though and I just now got home so I have my alarm set for 5:45 so I can do my 30 minutes of running before I get ready for work. My foot is a little sensitive still but I really want to run so I will just try different shoes and see how it goes.

Edit: So I went ahead and calculated everything because it was bugging me not too. It looks like dinner was around 29 points so that means I used 14 extra points today. We get 49 bonus for the week so I guess that's okay. It's an extra 600 calories that I shouldn't have had but if I only do it one day then exercise and everything I guess I shouldn't have any guilt. You can tell that I'm trying to make myself feel better which means that Weight Watchers has hooked me again and I'm trying to be perfect on it. This is when a cheat night is good...to remind myself that I can still do what I want and have results like I want. I just can't splurge often.

So something amazing happened this morning. I am wearing a skirt that I haven't worn since my very first years of college. I took a pic. I will post at work later when I get a chance. Woohoo!




In other news I went to weigh-in today and I'm down exactly 1 pound. That's 9 pounds lost so far. 9 pounds in 11 weeks. I'll take it. 15 weeks until my birthday. 17 pounds to go until I reach my weight goal. So if I could maintain that kind of loss and have 2-3 really goods week in there I could be at my weight goal by the big 2-6. However, I have to admit that the exercising and noticing the changes in my body is better than any number on the scale. It's nice to have the scale reflect it but if I had to take looking/feeling better over a higher number then I would be okay with that.

Tuesday--Starting back to school today....kind of.

(Sorry for being so slow to post the post couple of days, our internet has been having issues.  I think it is due to all of the extra people at the lake this weekend. )

Well I start a new rotation today, Family Medicine.  At least today we just have to go in for orientation at 2 and then leave!  It is going to be a good rotation because I will be starting with the brand new third-year students...so I am going to look pretty good.  :)

Today I am also starting back on my exercise routine officially!  Since I won't have to be to clinic until probably 8 (rather than having to be somewhere by 6) I am going to use that extra time in the mornings to workout!  Although it is going to be pretty hard getting up that early since I've been spoiled the past two weeks and have been sleeping in really late (and staying up late--you'd be proud, haha)

• Breakfast: coffee with cream (0.92), 5oz cherry tomatoes (3.5)=4.42(3.5 veggie)
• Lunch: PB&J with flax bread, splenda jelly, and sugar free PB(5).  5oz cherry tomatoes (3.5)=12.92(7veggie)
• Dinner:  low carb spaghetti (5), home made spaghetti sauce (6.75)= 18.67 (13.75 veggie)
• Snack: 1/2 c. strawberries (5)
• Workout:  55mins Insanity DVD 745 calories

Well that was painful, but I made it through the entire DVD.  I am out of shape, and wanted to quit at least five times throughout that thing.

Goals for July:

1. Workout 3 times per week minimum
2. 12-15 net carbs from veggies everyday
3. One splurge per week (splurge probably meaning ice cream or eating out)
4. Lose 4 pounds ( this is lofty for me, but I want to be fully in that mindset!)

Tuesday July 5th

Breakfast: 1/2 c. sliced strawberries (0), 1/2 c. blueberries (0), Chobani peach yogurt (3) = 3 points = 208 calories



Lunch: Lean Cuisine Asian Style Potstickers (7), peach (0), 7 pretzel rods w/ 1tbsp hummus (3) = 10 points = 393 calories

Dinner:Turkey patty (5), light wheat bun (2), corn on the cob (2), asparagus w/tsp EVOO (1) = 10 = 441 calories

Dessert: 1 vitatop muffin (3) w/ 1/2 c. strawberries (0) = 3 points = 127 calories

Snack: Large Vanilla Diet Coke (2) points = 60 calories

Total for Today = 28 points = 1229 calories

And another week begins. At least it's short. Happy Tuesday!

Not working out tonight is going to feel weird. Also, it frees up my evening and then I just think about food and what I could be eating so I think I'm going to go window shopping tonight. I wish we lived closer so we could do things together in the evenings sometime.

Monday July 4th

Happy fourth to you too!!!

Breakfast: strawberry/blueberry stuff I made last night (10)
Lunch: Fajitas (just the meat and veggies)
Dinner: Cauliflower pizza-1 slice (3.8)


I can't feel bad about 10carbs for breakfast since it was so packed full of good stuff. I'm going to include some pics since it turned out so well! Also
included a pic of our pizza last night.

I need a plan for the week too. I think that your idea of have a rest day before weigh in is a good idea.

Happy July 4th!

Breakfast: WW Breakfast Quesadilla (5), 1 c. sliced strawberries (0) = 5 points = 298 calories



Lunch: 8 oz. of butternut squash (0), 14 pretzel rods (3), 2 tbsp hummus (2), broccoli florets (0) = 5 points = 343 calories. This is one of those meals that WW is going to give me for really low points but calories wise it's not.



Snack: Peach (0), Yoplait yogurt (3) = 3 points = 148 calories

Dinner: Turkey burger (5), light bun (2), aspargus (0), with 1 tsp of evoo (1) = 8 points = 365 calories Haha it looks like I have two turkey patties on there but I made my burgers too thick but not very wide that I have to cut them in half to eat on a bun. I will do better next time.



Dessert: Vita top muffin = 3 points = 100 calories

Total for today = 24 points = 1254 calories

My goal for today is do my pilates workout - the extended one and then make a meal plan for the week. I need to vary up my breakfasts. Eggs are good but I'm getting a little burnt out.

I did my other strength training dvd last night. It was good all except for when I had to balance on my right leg because I think it was putting too much pressure on the foot so I will just do pilates today to rest it and then I won't work out tomorrow. I'm going to try not working out the day before weigh-in.

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!

• Breakfast:  coffee with cream (0.92)
• Lunch:  Genghis Grill-make your own stir fry with beef, scallops, squash, mushrooms, snap  peas and garlic (6.45)
• Dinner: cauliflower pizza with canadian bacon  and cheese (7.48), strawberry/blueberry/walnut/whipped cream dessert (10)
• Snacks: sugar free Reese's candy- 5 pieces (1)
• 25.89NC

You have got to try Genghis Grill!!  There is one in Tulsa and I think they are building a new one in OKC!!  You walk in and they give you an empty metal bowl to fill with whatever you want from this huge buffet of stir-fry ingredients.  You pick your meat, you season it, you pick your veggies, and then you pick your sauce. You can also pick what starch you want them to add, but we skip that part.  you stuff as much meat and veggies as you can into your little bowl and then hand it off and they cook it for you on this giant grill/wok thing.  It is pretty cool!  Anyway, lots of options if you want something healthy!  I go easy on the sauces (who knows how much they are) and try to add lots of garlic powder/chopped garlic/onion and such to mine.

I kind of skimped on breakfast today because we needed groceries so badly....but we got some, so I should be set for the coming week. 

Sunday the 3rd

Breakfast: 2 pieces of whole wheat bread toasted (4) and 1 tbsp grape jelly (1) = 5 points = 190 calories

Breakfast is always limited at the parent's house. I'm coming home next weekend as well so I will plan ahead next time.

Lunch: Pop chips (3) and 2 dark chocolate hershey nuggets w/almonds (3) = 6 points = 210 calories This wasn't really lunch but I didn't want to eat something with a ton of points so I snacked again instead.

Dinner: 2 tbsp of hummus (2), green pepper strips (0), 1 light hamburger bun (2), turkey burger (5), corn on the cob (2) = 11 points = 463 calories

Dessert: Vitatop muffin top deep chocolate (3) = 100 calories. These are my new favorite things. They're pricey but they taste just like cake and it is so good!

I plan on eating a snack for 4 points or 225 calories but I'm just not sure what I will pick at this point. Edit: I ended up having peach Chibani yogurt and 1.5 cups of fresh strawberries. That added 3 points and 220 calories.

I'm off to try and workout and see what the foot does. I have another strength training dvd so I'm going to try it so I can mix-it up instead of having to work with Jillian every evening.

Total for today = 25 = 963 calories

So I hurt my foot running. When I ran on Wednesday night and then woke up Thursday morning the outside of my right foot hurt when I walked on it. It went away later on in the day so I went ahead and did my Jillian workout. On Friday I did my pilates in the afternoon and then at night I went for my run. As soon as I started running on it the pain was back. Not severe but still I felt it. Well, at that point I probably should have stopped but I really wanted to keep going and get some cardio in so I just ran through it. Yesterday it hurt to walk on it. Not enough pain to where you couldn't stand it but still it hurt. It's better today. I googled it and some guy said that if you overcorrect while running which is what I did on Wednesday when I ran over a grate in our neighborhood sometimes you can sort of pull that muscle. They recommended just resting it and taking some anti-inflamatories. When I do the Jillian workouts it doesn't seem to bother it so I guess I'll just go back to my dvd's for the next week so I don't mess it up anymore. Stupid grate.

I'm going to try and go to the pool today. I doubt I burn any calories but I'm out in the heat so that should count for something, right?

I hope you have a great Sunday! Don't study too hard!