Thirstday

Goal for the day: get my water in!!
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Just studying for my test today, so I am at home.  I sure get my exercise in when I want to procrastinate!  It felt good today though. 

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• Breakfast: cauliflower hash browns and bacon, iced coffee.= 7.04NC (4.01)
• Lunch:  mac and cheese=10NC
• Snack:  chocolate-chip almond milk shake(2.83), cherries(11)=13.83NC
• Dinner:  steak, yellow squash=5.07NC (5.07)
• Water:  (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X)
• Fitness:  c2-5k and then walking at incline= -750cal
• Running totals:  36.3NC/9.08 veggie/1616cal/71.05g protein

Thursday

Breakfast: English muffin (3), pb (3), banana (0), skim milk (1) = 7 points = 343 calories

Lunch: Mozzarella (2), 2 pizzas of Hideaway personal pizza w/tomato & green chiles (10) = 12 points = 444 calories

Dinner: Probably a tv dinner at the house. Yep Amy's Enchilada = 6 points = 240 calories

Snack: Blended chai latte w/skim milk at Aspen (hopefully) 5 points? 300 calories?

Fitness: Have to go to stillwater but if I don't get home too late I will either run or do Jillian level 3

In other news...I miss Diet Coke! It has been a whole week now since I've had one and I miss my friend.

Had a great marketing meeting with Shane. He is so inspirational! And just now got in from my 40 minute Couch to 5k run! Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday!

•  Breakfast:  cauliflower hash-browns, bacon, iced coffee=8.66NC (6.52)
• Snack:  2 cheese sticks and 5oz tomatoes=4.04 (3.5)
• Lunch: 3 small (4inch corn tortilla) beef street tacos at Abuelos, no chips for me!, and veggies as my side.  =No idea--I can't even find out how much 4inch tortillas are.  (~5veggie)
• Snack: ice cream (15NC)--can you tell James is home now??
• Dinner: hamburger patty with wholly guacamole, 4.2oz. tomatoes, mac&cheese
• Water:  (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) () () ()
• Fitness:  treadmill = -440

Sorry to hear you're frustrated!  :(

I feel "off" today because I was rushed this morning.  I really wanted to update this morning.

Proud of myself for not eating chips today.  I had a hormonally induced binge last night on those damn chips that were in the cabinet!  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.  I was bored and lonely and procrastinating and frustrated.....so I of course interpreted these feelings as "I'm starving...for chips!"  STUPID.  So you can only imagine how many carbs I ate if 2chips=5 carbs....at least 100!

Seriously, what is wrong with me??  I had the best day I've had in a long time, and then I go and ruin it by self-sabotaging.   SERIOUSLY.  Still mad at myself obviously.

WW Wednesday

Breakfast: English muffin (3), pb (3), banana (0), skim milk (1) = 7 points = 343 calories

Lunch: Subway Turkey Sandwich (7), baked chips (3) = 10 points = 400 calories

Dinner: ???? It looks like Sarah wants to go have Hideaway. I will only eat 2 pizzas of pizza. No pop. No apps.

Activity: couch to 5k for 40 minutes (5 min warm up and cool down / run 8 walk 2 x 3)

Oh weigh in day...how I do not love you. The scale was nicer this morning though so hopefully I won't have gained this week at the scale. I have no plans as of now for dinner so I'm not sure what I'll do. I have some cauliflower left over and some asparagus in my fridge so I may just repeat Monday's dinner.

Weigh in: I maintained. My weight loss is almost laughable at this point. Tish frustrated.

Tonight was meal #2 off of plan. That's my last splurge meal of the week. I didn't do too bad. I got light cheese, thin crust pizza with veggies and only ate 2/3 of it. I totally could have finished it. I came home and ate my other half of cupcake with skim milk.

However, later I got hungry and made myself some chex cereal w/skim milk. Bad decision. Do not eat cereal 30 minutes before running. I thought I was going to die. I finished it though. I feel beat up. I felt so much better running on Monday when I didn't eat like 2 hours before I ran. This will go down in memory. Running how-to's.

I do feel better after finishing the run though. I love the Couch to 5k!

Tuesday

• Breakfast:  bacon, 4oz. tomatoes, iced coffee=4.43NC (2.88)
• Lunch:  cauliflower "hash browns" and 1tbs ketchup (1)=7.74NC (6.52)
• Dinner:  Spaghetti leftovers and cream cheese with splenda/cinnamon for dessert=14.84NC (6.75)
• Snack:  chocolate/PB-almond milk smoothie, tomatoes=4.63 (1.13)
• Water:  (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) (X) () ()
• Fitness:  walk hills x1hr = -660cal
• Running Totals: 31.64NC/17.28 veggie/2089calories/94.28g protein

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Feeling positive today.  I've got a long to-do list and I'm ready to get started!  I've got a lot of studying to do today, as well as some house work.  I've also scheduled my workout for this afternoon when I usually hit the "I deserve a nap" wall.  I'm either going to do an insanity video or walk hills on the treadmill for an hour (While watching netflix!  My favorite, haha!).  I'm majorly hormonal so I think any progress I make this week would be amazing.  I did cave on the chips and let myself have 2 last night, but I don't feel bad because normally I would eat 2 handfuls of them (tostitos hint of pepper jack chips=crack for a hormonal woman).  Eating 2 let me get over the craving and be done with it....but man,5 carbs for 2!!

Inspirational Story:  http://organizingmadefun.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-i-organizedmy-weight-loss-and.html
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Ended up trying a new recipe for lunch that can be found here:  http://agoodappetite.blogspot.com/2009/09/cheesy-cauliflower-pancakes.html 

I substituted pork rinds for bread crumbs. 

Tuesday

Breakfast: English muffin (3), pb (3), banana (0) = 6 points = 300 calories

Lunch: Gazpacho (3) & tomato mozzarella salad(2)-no oil this time, 7 pretzels (2), WW cherry cheesecake yogurt (2) = 9 points = 332 calories

Dinner: 3 small tacos(9), chips and salsa (8) & a margarita (6) from Iguana Grill. "Business dinner with Courtney and Besty" = 23 = 1025 calories for this and the cupcake and milk

Dessert: Skim milk (1), 1/2 cupcake (3) = 4 points

Total = 42 points = 1657 calories

Activity: Zumba for an hour. I am so excited about Zumba tonight! I can't wait. It's like dance class but more fun!

The running is starting to get easier. Last night I did the run 7 walk 2 and repeated 3 times and I wasn't dying at the end. I think I'm going to start looking up 5k races in the fall to help motivate myself to a full goal of being able to run one. Maybe not fast but just run the whole thing.

Lesson: Learn to not eat the chips at the table. I planned well on everything but the chips.....and the cupcake. But I cut it in half when I got home from zumba and ate it with some skim milk. I need to get better about eating out with the girls. Granted I didn't do that horrible tonight because it could have been a lot worse but I need to know in my head that it's not an all out pass to eat.

• Breakfast: cereal with the fixins' (12.88), iced coffee (0.92)=13.8NC
• Snack:  tomatoes(2.88) and a cheese stick (0.27)=3.15NC
• Lunch: spaghetti (5), sauce (6.75)=11.75NC
• Dinner: baked tilapia with butter, broccoli (6.89) with cheese (3.93)=10.82NC
• Dessert:  Russel Stover sugar free toffee square (0) 
• Couch-2-5k day 1 (35 mins with cool down): -465 calories 
• OK I ADMIT IT:  I couldn't stay out of the chips and just went and ate 2.  Better than 2 handfuls and the craving is gone=4.95NC

• Running Totals:  44.48NC/(16.52 veggie carbs) /1808calories/109.57g protein

Do you have the couch to 5k app for your phone??  I'm thinking about getting it...mostly because I love apps.  :)

I'm doing pretty well today.  Just gotta say "NO" to the chips that are calling my name from the cabinet.  James isn't home, so it would be so easy for me to just snack on junk all night while I study (I got used to him cooking for me!)...  Not gonna do it!  That would be a waste of effort from the rest of the day.

Also, I follow Shape too on twitter!  Any other good inspiration you follow on there??  Will you add my other twitter account??  I finally made all of my accounts the same--MandaJoMiles (instead of just J) that way I don't have to guess which one is which. I sent a request.