Weigh-in Wednesday

Yea! Lost the two pounds I gained the previous week. Total: up 1 pound. Oh well.

I am trying to drink more water. The exercise thing has been non-existent.

Work in progress.

Weigh-in Wednesday

Crap ... gained two pounds ... up a total of three pounds. So far, this is not going well!!

Two Days Down; 19 to go

I worked out for 10 minutes today. Yea me!

Okay ... here we go again

So, last week was not a great week for the whole diet thing. However, during my vacation, I picked up a 10-minute solution workout dvd. I did one of them yesterday. Not exactly kid-friendly. But surely I can fit in 10 minutes a day, right? Also, it's been brought to my attention that it takes 21 days to form a habit. My current goal: 10 minutes (or more) of exercising every day for 21 days, starting yesterday, April 19. I'll keep you posted.

Weigh-in Thursday

RGGG ... up 1.5 pounds since last week ...

oops

Totally forgot to weigh-in this morning ... I'm sure it won't be pretty. I will do it tomorrow. Really, I will!

Better

I did not eat a ton of food at either of my overnights this week. Last night I had two snacks, and Sunday night, just one. That's an improvement. I still need to work on drinking more water.

Well ... maybe next week

Okay, so with family in town, the food diary thing didn't work out so well. We've been eating yummy food and not-good-for us food. Oh well. I will keep at it.

Food Diary - Thursday

Breakfast:
1/2 grapefruit with honey
Coffee with hot chocolate and whipped cream

Lunch:
Cheese and Chicken Quesadilla
Dt. Mt. Dew


Supper:
Two Double Decker Tacos (homemade)
Tea

I don't know ... this day got away from me. I didn't have Internet access all afternoon.

Food Diary - Wednesday

It's nice to not start out my day with "Midnight Snacks"

Breakfast:
Biscuit with egg, cheese and sausage. (Homemade and so yummy)
2 glasses of water
Turtle Mocha Frappacinno

Lunch:
Piece of pizza
Few little pieces of cheese
Dt. Mt. Dew
Few mini Oreos

Snack:
Popcorn
Pretzels

Supper:
Water
Bread and a little butter
Salad with Blue Cheese on the side
Yummy steak medallions with garlic butter
Little Rice
Twice baked potato

Snack:
Cold Stone Creamery Ice cream (I know, bad!)

*We had a showing at 6:15, so Barb took the kids, and Gav took me out to eat at Lone Star. Not so good for the diet, but oh so good for the "yummy" factor.

Weigh-In Wednesday

Starting point: 0.00
April 8: - 1 pound
Total loss/gain: -1 pound

Yea! Okay, so it was different time of day, but still, a loss is a loss, right? We'll see how I do over the weekend ... lots of family time (which means lots of food!)

Food Diary -Tuesday

So working overnights, adds a few snacks to my days, but I'm trying to be honest about the ol' intake. The overnights also make me tired, which makes me more likely to eat something I shouldn't instead of fixing something yummy, but I guess that's the way life goes. I'm going to go enjoy my coffee now.

Midnight Snack:
Cheese
Wheat Thins
Tea
Couple of Little Cookies

Breakfast:
1/2 a cup of juice
2 slices of marble creme bread (yummy)
Coffee with hot chocolate and whipped cream

Snack:
Blueberry Coffee with Cinnamon creamer (Thanks, Christine!)

Lunch:
Double cheeseburger (this saves 160 calories from ordering two little cheeseburgers)
Fries (should've ordered the kids meal ... didn't need the large fries)
Tea
Two little cookies

Supper:
Pizza
Broccoli with Ranch
Little cookies
Water

Snack:
Reisen Chocolate

Blah day ... ready for bed. I'm tired. Not looking forward to weigh-in tomorrow, but I am making some subtle choices, as I don't want to write something down, so I'm not eating it. It's a start.

Food Diary - Monday

Midnight Snack:
Wheat Thins
Orange
Few pieces of cheese
Tea

Breakfast:
Egg McMuffin
Turtle Mocha Frappe

Lunch:
Dt. Mt. Dew
Chicken & Cheese Quesadilla with sour cream and salsa

Supper:
Turkey spam and cheese sammie
Green Beans
Rice
Couple of little cookies

Snack:
Little ice cream
Dt. Mt. Dew
Little cookies

Food Diary - Sunday

Breakfast:
1/2 glass of water
Fruit Crisps
Espresso Truffle (really good, but probably not good for me)

Snack:
Wheat Thins (I think I had a few while I was getting lunch ready)

Lunch:
Turkey Sausage with bun, pickle relish, mustard and cheese
1/2 plain Turkey Sausage
Tater Tots with cheese and mustard
Lemonade

Snack:
Wheat Thins

Supper:
Pizza (4 squares)
Ranch Doritos (handful)
Apple
Mini Cookies (5)

Snack:
Few puffed popcorn
Bite-size Snickers
Coffee

So far ... not so good for the water intake ... I'll work on that after a much-needed nap!

Not a terrible day, but not great

After working another overnight, I got up and helped Husby move his office around. On the upside we got to spend almost six hours without the kids and got a lot accomplished. We even enjoyed a meal together. On the downside, I did not get a nap. As far as food goes ... still need to make better choices when out and about. Argg ... this is not going to be easy.

Anyway, tomorrow begins the first official full week of the One-Year Goal ... this week's goals: write down all my food (sorry to bother you with all that, but that is the purpose of this blog) and drink more water. I'll keep you posted!

For the record

Working overnights and selling a home are not positive influences on one's decision to lose a few pounds. I do okay at work until about 12:30 or 1 a.m., then I'm am either so tired I eat to keep myself awake or am so hungry because it's that late and my body would rather be sleeping. Oh well. This is a bit of a crazy five days for work, but then I'll settle into my new regular schedule. I am looking forward to that.

I wonder

Okay, so I weighed-in before my shower this afternoon. Blah, but about what I expected. And, no, I'm not going to share the number ... it's icky, and that's not really important. The important part is weighing less!!

On to my wonder ... I wonder how many pounds I could lose before Husby would notice. I haven't decided if I'm going to tell him about this venture quite yet. I wonder ...

Another blog?

Yep, but this one is to chronicle my one-year goal of losing 35 pounds. Here's why:

1. I just turned 35, I'm not a kid anymore.
2. Husby likes it when I take care of myself.
3. I have three little people who depend on me to take care of them, so I'd better be a good example.
4. I did not like this picture of me on my birthday:


So, do I have a strategy? Nope, not really. I'm still formulating my plan. I'll probably try to take it one week at a time, so this week, is gearing up to get going. My official start date was yesterday, but I forgot to weigh-in, so I will do that later today, and give updates on Wednesdays. Yep, it will be Weigh-in Wednesdays on this blog. I decided that if I blog about it maybe I'll be more accountable, even if no one ever reads this!