Trying

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything: "I will try" has
accomplished wonders.
-- George P. Burnham

I apologize for the lack of a weigh in post yesterday. I had a wedding shower yesterday afternoon and needless to say, I was on the go until late afternoon, and after than, I just crashed.

I was up .4 of a pound this week. I'm not really that upset about it. Why you ask? Well one, I had a couple times where I wasn't so great last week. Not like I ate a dozen doughtnuts and two pieces of cake bad, but just not tracking as closely as I should. Plus on top of that, Saturday I didn't drink any water, and Iwent to the gym (which amazingly seems to make me weigh more the next day...go figure). So .4lbs....not a big deal. Unfortunately, next week is my TOM weigh in. So I won't be seeing a loss next week....bummer!

I've decide the weigh in after that, I am going to weigh in Saturday instead of Sunday, because that Saturday night is the Bachelorette Party for my brothers Fiance, and while I don't intend to be bad, add a couple of drinks, and the dehydration that goes along with that, and I'm sure it would "screw up" my weigh in, so i will weigh a day early to avoid that. Fun huh? It's going to be a busy month.

The shower was a complete success, and also a huge NSV for me. I stuck to my plan and only touched the veggie tray. I ate quite a few carrots and cauliflower, but after all the shit I avoided, good lord! Like all my temptations were there, and I didn't touch any of them! We had a taco bar (me and mexican, we were great friends pre-WW's), plus I made two cheesecakes (yum!) and grandma brought a german chocolate cake (My favorite, I used to get one every year on my Birthday!). So I avoided a ton of stuff that could have been disastrous. Sure I liked my fingers once or twice while cutting the cakes, and I stole one tortilla chip (at least it was multigrain!), and I licked my finger while cleaning up the 7 layer dip....but overall. I stayed out of it, and for me, that's awesome!

I did make it to the gym twice this weekend. Friday and Saturday. But my body was two tired after 2 workouts in a row to even think of going Sunday. But the workouts went well, and the 25 minutes (instead of the 20) is kicking my ass a little less each time. That's a good thing. Perhaps more butt dimples will disappear? lol

This week, I am planning to get in three workouts (M,W,F), and I have a feeling it will be a great OP week! Which sucks I won't see a loss this weekend...but I will get over it!

I did bake alot this weekend. I made two lemon cakes (my youngest brothers 21st birthday, so I needed to make him one for home, and one for work), four loaves of bread (two which didn't rise properly, thats why I had to make two more!), one cheesecake, another no bake cheesecake, plus I decorate cookies, which we gave as favors....I'm exhausted. But of all the baking, I stayed out of it...yay!

Alright, well I gotta get back to work...have a healthy day bloggers!

Courage and Strength

Hard things are put in our way, not to stop us, but to call out our
courage and strength.
-- Anonymous

I get daily "positive" quotes in my email everyday, usually they aren't all that inspiring, and I have to do searching for a positive quote for you guys, but today, this one was delivered to my email!

This quote I think really can hit home for anyone. We have all, at one point or another, in our personal lives, or in our weight loss journey's hit hard times. We all have been faced with things that seemed nearly impossible to overcome, but we all have overcome them, haven't we? We just need to find the courage and the strength to get through it. But deep inside all of us, we have it, the drive, the strength, the courage to get through anything.

Yesterday was a....not so good day. I guess it wasn't that bad, but I was just crazy munchy all day! And it was the type of munchy where my stomach was actually growling (like it still is today in fact). I was doing good, I resorted to carrots, which are my safe food. But I made the mistake of getting into the ice cream. I've almost decided I can't keep ice cream (besides single serving cups) in the house, because for some reason, I have a tendency to eat out of the carton. Now by no means did I get completely off track, or eat half the carton, I probably ate like 1.5 cups (which is what I counted for), but still, it wasn't good...6 points in ice cream...geez. But I have plenty of flex left, so I should be ok. Other than that, yesterday went ok.

Today is going fine so far, and I will be out of the house most of the evening between going to the gym, and then helping with the Lenten Fish Fry at church. I volunteered to help clean up the kitchen afterwards (I figured this was safer than making up the dishes or manning the dessert table lol). Then I will probably come home and start icing cookies for my brother's wedding shower on Sunday. I am doing these cute little double heart cookies.

Then Saturday I have alot of little things to do for the shower, get name tags together, bake two cheesecakes, that kinda of stuff. I should definitely be tuckered out from baking after this weekend.

I am planning on getting to the gym tonight, Saturday and Sunday, and that should put me back on track for the month after a few forced skipped workouts due to the gimpy foot. But we'll see how it goes, the workouts I do are rather intensive and sometimes it's very hard to do back to back workouts. But we will see how I feel :)

Anyways, I hope everyone has a wonderful Friday, and I will report back with a weigh in on Sunday and maybe a few pictures of my cheesecakes and cookies!

Happiness

Happiness is more a state of health than of wealth.

Frank Tyger

My good friend Kathy had a post yesterday about her personal goals for her weight loss journey, and essentially talked about how is all boiled down to her being happy. Which isn't this the case with all of us? We all start on this weight loss journey, at one point or another, because we are unhappy with some aspect of our health. Whether it be chronic indigestion (that was me!), hurting joints, not fitting in to clothes, being told we should lose weight for our health, or whatever other reason, we are all in this because we want to be happier people. So isn't this quote right on? Happiness is a state of health.

Things have been going good on this end. Incredibly busy at work, hence the lack of posts.

My foot is getting better. I was actually going to go to the gym as scheduled yesterday, but decided to give myself another day to let my foot heal. It still hurts a small amount today, but I think I will attempt the gym regardless. I think I will be fine. I don't want to fall too behind on my gym goals for the month.

I have been doing pretty decent OP. I've had more "perfect" weeks, but I'm still doing fine. I ate a few flexies last night, but that's what they are there for. I've been getting in my 8GHG's, and I haven't had any "eat my face off" sessions, so I think I'm handling everything pretty well.

Things around the house with the roommate have been surprisingly good. I think we are actually getting along better now that's she's moving out then we have been for over a year now (she's lived with me for almost 3 years). She is actively looking for a place, but hasn't found anything she likes yet, which I never expected her to find something in a month. But at least I know she is looking.

I had a couple NSV's the other day I keep forgetting to mention:

1. I went over to my parents for dinner on Sunday, and of course what does my mom make? One of my favorite meals like ever in this whole world...Barbecue Meatballs, now mind you, back pre-WW's I would have eaten 10 meatballs drenched in sauce, huge serving of mashed taters, plus a roll or two with butter. you know, all the goodies. What did I eat? I had 4 meatballs, with just the sauce that came out of the pot with them, I skipped the mashed potatoes, and had one roll (without butter) and called it good enough. I was not stuffed, but satisfied. Very big NSV.

2. The other one might be TMI, but I'm gonna tell ya, cause I know ya'll done the same thing! Usually when I get out of the shower, my ass kinda looks big. It's never been that big, but I've never been happy with it either. I've always had those "fat dimples" and hated that. Well the other day, I'm getting out of the shower, and for once, I didn't notice fat dimples. My ass actually kinda looked good! Running to blame for this? Probably! But still, major NSV there too!

Alrighty, I gotta get back to work, but I wanted to share :) I hope everyone is staying OP, I know this is the time of year when motivation starts to wane a bit!

Seeking Challenges

"Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves"
-Robert Rodriguez

Enjoy the quote! I think it's the mantra all of us should follow. If we don't seek out a challenge, they certainly won't fall in our laps. It's like the losing weight, no one will do it for us (unfortunately, wouldn't that be great is someone else could lose our weight for us?). If we want to lose weight, and know that we should, whether it's for health reasons, to be happier or just to look better, we have to go seek out that challenge. We have to decide we are going to do it. So even if your already losing weight, why don't you challenge yourself to something new this week? Try something different!

My weekend was good, and On plan. I probably licked the spoon few too many times baking and tasted a little too much of this or that, but I had no major problems, so I consider it a successful weekend. I made it to the gym on Saturday morning for a 25 minute run, and that felt good, but I will tell you, even adding two more high intervals to my workout really kicked my butt. I felt like I was going to die. But I suppose that is good, since I know I'm working hard enough that way.

On a bad note I kinda rolled my ankle/foot yesterday pretty bad, and I'm hobbling pretty good, so I don't know if I am going to be able to get in my workout tomorrow night. I think I will go any try regardless, but I might have to take it easy if it hurts to run on it. But I don't want to stop going to the gym until it gets better, since I've been so good about going the last two months.

Other than that, not much really new. I am going to be facing a tough week, I have a bridal shower from my brothers fiance this coming weekend, which will be a test of strength. I am limiting myself to being able to only touch the fruit and veggie tray (without dip!). I can eat anything I want on those two trays without counting the points. They are my free food, and as long as I don't get into the other stuff, I simply cannot do that much damage with veggies and fruit right?

Alright I gotta get back to work, but I hope everyone is having a healthy and on plan day!

Weigh In 2/3/08

I lost 1.2lbs this week. I'm happy with that, it's my average. yay!

Review of January, Goals for February

Alright! Well happy February everyone. Sorry I've been a little lacking on the posts as of lately, We get really busy at work this season, so I'm actually made to work all day...pssshhhhh, whats up with that.

Well regardless, I wanted to review my January goals, and set some February Goals.

January Goals were:


1. Try to get to the gym three times per week. That means 12 times this month. I can do it. Cardio and Fat burning are my focus.

I got to the gym 12 times. The last time was a short session due to some time stipulations, but I still made it there!

2. Lose 5lbs. I think it's doable, I was on track to do that in December before the wagon tipped over and fell on me.

Well I lost 5.2lbs. So I definately hit this one. Great! Started at 158.6, ended the month at 153.4. I'm very happy with that.

3. Use Spark to track my Carbs, Fat and Protein for the month. I don't expect to do this for every month, but I think every so often I need to have a month of it. This will be one of those.

I used Spark Monday thru Friday, and sometimes Saturday to track my macros. My Sundays are a little crazy, so I usually let that one go. But I used Weight Watchers online tracker at all times. I only had one day where I kinda had some issues.

4. In conjunction with #3, appropriately balance my macros. I have a tendency to eat very carb heavy (perhaps preventing weight loss?).

My macros were pretty balanced. Way better than I am sure they were before. Were they always within the set ranges? Umm, no. But they were close. This month I will work a little harder on that.


And Now, my February Goals:

1. Weight Loss Goal, same as every month, I would like to lose 5lbs. I think it's doable, especially with upping my exercise a bit.

2. Use SparkPeople to track my eating as well as Weight Watchers. I'm going to work even harder on Balancing them out.

3. Get my 8 GHG's in! I've been doing well at this, and I want to keep up on that.

4. Get to the gym 13 times. This is one more time then I did last month. I think that's reasonable, also, I just upped my workouts from 20 to 25 minutes, and by the end of the month I would like to be at 30 minutes.

So there you have it! Goals for February.

First weigh in tomorrow! I'll post it.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Another Winner!

Wanted to post another winner recipe...oh my these turned out good. Totally yummy (and taste sinful!), but only two points. Enjoy!

Banana Crumb Muffins