Happy Easter!

I was doing so well with my 10K steps a day...til Friday. I got home and hadn't even hit 4,000. I had to pick up my son from camp and we ended up eating at the BK Lounge. Once I'd eaten my garden burger (no mayo) and side salad, I ended up on the couch feeling a nap trying to overtake me. By the time Hubba-hubba came home I was in a funk. So I forced myself out the door and took a walk. When I got home I was in a much better mood, so we went out for the night.

Now I like going out if I get a chance to sleep in - theoretically - but my eyes auto-open at 7am no matter what I do. I stayed home all day Saturday and cleaned house. I didn't get 10K steps in, but the energy I expended cleaning must count up to something.

We had our fourth CD challenge meeting last night and I didn't drink at all. Had five friends over, they all got trashed but I drank water. It worked for me. We stayed up late, some of us later than others (I gave in to the sleepies at 2am - Hubba-hubba stayed in the hot tub 'til wee morning hours) and again I was wide awake at 7am this morning. I'll so be ready for a nap later....


So, I'm getting it off my chest now that I realize I won't get 10K steps in today and I will probably eat more than my allotted 1500 calories today what with dinner at my parents and dessert at the in-laws...plus chocolate will be around. Yesterday I found dark chocolate peanut M&Ms. OMFG! WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO DO TO ME?!? I'm not a big candy eater however dark chocolate is my weakness. Thank goodness I'm pretty much done with run of the milk chocolate after 3 mouthfuls. I'm just confessing now that I'm finishing up my week with a total downhill slide. *Sigh* I will have to really concentrate next week on meeting all of my goals.

GOALS:
10K steps per day
Less than 1500 calories per day
Make dinner at home at least five nights
Drink 4 liters of water each day

That's not much to worry about is it?

Thursday Weigh In

I was *so* excited to do a weigh in this week because I really felt like I was making serious progress. I've been drinking 3 - 4 liters of water a day, I've eating right and I've averaged nearly 10K steps a day.

Weight went UP this week. 169.8

HOWEVER, my little magic scale that tells me how fat I am in other ways besides pounds. My percentage of fat went down and my body water content went up. I never recorded what those number were so I don't know exactly what the change is, but I will from now on because those numbers will come into play more than weight I think...uh, except now I don't remember exactly what they were. I think my percentage of body fat went from somewhere around 40% to 38% and water content went to 47% (should be 50% or higher).

Plus, my aunt is coming to visit any day now. I can tell because I ate like there was no tomorrow last night after bowling. Cheerios at 11:00pm. And garlic bread with buffalo meatballs on top. Sometimes ya' just gotta go with those sorts of things.

Goals: WALKING

I got this fancy new pedometer. I thought it was really cool...and then I saw the four dead ones I have sitting on my dresser. Meh, this time it will be different.

Right?

So far right! Last week I logged nearly 67,000 steps. My goal is 70,000 which, of course, takes an average of 10,000 per day. I was pretty proud of the fact that in the middle of the week I only logged 7,000 steps a couple of those days so I ramped it up over the end of the week to try and make up for it. I didn't quite get there but I'm pretty stoked about how well I did. Five days out of seven I made it past 10K. That's huge for me. It was one of my goals for the week to walk half an hour every day - I got that accomplished AND my goal for three weeks out which is to ramp it up to a goal of 45 minutes a day of walking. I'll have to think of another goal I guess. One that involves another behavior I need to work on - like hoarding newspapers or pinching small babies when their mothers aren't looking.

Weigh In

BTW - I was 169.4 lbs

I guess that counts as five pounds lost but I'm not really sure how my scale at home compares to the scale the weighed me on at work. We'll see this Thursday.

Water. Water is the key to me not eating my arm off. I've been keeping a food diary and tracking calories and fat grams. Whenever I've done this before, I'd eat just the lightest of light meals (I thought so anyway but there seemed to always be cheese involved!) trying ever-so-carefully to keep my count low through the day so I could eat a decent meal at night. Then I'd be so hungry I'd shove anything down my gullet.

Drinking water has helped the hunger A LOT. I start my day with coffee as usual. I make sure I have a low-fat breakfast that's around 200 - 250 kcal. By the time I get to work I'm done with coffee so I switch to water. I have a one liter Dasani bottle sitting on my desk all day and I fill it up at least three times if not four. It has totally eliminated my need for any type of mid-morning or mid-afternoon snack. Awesome!

Weigh day

Today is my weigh in day. I'm curious to see if there's any progress to be seen yet. I kinda went on the straight and narrow right before the official weigh in so I'm wondering what my weight would have been if I had just kept on like I was....slowly getting fatter and fatter and fatter. It can really creep up on you!

I walked over 10K steps Monday and Tuesday but only got in 7K yesterday. I think it will probably be all right though. Don't want my legs falling off. Its been nice to be able to sit in the hot tub and let it all relax at night. Kinda makes me not mind paying $100 a month to keep it running. (No frugality there!)

I had a dream last night that someone gave me $4800 to start a business. Like it was known that I had this burning desire to begin working on this idea I had and this organization heard about it and found me and gave me the money. Sadly, I don't remember what my burning desire was. If I knew that I think I'd be on my way out of this paper bag of mid-life crisis I can't find my way out of.

If someone gave you $4800 to start a venture - what would you do with it?

DST kicks my ass

I wonder if my 40+ year old bad self will ever get used to this earlier version of daylight savings time. I can't seem to get to bed before 11:45pm and this is kickin' my ass. I have GOT to get to bed earlier tonight.

I had a pretty alright day goal wise - however it sucked as far as inter-personal relationships with hormonal 13 year olds goes. AND it sucked as far as being WAY in over my head with SQL programming. *sigh* I have GOT to get out of where I am. (I'm not a programmer, I just play one on TV)

I think the eating thing and drinking water thing and walking thing has pretty much clicked. The DH tried to sabotage me by bringing home cheesy breadsticks from Round Table pizza. I think he likes me fat! Which I understand (I guess); fat = complacent and willing to stay par for the course. Losing weight = change, possible ramifications for him.

Never made the chicken last night, it didn't thaw in time. It will be tonight. I made mashed potatoes and everyone pretty much ate whatever the hell they wanted. Its so discouraging to not be able to put a meal together. I really hate being the only one that figures this stuff out. Tonight the eldest said she'd make dinner....thank you eldest! I love you!

48297

That's the number of official steps there are on my new pedometer. I say "official" steps because I didn't get the thing until Tuesday and I forgot to wear it on Saturday even though I did go on a long 1 hour walk Saturday plus I did lots of work around the house and in the yard. I think if I'd had it on I'd be closer to pushing 60K steps. That's equivalent to walking half an hour or more each day of the week so that's one of my goals met!

I think that's pretty good, and it wasn't that hard.

The other goal I met this week - drank water. LOTS of water. Even this weekend I averaged over 100 ounces per day, which for me, on a weekend day - is phenomenal.

The eating at home - not too good, but not too bad. Ate out Wed, Thurs, Sat and Sun....hmmmm, maybe we didn't do as good as I was thinking. Thursday was bowling and Saturday was double date night. I have no excuses for Wed and Sun other than that's just how it worked out. We'll have to keep working on that one.

Tonight - chicken, potatoes and fresh green beans. Now I gotta go get the chick out of the freezer.

Walking vs. Running

Calories are the bane of my existence. Last year I managed to get down to 160, briefly, but after I stopped logging every morsel of food and getting up at the crack-ass-of-dawn to walk for an hour+, my weight crept back up to 174 in the span of six months. Yikes!

I changed a lot of my eating habits last year. I started eating breakfast every day, concentrated on eating five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, avoided my favorite fried foods, drank lots of water and pretty much gave up eating red meat.

Slowly, I've slipped back into old habits....fries, tater tots (dang bowling alley!), the crunchy tacos at TB instead of the chicken soft tacos al fresco style. The list goes on - belive me :D

And then there's the drinking. I cut way back on that too - but I just can't seem to go without Spanish Coffees from Katie O'Brien's or double vodka tonics at The Winchester. Our social life centers around eating and drinking out and I can see this becoming a huge struggle for me.

Anyone else facing this problem?

Rock Bottom

I said I was going to get my numbers this week - and boy did I get them.

I am 61.1 pounds of fat! (35.4%)

I weigh 174 lbs, that means I've put on 14 lbs since the wedding. I think back on it and I was working so hard (it seems to me) and I only ever got down to 160 - I have to rethink how I'm going about this.

I tried getting to 10K steps yesterday but only got in 8500 or so. I slept well I gotta say that!

Man...

Tally Up

GOOD THINGS: brushed, flossed, ate breakfast, leftovers for lunch, drank water, walked, made dinner at home.

BAD THINGS: tuna casserole, beer, stayed up too late....Goddamned LOST!

Later today I will have official numbers up here for y'all to see how whaley I start out on this thing. Srsly, you'd be amazed. I'LL be amazed...and depressed. But! Then we'll see the light when my newly calibrated pedometer and futuristic fat scale start racking up and ratcheting down the numbers.

My goal of eating out less did not work out this weekend. AND we had the kids which made it expensive. :( Better luck this week!

P.S. I DID NOT eat teh tots at the alley last week! YAY! Go me :D