EDITED BELOW!

I plan all my meals to some extent, or at least have everythign pre-cooked, washed, prepped, bagged, whatever. It limits my choices but makes my life much easier…

Makes for a really long Sunday after noon of cooking at least 9 servings (usually 2 to 3 entrees) for my lunches at work (4) and my dinners at home (5), as well as prepping the same number of cooked vegetables (1/2c portions), at least 5 servings of a cold salad (great snacks) and 5 or more bags full of raw veggies (chopped and cleaned!). I also make the low fat dip, wash the apples and generally assemble everything in some sort of order in the fridge so that it’s easier to grab and go.

I think the only meal I typically prepare is breakfast…

Today’s food: (23 pts available, plus 2 AP earned and 25 FP remaining for the week)

Breakfast: Egg sandwich, strawberries – 4pts

Snack: Blueberry fiber cake from Trader Joe’s (THESE THINGS ARE AWESOME!) – 1pt

Food that I will most likely eat today even though I haven’t yet….

Lunch: Subway Oven Roasted Chicken Breast with the works veggies, spicy mustard and one line of honey mustard -  6 pts

Snack: 3/4lbs fresh veggies (0), 2T lf dip (1), broccoli salad (2), apple (1), strawberries (0), black beans (mmmm, my homemade recipe that I invented all by myself which is pretty awesome, 3) 2pts

Dinner: Pecan crusted tilapia (5), 1/2c cooked veggies (1), salad with dressing (on the side to dip my fork in), fat free feta cheese, imitation bacon bits, and salsa (2) Leftover chicken tikka (6 pts) and a cheater style english muffin pizza (4 pts) – 10 pts.

Total: (assuming I eat all of the above and nothing else) 26 points (I will use my 2AP and one of my FP and everything will be in) 23pts. I still have AP left and may indulge in a sugar free pudding….

 Weigh in went well today – down 2.2lbs.

EDITED BELOW TO FINISH YESTERDAY’S FOOD!

In addition to trying to hit the gym as much as possible (or other exercise, like biking a lot of miles and what not), and drinking lots and lots of water, I think I will be trying to post here everyday. AND I’m going to post my food! Boring for you? Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps!

But I didn’t do it yesterday, so I’ll post yesterday’s here and today’s too!

Monday’s food:
Breakfast: egg sandwich, strawberries – 4pts

Lunch: 3/4lb fresh veggies, 2T low fat dip, 1/2c cooked carrots, 1/2c brown rice, 1c mexican fiesta chicken – 8 pts

Snack: broccoli salad, apple – 3pts

Dinner: Tuscan chicken breast, 1/2c corn – 5 pts

Snack: Sugar Free pudding, Kashi cookie – 3 pts

Total – 23pts (about 1377 calories)

Today’s food:

Breakfast: E.S., strawberries – 4pts

Snack: 1 mini chocolate meringue, south beach living water - 0 pts

Lunch: Pecan crusted tilapia filet, 1/2c cooked carrots, 3/4lb fresh veggies, 2T lf dip,  3 mini meringues, 1 blueberry fiber cake, 1/2c strawberries - 8 pts

Snack: 1c turkey chili, broccoli salad – 5 pts

Dinner: I went out for Indian food with friends and therefore, had to approximate a lot of these values…
Garlic Naan (1 piece of 6″ diameter) – 4pts
Chicken Tikka (about 1/2 to 3/4c of chicken, onions and peppers) – 4pts
A spoonful of chicken tikka masala, saag chicken and tandoori paneer – 3pts

Total for the day: 28pts (this is 5 points over my allowed 23 points for the day, but I had 2 activity points from exercising in the morning and I pulled the remaining three from my weekly flex points – I had 29 left and I reset them on Thursday mornings, so I think I’ll be okay there!)

Total – 12pts (about ? calories, I’ll have to enter them in SparkPeople later on)

I climbed my hiney out of bed this morning. On a Monday no less!

Go Me!

I did about 40 minutes of actual exercising – including 10 man pushups. BOOOOYEAAAAAH. That’s 10 manly pushups for me! I would eventually like to do 50 or more – in a row! I think I will try for 11 on Wednesday! Going up one at a time!!!

Go Me some more!

Man, if you can’t tell, I’m still wired. Things are feeling good right now. I’m feeling happy with actual progress that I’m making (even if I did bump under the 160 barrier this weekend and I’m now down to 23 points a day) and I’m looking forward to Wednesday.

And I’m actually looking forward to circuit training tomorrow morning – and considering biking to the gym to get in some extra cardio!!!!

P.S. Sorry for the exclaimation points. At this point in time, they are entirely out of my control. You’d think I was sugar high or something.

WHOOOOHOOOOOW!
I’m wiiiiiiired.
Just got back from bike ride this afternoon – I went 15 miles (7.5 there and then back) in 72 minutes and while I didn’t actually GO anywhere, I sure as hell went!!! I was averaging a speed of 12.5mph and that is counting all the damn traffic lights – which means it was really more like 15mph!

Damn, if only it weren’t Sunday! Then I could go again tomorrow!

Ah, I always forget WHY I bike. This is why. The rush, the high, the bouncing in my chair as I type.

Oh, and the awesomeness of sweating sooooo much that it runs in your eyes and dries all crunchy on your face and back and make my hair into little spikes that are hard to the touch.

AWESOME!

We’ll see how I feel tomorrow when my bum hurts me and I don’t want to get up buuuuuttttt….
Right now, Who cares!?!

Today I didn’t make it to the gym but I did make the pupsters walk for 60 minutes at the dog park. They hate this. NO quality butt-sniffing time for them, they are too busy trying to keep up with me!

So far today, I have eaten:

 1 eggy sammich with LC cheese, Thomas honey wheat english muffin, 1 egg and 2 slices deli ham
 1 medium apple
 2 small cutlets of chicken picatta with capers (which I love more and more everytime I eat them!)
~1/2c cooked angel hair pasta 
 1/2c. green beans sauteed in garlic olive oil
 3/4lb veggies (celery, carrots, red peppers, sugar snap peas)
 1 T of fiesta dip

I think dinner tonight will be a salad and Tuscan chicken. And I still have a snack of 1c of broccoli salad with cranberries and bacon bits!

Weight Watchers – Week 14

Ugh. Another gain. And this time I wasn’t eating like shit. Or at least not as much shit as last time. Up 0.2lbs. Nothing horrible but just clearly, I need to be better (there was a Taco Bell day and a Pasty Grimaldi’s pizza day). As well as too many days with NO gym – and while I can typically at least squeeze in a 30 minute walk, I really don’t qualify that as enough exercise while I’m trying to lose like this.

Part of the Weight Watchers program is to follow the “Good Health Guidelines” – the biggies:

1.) Eat at least 5 servings (total) of fruit and/or vegetables daily (I do this everyday – and typically get 8+)

2.) Include at least 2 servings of milk daily (I do this about 4 to 5 days a week – though I try really really hard to keep them fat free or low fat – Helllllo Laughing Cow cheese).

3.) Have some (recommendation is 2 tsp) healthy oil in your diet everyday (This I do not do everyday, I don’t think. I do eat my veggies sauteed in oil in an attempt to get more olive oil – 3 servings of veggies sauteed in about 1T of garlic flavored olive oil – about 1tsp maybe makes it into me if I’m lucky….welll, 1tsp for each serving of cooked veggies and I try to eat 2 a day. I typically succeed in eating 2 servings of cooked veggies 4 days or so a week).

4.) Drink at least 6 glasses of water. (This I KNOW that I do NOT do but maybe 2 or 3 days a week.)

So.
If I am to remain serious about this.

I will:

1.) Do better about eating out. Limit fast food out to Subway only and one time a week. Go out to dinner with Joshua every other week only.

2.) Do better about drinking water. 6 glasses is a minimum! 8 glasses or more is more like it…

3.) GYM! The other thing that was lacking this past week was gym time. I missed on Thursday, Sunday and Tuesday and slacking off at the gym on Saturday and Monday. I did take a walk on Tuesday but really, that doesn’t really do much. Soooo…back to trying for a 5-7 days a week worth of working out and working out at a decent level instead of last week’s slacking off.

I hate paying to gain weight!

Hopefully these three things work.

If not, I will either be switching to the core plan (I’m on the flex plan currently) or else cutting myself back to 23 points instead of 24 points everyday…

Okay.

I need your music!

I need more mp3s for my iPod that I can work out to.

Soooo.

Pick one song that you would be willing to work out to for the rest of your life – it must be that awesome, motivating, whatever.

Song title and artist please!

I’m bored with most of my music and what I’m not bored with, is not motivating!

oh today will be a taco bell night yes it will!

too much not fun at work, i can’t even bestir myself to even push the shift button

stupid job!

mexican pizza here i come!