Sunday Successes

Today was a pretty darn good day all tolled.

Slept in and since it was snowy and cold and ugly...I didn't go. Bad me, but I made up for it.
Yoga this morning was good. We did some really great hip flexor work that I need to work on for sure! I got to have a steam after and a long hot shower!!! My fav.

Then I went and got groceries, did a quick sweep through the store - no list - which is not typically a good plan for me since thats when I tend to pick up "naughty things". But today was excellent - no treats.

On the way home I went to Starbucks for a coffee and then to subway for my lunch. I did 4 loads of laundry, cleaned up and then made dinner and lunch's for the next few days.

Eating was a solid 7/10 today, exercise was a 5/10 since I didn't do anything other then yoga. I'm going to pack my gym gear tonight to take to work (... no more excuses about lunchtime workouts). Water was excellent for a weekend day. I've had just over 3L now which is double my normal intake for a weekend.

Bfast:
2 oat pancakes
1T honey
1/2T becel
Lunch:
12" roasted chicken sub on whole wheat
lettuce, tomato, green pepper, olives, banana peppers, jalapenos
Ranch dressing (looked like about 3T even though I said "only a little)
****NOTE**** I decided that I would NOT get a pop and chips when I was in there, so I didn`t
Snack1:
2 clementines (yay I bought another box while shopping today
Snack2:
bag of microwave popcorn
Dinner:
1c quiona
2c chicken curry

I have these great bags of curry sauce that you just add to meat & veg and its awesome. I cooked the chicken in a little oil with some red onion, added 1 can chickpeas, 2c green beans, carrots, and yellow beans. It was total yum, and there is a couple days worth of leftovers.

Over and Out.

Walk it off

I had a bad Friday - even though I had such a great weigh-in. Forget "jinxing"
more like "sabotaging". But regardless, lunch on Friday was a burger, side salad and small amount of fries. The rest of the day went well - I even ate breakfast!!

Dinner was pretty darn good, I had some friends over to cook for and I made quinoa for the first time.

Appy - 1 massive scallop and 1 jumbo shrimp with garlic butter, sun dried tomato and dijon mustard)
Dinner - pork tenderloin (marinated in ginger, pepper and brown splenda)
quinoa pilaf (1/2 water. 1/2 chicken stock, ground ginger, and pepper)
mixed veggies ( spinach, snow peas, asparagus and broccoli)
Dessert - fatty, icing covered cupcakes! I had two. ug.

Today I woke up and felt tired and bloated... yep - not anywhere near enough water yesterday. Ug. Bad move. Luckily I had read this post last night before tucking into bed.

I was sitting at the computer, thanking about coffee and danishes and fatty bad foods that I could go and buy... and I thought. Right... first of all - put on your clothes - you lady are going for a walk - the sun is and you WILL do it. I hoped in the car and took off to one of my fav walking areas and did 35min in the sun. How awesome does that feel after. :)

Tonight is movie night... its going to be a bad one I know, likely pizza. I'm eating pre-movie date with Friends and I'm going to be extra conscious of my portion sizes. AND drink water like a man fresh from the desert!

Tomorrow I'm back to running and I have my yoga. I'm ever so excited, I really loving it. I also joined another yoga class for Wednesday nights - a starter yoga that will give me the basics of another style.

All in all, its a pretty good start to the weekend.

At the risk of jinxing myself

I jumped on the scale this morning and I weighed in at 269.8. I had to do it about 4 times for me to register that this was real. Left foot first.... then right foot first. Just in case it was a mirage.

I haven't been in the 260's in a looong time. And you know what - I was thinking that today I would go out for lunch... but nope. Not anymore - I'm going to eat the lunch I have and be happy and frugal and keep the habit.

I don't know if I've just jinxed myself by posting this, but I hope not. I'm excited to see what a good weekend of eating, proper rest and lots of water will do for my weigh in on Monday.

April 1 - goal weight is 259. You know - that actually seems attainable now with some work. Whereas before ...not so much.

I guess I need to post some new piccies too. This coming Monday I'll have to get out the camera!

Another Average day

Once again too much coffee at the office, not enough greens and veggies and fibre.

We have a new coffee machine and I think the novelty of getting a latte/cappichino is too much for me to resist! The only good thing is that they are damn small. About 5oz I would say. Also a spell of frugality has overtaken me and I did a calculation that I was spending over $100 a month on coffee. THAT.IS.NOT.ACCEPTABLE.

I didn't get in enough water at the office, but I'm doing my best now. However it was treat day and I did eat 2 mini Cinnamon buns. Not great.

Bfast:
1 oatmeal pancake
Snack1:
Coffee (lattes) x 4
Lunch:
1c BNS mac&cheese
1c mixed vegges and 1/2 tsp butter
Snack:
2 Cinnamon buns
office latte
Dinner:
4x oatmeal pancakes
1c raspberries
1T becel

So today's food has been pretty darn beige. Nary an apple, orange or clementine to be seen. Lunch was great - squash, green veg, whole wheat noodles, but I need to get some more veggies and good stuff in me. I'm just so not jazzed about eating salad right now. Not too sure what it is, but I have all the good makings in the fridge, but I just don't want to eat it.

Other then that - the "pancakes" are not the healthiest thing you can have - but not terrible. Or so I'm guessing actually.... lets see what the numbers say....

1c Bisquick (480 cal)
1c whole oats (480 cal)
1/2c egg whites (60 cal)
1c almond milk (40 cal)
2T ground flax seeds (60 cal)

This makes 6 pretty substantial pancakes. So that's 1120 cal / 6 pancakes = 187cal per.
little Pam spray in the pan and a couple of minutes of stove top work and they are done.

Well - I have to admit I thought that it would be a bit worse then that. :) Okay - time to drink the last of my water and head to bed!!

Ug.... no steam

Another shorty. Today I give 6 out of 10 stars. Breakfasts have been poor. Today I managed to chug some almond milk out of the container before heading in. Then it was sequential coffee's until noon. I need to get that sorted out - no breakfast is really bad news, metabolically and mentally speaking.

Lunch was chicken and rice (no time for greens to get packed in the morning). Another coffee and then out to the dental appointment, which ended up (annoyingly) being a consultation and not an official "appointment" where they did work. I ended up just going home after anyway.

I stopped in and got 2 feta and spinach spanicopita for early dinner. Then I made some oatmeal pancakes for second dinner. I made a couple extra for my breakfast tomorrow's breakfast.

I had lots of water today - 2.5L since I got home in the afternoon, so I'm quite pleased about that. Bed time now! Must get some zzzz's

Weigh In Monday

Jumped on the scale this morning and I was happy to see that there was a stalemate. No change. Which is like a bloody victory after four weeks of gains.

Weight - 273.8
Inches - still lacking motivation to get that done.

Food today was okay - I did make better choices, but not great ones. Tomorrows will be ever better.

Tis a short one tonight as I was entertaining guests for dinner - roasted chicken, mixed whole grains & rice, and mixed greens. Yes, there was sadly some dessert - I had 1c of half fat ice cream. But its all gone so no more for me to eat in the freezer.

No time to perv on blogs - which is a shame. I wanted to get through and see how March kicked off for everyone. I have some more dental work tomorrow in the early afternoon. I should be home well before end of day typically and I'll be pawing through blogs then to check on you all.

In like a lion?

First off, let me just say that often the comments that you all leave on here are much more interesting then the posts themselves! :) And I thank you for your comments on my last post. All very true.

Giving up... that would be the failure....and I'm not there yet. I'm going to keep going and try to make better choices as they come at me - food, exercise, rest, enjoyment of life, weight management, nutrition and hydration.

Today was a quiet Sunday. I'm still recovering from my stretch of sickness but I got up for our running meet up. I sat and had a skim milk latte and a pumpkin muffin while they ran, and read my book. Had a quick socialize when they got back and then I was off to my yoga class.

Yoga is actually quite hard...once the class is over I start to feel how much I worked. I'm really enjoying it. I'm sore as can be, but its the good hurt!

Anyway - this is March. The dreaded February is done. Time for better choices, little by little until they become habits! Tonight for dinner I wanted to order pizza, I drove all the way home and thought about pizza. I got in the house, opened a tin of beans and poached two eggs. That was dinner. Ate it before I could pick up the phone.

Simple eh? One choice at a time now.