Rocky Weekend Working

Really had a long weekend and didn't eat 5 times a day like I should.  Have not weighed myself but I have a feeling I have not lost anything.  Just know that my body can withhold food and for some reason I doesn't just melt off like you'd think.  I know its because I miss meals and my body just goes up and down like a yo yo.

I have never really been a big sweet person but love dark chocolate and think maybe I will get some super dark chocolate for now and then as my treat. 

4/24/12

Breakfast, slept in and didn't eat
Snack - none
Lunch - tuscan chicken sandwich on wheat and small cup of soup

Snack - fruit
Dinner - Making a pork lion, veggie and rice

4/23/12

OMG, this day sucked!

I had so many baby's today and just no energy. 

Breakfast had a bowl of cereal and a water

Lunch small salad at the hospital
Drank about 5 glasses of water

Dinner - Steak, corn on the cob and red skins.  Dinner was so good but ate at 9:45 PM.  Not so good eating to late.

4/22/12

Breakfast bowl of rice crispy's

Snack had a small piece of hamburger meat that Eric cooked

Early Lunch/Dinner, omg had the best salad ever.  Went with Eric to Vince and Joes and bought cooked almond encrusted chicken breasts to add to lettuce for a large dinner salad.  It was so good!  I will be making this again for sure!  YUM!

4/21/12

Fit Tracker = Starting this today to give me more incentive

http://fitbie.msn.com/fit-tracker

Kind of getting discouraged that I have not lost more in 2-1/2 weeks.

Only 5 pounds down but I guess its better to lose slowly and maybe it really will stay off!
 I am going to try this above FITBIE to maybe help me a little more.

Wish me luck!

4/20/12 - Day 18 of my challenge

Woke up with a horrible headache.  Nothing is kicking it...ugh!

WEIGHED MYSELF = I LOST ANOTHER POUND!!!

Breakfast = egg and a bagel (need to really cut the starch out!!!)  Maybe the start is really the reason why more weight is not coming off.  Last night I watched this show on LWN Channel 101 and the gal from Biggest Loser was on and she shared some really great secrets.  I need to only intake about 2000 calories a day and I am going to really start watching that.  So, I decided to start following her plan on line.

http://livewellnetwork.com/Live-Big-with-Ali-Vincent/episodes/Understanding-Food/8628053?pid=8628062

Snack = strawberries and cherries
Lunch = taco
Snack =
Dinner = Chicken Ceaser Salad = grilled my own chicken and lowfat dressing

Read this article today and thought I would share = http://fitbie.msn.com/slideshow/best-and-worst-foods-diets/slide/3


Its 12:44 PM and I am on my way out to go to the Fruit Market and Grocery Store.  Just need to load up on a lot of healthy stuff.  Getting tea and want to start drinking more of that to flush my system more.  

Oops! Stressed today and had an "Oops" Day!

Okay, so breakfast went down the toilet today.  I had a piece of pizza, yep cold pizza!  I been ordering senior pics for Kate and trying to get things ordered for her Prom and also trying to get the ceremony invites all addressed and just cracked with a little with some starch/bread/pizza.  Oops, I ate a piece of pizza.  Oh was it good and I had a glass of pop too at 10 AM! The pop was a glass of ginger ale.  I have not clue but it sounded good.  LOL

Lunch = ate a piece of chicken
Snack = Fruit
Dinner = Asparagus, broccoli (Eric hates asparagus so I had to make broccoli too; I'll just mix the two together for me) and sweet potato's and polish sausage (the veggies were great but not so sure on the polish sausage.  I'll start better in the morning tomorrow 4/20/12.  Promise! 

Well, this day might just be a ringer.  Need to focus and move forward.  Guess I can clean up my act the remainder of the day.  Smiles :)

4-18-12 Lunch

4-18-12 morning snack

not hungry but making myself eat and drink this! 
Great now I got the hiccups while eating my 2 carrots.

Losing?

I haven't weighed myself this week, and I think I am going to wait a few more days before I try.  Hope something more is coming off me!  My pants are getting a little lose around the butt cheeks and legs area.  I just want more to come off the top!  LOL  I guess I need to do more upper body exercising.

4-18-12

I dropped Jill off at school today and had to make a run to McDonald's for a coffee, kind of cheating today but one (1) latte should be okay. I needed something to wake me up!
Breakfast =couldn't drink the entire cup.  Only drank about 1/3 of it.  It was really bitter. YUCK!

medium caramel latte
Had 1 egg

snack =  11:30 AM, had to make myself eat a snack and drink 8oz of water.  Not hungry but ate 2 carrots.
Lunch= salad at 1:52 PM
snack = Simply Balancd By Acher Farms - Strawberry real fruit strips -
NO FAT = 0  No Saturated Fat = 0  No Trans Fat = 0  Calories = 45 per strip.  (my new rotating snack between a veg and rice cakes :),  You can find these at Target $2.79 per box.

Dinner = Going out for dinner tonight but no clue were and what I will eat.  Ugh!

Going for a 5 mile walk with Eric tonight.

Horrible News!

Oh my word!  My partner in crime (sweetest Pam) had a major catastrophe and I just found out about it.  My heart just got so scared for her and her children.  I hope and pray everything is okay.

Phew, just got news that the kids and the family are alright.  They had a major house fire while they were away.  I know this is going to probably put a bump in the challenge plans with my partner Pam, but I am just glad her family is safe, sound and healthy.  

Praying for you Pam!!!  Just take one step at a time.  God will be with you!

XHugsX

Note:  if you happen on my blog, just know that if you need any help or anything for the girls, do not hesitate to call me.

4-17-12

 No, I did not cheat!  Wouldn't this be awesome if it was part of my diet though ;).

Today I was in the mode to cook and bake.  Not sure what got into me, but I just felt like doing it, and it really was a relaxing morning for me.  Just a quiet house and time to pull out ingredients and mix away. 

Yes, I did bake but I did not eat the sweets!  I made cookie dough brownies, very proud of myself for keeping the will power!  Will power!  Will power!  However I did have 1 small roll.  It just had my name on it.   Everything I have been eating these days is on a 8 inch plate, see below.  Sometimes these pictures are deceiving but it is only a small scoop that I had of Rachel Ray's Mexican Casserole.  Everything I used in this was low fat, such as the cheese.  Recipe is on my FB page.

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Breakfast = a piece of toast with peanut butter
snack = none
 Late Lunch 3:45 PM =

snack = I did have a roll that I made.  Still did good for the day!

Emilee and I started to do this new exercise together where you take one elbow and touch your opposite leg (lifting your knee to your elbow.)  I completed 40 and Emilee did 60. 
Dinner = chicken, broccoli and rice (it was good even though it looks like mush!  LOL)

4-16-12

Breakfast = none
snack = none
Lunch=  made a sandwich
snack = celery
Dinner = pork lion and green beans

4-15-12

 Worked at the hospital and no time for food this day!

Breakfast = granola
Lunch = nothing
Snack = when I got home from work I made a half of a peanut butter sandwich.  I was starving!  Not the best diet food but it sounded good to me.
Dinner = Eric made lasagna and I did have a piece

4-14-12

Breakfast = granola dried and a little plain greek yogurt
Lunch = carrots and a small mini hamburger patty that Eric made the day before (brought to work with me)
Dinner = lemon pork lion and green beans

Late night snack = I did have a few pieces of chocolate tonight.  Nothing to bad!

4-13-12 Breakfast

Breakfast = wasn't hungry this morning.

Ate lunch around 2:00 PM, 

 

chicken with a little low fat sharp cheddar cheese in a burrito wrap

small size and only on a 6 inch plate.  Looks bigger then what it really is.  LOL  

Dinner tonight is hamburger 80 % lean meat,

Photo to come

4-12-12 Lunch & Dinner

Lunch - had some celery stalks for lunch and a half of chicken breast
Dinner -  made sausage with chicken broth and tomato's over noodles, with broccoli florets. 

4/12/12 Breakfast - day 10 of challenge!

Cornflakes for breakfast today.

still taking that nut too.  Lost another pound today.  

Down 4 pounds.

Drinking More Water!

Totally need to drink more water today!  Going for the maga-cup (52 oz baby!) to do this!

Here it goes, down the hatch!  lol

4-11-12

Breakfast = granola cereal
Lunch = not hungry.  I know I should eat but I am not even the slightest bit hungry.  Working on finalizing my taxes for the tax man tonight.  My mind is on that!

Dinner = Made Lemon Chicken with Rice and Northern White Beans in my crockpot. (Didn't have brown rice and didn't feel like going shopping so used what I had, white rice.)  The better choice would have been brown rice.

4-10-12 Dinner

Oops, kind of forgot that I had a work meeting tonight and dinner is included.  Need to be there by 6:30 PM.  Going to Panera's in Troy, so I need to make sure that I watch what I eat.  I will go with a half salad and a cup of soup and hope that will be okay.  No dessert for me!!!  Sticking to that plan!

I did good!  Didn't sway from what I told myself I was going to get.  Got the Asian Chicken Salad (small size/half portion) and a cup of chicken soup.

Panera Calorie Counting Here:  http://www.panerabread.com/pdf/nutr-guide.pdf
All Natural Low-Fat Chicken Noodle - You Pick Two® 1 cup  80 calories (only ate half of my cup)
Half Asian Sesame Chicken half salad  - 230 calories

I did GOOD!!! 

4/10/12 Breakfast

What a breakfast combo but it all sounded good today.

Kids back to school today and now to have a quiet house until 3 PM.  House work today and then maybe time for some situps and jumping jacks.  Then pull out stuff for dinner to defrost.  Making Salmon and Lentils for dinner tonight.

Lost 3 pounds! 

4/9/12

Kids still off for Easter break.

Breakfast, boiled egg
Snack, a piece of turkey
Lunch, not hungry at all
Dinner, small bowl of pasta with homemade sauce.
Didn't over do dinner made it really small in portion to what I normally would eat.

Easter

Breakfast - yogurt and fruit

Lunch - no lunch, worked until about noon

Dinner - early dinner at 3 PM, Turkey, fresh veggies (broccoli & cauliflower), potato

Snack - a small slice of Katie's cake.  (it was to good to pass up on Easter.)

Lots of water all day but did cheat a little and had 1 glass of cola.

Happy Easter 2012!

Matthew 28

Jesus Has Risen

 ¹ After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.  ² There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. ³ His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. ⁴ The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.
 ⁵ The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. ⁶ He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. ⁷ Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.”
 ⁸ So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. ⁹ Suddenly Jesus met them. “Greetings,” he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. ¹⁰ Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me.”

I'm going to weigh myself in the morning...

 to see if I lost anything these past 3 days.

4-6-12 Dinner Meal Plan

Dijon Pork Chops with peas.  

It's an hour past dinner, 8:14 PM, and I am craving chocolate!

My kids are all eating cherry cordial ice cream and I want some!!!

This is going to be hard night!  Will power!!! Will power...
I'm really needing some!
HELP!!!

I have to go pickup Katie from work at 9 PM and then I'mm going to bed early tonight, so I stay away from the ice cream.

2:30 PM Snack

 

4 inch small bowl size and only had about 2 tablespoons of yogurt and a little granola on top.

Good Friday, 4-6-12 BREAKFAST & LUNCH

Happy Good Friday!  (Thank you Lord for all you do and have done for us!)

Father, thank You for the order You have created.  Help me live out Your order in my life.  Amen.

Woke up at 8 AM and had to take Katie to the post office to get her passport.  Went shopping after that and never got to eat breakfast.  Wasn't hungry at all this morning.

1 PM, for lunch I had a fat free bagel with chicken, lettuce and low cal slice of cheese and added hot mustard for a little kick.

NO EXERCISING TODAY!
Eric was up and out at 7 AM to play at his Golf League with RCOC.  Win, win, win baby!
Once he gets home around 5 PM, we are going to go to church tonight for the Good Friday service.
 Need to get the Easter meal all prepared, since I will not be home that morning to get  everything made. Hopefully, I can stick to this low cal meal for Easter Sunday!  I know Katie is making a cheese cake and that might be my downfall. I'll keep you updated.  LOL

4/5/12 Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

 

Granola with frozen fruit added to cup. YUM! 

Lunch, had left over Taco Salad for lunch only had a little bit of this not even a 8 inch plate size.  

(Early dinner) 5 PM = Dinner, Eric took us out to dinner at Max and Erma's,

 I had a half of a burger with lettuce and ketup, small salad and 1/2 a cup of tortilla soup (Eric ate the other half for me.)

Then Eric took Jill, Em & I to the movies at AMC 5:50 PM show, saw The Hunger Games (how appropriate....lol!)

Full from dinner, so we all stayed away from any popcorn and drinks.

  Fun night at the show! Great movie but maybe a little to much killing for Emilee to have viewed. Jillian loved the movie and she said they (movie creator's/directors) actually did a really great job covering most of what was in the book.  Surprisingly, Eric actually liked it too!

 In bed by 10:30 PM. 

No walk tonight :(.  All fun!

4-4-12 Din Din

 

Ground Turkey with tomato's, onion and black olives added

No salt only pepper. 

Romaine Lettuce and Tortilla Shell broken up, with low cal ranch dressing

fresh garlic flavored rice on the side.

4/4/12 Afternoon/Evening Pre-Dinner Snack

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Okay, these are pretty good!

I can handle this...had 4 small sized quakes.

4/4/12 LUNCH

 

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Lunch today!

I went on to the The Firm Believer's Club and signed up for the 30 day free trial membership to see how I would like it.  Think this will really help me too!  Love that they have a diet plan and shopping lists, plus great motivation on the forum.  Here we go!!!  Where is my partner in crime?  I just sent you (Pam) an invite to the Believer's Club too, just thought you might like it!  Here is a sample of time frame for eating:

7:30 a.m. breakfast

10 a.m. morning snack

1 p.m. lunch

3:30 p.m. afternoon snack

6:30 p.m. dinner

 If anyone else that ponders on my perseverance blog and would like to check out the Believer's Club, follow this link: The Believers Club - The Firm

4/4/12 - Day 2 of my challenge:

Holy cow!  My kids actually let me sleep in until 10:55 AM today.  I woke up feeling great and energized!

For breakfast today, needed a little protein:  1 egg and fresh cut pineapple, and 2 glasses of water.
(just a little FYI, I had to show that I am downsizing my plate size to a 8 inch plate instead of a 10/11 inch plate.  Just thought it might make me visually see things differently.)  

 

1 egg was for me and the other was for Emilee.  

I did use a little unsalted butter.  

Only a sliver not even a 1/3 of a teaspoon.  

 

  

Difference between the larger plate on bottom

 which is a 10 inch and the 

smaller blue plate that is an 8 inch.

 Three circles of fresh cut pineapple & one egg.
 Added lots of pepper and a little of Mrs. Dash Lemon Pepper (Salt Free) to my egg.

~NOW FOR THE PAINFUL PART...TAKING MEASUREMENTS~

(This part is between Pam and I only!)

12:30 PM, I actually got my WAVE out and am going to start using it!  I am going to shoot for a 1/2 hour workout today.  I will let you know how I do...

Lunch = I think that will just be a salad with chicken breast.

Trying to think a head for dinner tonight:   Any ideas???  Oh, wait, I just signed up for The Firm Believer's Club and found a great dinner to make tonight.  .
Taco Salad This taco salad can be ready in 15 minutes or less, and is a welcome change from a basic dinner salad. If you want, you can embellish the salad with other ingredients, such as sliced avocado, corn kernels or bell peppers.
.Ingredients1 pound of ground white meat turkey
1 package of taco seasoning, such as McCormick
1 head of romaine lettuce, cleaned and chopped
15 sliced cherry tomatoes
15 sliced black olives
¾ cup reduced fat shredded cheddar cheese
15 baked tortilla chips, broken into pieces
 Nutrition Information (makes 4 servings) 326 calories
29 grams protein
16 grams carbohydrate
3 grams fiber
16.5 grams fat

SOUNDS GOOD!

90 Day Challenge! Day 1...

DAY 1:  Starts today April 3, 2012!!!
Breakfast - nothing
3 glasses of water
Lunch - small salad with low fat ranch dressing
Dinner - Fish (Tilapia/fresh lemon, salad with low fat ranch dressing, potato with a little butter)

 2 mile walk with Eric  6:00 PM - BURN BABY BURN!

So today I worked at RO with my good pal Pam and she got me super motivated to push myself even harder to losing weight.  Pam started this "90 day fitness & health challenge" and got me pumped to try with her.  I actually had started the night before with these mexican nuts that are suppose to help you lose weight and curve your appetite.  You take a sliver of this nut before bedtime and also eat right (do not go over eating on sweets or anything) and you loss weight too.  My husband Eric has been on the nut program (appropriate name for his diet journey...lol!  He actually wanted to lose about 10 pounds too!)   Actually, he is now down 4 pounds since Friday, March 31st.  So, more power to him on his journey but now back to me...

I am the one that wants to see the fast shed of FAT, ugh!  Well, thanks to Pam I'm really going to participate on this journey that Pam and I have.  So I'm starting this 90 day fitness/health challenge with Pam together.  We will push each other when we get down.  GO PAM!!!!  GO PAM!!! GO PAM!!!  (private message to Pam:  thanks for giving me the extra incentive to do this with you!)  Also, I will post how my husband does on his nut loss journey too...lol!