Friday Morning Weigh-In

This morning I weighed in at 136 even which is down 0.6 pounds from last week. To be completely on my new track I would be at 135.2 so I am a little up from where I should be but when I looked at the calendar, I have lost 8 pounds in 8 weeks so that's just great really! I started at the beginning of January at 144 and I am now 8 weeks into this new journey and I've lost a solid 8 pounds.

I have date nights tonight and tomorrow night so I'm going to try and eat well during the day but we don't have big plans for Sunday night dinner so hopefully Sunday will be a good healthy day.

I tried on my wedding dress a few days ago and it fits on my arms now but I still can't zip it up all the way. So I need to lose inches in my chest area for it to fit completely but I will get to 130 and try again. If it still doesn't fit, then I may just be done with trying to fit back into it because getting into the 120's seems like such a daunting task plus my body could've change a bit due to having babies. I really don't think I was much smaller than 130 when I got married although I wish I knew for sure! I didn't have a scale and never weighed myself except occasionally at my parent's house.

Here's to a fun date filled weekend!

This is My Week!

Okay, enough of the days off and the treats and the being lazy and the sick kids and sleepless nights. They end now! Mikey is doing much better although his antibiotic is making him throw up occasionally and have diarrhea, some medicine!

I have had too many nights off with ice cream with cool whip on top and eating out pizza etc and I need to get back on track. I am going to eat really well this week and kick my healthy weight loss into overdrive!

This morning I was back up to 138.2, the number I guess I like to be lately! I am never 138 or 137.8 or 138.4, always 138.2. I don't know if it's my scale that just likes certain numbers or my body but it's going to go down. I am even going to the blue and gold banquet tonight where they will be serving pizza and cake and guess what, I am going to eat dinner before I go so that I don't have pizza 2 nights in a row! How's that for being strong? I know that if I eat pizza there I will want more and more and overeat so I am just going to be full when I go and avoid it.

I am going to also start exercising full strength again. I'm tired of feeling blah and poofy.

Until Friday when I have an awesome weigh in, farewell!

Friday Morning Weigh-In

Well, this morning I weighed in at 136.6, which is up a pound from last week and above where my goal was to be at 136.2. However, I am only slightly off and there have been so many crazy things going on in my life this week that I am just fine with this weight today.

On Tuesday I enjoyed a few treats and went out to dinner with Justin and some friends to the Union Grill. It was yummy and I enjoyed it :) Then we went to the Sweet Tooth Fairy for a cupcake dessert (although I wanted to eat the chocolate mousse cake at the restaurant but it would've been more calories, but shared, hmmm).

When we got home we found out our baby had thrown up and was feverish. I was already feeling a little under the weather and was soooo tired but Justin and I had to be up with the baby many times in the night so Wednesday morning I felt terrible. When Mikey took his afternoon nap I laid down and took a nap also and that helped. I didn't have the energy to exercise that day at all. Nutrition wise, I have done very well since Tuesday.

On Wednesday night I was up with the baby again many times and very tired Thursday morning. I was still feeling a little ill so I didn't exercise again. I took Mikey to the doctor since his fevers were still so high and he tested positive for strep throat again, so sad. Then on Thursday night I was up with Mikey twice again and he is feeling so crappy still. Hope the meds work soon!!

Anyway, I am feeling quite a bit better today but I also started my cycle today so my weight could even be a little elevated from that too.

Will I ever have a normal week with no illness and lots of healthy eating and exercise? I feel like there's a little dark cloud over me and I just want an easy going, normal week. Maybe next week will be just that.

Motivation please come back!

This past weekend was a lot of fun and very unhealthy with little exercise so I need to get back on track. I really didn't want to exercise yesterday but I made myself and today I too do not have the motivation so I will probably make myself anyway since Justin and I are going out to dinner plus he bought me Nutty Bars, my favorite treat!

On Friday we drove up to Logan for a getaway and we ate at a Mexican Restaurant that was excellent. I had chips, salsa, a tostada, cheese enchilada and beef taco, yum. Then because it was my honey's birthday we had free fried ice cream that we shared. Then on Saturday morning we had oatmeal with brown sugar and almonds, a shared banana and hot chocolate with whipped cream. Then we had lunch at a Chinese restaurant which included egg drop soup, egg roll, rice, and shared cashew chicken and sweet & sour chicken. Then for dinner I made chicken cordon bleu pasta with veggies and cake and ice cream. Wow, soooo much unhealthy food but soooo good!

Then on Sunday I was good in the morning with toast, a string cheese, granola bar and a little mac n cheese for lunch and then huge cafe rio sweet pork salads for dinner and rice krispie treats for dessert.

On Monday I did really well until Justin brought me home nutty bars which I proceeded to eat half the box, lol! I ended up eating around 2500 calories (900 from nutty bars) but since I burned almost 3000 I still had a deficit and didn't gain weight overnight, lol!

Well, this morning I am at 137 and my goal on Friday to be on track of a 1 pound weight loss each week is 136.2. I sure hope I can lose 0.8 pounds by Friday but today I am sure will be full of treats and yummy food for dinner at the Union Grill in Ogden. How is your weekend and Valentine's Day goodness going?

I sure hope the rest of the week goes much better than the start of the week :)

By the Way

After last week's weigh in I went up to 138.2 and decided to make a new program losing 1 pound a week lasting about 8 weeks and finishing up on March 30th. When I say in my post below that I lost 2.6 pounds, this is from the 138.2 weight, not the 137.6 weight, in which case I lost 2 pounds this last week :)

Friday Morning Weigh In

This morning I am doing awesome! I weighed in at 135.6, which is down 2.6 pounds from last Friday :) It's funny because I've been in the 140's for so long that I still want to write 140 at the beginning of each weight. My goal was to be at 137.2 so I completely creamed that goal. This weekend and next week, I'm hoping to at least stay the same though because today is Justin's birthday which means cocoa puffs with fat free half n half for breakfast (300 calories but not super filling, lol!) and then we are going overnight to a hotel which means dinner out and breakfast and possibly lunch out.

Then we are having cake and ice cream tomorrow with our family and then on Sunday we are hosting a fun family dinner with the McMurray's at our home with cafe rio pork salads. Not to mention Valentine's Day next Tuesday, wow. It's going to hard to maintain but I guess even if I gain a little I will still be on track to lose my pound a week.

I have been using a food scale and totally love it. I weigh food instead of measuring it now and a lot of times it ends up being more than what the measuring cup is :) I have also started using the website www.chocolatecoveredkatie.com and so far I have only tried one recipe, the pumpkin bread in a bowl but it is delicious. I have also bought some Splenda to use instead of sugar which is helping a lot. However, I know it is a man made chemical and not really good for my body but just for these few weeks of weight loss it will help and then real sugar will come back :)

I have made a great list for breakfast, lunch and snack ideas and I am going to post it here for reference.

Breakfast:

Oatmeal with honey
Oatmeal with banana
Oatmeal, 1 cup water and banana blended and made into a waffle
Pumpkin Cereal (from chocolatecoveredkatie.com)
Toast (my standard)
Kashi Squares
Honey & Oat Blenders
Shredded Wheat
Voluminous Oatmeal (from chocolatecoveredkatie.com)
Banana Cereal (from chocolatecoveredkatie.com)
Eggs
Eggs and Toast
Omelet
Eggs with cheese
Cream of Wheat with Splenda (370 calories for a large bowl, so warm and filling)

Lunch:

Quinoa Fried Rice
Grilled Chicken
Tuna Sandwich
Turkey Sandwich
PB & J Sandwich (using natural PB and sugar free preserves on wheat bread)
Turkey & Avocado Panini
Parmesan Tilapia (frozen)
Frosted Mini Spooners breakfast cereal
Wheat noodles with Prego and cheddar cheese
Soups
Grilled Cheese
Egg Salad
Pancakes
Polenta

Snacks:

Fruit
Veggies
Frozen Veggies
String Cheese
Edamame
Yogurt
Cottage Cheese
Applesauce
Popcorn
Toast
Nuts
Gum
Salad
Eggos
Chips/Salsa
Nachos

On the right track.

Well, for the weigh in this morning I have a weight loss, but I am a little bummed. I weighed in at 137.6 (down 2.2 pounds), however all week I have been in the 136's. On Monday I was at 139.4, and then on Tuesday after stopping my antibiotic I dropped to 136.6 and I was so happy! Then I was 136.8 on both Wed and Thursday morning so I am a little bummed that I am up nearly a pound this morning on the morning that I weigh in.

However, I know that I didn't do anything to warrant a weight gain and I probably had close to a 1000 calorie deficit yesterday so I guess it's just a number (I just checked and it was just over 1000 calories, sheesh). If I were at 136.6 I would've been right on target to lose the weight by the beginning of March, ahhh. I did however work out almost every day this week and I kept sweets to a minimum and ate very well. I did get invited to dinner last night and had spaghetti, corn, broccoli salad and garlic bread not to mention a few sugar cookies but I exercised twice yesterday and deep cleaned and my calorie deficit was still way up even after about a 800-900 calorie dinner!

I am feeling a little ill this morning due to a cold with congestion and small sore throat so maybe my body is just holding on to a little weight while I am sick. My body does that unfortunately.

Well, I guess the two edged sword to not getting the weight I wanted this morning means I'll be less likely to eat badly this weekend in the hopes of seeing the scale go back down instead of up from here. I really want it to go down, so healthy eating this weekend it is! However, there will be 2 cheat meals. #1 will be tonight when I go out with a friend to dinner and shopping and #2 will be Super Bowl Sunday with munchies and treats :)