Reviewing the Day

My plans for the day went askew this morning when I received a call from the H. S. nurse regarding my oldest daughter.  Okay.. I admit it.. for a couple of minutes I acted like a spoiled brat.  I was just getting ready to start my workout with plans to clean the bathrooms after that and then take my shower.  Needless to say, I was not exactly ready to have to shoot off to the school ( a 45 minute drive) at that moment.  So I asked to speak to my daughter, asked her if she really thought she needed to come home.  Then I told her she'd have at least a 90 minute wait since I needed to shower before I could come get her.

I know, I know.. not exactly bucking for a mom of the year award.. but OMG.. she had to have just gotten off the dang school bus when I got this call.. I mean.. if she felt that freakin' bad this morning, why did she even go to school!!!!    okay.. done venting now.

Anyway.. picked her up and hit the Commissary as long as I was so close to the "big" one (Here where I'm at in Germany I have the "choice" of three commissaries.  the one on our post is about the size of a 7-11, the one at Katterbach where the H.S. is .. is about the size of a small local grocer.. the one in Wuerzburg (about an hour away) is huge).... so did a fast grab and shop (milk, bread, fruit, veggies) and then brought Kendra home.  Called the clinic to see if I could get her in this afternoon.  Luckily, we could get her in at 2pm.   We suspected a UTI, and going a whole weekend without antibiotics could be touchy.  And yes.. it was a UTI. 

Well... anyway..  the food intake today was kind of a "grab with no thought" ordeal.  Ultimately, the damage lies at 1750 calories and no exercise.  I keep telling myself to get up and do a WATP tape.. and I many yet actually do it.. we'll see.

Well.. it's been 6 days now since my last cigarette.   That aspect of all of this is going well.   Of course, I think part of what is making this successful is that I've cut out one of my "triggers" all week.   Horrid to admit this, but my next door neighbor and I had gotten into the habit of visiting for an hour or so each morning and during that time we'd both smoke at least two cigarettes. We'd meet up again in the afternoon.. and again in the evening.  So.. I've not spent any time with her this week, which is what is horrid.  But I do have plans to pop in and see her later this morning, once my exercise and my chores are done.

Today's Weight: 221.5
+ or - from  yesterday: -.1

Breakfast: Slim Fast Optima  Shake Morning Snack: 1/4 cup dried apples
Lunch: Slim Pocket Philly Cheese steak, 8 cherry tomatoes Afternoon Snack:  Smart Pop Popcorn- single serving bag Dinner:  meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, biscuit Snack:  fat free, sugar free chocolate pudding with coolwhip lite
Calories Allowed:  1300-1500
Calories Used:  1355 Exercise: AM- 3  mile walk (WATP) and 15 min Abs(I Want that Body series)    PM- 2 mile walk and kick
Did you  Cheat?  Nope, Thursday was a "perfect" day.  If so why? Comments: Planning ahead AND eating dinner at home definitely saved me a lot of calories .  I am loving that extra walk in the afternoon.

Rambling thoughts of a dieter's mind

I have 2 subliminal message cds for weight loss that I listen to each morning.  I purchased these from a book club that I belonged to some time ago.  I've had some success with them, but I find that I really can't skip listening to them.. .so I started using them again this week and I play them while I do my morning computer ritual.  If anyone is interested in learning more about subliminal messaging... check out this website. www.brainsync.com

Weigh in: 221.5

Yesterday calories: 1776

Exercise: AM- 2 mile walk (WATP) and 15 min Upper body workout (I want that body series)      PM- 1 mile fast walk

It's that time of month and my cravings for Chocolate are very high.  I tried yesterday to be "good" and have a WW snack, but discovered that my horde of WW snacks have gone moldy.   Will be tossing a lot of stuff out today, but on the plus side (trying to be positive) I will have a lot of space in my cupboard.  These are snacks that I purchased through E-bay months ago.  Silly me.. while i wasn't dieting, I didn't eat them... thinking to "save" them for when I am dieting...but some things will wait for no woman.

I think that today I will plan ahead for my chocolate treat and make up some fat free sugar free chocolate pudding.  YUMMY! 

I did a very short ab workout on Tuesday.  I really didn't think that I'd feel it this much two days later!  Guess it was short but effective.  Always a good thing in my opinion.

Yesterday was laundry day.  We live in a stairwell and have a community laundry room which is shared by 9 families.  When I plan to do laundry, I get up at 5 AM so that I can get my laundry done and out of the way before anyone else gets going.  Our laundry room has 6 washers and dryers and it's in the basement.  Because I didn't do a great amountof laundry over the holidays, I had 12 loads to do.  Lots of walking up and down stairs, lots of folding, lots of walking all over the apartment, first to gather up the dirty clothes, later to put clean clothes on people's beds.  I also ran out all the recyclables.

Germany is very environmental friendly.  They recycle just about everything.  There are special bins placed in the housing areas so that we can participate.  It's easy enough to do and as the saying goes... "when in Rome... "   The way I see it these days, it's one more good excuse to get out and do a bit of walking.

So yesterday I also made up all the beds.  It was a serious hi-cal burn day :)  My girls share a room and have bunkbeds.  That top bunk is one major cardio workout to get it made up!! 

Tonight I simply  MUST cook dinner at home...  

Yesterday's progress

The girls were up late last night working on their Spanish homework.  This was assigned before Christmas break.  It was to be a story of their own creation with at least 4 characters and they had to create character profiles, etc plus write the story... all in spanish. Kim started hers towards the end of the break, but Kendra's I believe did not get started until Monday night.  I'm amazed they got up as easily this morning as they did. :) 

Yesterday was a day of mixed issues for me.  After I sent the kids off to school, I went back to bed until 10:30 AM.  Then I half-heartedly did some straightening up in the house.  When the kids got home, I took them out to dinner.  When we got back from there, I did a three mile walk and I did some crunches.  Calorie-wise, it was a bit high, but overall it was not a wash.  I liked doing the walking after dinner, if only because it made me feel as though I was not allowing the french fry calories to sit too long. :)

 

Weight: 222.1

Exercise goal of 3 miles walked and crunches achieved.

Total calories used: 1434

Breakfast: slim fast

Lunch: 2 eggs, 1/2 pita, 2 plums

Dinner: hamburger with lettuce and tomato, french fries

No snacks were taken in yesterday.   48 ounces of water consumed.

For reference purposes.. yesterday was the beginning of TOM.

 

My contract with myself

My name is:Estela
My current weight is:223.6
The plan I will be following is:1300 calories a day/ 50% carbs/ 25% fats/ 25% protein

My exercise program is as follows:  Monday, Wednesday and Friday: Walk Away The Pounds - 2 miles/ Power Half Hour (strength training- alternating upper and lower body)  Tuesday and Thursday: Walk Away the Pounds - 3 miles/ Slim Abs workout   Saturday and Sunday Walk Away the Pounds- 4 miles
I promise myself that I WILL NOT CHEAT AT ALL until I have reached 190 LBS
My mini goal(s) is/are: 10 lbs by February 1; 10 lbs by March 1; 8 lbs by April 1; 8 lbs by May 1;  8 lbs by June 1; 6 lbs by July 1; 6 lbs by August 1; 8 lbs by September 1; 8 lbs by October 1; 8 lbs by November 1; 8 lbs by December 1; 8 lbs by January 1, 2007


My GOAL WEIGHT is:Aproximately 132
I would like to get there by:January 1, 2007

The Holidays are Truly Over

It's 11:00 pm on Monday night. The kids are in bed and (hopefully) sleeping.  Tomorrow they go back to school and I get back to work on ...well.. lots of things.  I have to complete 5 quilts and I need to take down all the holiday decorations, plus generally straighten up the house.

Tomorrow is D-day for me.  Time to re-start the exercise and the diet.  Everything is in place, I have no excuses for this first week.  I am ready, and I am focused.

Setting Reasonable Goals

Part of my New Year's Resolutions is to set Reasonable Goals.  And more concrete ones.  So.. first of all... My three generic goals for 2006 are as follows.

1. Quit Smoking

2. Lose weight

3. Exercise more.

To put these in more concrete terms...  I am quitting cold turkey, and have in fact not had a cigarette in over 35 hours.  I am avoiding my main trigger (my next door neighbor) to smoking for just a bit longer and then I will be back to my normal visiting self.

As far as weight goes, I have an initial goal of losing 20lbs by March 15.  My hubby is due home sometime that week and I want to at least have the ball rolling by then.

For exercise, my goal is to exercise an hour each day at least 5 days a week.

Tomorrow is my starting day (Tuesday).  The kids go back to school in the morning and we can get back into our usual routine.