February 23 - 2014
Starting weight unknown - Ending weight the next day - 215.3 LBS
Weight loss to date - 14.9 LBS
Forgive me bloggers, for I have sinned. It has been 9 days since my last confession. In that time, I have done many things. Not many of them include eating sensibly. I have been to the All-State Music convention - not a good place to diet . . . . . . . . for 3 days. I just came off of a great big band gig with One More Once at Il Tulipano which had outstanding food. Its now the week before the school musical which means that rehearsals go into the late night and I am going to have to plan my meals carefully. I've had a few other gigs in there, and lots of craziness. Through it all, the biggest constant is that I still have not set foot for a late night 1/2 price appetizer run at Applebees or Fridays. The late night eating used to be my worst deal.
Oh wait, didn't I mention that I got ENGAGED!?!?!?!?!?!?!??! now, if you actually are reading my blog, that means you go on my facebook. IF you are on my facebook and you missed this great event, then I will be impressed. But I can't write a blog and not include that! :-) Let the wedding planning begin (After the school musical! I promised Kristyn I would start helping with planning after the show ends on March 2.
I have not eaten well, for the most part. I although have not eaten often. Portions has not been the problem. Just choices. I have not exercised. And I don't expect to exercise this week - HELL WEEK for the show.
Through it all, I have managed to lose a very miniscule amount of weight. Since my last blog, I am down about 2 LBS, which is .4 LB below my lowest of the this little run here. All things considered, Not too bad. I will not make it to my 10 LB goal of FEbruary (reaching 210) but lets see what I can do here, in this last 5 days of FEbruary, to get as close to my goal as possible. March will rock. Weather will get nicer - I will get outside to run more - maybe the rest of the snow will meal and open the basketball and tennis courts . . . . . . . . . Anyway, Back to the blog. Let's Go!
Monday, February 24, 2014
Friday, February 14, 2014
Day 44 - February 13, 2014 - Breaking News - Its SNOWING!
Starting weight - 217.2
Weight Loss to Date - 13 LBS
Breakfast - 2 pancakes, 1 egg, 3 sausage links, trop 50. Home made - It was a nice breakfast. WHen we are home for the day and can't go out, I think its good to make a nice breakfast. A little treat. We are now OUT of pancake mix - probably a good thing. :-)
Exercise - 1st round of shoveling. I'd say it was about a foot of snow.
Lunch - Can of Chicken RIce Soup with 3 saltine crackers
Snack - Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwich
Exercise - Shoveling round #2 - about 2-3 inches - but much heavier as it started switching to sleet and rain.
Snack - Kristyn made the Valentines Day Cookies today, and since we were home, I got to dive into them head first a day early. Had like 5 of them. They are sugar cookies with Strawberry frosting on them. SOOOO good!
Dinner - Home made pulled chicken - with BBQ sauce and baked beans. Tried it on whole wheat toast, the toast became a soggy mess! A side of corn. CROCK POT = AWESOME!
Snack -1 mini Reeses
Foreshadowing for tomorrow: Going to be at my 2014 low - I know this because I am writing this AFTER i weighted myself the next morning :-)
Started watching Prison Break tonight. I suppose i could have spent time practicing, or writing music, or doing something constructive, but no, instead, we will get into another TV show which till destroy our late night sleep schedule. :-)
Weight Loss to Date - 13 LBS
Breakfast - 2 pancakes, 1 egg, 3 sausage links, trop 50. Home made - It was a nice breakfast. WHen we are home for the day and can't go out, I think its good to make a nice breakfast. A little treat. We are now OUT of pancake mix - probably a good thing. :-)
Exercise - 1st round of shoveling. I'd say it was about a foot of snow.
Lunch - Can of Chicken RIce Soup with 3 saltine crackers
Snack - Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwich
Exercise - Shoveling round #2 - about 2-3 inches - but much heavier as it started switching to sleet and rain.
Snack - Kristyn made the Valentines Day Cookies today, and since we were home, I got to dive into them head first a day early. Had like 5 of them. They are sugar cookies with Strawberry frosting on them. SOOOO good!
Dinner - Home made pulled chicken - with BBQ sauce and baked beans. Tried it on whole wheat toast, the toast became a soggy mess! A side of corn. CROCK POT = AWESOME!
Snack -1 mini Reeses
Foreshadowing for tomorrow: Going to be at my 2014 low - I know this because I am writing this AFTER i weighted myself the next morning :-)
Started watching Prison Break tonight. I suppose i could have spent time practicing, or writing music, or doing something constructive, but no, instead, we will get into another TV show which till destroy our late night sleep schedule. :-)
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Day 43 - February 12 - Lost count somewhere and skipped a "day" Oops!
Starting weight - 217.2
Weight loss to date - 13 LBS
Breakfast - Piece of Crumb Cake and a red bull . . . . . . . I need to start cooking again. I am developing a bad habit breakfast run. The morning cooking has stopped due to an extra 10 minute snooze. It must stop somehow. I need to stop going for breakfast ont he way to school and i need to stop with the red bulls.
Lunch -left over whole wheat pasta with peas, peppers and onions
Snack - a student forced - and i mean forced - a cupcake on me. He came late to rehearsal from a bake sale and tried to buy his way out of me being mad. He literally bought me a cupcake, from the bake sale he was running with a teacher, and would not let me take no for an answer. I turned the cupcake into a fun conducting opportunity and ate the whole thing during a long tone group warm-up. I made the entire group wait on each note until i took a bit, chewed and swallowed. 1 major scale later, the cupcake was gone.
Dinner - Roast Pork Loin (peppercorn flavor) with corn and 4 pierogies.
Snack - half a glass of red wine and 2 mini Reeses. The reeses are almost gone, so that will be a good thing! I'm not gorging on them, but 1-2 a day is definitely added calories that I can avoid. They lasted in our house for a month and a half so far. Thats extremely impressive!
Weight loss to date - 13 LBS
Breakfast - Piece of Crumb Cake and a red bull . . . . . . . I need to start cooking again. I am developing a bad habit breakfast run. The morning cooking has stopped due to an extra 10 minute snooze. It must stop somehow. I need to stop going for breakfast ont he way to school and i need to stop with the red bulls.
Lunch -left over whole wheat pasta with peas, peppers and onions
Snack - a student forced - and i mean forced - a cupcake on me. He came late to rehearsal from a bake sale and tried to buy his way out of me being mad. He literally bought me a cupcake, from the bake sale he was running with a teacher, and would not let me take no for an answer. I turned the cupcake into a fun conducting opportunity and ate the whole thing during a long tone group warm-up. I made the entire group wait on each note until i took a bit, chewed and swallowed. 1 major scale later, the cupcake was gone.
Dinner - Roast Pork Loin (peppercorn flavor) with corn and 4 pierogies.
Snack - half a glass of red wine and 2 mini Reeses. The reeses are almost gone, so that will be a good thing! I'm not gorging on them, but 1-2 a day is definitely added calories that I can avoid. They lasted in our house for a month and a half so far. Thats extremely impressive!
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Day 41 - February 11, 2014 - Finally getting to the Sopranos Series Finale!
Starting weight - 217.2
Weight loss to date - 13 LBS
Breakfast - turkey sausage egg white flat bread
Lunch - SMart ones - thai noodles and chicken
dinner - whole wheat pasta with peas, onions, peppers and three cheese marinara. with grated cheese
snack - Skinny cow ice cream sandwich
snack - 2 small peanut butter cups - the mini ones, not actual reeses.
interesting news - Definitely watched the entire Sopranos series within 4 months. Came to a conclusion last night. . . . . . . . .. .Here's the thing. Season after season, they have these KILLER 2nd to last episodes. People getting wacked, drama, action, etc. THen the season finales are let-downs. THe thing is, then we were able to just move on to the next season. The 2nd to last episode of the final season was AWESOME! We were so fired up and ready to rock. Then, the final episode. Starts off pretty good, then just becomes a little tidying up of a bunch of stuff. Its cool about Phil and everything, BUT it all just kind of ended. I know, that was the idea. That was the plan. yadda yadda yadda. I read up a bunch of theories and explanations, even an interview with Chase. I don't know. I guess its coming together a little more, but holy moly. For such a great series, to end that way, I don't know, we expected more. Ok, thats my rant. If anyone didn't see the series, its worth watching. I would recommend reading up on some blogs, explanations, etc in between episodes. It helps explain a lot of things that you may have missed on the first viewing. There is a lot of deep stuff in there beyond just who gets wacked, who Tony sleeps with, and what drugs Moltesanti takes.
Weight loss to date - 13 LBS
Breakfast - turkey sausage egg white flat bread
Lunch - SMart ones - thai noodles and chicken
dinner - whole wheat pasta with peas, onions, peppers and three cheese marinara. with grated cheese
snack - Skinny cow ice cream sandwich
snack - 2 small peanut butter cups - the mini ones, not actual reeses.
interesting news - Definitely watched the entire Sopranos series within 4 months. Came to a conclusion last night. . . . . . . . .. .Here's the thing. Season after season, they have these KILLER 2nd to last episodes. People getting wacked, drama, action, etc. THen the season finales are let-downs. THe thing is, then we were able to just move on to the next season. The 2nd to last episode of the final season was AWESOME! We were so fired up and ready to rock. Then, the final episode. Starts off pretty good, then just becomes a little tidying up of a bunch of stuff. Its cool about Phil and everything, BUT it all just kind of ended. I know, that was the idea. That was the plan. yadda yadda yadda. I read up a bunch of theories and explanations, even an interview with Chase. I don't know. I guess its coming together a little more, but holy moly. For such a great series, to end that way, I don't know, we expected more. Ok, thats my rant. If anyone didn't see the series, its worth watching. I would recommend reading up on some blogs, explanations, etc in between episodes. It helps explain a lot of things that you may have missed on the first viewing. There is a lot of deep stuff in there beyond just who gets wacked, who Tony sleeps with, and what drugs Moltesanti takes.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Day 40 - February 10, 2014 - Forty days and forty nights . . . . . . .
Starting weight - 216.3
Weight loss to date - 13.9 LBS
Breakfast - Had an old school breakfast - It was a bad idea, but it was only the 2nd time this year i have done this . . . . had 2 donuts and a red bull from 711. EEK. I know - I know . . . . No excuses. Bad choice.
Lunch - 3 mini turkey meatballs + 4 veggie chicken pot stickers
Snack - pretzels (hard)
Dinner - 2 slices of pizza from Savino's in Oradell. John Massaro introduced me to this place. I drove by it for 6 years, EVERY DAY on the way to and from work, and did not know it existed. Kind of easy to miss. Looks like a house, kind of. I don't go home that way any more, but once in a while, when i'm coming from my New Milford student's lesson, i'll go up Oradell Ave and grab dinner at SAvino's. Definitely great stuff. Except today, the crust was a little thin and dry. Otherwise, it was awesome!
Snack-Ice cream truffle pop. 100 calories
No exercise today. Got a little lazy.
Weight loss to date - 13.9 LBS
Breakfast - Had an old school breakfast - It was a bad idea, but it was only the 2nd time this year i have done this . . . . had 2 donuts and a red bull from 711. EEK. I know - I know . . . . No excuses. Bad choice.
Lunch - 3 mini turkey meatballs + 4 veggie chicken pot stickers
Snack - pretzels (hard)
Dinner - 2 slices of pizza from Savino's in Oradell. John Massaro introduced me to this place. I drove by it for 6 years, EVERY DAY on the way to and from work, and did not know it existed. Kind of easy to miss. Looks like a house, kind of. I don't go home that way any more, but once in a while, when i'm coming from my New Milford student's lesson, i'll go up Oradell Ave and grab dinner at SAvino's. Definitely great stuff. Except today, the crust was a little thin and dry. Otherwise, it was awesome!
Snack-Ice cream truffle pop. 100 calories
No exercise today. Got a little lazy.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Day 38-39 - February 8-9, 2014 - NO REGRETS!
Starting Weight - 216.3
Weight loss to date - 13.9 LBS
Let me start off this blog by stating right up front that I gained 2.5 LBS today. If i had it to do all over again, I would do it THE EXACT SAME WAY! I played a wedding at Nanina's in the Park - in Belleville, NJ Saturday night, and I must say, there are a few places that may have a slightly stronger cocktail hour; there is one place that has a better dessert; and there are surely some places that may cook a better dinner here and there, but Nanina's is the one that has ALL THREE, ALL THE TIME! As a musician in the band, we actually get to eat there, which is awesome. Not all places or bands let you eat with the "normals" during a wedding.
Highlights of the night:
Lets go backwards - Breakfast - Sausage, Pepper, Egg omelet
Lunch - 2 slices of pizza
Exercise - NONE :-)
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SUnday
Starting weight - 218.8
Weight Loss to date 11.4 LBS
Breakfast - Had bacon and egg on a healthy wrap at Kristyn's family's house. We were going to go to the diner, but hey, they offered to cook!
Lunch - a couple of mini turkey meatballs + 4 slices of cheddar (130 calories)
Dinner - Turkey Tacos - home made with:
I think this was everything. I hope I didn't miss anything.
Exercise - a little over 1 hour of racquetball with Pete. I really like playing racquetball instead of running. I would like to think that all the racquetball has made my running stamina better, also. :-)
Weight loss to date - 13.9 LBS
Let me start off this blog by stating right up front that I gained 2.5 LBS today. If i had it to do all over again, I would do it THE EXACT SAME WAY! I played a wedding at Nanina's in the Park - in Belleville, NJ Saturday night, and I must say, there are a few places that may have a slightly stronger cocktail hour; there is one place that has a better dessert; and there are surely some places that may cook a better dinner here and there, but Nanina's is the one that has ALL THREE, ALL THE TIME! As a musician in the band, we actually get to eat there, which is awesome. Not all places or bands let you eat with the "normals" during a wedding.
Highlights of the night:
- Cocktail hour: New station of Mac & CHeese, Bang Bang Shrimp and Popcorn chicken, as well as the best penne vodka i've had at a wedding in awhile
- Dinner - JUMBO tasty shrimp, and really cool potatoes
- Dessert - without a doubt, the best fried oreos in NJ, + something that I will now dream about - FRIED NUTELLA!
Lets go backwards - Breakfast - Sausage, Pepper, Egg omelet
Lunch - 2 slices of pizza
Exercise - NONE :-)
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SUnday
Starting weight - 218.8
Weight Loss to date 11.4 LBS
Breakfast - Had bacon and egg on a healthy wrap at Kristyn's family's house. We were going to go to the diner, but hey, they offered to cook!
Lunch - a couple of mini turkey meatballs + 4 slices of cheddar (130 calories)
Dinner - Turkey Tacos - home made with:
- Lean Ground Turkey
- Peppers
- Onions
- Corn
- Black Beans
- Buffalo Sauce
- Whole Wheat wrap (2)
I think this was everything. I hope I didn't miss anything.
Exercise - a little over 1 hour of racquetball with Pete. I really like playing racquetball instead of running. I would like to think that all the racquetball has made my running stamina better, also. :-)
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Day 38 - February 7, 2014
Starting Weight - 215.7
Weight loss to date: 14.5 LBS
Breakfast - Grabbed a turkey sausage egg white flatbread from DD on the way to work. Rewarded my good work with a red bull too. First one in awhile. Can you believe i was drinking one every morning with 2 donuts before New Year's?
Lunch - 3 strips of Buffalo grilled chicken from home + a cup of chick peas with red wine vinegar.
Dinner - Chicken Pad Thai and 2 pieces of chicken satay - this was really good! We actually haven't really eaten out much since we started trying to eat better. Was nice to not cook and do dishes and have a good meal!
Snack - cheddar cheese. About 130 calories.
Night out at the Clif with the Clifton crew! Had about 5-6 mugs of lite beer and a glass of water. Didn't eat anything! Was going to pick at some friends food, but my lovely girlfriend stopped me (which is exactly what people are supposed to do) I still crave the mozzarella stick and chicken finger, but surely didn't need it!
Sorry for the boring blog today.
Weight loss to date: 14.5 LBS
Breakfast - Grabbed a turkey sausage egg white flatbread from DD on the way to work. Rewarded my good work with a red bull too. First one in awhile. Can you believe i was drinking one every morning with 2 donuts before New Year's?
Lunch - 3 strips of Buffalo grilled chicken from home + a cup of chick peas with red wine vinegar.
Dinner - Chicken Pad Thai and 2 pieces of chicken satay - this was really good! We actually haven't really eaten out much since we started trying to eat better. Was nice to not cook and do dishes and have a good meal!
Snack - cheddar cheese. About 130 calories.
Night out at the Clif with the Clifton crew! Had about 5-6 mugs of lite beer and a glass of water. Didn't eat anything! Was going to pick at some friends food, but my lovely girlfriend stopped me (which is exactly what people are supposed to do) I still crave the mozzarella stick and chicken finger, but surely didn't need it!
Sorry for the boring blog today.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Day 37 - February 6, 2014 - Getting Rid of the 'Stang . . . . . . again
STarting weight - 216.5
Weight loss to date - 13.7 LBS
Breakfast - Weird breakfast - had a reduced fat peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat bread.
So let's talk about this morning. A few months ago, I had an accident with my car. I finally got it to the shop a few weeks ago and for a loaner, they gave me a brand new, 2014 Mustang with all leather interior. It was bad ass! A little blast from the past. So, of course, yesterday, when I was off for the day, they "missed my call." my 7 calls, and 3 voicemails. I had to take half a morning off today to get the car back. Anyway, i slept in an extra half hour and then was too lazy to cook, since Kristyn didn't want breakfast today. So i threw together a quick peanut butter sandwich on the way out. It was pretty awesome. Anyway - Fast forward to . .. . . . . .
LUNCH - LEFTOVERS!!! Got to have 3 pieces of the buffalo chicken that Kristyn made yesterday, with a very small amount of egg noodles. I also had a sugar free pudding snack pack and a diet root beer.
Lets talk about this lunch. I need to vent! Listen up, 403b, insurance, and other sales people. WHEN I'M EATING LUNCH IN THE TEACHER'S CAF, AND I VERY CLEARLY DON'T SHOW INTEREST IN THE CONVERSATION, I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO YOU. I know they are just doing their jobs so I'm not going to be mad about their existence. They are very nice people and are doing what they are supposed to be doing. BUT I very rarely actually go to the teacher's caf. I go today and there they are. I walk by them 4 times while reheating the food in the microwave. I clearly make no effort to talk or even make eye contact. I then get approached. The entire time, I stare at my food, give them the "uh huh" treatment, and continue to eat while not using any complete sentences, or even words, to respond. They talked through my entire meal, which I was looking forward to, and did not enjoy at all, and then asked if I was interested in setting up a meeting. Really? They could not tell that I was completely annoyed that they stole my entire lunch time away from me and didn't want to talk? Why would I want to set up a chance to talk again? I asked a couple colleagues that were there if there was ANY WAY I could have looked less interested in the conversation. They said that they found it hard to believe that I could possibly find a way to be more obvious. Sorry. . . . I may sound like a jerk, but I think that more people THINK these thoughts. I just am finally stating them. If you are in this line of work, please don't take offense. Just take into account that if we look disinterested, we are disinterested. Your product may be great. But I'm not interested.
Moving on . . . . . . . .
snack - ok, I walked into the office and the secretaries gave me a slice of pizza. I kind of forgot for a few minutes that I should have said no. It was only 1, and it was good. Sorry, I forgot I was trying not to eat unnecessary foods for a few minutes!
Snack - Salad! Need some kind of pit orchstra snack, and the salad seems to be working!
Dinner - Had a small piece of steak and a VERY small amount of egg noodles with a water
Snack - had 8 small slices of cheese. It was about 250 calories worth of cheese in the end. Could have done without it BUT I really wanted to go to 711. I thought that cheese was a much better alternative to what I would have gotten.
I can't wait to have more buffalo chicken tomorrow. Not sure I will be losing weight today, but can't lose every day! If I stay withing .5-1LB each day and don't go up multiple days in a row, i'm in good shape. Weighing in every day is stupid. Its just what I do.
Weight loss to date - 13.7 LBS
Breakfast - Weird breakfast - had a reduced fat peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat bread.
So let's talk about this morning. A few months ago, I had an accident with my car. I finally got it to the shop a few weeks ago and for a loaner, they gave me a brand new, 2014 Mustang with all leather interior. It was bad ass! A little blast from the past. So, of course, yesterday, when I was off for the day, they "missed my call." my 7 calls, and 3 voicemails. I had to take half a morning off today to get the car back. Anyway, i slept in an extra half hour and then was too lazy to cook, since Kristyn didn't want breakfast today. So i threw together a quick peanut butter sandwich on the way out. It was pretty awesome. Anyway - Fast forward to . .. . . . . .
LUNCH - LEFTOVERS!!! Got to have 3 pieces of the buffalo chicken that Kristyn made yesterday, with a very small amount of egg noodles. I also had a sugar free pudding snack pack and a diet root beer.
Lets talk about this lunch. I need to vent! Listen up, 403b, insurance, and other sales people. WHEN I'M EATING LUNCH IN THE TEACHER'S CAF, AND I VERY CLEARLY DON'T SHOW INTEREST IN THE CONVERSATION, I DON'T WANT TO TALK TO YOU. I know they are just doing their jobs so I'm not going to be mad about their existence. They are very nice people and are doing what they are supposed to be doing. BUT I very rarely actually go to the teacher's caf. I go today and there they are. I walk by them 4 times while reheating the food in the microwave. I clearly make no effort to talk or even make eye contact. I then get approached. The entire time, I stare at my food, give them the "uh huh" treatment, and continue to eat while not using any complete sentences, or even words, to respond. They talked through my entire meal, which I was looking forward to, and did not enjoy at all, and then asked if I was interested in setting up a meeting. Really? They could not tell that I was completely annoyed that they stole my entire lunch time away from me and didn't want to talk? Why would I want to set up a chance to talk again? I asked a couple colleagues that were there if there was ANY WAY I could have looked less interested in the conversation. They said that they found it hard to believe that I could possibly find a way to be more obvious. Sorry. . . . I may sound like a jerk, but I think that more people THINK these thoughts. I just am finally stating them. If you are in this line of work, please don't take offense. Just take into account that if we look disinterested, we are disinterested. Your product may be great. But I'm not interested.
Moving on . . . . . . . .
snack - ok, I walked into the office and the secretaries gave me a slice of pizza. I kind of forgot for a few minutes that I should have said no. It was only 1, and it was good. Sorry, I forgot I was trying not to eat unnecessary foods for a few minutes!
Snack - Salad! Need some kind of pit orchstra snack, and the salad seems to be working!
Dinner - Had a small piece of steak and a VERY small amount of egg noodles with a water
Snack - had 8 small slices of cheese. It was about 250 calories worth of cheese in the end. Could have done without it BUT I really wanted to go to 711. I thought that cheese was a much better alternative to what I would have gotten.
I can't wait to have more buffalo chicken tomorrow. Not sure I will be losing weight today, but can't lose every day! If I stay withing .5-1LB each day and don't go up multiple days in a row, i'm in good shape. Weighing in every day is stupid. Its just what I do.
Day 36. February 5, 2014 - more snow??????
Starting weight 217.3. This is a 2014 low!
Weight loss to date 12.9 lbs
Late Breakfast: this complete breakfast. Home Made 2 pancakes, 1 egg 2 pieces of Taylor ham and Trop50 OJ.
Snack. 1 mini reeses
Exercise-massive snow shoveling. About 1 hour of heavy lifting out there. Holy moly!
Late lunch. Turkey Chili and some baked tostitos. Probably a little too much but it was really good!!!
Exercise - 45 minute run and 5 minute walk cool down. 4 miles total. 575 calories
Snack - 2 small pieces of cheese (35 calories each) while we were cooking.
Dinner - AWESOME! Kristyn made her buffalo grilled chicken again, i had 4 strips. With that we had egg noodles (1.5 servings) and edamame (1 serving) It was so good! If all dinners can be like this, then I won't mind keeping this up!
Tomorrow's preview - down to 216.5!
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Day 35 - February 4, 2014 - Movin' on Down!
Starting weight - 218.8 and dropping . . . . . . .
Weight Loss to Date - 11.3 LBS
Breakfast - had a sausage and pepper omelette (with 2 egg whites and 1 whole egg, no cheese)
Lunch - TURKEY CHILI! Was so good! I can see myself making this a lot! Also had some corn
Snack - Pretzels - 1 serving
Pit Orchestra break - this, traditionally, has been an issue. Pit orchestra is tiring, and I always give the kids a break half way through. Its traditionally a time for chocolate or other junk food. This time, I was prepared! I had a SALAD! With Lettuce, chick peas, cheese and cucumbers w/red wine vinegar. It was really good! I actually was ok with having that, rather than the chocolate.
Dinner - Turkey Chili
Snack - 1 reeses small cup and a plate of pretzels.
Feeling good to get back on track again. Its interesting how bad you feel after a week of eating poorly when you got used to eating better! Well on my way to the February goal! New Year's Resolution gone 35 days now. Thats not bad!
Happy Snow Day!
Weight Loss to Date - 11.3 LBS
Breakfast - had a sausage and pepper omelette (with 2 egg whites and 1 whole egg, no cheese)
Lunch - TURKEY CHILI! Was so good! I can see myself making this a lot! Also had some corn
Snack - Pretzels - 1 serving
Pit Orchestra break - this, traditionally, has been an issue. Pit orchestra is tiring, and I always give the kids a break half way through. Its traditionally a time for chocolate or other junk food. This time, I was prepared! I had a SALAD! With Lettuce, chick peas, cheese and cucumbers w/red wine vinegar. It was really good! I actually was ok with having that, rather than the chocolate.
Dinner - Turkey Chili
Snack - 1 reeses small cup and a plate of pretzels.
Feeling good to get back on track again. Its interesting how bad you feel after a week of eating poorly when you got used to eating better! Well on my way to the February goal! New Year's Resolution gone 35 days now. Thats not bad!
Happy Snow Day!
Monday, February 3, 2014
Day 34 - February 3, 2014 - BACK TO THE GRIND!
Starting weight - 220.9 LBS
Weight loss to date - 9.2 LBS
Breakfast - Won Ton Soup and Trop 50 OJ
Lunch - Turkey Chili
Snack - 2 mini Reese's
Exercise - lot of shoveling to do, and then OFF to the gym. Played racquetball for about45 minutes then 12 sets of upper body lifting.
Dinner was great. 4 dumplings a black bean veggie burger and corn. Really good choices. Wahoo.
Later for snacks i had a serving of chips and latera serving of pretzels. Could have picked one but at least I learned how to eat slowly today. Instead of 2 petals per bite I had like5 bites per pretzel. Took so much longer to eat. Was awesome!!!! Gentle eating at its best.
Great day id say
The Lost Week - Lost my way, but I am back :-) Month #2 - underway
Days 28-33 - January 28 - February 2
Weight Loss - Fluctuated between 218.4 and 220.9 - up and down
The past week I had lost my way. It was one of my busiest weeks at work in awhile, plus rehearsal and gig for the big band, my birthday, and the super bowl. I had some good days, and I had some bad days. Lucky to say, I did not have all bad days. But the weight fluctuation, day to day, was huge based on the days i had.
Some of the high(low)lights of the week:
Birthday was rough in terms of food - everyone tries to give you food. I'm part of the birthday club at school, and each person gets a day to provide the food, and then someone else provides the food for your birthday. SOOOO, there were reeses, hersheys kisses, fresh baked chocolate chip cookies, and bronwies. IT was pretty awesome. Also didn't bring lunch that day, so I had the "best of" the school caf. That night, though, surprisingly, I chose to go to BONEFISH GRILL for dinner, and had a nice chicken marsala dinner. Ended up eating better than usual for my birthday dinner!
Super Bowl day was up and down. It was good all day - went to the gym, ran a 5k in under 33 minutes! and then played racquetball. Followed it up by picking a lots of small food, and a chinese food dinner. Not a buffet, and I only ordered 1 meal this time. Often I get Chicken and Broccoli AND sweet and sour chicken, with won ton soup. INstead, I only got the C&B and the soup, BUT i didn't eat the soup. Ended up picking at other stuff all night. Definitely ate more than i exercised. Good thing I exercised! Feel good too after getting a good workout. AND I did the 5k without stopping to walk at all. Started at 5mph and built it up to 6.5, slowly and steadily. Didn't really get too tired until about 23 minutes in. (Although, it was still pretty boring.) Also, didn't drink any beer during the game. ALL WATER.
Broke the fast food ban - after 13 months. It was "birthday"gift to myself. We went on Friday because I couldn't go Thursday. I had a chicken sandwich and the smallest fries with a diet soda. Happy that I didn't supersize it, get a regular soda, or top it off with the double hamburger I usually get in addition. On Saturday night, Kristyn and I also went to McDonalds while we trudged out way through Super Bowl Boulevard. Again, had a sandwich and fries, but a regular soda this time.
There were some good meals, and good choices throughout the week. It was not a complete wash, but I am unhappy about the week I had. I vow to get back on track, starting today. Made the turkey chili yesterday, bought stuff for salad, etc, so I will get back on track.
Month 2 - plan is to get down to 210- which will put me at 20 lbs loss in the first 2 months. If I can do better, I will, but I will not be impatient about it. I lost about 10 the first month, while not being nearly perfect. Which i am happy with. If I am too "perfect" then I will end up failing and not retaining the weight loss when I am done. WIth that in mind, I have to remind myself that at this point, I have to do BETTER in month 2 if I want to lose the same amount of weight. I must work out more, eat better, have less "bad" days, etc. The more I lose, the harder and slower it will come off.
February - 28 days - 10 LBS. LETS GO.
Weight Loss - Fluctuated between 218.4 and 220.9 - up and down
The past week I had lost my way. It was one of my busiest weeks at work in awhile, plus rehearsal and gig for the big band, my birthday, and the super bowl. I had some good days, and I had some bad days. Lucky to say, I did not have all bad days. But the weight fluctuation, day to day, was huge based on the days i had.
Some of the high(low)lights of the week:
Birthday was rough in terms of food - everyone tries to give you food. I'm part of the birthday club at school, and each person gets a day to provide the food, and then someone else provides the food for your birthday. SOOOO, there were reeses, hersheys kisses, fresh baked chocolate chip cookies, and bronwies. IT was pretty awesome. Also didn't bring lunch that day, so I had the "best of" the school caf. That night, though, surprisingly, I chose to go to BONEFISH GRILL for dinner, and had a nice chicken marsala dinner. Ended up eating better than usual for my birthday dinner!
Super Bowl day was up and down. It was good all day - went to the gym, ran a 5k in under 33 minutes! and then played racquetball. Followed it up by picking a lots of small food, and a chinese food dinner. Not a buffet, and I only ordered 1 meal this time. Often I get Chicken and Broccoli AND sweet and sour chicken, with won ton soup. INstead, I only got the C&B and the soup, BUT i didn't eat the soup. Ended up picking at other stuff all night. Definitely ate more than i exercised. Good thing I exercised! Feel good too after getting a good workout. AND I did the 5k without stopping to walk at all. Started at 5mph and built it up to 6.5, slowly and steadily. Didn't really get too tired until about 23 minutes in. (Although, it was still pretty boring.) Also, didn't drink any beer during the game. ALL WATER.
Broke the fast food ban - after 13 months. It was "birthday"gift to myself. We went on Friday because I couldn't go Thursday. I had a chicken sandwich and the smallest fries with a diet soda. Happy that I didn't supersize it, get a regular soda, or top it off with the double hamburger I usually get in addition. On Saturday night, Kristyn and I also went to McDonalds while we trudged out way through Super Bowl Boulevard. Again, had a sandwich and fries, but a regular soda this time.
There were some good meals, and good choices throughout the week. It was not a complete wash, but I am unhappy about the week I had. I vow to get back on track, starting today. Made the turkey chili yesterday, bought stuff for salad, etc, so I will get back on track.
Month 2 - plan is to get down to 210- which will put me at 20 lbs loss in the first 2 months. If I can do better, I will, but I will not be impatient about it. I lost about 10 the first month, while not being nearly perfect. Which i am happy with. If I am too "perfect" then I will end up failing and not retaining the weight loss when I am done. WIth that in mind, I have to remind myself that at this point, I have to do BETTER in month 2 if I want to lose the same amount of weight. I must work out more, eat better, have less "bad" days, etc. The more I lose, the harder and slower it will come off.
February - 28 days - 10 LBS. LETS GO.
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