another week down

Yesterday's weigh in was 161.5. It was whoosh week and I did my best to eat well throughout the week. It was rough, but okay.

The good news is, I found the chips that MS and I had fallen in love with when we were in Texas at the TSU game. Brand is Food Should Taste Good and I bought the Multigrain ones that are tortilla chips made with flax, sunflower and sesame seeds, quinoa, soy and brown rice. They are soooo yummy!!! The danger is they are almost too yummy. One bag has 6 servings, supposedly. Whoops. :)

On the exercise front. MS and I have completed week 4 of P90X. We were supposed to start week 5 today and MS did, but he encouraged me to take a couple days off to rest my knee since I twinged it nice and good Wednesday night. So I'm doing that, though I really could have used a workout today. But rest is important. And I'll ice today too which hopefully will help. 16 weeks from Fargo!!!!

No more Cap'n Crunch!

Bring back the eggs!! I blame the Cap'n. I weighed unofficially this morning at I was at 164. I'm going to weigh tomorrow to be sure of whatever I am, but i do blame the Cap'n.

No, I can only blame myself. I know better than to live on a diet of cereal alone, and that's basically what last weekend turned into. But I also know that since this is PMS week, that might be a minor factor as well.

we'll see what tomorrow brings.

Back on the wheat

I've had a mini relapse this weekend. And I blame Cap'n Crunch. My weigh in on Friday was 160, though officially 161 on Thursday when MS and I "officially" weighed in. But it's PMS week and so I have been craving carbs in a bad way. PB Cap'n Crunch is my downfall. I shouldn't have started back on the cereal but I did. And because it's PMS week I know my weight is going to go up, so I should be more mindful of not eating so many carbs but I still do. Next week is whoosh week, thank goodness.

In good news - I started running again yesterday. It was great. I ran 3, walked a full one (half on both sides of 3). My plan is to run at lunch from now on and bring my lunch to work. Thursdays are my rest day, so I can still get to Mixed that day.

I'm also still on P90X - week 3. I'm excited that I've been able to keep with this workout. I have to get to week 5 and then I think I'll be okay. I'm feeling more confident in that I can actually keep at this workout and make my goal in May. I started running too so I can keep my cardio up and get my body ready for running.

I'll get there. It's just taking some time.

A few more days

I really don't remember the second week being so tough as it has been this trip. I'm not lounging for bread in mass amounts, but I really wouldn't mind toast with some PB. Or pizza. Or even A breadstick. But I can't yet. I need to wait it out just a little longer.

I did pick up some almond meal tonight. I found a recipe where I can make chicken nuggets with the almond meal instead. It sounded good, so we'll try it this weekend. I also picked up some Quinoa to try. The articles I've read say it's great for you and better than rice. Shockingly I found this at our normal grocer so I thought we could try it. Change is good and it doesn't look too hard to make. I've been finding a lot of recipes calling for it too. So there we go.

I also found a recipe to make your own tortillas. I'm excited about that. I have some experimenting to do this weekend, I think. :)

A rough couple days

After Friday's onslaught at Olive Garden, I perked back up with energy and an attack on work stuff. I got a lot accomplished this weekend and even took a course to become certified in CPR. MS was happy because now I can save his life, though I will admit that I'm REALLY freaked out about the compressions part. I have no qualms with the breath part, but compressions scare me.

Eating has been okay. I'm getting to the point where I'm wondering how long I should stay on Phase I. I sort of started on the 29th, but then MS and I had our last night of pizza and "new year's" on the 30th. So I really did start on Jan 1, so I kind of feel like I should go through Friday with Phase I and start on Saturday, but that scares me because then I have a weekend where I can eat bread again and I have nothing else to do. I'm scared I'll slip back, which makes me kind of want to start Phase II on Wednesday so I can have a few days to be on a routine with the new eating. Hmmm...I don't know. I have a few days to think about it.

I need to eat

I didn't write yesterday because by the time I got home from a whirlwind day, I had a glass of milk and was falling asleep around 6:30 on the couch. But in adding up all my calories from yesterday, I was really low. It's no wonder I was tired. I had also forgotten to take my vitamins, which I'm sure didn't help.

So I need to reevaluate what I eat a bit. Maybe I can have full-fat caesar dressing on my salad instead of the Fat Free. It's only 100 calories more, 17g of fat more, but has less sodium and carbs! That might be one way I can help.

The good news is I weighed in this morning at 161.5. Of course then I had a great poop about 10 minutes ago so maybe I'm down to 160. hahahaha. But truly, I'm happy. 168 to 164.5 to 161.5 in two weeks. That's good and healthy! I just need to continue the downward trend!

A weird day

So chicken was the choice of protein for breakfast since the dishwasher wasn't done in time last night for me to use the silicone muffin cups for eggs. And P90X today was legs and back and ab ripper. I got the 1st two accomplished but did nothing for abs today. It's okay...at this point I think I need to save some of the calories I've been burning. I'm a little snarky and on edge.

After breakfast at 0715 I didn't eat until 1320 for lunch. Then dinner wasn't til 1900 because I got home late. Probably not an ideal eating day to emulate in the future. Oh well...there's one in every Beach.