We went to dinner at Old Country Buffett *vomit* tonight for Mike's dad's birthday.. I had baked fish filet and a salad, a tiny piece of carrot cake for desert, and a tiny serving of soft serve. It was all awful. I'll tell you what: Golden Corral is like a fucking five star restaurant compared to Old Country Buffet. True. Fact. We also had Taco Bell for lunch today - but I stuck with just a 7-layer burrito and taco. Good stuff. I do love Taco Bell... it's such a guilty pleasure.
So! In spite of all that.. check this out:
Day 3
- total calories: 1653 - WOO!
- no workout - thinking maybe I need to give my toe some more time so I don't eff it up real bad and cause like permanent nerve damage to my poor foot. Might at least do an ab workout or something tomorrow.
- 4 cigarettes at my mom's... bad influence. I need to just up and quit like my cousin Maury has done - and I can honestly say she was in WAY DEEPER than I am. lol Maybe that's not quite an accurate assessment since I can't seem to give up my 15 cigarettes a WEEK... ugh.
- going to bed as soon as I finish writing this - 11pm! Gonna shoot to actually get out of bed when my alarm goes off in the morning.
- $4 for lunch off what was left on my rebate card from AT&T so nothing out of my weekly cash fund, and nothing for dinner since it was the in-law's treat. Good deal there.
My poor husband is sick and I'm just going to hope and pray and OD on vitamins until it passes... and, with a little luck, not catch those tiny yucky germs. Yes I just made a Yo Gaba Gaba reference. DON'T JUDGE ME.
Goal for tomorrow: start a new book. We have no Netflix dvds right now and there's nothing good on tv this week until Gray's on Thursday so there's no excuse for me to not pick something up and get back on the reading band-wagon. *thumbs up*
ps
You readers out there need to update me on your 5 Week Challenge statuses! How's it going? :)
Ok, so I went back to WW last wednesday after not going in over 6 weeks. Well, in 6 weeks I'd gained 9.something pounds. Not good. Wine is most likely the culprit, but I digress. In those 6 weeks WW totally changed their program and it caught me way off guard. I don't want to learn something new! But, they know more than I do, and it's always worked for me in the past, so I buy a points calculator and go about my day. On the old plan I was allowed 23 points a day and 30 flex points a week. Now I get 31 points a day and 49 points a week. AND, all fruit and most veggies are free points. Woot! Like always, I save all my flex points for Friday night, Saturday and Sunday. It sucks to be the person at the party whose on a diet, so I just pretty much eat whatever I want in moderation on the weekend and it seems to work out just fine. I weighed in today and am down 2 pounds since last week. Here's pretty much what I eat every weekday:
ReplyDeleteBreakfast - Banana and half glass of skim milk. 1 point
Snack - Fiber One yogurt. 1 point
Lunch - Lean Cuisine, soup or salad, and a Jello 10 calorie cup. Never over 5 points. FYI, the black bean soup at Panera is soooooo good and it's only 2 points!
Snack - Orange or clementines
Dinner - I pretty much eat whatever for dinner because I have small children and they're not going to be into eating baked chicken/fish and veggies everynight. Last week I made spaghetti with bolognese sauce one night, chili one night, and last night I made a yummy chicken bake recipe on the Stove Top box. Since I'm only consuming 7 points max during the day, I figure as long as I watch my dinner portion, I'll be within range. It's hard not to go back for seconds, or eat the kid's leftovers, but those extra bites add up.
Late night snack - Typically a WW ice cream bar. 2 points
It's not hard, and for me WW has never been hard, but now it's even easier with this whole free fruit thing! Hopefully in a few more weeks I'll have the other 7 pounds off and then some. Total goal is to get down to 165, that's 12 pounds from now. I think that's realistic!
Oh, and as far as exercise, I do some small arm weights at home, but mostly I just try to get 10,000 steps a day. I really need to get a pedometer, but I just park the car really far away, go to the bathroom on the other side of the building on the second floor so I have to walk further and up stairs, and chase my 2 toddlers around like a mad woman. I think once I get down to my goal I'll be more inclined to start more toning exercises.
(Not Russell) Holly
Yay Holly!!
ReplyDeleteSounds awesome! Super jealous of your 2 pound loss already lol - but hopefully I'll see similar results on the scale this Saturday!
Deciding to just go cold turkey was the best decision I have ever made. I've had different "plans" or "strategies" for myself in the past, but you know what worked best? Just waking up one morning and saying, "I'm finishing the three cigarettes in this pack and then I'm never going back."
ReplyDeleteSeems like it would be more complicated than that. I mean I've taken medication to quit before. But I guess some things are just way less complicated than we make them.
I know, you're right - and that's exactly how I've done it the last 2 times I stopped smoking for extended periods of time. It's a lot harder this time around - also I think because more of the people I regularly socialize with are smokers. Didn't you say in a recent blog that almost all of your friends are non-smokers or ex-smokers? If that's true and I'm not just imagining it.. you're super lucky - it's probably great to have that support.
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