Week 3 - Day 1, Progress and "splurge" days!

End of Week 2 body stats:

• Weight: 194lbs - that's 2 more pounds!!!
• Waist at belly button: 36.5" - no change, but that's okay.

 Day 1:

• total calories/points: 2478 / 60 points - this leaves me with 20 flex points for the week. These party snacks/dinners are screwing me over lol - plus it probably didn't help that part of those meals was Domino's pizza. I feel like I've really done an excellent job with keeping my alcohol intake in control - only drinking 3 or 4 beers on a Friday or Saturday night and maybe 1 or 2 during the random weeknight outing. This kind of additional calorie intake I can totally handle and plan for.
• played various Wii dance games for about 3 hours with few breaks - I think overall I probably burned about 500 calories, if not more - I was sweating my ass off! My toe survived quite well and I see no reason why I can't get back to my gym routine this week. I underestimate on my activity tracker with WW just because I was too busy having fun to pay attention to the exact amount of time I was dancing - adding 20 activity points to my weekly flex points bank. 
• only smoked 5 cigarettes which is pretty flippin' amazing for being in a party-like atmosphere with other smokers.
• 2am bedtime
• $8 spent to chip-in for pizza

I'm really proud of this 2 pound per week progress I'm making - I'm already starting to see subtle differences in my body, especially looking at pictures of myself. Last week there were several moments of feeling like I just wanted to eat whatever the hell I wanted all day every day - but I didn't, and I gave myself Saturday to be a "splurge" day. I think knowing I can have that one or two days a week where I don't count calories until the very end of the day (instead of as-I-go) really helps me keep myself under control during those "fuck it" moments. I'm really excited to get back into the gym this week, and even if I don't have the time to make it to the gym, having the knowledge that I can successfully do some cardio at home with my toe makes me feel really good and motivated.

Once I get back into a regular workout routine I'll have to adjust my calorie-intake some. I'll try bumping up to 1800, and if I'm still struggling with strong hunger, 1900. 1700 was the number I shot for in order to maintain weight-loss without regular exercise and so far it is working brilliantly and I'm really proud of myself for that.

Overall I'm feeling really good about these last 2 weeks and good about myself. The steady progress I've been making certainly is motivating!

Week 1 - Day 3

So, I watched this episode of My So-Called Life last night and one of the characters mentioned eating cookie dough raw and now I've been totally craving it!! So bad... lol I'm just glad I didn't have to hit the grocery store today otherwise I may have broken down and bought some. *tisk tisk*

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. 

I'm really proud of myself on my calories the last couple days - I've been trying to eat really healthy foods (even out and about) and have kept TONS of fruit for snacks and that is really helping me stay super full during the day. Without the workouts I can really feel my energy lagging, so I'm really trying to motivate to get on-track even with my toe injury... that feels so dumb to say. "I can't workout because I slammed my baby toe just walking around my house." -.-

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? :)

It's my depression...

So this toe thing.. it sucks really bad. Like.. really bad. I'm missing the gym already. Also - this is day 2 smoke-free, Wednesday and Thursday. I'm not planning on going out tomorrow night to anywhere other than the grocery store (I have enough fruits and veggies to last me one more day but that's it - I hate that), and Saturday Mike and I have a babysitter to go out to watch the Colts play-off game and we're going to Glory Days which is a smoke-free restaurant/bar so hopefully I should make it through the weekend!!!

Pray for me lol.

Stats for yesterday, 1/5:

• total calories: 1679 - woo! go me! plus ate LOTS of fruits and veggies.
• no workout - lots of propping up my foot with ice packs on it.
• 0 cigarettes
• 11:45pm bedtime
• $0 spent - $52 till the 15th

I started planning out meals for next week to make sure I stay under my calorie-count. I'm still determined to start my 5 Week Challenge on Saturday. It's going to be difficult, but I have to do this and I can't use this toe thing as an excuse. 

Oh the pain, the sadness!!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have broken my baby toe. This - 3 days before I plan to start my 5 Week Challenge to get back in the gym/dance/run/do SOMETHING active 5 days a week as well as continuing my calorie count in order to lose 10lbs in 5 weeks... I'm seriously going to cry just thinking that I may not be able to do this to the intensity and extent that I want to. I'm really hoping maybe, somehow my swollen, purple super uber painful toe is just sprained and not broken... I'm thinking that's not likely seeing as it hurt so bad this morning just lying in bed that I thought I might throw-up a little.

note: Ibuprofen is a miracle drug.

I'm so mad at myself. I mean, seriously. If I had just walked to the bathroom a little slower, if I just hadn't been wearing make-up therefore eliminating the need for me to go hunting for my make-up remover... if I just hadn't stayed up until 1am... uggh..

My plan for the day is to move as little as possible while at work (yes, I still came to work because I'm an idiot. We'll see if I make it back from lunch), get some surgical tape from CVS or somewhere and tape this toe to a healthy toe, prop up my foot and take a nap when I get home since I barely slept last night with the late bedtime combined with broken-toe pain, pump myself full of Shaklee vitamins and pray pray pray that I can squeeze my foot into my gym shoes and at least do upper-body/core workouts next week with maybe a little stationary bike or elliptical action... so much for my excellent idea of doing Just Dance to get my cardio in on days I don't hit the gym. -.-

(Just took my sock off to show Alex my toe... uh, yeah, it looks like 100 times worse than it did this morning... FML!)

Stats for 1/4/11:

• total calories: 1943 - 150 flex calories until Saturday. -.-
• no workout
• a LOT of smoking.. uggggghhhhh!!! the more I write in this post the more I kind of hate myself...
• 1am bedtime... 
• $6.67 spent at Taco Bell for myself and Mike, $17.30 spent on drinks while watching the Arkansas game including tip... total spent: $23.97. $52 left till the 15th (next pay period).