Weekend slacker

Well, I didn't make it to the gym Saturday or Sunday - I was so tired. It's not even funny. I also ate a bunch of crap... but I'm okay with it. lol I packed my gym bag this morning and will definitely be hitting the gym after work today.

My weigh-in did not go as awesome as planned - first of all I forgot to do it on Saturday morning, so I did it Sunday morning... after consuming massive amounts of sodium all day/night Saturday. So yeah. I was at 197 exactly. So I'm pretty much maintaining my weight right now which I guess isn't the end of the world since I definitely can see the changes in my body since getting back in to weight-lifting. Maybe here in the next month I'll see at least a couple more pounds come off.

Food breakdown for the weekend, go!

Sat. 3/26:

• breakfast: organic granola w/ 2% milk
• lunch: crunchwrap and regular taco from Taco Bell... I know, I know... it gets worse...
• dinner: kung pao vegetarian "chicken" and some crab rangoon... lots of white rice. The place we ordered from doesn't do brown rice, and I didn't think to make any myself.
• 0 cigarettes
• $14 spent on foods
• 1am bedtime

Sun. 3/27:

• breakfast: donut (so healthy)
• lunch: leftover tofu chinese goodness
• dinner: thin crust supreme pizza over at mom and dad's
• 0 cigarettes
• $0 spent
• 12:30am bedtime - getting up for work this morning was hard! But that's what you get when you sleep super late on a Sunday morning... you're not tired when you're supposed to be!!

Part of the reason I was up so late last night was because I watched the first 2 parts of the new Mildred Pierce on HBO - I definitely recommend it!! Kate Winslet is so amazing. 

Goals for this week:

• start watching nutrition intake: 3 proteins, 4 dairy, 7 fruits/veggies, 6 grains/legumes, 4 good fats
• get to the gym 3 TIMES - I've been twice a week the last couple weeks, plus doing some cardio-type-stuff at home, but I'd really like to get that third weight workout in every week. 
• spend at least 3 hours reading, I need to finish Game of Thrones before April 17th!!! Plus I picked up a new fitness book I want to do more than just skim through. 
• get better about bedtimes - I feel like I've been pushing till midnight too often during the week and that needs to stop

Week 3 - Days 2 and 3 BACK ON TRACK!!

Woo!! God DAMN I feel good! I just finished 2 hours of choreographed dancing and even threw some crunches in there at the end - aside from the amazing cardio, I worked the shit out of my arms... I'm gonna be super sore tomorrow and it's gonna feel GREAT! I can't wait!

Okay, so yesterday I didn't really do much of anything except watch football and not eat.. oddly enough. I went to the grocery store and as I was getting ready to leave I realized I was STARVING so I picked up this "Taste of Asia" stir fry stuff.. and it was AMAZING. Plus it came with brown rice so along with that, the veggies and white-meat chicken = supa healthy meal! Even though I ate the entire thing... which is meant for 2 dinners.. lol but you'll see that it affected my daily calorie count very little... on to the stats!

Day 2:

• total calories/points: 1415 / 33 - OH! I almost forgot to tell you guys - now that I've lost 4 pounds into this Challenge, my daily points went down to 33. Still 49 flex points for each week, though. Even though I already used most of those... lol
• no workout, lots of recovering from the 3 hour Wii dance extravaganza.. 
• 2 cigarettes
• 11pm bedtime
• $0 spent - groceries don't count

Day 3:

• total calories/points: 1489 / 24 (so far, although I don't think I'll be eating anything else tonight since it's almost bedtime) So, I know I said at the beginning of this that I wasn't going to count fruit/veggie calories, but I have been anyway because I like to include the fiber/protein content to see if I'm reaching my daily goals on those.. that's why sometimes I'll have a high calorie number, but a low points number, and vice versa. 
• 2 hours of dancing plus about 60 reps of 3 different ab exercises - according to Discovery Health (which factors in weight) I burned 1195 calories. According to my heart rate monitor I burned like 2200... soooo, I think that makes it pretty clear that my HR monitor SUCKS at counting calories accurately. BUT it regularly give me almost exactly twice what I would actually be burning, so maybe I can go with that then.
• 0 cigarettes - getting there... slowly.. but getting there. 
• shooting for 11pm bedtime
• $3 spent on lunch - I think I've got about $60 left in "fun" money until the 31st. Not bad at all.

I've been seriously considering no longer counting calories burned - mainly because I want to exercise because it makes me feel good and keeps me healthy, not just because I'm striving for some magical "burned" amount. Also I think sometimes it has a tendency to make me want to eat more even if I'm not hungry just because I can, 'cause I have "room" or whatever. I need to think on that a little more. 

My goal this "work" week is to get to the gym AT LEAST once to lift weights.

Holiday Review

So, obviously, I haven't posted since the 21st - which was last Tuesday. Of course I have eaten since then. Of course I've completely neglected my blog. But it was Christmas, what do you expect?

I did really decent with my calorie intake, with the exception of Christmas day on which I ate about 2500 calories. But, hey, that is still pretty good considering the amount of food that was available! My only saving grace Christmas Eve was that I managed to stuff my belly full of cocktail shrimp so I was too full to eat any of the more fattening/high calorie foods sitting out. lol

I did not weigh myself this morning, as I completely forgot what I was doing in the mad rush to actually get to work on time after dreaming all night long about just NOT going to work, or being incredibly late, or forgetting, etc, etc, etc... those dreams are the WORST. I'll weigh in tomorrow and maybe even take the time to do full-scale measurements - not just my waist.

Let me throw my weekend stats out there and then I'll talk a little bit about Christmas..

12/25:

• total calories: 2500 - including a few glasses of wine... delicious. :)
• 30 minutes of Just Dance 2 on the Wii - OH YEAH FUN CARDIO! I'll say maybe 150 calories burned there lol
• maybe 4 cigarettes? I can't remember... I bummed a few off my mom while I was enjoying my wine. 
• 1am bedtime - Mike and I did not do very well on bedtimes the whole weekend because my mom got us a little DVD player for our bedroom and we decided The Lord of the Rings would be the PERFECT before bed movie... lol
• I spent no money over the actual weekend - I spent $15 Thursday night when we went out with some friends. I have $20 leftover from last week. Pretty awesome. Not gonna lie.

12/26:

• total calories: 1655 - I think I was still full from dinner the night before haha
• calories burned: 200 - played Just Dance for about an hour with Mike, may have burned more than this but I'm not gonna over estimate. 
• 0 cigarettes
• 11:30 bedtime - woo!
• $0 spent

We had an excellent Christmas - Santa brought us a Wii!! Mike got me the Just Dance game (in case you didn't pick up on that already lol), we also got Mario Kart Wii and Super Mario Bros Wii... so awesome! We love that thing. James was totally ecstatic over all his gifts and we got some great family movies that we enjoyed watching yesterday. It was so amazing to have all day yesterday to just chill out and play with all the new stuff! I wish Mike and I had had enough vacation to have been able to take this week off work, too, but maybe next year. Although I'm beginning to think I'll NEVER have any vacation time saved up. Seems like every time I get a couple days something comes up and I have to use it for "non-fun" things. :-\  Oh, well. 

So overall: excellent holiday!

I think my main downfall this weekend was the amount of sweets I ate - the majority of my calorie counts Fri-Sun were cookies/pie, etc. I think it might be a bit tough to break that habit this upcoming week of wanting to stuff my face with sugar. We'll see how it goes. I'm planning to hit the gym a least 3 times this week. I'm thinking that shouldn't be too difficult since we have Friday off and I'm sure the gym will be open almost-normal hours that day. I did, however, forget to grab my gym bag to bring to work this morning - but I'm pretty sure we're going home for lunch today so I can get it then. 

Goals for this week:

- 1900 calories a day or less

- go to the gym 3 days

- take full-body measurements

- smoke as little as possible

- limit 3 alcoholic beverages per outing/get-together excepting New Years Eve (we'll be at home that night so I won't have to worry about that whole driving thing either)

Run down

Well, James has been running high fevers on and off since about 3am Monday morning and so I stayed at home with him yesterday and am home again today.. last night about 9pm I just started to feel incredibly run down. I'm afraid maybe I'm starting to fight whatever virus he's got. It seems like one of the 3 of us is always sick for Christmas. :-\  It sucks. I haven't worked out since Tuesday of last week and I'm feeling pretty down on myself for that, however I'm doing really well with my calories since I haven't been exercising. I'm going to be realistic here and just own up to the fact that I probably will not be making it to the gym this week - but next week I really need to lock back in on my routine.

Here are my stats for the last two days..

12/19:

• total calories: 1809 - unfortunately I went about 20g over my fat intake for the day though. Ate lots of cheese and other dairy.. oh well. Win some, lose some.
• no workout
• no smoking
• 11:30pm bedtime
• used some Christmas money to go out for a nice lunch with the hubby - $3 spent on starbucks from the weekly fund. 

12/20:

• total calories: 1427 - I was really blown away at how little I ate yesterday, even with making some Christmas cookies and stuff. I just wasn't really hungry at all yesterday which is another reason that makes me think I'm fighting this virus... 
• no workout
• 1 cigarette which made me feel like I wanted to throw-up. Ick.
• 10:30 bedtime
• $0 spent ($40 left for the week)

My weight for this week was 198lbs - 2lbs less than last week, so I'm not really sure how to feel about that since I was at 195.8 two weeks ago.. I'm not sure if I've actually gained or lost or WHAT! lol   My clothes continue to fit better and better everyday and I can start really seeing a difference in my face, so I'm not going to stress too much as long as I keep feeling like I'm making progress. Once the holidays are over and I can settle back into a consistent exercise routine I think I'll start seeing results at a quicker pace. I've also been thinking about re-reading Jackie Warner's book just to give myself some inspiration. We'll see how that goes.

Mike and I got all of James's presents wrapped last night plus all of our gifts to extended family - I'm going to try to get his wrapped while I'm home today. I'm so glad I'm done with all my shopping! Usually this time of year I'm going crazy trying to get everything finished up.

On another note, I started reading The Magicians by Lev Grossman a couple weeks ago and I'm almost finished with it. I definitely recommend it! Be warned - the beginning is a little slow, but once it picks up it gets really good. I'm really excited for the second book in the series next Summer! I'm almost done with this book.. and just like anytime I'm reading a book I really enjoy, as I get down to the final chapters I start stressing about leaving those characters behind. I'm going to miss them all.. I'm glad this is the beginning of a series - it will be exciting to see where things go. Now, I just have to figure out what to start reading next after I finish this - which will probably be sometime today.

So my goals for this week are:
- smoke as little as possible
- continue to limit alcohol intake to 3 beverages or less per get-together/outing
- continue 11:30pm bedtime
- 1900 calories or less a day (I have to say it felt really weird allowing myself to eat so much doing the 2100 calories - once I get back in the gym maybe we'll revisit this)

Staying on track

This morning I woke up feeling like I didn't get near enough rest - and the thought of hitting the gym after work was less-than-pleasing. I already had my gym bag packed and ready to go, thank goodness because I was running HORRIBLY late already. I threw it in the car and headed to work with my breakfast-to-go in tupperware.. out into the 18 degree morning. The high tomorrow is estimated to be 26, with a low of 12.

IT'S NOT EVEN WINTER YET, MOTHER NATURE! GET WITH IT!!

This kind of cold coupled with the 4pm sunset is really wrecking havoc on my being-happy-and-motivated-ness.

Once I got into work and woke up a little bit I was feeling better about heading to the gym - only to realize that we made plans with my parents straight after work to go to this "festival of lights" thing out in Gainesville-ish, which is almost an hour away. We realistically probably won't be back home until 7 or 8pm and then I'll need to get James straight to bed. Basically this all means that if I want to try to go to the gym I probably won't actually get there until close to 9pm.. and I just don't think I'm willing to go that late since that will give me NO wind-down time after work/family stuff before it'll just be time for ME to go to bed. So my plan is to do what I can of the core workout I did with the personal trainer last week at home before bedtime. Or maybe I'll do one of my Jackie Warner 15 minute workouts. I am definitely going to try to do SOMETHING. And then definitely hit the gym tomorrow afternoon.

I did not even have the time to hop on the scale and take measurements this morning so I will be sure to do that tomorrow and give updates on that!

Stats for yesterday, 12/12:

• total calories: 1871 - muuuuch better than Saturday's totals. Plus, with the exception of a Lean Cuisine for dinner, I had ALL whole foods yesterday. I was quite proud of myself and felt 100 times better after eating all those fruits and veggies!
• no workout - my day consisted mostly of sleeping on my couch recovering from the 3am night.
• 3 cigarettes
• 12am bedtime
• $0 spent

Goals for this week:

• workout at least 4 times this week - at home, at the gym, wherever. Just get it done.
• get to bed by 11:30pm
• 2100 calories or less a day
• no more than 6 cigarettes a day
• no more than 3 alcoholic beverages per outing/get-together

The End of Vacation

First let me say: I’m sorry for not keeping up with my posts as well as I should have – but it was vacation, afterall! Also, no stats with this post.

Well, I stepped on the scale this morning and I gained 3lbs and about a ¼ inch on my gut while in Arkansas. I have to say this wasn’t anywhere close to what I had expected, so I’m pretty happy! However this definitely is telling of how quickly weight gain can sneak up on you.

I was still counting calories for most of my trip and then Weds night and the rest of the week/weekend I gave up. Mostly I was just busy. I’m pretty sure there were only one or two days that I broke the 2500 mark – with the amount of alcohol consumed I definitely breached the 1800 mark every day, but I’m okay with that.

I did at least walk every day while I was down there – Mon I took a quick 15 minute job, Tues. I jogged for 2.5 miles in about 40 minutes, Weds I took about an hour long walk with my cousin, Thurs I played football for about 30 minutes, Friday I walked for 40 minutes with my uncle Marvin and the dogs. This, I think, was the first week I actually got in 5 consecutive workouts/walks/runs! Too bad I was eating so much the whole week otherwise I might have actually lost something.. lol  “I’m soooo full” was the story of my life while I was there. I feel like all we did was EAT!

This week my focus is to take off those 3lbs I packed back on, to get some good hard exercise in, and hopefully finish this book I’m reading. I realized a few days ago, aside from Walking Dead, I haven’t read in probably 2 months. I really enjoy reading and I think it really helps keep my stress levels low, so I need to make finding a good book every couple weeks a priority.

I talked to Mike this afternoon about getting a gym membership – he says he needs to “think about it”. Hopefully he’s okay with us spending the extra $30/month, and hopefully he’ll be done thinking about it before Wednesday when the offer expires. :-p

here comes my 19th nervous breakdown...

I must must MUST get better about updating my blog on a DAILY basis instead of this every other day routine I seem to be falling into.

So I bumped my caloric intake down for this week. I use MyPlate to track my calories and they have a little calculator that tells you how many calories you should eat to lose or gain however many pounds per week. So I would, ideally, like to be losing about 1.5 pounds a week – so this little calculator dealie told me I should be consuming 1877 calories/day or less. Okay, fair. I can totally do that.

Then… I go out for beers last night and blow my calorie count by 48 calories. 48 maybe not SEEM like a lot… but you consider that I consumed 550 calories worth of BEER last night… that makes it seem pretty awful. I even told myself I was just going to have 2 glasses of white wine (about 200 calories, give or take) and then drink water… but I just didn’t want to pay the $6 a glass or whatever it was… yeah, so I spent $20 on beers instead.. plus tip.. because I drank FIVE of them. FML. Seriously.

Other things to derail my healthy eating this week… had to take the kiddo to the doctor yesterday morning – find out he has a sinus infection, which sucks pretty hard for the little dude – but the appointment was at 11:30am.. which means he missed lunched at daycare.. so what do we have for lunch? Ah, yes, the World-Wide Little Kid Favorite Food: MCDONALDS! Now, I got myself a kid’s meal with a tea instead of soda so I kept it under 550 calories there. But it’s still fucking McDonald’s. And it pretty much killed my sodium intake for the day. I did have some baked salmon and wild rice for dinner though… so I feel like I made it up to myself a little bit there. Although I cooked at my mom’s and she didn’t have any vegetables for some reason, so I didn’t even come close to my “strive for 5” yesterday. I’m so envious of Emily and her brilliant job at clean eating!

Part of me kind of feels like, “Oh, stop beating yourself up because you’re about to leave for vacation and you’re pretty much going to give in to all your vices and eat like shit while you’re there. May as well just start over when you get home.” But I don’t really WANT to eat like shit and I certainly don’t want to feel like I have to “start over” on anything. I want to just move FORWARD. Consistently. I’m sure I will probably bust my calories several times – I mean, let’s be real. It’s THANKSGIVING. But I generally want to try to make good choices.. even if I’m just eating massive quantities of those good choices.  Plus another part of me feels like it won’t be so bad because I will actually have the time and opportunity to exercise EVERY DAY. And that will be so brilliant!

I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. …now watch me lose like 10 pounds while I’m there. Hahaha!

Okay so stats for the last couple days…

11/15:

• total calories: 1798 - I was starving almost ALL DAY on Monday. I don't know what the deal was. So I ate a lot more than I usually do, although I tried to make sure I was stuffing myself with healthy choices like apples, wheat thins, pistachios, etc.
• calories burned: 500 - so I actually clocked the walk/runs my mom and I have been doing.. and turns out it's more like 2.5 miles than 3, so I've probably been a little off on the amount of calories I've been burning. Today we jogged almost the whole thing. It felt amazing! 
• no cigarettes - day 2
• 10:30pm bedtime - WOO! GO ME!
• $4 on lunch ($36 left for the week)

11/16:

• total calories: 1925 - we discussed this above. Beer is evil. The End.
• no workout - it rained like a mofo yesterday.. I planned to do a workout dvd at home, but then hung at my mom's til like 7pm or so and had to meet up with folks at 8pm, so I didn't really have the time. Poop.
• ...3 cigarettes. Begin again. *facepalm*
• 1am bedtime - I actually got home around 11:30pm, but I stayed up late reading. AND NOW I HAVE NO MORE WALKING DEAD COMICS!! NOOOOOOOOooooooooo!
• $23.. on beer... -.- ($13 left for the week. EFF!!!)

Oh, also.. I forgot to mention this last week - but I bought some new jeans and a bunch of long-sleeve T's and sweaters because I realized I have, like, NO WINTER CLOTHES. Word? So get this.. I got a HELLUVA deal because a friend sent me an invite to the Gap Give+Get sale, and I had a TON of cashback from Discover.. so I was able to trade in $80 of my Discover Cashback for a $100 Gap gift card (!!!) so I got almost $300 worth of Gap clothing for... wait for it... $98!!! Brilliant, eh? Plus free shipping. Damn straight. I'm so amazing. Heh. 

Anyways, so that leaves me with only $2 left in my monthly fund, but I'm pretty sure I'll do just fine with that. 

I'm getting so excited for my trip to NLR!! Only two days!!! Or "two sleeps" as I tell James. :)

Right quick!

Body stats beginning of Week 5:
Weight: 200lbs - no change since last week
Waist measurement: 34.5 inches - half inch loss!

I feel like I haven't accomplished "enough" for entering my 5th week of this. Granted, I've been slacking these last couple weeks. And I feel like a broken record at this point.. but gym. I need to GYM!!! I swear, I swear, I will call some places this week. And tomorrow night my plan is to go by the rec center where my buddy works and can hopefully getting me in for cheap to do my workout there for the night. *crosses fingers*

Stats for 11/7:

• total calories: 1588 - not too bad.
• no workout
• 3 cigarettes - theoretically my last cigarettes
• 12:30am bedtime - The Walking Dead comics are SO ADDICTING!!!!
• $6 spent on Starbucks for breakfast (and I wonder why I didn't lose any weight this week. -.-)

So I pretty much only spent about $25 this week. Go me! And spent none of my month fund so I'm pretty sure I've got all $100 of that intact... if I'm remembering correctly.

Overview for week 5:
- 2000 calories or less a day
- gym-it-up/walk/workout dvd 5 days a week
- avoid smoking
- avoid beer
- get to bed by or before 11:30pm on weeknights
- focus on clean eating
- restart sugar detox

The post of a thousand updates!

4 days worth of stats for you guys... I really have to get better of posting on the weekends, it's just so hard for me 'cause we keep to busy! :-\

stats for Thurs. 10/21:

• total calories: 1933 - had Arby's for lunch which tasted HORRIBLE to me.. I think I may have finally broken my addiction to fast food. 
• calories burned: 400 - another 3 mile walk! Took it a little slower this time due to feeling nauseous and having a terrible headache.
• 9 cigarettes - went out for beers.. this always breaks me.
• 12am bedtime
• $18 spent between lunch and going out.

stats for Fri. 10/22:

• total calories: 1627 - ate healthy all day with the exception of having a cookie. I need to really reign in my sugar intake again - I'm starting to bargain with myself on that and I feel the most important part of this lifestyle change is breaking that addiction to processed sugars.
• calories burned: 0 - I did not get a workout in. Mike had already left for the weekend, I was exhausted, I had to get my parents dog and bring him to the house and James's Fall Festival for his daycare was also this night, so I petered out on motivation. :-\
• 7 cigarettes
• 12:30am bedtime - not bad for a Friday, not bad at all.
• $6 spent on subway for lunch

stats for Sat. 10/23:

• total calories: 1791 - I went to a potluck on Saturday, and I just have to give myself a pat on the back for a moment because I seem to do incredibly well with my eating at parties. In fact, I think I'm more likely to binge at home by myself than at a party where there is plate after plate after plate of delicious high fat/sugary foods. The only reason my calorie count was over 1200 was due to the amount of wine I consumed. 
• calories burned: 0 - no workouts on weekends
• I'm not even sure how many cigarettes I smoked.. a LOT. Ugh.
• 2am bedtime - this KILLED ME. James didn't go to sleep until 11pm at our friend's house, which in retrospect, I should have just left when I realized he wasn't going to bed like he was supposed to.. but instead I got him to sleep and then stayed until about 1am. :-\  Live and learn.
• $0 spent

and finally.....

stats for Sun. 10/24:

• total calories: 1604 - I picked up some Newman's Own frozen pizza for dinner, and MAN! That stuff is good! And super good for you. :)
• no workout
• 4 cigarettes
• 12am bedtime - had to stay up and catch up with hubby since I missed him so much!
• $0 spent ($12 leftover from this week/$44 left for the month)

I think I'm finally starting to reach my "I'm sick of smoking" phase. The only reason I'm doing it at this point is out of social habit - I was very social this week, hence the reason I smoked pretty much everyday. 

Things I want to focus on this week:

- cutting further back on smoking

- getting back on top of my processed sugar intake

- getting enough fiber (I don't think I reached my RDA for fiber ONCE this week - that's really bad)

- working out or walking consistently 5 days a week

- earlier bedtime during the work week

- cutting back alcohol intake on weekends

Weekend Stats

I'm sorry I'm so bad about updating on weekends - we just seem to keep so busy and when we're not busy I'm trying to catch up on sleep. lol

Stats for Friday 10/8:

• total calories: 1919 - I did pretty well considering I had Wendys for lunch (which made me totally sick to my stomach, I think I mentioned that in Friday's post though) and some of my mom's homemade frito chili pie for dinner. I went waaaaay over my sodium intake for the day, but I'm not going to stress too much over that. I also had a coke with my lunch which put me right at my processed sugar intake, which again, I'm not going to stress over.
• calories burned: 0 - no work out 'cause we stayed at mom's til 8:30pm, but I'm okay with that. Family time was needed.
• 3 cigarettes while at mom's
• 12:30 bedtime - not too bad for a Friday night!
• $7 spent at Wendys ($4 left for the weekend)

Stats for Saturday 10/9:

• total calories: 1731 - ate dinner at mom's again.. burgers on the grill! yum! would have been even more yum had they not been those frozen Bubba patties.. don't get me wrong, they're tasty, but SUPER BAD FOR YOU. Anyway. I didn't get up until noon on Saturday so I only ate breakfast and dinner (skipping meals again - weekends are hard for me on that aspect) which helped keep my calories in check. I also indulged in a couple glasses of wine - rose' is delicious! First time I'd ever had it. I may have to invest in a bottle or two.
• calories burned: 0 - no workouts on weekends.
• maybe 8 or 9 cigarettes - once again, didn't keep count. It may have been a lot less than that actually. Gotta be better about keeping track of this.
• 1am bedtime - again not too bad for a weekend night. It would have been much earlier but I stayed up watching Ron White on Comedy Central - love him!
• $0 spent - yay! $4 to carry over into next week.

 I felt much better Saturday and today after eating a little bit more healthy. Tomorrow I start the 5-2 plan.. 5 days of clean eating, and then 2 cheat meals for the weekend. I'm actually really looking forward to it.

So goals for week of Oct. 11-17:

• stick to clean eating Mon-Fri
• do JW workouts Mon, Weds, Fri
• no more than 10 cigarettes a day
• write out goals for getting healthy/weight loss

I'm excited to start this week and get on a regular workout routine again. I'm hoping within another couple weeks I will no longer be between sizes in my jeans.. nothing more obnoxious than that. My 18s are WAY too big and my 16s are just tight enough to be uncomfortable for more than a couple hours. FRUSTRATING.

So even though I've already been focusing on exercise and healthy eating for 2 weeks now, I'm still considering this coming week Week 1 of my new healthy life! Here we go!

A different kind of stats... BODY STATS!

I'm not sure why my post title made me seem so excited to share this deeply personal and embarrassing information with you... but anyhoo.. here we go... measured yesterday, which was day 1 of the two week JW (Jackie Warner) jumpstart:

As of Monday, September 27th

• chest: 41"
• waist (around the bellybutton): 39"
• hips: 47"
• thighs: 27.5"
• biceps (flexing): 13.5"
• weight: 205lbs

So there it is folks. Perhaps I will peruse my photos when I have a moment later today and post an accurate portrayal of my weight right now. Maybe I'll even have Mike just take a quick picture of me today so it can be really accurate. 

Now for boring regular stats from yesterday:

• total calories: 1636 - I even ate some ice cream with crumbled cone on top and didn't go over my processed sugar grams for the day! Very proud of that! That means for the last week, including today, I've stayed under 40 grams of processed sugar everyday!
• calories burned: 250 - this is a low-ish estimate. I attempted to do my 20 mins of HIIT (high intensity interval training) but Mike had to work late which means I had my 4 yr old in tow... you would think a 4 yr old boy would have enough energy to keep up for what was a essentially a 20 minute jog. NOPE! He dragged and moped and whiiiiiined the WHOLE TIME. Also asked me to carry his 50lb. butt several times.. I was like, "No way, dude." So I did an extra 10 mins of running up and down my stairs when we got back home because I feel like I wasn't really able to push myself while I was out with him. Plan of action for the future: bring workout clothes to work and jog around the pond before I get the kiddo from daycare or do the whole routine on my stairs if the hubby isn't home from work.
• 0 cigarettes - that's two days so far, woo! Saturday will be the hardest for me since my mom is having a ladies night... and almost all the other ladies are smokers. We'll see how it goes. 
• 11:30pm bedtime - stayed up til a little after 11pm watching Harry Potter. I'm trying to watch all the movies again before the newest one comes out in November. I turned the lights off and ATTEMPTED to fall asleep about 11:30pm... however my husband had other ideas.. ie: staying up until after midnight blaring the football game. -.-
• $5 spent on Taco Bell for lunch - 7-layer burrito with a regular taco and a small soda. 

So my goals for this week are:

- $40 budget for the week
- $100 for the month of October starting Friday (following Maury's example on this one)
- 40g of processed sugars or less daily
- 2 detox fruits daily
- 2 eggs daily
- 3 cups detox veggies daily
- whey protein daily
- 3 liters lemon water daily
- 5 days of HIIT cardio for 20 mins

- continue to cut back on smoking, 5 cigarettes a day or less