I can’t believe it’s been 7 years!! I won’t even think about how many pounds have been lost since then. You guys would be floored.
So what does that mean? It means I have a shit ton of things to do before his party this weekend.
To answer bigprof’s question from yesterday “what is lemon verbena cottage cheese”: there is this product Rachel’s Wickedly Delicious Cottage Cheese that I’ve seen at my grocery store for awhile. The flavors are quite intriguing, so this week while I was doing a proper grocery store run, I thought “why not”. I’m not a HUGE cottage cheese fan, but if it’s mixed with stuff, I can handle it. The stuff is pretty good! The lemon verbena one had blueberrys and blackberries in it. The roasted red pepper one I had today was interesting. It was good though. I still have a cucumber dill and a pomegranite one to try as well. Would I eat these all the time? Prob not since I can only handle cottage cheese in small doses, but they are quite tasty.
Breakfast: Rachel’s Roasted Red Pepper Cottage Cheese - 120 cal
Snack: Pumpernickel Bagel w/ 2 tbps red fat cream cheese - 330 cal
Lunch: Turkey/Spinach Lasagne (which I’m so glad I made into lasagne instead of tryng to do pasta rolls) - 234 cal
Breadstick - 150 cal
Dinner: Chicken and Summer Vegetable Tostadas - 398 cal
Black Bean/Couscous Salad with Jalapeno/Lime Dressing - 91 cal
I caved when i got home, decided i didn’t want/feel like cooking so we went to Tijuana Flats.
Breakfast: Rachel’s Lemon Verbena Cottage Cheese - 140 cal
Lunch - 1/2 French Twist Wrap from Roly Poly - 264cal
Baked Lays - 140cal
Snack - goldfish crackers- 70cal
Dinner - Turkey/Spinach Pasta Roll Ups that I am making into lasagne instead b/c it seems easier. - 234 cal
Breadstick - 150
Salad - we’ll estimate at about 100 cal after the stuff I loaded it with
Total Calories for the day: 1098 - quite a bit lower than the 1200 I should “strive” to get each day. Well, maybe it was a little more b/c I ate 2 mini chocolate bars today so perhaps I was at 1200.
Exercise: 2 mile run
I woke up this morning feeling like crap. That hasn’t happened in a long time. I’ll try to explain what I mean.. my stomach doesn’t hurt, but it feels… gross. It usually happens when I eat late at night or go to bed very soon after eating junk. I didn’t eat late at night, and I was up long after I ate junk yesterday, but I think it’s because I ate so much junk. Ugh… I’m not even going to go into what I consumed yesterday but let’s just say birthday party and alcohol.
So I do care about this despite the claim in my last post that I didn’t. Now I just need to get the energy and mojo to start doing somethign about it again. I don’t have any problem running.. it’s actually taking the time to cook healthy meals and making sure that I’m staying in my calorie range is what I can’t seem to get a handle on lately. I’m tired of cooking and preparing and..blah. I need a personal chef. I’ve been eating a lot of lean cuisines and stuff for lunches. I’m wondering if I should stop that for awhile and focus more on “whole foods” meaning non-processed stuff. Maybe that would help. Of course, that just means MORE cooking and preparing… and the frozen meals are portion controlled already. But they don’t last very long… meaning I’m hungry about an hour after eating them. I usually take leftovers but that only works if I actually cook… and assuming there are leftovers!
What do you other working women do for lunch at the office?
scale numbers creeping up… not a joke this time.
I guess it’s time to buckle down.. but you know what.. I just don’t care right now. I mean, I CARE, but I don’t really care enough to do anything about it. I need a kick in the head or something.
So a mom of one of the boys on Jase’s soccer team sent out an email several weeks ago asking if anyone was interested in doing a fitness boot camp. She was doing one with her company, but had talked to the guy to see if he would do one for some of her friends. He said sure, as long as he had 6 or more he would do it for $10 a session. Not bad. So I signed up. I figured it would be a way to get some different training instead of just my running.
OMG… I really wish I had just stayed in bed this morning. Tiny2b, bigprof… I have no idea how you did it several times a week. This is just once a week!! Today was the first day and I am wiped out. I am physically exhausted and I’ll be surprised if I’m able to walk tomorrow (we did legs). Will I go back next week… yeah, probably. Because I am a glutton for punishment.
I went running last night. That in itself is no big deal. The surprising thing is that I went in the middle of a rain storm. And I’m not talking about a light drizzle. I’m talking about a bottom falling out of the sky tropical monsoon downpour. It had been a week since I had been running. And the last run I had sucked ASS… i couldn’t even run 1 mile. I gave up. It’s been raining here every day for over a week now and the rain washed away all of my running mojo apparantly. So last night, I was hell bent on running - rain or no rain.
I got ready to go and it started raining. And then it started raining harder. I was determined though. Suddenly it stopped. I knew I didn’t have much time, but decided to drive down to the lake anyway instead of running around the neighborhood. I got about 1/2 way through before it started sprinkling. Another 1/4 way through and it really started to come down. I was on the total opposite side of the lake and had no choice but to go back to the other side. So away I went.. people driving by probably thought I was nuts. I would have done the whole 3.4, but by the time I got back to the 3 mile mark, it was POURING!! Lightening, everything. Plus… PLUS… my socks were wet. I don’t know if I have words to describe the hatred I have for wet socks. I could feel them squishing in my shoes.. I had to stop.
But really, when did the need to run become greater than the need to stay dry?! I felt good, don’t get me wrong. I think I could actually enjoy running in the rain.. and unless I want to start getting up at 4 am to run, I better get used to it for the summer.
Weight- well, that is steady at mid 180’s. I’m happy with it right now I think. I mean, I would like to be less, but I think I’m at a point that I’m so tired of counting calories and all that, i just want to sit here for awhile. I feel if I keep up the running I can do it. We’ll see. If I start creeping back up, I’ll have to do damage control
Stepped on the scale this morning and it showed I had lost some weight. Hmm… how much you ask?
In one night? No, I don’t think so. Stepped on again… sure enough, back to normal - mid 180’s. Ha ha, Scale…. next time you want to try and fool me, you may want to just bring it down 5 or so.
Ugh, I haven’t done ANYTHING this week. Running - out of the question. I should take up swimming with getupnow as much as it’s been raining here! 3 days straight now and we are slated for more. And yes, I know I live in FL. I expect afternoon thunderstorms everyday. It’s been raining from morning until night lately. And HARD - I thought the sky was falling last night. And of course I had to go out and get diapers in the middle of it. Hopefully it will stop raining soon.
So I guess 3 miles is the new norm for me. I mapped out a loop in my neighborhood and my friend and I ran it last night. It seemed like a L —- O —- N —- G 3 miles, and it took us about 45 minutes. I was sore since i had just come from playing volleyball.. not so good on the knees. But I was able to keep up with her the whole time. It’s weird…. I’m definitely more athletic than she, but she is a better runner. Plus she’s about 50lbs lighter and she’s been running about a year longer than I have. But the other day when we ran, she was quite a number of paces ahead of me on the last mile. Last night, I lagged behind once but then caught up with her and stayed with her the whole time. Until she pushed it at the very end… I let her go. I was WORN out!
Eating has been a tad better this week. Although this weekend was an eatout FEST!! It was all fast food on Saturday - breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Ugh. We were out and about all day. We went to the beach in the morning, then we went wakeboarding with some friends in the afternoon. I was hungry yesterday when I got back from my run b/c I had all of 2 or 3 bites of a meatball sub and a bunch of green beans for dinner (before volleyball) but I ate a few chunks of watermelon and called it a night. I REALLY REALLY wanted to jump in my car and go get something, but I resisted b/c I knew that would blow what i just accomplished with the run!
That is 2 days in a row. What’s going on?! What is happening?! Could I actually be at the point where my mileage has FINALLY upped? Is 3 miles the new norm?! Awesome! I wasn’t planning on going last night, but my Mon night running partner texted me to see if I wanted to go. I figured why not since I probably wouldn’t go again until Monday. It would give me 3 days of running this week. She asked if I wanted to come to her house which frightened me for a minute. When we run from my house, we do a 2 mile loop. Her loop is a 3 miler. I had run 3.4 miles Wednesday night so I had some trepidation on how my knees and legs would hold up. But I went for it. I did really well until the very end. I would say the last mile or so was the worst. And a lot of my difficulties come from the fact I feel SO dehydrated by then. Like I am in the middle of the sahara desert dying of thirst. Plus it was HOT. H.O.T HOT. I felt like I was a million degrees. I am not going to enjoy this summer. I mean, I run at night anyway and one would think it would be a smidgen cooler… HA!
Anyway, I think I’m going to strive for 3 mile runs from now on. And maybe make one of my runs during the week a longer run just to get used to the longer mileage. I’m going to sign up for the Grand Prix race circuit that the local running store hosts every year. It starts in August and runs the whole year. Basically, you are signed up for a certain amount of their sponsered races and you get a champion chip to track your time. I’m going to do it b/c it would keep me running. It’s easy to say “I’m going to sign up for race X” and then never do it. This way, I’ll already be signed up. Most are 5k’s but there are some 10k’s in there as well. So I do need to work on my mileage.
Weight — slowly dropping. Down to 185 this morning. I’m very close to where I was right before I got pregnant with Addison. But size wise I’m not… this doesn’t make sense. At my lowest, I was in the 170’s and a size 12. At 185 I am still in some 16’s (although they really are falling off of me) and barely in 14’s. I think it’s my butt. Not sure what to do about it though. Oh well. Really, I don’t care what size I am as long as I am at the weight I want. Can’t do much about body shape.