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.
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!
2 miles. It was easier than I thought since it had been an entire week since i had run. Plus i played volleyball before I ran so I was worried (rightly so) about my knees. They hurt out of the gate, but not so much once i got into it. I think i have come to the realization that new shoes are DEFINITELY needed. Shins are starting to hurt again. I was hoping I could make it to the Candlelight Run in June, but I’m not sure.
Eating… bish, plz.
Weight — not too bad. Well, it’s not where I want to be but I’m holding steady right around 190. I mean, it could be worse, right. I could be back up to where I was awhile ago. I weighed myself last night and I was 192 which i was pleased with after the wedding extravaganza of this weekend. I weight myself this morning and I was 187. Go figure. If I could get my eating under control I’d be okay. Why is that the hardest part?!
OH!! And I will have to post pics of Jase in his tuxedo from this weekend when I get a chance. He was so handsome!! And of course I will post a picture of myself all dressed up. I must be doing something right because I have gotten all sorts of compliments from people.
Yes, yes… I know… i’ve been a terrible blogger lately. But really, there isn’t much to blog about. I’ve had crappy crappy runs (except for last night where I ran 2 miles). I don’t understand how I can have an awesome run one week and then barely be able to run a mile after that. Because seriously… that’s what happened. A few days after my three-miler… I couldn’t even run a mile. Same thing happened a few days later. Then yesterday… 2 miles easy. I don’t get it.
Food wise…. HA HA HA!!! Seriously, not sure what is going on with me. Except I’m over the whole cooking food and making food for everyone else and myself and I want someone to do it for ME just once but it still be healthy and yummy. Yes, I know… dream on, dream on.
I’m hovering right at 190, which is fine. I go +-2 from week to week. My 16’s are loose, some of my 14’s are just right, others are too tight still. Who knows.