I just finished 60 minutes on the elliptical and I hit the gym earlier today. So BOOYAH! Oh, and seriously all healthy food. Oatmeal for brekkie, big ole salad for lunch and I’m having two lean turkey burger patties and a bag of steamed snow pea pods for din-din! No snacking of any kind. CIRCLE THIS DAY ON THE CALENDAR! I SAID NO SNACKING TODAY! I KNOW, SHUT UP, RIGHT?! (sorry, got a little caps happy there!)
I am now torturing myself by watching Food Network programming. Cause I’m all masochistic that way.
I’m going to spend the rest of the night planning menus for both the kids and myself, with an accompanying shopping list. Tomorrow after work I’ll do the shopping and any prep work. I’m trying SO hard to get more organized.
I also need to plan out a new Slump Buster Challenge. It’s REALLY helping me, I’m honestly shocked at how that’s kept me not just from eating what I shouldn’t, but more importantly sticking to my exercise. I ONLY hit the gym today because I committed to doing it and that penalty, oooh booy was that gonna hurt! I’ll update in a bit after dinner, when I’ve had some time to mull this one over.
UPDATE 8:47 PM
OK, so here’s the menu I’ve come up with for next week (M-F)
Breakfast: watermelon, cantaloupe, melon, etc…
Snack: fat-free yogurt
Lunch: big ol’ salad
Snack: string cheese and handful almonds
Dinner: lean protein and steamed veggies
My exercise for the next week:
Elliptical: 60 minutes daily
Gym: Tuesday & Thursday - upper body workout
I’m going to step it up a notch for the Slump Buster Challenge. I’m convinced that my excessive Coke Zero drinking is inhibiting my weightloss. When I lost all the weight before I had basically cut it out and was drinking mostly water and tea.
So here it is: no more than 2 Diet Coke/Coke Zeros a day (ouch!) Expect to hear much whining and complaining by Tuesday!! You’ve been warned!
OFFICIAL SLUMP BUSTER CHALLENGE FOR 8/10 - 8/14
1. No more than 2 diet sodas a day
2. No fast food, cookies, pies, cakes, candy, donuts, chips or other “junk” foods
3. I will work out at the gym Tuesday & Thursday
4. I will do minimum 60 minutes on the elliptical everyday
5. I will do my physical therapy knee exercises Monday, Wednesday & Friday!!
Reward: $100 to spend on some new clothes (my wardrobe currently sucks!)
Penalty: current one is totally working for me - swimsuit pic here and on Facebook (I would run 10 miles and eat lettuce every day to avoid that! If I don’t show a weightloss tomorrow, I may seriously consider that!)
Posted on August 9th, 2009 by firefly
Filed under: daily blathering
Yay for you! No snacking isn’t even in the realm of possible for me! So, you know how you are running a marathon on your 40th? Well there is one here in Japan a few days before my 30th. I think I am gonna try to do it, just cause you are! When is your birthday? I have 4 months. So anyway, thanks for the inspiration =] Oh, and probably the listening to my complaining, in advance.
You can do it
Isn’t it funny how when you are hungry the food channel is like po.rn? lol!
I’m late to the party for the challenge. But you have fun with that. I need a weekend challenge as it is only Wednesday and I am already plotting deliciousness for the weekend. Not wholesome deliciousness but decadent deliciousness. Like a steak with truffle butter kind of deliciousness.
I am pretty proud of myself for my current allowance of only two diet cokes per day. We won’t talk about the two-three cups of coffee that are in addition to that.