Well, not really. In fact, I’ve probably hit the hardest part of my journey. But it feels like I’ve been climbing this mountain and 150 was the peak. I could NOT seem to get there. I got down to 150.8 back in April - and that was as close as I got. Then I slowly [...]
Posted on December 17th, 2008 by firefly
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I’ll update this as the day goes on.
FOOD
Breakfast: Knudsen’s cottage cheese doubles with peaches (130)
Snack: 11 wheat thins (90)
Lunch: Healthy Choice Cafe Steamer Roasted Chicken Marsala (240)
Green Giant Immunity Blend Steam Veggies (100)
Dinner: Arby’s Melt (303)
Total: 863 calories
EXERCISE
Strength Training: Jillian Michaels’ Shape-Up Front DVD (20 min)
Elliptical: 60 minutes
WATER
64 oz today (plus several cups of tea)
Posted on November 24th, 2008 by firefly
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FOOD
Breakfast: egg in ham cup (205)
Lunch: grilled chicken salad (305)
Dinner: grilled fish fillet (100)
Green Giant sugar snap peas (120)
Snack at movies: 15 almonds (135)
1 oz beef jerky (70)
Total: 835 calories
EXERCISE
elliptical: 30 minutes
strength and core training workout: 15 minutes
WATER
64 oz pure H2O
4 cups of tea
Posted on November 21st, 2008 by firefly
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FOOD
Breakfast: bowl of oatmeal with 1 scoop protein powder (210)
Snack: fat free hot cocoa (25)
Lunch: grilled fish fillet (100)
Green Giant steamed veggies (100)
Snack: 11 wheat thins (90)
Dinner: repeat of lunch (200)
Total: 725 calories
EXERCISE
Couch to 5K: Day 2/Week 1 (20 minutes)
Elliptical: 40 minutes
WATER
64 oz (yay for me!!)
Posted on November 19th, 2008 by firefly
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FOOD
Breakfast: Chocolate Soy Protein Shake (100)
Lunch/Dinner: Grilled fish fillet (100)
Green Giant Vision Health Steamed Veggies (90)
Snack: 10 raw almonds (90)
Afterdinner treat: fat-free hot cocoa (25)
Total: 405 calories
Wow - that is really low. I just didn’t have time to eat today. Yesterday was probably worse. I’ll do better tomorrow.
EXERCISE
Elliptical: 90 minutes
Crunches on Swiss Ball: 30
Arm, shoulder [...]
Posted on November 19th, 2008 by firefly
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… this week. Just found out that Sean has minimum days all week. The older kids get out at the regular time, of course. This totally messes up my entire week. UGH. I hate starting out the week on the wrong foot.
Scale said 159.8 this morning. I have to admit to not counting all the [...]
Posted on November 17th, 2008 by firefly
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My grandparents anniversary party went well. I overdid on salted nuts and ate three Hershey’s kisses. I only had one bite of cake because it wasn’t very good and so I wasn’t going to eat it just because it was cake. Not too bad. I passed on all the pasta and stuck with the salad, [...]
Posted on November 16th, 2008 by firefly
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Despite the horrid chest cold I’ve been battling for weeks, I did the seemingly impossible last night and EXERCISED!!! Yep, 60 minutes on the elliptical. I’ll wait for the applause to die down…
I did have to stop periodically when hit by a coughing fit. Stop, clamp down, cough away, resume ellipticalling. For the young ones, [...]
Posted on November 12th, 2008 by firefly
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