The journey from fat to fit. Road trip, woo hoo!

Back in the saddle, with a vengeance!
Breakfast: a banana and a peach
Lunch: 1/2 a fajita wrap at Azteca and small cup of tortilla soup. Diet coke
Snack: jamba juice, small berry smoothie
Snack: handful of trail mix
Supper: bowl of homemade chicken gumbo with rice, glass of red wine, bottle of water, small scoop of “lite” ice cream
Exercise: nothing, but I am still sick and just not interested in doing much

All in all, food was pretty good.

Breakfast - preBC: 1/2 a whole wheat bagel with low fat cream cheese (no peanut butter! this is why I should live alone).  postBC: orange mango banana vivanno.

Lunch: small bowl of left over chicken chow mein, tiny bit of black bean chicken and one pot sticker.  And a diet coke.

Dinner: Campbell’s chicken noodle soup.  I have a tummyache and am kicking it old school with the CNS.  140 cals 4 grams fat.

Exercise:  Boot camp, first day of the last week.  Can I get an amen?  Click here to read about it.  I did a map my run on the loop around the park that we’ve been running and what I thought was .25 of a mile is .4 of a mile!  Today we did it twice plus other cadio, so I am counting boot camp as 1 mile towards my Lazy Triathalon.  And just FYI, it is NOT TOO LATE to join the Lazy Triathalon.  Click here if you want to sign up!

Breakfast: one apple turnover, several pieces of bacon, 1/4 of a canteloupe

Lunch: plain roast beef sandwich from Arby’s, no cheese or sauce (kid size) and NO FRIES, diet coke

Dinner: went to a “boil.”  sausage, shrimp, potatos, garlic, sangria, apple pie and a tiny taste of cake.  More sangria.

Exercise: jogged 4.25 miles (day 1 of the lazy man triathalon, holla!)

Pre boot camp breakfast: 1/2 whole wheat bagel with peanut butter

Post boot camp breakfast: Orange mango banana vivanno

Lunch: cup of seafood chowder, half a crab and artichoke open faced sandwich, diet coke.  Food plan?  What food plan?

Dinner etc.: A few bites of chinese food, but not very much, a glass of wine, two beers, half a scoop of low fat ice cream and two bites of apple crisp

Snack:  100 cal cheeto pack, can of diet coke

Exercise: boot camp.  I’ll blog about it later if I regain full use of my arms

Breakfast: pre-boot camp, 1/2 a whole wheat bagle with a little peanut butter, bottle of water.  Post-boot camp, 1/2 a yogurt parfait and 1/2 a grande carmel machiatto from S’bucks.

Lunch: JC chicken sandwich, JC cheese curls, diet coke

Dinner: OMG, way over the top.  Two pints of beer, 2.5 slices of pizza, a ceasar salad and a handful of jelly bellies.  Wheel me home, please.

Exercise:  Day 3 of boot camp, most difficult day yet.  Even the waking up part was harder.  I’ll blog on it later. 

Breakfast: an english muffin with home-made blackberry jam

Lunch: 16 oz of jenny craig chicken broth (free food!), glass of water

Dinner: went out to my fave Italian restaurant and had antipasto, warm bread with real butter, chicken piccato and a sliver of DD9’s french bread pizza.  YUM.  Since I have boot camp tomorrow, I did not have wine or dessert.  And I got steamed veggies with the chicken instead of pasta.  Feeling very martyr-y right now.

Exercise: DH, DD9 and I rode our bikes to Ft. Vancouver.  Two miles each way.  And walked around and explored the fort for about two hours, so lots of walking and stair climbing.  Perfect resting day activity!

Breakfast:  3/4 of fat free yogurt, bottle of water

Lunch: JC pancakes, a banana

Snack: One slice of wheat toast with peanutbutter, 1/4 of a canteloupe

Dinner: 2 slices of craptastic frozen pizza, diet coke

Snack: at the movie: small bag of popcorn and bag of m&ms, and yet another diet coke

Exercise: Ran 3.5 miles, walked 1 mile, biked 2.25 miles

It’s 08/08/08 today… is that good luck or bad luck?

Breakfast: NOTHING… was working and didn’t look up  until 11 am.

Lunch: kid’s meal from panda express.  Tofu and greenbeans with steamed rice, and I only ate 1/2 the rice.  I did eat my fortune cookie, though.  Kid sized diet coke

SNACK: By 2 pm kid lunch was not cutting it, so went to Starbucks and got an orange/mango/banana Vivanno.

ANOTHER SNACK: Peach yogurt, fat free.  I AM FREAKING STARVING, but DD9 just got invited to a sleepover and DH is on his way home, so I am trying to not eat everything in site because we are going to go either to a movie or happy hour (instead of another date at the gym) when he gets home. 

YET MORE SNACKING: mini bag of Curves popcorn, 90 cals 3 grams of fat.  Followed up by a handful of sunflower seeds (aka crack, heehee, Eryn)

DINNER:  What a bust!  DH came home and didn’t want to do ANYTHING… and I mean anything.  So I prepped a JC chicken fajita meal, which was really good actually.  Also had two glasses of wine and 1/2 of a JC chocolate cake.  ALSO, NEVER DID GET TO EAT MY SUNFLOWER SEEDS and now I’m Jones’ing for them.

Exercise:  Thought about riding a bike but it didn’t work out.  Does that count?

Breakfast: peanutbutter vitamin bar, one chocolate chip cookie (it was homemade and offered by a friend so, honestly, if I had so NO it would have just been RUDE)

Lunch: salad with lettuce, dried cranberry, croutons, sunflower seeds, grapes and rasberry vinagrette.  SO YUM.  Can of diet coke.

Snack: fat free yogurt

Dinner: JC chicken fettucini, a banana, can of diet coke

SNACK: I’ve got the munchies!  Not good!!  I had a bowl full of grapes, a banana and a handful of sunflower seeds

UPDATE: Did my upper body workout (11 moves x 2 sets each, 15 reps per set); Did 100 crunches… eee gads!

Exercise: taking it easy today, my leg is feeling kind of wonky after yesterday’s run.  GOAL: upper body routine before bed

SCALE NEWS: Got on the scale for an unofficial weigh in, before eating/after potty.  Stupid thing said 147.8, which is next to impossible, which makes me think my scale is effed up, so I am going to give myself a pass on my vacation weight gain.  How’s that for magical thinking?

I just read the following on a blog that I really like by a woman who runs (has run a marathon in the past, didn’t run for a while, and now is retraining to run a 1/2 marathon coming up this month).  Anyway, she said she was looking at her blog from last year, when she started running again.  And here’s what she found: 

“Anyway, in further poking, I read January of this blog and I noticed that when I first started going on the treadmill, the setting 4.3 was like my high setting. I had to do my best to get through it, going at that pace.

You know what 4.3 is now? My resting pace. When I get too tired, I go down to 4.3. I go lower when I walk, but for running? 4.3? Wimpy. My highest number now? Seven. Maybe someday seven will be my resting pace. Or not.”

Like I said in my post below, I ran tonight at 4.7 and 5.5.  I just revisited my Couch to 5k page, and in my first weeks of running, 4.5 was my maxed out balls to the wall running speed.  Progress!