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

weight: 155.8 — whatever

breakfast: one pc. of pumpkin bread and one cup of coffee

lunch: went to a thai restaurant with DH. I had one salad roll, 1/2 an order of fried tofu appetizer and we split a lunch sized portion of drunken noodles. And? We had leftovers. Let’s hear it for SELF CONTROL.

dinner: tba UPDATE: had a large salad, with a ton of beets, 1/2 a tuna fish sandwich on wheat and a handful of kettle chips. NOT A BAG FULL BUT A HANDFUL. progress.

training: just back from a run! woot! I soooo didn’t want to go, and I just went and did it anyway. I need to take advantage of getting out there on any day that it is not raining. I ran for 16 minutes, no walking breaks, and then walked for four minutes, for a total of 20 minutes out and a distance of 1.51 miles. I’m glad I did it

Other Exercise: DD10 and I are going to a swing dance party tonight. should be fun. DH is not going, which means I’ll get to dance with some people who actually know how to dance, which will be AWESOME. DH, bless him, tries his best, and I love him for the effort, but tonight is going to be a real workout, lol. UPDATE: dance was a blast. worked up a sweat which = calories burned, right?

weight: 155.2

PM report: Happy to say I made it to bed without any snacking, binging or otherwise partaking of food between dinnertime and bedtime. Woot!

breakfast: granola bar and a cup of coffee, but I will be having more coffee and pumpkin bread as soon as my friend arrives to watch the Twilight movie. She’s never seen it, so this is how we’re spending our morning. DON’T JUDGE. LOL

LUNCH/DINNER UPDATE: I had two slices of pumpkin bread and more coffee at around 11, so I skipped lunch. And, of course, was starving by 4:00, but on the road with DD10 etc. So we had Wendys for dinner. I had a chicken sandwich, grilled, but I also did have a small fries. And I feel kind of gross.

training: rest day. Nothing hurt when I ran yesterday, but a little muscle achiness set in in my thighs and butt last night. Today I just feel like, woah, hello, you exercised. So I may try to do a stretching video that I have later today. In the future, the non run days need to become cross training days, which I haven’t really figured out how I want to handle that yet.

weight: 155.6

breakfast: two cups of coffee and a giant slab of coffee cake

lunch: a granola bar and two big glasses of water, post run

dinner: UPDATE: large green salad, beets w/ low fat feta cheese, a reasonable (i.e. normal human sized) portion of pork roast and a small portion of baked sweet potato. A diet coke and a Reese’s cup for dessert.

training: I did it! I went for a run! Mid-day, gorgeous weather. Nothing hurts, but I could feel my jiggliness. And also? My running clothes are tight. T-I-G-H-T. Just measured the milage on walkjogrun.net and I ran 1.26 miles - ran 8 minutes, walked 1 minute, ran 7 more minutes for a total of 16 minute run with a one minute walk break. Then I did a three minute cool down walk which made my total 1.45 miles, 19 minutes. BOO YAH.

After dinner last night: one Reese’s “fun-size” and A LOT of kettle chips. WARNING: MAUI ONION KETTLE CHIPS ARE THE WORK OF THE DEVIL.

Did not run yesterday because it was dark at 5 pm. Got up at 6 am to run this morning. Guess what? PITCH BLACK DARK OF NIGHT. So I went back to bed. Now it’s seven and time to start the day.

I need a new plan!!!

Weight: forgot to weigh in. d’oh!

breakfast: bowl of oatmeal, two cups of coffee

lunch: Jack in the Box low fat chicken fajita pita, diet coke

dinner: healthy choice steamer bowl, salad, diet coke

training: um, yeah, no, starting tomorrow. spent the day trapped, I mean volunteering, at DD10’s school, and did not get home until it was PITCH BLACK out at 5 pm. And I don’t run in the dark.

Weight: 159.2 - not to be too graphic, but as much as this horrifies me, I know it will be go down at least 2-3 pounds when I resolve some, a-hum-cough-cough, potty issues.

Breakfast: 2 cups of coffee, one banana and one fat free yogurt

UPDATE: LUNCH: Healthy choice entree, diet coke

UPDATE: DINNER: small pc. of tri tip steak, reasonable helping of potatoes, large green salad, slice of toast, handful of grapes

GOALS MET: All meals at home, no candy. BOO YAH.

Training: rest day. I know, right? Rest from what? But I am following a half-marathon training plan and Mondays are a rest day. Tomorrow will be a run day.

I have registered and paid for a half marathon on Jan. 24. Let the training commence.

The Halloween candy situation is not good. At all.

I had potato chips for dinner. Lots of them. And nothing else. Except diet coke.

I feel gross.

And I just registered for a &^#’ing half marathon on Jan. 24. That’s 13 weeks to train. For a long-ass race. In the dead of winter.

Pray for me. Or send more candy.

Weight: 154.8

I wrote a thursday post and it is not here? wth? whatever. fresh start.

breakfast: coffee and coffee cake

lunch: turkey and spinach left over from dinner last night. Some canteloupe. I was doing good until DH got out the bag of Kettle chips and that was all she wrote. So add to my list: HANDFULS AND HANDFULS of Kettle chips. Followed by a single Reese’s cup.

dinner: will be pizza. We’re going to a Halloween party and pizza will be served. UPDATE: had two slices of veggie pizza and a cupcake. That’s it! Woot for me.

At least there will be some exercise tonight. DH and I have an hour and a half ballroom dance lesson, and then the party we are going to will involve dancing too.

No weighing or posting on the weekend. HAPPY HALLOWEEN CHICKS.

weight: 155.0 — not as bad as I thought it would be. Though the somewhat “postive” weigh in was followed with a de ja vu round of my least favorite game: what to wear. You know that game, the one where I get dressed for work three different times, trying to find the perfect slacks/shirt comb to cover my pooch. It made me sad. I thought I was out of that game forever.

I knew I would be in the car for over three hours today and that fast food would be my lunch, so I did pack some snacks and avoided french fries. Baby steps.

breakfast: one slice of toast w/low fat peanut butter, one cup of coffee

lunch: BK grilled chicken sandwich, ziplock bag full of goldfish, granola bar, diet coke

snack: 100-cal bag of chocolate pretzels

dinner: green salad and an apple

My digestive system is paying for my nut-a-palooza last night. Ugh.

I’ve been MIA from the 3fc blogosphere, and I think that has helped to keep me lethargic about logging my food and getting any exercise. No accountability! End result? Can’t button my fat ass into my jeans. Not exaggerating. So food log here I come (again). I haven’t weighed myself. Too afraid of what I will see. But tomorrow morning, I’ll be hitting the scales.

I’ve still been maintaining my general goofy all about nothing blog at SoNotZen.com and will probably try to keep this one devoted to diet and exercise, because I NEED THE ACCOUNTABILITY. Someone? Anyone? Please HOLD ME ACCOUNTABLE. I obviously can’t do it myself.

Today is the first day that I made a conscious effort to EAT NO CRAP.

Breakfast: coffee at home, then DH surprised me by bringing home a latte when he dropped DD10 at school, so two coffees, one full of delicious fatteningness. No food.

Lunch: Lean Cuisine quesadilla, big garden salad, a yogurt, a diet coke.

I put smoked almonds on my salad. And they were so delicious that I proceeded to munch THE ENTIRE DAMNED CAN during the course of the evening. End result? STOMACHACHE.

Dinner: diet coke and a granola bar, six pringles from DD10’s lunch box as I was cleaning it out. The almonds in my stomach were screaming at me to just NOT EAT FOR A MINUTE FOR GOD’S SAKE.

Now I am drinking a big glass of water. To flush out the nuts. Ha, I said nuts.

MINI GOAL: No fast food on days when I am working from home. That should be simple. I’m sure it won’t be. But I’ve got to break the habit and it has to start somewhere.

I haven’t run since the Sausage Fest 5k in early September, but I have been dancing at least twice a week, sometimes three times per week, one hour classes, so that counts, a little bit. But it’s not burning the calories a run does. But I know myself, and I know that the first hint of being overwhelmed will cause me to bail, so exercise is on the back burner for at least another week while I try to get the food shit under CONTROL. Because I? Have been OUT of CONTROL with the food shit. Or the shit food. Either or.

You guys… I don’t want to be fat again. Fatter. I’m surely not thin, but I lost almost 40 pounds and it’s creeping back on. I really really really don’t want to gain that weight back.