Going to Lose: My Weightloss Journey!

I had a GREAT summer weigh in today!! I weighed in at 190.6, which is exactly 4 lbs down from last week’s ugly weigh -in! I know that I can and will hit the 180s next week! I just have to stay really focused with my food and exercise plan! The real challenge will be this weekend, which always present the problems. But, I think if I plan this weekend’s calories well, I should still be able to eat out once or twice and be okay. And, I’ll definitely be hitting the gym Saturday, and hopefully Sunday as well! And I have to finish week 3 of c25k, before starting week 4 next week. I cant help but wonder if this addition of running to my workout routine is contributing to this great weight loss I had this week. Maybe running DOES have magic weight loss powers! :-p

Tonight I think my workout routine is going to be a bit different. I am meeting a friend to play squash for an hour, so I think that will be my cardio for today, and then afterwards I will go downstairs to the gym and just do 30-40 minutes of weights and abs to make up for what I missed yesterday.

I’m feeling good about the day, good about life, and great about my Summer Weightloss plan! I know I can do it, and I will! 180s, here I COME!

~~today:

Breakfast: 1/3 cup of KGL (68) and 3/4 cup of nf milk (47)-115 (no banana because it was way too ripe, so i’ve got to go to the market tonight and stock up on more everything)

Iced Latte- 70

Lunch: sandwich (165), Cheese(50), Apple  (70), Rice cake (30), Andes mint-30- Total 345

Snack: almonds (86), Oreo no cream (30), Bite of brownie and banana bread (150)

Pre-squash snack: ¼ cup of cottage cheese (40)

Dinner: Salad (120), stirfry (350)-470    and some chocolate (50)

total today: 1476–>over, annoyingly.  I cant get off track! I was doing SO well! must get on and stay on track! especially now that it’s the weekend

workout: 1 hr of squash

Today was awesome, not only did I do awesomely at the bbq after work, but i also fit in some gym time!  Go me!

Breakfast: yogurt (70), 1/2 banana (55), cereal (35)-160 

Iced Latte (70)

Lunch: Sandwich (165), apple (70), rice cracker (30), cheese (50)-315

Bbq food: 1 chicken mango sausage (170), ketchup (30), chips and salad (300?), 1 s’more (120ish) to be safe, 1 piece of watermelon (20), oreo cookie without the cream (30)-bbq total: 670

Total for today: 1275

Workout: 38 minutes on the treadmill, Week 3, Day 2 of the c25k and then about 13 extra minutes on the treadmill!

I DID an AWESOME job today! There are two main reasons why I think I did SUCH an awesome job today!

Reason # 1: I was at a barbeque where there was chips, salsa, cheese, smores, hot dogs, hamburgers, brownies, cheese cake, double stuff oreos, and I stayed TOTALLY within my calorie range at the event! I had planned out my day SPECIFICALLY to have 700 calories free for the barbecque and I stayed entirely within that range for the event! I realized (AND I NEED TO REMEMBER THIS), when I am in good company, with good people, having a good time, I DO NOT need to stuff my face! I realized that I am COMPLETELY content to nibble or have small tastes but that Quality is SO much more important than quantity and I REALLY proved that to myself today.  And I’m SO pleased with myself about that.

Reason # 2:  A bunch of people wanted to go back to my friend’s place to watch a movie, but I KNEW that I really wanted to get in at least my C25k workout in today, and that I wouldn’t be happy if I didnt.  So I told my friend that I needed to go run before I went to his house, and I told him that I was willing to just come late if they wanted to start.  And he said, “no, we’ll wait for you”.  SO, I went to the gym super quickly and did my C25k workout plus about a mile, and then ran home, showered, and went to my friend’s house.  In my “past life” I could have easily been swayed to a) eat a TON more at the bbq and b) skip the gym without hesitation, but I stuck to my guns on both of those, and I did an awesome job, in my opinion.

SO, GOOD JOB today, ME! And I’m pretty psyched about my weigh in tomorrow! We’ll see what happens! Wish me luck!