Hey Everyone! Happy Monday!
Well my weekend was pretty good. In general I made good food choices. Which always makes me happy. I went and watched my roommate finish a half marathon. I was really impressed. As I said next year I would like to try and run the half marathon race of the Detroit Marathon (I realized that to start small and work my way up to doing a whole marathon). I started getting up early today, I’m going to try and get use to waking up earlier then add running in the morning in.
A couple of nice stories from this weekend, first I was talking to my roommate while watching this weeks recorded episode of “America’s Next Top Model” and she asked if you could learn how to be “photogenic” or if it was something that people just were. So we chatted about learning how to take good photos and I made a comment about how I didn’t think I took good pictures. And her response was, “no I disagree, I think you take great photos you looked amazing in some of your pictures from Vegas”. Later when she was gone I started looking though my pictures and realized (probable for the first time in my life) that I am pretty, I really am. I take good photos, I just didn’t think so because I was always so ashamed of being heavy.
Then yesterday I ran into a girl I knew from undergrad that I hadn’t seen since I started losing weight. We were passing on the street and then stopped and were like “Oh Hi!”, she asked how I was doing, what I had been doing and I told her and then all she could say was how amazing I looked now. I tried asking her how she was doing but all she could say in response was I can’t believe how good you look. It was a nice complement.
I’m not entirely sure how this week is going to shape up, I’m having trouble just staying afloat, I’m going to try and add exercising back in. My plan is to go to sleep early and then get up early so that I can run in the morning. It’s so hard when you are so busy. I guess I should stop whining and suck it up.
I'm pretty new here, hope I'm welcome! (FTR- I'm Erika, 28 years old.. have a husband and 19 month old daughter).
so I looked up their grilled chicken sammy (w/o mayo, don't even like it) and it was still 400 calories. I was gonna get that and pair it with something from home... but decided it was still a lot for a lunch. I have frozen chicken breasts from BJ"s.. big bag of 20, they're glazed with BBQ sauce.. 130 calories each! So I baked one, stuck it on a piece of whole wheat bread w/ lettuce.. and had some ranch rice cakes on the side (I LOVE those) and some apple slices.. woot! I was so proud. I didn't even steal a single fry of his.
Are there any 5K & 10K runs before then that you can do?
.... No more weekend get aways for awhile, so now I am going to focus on losing weight. I haven't stepped on the scale yet to see how much damage I've done, but I can tell you that I don't feel half as bad as I did after last weekend. Maybe I didn't do too much damage. Anyway, back on track today, so far so good!!
to your awesome weekend! How awesome does it feel to see people who haven't seen you since you began your weightloss journey? My sister has these encounters often, pretty frequently lately too. After losing 70+ lbs. people don't even recognize her. She has to convince them who she is, haha.
good job on getting past that hundred mark. That’s a big step. I love stuffed green peppers, I have two different ways make them so they are a little healthier. First I will make them with equal parts of extra lean ground beef and morningstar ground beef meal starter, brown rice, and tomato sauce. Low fat cheese on top. The other way is when I want to make a non-traditional stuffed pepper. I mix black beans, brown rice, peach salsa, regular salsa (you get a great combo of sweet and spice) then spring low fat cheese on top. So good. My roommate tried it and fell in love with them.
