Yesterday didn't go as well as I would have liked. Was in Anchorage buying books all morning, and ended up with not enough time for lunch so ended up with McD's nuggets and a diet coke, eaten in the car - ugh. The rest of the day was fine, and calorie wise I probably wasn't dreadful.

S - smoothie: milk, protein powder, 1/2 peach
B - oatmeal with mix of blueberries/strawberries, walnuts, skim milk; 1/2 ww bagel with pb;
S - luna bar (while this have decent calories, protein, fiber, they also have too many carbs for me)
L - leftover salmon patty, mixed veggies
S - cottage cheese, blueberries
D - chicken sausage, spaghetti squash, tomato sauce, broccoli

Ex: 1 hour lower body workout - done!

I planned to do far more today than I'm actually going to have time for with work - cardio will be done, lifting moved to Saturday in lieu of doing it today (but it WILL get done).

Just got back yesterday from a course for work. I was staying in a place that had a complimentary buffet breakfast - so I just had that and then a roast chicken subway for dinner. 3 days of subway....yummm.
So much for the subway diet - scale didn't react at all.

Time to get back in the swing of things - I hope it is cooler today so I can get some exercise done - it has been around 100 degrees for almost a week. Too hot to do anything.

Yesterday, I fell into a small overeating pit. I was probably near 2000 calories at the end of the day. Oh well, on to today.

B - French toast w/ egg beaters and light bread
S - Watermelon
L - Leftovers: Polenta, roasted pork loin with chunky tomato sauce, tomato and mozzarella salad
S - Popcorn
S - Greek yogurt w/ berries
D - Grilled chicken and vegetable salad w/ light dressing
S - Not sure yet - out of NSA ice cream, but will figure something out.

E - 60 min cardio, 60 min strength

I ended up eating 1/2 ww bagel with lf cream cheese last night but otherwise on track....

B - cheerios with strawberries, walnuts, skim milk; ww toast with pb;
S - ff latte; salmon patty
L - out with GFs, probably Mexican, so a chicken fajita salad
S - cottage cheese, blueberries
D - variety of leftovers available.

Ex: 45 min UBWO DONE

So today, I decided I wanted a challenge. So I decided...sprint intervals! And then I ran three intervals at 8mph! Which I'm pretty sure is just about as fast as my legs have ever moved in my life.

Now I'm tired but happy.

Amanda - high five on the intervals! I did a little bit at 8mph yesterday myself and thought I was going to pass out, but felt great!

I went about 250 calories over where I wanted to be yesterday, because of stupid granola bars at work. I had a protein bar in the morning as a scheduled snack, then two random granola bars in the afternoon. Jeez...

Today:
E: dumbbell circuit, abs & 1.25 miles intervals on the elliptical done
B: smoothie, coffee
L: memorial service lunch made by the church - fried chicken breast, 1 spoon apiece of several veggies (turnip greens, blackeyed peas, butterpeas, some other bean), 1 spoon of macaroni & cheese, 1 spoon of greek pasta salad, slice of peach pie (fresh peaches in some kind of gelatin filling in a pie crust with light cool whip, so not traditional peach pie I guess? Never had any peach pie before, so the woman who made it wanted to tell me all about it. )
D: pb&j with DSS, some grapes or apple with it I imagine
S: graham cracker

They had a roasted chicken option, but I haven't had real fried chicken in forever, so decided to splurge a little... I did pick a small piece!

Okay, I ate crap at lunchtime today at my weekly lunch meeting at work. I admit it. Moving on . . .

In other news I'm not ravenously hungry anymore. I think I just had a few off-days in a row there and I'm back to normal now maybe?

Friday:
B - raisin bran, blueberries, skim milk
S - peach
L - @work, little bit of salad w/vinaigrette, small slice veg pizza, medium slice cheese pizza, chocolate chip cookie
S - chocolate chip cookie
D - plan is for leftovers so it will either be leftover pasta, stuffed zucchs, or both
E - planning on a bike ride this evening

So I'll join you Jessica. We had awesome cheesecake for a birthday today. Had a small piece and savored every bite. Moving on myself, and no cheesecake/blueberries today.

Today, I'm resting on exercise. 14 days straight is enough!

B - Scramble (egg, veggies, sm amount chicken apple sausage), 1 pineapple ring, 1 slice light toast
L - Subway 6" chicken breast, lots of veggies, wheat bread, bag of baked lays
S - Half a doughnut. Sarah and I have both been craving one, so we went to a proper doughnut shop and got one. It wasn't very good (thus the half...at least I didn't finish it).
D - Cod baked in parchment with lemon, shallot, garlic, and herbs, roasted asparagus, brown jasmine rice with lemon and herbs
S - Homemade blueberry blackberry lemon turnover made with half a sheet of puff pastry (less than a serving per person), scoop NSA ice cream

Hey guys. So I totally blew it on the accountability front this weekend! I was staying at my parents house and they all of this yummy (but still healthy) food that I haven't been around in months and I just couldn't help myself. Lots of dried fruit, hummus, pita, almonds...ugh. It's not so much about the amount of food, but more the lack of control. I just couldn't stop eating, it was awful! I guess I've just gotten so relaxed and feel like I can take bites here and there and not worry about it, but that's not the case!!! I need some help getting back on track and I think posting here is just the thing I need! How do you all get yourselves back on track after losing control? I HATE letting food take control of me. I didn't work this hard to let that old me take over and lose everything I've learned in the past 4 months.

Thanks for listening!

Plan for today
B: Greek yogurt with 1/2 banana, coffee
S: Pear
L: Egg white scramble with tofu and veggies, watermelon
S: Smoked salmon with cucumber, apple
S: 1/2 banana with PB or maybe 100 cal snack pack (if I'm really, really in the mood)
D: Minestrone soup with ground turkey, fruit
S: Maybe mini PBJ

Ok, back on track today and feeling much better. Have a good Sunday everyone!

Yesterday - as planned, and our "spa" dinner was really good! I like fish, but I almost never cook it at home...but this was workable!

Today:
B - Light bread, 1 tbsp PB, half a banana sandwich before farmer's market
L - Giant salad - 2 oz grilled chicken, 1 oz deli turkey, some black and garbanzo beans, tons o veggies, light dressing
S - as needed, post-workout - Fruit
D - Turkey chili with beans, small french roll.
S - Baked peach, NSA Ice Cream

E - 45-50 min incline trainer, ab workout

Taking Charge - I'm reasserting my control after a spectacularly bad food choice weekend by planning out my entire week today, well the M-F part of it anyway, all the way down to snacks. I'm about halfway finished at this point. I'm going to pencil in the weekend, but if we have any schedule changes with DSS that might change so those will be just in pencil...