Much better tonight, guys, much better. I was super-sleepy again today, but by tonight I felt awake again. I was at my mom’s today, which is about 85 miles north of here. More about that in a minute.
But now, it’s all about the workout!!
First, a warm-up on the treadmill:
- 14 minutes @ 2.4 mph, .5 miles, @ 2.5 % incline
- 139 calories burned
Then on to Circuit #2!
- Two circuits
- 505 calories burned
You know it’s a fabulous workout when you are just dripping sweat for the better part of an hour. I mean, really, absolutely running down my face, my chest, all that. Woot woot!! I feel so powerful!! I am owning my body and I am strengthening it.
As I said, I spent the day with my mom. I wanted to try and see my cousin, but she is too weak to have visitors right now. My mom saw her this past weekend and says it’s not looking good. Please pray for them, as not only are her parents looking at losing a daughter, but my uncle is also battling a possible recurrence of his prostate cancer.
Okay, ‘nuff sad stuff. Let’s talk about me taking my mom out to lunch. She chose Cracker Barrel, and guys, I gotta say, I love breakfast food at Cracker Barrel. I ate wayyyyyyyy too much. Wayyyyyy too much.
Okay, stripping even that all away, I just have a problem at restaurants in general. I have NO self-control. No matter if I try to plan ahead or not, I just want want want!! I go there and feel like it’s a free-for-all. It’s my “reward”, but it’s not really a reward in the end. Thank God I don’t eat out that often, although this week is going to have me out for lunch almost everyday. It’s a rarity now, but when I was working, I was out every. single. day.
This is my new challenge to me: I need to not view eating out as a get out of jail free card.
Another challenge to me: Red meat. Specifically, beef. I am just such a beef lover, but I am not good at cutting down on my portions. Tonight we had NY strip steaks….yummmmmm. But then I asked Future Hubby what size they were after we ate them and they were 12oz each. Whoa!!
- 790 calories
- 54 g of fat
See, you don’t have to eat cookies, cakes and sweet to gain weight!!!!
So that is my 2nd new challenge to me: Cutting back on beef. 
Now, that does NOT mean that I have to get rid of my red meat (although that wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world), it just means that cows need not apply. I like buffalo, I will eat buffalo.
Okay, so now that I have prepared you for my food diary, here it is:
Actual/Goal:
- Calories: 2780/2000 – Ummmm, yeah
- Fat (g): 144/65 –yeeeahhhhhhhh
- Cholesterol (mg): 662/300 – sigh
- Sodium (mg): 2380/2400 – a small victory, very small..
- Total Carbs (g): 199/130 –Hmmmmm….
- Fiber (g): 12/35 – sigh
- Sugar (g): 71/35 – Better!!
- Protein (g): 132/136 – the bright spot
- Vitamin A (%): 69/100
- Vitamin C (%): 77/100
- Calcium (%): 56/100
- Iron (%): 77/100
WW Points: 65/42
Yeah…..food-wise, today sucked. But it’s over and done with. Tomorrow is another day.
Hope all of you are having a great week!!
Oh yeah, workout tonight. I have to be straight with you, it was not easy. First off, I was very sleepy tonight for some reason. I normally wait until late to go workout, as I like a quiet gym. Yes, yes I do. But I knew if I tried to wait tonight, I was not going to make it. I was whiney, bitchy, moan-y (it’s a word NOW). Future Hubby said I should stay home if I was that tired but I refused. I hitched up my big girl panties and went.
I got on the treadmill. 1.5 miles was staring me in the face. You see, if I would have just said that I was going to walk at least a mile, walking 1.5 miles would not have been bad. But because I wrote it out in yesterday’s post, it became a promise. (Moral of the story: Writing out your goals makes them real.)
And I did it!!
- Treadmill: 40min, 2.0 to 2.4 mph, 3% incline during the middle, 2% the rest of the time
- Miles: 1.5
- Calories burned: 307
This was not easy. I was really working hard while I was on the 3% incline. My HR went up to about 157. So I had to back off for the last 12 minutes or so. But, as someone once said, I’ve never regretted a workout.
On to the food!!
Actual/Goal:
- Calories: 1917/2000
- Fat (g): 69.5/65 – doing a happy dance!!
- Cholesterol (mg): 325/300 – eggs today
- Sodium (mg): 3676/2400 – This is due to prepackaged veggies that Future Hubby buys
- Total Carbs (g): 227/130 –Hmmmmm….
- Fiber (g): 18/35 – sigh
- Sugar (g): 75/35 – Better!!
- Protein (g): 85/136 – eh…
- Vitamin A (%): 208/100
- Vitamin C (%): 576/100
- Calcium (%): 107/100
- Iron (%): 145/100
WW Points: 43/42
Yay!! I would call this a success.
Okay, off to bed. Hope that all of you are having a great start to your week!!
Again, no workout tonight. Future Hubby and I had another wonderful day together, all wrapped up in each other. He is such a snugglebunny. 
My abs are feeling MUCH better today. Here is my workout schedule for the week:
MON: Walking at least 1.5 miles
TUE: Walking 1/2 mile, then Circuit Training #2
WED: Walking at least 1.5 miles
THU: Workout with Ashley @ 8am
FRI: Walking at least 1.5 miles
Yup, I’m upping my mileage. I did 3.6 miles last week. This week should give me at least 5 miles. Woot woot!!
Okay, so on to the food!!
Actual/Goal:
- Calories: 1973/2000
- Fat (g): 58/65 – doing a happy dance!!
- Cholesterol (mg): 343/300 – eggs today
- Sodium (mg): 2114/2400 – I love it!!!
- Total Carbs (g): 229/130 –Hmmmmm….
- Fiber (g): 19/35 – sigh
- Sugar (g): 124/35 – Ummmm, yeah
- Protein (g): 106/136 – Not bad!!
- Vitamin A (%): 143/100
- Vitamin C (%): 54/100
- Calcium (%): 54/100
- Iron (%): 63/100
WW Points: 42/42
Lots of good things in the mix today. Yay!!! I wanted you to know that when I eat eggs, it is one egg plus 2 of Trader Joe’s egg whites. I just can’t stand an all egg-white look. It freaks me out.
No workout tonight, guys. I seriously think my abs are broken from yesterday morning’s workout. I need a cast for my abs. Lol. Plus, I spent a lot of quality time with Future Hubby today.
Here is my food recap instead:
Actual/Goal:
- Calories: 2161/2000
- Fat (g): 112/65 – sigh
- Cholesterol (mg): 456/300 – eggs today
- Sodium (mg): 3434/2400 – Yikes!!
- Total Carbs (g): 172/130 –I can live with that
- Fiber (g): 25.6/35 – Better!!
- Sugar (g): 42.8/35 – Can I get an Amen!!
- Protein (g): 109.8/136 – Not bad!!
- Vitamin A (%): 94/100
- Vitamin C (%): 101/100
- Calcium (%): 101/100
- Iron (%): 179/100
WW Points: 49/42
I’m pretty happy with today’s results.
Hope that all of you are having a fabulous weekend!!
Hi all,
In order to make it easier for you to find the circuits I’m doing, I’ve given them their own pages. Yay!!
That Ashley girl, she has made it her mission to kick my hiney as hard as possible!! But, here is what I posted on Facebook after our workout:
I’m pretty proud of myself. The first time I did my new workouts with Ashley (July) I made it through 20 minutes. The second time (October), I mad it through 40 minutes. Today, I made it through the whole hour. Woot woot!!
So, she gave me a new circuit workout. I’m going to call the one here Circuit #1 and this new one Circuit # 2. What? Why yes, I did come up with those on my own. Snarky.
First, a warm-up on the treadmill:
- 5 minutes, 2.4 mph, 2.5% incline.
Circuit #2
1. Squats. Because of my knees, I have to be very careful about how I do these, so I am using a stability ball, just like the chick in the picture. ~ 15 reps
2. Lateral Pulls. Keeping the stability ball with me, I next get down on my knees and work my abs. I balance on my arms and roll the ball away from me, which takes me into a plank position. ~ 15 reps.
3. Band rotations. I take a resistance band and rotate my torso from side to side. This works my abs, specifically my obliques. ~ 20 reps. (I do make this face while I do it. It helps. Trust me.)
4. Tube walk with medicine ball. I take a shorter resistance band, place it on my feet, and then do five steps to the left, doing a chest press with a medicine ball each time that my feet come together. Then five steps back to the right, same thing. ~ 10lb med. ball, 3 reps in each direction.
5. Straight leg dead lift with arm curl to shoulder press. It’s a lot to say, and a lot to do. Your hands change position about 100 times. Fine, only four. But it’s a lot of thinking for me!!
You start out doing a bend with the weights.
Then you straighten, change your weights into a curl grip, and do a bicep curl.
Then switch your hands and weight out and do a shoulder press.
~ 10 lb weights, 12 reps.
6. Cable chest press. Much like the one I do in Circuit #1, but instead, just one arm at a time. ~ 12.5 lbs, 15 reps each arm.
I made it through the whole thing almost 3 times. Go me!!
Calories burned: 750
On to the food:
Actual/Goal:
- Calories: 2568/2000
- Fat (g): 119/65 – Okay, but I burned a LOT of calories!!
- Cholesterol (mg): 609/300 – eggs today
- Sodium (mg): 3014/2400 – Yikes!!
- Total Carbs (g): 175/130 –I can live with that
- Fiber (g): 16/35 – Gotta work on that one!!
- Sugar (g): 70/35 – Better!!
- Protein (g): 184/136 – Good for my muscles!!
- Vitamin A (%): 111/100
- Vitamin C (%): 78/100
- Calcium (%): 44/100
- Iron (%): 142/100
WW Points: 62/42
Okay, some good, some bad. I can live with it.
Hope you all are having an amazing start to your weekends!!
I was supposed to have a session with Ashley today, but it’s going to happen tomorrow. It’s my understanding that we’re going to work on legs tomorrow, I went ahead and did my circuit training.
First up, though, I have to share with you that I forgot to put last night that I walked at a 3% incline. Go me!!!!!
Okay, now, back to tonight:
First, a warm-up on the treadmill:
- 14 minutes @ 2.4 mph, .5 miles
- 114 calories burned
Then my circuit:
- Two circuits
- 418 calories burned
Woot woot!! I really had to force myself to go tonight. I just was drained emotionally. Future Hubby’s late wife passed away about 10 years ago from breast cancer. Tomorrow is not only her birthday, but also their wedding anniversary. He is understandably emotional about this and I am as supportive as I can be. It’s so hard to see someone you love so much in so much pain. But, I posted on Facebook that I needed some cheerleaders to get me pumped for a workout and they came through.
On to food:
Actual/Goal:
- Calories: 2451.5/2000
- Fat (g): 123/65 – Ummm, did I mention I was starving?!?!
- Cholesterol (mg): 160/300 – no eggs today
- Sodium (mg): 2481/2400 – Yikes!!
- Total Carbs (g): 236/130 –Yikes!!!
- Fiber (g): 24.5/35 – Not horrible
- Sugar (g): 125/35 – Poopie
- Protein (g): 85.5/136 – Ummmm, yeah
- Vitamin A (%): 262/100
- Vitamin C (%): 138/100
- Calcium (%): 69/100
- Iron (%): 66/100
WW Points: 48/42
Not a horrible day, not a great day. Hopefully I can up my water more tomorrow and that will fill me up some more.
Survey says: Up *1* pound.
Of course I would have rather lost, but here’s the deal:
- I didn’t gain 3-4 lbs, as I have in the past.
- I ate a LOT today. A LOT. I think it’s either the exercise or the fact that our bodes naturally want to go into hibernation mode right now.
- Because I also just want to sleep all of the time.
All in all, I’m okay. I’m thinking that just means I will kick ass in next week’s weigh-in.
Tonight our WW leader, Kay, asked us where we wanted to be in about 8 weeks. Yup, 2010 is ONLY 8 weeks from Saturday. Can you believe it?!?!?
So where do you want to be then? Most folks gain 7-11 lbs between now and then. I am setting a goal for myself of not only NOT gaining overall, but also losing 10 lbs. I’m hoping to beat my own goal, of course, but I just want to stay on course, more than anything.
Because Future Hubby’s family sucks, we will do a small Thanksgiving for us, plus one with my mom before or after that date. For Christmas, we are going to spend a few days with my mom. I am unemployed, so no holiday party for me. His holiday party is just a lunch for the employees. So, I am lucky that I don’t have a lot of temptations coming up.
I’m curious, do you have a plan for holiday temptations?
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Thousand-calorie dishes you might accidentally order at top chains
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- by Hungry-Girl, on Mon Oct 26, 2009 4:58pm PDT
Check out these holiday foods. Prepare to be shocked. And then prepare to avoid them at all costs…
Panera Bread Pumpkin Muffin = 530 calories and 20g fat!
Pumpkin RULES and the second we see these goodies pop up in Panera’s glass
cases, we want them. BUT we resist. Why? Um, over FIVE HUNDRED CALORIES
for a muffin? We think not. One baked treat is not going to make up about a quarter
of our total food for the day, so we think it’s best to move along. Make a loaf of our
Perfect Pumpkin Bread instead!
Ruby’s Diner Fresh Baked Apple Pie A-La-Mode = 1,000 calories and 35g fat!
Apple pie is one of those universally appealing desserts, but these numbers sort of gross us out. What kind of ice cream are they putting on that pie?!? How big of a slice must it be?!? 1,000 calories for a fruit-based dessert should be illegal (and if we ruled the land, it would be).
Au Bon Pain Holiday Turkey Wrap = 740 calories and 28g fat!
Those sneaky ABP people KNOW that we all get lured in by the word "holiday." Yeah, cranberries are great with turkey, but you don’t need to swallow 28 grams of fat to satisfy that itch (we blame the blue cheese). Thanks, but no thanks. Keep your wrap. We’ll wait ’til Thanksgiving for the real deal. And our advice to ABP is to spend less time conjuring up fattening foods and more time trying to find a way to remove the word "pain" from its name.
Boston Market Pastry Top Chicken Pot Pie = 800 calories and 48g fat!
Mmmmmmmm, pot pie. Gravy… pastry dough… the chunky meats… NO! Forget all of those things and think about the 48 grams of fat that come
with it. This pot pie may be delicious, BUT we recommend making our Kickin’ Chicken Pot Pie swap instead. It still has the creamy, the flaky,
and the chicken appeal, but less of the bad stuff. And it tastes AMAZING. Pinky swear.
Chili’s Country-Fried Steak Platter = 1,470 calories and 84g fat!
If cool temperatures make you crave stick-to-your-ribs-and-thighs
home-cooking, be careful when dining out. This Southern-style meal has
1,470 calories and a CRAZY amount of fat in it. If you end up at Chili’s, you’re
WAY better off sticking to the Guiltless Grill. Trust us.
Dunkin’ Donuts Pumpkin Donut = 300 calories and 16g fat!
Donuts are tiny. And this time, the Double D packed 300 calories and 16
grams of fat into a small circular cake with a hole in the middle. It’s just
not worth it… especially since the thing isn’t even filling enough to eat for breakfast. What’re you gonna do? Pair it with a couple of eggs? Eat
TWO donuts? Forget it. Skip this thing. And if you’re eyeing the Lowfat Caramel Apple Muffin there, just a friendly heads up: That thing may only
have 3g fat, but it contains a whopping 430 calories! Stick with the coffee and egg-white flatbread offerings at DD, people!
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