I may be (somewhat) regular with my workout routine, but I still have terrible eating habits. Yesterday I stopped at the grocery store on my way home from work. I bought a big box of Rice Krispy Treats, a family size bag of Hostess powdered Donettes, a bag of Reese’s Miniatures and a package of Keebler cookies… and I’ll have everything eaten in less than four days!!
It amazes others (and me) that I’ve been able to maintain a normal weight. Perhaps I’ve just been lucky the last 48 year. I suspect my body may decided to give in one day soon and the pounds will start pouring on. I know I need to start developing better eating habits now, but.. all I have to do is look at a Reese’s Peanut Butter cup and I cave. I’m like a sweet alcoholic :-)
This afternoon I was searching the web looking for a christmas gift to send to a family friend, and I discovered a protein bakery (www.proteinbakery.com). I found it on Oprah’s Favorites Foods list. That means it’s gotta be good. :) Also.. in case any of Terri’s local’s are reading this, they are located in NYC.
This site is great! Each cookie has up to 6g whey protein. That’s about the same as an egg… right??? So I could eat cookies for breakfast and still get my protein! yippeeeee… of course, I haven’t tasted the cookies yet.
UPDATE: Why am I always the last to know?? The protein bakery site actually has a link to Terry’s training site. Gee.. and I thought I’d made a great discovery.
I didn’t workout this morning. Last week, I overslept on Monday and had to move my weekly workout schedule down a day, but I was able to get four workouts in without any problem. Perhaps the ease of making it work last week effected me this morning. In any event, I turned off the alarm and made an unplanned decision to follow last weeks workout schedule.. Tuesday through Friday.
While this really isn’t that bad, I have this teeny tiny worry that I might start pushing it back even more. Like next week, I’d workout Wednesday through Saturday, etc. I don’t want to start doing that. So, Next week (it’s already too late to start this week :), I’ll push myself a little bit harder to get up Monday and workout.
My other big issue right now is that I mixed up the date of our company Christmas party. This year, we are just having an afternoon “bring your favorite dessert” gathering. There will be a prize for the best dessert. Sooo… I spent all day Saturday making my favorite cookies…. LOTS of my favorite cookies. This morning I learned I had written down the wrong date. The party is actually next week! Now I’ve got over 7 dozen Chocolate Florentine Cookies on my kitchen table. There is no way they will last until next week.. it’s been hard enough keeping them through the weekend. Heck, the are my favorites!
I want to take a survey!!! Leave a comment telling me what you ate for breakfast today?
I had three scrambled eggs, cooked with a little bit of onion and cheese, and one slice of wheat toast w/butter and grape jelly. I also had a glass of orange juice.
Soooooo… what did you eat for breakfast???
I recently discovered strawberry banana smoothies. Now I’m worried about becoming a smoothie addict. I’m pretty sure they are healthy. They are made with lo-fat yogurt and I add a protein booster. But one smoothie is about 410 calories. Since I’m not trying to lose weight and don’t normally count calories, do I need to care? I mean… 1 small smoothie 2 or 3 times a week.. that sounds acceptable… right???
Click here for Smoothie Nutritional Information (I get the Jamaican Jammer)
Last week was pretty much wasted. My headache lasted almost 3 days and by the time it cleared, I was in “defeated” mode. I was annoyed that I’d missed some workouts and frustrated that I was lacking the motivation I needed to jump back in. But today is a new Monday!
Terri is right.. my body is beginning to show a little progress and it’s doing exactly what I want! I’m not complaining about the extra weight or added inches. It’s just a new way of thinking. For years I have used weight as my “slacker” guide. Last December I noticed I weighed 10 lbs more than the previous year. I immediately jumped into emergency action and the weight was gone by Feb 15th. But now… I know I’m going to be gaining weight, and I know it’s good.. but it’s still scary. I’m just about to cross the 120# line. I’m in better shape now than I’ve ever been in my life. But I feel like I’m jumping into a cold swimming pool. I just don’t know what the norm is. How do I know what a normal weight would be for me if I were all muscles? Perhaps I should stop weighing myself and start using my waist measurement as the slacker guide instead.
I’m also sure Terri’s right about the added inch to my butt. My husband even made a comment earlier in the week about how nice my butt looked when I was wearing a pair of warm up pants. I laughed it off at the time, but by golly.. I see a beginner bubble! :-)
This morning I woke up fresh and started with a clean slate. I ate a good breakfast and had a great workout! I feel energized, motivated and excited about my progress. Life is good!!
Breakfast - Egg and Cheese sandwich (on a small hamburger bun).
Lunch - Turkey Bologna and cheese sandwich (on whole wheat Croissant).
Dinner - Marie Callender’s TV Dinner (Honey Roasted Chicken, mashed potatos, green beens); Roll; salad w/ Ranch Dressing.
This has been the worst week I’ve had since I started with Terri (of course, that’s only been 3 weeks.)
I had an early morning appointment on Monday, and although I considered doing my Monday workout on Sunday, I didn’t. Then Monday.. well, I just couldn’t get the motivation after work to do it. So, I figured I’d move my 4 day workout from Mon-Thur to Tue-Fri.
This morning I woke up to do my Monday workout.. I really didn’t want to get up. I must have spent 30 minutes arguing with myself. Eventually I won :-))) the Health-me won. I got up, scrambled a couple of eggs and started the workout.
Then… that darn Treadclimber! Sometimes it squeaks. I’m not sure what causes this, but one of my doggies is very sensitive to this sound. He has little mini seizures. It was a little worse this morning, but I tried to ignore him, thinking he’d go in the other side of the house and not hear it. Well, he disappeared and I continued to workout. Then, as I was about 50 minutes into the workout I decided I’d better check on him. I found him curled up in my bathroom walkin-closet. This by itself wasn’t too unusual, but my doggie #2, was sitting prim and proper at the doorway watching doggie #1. Now _that_ is unusual! Sooo.. I had to take some time and talk to the boys to figure out what was going on. Ten minutes later, I was able to coax doggie #1 into the back yard, but he insisted I stay near.
Anyway, I finished everything except the abs/crunches. I really hate that. I actually like the Abs best of all. I need call bowflex and ask them what causes the squeaking and what I can do to stop it.
Yesterdays meal’s were terrible. I skipped breakfast completely, ate some brownies, ate King Ranch casserole and 2 rolls for lunch, and leftover King Ranch for dinner.
I guess I need to go back to no sweets again. I’m just not ready to eat them responsibly yet.