Happy Monday!

This week I plan on being much stricter with what I eat, which means none of the cookies I ate over the weekend lol.

So far this morning, I've had a cup of coffee with a little half and half. 

Lunch:
Salad containing the following (in very small amounts)
- green beans
- lettuce
- black beans and chick peas
- artichoke hearts
- shredded carrots
- broccoli
- chicken cubes
- pico de gallo
- feta cheese crumbles
- vinegar (no oil)

I had a strong craving for chocolate covered cashews.   I went down to the store at work, and saw that they didn't have any, but only had chocolate covered peanuts.  I can't remember how many calories for the serving size, but the entire bag was 700 calories.  I didn't even bother because I knew that most if not the entire bag would be gone so I walked right out of there, went upstairs and got some tea and Diet Coke.  I hate when that happens, but thankfully I didn't succomb to the temptation. 

Sunday, September 11 - 10 year anniversary of 9-11

Today I'm going to try harder not to eat way too much.

Started out the day with a cup of coffee with creamer.  Will write more later!

The rest of the day:

porkchop
2 small chicken legs
tomato, feta cheese, little bit of dressing, onion
yogurt (Greek style)
3 peanut butter cookies and a glass of milk (2%)

I know I shouldn't have eaten the cookies, but they were the last left and didn't want the bugs to get into them lol. 

We also had Matt's mom and dad bring over the bicyles that were in their garage, so we have 4 different bikes to ride.  We just need to get something for Brianna to sit in safely before we go out.

During the week I plan on being better with food.  I've kind've gotten used to not eating a lot. 

Finally the weekend!

Yesterday I didn't really eat a while lot because I just wasn't hungry.  We went shopping in Champaign, first went to the mall to Yankee Candle.  Normally I buy several candles and Halloween decorations, but this time due to a tight budget, only bought one candle.  It was Midsummer's Night which is really nice.  Then we went to Meijer and bought some groceries.  Matt bought some porkchops which I totally caved in to, but at least they were very thin.

So, today I had:

Coffee with a little bit of cream
A small square of cheese at Meijer
Some imitatation crab, which is very lowfat
Cherry peppers
Kalamata olives
Porkchop with a little bit of barbecue sauce
3 peanut butter cookies and 2 glasses of milk (2% I believe is all we have)

This was all eaten throughout the day.  I weighed myself yesterday mid-morning and was down to 230.5, but that isn't accurate because I hadn't eaten all morning and it was probably water weight.  I'll weigh myself in a few days.

Then and now - Brianna

I cannot believe how big Brianna is getting.  Just to see the difference, here is a pic of Brianna when she was just born:

and:

and now:

Although the pic of her in the Bumbo is the most recent, and the one above is from a month ago.  She goes for her 6 month checkup in a few weeks!

Rainy and yucky day

Woke up this morning to a very dreary, rainy and cloudy day. 

Started out the morning with a cup of vanilla flavored coffee from the cafeteria and 2 hard boiled eggs.

For lunch I am eating the same thing... brown rice with veggies (onion included this time).

For my afternoon snack, some chamomile tea.

Yesterday I weighed myself after I was done exercising and the scale said 233.  Before I started this weight loss effort I was remaining at 234, but not sure the 233 is accurate.  I'll weigh in every week to see how much I lose.  Just gotta get this 33 pounds off ASAP!!

Here is my inspiration to stay healthy!!!  Brianna!!!

A New Day

This morning I woke up quite sore from last night's excursion.  Boy am I out of shape, and it is difficult lugging this big body around lol.  When I got home from my excercise session I cooked up some brown rice for today. 

For breakfast I'm having one hard-boiled egg, and for lunch it will be brown rice with mixed veggies and a coffee. 

I plan on doing the jog/walk again today, same distance until I drop some weight and get a little lighter.  Plus, it's been cool outside lately so it's comfortable.

Update:  Got home and walked/jogged the same route I did yesterday.  My legs are like bricks and are stiff right now.

For supper I had a salad:

iceburg lettuce
tomato
kalamata olives
feta cheese
chicken breast
onion
fat free Italian dressing

It was delicious!

Here I go again....

I need to do something about my weight NOW.  I'm going to start my new running routine today.  It's from Women's Health and it's the Running for Weight Loss 6 week program.  Today the workout is 20 minutes.  Start with 10 min. walk, the next 6 minutes alternate running, 1 minute and walking 1 minute, then walk for 4 minutes and stretch.  I really am so overweight and am so sick of it.  It's been so hard and no matter what I try to do I just can't seem to stay on track.  I think staying on an exercise program is key to helping me stay on track with eating, and also blogging about it.  When I get home today I'll workout.

My food choices today were bad.  I had chili with cheese and a slice of cheese pizza, a Venti Starbucks Latte (non fat with Splenda) and a Hershey candy bar.  How healthy is that?  NOT! 

I will take this one day at a time and will take pictures of my progress.

Update:  I walked/jogged about a little over a mile.   When I got home I didn't eat anything because I wasn't very hungry, but only had a Special K Protein Water.

Here's a pic: