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Today, I was completely off-track. No exercise – too many meetings. Plus lunch & dinner were way over calories. I don’t really have a lot to say today, again too many meetings. Tonight, I am watching Bones on Fox Online. I love this online tv show business. I do wish I had figured out how to get my wireless to work so I could watch this in my recliner. I also wish that they would do this with limited commercial interruptions like ABC does with Samantha Who, but I’m really not complaining.
There I journaled today. 
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I just changed our theme in honor of the great weather we’ve been having – it’ll probably snow now.
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The sparkpeople program has you journal daily, as you can see I haven’t been very good at that. Right now, I am very tired and ready to hit the sack. This is going to be a short one.
Things are going well with my efforts at more healthy living. My food habits haven’t been great but I am making great efforts at getting veg’s in my diet and eating less fat.
Today’s walk went well, 2.8 miles I made pretty good time. I’m not sure of the exact time because I stopped to talk to a neighbor around the corner for quite some time. I did find myself slowing down at the end but on the whole I kept a good pace.
I had a great dinner! I made a chicken foil packet, I found the directions at about.com. I googled chicken foil packets and got a lot of results. So if you are looking for something to put in your foil packet there are lots of good ideas out there. I started with their basic idea – meaning the foil, the chicken breast, the cooking spay & olive oil. Then on my chicken breast I put about fajitas seasoning, sea salt, 3/4 of a chopped tomato, about 1/3 of a chopped yellow/orange pepper, a chopped green onion, and a bunch of minced garlic, wrapped it all in foil, 450 degrees 30 minutes (my oven cooks slow, they said 20 minutes). Moist and yummy. It looked smelled and tasted delicious, next time I will take a picture. I also had some pasta and broccoli. I couldn’t finish my dinner (but later I was hungry so definitely some bad food planning).
I read that while eventually exercise will help you have more energy and need less sleep up front, it’ll actually make you more tired. I am still in the more tired stage. So it is off to bed for me! I hope everyone had a great weekend!
I’d love to hear how you guys are doing on squeezing good workouts into your busy lives.
Well, I’m back. SnarkyChic, CraZ, & I have all been going through/dealing with big changes in our various lives. I am trying to find a job in another state. (in my experience, job hunting does little for one’s self-confidence, I am just thankful for having great friends like these guys and the rest of you!)
I still don’t have a job in that other state yet. But I am still working on it and have a few leads. I will let you know when I get one!
In the meantime, I have been not doing very well on my healthy lifestyle efforts; I fell off the C25k wagon. I am going to get back on the wagon though!
Yesterday was the first time in a long time that I stayed within my calorie goals. Right now, I am using sparkpeople.com instead of weightwatchers. But you can use it with WW. I love it. It is similar to WW online but free and I think it might have more content but I’m not sure. I think that both WW online and this system are great because they provide you with so much information and support. Like I said yesterday was Day 1. Today is Day 2. Tomorrow I will be able to report that I stayed within my goals again today. If I can do Day 1 I can Day 100, Day 200, and Day 365.
Sparkpeople tells me that I should reach my goal weight in a year. Of course, I want to reach it this month but that is not reasonable, one year probably is.
It is pretty close to the end of day 2 and it looks like it will be a great day 2! I have had plenty of water, exercised, stretched, and stayed within my calorie guidelines. I am pretty tired though.
This afternoon I found a fun way to both nerd out and get some exercise motivation. On sparkpeople there are different groups one of them is called the Eowyn Challenge. In the movie version of the Lord of the Rings, Eowyn walked with her people from their main city/keep to a fortress refuge. It was a long walk. When the LOR movies where coming out, some women started the Eowyn Challenge – to walk as far as she did. It has become a challege to walk the paths of the various characters of the books. SnarkyChic & I are walking from Bag End in Hobbiton to Rivendell – 458 miles. Tonight I logged my first 1.8. Only 456.2 to go! Woo hoo! I am still hoping to finish the C25K program this summer after the move, in the meantime, I am getting stronger and building endurance.
There is a strong chance I will survive this Couch to 5k program. Frankly, today there was some doubt. I got in my Week 2 Day 1 walk/run. I took an amazing 20 seconds off of my first mile. Somehow I didn’t make it as far, but I really slowed it down in my cool down. I am definately looking forward to some yoga tomorrow to stretch out my legs. Right now, I am going to do some more stretching and get me to bed!
Ladies, how is it going? I know Snarky has been in with her trainer, how is that going?
Finally, I finished my 4th run this week. I pushed hard in the first mile & managed to knock off 1:20 mins. Yeah! Still not a great time & the second half of the run was not easy. I need to go do some Easter Bunny shopping – so I better eat a good dinner before I leave the house!
Yesterday’s calories were, ummm, not good. I went over by about 500. I haven’t entered all of today’s but I was attacked by the girl scout cookies (I have got to get those out of the house)! So I’m sure I’ll be over again.
I will not buy candy for me at Target tonight. (All of the Easter Candy is staying at Daddy’s).
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I am beat. As part of my sparkpeople.com project, I am supposed to journal every day. Today will be brief. I had a long and stressful day at work. Plus I am tired from 3 days of running. So tonight I took it easy, I did 1 hour of yoga and I walked the dog for about 30 minutes (real slow – just over a mile). We walked down to pick up K from dance class & walked back.
I adjusted my end weight goal so SparkPeople adjusted my calories (down). Now I get between 1210 – 1560. I ended up over (darn those girl scout cookies!). I ended up with 1599 (39 over). I am not going to beat myself up over it – in fact, I had forgotten to take out the wine I didn’t have so it is much better than I thought! I burned at least that much exercising – probably more. I did really great with my water and despite wanting a whole box of tagalogs and a “Hot & Ready” pizza, I had 4 (still too many) cookies & a Lean Cuisine for dinner.
Now it is time to head to bed!
p.s. good weigh-in again today – 185.5! Back down to the -10 mark!
p.s.s. I will admit that I am a touch hungry . . .
Today was my first full day on SparkPeople.com. I really like it as a system for keeping track. I think I will keep using this as a system of reflection.
My calorie goal is between 1300 – 1650. Today, I hit 1465. I had ZERO girl scout cookies today (yes, they are in, you will start to receive them this weekend). (Yesterday, I had a few GSC’s). I did Week 1 Day 3 of Couch to 5k (c25k). Today I made it 1.55 miles. I also got in all of my water. I did less good on the vegetable front. I am going to have to make veg’s the first part of every meal. Otherwise, I don’t really eat them.
This morning’s weigh in was good too (186.5). SparkPeople, like Weight Watchers, will only let me record my weight weekly. Guess I will have to get used to that.
This is a bit rambley – I am going to try to hit the sack now.
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Ok, now that my life is out of turmoil (at least until I start my new job), it’s time to get back to weight watchers. My eating habits have really been awful the last few weeks – lots of take out and warmed up nonsense. But, I’m starting over and hoping to make some progress this next month.
Well, today I got in another great workout. I used the podcast I found on the c25k.com web site. I really enjoyed it. Best of all, I made it about .41 miles farther than yesterday. I am tracking my progress on the Couch to 5K program here.
BUT, I did not eat well today. Quite a bit of mindless eating happened today. It is time to get that back under control.
