Struggling

I am struggling. I've missed a couple days of posting and I was also supposed to do my C25K today and I missed that as well. Plus, I had a cookie and couldn't resist a couple of bites of my sons red velvet cupcake. I went over my calories by about 45 which isn't too bad but I'm worried about starting on that slippery slope. I really need to get it back in gear. Tomorrow is weigh-in too so hopefully that will kick start me again. My 16 year-old niece is flying in tomorrow morning to stay with me for a week so I'm sure it's going to be a tough week as we will be on the run a lot. Plus, I have to feed her so I'm going to have a lot of temptations this week....

C25K - week 1, day 2

Ugh, day two and I already don't want to go run!  I'm so tired today and I want to say I will just go tomorrow. I know me though, and if I don't go today this will be another one of those exercise experiments that crashes and burns before it ever takes off. I just finished dinner and somehow I still have 370 calories left today so I think I will do my run and then reward myself with a great or something. Here goes nothing...

Couch to 5K - Week 1 Day 1

I finally decided yesterday to add some exercise Into my routine. To be honest, I have tried before with walking or running and I usually make it a week or two before getting busy or it getting too hot outside and I give up. So, this time I really wanted to get on some kind of plan that could keep me accountable. I know I'm not going to go to the gym 3 days a weekso I wanted to just walk/run in my neighborhood. My sister told me about a plan called Couch to 5K that sounded need. I read about it and read a lot of positive success stories about how people were not runners but this worked for them. I'm just telling you right now though, I have never, ever been a runner!  I can walk with the best of them but running is just not my thing. I have no stamina or endurance and my knees hurt. So to say I am a skeptic on this "working" for me would be putting it mildly. But I've decided to give it a chance and to commit to sticking with the plan. We will see how it goes. I may need to repeat a few weeks if I'm not ready to move on. This first day sounded so simple...run 60 seconds, walk 90 seconds, repeat for 20 minutes. I thought, well that's easy. Even I can do that!  Well, I would be lying if I said I wasn't struggling to complete it. It was actually pretty tough so I'm nervous to see how the rest of it goes. Today was a rest day so I should be at it again tomorrow...

In the 150's!

Woo hoo!  I decided to weigh myself  again this morning since today is technically my weigh-in day and I lost another pound!  I am officially back in the 150's...let's just hope I can keep it up. Is it bad that I stayed in my calories today but I ate horrible?  We went to a Easter egg hunt and spring festival and I knew they would have cupcakes there so I skipped breakfast so I could have a cupcake and I had one slice of chicken/cheese quesadilla. Then for dinner I was having a pizza craving so I ate two slices of cheese pizza while I got ready to start watching my Kentucky Wildcats in the final four...GO CATS!!!!!!  I am resisting the temptation of the papa johns chocolate chip cookie that my husband ordered though because I've maxed out my calories today!

Medieval Times

Woah...so, I looked up the dinner at Medieval Times and if you eat the whole meal it is 1,318 calories!!  That's about the total I get for my whole day!  I just ate half of the "half a chicken" and two bites of the potato so that helped me to stay right at my calorie goal. It's starting to hit me just how many calories we consume every day. No wonder I have gained so much weight!  Normally I would finish off the whole meal plus two mugs of the pepsi they gave out. And all the other junk I would have eaten throughout the day. I'm learning unsweet tea is actually not too bad...

Weigh-In

This morning I woke up craving an egg and cheese biscuit. It was all I could think about and laying in bed I decided I'm just going to do it!  We are going to Medieval Times tonight so I figured that was going to knock me off the wagon anyway so, why not?   I then got up and decided to do my weigh in and to my surprise (I really felt like I hadn't lost any weight this week), I have lost 1.5 lbs!  160.5 lb...1 pound away from being back in the 150's!  That was the motivation I needed to resist my biscuit temptation...especially when I looked and saw one biscuit is 180 calories!  No thank you!   Instead I fried an egg, used half a slice of cheese and one piece of toast for my egg sandwich craving.   Total calories...135!  Much better.  For lunch I ate one of the organic skinny burritos I bought at costco and for my sweet craving I had some fresh strawberries with a couple of tablespoons of whipped cream so that leaves me 850 calories for Medieval Times. Hopefully I can try to just eat half and bring the rest home for another meal!

Under goal

I finished the day at 1,285 for my calories so about 75 under goal. I'm sure I missed something so I decided not to eat the last 75. The kids were eating Cheetos today and it was pretty tough to resist. Not feeling like Ive lost anything this week:-/. I guess I need to start adding some exercise into my diet. One more day till weigh-in.