Seems Like Exercise is Hazardous to Your Health!

Back on Track

I was a good girl today. :) Motivated perhaps by a promo video that will be shot in May. That's one way to light a fire under me!

Breakfast: Dried apricots, one small square of chocolate, blueberry hot tea (sugar & skim milk)Snack: Bag of popcorn (one of those snack-size bags).
Lunch: Chicken breast on wheat with veggie cream cheese.
Snack: More dried apricots.
Dinner: 2 slices pepperoni pizza, Diet Coke, carrots.

Exercise: "Shred" AND 10 minutes of going in reverse on the elliptical machine. Look at me go!

I am going to go ahead and post this NOW so I won't eat a bite more!

Kelly's Gonna Be Maaaaaad....

Let me start by saying I'M DOWN THREE POUNDS!

Keep that in your mind while you read what I ate today. PLUS, in my defense, I worked out today. A lot! Mostly because I had to.

Breakfast: Sugary-sprinkled Grape Nuts. You know the drill.

Snack: Carrots, dried fruit, and 2 squares of chocolate with hazelnuts (which was before I anticipated eating a catastrophic lunch).

Lunch: 4 chicken McNuggets, fries, coke. Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.

Dinner: Pork tenderloin, mashed potatoes, green beans. Peach ice cream. I'm so bad!

Exercise: Elliptical machine and abs.

So thanks to chocolate, McD's, and peach ice cream, I may have blown my 3-pound weight loss! Let's just say that today wasn't stellar. Tomorrow's a new day!

Two Down - Fourteen to Go!

I've lost two pounds! Amazing what can happen when you're eating a normal amount of food as opposed to what I've been doing!!! So that's 2 pounds down, 14 to go. At least 14 (pre-baby weight). If not 24 (wedding weight).

Day Three:

Breakfast: Grape Nuts sprinkled with sugar (forget baby steps. I'll probably always use the sugar. I love Grape Nuts with a tiny sprinkling of the sweet stuff!

Lunch: Cheddar on Triscuits. Butternut squash soup. Baby carrots.

Dinner: Okay, this one isn't my fault--it's what was served at small group. 1/16 of a Key Lime pie. I was serve a full slice (1/8 of the pie) but when I saw the nutrition info on the box, I gave half to my son. Also, some hot cocoa (also served at small group).



Exercise: Not today! I fell into bed after small group and couldn't move. Exhausted. Back on the horse tomorrow! :)

* Dying to know how McD's went! :)

Not As Bad

Day Two:

Breakfast: Some horrendous type of good-for-me oatmeal.
Lunch: Turkey and spinach on wheat with mayo. Small glass of fat-free chocolate milk.
Snack: Cheddar on triscuits, carrots
Dinner: 2 pieces pepperoni pizza and a diet coke.
Dessert: (Yes, dessert--I was desperate) a Weight Watchers chocolate brownie ice cream thing

Exercise: Elliptical machine and abs

Today wasn't quite as bad. Still had a headache, but not that "I-feel-like-crud" thing I had going on yesterday.

I think it's going to be about choices. I wanted hot cocoa last night soooooo badly but thought, "Nope. I had that dessert, so no hot cocoa."

Baby steps...

A Good Laugh

Uuuuuuuggghhh.

I'm serious about this being like an actual detox. It's 3am right now and my head is killing me!

See, here's the thing--I eat pretty well usually. Everything I ate yesterday was pretty typical for me. Only I usually eat a LOT more sugar in addition to all of the good stuff. I don't think I realized just how much until my body freaked out when it didn't have it!

And the Chocolate Detox Begins

DAY ONE:

Detox is right. I felt like crud by the time dinner rolled around.

Breakfast: Grape Nuts & milk (and a sprinkle of sugar. Baby steps). Handful of raisins.

Snack: 5 Peanut butter-filled pretzels.

Lunch: Turkey and spinach on wheat bread with spicy spread (this spread is semi-questionable as a food choice for this meal but so YUM!). Baby carrots.

Snack: Dried apricots, trail mix.
Dinner: Chicken & rice, carrots, small glass of fat-free chocolate milk.

Exercise:

I did Jillian Michaels' "30-Day Shred." I don't think she and I will ever be friends. I spent the entire 20-minutes of the workout glaring at her onscreen.

So in a nutshell: Ummm...what was I thinking? My body is ticked at me for exercising and not giving it enough chocolate. You'd think it would be happy--but it just seems peeved!

The Jiggle in My Jello

There's too much * jiggle in my jello.*

Oh, I'm a curvy girl, and I don't mind that. But the amount of "extra" I've got covering up my natural curvaceousness has gotta go. Not because I'm not happy when I look in the mirror--I have actually heard of some type of reverse-anorexia where you look in the mirror and think you look thinner than you look (this is an ACTUAL thing). What I'm saying is, perhaps I'm not as mindful as I should be. Problem is, I'm only five-foot-two, and am many-a-pound beyond the target weight for a gal of my height. So it's time for me to get into better shape, not just for swimsuit season, but because I want to be healthier. And I really can't blame it on having two kids--I so don't want to be one of those ladies still lamenting her "baby weight" as she drops off her daughter at UCLA!

Starting tomorrow, I am going to begin documenting my progress. You know those people who can succeed without accountability? I am not those people. So tomorrow I will begin listing what I ate, and whether or not I exercised.

I'm a little nervous. I am addicted to chocolate and my body physically punishes me if I don't have it. I fear the detox process. After having my daughter, I told my OB at the follow-up appointment that I would happily knock over an old person just to get to some chocolate-covered-almonds. She looked at me kind of wide-eyed, but I was totally kidding! Sort of. So I am reeeeeally going to miss me some chocolate. Not saying I won't be having any chocolate-- NOTHING will be off-limits, actually. But if I don't want to have to type it, I can't eat it. Which translates to "If I don't want to have to type that I ate a box of Oreos as an afternoon snack, then I can't eat a box of Oreos as an afternoon snack."

Ohhhhh. Oreos. Dunked in cold milk.

I digress. I think this has the potential to really, seriously BITE. But on the other hand, perhaps I just might have some success.

Here's to a little less jiggle in my jello. :)