The Crock Pot.

Temptation is hitting me pretty hard right now.

I have not been doing as well as I would have liked, but I am also not doing terribly either.

I guess that is a good place to be?

I’m getting there.

Slowly, painfully, getting there.

It’s tough.

You’d think after how easy it was to get started that this wouldn’t be an issue for me.

I have no idea how I got so off track. I keep saying stress and everything else, but is that really it? Or am I just being lazy?

I have no idea.

I am waiting to eat lunch. We got up late and Dustin had to do something at 12:30. We figured we’d just wait until he was done with that to get some food in our bellies. He should be done within the next hour.

…I’m so hungry!

I am determined to do things right today. I have said this in the past and failed, but I really want it. I want it today. I want to get through one day to prove to myself that I can still get back on track.

I have something that I am looking forward to next year. Once it is official then I think I will be in power lose weight & tone mode so that I am exactly as I want to be by then; but I’ll dish out more deets in the distant future 😉 .

But yes. I need one good day. One exceptional day, actually.

We spent a long time yesterday figuring out which crock pot recipes we were going to start making. We picked out five and sorted out all of the ingredients & expense that it was going to cost us. We are desperately trying to save up some money. We typically spend around $100.00 when we shop for the week; sometimes as low as $60.00. Last night we only spent $120.00 and each of the crock pot meals are enough for at least 2 meals. So we are actually saving a butt load of money. Also, $40.00 of that $120.00 went towards getting spices/seasonings that we won’t have to buy again for a pretty long time. I’m impressed and excited. It’ll be nice to get rid of our frozen dinners and start making our own food. I’ll probably feel better & more satisfied for about the same amount of calories. The only thing that I am concerned with is the amount of protein that I will be consuming. I have been planning out my food diary and I am already well over my protein limits that myfitnesspal gives me; however, when I did some research I found that people said that going over protein is fine and that myfitnesspal actually underestimates the amount of protein. So I think that I will be fine…especially if I stay within my calorie limits and start exercising again.

I am going to try to get some water in me and then watch tv while on the elliptical until Dustin is down with what he had to do. Then I can eat!! I am going to try to snap some pictures of my crock pot experiences and provide the recipes & nutritional information in case anyone is interested!!

Until later 🙂
-J

Still Here

I know, I know. I am terrible. It has been such a weird last handful of days.

I am finally back on track (have been since yesterday). I had to get passed feeling down about the last handful of days. I had eaten like a slob and hardly exercised.

But I am off of the pity train and am back on track. I have exercised a lot the last two days, but I really do not tj ink it will be enough to have a loss this week.

Sigh.

In other news we are headed to Ohio on Friday. My younger cousin was invited to the blue grey super combine. It is a five and a half hour trip, but we booked a room at the Hilton. I am definitely looking forward to a get away (even if it is just for the night).

They have a pool and an exercise room, so I have no excuses!

I am trying really hard to make up for my awful days. There is my brunch.

Keep your fingers crossed that I do not gain this week!

-J

Thursday is Weigh In Day

I know, I know. You are thinking “but Jamie, isn’t your weigh in day on Friday?” – yes. 

I like to have my weigh ins on Friday, but I have to alter it this week.

You see, my little sister (well, she’s twelve now – time flies!) is graduating from the elementary school and is moving on up to the middle school. My mom wants to make a big deal out of it and so we are going out to dinner on Thursday. I figured I’ll get her a card and maybe a few other little things and that will be that; she’ll be a happy camper. 

…Going out to dinner doesn’t sound so bad, right? I can typically log everything before hand and do extra exercise the days leading up to the dinner so that everything is nice and ready to go. Unfortunately, my sister loves Old Country Buffet. My mom will rarely take her there because it is expensive and because…it’s a buffet and she has that fat kid issue like me 😉 

So because this is something special, we are going to take her there. 

At first I was all disgusted because I love eating there. I love their mac and cheese, mashed potatoes and gravy, fish, and their fried chicken. YUM! And not to mention that particular cake that they have. Oh my. As you can see, I am not very good with holding back. I tried it once when we went there shortly after I started my diet and I had a salad and told myself that was all I could have. I ended up eating much more than I had normally done and I am sure it was because I tried to restrict. Silly me.

I was only disappointed and disgusted because Thursday is the day before my weigh-in. I have a cheat day on Friday after my weigh in, but if I did so on Thursday I would potentially damage my loss for Friday. So needless to say I was unhappy. 

Then it started to hit me that I could make my weigh in for this week on Thursday and then replace my cheat day on Friday with Thursday after my weigh in. I probably won’t have as high of a loss on Thursday as I would Friday, but at least it wouldn’t throw me off. 

So now I am a happy camper. I am going to work really hard for the next handful of days to ensure that I have the best weigh in that I could possibly have Thursday. From there, I will get to eat lots and lots of yummy and probably very unhealthy foods. 

😉

So let’s make this week count, guys!

-J 

Under eating

So unless the Chinese food was worse than what I put, I think I under ate yesterday.

It wasn’t on purpose, believe me.

You see, I had added the Chinese food and pre planned what I was going to eat so that it would be easier for me to know how much exercise I should do.

Well I ended up getting hungry at weird points and ate a few extra rice cakes.

I kept logging everything and went about my day.

Then Dustin and I decided to get sheetz, where I got a salad and Mac and cheese bites; so good. Anyway…

We were on the last two episodes of the sopranos and decided to watch both. After we found ourselves reading blogs and the sub reddit about the ending.

The next thing I know it is already almost four. Instead of getting my late night snacks I went to bed. I was hungry and tempted, but the timing was no good. I ended up with 1,090 calories for the day.

I don’t typically like eating less than 1,200 calories. Maybe it will help balance my cheat night out a little though.

I wanted to write earlier , but ended up giving Balto a bath. He doesn’t like getting a bath and so of course it took longer than it should have :p .

I didn’t get to watch much of Orange is the New Black yesterday …so I am hoping to get in a lot of time today 😉

J

Ut Oh, Chinese Food!

Okay, okay.

Remember how I said that we were going to Outback Steakhouse? 

Well we didn’t exactly go to Outback.

Instead we went and got a crap ton of Chinese food and then dessert. 

I don’t regret it. It was my cheat and our special day and ….yep – worth it.

What I do regret is this morning, well – lunch time. 

Dustin was having left overs from last night and I was getting my salad, apple, and rice cake together. 

I didn’t even feel like I was missing out on the Chinese Food. It wasn’t until I was cleaning up the stuff and was about to throw away the rest of the pork fried rice that temptation hit me.

Me being me, I ate the rest of it.

Guilt…?

Oh yes.

I tried to log it on my food diary, but food like that is always iffy on the exact nutritional info. 

I did log some, though. Therefore I am accountable and did not just shrug it off.

Progress? Absolutely.

I am pleased with myself and am going to eat just a wee bit lighter tonight.

I’ll also do some extra exercise, which shouldn’t be much of an issue.

I want to binge watch the new season of Orange is the New Black, anyway 😉 . 

Which means my butt should be on the elliptical for hours.

I feel overall pretty good, though. 

I feel amazing knowing that I feel like my mind is back on track and that I am pretty close to reaching my 100lbs goal. 

There is only one thing that I have to complain about today and that is my foot!

I’m sure that I have mentioned this before, but I have had a handful of foot surgeries.

Even after them all I still have issues from time to time. Usually in a different area other than the original problem area.

Not this time, though. I don’t know if it is from walking around too much at Six Flags and then exercising on top of that, but whatever it is I am in pain! The whole bottom of my foot (base of the second toe) is all sore. It is almost always somewhat puffy so I can’t even judge it by if it is swollen or not haha. It hurts to even curl my toes at this point. Dustin made me a makeshift ice pack holder (a.k.a my headband and a thin towel used to keep the ice pack in place) last night since it was beyond manageable.

It feels a tad bit better today, but still very sore. 

I’m not going to take it easy today, though. I mean, I might not go as hard today and instead opt for a few extra hours instead.

 I’d much rather have to exercise for an extra 2 hours then do less time, but have my foot feel worse. 

Tv will help, anyway. 

Okay I think I have ranted enough.

I’ll update you later 😉

-J 

Let’s Do This!

Yesterday stayed a productive day for weight loss.

I really need to keep the ball rolling.

I woke up today wanting to get to my 100lbs gone in a year so badly.

I know that only I can make this happen.

So I hopped out of bed and am about to grab my weights and laptop to get in an exercise video before the day starts.

I am going to be using the three pound weights today instead of the one pound ones. I’m sure I will feel the difference after a few minutes in :p .

I have my food log planned already for the day and I am hoping that I can stick with it.

Wish me luck!
-J

Quick Post: TMI Warning

Okay so hopefully you read the title.

This is a TMI post.

It probably isn’t as TMI as what I think it is, but I almost didn’t write this because of its TMI feel. 

Then I realized that I wanted to write everything and even the hard/embarrassing/shameful things count into that. 

I have weighed myself today and then decided that I was going to wait a little bit before posting my weigh in results on myfitnesspal. 

Why would I do that?

When I woke up I felt like I had to use the bathroom. 

But then I didn’t.

I could definitely feel that I had to go, but nothing. 

I knew my weigh in would be better if I went beforehand so now I am waiting it out. 

Typically if I move around and get in some exercise it’ll happen. 

So now I wait.

My first weight in was 182.1, but I was really hoping for more than that. 

We’ll see what it says after I can finally go 😛

I’ll keep you posted in a lesser TMI post!

-J 

A Big Sigh Of Relief

So, remember how I told you guys last week that I weighed in on a Wednesday and then I wasn’t going to take my weight until the next Friday?

Well I cheated a little.

You see, the weekend was bad. On Saturday I had a hot dog with ketchup, a sloppy joe, a lot of my favorite pasta salad, a little bit of this other pasta salad, a few cheese puffs, crackers and cheese, and a piece of cake. That was just what I ate at Dustin’s mom’s family gathering!

I know I also ate two 200 calorie protein bars.

Then my mom, sister, and my sister’s friend came to visit. We ended up going bowling. I had a bite of both my sister’s and Dustin’s gigantic cookies. I then had non diet soda. I used the soda to wash down two hot dogs and a lot of French fries.

Later we went to the store to buy food and garbage for the picnic on Sunday. We stayed up late and played board games. … We hardly had any junk left after. I ate a lot of munchies (not the icky ranch ones), baked sour cream and cheddar chips, and a lot of cookies.

Then on Sunday I ate even more cookies, chips, etc. Then we went out to the pizza buffet where along my salad was a lot of cheesy pasta, breadsticks, and pizza.

Then Dustin and I had sandwiches and cookies (and milk) as a late night snack.

So you can imagine that I was a wee bit discouraged. I thought there’d be no way in hell that my weigh in would be lower. I honestly felt it was a toss up that it’d stay the same. Mostly, I was expecting a gain.

Then I have been sick the last two days. I made it all work, but I didn’t exercise as much as I wanted to yesterday because Dustin made me nap.

Anyway with it being Thursday I was slightly going crazy to know how big of a gain I was rocking.

So I got back out the scale and to my surprise… It wasn’t a gain!!

It was a loss!

So now I’m excited to have a great (beyond great) day today so that maybe the loss will grow. If not, it is still a loss!!

Just what I needed.

I’m grinning from ear to ear!

Here’s to another great day,
J

Nightly Update

I did it!

A successful and relatively healthy day 😉

Now if I can repeat this for the next 2 months then I should definitely reach my 100 pounds lost in a year goal that I have set. 

This post isn’t going to be long because I am sick.

I think this has been brewing for a little while now. I feel sick…don’t rest and take care of myself and then get hit again within a week. 

This time I am going to make sure I am getting plenty of rest. 

I took a nice long nap today and other than my exercise I have been trying to take it easy. 

I just wanted to post my food and exercise logs so that I can get back into the habit of writing a post before bed each night. 

So here they are:

Like I said, it was a pretty great diet day for me. 

I wish that I would have cut out the multiple bowls of cereal tonight, but my chocolate craving was pretty high 😛

Oh, here are a few pictures that I meant to post earlier from this weekend:

 

It really was a blast! Hopefully I didn’t gain too much. Maybe I’ll stay the same? I still have 2 more days until my weigh in, which means three days of being back to it. My fingers will be crossed that I don’t go too far in the wrong direction. 

I’m back at it, though. 

I’m proud of myself for getting back at it. 

Until tomorrow!
-J 

Holiday Madness Ends, Strict Diet Begins

Alright.

I enjoyed an amazing holiday weekend with both of our families. We had a great time and ate tasty/awful foods.

But that was that.

Now it is time to get my butt back into this.

I am thinking about saving $$ and still eating healthy. I’ve decided utilizing the crock pot might be our best option. I can spend a day prepping and freezing main dishes for two weeks and then everything would be easy peasy.

I want to get rid of our food first. We have a bunch of stuff that we have let sit in there because we weren’t in the mood for it. Now it is time to empty house.

So I went through and pre planned my food until Monday. This will get rid of a big portion of our stuff and will then let me see if we can make a few more meals before shopping.

So now I have no excuses. My meals are logged and now all I have to do is stay on track and exercise.

So far so good.

I woke up today and jumped right into an hour of exercise. It felt great.

I feel great.

I can do this.

Less than fifteen pounds to lose in the next 59 days.

I’m determined.
-J