Weight Loss Journal Summaries

Ok, so I know I'm like way behind on my journals...but I'll just sum it up. Sunday is what I call my free day of the week b/c Mike and I always go out for our Sunday breakfast after church. Let's just say I had a huge breakfast and it was yummy. I've been doing good at sticking to my 1200 calories a day. I have worked out everyday except Sunday for at least 1 hour. I've been getting up at 4:30am....Yuck..I know...but it makes me feel so much more awake for the rest of the day. Patty did join the same gym too, so now her and I will work out together on the evenings she wants to go. So I could end up getting 2 workouts a day! Woo! =) So Wednesdays are weigh in days for us and I weighed myself this morning and I lost 3.5 lbs. Woo Hoo!

Now the tricky part about this week is the next 2 days are an out of the office work function for me. All our meals are provided the next 2 days with the exception of breakfast. It might be hard for me to stick to my 1200 calories but I am going to watch my portions.

Weight Loss Journal Summaries

Friday 10/24
Breakfast- McD bacon egg cheese biscuit - 430 Cal

Lunch - Lean Cuisine pepperoni french bread pizza- 290 Cal

Dinner- Beef filled Ravioli and cheesy garlic bread =) Yummy!

Gym- 1hr

Total Calories- ???

Saturday 10/25
Breakfast- 6in Turkey Sub on Italian Herb bread- 380 Cal

Lunch- 6in Turkey Sub on Italian Herb bread- 380 Cal

Snack- Quaker multigrain mini cakes - 90 Cal

Dinner- Ckn Noodle Soup - 300 Cal
Skim Milk - 80 Cal

Gym- 1hr

Total Calories- 1230

Weight Loss Journal Summary

Breakfast- V8 Acai Berry Juice - 110 Cal
Quaker Cinnamom Roll Oatmeal - 160 Cal
McD Parfait - 160 Cal

Lunch- Lean Cuisine Spinach Mushroom Pizza - 330 Cal
Wheat Thins - 140 Cal
Water - 0 Cal

Dinner- Campbell Chunky Pot Roast Soup - 240 Cal
Skim Milk - 80 Cal

Total - 1220 Cal

Thursday 13!

Thirteen Motivators to lose weight...1 To be in shape of course (healthy) 2 Wear a size 6 or maybe 4 again.... (wishful hoping!...Lol) 3 Look the way I looked when Mike first met me 4 Self Esteem 5 Be at a healthy weight before we have children 6 Wear a hot swimsuit....Lol... 7 Get to buy new clothes! 8 Get a new Tattoo, or two 9 Not run of breath so easily 10 Able to get family pictures I'm proud of 11 Patty.....my new motivator!! 12 Lose 25 lbs in 3 months so Patty and I can get our rewards 13 Lose 50 lbs in 6 months so Patty and I can get our grand prize (We set rewards for ourselves)

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Weight Loss Journal Summary

Breakfast- McD Fruit & Yogurt Parfait (w/ granola) - 160 Cal
Snack- Quaker Dipper- 150 Cal
Lunch- Lean Cuisine 4-cheese pizza- 360 Cal
Drinks- Water & G2- 70 Cal
Dinner- Campbells Sirloin Steak/Vegie Soup- 260 Cal
1 Cup Skim Milk- 80 Cal

Total Intake- 1080 Approx.

Exercise- None =( but we did go fill out our membership papers so we're ready to start! I know, I know...... =)

Weight Loss Journal Summary

Breakfast- Raisen Granola Bar -140 Cal
Snack- Quaker granola Dipper -150 Cal
Lunch- Lean Cuisine Pepperoni -370 Cal
Drink- Water and G2 -70 Cal
Dinner- 2 small boneless country ribs & Greenbeans ? Guess it at 500 Cal?

Total Cal Intake- 1230 Aprox.

No Exercise, plan to join gym tomorrow evening!

The Biggest Loser.....

Ok, so I know I've said several times (since putting on my after college weight) that I'm going to workout and diet and shed these pounds. And well, I start and a couple months later I'm back to my normal routine. Well I think this is the time... =) I really really plan to stick with it, and not just to lose weight, but I need to get healthy. I am badly out of shape.
Mike and I canceled our gym membership in Springfield back when we moved into our new house. We would now be further away from the gym we liked and the drive after work and gas prices was not cutting it anymore. Since then we haven't re-joined anywhere. This last month I've felt the need more than ever to join again. We started researching gyms in our town. Surprisingly enough, there were at least 4 and I think there is a 5th one. We crammed in 3 tours last night at the ones we considered our top 3 choices. I think I know which one I want to join and we are going back Wed. when the manager is working again to take one more quick look and more than likely start our membership. 3 of the 4 gyms in our town are right by our house! If we wanted to walk to either of them I would say its a 5 minute walk, maybe 10 tops. The one I think we're going with has a child play area (don't need it now, but in the future it would be nice), it's NO contracts (I hate contracts...Lol), NO enrollment fees, and its 24/7. You just get your programmed key card to let you in when there is no staff on duty. That will work out well for us b/c Mike likes to get up early and go work out before work. And when I say early, I mean he likes to get up EARLY!.... =)
My friend Patty is also thinking of joining a gym. She lives in the same town as me. I hope she joins with me so we can workout together but I also want her to pick the gym she likes. =) Today we were talking and we decided on a way that we can help each other stay on track and motivated. I suggested starting weight loss/exercise journals. We can keep track of what we eat/drink throughout the day and the amount of calories, exercise that day...etc.... I suggested we meet up to check in but I know our schedules can be different sometimes....then I thought what if we did a blog entry each evening, like a short summary of our journals...so that we could read each others and comment on it. We also decided to make Wednesdays "weigh-in" day. When we blog on Wednesday evenings we can put if we lost any weight. We decided not to put how much we weigh on the internet.... =) Just if we lost any..... I'm very excited about our plan. Hopefully, the motivation of a friend and knowing they are doing the same thing will help.
All of our other "Blogger" friends are welcome to join our adventure..=) The more people involved...the more fun we can make it!
Oh, we also thought we could share any helpful tips with others too...such as new foods you find or anything that is helping you.
Patty we CAN do this! =) Looking fwd to my first summary tonight!

Date Night, Movies, and Football....

On Friday night (last week) Mike and I decided to do date night! Woo Hoo...we had some rebate checks burning a hole in our pockets. =) We went to The Palace and watched Pineapple Express. It was very funny and we quoted it all weekend. After the movie he surprised me by taking me to Braums to get my favorite dessert, reeses peanut butter cup mix...Yummy!
We also rented Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay on Saturday. They were both very funny also.
Sunday Mike made a HUGE pot of chili. We took it over to a friends house and watched football games all afternoon and ate lots of food...too much food... =) But it was a good time. And since our friend has a 52 in (I think?) plasma screen TV with HD, it's also fun to watch TV over there! And hey it's a good excuse for when Mike asks for a new TV...."Just go to Dave's house"..... =)

Thursday 13!!!

Thirteen of my Fave Hairband Songs!!1 Bon Jovi - I'll be there for you 2 Skid Row - 18 and Life 3 Aerosmith - Crazy 4 Guns and Roses - Patience 5 Bad English - When I see you Smile 6 Cinderella - Don't know what you got 7 Warrant - Heaven 8 Poison - Every Rose has its Thorn 9 Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on me 10 AC/DC - You shook me all Night Long 11 Whitesnake - Here I go Again 12 Night Ranger - Sister Christian 13 Faster Pussycat - House of Pain

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Thursday 13!

Thirteen Thoughts Today...1. Will we ever catch up on Registrations? 2. I need to process credit cards 3. Did this person already register? 4. Why did they send this in twice? 5. I need to set up a tour for Friday to go look at the new gym 6. Is it worth joining a gym again...will I actually go? 7. I need to set up a payment on my credit card...Yuck! 8. Will I ever finish touch up painting in the bathroom, or will my eyes keep finding spots that need more paint? 9. I really don't want to work this Saturday, but know I really need to... 10. Will our new phones be here by tomorrow? 11. Will I be able to get the rebate I was supposed to get on my new phone? 12. Will I ever figure out how to use my new phone....=) 13. I really need to eat my lunch instead of letting it get cold first everyday.

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An Evening of Pampering for the Girls!

Tonight was a much needed Girls' Night! Patty, Annette and I went to get Spa Pedicures together. I love going to get pedicures and my favorite part is the awesome massaging chair you get to sit in while you are getting pampered from the knees down. =) It is the best 30-45 minutes of your life.... =) And I LOVE the foot massages! Annette was so funny...she didn't know what to expect exactly and she was cracking me up! This was her first ever pedicure. She kept pushing all the buttons on the remote that controls the chair and I was waiting for her to push a button that would throw her out of the chair or something.... =)

Another room...

Well today we are finally starting to work on what I call the back bedroom. It's the room that has served no purpose thus far except a place to store junk we don't want to go through. =) I cleared all the "junk" out of it earlier and Mike has begun tearing down the yucky paneling. Next he will start scraping the popcorn stuff off the ceiling so that we can repaint it and make it flat. I can't wait. It will look so much better. We did our bathroom ceiling a few weeks ago when we refinished the bathroom and it looks so much better. There's so much work involved in home projects, but I like to see the end result. Our house already looks totally different than when we moved in and I can't wait until the Big Finale.....whenever that may be. =) Here is a pic of one of the walls after the paneling is down. We will repaint the room white for now until we decide on a use for the room.

Thursday 13....

Thirteen Movies I've seen recently...1. Black Snake Moan 2. Baby Mama 3. Nim's Island 4. Monster House 5. College Road Trip 6. Hairspray 7. Kung Fu Panda 8. The Wedding Date 9. The Dark Knight 10. Zodiac 11. Interview with the Vampire 12. Made of Honor 13. Georgia Rule

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Sister's Weekend

This past weekend my 2 younger sisters came to stay with me again. They are 14 and 7. The youngest actually just turned 7 last Thursday. We had a small birthday party for her at my house Friday night. It was Hannah Montana themed of course! We rented lots of movies and we also went the theater to see Kung Fu Panda, which was hilarious. I did not think it would be as funny as it was, but it surprised me. It is really cute. The girls loved it. Some other movies we watched were....Surfs Up, Monster House, College Road Trip, Baby Mama, Hairspray....here are some pics

Doggy Day Care

Sasha went to Doggy Day Care last Thursday. It was bath time which also means play day at the day care. She is always so nice and shiny when she comes home. She has a new bandana each time she comes home. This time the ladies gave her one with Sunflowers on it. It is my fave so far. I thought it was so so so cute! So, of course, I took pics.