First Real Week of Tracking

And my first real loss!

I tracked everything I ate and drank last week as well as the exercise I got. After staying within my calorie limit and walking for an average of 20mins every day I lost two pounds! I realize this isn't a huge loss but it is a start. And considering my ball parked goal weight is about 40 pounds below where I am at right now it is very do-able at this rate.

I didn't decide to change my lifestyle because I had a large amount of weight to loose. Some times that makes me feel like the struggles I have with my weight are less valid then other peoples' but that is not true. The truth is since I have been in my teens I have always been a little over weight. I have had troubles with portion control and did not get nearly enough exercise. The weight just kept creeping up. There would be periods where I would kind of try to exercise more or eat better but I never stuck with it.

It was only recently that I realized I really needed to change what I was doing or I would eventually end up with very real and serious weight issues. Part of what made me realize this was stumbling across this blog community. It was through reading the blogs of many other real people that I realized it was possible to live a healthy life for life and still enjoy it. This is a great community and I am glad to be entering it.

PS: I changed my blog name yesterday. I never really liked the old name and it was more of a placeholder till I could think of something half decent.

Sun!

I am loving the weather we have been getting! It has been Sunny for 6 days straight so far and right now it is 4 degrees out. Tomorrow it is supposed to get up to 8 degrees :D

At work we just got a corporate rate deal worked out with Nubody's that has been in the works for about a month. The membership works with any Nubody's or Good life Gym. There is a bunch of my co workers who go to the gym during lunch breaks a few times a week so I might choose to go with them. If not there is a woman's gym about 5 minute walk downhill from my apartment so I really won't have any excuses. Plus I am such a cheep-o that I know I will feel like I need to get my moneys worth :)

I am really excited for some of the group classes that are available as well. I have 3 Nubody's within a 15min walk from my apartment so with that comes lots of variety in the classes I will be able to take. I am most excited about trying Fit Step, Fit Ride, Fit Mix and of course Zumba that I have heard so much about.

On the food side of things I have been consistently using LiveStrong's Daily Plate to track calories and focusing on watching my portion sizes. Tracking through out the day has been really helpful for me.

For instance, we had a bake sale today for our run for the cure team. I had a cheese biscuit, a lemon square and a cupcake. I tracked all of them. After eating lunch and drinking only water through out the day I have 740 calories left for the rest of the day. Easily enough for a good dinner and maybe even the little night snack that I always find myself wanting. Because I knew that I would want to eat dinner and I wanted to stay within my calorie range I turned down beef jerky and a Starbucks run. I have also kept myself away from baked treats. When I wasn't choosing to be aware of what I was putting in my body I would have said yes to all of those instead of no like I did.

Time to go watch the advance screening of She's out of my League. I won tickets from Empire :)

The last day...

That I get to eat solid food for a week D: I am not going on some liquid diet or a fast to loose weight. I don't think I would ever do that. What I am doing though is getting my wisdom teeth removed tomorrow. All four of them at once. Ahhhh!!

I am glad the day is finally here considering the apointment was made 6 months ago and they have been paining me moderatly since before that.

This morning I ate some oatmeal for breakfast for 256 Cals. I also missed the bus I wanted to get so I had to walk for half an hour to work burning about 200 Cals. For lunch I will be having a pb and jam sandwich (Can you tell I was in a rush this morning?)

Tonight I plan to have some steak for dinner! Since I know I won't be able to chew steak for at least a week and I just stocked up my freezer with a bunch. The rest of supper will consist of all the crunchy veggies that need to be eaten up while still possible. I might even have some chips and salsa for a snack as my last bit of crunch.

Maybe while I am living on smoothies and applesauce I might drop a little bit of weight as a bonus. Gotta look on the bright side right?

Snow day!

Yesterday we had a snow storm. After waiting at the bus stop for half an hour and seeing no buses other then the one stuck in a snow drift down the road from me I decided to trudge back down the street (the side walks were impassable) and go back up to my nice warm apartment.

I ate the yogurt, berries and granola that I had packed for breakfast. After a few hours of well needed napping I ate my sandwich that I made the night before. It was such an easy morning! After some cleaning and last week survivor watching accompanied with a small bowl of tostitos multi grain chips and some homemade guacamole. I spent 50mins working out to a dvd and made dinner. Steak with onions mushrooms fried in about a tablespoon of evoo and some mashed potatoes. I ate about half of the potatoes that I used to and guess what, I was still full by the end of dinner. I also used a tiny bit of evoo in the potatoes instead of butter. Then I baked some apple cinnamon muffins.

Was a pretty productive snow day.

Today for breakfast I had some yogurt with flax and one of last night's muffins with some almond butter. Very filling for a total of 250cals by last nights calculations. Lunch is going to be a turkey, hummus and spinach sandwich on honey oat whole grain bread for 300cals. That leaves me with 1k calories for the rest of the day, crazy!