A Well Planned Week (sort of)

As I started to plan for my week last Sunday, I knew that I wouldn't be able to make it to the gym every day. I did go to the gym on Sunday right after I got back from ATL. I stayed up studying from my finance mid term Sunday night, so no Super Bowl for me. I didn't go to the gym Monday morning. Monday, I went to Huntsville to see John Mayer, so I ate out for dinner. I ended up with a turkey sub (plain) with baked BBQ lays. The place we stopped wasn't my first choice, but we were short on time. No gym Tuesday morning because I didn't get to bed until about 1 AM. Tuesday I went out for lunch. Now I could have chose the salad w/ dressing on the side, but I went for the HUGE quesadilla. I should have just eaten half, but I ate the whole damn thing. I made it back to the gym Wed-Friday. I did go to Logan's on Thursday for dinner and I had 2.5 rolls and peanuts. I am ok with it. They were yum!

This weekend I went to the gym on Saturday and Sunday. I went out Friday night with some friends and had a salad and 2 beers. I probably could have done without the beer though. Saturday I went out to a late lunch to this great french restaurant and had an omelet with spinach, mushroom, and cheese, split a salad, and this glorious bread basket with 5 different spreads including honey, butter, peanut butter, raspberry jam, and nutella. I am drooling just thinking about it. I ended up hanging out with my friend all afternoon and she had people over to her house for kebabs. I ended up making them all while she cleaned up =) They were yummy! Later we went to a concert where I had another beer. Like the night before I shouldn't have had it.

Sunday, I got up and was at the gym by about 9 AM. After, I went to the grocery store for my weekly shopping trip. Once I got home I made some yummy egg "muffins" with lots of veggies and turkey sausage. I ate 2 for lunch and then put the rest in plastic baggies and in the freezer for later consumption. I also made a brownie sort of dish from a recipe I found in my Rachel Ray magazine. So not diet friendly, but so good with some vanilla ice cream. For dinner I splurged and had Pei Wei. But I did not eat it all! I ate half the salad, the other half is for my lunch today. I only had a little bit of my pad thai so I have plenty of leftovers.

Even though my options over the weekend weren't the healthiest, I am still very pleased with my portion control and that I made it to the gym.

I Want to Eat It All

Exercising away from home while on a trip just doesn't work for me. No matter what I do to tell myself I am going to exercise, rarely do I do it. I think I just need to accept this and stop packing like I am going to exercise every day I am away.

So breakfast this morning consisted of a sliced fruit, a diet coke, and a raisin scone. I should have forgotten the raisin scone, but I got it any way. Oh and while buy my breakfast I wanted to buy and eat about 4 doughnuts, a croissant, and a yogurt parfait. The only thing holding me back from the yogurt was the blueberries on top of it. I HATE blueberries, oh and the fact that I already had enough food to keep me satisfied.

Yeah, so I can tell this whole getting back to eating well thing is going to be tough I have a finance mid term on Tuesday that I have not study for. Hopefully I will get a little studying done on the drive back to Nashville. Oh, so that leaves Monday. Nope. I am driving to Huntsville to see my beloved John Mayer. So not only will I be stressed from not studying, I will be eating dinner out tomorrow. Oh, why do I do this to myself??

I have also decided that I am not going to rejoin WW at work. While I like the ladies in my meeting, I think my goals are just way different from theirs. I want to become the healthiest me I can be, they just want to lose weight and hate exercise. BTW, I love working out (aside from when I am traveling.) Also, I am one of the younger ones in the meeting. Now that the leader knows I have lost a bunch of weight, she is always asking me questions. It makes me a little uncomfortable. Plus, I feel the pressure to "perform" as in lose weight all the time. And to be quite honest I haven't been doing it since I joined the group. My weight has been fluctuation ridiculously since I joined. I think this will just be better for me.

So yesterday I met up with an old friend I hadn't see in about 2 years. It was so great to see her and she just has this awesome personality. We were talking about weight loss and clothes. She is probably about a size 10/12 and we were talking about weight loss and clothes. She told me that she used to say "I am going to lose X amount of pounds and then I will buy new clothes." And now she doesn't do this any more. She is focusing on buying classic pieces that will last and if she does happen to lose the weight she will get them altered. She was tired of putting that pressure on herself. I think I am going to start doing this with my own wardrobe.

A New Look

It was time for a change.

I feel like a big poser. Ever since the picture below was taken, my eating has gone to shit. But I still manage to go to the gym. I think I am back up around 200 lbs.

I really need to get back to my focus of the year of me. I realize that I am stress eater and this is so not a good thing. When work sucks or I procrastinate, I eat. And I don't even eat good food. Gah.

I would like to thank John Mayer for the tag line, "This is me I am working on." I still heart you John Mayer even if you are with Jessica Simpson.

Talk about a randome post.

So I was asked what lunches I prepare for the week. So I'll share.

You know how they tell you when going to the grocery store to stay away from the inner aisles? That's really what I do when I go shopping every week. Although, I did have to venture down the cereal aisle for a container of plain oatmeal.

I start in produce and pick up:

• a few types of fruit, it depends what's on sale-Apples, bannanas, pears, grapes

• I always treat myself to a container of fresh cut up pineapple. I love it SO much, but I hate to actually cut it up myself.
• Veggies I buy include leaf spinach, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots. Those are my staples.
• To shake things up in the veggie department I will occasionaly buy mushrooms, peppers, coleslaw, potatoes, or avacado. I LOVE avacado.
• Next I hit up the gourmet cheese. I either buy some bleu cheese or my new fav as of last week "real" mozzerella.
• Skim mile and NF plain yougurt in the large container. It is cheaper this way and then I mix in frozen fruit and I don't have to add sugar.
• Frozen veggies- all kinds. Frozen chicken if I need it.

That is pretty much what I get each week.
I eat oatmeal for breakfast most mornings followed by a piece of fruit or airpopped popcorn made with olive oil for a snack. I use a stir crazy to pop my corn and I LOVE it.

At lunch I eat my salad with a protien and some fruit. However, last week since I prepared in advance I had stuffed green peppers with brown rice and mushrooms. In the past I have been known to make soup, bean salad, or mexicanish meals. I stear away from breads. If it is not really good bread I don't want to eat. And I am sorry, but I don't think 35 calorie bread will ever be classified as "really good bread."

Dinners get a little more interesting as I don't get home until 9:30 PM 2 nights of the week. I usually try to bring some stuff with me to work as well. Usually it is some variation of the lunches for the week.

Usually I eat the same thing the whole week and then I am tired of it and I need something new. I just need to figure out what that something new will be for this week. I am thinking ground turkey with burrito seasoning, black or veggie refried beans, and of course my spinach salad.

Now onto the wellness assesment I had this week.
So as you all know I joined the Y last week. It was one of the best decisions I have made in a long time. I got my butt out of bed EVERY SINGLE morning this week and was at the gym before 5:15 each morning! I worked out each morning for about 1 1/2 hours. Doing weights and cardio. For the most part I was the only female doing the type of weight lifting I do (squats, dead lifts, bench presses) Ladies, this type of weight lifting may seem intimidating, but it does awesome things for your body. Any way at my old gym I started to know the schedules of those also working out. And now I am starting to recognize people at the Y like that too. I think it will take a little bit longer at the Y, just because there are so many people. Anyway there is this one guy who is tall, has chin length hair and looks foreign. Yeah he's pretty yummy. He got on the treadmill next to me when I was running. Thank god I did not fall off. Oh, but here is the kicker. So there are like 15 YMCA's in my area. Of all the Y's I pick to join, I pick the one that is know for it's high population of gay men! I find this so incredibly funny. It's not like I joined the Y to meet guys, but none-the-less this would be my luck. Of course I don't join the one where the bachelor goes to work out.

Anyway, back to the wellness assesment. They conduct them free and I was curious to see what my results would be. Basically I am not too flexible and I need to work on warming up and cooling down. (I didn't really need a test to tell me that!) I did need the test for all the other stuff.

Here are my results and description raiting that came along with them:

• Body Fat %: 18.2%-Excellent. Holy mother fucking god is what I thought when I saw that. That can not be right. I am still convinced the lady measuring me with calipers in 7 different spots did not do this correctly. I am going to have it re-tested in 3-4 months and see what it says. The reason why I am not completely sure about this is because their scale weighed me at 187.4, which is REALLY about 8 lbs lower then what I have been this week.
• Bicep strength: 55 lbs- Excellent. It's the weights I tell you.
• Back flexibility: 48 cm- Fair. Memories of the grade school sit and reach cam flashing back. I hated that damn test then and I hate it now.
• Systolic blood pressure: 129- Fit
• Diastolic blood pressure: 74- Excellent
• Resting heart rate: 60- Excellent. Ok, I know my actual resting heart rate is in the 50's. As soon as the guy put the cuff on me I could feel my heart start to speed up. I know I should be happy with the 60, but I know it is actually much lower.
• Aerobic fitness: Fit
• Total fitness score: 72-Fit. 8 more points and I will be excellent. I want those 8 points damn it.

Oh and I did go to weigh in this week, but it is TOM and I know I gained so I didn't really even look at the numbers. Hopefully, I can show a loss this week.