Day 149: Chicken Tacos

Exercise: Some arm and back weights at home. Few ab exercises.

Breakfast: 2 corn tortillas with egg and mixed greens, green tea
Snack: Apple
Lunch: salmon, quinoa, mixed veggies, water, small orange
Snack: soy vanilla milk
Dinner: chicken tacos: baked chicken in corn tortilla with tomatoes and green chilies and mixed greens, water, pineapple on the side.

Day 148: Beef and Quinoa With Pineapple/Corn Salsa

Exercise: SPIN CLASS! Loved it. 664 calories burned in 50 minutes. Thought I was going to throw up at one point. Had to simmer down.  : )

Breakfast: 2 corn tortillas with one egg, green tea
Snack: apple
Lunch: extra lean ground beef mixed with some salsa and served over quinoa. Topping was a mixture of pineapple, corn, tomatoes, avacado, salt, pepper, side of veggies. water
Snack: small orange
Dinner: Same as lunch.

Day 147 Pizza Attack!

Exercise: Ran in the neigborhood and to the bank across the street. Got home quite late from work and tutoring so I figured a little exercise was better than nothing at all.

Breakfast: peanut butter sandwich on round mulit-grain breads
Snack: 1 apple
Lunch: salad, 2 slices of pizza, some blueberries with Greek yogurt, water.
Snack: none
Later Dinner: made extra lean ground beef with picante sauce. Poured over a baked sweet potato. Poured pineapple, corn, tomato, avacado salsa on top of that. Yum! Water, side of broccoli.

Day 146 Strength Training Guide

Exercise: None
Starting to work on strength training to firm up those muscles! Check out this article: Strength Training Guide

Breakfast: scrambled eggs with green onion, mixed greens in 2 corn tortilla tacos with tomato and avacado.
Snack: small orange
Lunch: peanut better sandwich on whole grain round bread, no sugar soy vanilla milk with cocoa.
Snack: apple
Dinner: Starving and ate a very late dinner. Ordered pizza from Domino's Pizza. Gorged myself on 2 cheese slices and 2 slices with pepperoni and mushroom. Water

Day 145

Exercise: Spin Class this morning! 50 minutes and burned 664 calories. Great workout!

Breakfast: 2 corn tortillas with one egg and mixed greens, green tea
Snack: peanut butter sandwich
Late Lunch: Quizno's sandwich during our rental open house, water
Dinner: Out with friends at Chewy's Mexican Restaurant. Shared fajitas for one and ate way too many tortillas! Water.

I'm sure I put back all the calories I burned and some!

Day 144 Do You Know Your Body Compostion?

Click on the VIDEO link.
The Dr. in the video states it is best for women's waists to be 35 inches or smaller, but I saw on the Dr. Oz show that it should be 32 to be ideal. Okay, here is the scoop. I weigh 130 pounds, but just under 5 feet 3 inches tall. I'm always obsessed with my weight and want to be 128. I met my goal once while doing this blog, but haven't really tried to lose more weight since because I've been so busy in February. After listening to this video, I realize that what is more important is my body fat and muscle content..especially since I am 41. I have one of those body fat scales she was talking about. I never pay attention to it, but I am a little over what she said we should be and I could definately build more muscle. My new focus is not my weight. It is building muscle. That will be a challange for me because I am not so motivated to do weights at the gym.

Exercise: NONE

Breakfast: Cereal, green tea
Snack: Boiled egg
Lunch: Provided at work...small baked potato with beef, butter, sour cream, BBQ sauce, a salad with RANCH dressing. A super rich piece of chocolate cake!
Snack: peanut butter sandwich, carrot
Dinner: Greek salad with tomato, cucumber, fetta cheese, red onion, oil and apple sider vinegar, water
Dessert: soy vanilla milk with no sugar cocoa powder

Day 143: Spin Class! WoooHoooo!

Exercise: Got the high from Spin class today! Love pushing myself to the limit on the cycle. Burned 398 calories in 30 minutes.

My meeting after school had tempting snacks for everyone. Ate 2 chocolate chip cookies and even a bag of Fritos. Bummer. On my way to another school this morning I picked up a tall hot chocolate (no whip) from Starbucks! Way too many bad choices today. Hopefully will do better tomorrow. Glad to be exercising again.

Breakfast: 2 corn tortillas with 1 egg, green tea
Snack: 1/2 apple
Lunch: peanut butter sandwich on whole grain round breads, rest of the apples, water, small orange
Snack: all the bad choices seen above
Dinner: fabulous salad with tomatoes, cucumbers, red onion, mixed greens, apple cider vinegar and olive oil, homemade soup with chicken, black beans, broccoli, quinoa.
Dessert: about to have some frozen blueberries and raspberries.

Day 142: McDonalds Dinner

Exercise: NONE

Tutored students after work and then showed the townhome we are trying to rent. Home late. Drove to nearby McDonalds and purchased a fattening dinner.

Starving today and yesterday soon after lunch and before lunch. Wondering if my change in eating pasta has something to do with it. Ate pasta both days for lunch. Not filling for me. Need more protein and missing my Greek yogurt. No time to buy any the next couple days. Very busy after work these days.

Breakfast: 2 corn tortillas with egg, green tea
Snack: apple slices
Lunch: tiny bit of left over salmon, pasta with veggies, mixed veggies, water, few pieces of baked potato.
Snack: peanut butter sandwich on round multi-grain bread, water
Dinner: McDonalds: burger, fries and a Dr. Pepper. Not happy with my choice of dinner today.
No time to cook lunch for tomorrow.

Day 141: Articles For Active Women

Exercise: None, but have a plan for the rest of the week.

Click On:  Great articles for Active Women.

Breakfast: 2 corn tortillas, 1 boiled egg, mixed greens, green tea
Snack: apple slices, SUGAR hot chocolate at work
Lunch: glutten free pasta with mushrooms, mixed veggies, chicken, garlic, spices, side of broccoli, water, small orange
Snack: peanut butter sandwich on whole grain round bread, no sugar hot chocolate with vanilla soy milk
Dinner: 1/2 salmon, greenbeans and mixed veggies, 1/2 small sweet potato.
Snack: Dessert...Greek yogurt with frozen raspberries, blueberries, and some chocolate squares. Yum!


Dinner



Dessert after Dinner

   

Day 137-140: Four Days Later and IKEA....

I'M BACK!!

Behind on my blog for once! 4 days not posted. Been sick. Rest assured my meals consisted of chicken soup, peanut butter sandwiches, Greek yogurt with berries, glutten free pasta with veggies, cereals, same old breakfasts, green teas and I do recall eating 1/2 a chocolate bar on Sunday.  I did gain a pound this week. Not exercising for what seems like FOREVER (8 days). My phone states I've burned ZERO calories this week! The horror! I miss seeing 2000-3000 calories posted on it. Still have some chest congestion and a tiny sore throat so no exercise today either. Feeling tons better! President's Day Holiday today. My phone is still unable to take pics. After some troubleshooting, I've located my camera. Funny how we don't even use camera's anymore.

It is still early. This morning we are going to IKEA for a Free breakfast! We live right behind IKEA and can walk to it. They are offering a free breakfast...no strings attached. Now the trick is not to walk around the store and purchase anything.  : ) Click  IKEA  Pics of our breakfast soon.



Free Breakfast at IKEA Today


Breakfast: (at home) cereal, green tea (at IKEA) eggs, FRIED potatoes, bacon, water
Snack: small orange, 1/2 chocolate vanilla swirl yogurt
Lunch: peanut butter sandwich on whole grain round breads, no sugar hot chocolate with vanilla soymilk
Dinner: chicken with tumeric, crushed garlic, green onions, broccoli, and a great salad that my husband made. 

Day 136 Lunch Served

Exercise: Feeling even more sick so not able to exercise!

At a meeting all day. As soon as lunch was served I realized I had my appetite back. I wish I could show you pics, but I've discovered my computer is not reading my phone so I can't post pics until I figure out the problem.

Breakfast: boiled egg, cereal, tried a new peach tea. Yuck.
Snack: chewey blueberry granola bar from the meeting.
Lunch: Boxed lunch: Giant club sandwich on white bread, chips, and a large cookie, water. I was just happy I finally felt like eating.
Snack: none.
Dinner: not hungry. Maybe later.

I hate that I can't post pics!

Day 135 Ten Best Tummy Flattening Foods

Exercise: Plan to do weights at home, lunges, squats, ab work. Won't be home until later.
...Later...did nothing. What's wrong with me??

Click Tummy Flattening Foods!

Obviously the foods described in the article are good for you. I eat them all the time, but it is the other stuff I eat that is the problem. Like the 3 flour tortillas yesterday. Come on! If we all ate perfectly every day I guess we would be supermodels. Ha! My issue is learning how to not crave the "bad foods." I could eat butter bread, tortillas, and dark chocolate and ice-cream all day long if I let myself. I'm still dealing with a bit of a cold today and am not hungry at all. It is a strange feeling to not desire food. Sort of boring, but I like not craving all the sugars. Today I eat just because I know I need to eat or I'll get a headache.

Breakfast: one boiled egg, cereal, green tea
Snack: apple
Lunch: peanut butter sandwich on whole grain bread, Greek yogurt with blueberries and raspberries, water
Snack: orange
Dinner: Pei Wei take out again.
Apparently I am using my extra tutoring money to purchase take out foods from restaurants! Starting a bad habit!

Day 134 Valentine's Day

Exercise: Under the weather so not exercising today.

Happy Valentine's Day! Happy I'm a bit sick for once because I didn't desire any of the candy or treats that surrounded me all day!

Breakfast: 1 boiled egg in 2 corn tortillas, green tea
Snack: no sugar hot chocolate with vanilla soy milk
Lunch: glutten free pasta with broccoli, greenbeans and chicken, olive oil and spices mixed in.
Snack: one small chocolate candy
Dinner: Mexican food take out: Fajita, refried black beans, veggies, 3 flour tortillas. Strawberries and whipcream.
Pics to come soon...

Day 133: Townhome Open House

Exercise: NONE Once again.   : (
Didn't sleep well due to a sore throat. Not feeling too hot, but had to have an open house today. As I baked the cookies for the perspective tenants, I managed to eat 5 or 6 of them again! Yuck.

Breakfast: 2 eggs in 2 corn tortillas, green tea, cereal
Lunch: Not home so we bought some Pei Wei for our lunch at our open house. Asian food, 5 cookies, water
Dinner: TBA Not that hungry. Thinking of having some soup and heading to bed early.

Day 132: Setting Goals Again!

This blog is for Saturday even though the date states Sunday.

Exercise: Finally went to Spin class again. Not feeling 100% today and found it quite difficult. Did manage to stay for 40 minutes though. Burned about 540 calories.

Click on Goal Setting

Speaking of goal setting I didn't do well today!
Had an open house today for the townhome we are trying to rent out. Baked chocolate chip cookies for the perspective tenants. Ate 5 of them! I can see myself slowly slipping back off track. It just creeps up on you! First I stopped exercising several times a week. My excuse is my newly busy schedule. Since I'm not exercising as much, my food choices are not as good. My excuse is that I'm too tired now to cook better meals. I see it happening. I've got to make an effort to do my best and exercise again no matter what! I know I can get back on track! When you fall off, you must get back on right?

Breakfast: 2 corn tortillas, 2 eggs and green tea.
Lunch: peanut butter sandwich, lots of cookies
Dinner: Whataburger! Yep. Starving after our open house. The small hamburger (junior) with small fries and water.
Later that evening: some mixed veggies, water, raspberries.

Day 131 Eating Sweets Again. : (

This is actually from yesterday (Friday)
Exercise: NONE

Off campus at another school for some training all day. That means I wasn't able to take my lunch. Very nice of them to provide lunch for us. I devoured a chick-fil-a sandwich along with the greesy potato chips and calorie filled chocolate brownie. If that wasn't enough, I ate 2 small babyruth chocoate candies later.

Breakfast: 2 corn tortillas with one egg and mixed leafy greens with green tea
Snack: apple slices, water
Lunch: See above.
Dinner: 1/2 salmon, asparagus, 1/2 sweet potato, water
Snack: Pulled out my chocoate frosting and ate a couple spoonfuls. RATS! I should throw that stuff away, but it is my emergency chocolate.  I'm considering throwing it out. Sort of. I want to throw it out. No, not really. I should throw it out, but I really don't want to.

Day 130 Ate An Entire Pizza!

Exercise: Planned on it until after work. Realized I didn't have my workout clothes. Out late so I decided to head to Lowe's and purchase lots of potted plants for our townhome open house this weekend. Home by 7pm, but starving. Not able to workout today. Missed Spin class. : (


Breakfast: 2 corn tortillas with one egg and mixed leafy greens, green tea
Snack: apple slices, 1/2 carrot, handful of cocoa powdered almonds
Lunch: glutten free pasta with canned chicken, chopped tomatoes and chilies, broccoli, water
Snack: peanut butter sandwich
Dinner: An entire thin crust frozen pizza!! 750 calories! I can't believe it. If I had gone to spin class I would have burned almost all those calories! Tired, hungry and just needed to make something easy. Mushroom and spinach pizza.

Day 129 Car Fire At Work!

Exercise: Ran 1.5 miles and walked 20 minutes fast on the tredmill. Burned 292 calories. 

How does a car fire connect with healthy eating? It doesn't, but it is a great story!  : )

I was at car rider duty this morning assisting students getting out of their cars.

A teacher (Kate) in front of me yelled, “There is a fire under that car!” I turned.

In what seemed like slow motion I saw flames under an SUV and kids all the way down the car drive walking towards it. Then we realized all the cars  were stuck, jam packed in line behind the burning vehicle with nowhere to go.

As Kate and I barreled down the car drive waving our arms in the air motioning kids to turn around and get out of the way, the entire front of the car erupted in flames and smoke was bellowing from all directions.

Yelling at students to go in the building through another entrance, I screamed (felt like screaming anyway) on the walkie-talkie, “There is a car on fire in the car rider line! Call the fire department. We need to get the kindergarten kids out of the building!” (which was no more than 3 feet from the car rider wing. There was no response. I could just see people standing in the office trying to comprehend what I just said.

In my mind I envisioned the SUV blowing up with all the kids around! I yelled it again and I now tried to get parents out of the car rider lane. Finally they were each able to turn around and get out.

After just a few minutes the fire trucks pulled up to the vehicle that was already engulfed in fire and flames.
No one was injured.

If you are wondering about the people in the burning vehicle I have no clue about that. Apparently I just ran right past it toward all the kids. Kate on the other hand ran to the burning car, thrust open the door, pulled the little boy out and told the grandmother to get out because her car was on fire! Thank goodness for Kate! 

Breakfast: 1 corn tortilla with one boiled egg with mixed leafy greens, green tea
Snack: part of a carrot, apple slices
Lunch: glutten free spaghetti pasta with canned chicken, black beans, broccoli and can diced tomatoes and green chilies, water, peanut butter sandwich on round multi-grain bread (which was supposed to be my snack for later)
Snack: 2 kellogs dark chocolate granola bars. Woops. 110 calories each.
Dinner: 1/2 avacado, bean soup with quinoa, chicken and broccoli, little glutten free pasta with tomatoes, small orange, water

Day 128 Can't Find Time To Exercise Much Anymore!

Exercise: None AGAIN!

Finding it difficult to juggle an over-extended schedule this week and next. Looking forward to moving to completion on several things this week...ie: rental property cleaned and staged, patio staged, property open house, work function over with, heavy tutoring load after work. When does one exercise and cook healthy meals? Will be at Los Tios Mexican Restaurant this evening to meet and greet students/parents. Hoping I don't partake in the food! I'll be hungry at that time too!

Breakfast: 2 corn tortillas with 1 egg and mixed leafy greans, green tea
Snack: Working off campus today and sitting ALL day long at a meeting. Apple, strawberry soft granola bar
Lunch: Went home for lunch: 1/2 salmon, quinoa with brown rice, green beans. Geek yogurt with frozen blueberries, no sugar hot chocolate with vanilla soy milk.
Snack: peanut butter sandwich on whole grain round breads
BAD Items: 5 starburst candies and a few peanut M&Ms from the meeting today
Dinner: Mixed bean soup with wontons, broccoli and spices, way too many corn chips, 2 small oranges

Day 127

Exercise: Elliptical machine only 5 minutes. Arm and back weights for 30 minutes.

From yesterday...
Breakfast: Cereal, green tea (not very hungry today)
Snack: apple slices
Lunch: sweet potato, 1/2 salmon, greenbeans, water, Greek yogurt with frozen blueberries
Snack: 1/2 peanut butter sandwich, kellogs dark chocolate granola bar (110 calories)
Dinner: bean soup with mixed veggies, broccoli, wantons with chicken and cilantro, salad with sun dried tomatoes and asparagus.

126: Better Superbowl Snacks

Better Superbowl Snacks

Exercise: None, unless you count digging up the dirt in the patio.

Very busy today. Preparations with our townhome that we plan to rent out again. Lots of chores around the house. Grocery shopping. Superbowl Sunday on right now!

Breakfast: Cereal, 1 corn tortilla with one boiled egg and mixed leafy greens, green tea
Snack: Few samples at Costco while shopping
Lunch: thin crust frozen pizza with mushroom and spinach, salad with mixed greens, 1/2 avacado, carrot, water
Snack: Special K dark chocolate granola bar, water
Dinner: 2 corn tortillas with hotdog, mixed greens, small orange, water

Day 125: Nine Fatty Foods To Avoid

Click 9 Fatty Foods

Exercise: Spin Class Saturday morning for 50 minutes! Class is always packed and much harder on Saturdays. Love it! Burned 664 calories. If you have never tried Spin it is a must do! Amazing cardio workout. Burns fat and builds leg muscle. Great energy all day after.

Driving around town hungry. Stopped at Krogers and bought PROCESSED food. Yes I did. Wanted to find some type of low cal cereal for a snack or a change in breakfast. Also needed a snack for after work. I'm tutoring 5 students after work now and still trying to workout some so I need something to eat between my noon hour lunch and before our late dinners. I've been trying to only eat real meats, fruits and veggies, but need to make an exception due to my hectic schedule. Just need to be able to grab and go for a change. Bought some bars.


New Cereal

Dark chocolate, 110 calories

Breakfast: 2 corn tortillas with 1/4 an avacado, 2 scrambled eggs, red onion, mixed leafy greens, green tea
Snack: no sugar hot chocolate with vanilla soy milk, peanut butter sandwich on whole grain round bread.
Lunch: chicken with the Indian sauce/spices with spinach over brown rice. Salad with tomato, carrots, water
Snack: plain Greek yogurt with frozen blueberries, small amount of blue agave as sweetner
Snack: cereal
Dinner: 2 corn tortillas with 2 hotdogs, mixed greens, sliver of avacado, olive oil

lunch

Hot dogs in corn tortilla.

Day 124: TGIF!!

Exercise: AGAIN...NONE! Just getting home at almost 8pm!

Thank Goodness It's Friday! Subjected myself to a dinner out while in the midst of running from Home Depot to my townhome for rent and back to Home Depot! Trying to get ready to rent out the place again. So busy. Ate dinner at Luby's. BAD stuff and felt really stuffed afterwards. Mac and Cheese, fried breaded fish and even a wheat roll. Stressful times make me eat. Need to learn to turn that off. One can still eat healthy even if stressed out and tired. Expected the maids to come over and clean the townhome tomorrow, but realized the electricity was not turned on yet. Had to cancel so there goes our open house tomorrow as well. Bummed!

Breakfast: scrambled eggs in two corn tortillas, green tea
Lunch: 2 corn tortillas with chicken and that Indian sauce and spices with spinach, small orange, water
Snack: way too many almonds
Dinner: Luby's

Not a healthy dinner.

Day 123: 24 Heart Saving Foods!

Click on HEART.  

Exercise: Home by 5:30pm today, but exhusted due to lack of sleep last night. Changed to go to Spin class. Sat on the couch for a few minutes. Couldn't get up! Done!

Anyone out there get leg cramps! Last night I had the worst leg cramps ever! Not just calf pulls and tightness, but in the shin area as well. It was bizzare and painful. Awoke several times throughout the night. Worried it will happen again. Must be lacking in a vitamin. Will research soon.

Breakfast: corn tortilla, scrambled eggs with mixed greens. Green tea
Snack: one cup soy vanilla milk
Lunch: Greek yogurt with frozen blueberries and walnuts, few sweet potatoes, little salmon.
BAD: During our admin. team meeting I ate 2 bitesize chocolate candies and one oreo cookie.
Snack: peanut butter sandwich on whole grain bread
Dinner: chicken in Indian sauce with spinach in 2 corn tortillas with mixed greens, broccoli.
Meds: Theraflu tea: for sinus pain and cold symptoms.

Going to bed early tonight.

Day 122: So Much To Do!

Finding it very difficult to make time to workout. Tutoring 5 students a week now after working in a elementary school all day long. Dealing with renting out our townhome again and fixing up another to sell. Getting home late and hard to even focus on making dinner. Eating late. Complain...complain. One good thing is our new "positive" chart hanging on the fridge. I love it! It consists of space where we list all the great things that happen every day during each week of the month. Funny how one might think nothing good ever happens until it is in writing. Lots of good things have happened this week so even though times are tough right now my spirits are lifted.  : )

Exercise: Somehow made it to the gym late today. Only time for 25 minutes on the elliptical machine. Burned 265 calories.

Breakfast: one corn tortilla with boiled egg and mixed greens, green tea.
Snack: cocoa powdered almonds, banana
Lunch: Forgot to put my cooked lunch in the refridgerator at work so it spoiled! Had to go to Quizno's and bought a small turkey sandwich with bacon and cheese. Water
Snack: apples
Bad stuff: piece of white cake from our facutly meeting. It was so good.
Dinner: Got home late to find my husband had cooked! So very happy about that one. Salmon ( I ended up only eating 1/2 of it), salad with tomato, carrots, avacado. Zuccini, brocoli, green beans, water.