Day 74 SPIN CLASS IS AMAZING!

Exercise:
The loud music, the motivation, sweat dripping all over...talk about a great workout! You pedal slow, fast, you pedal standing and sitting, you add and take away resistance. It is difficult and invigorating! My headache went away. I felt like I really worked hard afterwards and according to my cardo app I burned about 600 calories in 45 minutes.

Info on Spinning:
http://bicycling.about.com/od/trainingandfitness/gr/spinning.htm

Thank you Sissy for motivating me to go. I wasn't feeling well and had to go home after work to take a nap, but I made myself go to the spinning class because I knew you would ask me about it later. I felt so much better after!

More Desserts I passed up!

Breakfast: 2 corn tortillas with scrambled eggs and spinach leaves, green tea.
Snack: one small round chocolate candy.
Lunch: Subway: chicken breast with veggies, dry
Snack: walnuts
Dinner: Stew with brown rice, great salad. See pics.




My hubby made a great dinner. Stew and
a fabulous salad.


 



So after dinner my hubby surprised me with
some cheesecake slices he got somewhere.
What could I do? I had to eat 2 of them.
I hate that I just burned 600 calories at the gym
only to put them back on! I work so hard to stay away
from desserts at work and now they are in my home!
It was very good though.







Day 73 Desserts Surrounding Me ALL Day

I didnt' eat any desserts...well, okay I did eat one very small chocolate truffle.

My work environment is an elementary school so you can imagine all the food and desserts around Christmas time. Our last day is Friday so the desserts keep piling in! Today there were boxes of cookies, every kind of chocolate you could desire, a large box of donuts, potato chips platters and more. I'm sure I would gain 5-10 pounds BEFORE the holidays if I ate all the goodies every day. It is very tempting.

Breakfast: scrambled eggs with spinach leaves, green tea with lemon
Snack: one carrot
Lunch: 1/2 an almond butter sandwich, cup of stew (stew meat, carrots, white potatoes), 1/2 a pear, water
Dinner: about to eat a lot of stew and make a salad with olive oil and apple cider vinegar.

Day 72 In Court Today

Spent most of the day in mediation in court to work on getting our wedding photo album from a few years ago. (But that is another blog story!)
Ate at 7am and was not given a lunch or any snacks. STARVING and in a fowl mood. You do know what that means don't you? Of course...hamburger and Dr. Pepper. Yep. My stomach has a mind of its own if it isn't fed properly. So I guess I lied in a previous blog entry when I thought my DP cravings were gone. They are only gone if I maintain a proper diet and have a full stomach. Seriously, I didn't even like the DP. The PUNCH I normally get from drinking DP just wasn't there, but now that I've gone to the other side again I'm thinking of DPs again.

Great news though. I ate well yesterday and worked out a lot. Lost 1 pound this morning. I'm sure the burger and sweet potato fries I had today changed that.

Breakfast: 2 corn tortillas, scrambled eggs with spinach leaves, green tea
Lunch: None
Late Lunch: bacon cheeseburger, lots of sweet potato fries and one Dr. Pepper
Dinner: nothing yet. Not hungry, but plan to make some stew for tomorrow's lunch so may have some of that.

Day 71 Ran Anyway!!! Hurt Again...RATS!

Many of you know I am supposed to wait a couple weeks before I run again due to my knee injury. The waiting is sheer torture! It felt good for an entire week. The elliptical was getting old. I needed the rush of THE RUN! So it happened. I crept up on the treadmill with the intention to fast walk. Ever so slowly, my mind began toying with the idea of just jogging slightly...sort of jogging or something rather. My legs began to run without my approval!

11 minutes into the run and it was all over. The same "outside knee issue" returned with a vengence! Downhill from there. Sad.   : (  Hobbled down the stairs and went home. Fine now. I just don't get it. Why am I having this knee pain.

Realization: Upon analyzing my Cardo App. I noticed I burned so many more calories in November than in December, yet I am at the gym more often. Apparently, I burned more than double by running at the 3 mile park than lifting weights and playing around with the treadmill. I miss the park. I miss those runs. Will I ever return?

I'm done with the desserts! If I can't run for a while, I'm stepping up my diet! I really have been cheating often lately.

Why all the concern you ask? Well, I had lost 6 pounds only to wake up this morning and discover I gained 2 pounds back! Rats!

Breakfast: 2 corn tortillas, one boiled egg, green tea
Snack: some crackers a friend gave me (about 1/2 a sandwich baggy full)
Lunch: Little bit of sweet potatoes, 1/4 of chicken breast, almond butter sandwich, water
Sanck: Pear
Snack: sugar free hotchocolate with vanilla soy milk
Dinner: chicken tacos, spinach leaves, low carb tortillas, tomato, fetta cheese, carrot on the side.

Day 70 Delicious Soup

Exercise: Ballys - Eliptical machine 30 minutes, weights 20 minutes, treadmill for 1 mile (fast walking). Ony 2  more weeks before I can run again. Enjoying the elliptical machine. It's like running on the clouds!



Lost weight in my face.
Lost about 6 pounds and
definitely some inches


Breakfast: grain cereal, boiled egg, green tea
Snack: few walnuts
Bad Snack: handful of toffee chips after the workout. RATS! I've gotta get rid of that bag of toffee.


Lunch: Sweet Potato, chicken with spices, veggies




Dinner: Vince made the best soup!
Lentils, sun dried tomatoes, stuffed pasta, broccoli, chicken



Day 69: Friend's Mom Memorial Today

Strange to have been to 3 funerals since I started this blog. Been a little over 2 months. Gone most of the day so no exercise again.

Breakfast: one boiled egg, green tea
Lunch: salmon patty sandwich with spinach leaves
Dinner: (on way back from the service) stopped at Mexican restauant. 3 flour tortilla fajita tacos with all the bad stuff. Chips. Water and shared a cheesecake slice of all things.

Felt overly full all the way home. Then Vince made me some hot chocolate. Drank it. Super full and uncomfortable. Not used to eating so much. Vince said he will go to the gym with me tomorrow. We shall see.

Day 68: Grilled Cheese Heaven

No exercise today!

Can you taste it? Two breads slathered in butter with melted warm cheese oozing out of all sides! I LOVE grilled cheeses! Friday night. Tired. Craving a grilled cheese. We never have cheese in the fridge and rarely use butter, but had some left over from Thanksgiving day.

Breakfast: 2 corn tortillas, one boiled egg, spinach leaves, green tea and blueberries.
Finally, the organic frozen blueberries are back! Be still my heart!


Frozen organic blueberries



Snack: organic apple, 4 Hershey chocolate kisses (RATS) and 1 small Hershey bitesize candy at a training sesson!
Dinner: grilled cheese, pretzles (from the baking I was doing previously)
TBA...