Breakfast:
Breakfast trail mix - 4 points
Lunch:
Fresh Express Medittearanean Supreme salad mix (I ate the whole bag, but why not? It's lots of veggies & good for you!) - 6 points
100 Calorie pack of Cheetos - 2 points
Dinner:
Tuna Melt - 8 points
Snack:
Quaker Cheddar Rice Cakes - 3 points
So, I have been such a failure with this blog- mainly because I have been crazy busy with exams, my wedding planning stuff, etc. But I also have just felt so whatever about weight loss efforts lately. I feel like, not a single person has even mentioned to me that I look any better, or that I've lost weight, my wedding dress still looks the same on me as when I first tried it on (i.e. I look terrible in it). So, I just feel like, I'll only be truly happy if I can get down to like 160 by the wedding, which won't happen. So now I am in the mode of just having to accept the way I am now. I mean, I have still been eating well & exercising lately, but I dunno, I just feel like it doesn't even seem worth it sometimes.
I know, this isn't a very inspiring post for a diet/exercise blog - I apologize!
So, at first, I said to myself that I would work out every single day in the 60 days left until the wedding. But then I was reminded of something Kerry (my trainer) said, which is that it is often the days off in which your body really loses the weight and kinda catches up to what you've been doing to it, etc. and that they are really necessary. So, I have changed my plan to 6 days a week, with my 1 day off being Friday, because that is the day after my personal training when I generally want to die. And I used to just go to the gym 5-6 days a week, and do the elliptical every time, which wasn't working.
Kerry mentioned as such to me, saying that doing the same workout all the time, no matter what that workout is, is nowhere near as good for you as switching things up. So, taking that into consideration, here's my new weekly workout plan:
Sunday: 1 hour circuit training at the gym
Monday: Elliptical, 1 hour
Tuesday: 1 hour circuit training at the gym
Wednesday: Swimming, 1 hour (this is gonna be my new thing next semester, because I don't have class until 3pm on Wed. and I'll have time to walk to the undergrad gym to use their pool):
Thursday: 1 hour strength training/circuit training with Kerry
Friday: Day Off
Saturday: Running on the treadmill, 30-45 min; 30 min. strength training at home
Breakfast:
Yogurt - 1 point
Lunch:
I ate out at Harvest today and the only vegetarian thing they had was pasta which looked really unhealthy, so I had a grilled cod sandwich (I generally don't eat fish anymore, but have decided to make exceptions when there is nothing else to eat). And I had a salad on the side, not fries! I have no idea on points, but I thought it was a good healthy selection :)
Dinner:
Boca Italian sausage w/bun - 4 points
Chips - 2 points
Exercise: 1 hour of strength training with Kerry, it made my whole body ache the next day but was actually pretty fun at the time, which is like the perfect workout! We did squats, push-ups, bicep curls, shoulder presses, tricep kick-backs, some super painful ab work, etc.! I am so proud at how I have progressed physical fitness wise, the first meeting with Kerry, I couldn't even do one good push up, and today I did three sets of 10!!!
So I thought I would spruce up the blog design a bit, so I added a Weight loss ticker (from www.tickerfactory.com) and also added some gagdets. For the record, my goal weight of 155 on the weight loss ticker is definitely NOT a goal I am trying to acheive by the wedding, I am not crazy or planning to starve myself or anything! It's just the weight I would ideally like to be at, and I know it's a healthy weight, I have weighed it before (actually, senior year of college, which isn't so long ago, I was 157 to start the year).
And the WW points thing is helpful to any of you who have no idea what I mean when I calculate everything in terms of points. The points system is close to calorie counting, but with some differences. 1 point roughly equals 50 calories, but if something is high in fat, the points value goes up, and if something is high in fiber, the points value will go down. And under the WW system, vegetables are always 0 points, even though they do of course have some calories. And also, WW recommends you get a requisite # of servings of fruits, veggies, dairy, etc. so it's a good way to calorie count and also be healthy. Basically, you can just use the WW points calculator here and it's about the same thing I get by paying for the online membership, lol!
Breakfast:
Nature Valley Oats n' Honey granola bar - 2 points (I was proud that i ate one of them and threw the 2nd away - why do they have to come in packages of two? It's just tempting me, lol!)
Lunch:
So I didn't have a second for lunch today because I went straight from the gym to court, and from court to class, so I hate to say this, but I had to have my lunch out of the vending machine (I know, I know, I should no better!). So yeah, lunch was Baked Lays - 3 points.
Dinner:
Since I was starving from not eating lunch, I ate dinner at like 4:30 :) I had two vegetable maki rolls, yum! I of course do not know the exact nutritional info for these rolls in particular, but it's probably about 400 calories/8 points for both rolls.'
Snacks:
More Snyder's chocolate covered pretzels - they're so good! - 3 points
Exercise: 50 min/600 calories on the elliptical.
I went to the gym with Andrew this weekend (it's so frustrating because I am a morning gym person but he always wants to go at like 2pm, at which point my motivation to work out is pretty much gone, lol!) and he has been pushing me to try to get better at running, and so he hopped on a treadmill next to me and did his 5 miles at some ridiculous 8 mph pace or whatever he does, while I did my more leisurely 5mph pace - I often wanted to get off but he kept giving me the thumbs up, telling me to keep going, it was nice :)
And although I had to take a couple 30 second breaks, I did manage to run 2.25 miles! I am so proud of myself! I am never going to be a runner, nor am I really trying to be, but i figure it's good to switch up my exercise between the elliptical, running, strength training, classes, etc. I definitely had a hard time, and wanted to get off after a mile, but I somehow made it! I've just got to try to get better at stopping less! (I have made a pact not to slow down & walk at all because then I never can get started again, but if I really am failing, I will press the stop button and take 10 seconds to get a sip of water and then get back on).
