Rougher Week Than Expected, eh?

Damn. I didn't make my two-three pound goal. I dropped one pound, which is still to be commended after such a crappy week.

So yay for me and my one pound loss!

Tough Week? Tough Luck.

The week was really rough for everyone at work, so I really wanted some carbohydrates, some comfort food. While I enjoyed my manicotti, mixed drinks, cookies, fried cheese cubes, cheesy enchiladas and half a chocolate bar - wow that looks really bad now - I think I might still my goal of losing three pounds or at least two pounds.

I made sure to work out everyday this week and even once outside. See Erin? I can play outside too! So yay me!

I hope to weigh in at 173 Monday. That's two pounds down. Cross your fingers!

Stress Eating

All the bad news in the newspaper industry is doing nothing to help my eating habits.

This week I've eaten a bunch of comfort food, fried food and drank alcohol. Definitely not helpful for the whole lose weight plan. And today, I didn't even eat dinner. NOT a good idea to run on an empty stomach. I was exhausted twenty minutes into the run.

On a positive note, I've lost 6 pounds in the last two week as of Monday. I'm scared to weigh in this upcoming Monday, but I have been working out - yoga Monday, skating Tuesday and running today - so maybe it won't be as bad as I think.

Soon my workouts will change. I won't have my $48 month-to-month gym membership, so no yoga every Monday. I'll have to come up with a home yoga sequence and I'll be running outside instead of on the track in the gym or on the machines at the gym, but that's no big deal.

I'll miss the fitness classes, but maybe I can learn to love running in downtown Flint.

And We're Off!

The start of my new healthy life begins today! Actually, it began yesterday with weigh in. 

Since I'm awesome, I brought my electronic scale, a measuring tape and Dance, Dance Revolution over to Jen's place. We've planned a weigh in and measuring day for every other Sunday. Basement Days. This is also the day for grocery shopping and planning my meals for the week. That way I won't have to stress about what I'm gonna to eat. I used this article at fitnessmagazine.com to help me come up with my meals for this week.

Our first Basement Day was successful. The scale did not break, but the measuring tape did. Thanks Jen! She pulled the tape too far from the spool. I don't know who she thought she was measuring with that amount of tape, but I got it for free and it still measures. So no big deal.

I weighed in at 177.2 pounds. Damn that point 2! My neck is 13.5 inches. (Jen's is the same size. She was really amused by this). My bust is 39.5 inches, waist is 34.5, hips are 46.5 and thighs are 26.5 inches.

It's all downhill from there. At least the numbers will be anyway.

After the weighing and measuring, Jen and I played some DDR for about half an hour or forty-five minutes with her kitty silently mocking us ... or maybe he was just ignoring us. 

I haven't done any exercise today, yet. I'm going to do some dance work out DVD in my living room. Better than nothing. 

I feel really good about how well I did with my meals today. I kept my day around 1500 calories and low-fat. I'm a vegetarian, so it's a little easier to keep things low fat if I cut down on sugary snacks and if I'm not eating cheese like crazy. That can happen sometimes. I do love the cheese. 

I made a pasta dish tonight and almost put some feta on it, but that wasn't in my plan so I didn't go for it. And the fact that I didn't have any in the apartment helped. I also went wrong making some plain white beans. They were turning out really weird and sort of hard. I asked Jen what I was doing wrong and apparently, you have soak beans. Who knew?

So I left the beans out of my meal, which was pasta with cherry tomatoes, oregano, garlic and olive oil. It turned out really tasty. I think I could have put more garlic on it, but I'm bias. More garlic always seems like a good idea to me.

I think I cheated a little bit with eating a couple of noodles from my left-over pasta from the weekend. I was debated just eating that instead of the one I was making, but I figure the one from the restaurant probably had a lot more oil in it and wasn't as healthy as the one I cooked. So I put it in the fridge for a later date. 

I wasn't going to throw it away. I paid for that - oily or not. Besides, everything in moderation, right?