Recharged

I took this weekend to recharge.  I hit a lump in the road.  It happens.  Something happens where I have a rough day and it turns into a rough week and then 2 rough weeks and so on and so forth.  But I am stopping the cycle today and prevent it from being a rough month.  I don't honestly know what the lump was - work stress, money stress, bad eating day, dentist - it just all equates into easy excuses to eat poorly and to not work out.   And well it shows - weight today was 243.8.  My doctor is so not going to be happy with my weight gain between last year and this year.  A part of me wants to ask her for something to help - to give me a boost.  I know I don't want drastic measures but I know there are things that can help until you can start seeing more results.  I'll have to talk to her. 

Today was not the greatest food day, but its better than its been.

Breakfast:
Grits with 1/2 T butter and salt. 
20 ounce coke
Lunch: 1 bowl of raisin bran crunch with 1% milk
Snack: 100 calorie bag of popcorn.  Then a bit later I had  caramel delight girl scout cookies and later I had a lemon pudding with raspberries (homemade pudding)
Dinner: 1/2 of a turkey tenderloin (I get these at sams - they're wrapped in bacon and you can cook them anyway you want.  This was my first time having it.  It wasnt bad at all) 1 cup mashed potatoes (made with butter and evaporated milk) and 2 slices jellied cranberry
Dessert: lemon pudding with raspberries and before bed I had a cup of hot chocolate.

I didn't move today - worked from home mainly.  Tomorrow I am going to start my work walking and weights and I"m also gonna hit the gym.  Gym dates this week are going to be Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday.  Next week I start my pilates class - exciting!!

Anyways, here's to rebooting.   I will take measurements and pictures on friday.

Day 35

Well I'm into my second month and I'm still doing okay.  I'm not as good with the photos as I was when I started out, but I'm still here. 

Today's weigh in:  242.4 - so that's down from last week YAY!

Last night was a good night for The Saints and I was happy.
Today I feel like a lump.  I don't know why, I just feel unaccomplished today.  I went to work this morning, but after class I came home and worked from home to avoid the weather.  I haven't really been out of my room since except to putter around the kitchen.   I just feel blah and like a lump.  It may just be the lack of movement.  It could also be that time of month approaches - I take out my bc this upcoming weekend.
So this leads me to having the munchies.

Food:
Breakfast - Chickfila chicken biscuit and a small coffee with 4 flavored creams (their coffee is strong)
Snack - Small Starbucks white chocolate mocha and a piece of reduced fat very berry coffee cake
Lunch - 2 eggs fried in 1/2 T butter with 2 slices rye bread with earth balance spread (the pic is not rye bread, but its close)
Dinner- 2 pieces eggplant Parmesan and 1 slice fried eggplant.  followed by 4 ounces of hagan daaz chocolate ice cream
Snack - 1 cup tortilla chips and 1/4 cup queso
1 cup of 1% milk with 2 T hershey syrup

(so looking at the pics, not much color - maybe too many carbs with no real fruit or veggies combined with the lack of movement is what's got me feeling like a lump today.)

Movement
NADA - okay, well about 1700 steps before I got home.  I intended to go to the gym.  I even got to the gym and found a parking spot (It was surprisingly crowded at 11) but well I parked, got out and looked in the back and went, oh, damn.  I left my gym bag at home.  So I came home.  I'm not playing bingo this week so I'll go wednesday instead of tonight. 

Day 28

Today was a weigh in day - it was a gain :-( 244.6.  Just 1 pound, so not horrid, and this journey will have ups and downs so its to be expected.  At least I am on the right path.  I have been mainly drinking water, eating at home more often then I used to and journaling every day.

Today I put up the starts of the nutrition board at work.  It looks good so far and I've gotten a lot of compliments.  I do have more things to do though.

Today was not a good food day.  I forgot my breakfast and lunch on the counter so from there it was a downfall day..

Food:
Breakfast - 2 cups plain cheerios
Snack - 4 vanilla almond cranberry nut clusters
Lunch - Spaghetti from Mr. Goodcents along with 4 little butter rolls and a brownie.  I didn't eat very much of the pasta though.
Dinner - most of a backyard burger jr with cheese and 1/2 an order or regular fries from Backyard Burger.  I had some sort of diet sobe drink there and at work I drank tea with 2 sugars - made tea 2 times.
Dessert - chocohotpot with sugar free whipped cream and a hot chocolate.  

Movement
7123 steps today otherwise, not much else.

Day 21

Weigh in day - it's coming, but its slow - but a little bit is a little bit.  = 243.6

I finally created a schedule at work to make sure everything each week gets done and I don't have to stress.  So today was looking at intakes I have open or things that were routed back to me.  Tomorrow I'll focus on questions from my reps. 
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School's increasing - like a stone rolling down a hill - have 2 things due on Friday.  My lab report which is just about complete (I have one very simple experiment to run at home) and a menu modification homework which is basically looking at a menu and determining if its valid for different religions.  Shouldn't be too difficult once I sit down and do it - that's slated for tomorrow night.  I do have to study a good amount this weekend - I have 1 test monday and 1 on tuesday.  I also need to get started on my paper for Food and Culture so I'm ready for February and not panicking.  I have 3 weeks as of February 1st.  I'm not too worried, it won't take me long to actually write the paper, but I need to do some research.  I'm scheduling research for Feb 6 and 7th, scheduling a rough draft of my paper for the next weekend and then the weekend before will be my final review.  It shouldn't be too bad.  But its still that underlying stress.

Started going back to the gym tonight.  Since Wed and Thur are out due to other commitments, I'm going to go on Mon, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday.  I want to get used to working out on Friday nights since my class starting in March will be on Friday evening. 

Food:
Breakfast - 2 slices raisin toast with earth balance spread
Snack - 1 satsuma
Lunch - 1 cup brown rice and light cashew chicken (leftovers from last night) Followed up with 1/3 of a snickers - I was craving chocolate
Snack - had an orange and a yoplait lemon cream pie yogurt
Dinner - 1 Tropical Smoothie Cafe peanut paradise smoothie (peanut butter, banana, whey protein and non fat  yogurt) and a sandwich of 2 slices of stone ground whole wheat bread, blue cheese and earth balance spread.
Dessert - 1/3 of an eclair

Exercise
7628 steps today (finally remembered the pedometer again)
Walked about 7 laps around the building
10 squats
10 shoulder presses per arm
10 bicep curls per arm
30 minutes on the elliptical trainer

Day 14

2 weeks in now - and its getting easier to blog each time - sort of just routine now.

Weighed today - I was a tad concerned as this was not really my best week - I ate out way more than my goals call for and well, it's just not been the best week.   But, good news is I lost 1 pound!  So my new current weight = 244 lbs.

Today was a nice day - no work for the day.  There were some departments that had the option to work today and a part of me was hoping we would have that opportunity but at the same time I didn't really want to work.  Fortunately the decision was made for me as my department was not given the option to work today.  It was a good day off.  Got some things done that needed doing.   Had lunch with a good friend - her son's having some medical issues.  He's a diabetic and he started having seizures last week that are unrelated to the diabetes.  About 4 years ago he was having blackouts - not passing out, but he would just lose his vision - no one ever found out what was happening and they stopped but now we wonder if the seizures are connected to that.  It was good seeing her, I don't see her as often as I used to, but she's a definite keeper.

Food for the day:
Breakfast: 2 sticky buns from yesterday reheated plus 1 cup of milk 1%
Lunch: 1 small margherita pizza and a side salad with raspberry vinaigrette from San Francisco Oven.
Snack: 1 bottle Naked Juice Strawberry Kiwi Kick
Dinner: 2 slices raisin toast with earth balance spread and broiled grapefruit (grapefruit cut in half and sprinkled with 1 T brown sugar and broiled in oven) - I wasn't starving and wanted something light for dinner especially after lunch.  I did have half of a 20 ounce sprite.
Dessert: 1 piece lemon cake from San Francisco Oven

Exercise:
30 minutes on treadmill - incline between 3.0 and 4.5