January 20, 2011

Today was ok. I had solid breakfast and snacks, but we went to the Jolly Pumpkin for lunch. Restaurant food at its best is still probably not great. I was, however, conscious of my choices. Instead of the burger or the pastrami reuben, I chose the soup, salad, and mushroom frittata. It's Restaurant Week in Ann Arbor. Tough to say no to all of the great food offerings for relatively affordable prices (for A2). Tomorrow will be much worse. I have lunch and dinner plans. I guess the key will be to stay in line during the rest of the day.

On a positive note, I successfully increased my water intake today. It helped to set a goal yesterday for this specifically.

Another good day

Had another positive day of eating.

I found a nice droid app the other day (MyFitnessPal). It's basically a food and activity tracker. I'm sure there are others that work well or may have the same features, but I like that this one allows for scanning barcodes to add the items - huge time and frustration saver for me. Plus, maybe it's more accurate. Looks like I've been staying around 1400 - 1500 calories this week.

I've really cut back on going out to lunch. I really think this is key for me. There are just SO many great restaurants (and friends) in Ann Arbor - hard to say no. However, I have been diligent about packing my lunch and snacks lately. My strategy is to eat salads exclusively if I do go out (like tomorrow). It's not the best, but it's way better than what I was doing before. I'm just still trying to get into the right mindset for tackling this whole thing again.

I bought myself a Keurig single serve coffee maker a couple of months ago. I think it might have initially had a poor effect on my weight, but it's balanced out now. I quickly make myself coffee in the morning and then I don't stop for coffee on the way to work. The BEST benefit is that now I don't grab food along WITH my coffee on my way to work. I went back to eating South Beach breakfast bars. I ate those exclusively for the whole time that my weight was low. I find them tasty and satisfying.

Goal for tomorrow is to increase my water intake.

Good day

Another good day of eating. Very few cravings, if any. I even went grocery shopping without wanting to buy junk.

Just read a study stating that 2 cups of green tea per day led to an additional 3 lbs of weight loss over 12 weeks (and 1 inch). I'm going to make an extra effort to try this out.

Still going

I've been sticking to my plan of eating better, and I feel very positive at this point. Nothing earth shattering, but I've managed to avoid terrible cravings. Moderation. And I lost about 5 lbs last week. I'm pleased with my plan and progress so far.

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Goals

Eat better. Be more active. Survive. Graduate. Reclaim my life.

Derailed

Argghhhh...

Completely lost it this year. Stress of school and work? maybe. I think I just lost focus - not enough hours in the week to master everything. Everything else is going well though.

Regardless, I'm trying to get back on track right now. Hope to be back to normal by year-end.

I got plans

First an update:

I completed my first half-marathon in October. It was a great experience, even though I hadn't trained as well as I'd have liked. I finished in 2:48. Honestly, my goal was to finish, so I'm pleased that I finished in less than 3 hours. I didn't stop running until after mile 10, but then I started feeling a lot of muscle exhaustion. I jog-walked the next 2 miles, but I was able to finish the last mile running. The best part of the event was the camaraderie. Everyone was so supportive - the other participants and those on the sidelines. I absolutely want to do it again next year...but I'll need to tweak my training plan a little to avoid injury :)

Now the plan:

I haven't done much of anything fitness-related since the half, but I think I've had enough time off. I was recently reminiscing back to the days of when I was doing bootcamp. My body went through an amazing transformation, even though I didn't lose much weight. This is what I want back. I don't care about how much I weigh (within reason), but I want to get back to that shape. I think my husband and I are going to do the P90X program. Everything I've seen reminds me of those bootcamp workouts, and I think it's exactly what I need.

I'd like to see some decent progress before 2010. I'd really like to start the new year out right.