Starting Over

I have started a couple of blogs since this one and now I have deleted them all and will just stick to this one as it captures what I am trying to do with my diet.  I am a weight watcher who is trying to eat clean points.  I am still having a lot of issues with this but today I need to put on my big girl panties and get it right.  I need to stop feeling sorry for myself, expecting quick results and being a miserable bi*ch.  That about sums it up.

So today I had some cereal with half a banana and milk.  I am cooking 8 turkey burgers that I love and havent had them for a very long time.  I need to start becoming more creative with my meals.  I need to really stop complaining about my house being so messy and do something about it.  I want to work on this from now and then when we go away in may leave a very clean and fresh house.  I know that living in clutter makes me feel overwhelmed but just like my diet I have to work on it as things don't happen on their own.

I have a grocery list made and will go out today to get them.  I will make sure to do a run today even if I walk some it.  I need to make myself be active everyday.  I will try not to eat after supper unless I am actually hungry.  That would be an awesome habit to break.  do housework after supper instead of just sitting around watching TV.  I have a PVR so I can tape my shows.  i do not need to spend each evening watching TV.  I need to use that time to focus on my family too.  We will maybe start going for little walks or doing things outside now that the weather is nicer.

Here are my goals from now until the monday after the long weekend in may

1.  daily exercise

2.  start weight training with my book

3.  track daily food in ww food tracker

4.  weekly WI's

5.  1 pop/day...no more then that

6.  no eating after supper...unless working nights

7.  clean house and keep clean and organized

8.  spend more time doing family activities

9. eat clean

10.  enjoy life

Have a great monday

A Fresh Start

Sometimes we just need to start fresh to try an accomplish a goal that we have set. My goal is to get back to my happy weight. This may sound silly but I went back to WW today to face the music since I did not want to have another 10 lbs to take off in addition to the 35 (gulp) that I have put on over the past year. That is such a horrible number and so unhealthy to have gained that much in the past year. it was a perfect time to go back since they have changed the program a bit so I got some new info, a new tracker, a new point calculator. I am going to do this.

This morning I was planning on getting up early but that didnt happen so I ended up going for my run after dropping the little man off at school. I did 4K this morning. I changed the route a bit and my run felt pretty awesome. I need to get out there and run at least 5x/week. I need to get back to the point that I was at with my running. Still not sure about doing the races in march. I will train away and make that decision around the 3rd week of Feb.

I am running out of soup that I have in the freezer for my lunches so after c-mas I will have to go through my recipe books and make a whole bunch of different ones on my days off :) I love soup I think that I could always eat soup for my lunches. I will make chili too since it can come in handy for a supper too, just add a sweet potato with it.

Well I have a meeting in a few minutes so that is all for now. I hope to have a good result at my WI next week. I probably will go thurs or fri of next week :)

December Goals

Here are my goals for December

1. Do not gain wait over c-mas holiday

2. make a training schedule for big races in march

3. track food daily and go to WW weekly (starting next week since i didn't go this week)

4. clean house

5. c-mas cards and decorating done by next weekend

6. keep kitchen/dinning room more organized

7. c-mas shopping done and gifts sent for people down east by the 13th

8. mail dad's b'day card on monday

9. get more sleep

10. only have 1 thing to eat in the evenings and no later then 8pm (unless working nights)

I want to go into the new year feeling healthy and well on my way back to my feel good weight.

A new month

Wow, I can't believe it is december 1st. While I was at work last night I realized that it is only 24 days until c-mas and i have so much I need to do on my days off which aren't to many this coming week. I will be so happy when my next full set of work is done since I won't have any more then 2 days off with today being a sleep day until next thursday. It was all worth it though to have made those switches so I just have to suck it up and plug through the next week.

I had told myself that starting on the 28th I was going to kick the healthy lifestyle back into high gear which I have done. I know that it is a few days but I have been doing well with the eating even though I worked 3 nights (usually get the munchies on nights). I am kind of glad about all the working I am doing in the 2 week period as it does help with eating healthy. I have been doing good with exercise too. On mon I did the at home mini bootcamp, tues ran 5K, wed ran 4K with 1 hill, today I ran 5K and tomorrow I will do another at home bootcamp. I have no more bootcamp sessions and not sure if I will sign up again as I have 2 races in march and need to really focus on the training for that. I really don't think that I will sign up. I know the exercises and have tons of e-mails with all the examples of mini bootcamps. I do need to sit down and do a schedule for training for these 2 races coming up.

For supper tonight I am going to have chili on a sweet potato. I will probably wait until 7 for that as I had some visalus after I picked up the boys.

Well I must get started on some laundry. I have to do some cleaning tomorrow so I need to really limit my blog reading time :)

A new year

So I had a great time in vegas, celebrated my 37th b'day yesterday and now it is time to get serious about getting back into shape. I will not wait until the new year to do it. This is my new year. Back to tracking what I eat and exercising regularly. I had all intentions of going to bootcamp this morning but as I was going to tim hortons before taking the kids to school I had a feeling that I had a flat tire...I was right. I had to park the car and head back to the house to get the truck then take the kids to school. by the time that was all done I would have been quite late for bootcamp. I hope to get a mini bootcamp done here at the house. I should make a plan to do it at 12:30. I will add to this post if I actually do it.

Here is to a great year and getting healthy again!!!

almost time for Vegas

3 more sleeps and it will be time for Vegas. I am so excited about going. I am going to try and use this trip to get my focus back as it will be some me time.

I am going to have to be very organized when I come back from this trip and use my days off wisely as I am going to be working lots and will have to get ready for c-mas. I can see some to do lists in my future.

I went for a run this morning. My first run in 5 days (I did have 2 hour long bootcamps in those 5 days so I wasn't totally like a slug). It went very well. Mentally I felt great and my legs felt awesome. I am going to run in vegas. I probably will run 2 days and if possible hit up the gym one day and maybe even the day we leave if it is open early. I already told the queen that I would be doing this while we were away so I wouldn't feel as guilty about indulging ;)

Another thing that is going to get back on track 100% (or at least try) is following the WW program with the clean approach. I need to do this for me.

Well I must finish my coffee and go get my money changed for monday. Did I mention how excited I am about going to Vegas :) I LOVE VEGAS

Beautiful Saturday

What is left of it after sleeping until 1pm. I worked last night so I slept the morning away and finally got out of bed at 1. I could see that it was warm out based on the thermometer outside our kitchen window and from asking my husband. I set out to run in a tank top and capris. I can't believe that I am still able to run in those clothes on Nov 12th!!!! That is so awesome. I really, really hope that it means that we are going to have a mild winter. I was planning on doing just 3K as I am going to run hopefully 10K tomorrow but I ended up running 4K. I did have a small break at the top of a hill but stopped my garmin so I had 4K of actual running. I guess my head must have been in the right place.

Last night I really had the munchies but did ok. I was going to get a muffin but i didn't see any that would be a 10 in my mouth so I had a lara bar and a small choc milk. Both tasted so good. I did end up getting a banana nut muffin from Tims on my way home this morning. I can just feel that I had something that wasn't really a healthy choice. Tonight will be all about making healthy choices if I feel snacky. I don't think that I will though.

I could have worked an OT shift tonight but after this set I really did not feel like working.

I am going to have a chicken pizza on Naan bread. That is always a good post 2nd night supper :) I had my visalus shake after my run. Still loving the stuff and it does make me feel better.

I need to get the dishes done that accumulated after working nights. Just going to chill tonight with the kids.