counting points

18 more days til cams and 25 til the new year.  I will be counting points until the new year.  I am not starting the new year at this weight.  What I will do to help with the weight loss are:
1.  start running again (did a 4K walk/run this morning….hard but a good hard)
2.  see Jill 2x/week and maybe a home workout or gym workout
3.  menu plan and meal prep
4.  keep my house organized

Today I will prep my menu and buy groceries and cook a few dishes so they will be easy to take to work etc.  I have so many things going on next year that I do NOT want to struggle with what to wear and I want to feel my best when I go to them.

Here is to an on track rest of December!!

7 days of clean eating

I am going to do my best to eat as clean as possible forever but will take it 1 week (actually 1 day) at a time.  I am going to use recipes and  ideas from my simply for life program but also from the knowledge that I have gained over the last few years.

Today I had a PT session with Jill and my goodness I am so out of shape it is crazy.  I was hoping to be able to do the around the bay 30K but based on how I felt today I really can't see that happen.  I will do my best to improve my endurance again for running and hope I have it back by the spring.  So in the mean time I will be strength training, and running at the gym when the weather sucks and then running outside (when I run at the gym I will do some interval training which means I need to look up some interval programs to follow).

So this week I have a pretty good idea of what I will take to work to eat and that is all i can eat.  I need to stop the snacking just for something to do.  That is a huge reason why I gained a lot of this weight back.   we have 5 weeks til cams and then 6 weeks til the new year.  I would love to have 20 lbs off by Dec 31st so we will see if I can do it.

My first big challenge will be mon-wed of next week when I am in the states with the girls for shopping.  i am going to make sure I have tons of water on me and then make sure that I have healthy snacks too.  When we go out to eat I will make sure that I make the healthiest choices that I can.

My eats for today:

Breakfast:  3 egg white omelette with 1/4 c black beans, red onion 1 TBSP of salsa
                  orange

Lunch:  Chunky chicken veggie soup
             1/2 WW ezekiel tortilla

Snack:  kashi bar

Supper:  Chili Chicken
               1/2 sweet potato

Snack:  apple
             1 TBSP natural PB

I used to eat like this all the time and it made me feel so amazing.  I so want to get that healthy lifestyle back!!!!  I am turning 40 in 9 days so I need to keep my eating healthy for 99% of the time because if I don't then the weight will keep piling on and it will be so much harder to get it off!!!!

Here is to a healthy journey.

Simply for Life

So I signed up for 2 months of simply for life.  It was at a good price and I really need to do something to jump start my weight loss.  I know that I can do this I just need to keep my motivation up.  After going on our trip I must say that it helped with my motivation.  I want to be able to wear whatever I want and  not struggle with having to find the right sizes.  That is what I loved when I had lost the weight before.  I had no problem finding clothes which is such a struggle when  you are over weight.  I want to feel better physically and mentally.  Tonight when Kevin gets back from hockey I will do my best to get out for a 3Km run.  I really need to start running regularly again.  I ran 2x when we were away and it felt great (a different experience running on the track on the boat).

I have my menu planned for the week and am using today to prep most of the food.  I am making 2/3 of the meals today (may even do the 3rd one too).

well speaking of planning meals I should start working on the 2nd one.

Have a great week.  I will probably weigh myself in the morning (even though it is super early) so that I can do an official WI for progress next monday.

90 day challenge

I am not starting this challenge now but going to do my best when we get back from the cruise.  I am going to do my best to eat as healthy as possible while we are away.  i think that there are salad bars on the boat so that will be a big help.  I do know what to do it is just a matter of doing it.  We have 11 days until we leave and I am going to follow the simply for life program as best I can for those 11 days.  I need to get serious and find some discipline within myself to regroup and be as healthy as possible.  Why am I putting crap into my body when I know that it makes me feel so horrible.

I just got done making a running plan to help me be as ready as possible for around the bay in March.  I have 23 weeks to train.  The training will include healthy eating, weight training and of course running.  if I could just get a few weeks in of running 4-5 x/week I will feel so much better about the running.

getting this house organized and clean is something else I want to achieve before we leave on our trip.  Coming home to a nice clean house will be so nice.

Well I am going to do some more computer stuff and then have some lunch.

Happy Monday!!!

Day 3

Wow I am on day 3 of eating ok.  I am actually quite proud of how I have done.  I made an awesome soup yesterday (well the little sips I took to see what it tasted like…my first actually serving will be for lunch).  I really do love making soups/chilli.  It takes a lot of prep work but the end result is usually so worth it.

Yesterday when I went for my walk I did a little bit of running which felt great.  I am going to just walk today (going for my 6K in about 45 min…breakfast needs to digest first).  I work days the next 3 days and i am going to try to get up and go for a 3K run each of those days.  I signed up for a race at the end of march of next year and I really want to train for it as my endurance has dwindled huge, but my love for running has not.

I can't believe that in 4 weeks we will be leaving on our cruise.  I am so needing a break from things around here.  I think a family vacation will be great and something that we all need.  My goal is to have this house in pretty good order before we leave.  I have 6 days off after this set at work and I really need to buckle down and take full advantage of those days off and get things done around the house (organizing, cleaning the fridge etc.).

Today I need to get laundry done and make sure I have my meals ready for my 3 days (as not being prepared last week threw me off my plan for a couple of days).  I need to take my eating seriously so that my training for this race will go better.  Good fuel in my body helps me in so many ways.

Well as many people are thankful it is friday as they have the weekend off, it means that I am going to work tomorrow.  Oh well, the life of a shift worker :)

half on half off

I need to stop this.  I need to get myself completely back on the wagon and sit right in the middle and not fall off again.  what better time to do this but Oct 1st.  I had a few really good days and a few really bad days and of course I felt awful when I had my bad days.  What set me off on my bad days was when I worked a day instead of a night and did not have any of my meals planned.  it makes such a huge difference in how I do if I don't have meals planned.

I really miss running so I am going to get back into it.  My plan is to start tomorrow.  I will be doing my 6K walk route and build myself from walking it to running it.  I will use my garmin to keep track of how much I actually run.

Here is to a great october.

Climbing back on the wagon

I am wasting so much time talking about doing it but I keep sabotaging myself.  I felt awful last night and when I got up this morning and almost had a complete breakdown so enough is enough.  I am going to take my butt to WW tomorrow and get back to the basics.  I know how to count points, I know how to eat clean, I know how to exercise and my plan is to put it all together and rock the weight loss.  I have about 50 lbs to get off and I know it will take time.  I will take it one week at a time (actually one day at a time).  I will set both small and big goals for myself and my first goal will be to have 10 lbs off by the time we go on our cruise (I may have more then that because of the water weight).  I have 5 weeks till the cruise.  My next big goal will be to have an additional 10 lbs off by my 40th birthday!!!!

I know I need to plan my meals and stick to what I have planned.  That is what worked last time that I lost a large amount of weight.  I know that I have done some planning but I don't think those meals I have planned work for me so I will choose things that I really like and what I used to eat.

I will start up running again (walk/run at first until I get some of this weight off) and going to the gym/Jills/or in my basement 3x/week for strength training.  I can do this.

I will start organizing and keeping my house clean.  My poor family is living in a pig pen and when my house feels like that, I feel like that.

So on that note I will sign off and start doing some laundry and wash my kitchen floors.

Wish me luck on this journey.  I will probably just do a couple of entries/week. Which will include my menu plan, my exercise for the week and my results with the weigh in's.