March 8, 2010 - Day 64

I'm home!!! I tried to do well at the conference, and for the most part I think I succeeded. I didn't starve myself and didn't feel guilty when I ate some dessert or muffins. But I also didn't gorge myself. I'm going to the university rec center tomorrow which is where I weigh myself, so we'll see how I did. I'm not expecting to have lost weight this past week; just don't want to have put too much back on. :D

For breakfast

1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories; 1 point)

3/4 multi-grain english muffin w/margarine (100 calories; 2 points)

1 trail mix bar (140 calories; 2 points)

1 banana (90 calories; 1 point)

For lunch

Water

1 turkey wrap w/cheddar cheese, mixed greens, fat-free mayo, and alfalfa sprouts (205 calories; 3.5 points)

For dinner

Water

1 fish fillet w/remulade sauce (150 calories; 3.75 points)

3/4 cup fried rice w/shrimp (120 calories; 2.5 points)

Snacks

Soy chocolate milk (140 calories; 2.75 points)

Mocha w/skim milk (175 calories; 3 points)

Total Calories: 1185

Total WW Points: 21.5

Exercise

Zumba!

150 ab crunches

March 3, 2010 - Day 59

Wow, for some reason I was really hungry today. Nothing seemed to satisfy me, and I just kept wanting to eat. Hmph. :/

For breakfast

1 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (70 calories; 2 points)

3/4 multi-grain english muffin (110 calories; 2 points)

1 Kashi trail mix bar (140 calories; 2 points)

For lunch

Water

Leftover penne w/peppers and sausage (250 calories; 5 points)
* I have to say that I love this meal more every time I eat it. So yummy!

For dinner

Water

Pasta w/marinara sauce, meatballs, peppers, and zucchini (500 calories; 9 points)
* This is a guess. I think it might be a little bit of an overestimate, but I'd rather go over in my estimates

Cabbage + 2 tsps of ceasar dressing (50 calories; 1 point)

Snacks

Diet hot chocolate (25 calories; 0 points)

1 bowl of cheerios in skim milk (140 calories; 3 points)

1 piece of dark chocolate (57 calories; 1 point)

So for today it's roughly:

Total Calories: 1342 - Wow, I sure ate a lot today. Like I said above, I was just so hungry today, and I'm not sure why.

Total WW Points: 25

Total flex points left for week: 31 of 35

Days left in flex points week (after today) : 5

Exercise

150 ab crunches

No Zumba today. :( I think this week is going to be bad (i.e. a few pounds will be added on to my weight instead of being subtracted). I'm off to a conference tomorrow until Sunday. And I'm pretty sure it's going to be difficult to eat low calories/low fat food. Oh well. At least there's a fitness room at the resort I'm going to, so that's something at least. :)

March 1, 2010 - Day 57

Overall today was such a satisfying food and exercise day. I felt like I got a really nice workout in at Zumba (I think knowing the routines helps me a lot), and the food I ate today was do delicious. I like days like this.

For breakfast

3/4 of a multi-grain english muffin w/smart balance (110 calories; 2 points)

1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories; 1 point)

For lunch

1 peanut butter and jelly on multi-grain bread (215 calories; 4 points)

Water

For dinner

Penne w/turkey sausage and peppers (275 calories; 6 points)
* This was so unbelievably good! Cam stuffed himself, declaring that he wouldn't be able to eat again until next Monday. Riley gobbled hers right up. And I am still feeling satisfied and happy after eating this meal. What a great recipe. Thanks, Parents magazine!

Water

Snacks

Garden Vegetable Wheat Thins (120 calories; 2 points)

1 Kashi trail mix bar (140 calories; 2 points)
* Both the Wheat Thins (which apparently is a new variety) and the trail mix are sooooo tasty!

1/2 cup coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories; 1 point)

1 chocolate donut hole (52 calories; 1 point)

So for today it's roughly:

Total Calories: 982

Total WW Points: 19

Total flex points left at the end of the week: 22.5 of 35

Exercise

Zumba!

200 ab crunches
* I'm trying out some new ab exercises. In addition to the ab lounger, which I'm still using, I'm trying to work on my side abs as well as my lower abs by doing some ab exercises I found in Shape magazine. Hard, hard, hard. :)

February 26, 2010 - Day 54

So, I was originally going to share with you the news that I ate egg yolks today for the first time in forever. Which is really exciting, because I've missed eggs! Stupid egg intolerance due to my over-indulgence while pregnant and nursing Riley. Seriously, I ate eggs every day for abut 5 months. Now while I didn't eat the egg whites (which is where I suspect I have most of my stomach problems), I was super excited that the egg yolks seemed to agree with me.

But, the bigger news is that today I went shopping and, get this, bought a pair of 6 jeans! Yep, you read it correctly! Size 6 jeans!!!!! Granted, I'm sporting a little bit of a muffin top, but they look awesome on me. I also bought a pair of size 8 jeans that went on super comfortably and also look fabulous. Rounding out the purchase with 2 new tops, and I feel awesome! What a way to keep me motivated to do more!

For breakfast

3/4 of a multi-grain english muffin w/margarine (120 calories; 2 points)

1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories; 1 point)

For lunch

1 peanut butter and jelly on multi-grain bread (215 calories; 4 points)

Water

For dinner

1 ground turkey enchilada (345 calories; 7 points)

Water

Snacks

2 scrambled egg yolks (108 calories; 3 points)

1 piece of dark chocolate (50 calories; 1 point)

1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories; 1 point)

1 oatmeal/dark chocolate cookie (100 calories; 2 points)

So for today it's roughly:

Total Calories: 908

Total WW Points: 21

Total flex points left for week: 26.5 of 35

Days left in flex points week (after today) : 3

Exercise

Zumba!

100 ab crunches

February 24, 2010 - Day 52

So I had every intention of making spinach lasagna today but got side-tracked by going to a movie with Cam in the middle of the day. And depending on how you look at it, this was either a good or a bad thing. Diet-wise: bad; Everything-else-wise: good! The movie theater we went to serves food (pizzas/salads/burgers/etc) directly to you at your seat. Totally amazing. We've done this before at a different theater in town, but this place just opened last fall and is mere minutes away from the university. So, we had to go. Plus it was our Valentine's day gift to each other, since we didn't do anything on the actual day.

So, I ate some food at the movie theater and enjoyed myself immensely! Then I went to the gym and did about 30 minutes on an elliptical machine and some crunches. This wouldn't have been so tiring if I hadn't already done an hour Zumba class before going to the movies. :)

Oh, on a positive note, I weighed myself at the gym. I'm now at 134.7 lbs. Do you know what that means? Less than 10 pounds to go!! Woot!

For breakfast

1 multi-grain english muffin w/peanut butter (200 calories; 3 points)

1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories; 1 point)

For lunch

1/4 of chicken ceasar salad (265 calories; 7 points)

1 slice of "Cleopatra" pizza (300 calories; 7 points)
* It was a thin-crust pizza with ceasar salad dressing, red onions, and chicken on it. I actually have no idea how many calories this slice is, so I looked around at other thin crusts pizzas and tried to make a best guess. Who knows how off I am.

Water

For dinner

1 bowl of cheerios in skim milk (140 calories; 3 points)
* My "lunch" (which really was around 2:30pm) was so filling that I couldn't have eaten a big meal if I tried.

Snacks

1 Kashi trail mix bar (140 calories; 2 points)

French Vanilla hot chocolate (80 calories; 1.5 points)

So for today it's roughly:

Total Calories: 1160

Total WW Points: 24.5

Total flex points left for week: 28.5 of 35

Days left in flex points week (after today) : 5

Exercise

Zumba!

100 ab crunches

A little over 30 minutes on an elliptical machine

February 21, 2010 - Day 49

Flex points were created for days like today. Yum, yum, yum, it was pasty day! I love those days!

For breakfast

1 whole wheat english muffin w/margarine (160 calories; 3 points)

1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories; 1 point)

For lunch

1 meat and potato pasty (500 calories; 12 points)
* The inside of a pasty (turnip, onion, lean ground beef, potato, parsnip, carrot) is actually really healthy. It was the puff pastry the inside was cooked in where the majority of calories and points came from. :)

Water

For dinner

Stir fry w/carne asada (250 calories; 5 points)

Water

Snacks

1 clementine (40 calories; 0 points)

1 high fiber blueberry muffin (160 calories; 3 points)

1 cup of tea (0 calories; 0 points)

So for today it's roughly:

Total Calories: 1145

Total WW Points: 24 - Remarkably I'm only over my daily target by 5 points!

Total flex points left for week: 30 of 35

Days left in flex points week (after today) : 1

Exercise
Nothing. On pasty day, can you really expect anything more?

January 29, 2010 - Day 26

Whoah! Today was an intense exercise day. Not only did I do my normal routine, I also tried out a Zumba class at the local Y. Man did that kick my butt! It wasn't just that I didn't know the steps (although I was able to pick them up pretty quickly); it was that we never stopped moving. Well, we did, but that was just for the song to change. So we had a 15 second break or so about every 3 minutes. And for those 3 minutes, we were going - it was definitely high impact for sure!

For breakfast

1 english muffin with peanut butter (220 calories; 5 points)

1 clementine (40 calories; 0 points)

1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories; 1 point)

For lunch

1 grilled cheese sandwich on multi-grain bread (240 calories; 5 points)

Water

For dinner

1 serving of sauteed shrimp (190 calories; 3 points)

1 serving of brown rice and quinoa w/sauteed peppers and onions (120 calories; 3 points)

Water

This whole dinner was super yummy! Not bad for not knowing what to do with the shrimp I took out early this morning. :)

Snacks

1 serving of WW ice cream (140 calories; 2 points)

1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories; 1 point)

Total Calories (roughly): 1010

Total WW Points: 20

Flex points left: 33

Days left in "flex points" week: 4

Exercise

About 30 minutes on an elliptical machine

100 crunches

1 hour Zumba class

More housework - I was listening to my iPod while doing this, and I *know* there was dancing around in there. :D

January 20, 2010 - Day 17

Yay! I did some exercise today. Good thing too, since I had a most delicious, but fattening, dinner. :)

For breakfast

Before working out:

1 serving of high-fiber, maple and brown sugar oatmeal (160 calories; 3 points)

1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories; 1 point)

After working out:

1 english muffin with peanut butter (220 calories; 5 points)

1 cup of cantaloupe (90 calories; 1 point)

Water

For lunch

A bowl of cheerios with skim milk (140 calories; 2 points)

Water

For dinner

1 slice of homemade white pizza with sausage and red pepper (??? points, ??? points)
* This was bad, but oh so good.

Water

Snacks

1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories; 1 point)

Total Calories (roughly): 685 + x

Total WW Points: Really 12 + y, but since I only had one slice, I am going to count this as 24 total points. I know 12 points for a slice of pizza is a lot, but I did have sausage on it, plus it was a thicker crust, and I made white sauce. (IT was pretty yummy, thanks for asking!) I just figured that if 2 slices of the Papa Murphy's light pizza was 10 points, then 1 slice of mine would be about the same, maybe a little more. This also puts me at the max points that I want to eat a day.

Flex points left: 30

Exercise

A little over 30 minutes on an elliptical machine
* Man, was this hard. I did the weight training program today on the machine, so it went from level 1 to level 8 every 4 minutes. Sucky!

100 ab crunches