Good Weekend!

So, I've lost 5 of the pounds I gained over Christmas already. That's a good start. Good weekend, good day. I exercised this morning & could tell that it had been a while. I really want to join the gym, I just can't decide if I really should right now or if I should wait a little.

Food for the day...

Activia yogurt, Kashi GoLean & mango

Salad & fat free cottage cheese, serving of animal crackeres

1 serving of the sweet potato chili we made yesterday, w/ fat free sour cream

I REALLY wanted dessert so I had some more yogurt & mangoes.

Not bad for the day. I'm trying to stop eating right after dinner & no late night snacks.

Back to Normal.

So, today was a good day. I cleaned half of the apartment to my liking & will finish the rest tomorrow. When I mean clean, I mean- dust the spices & reorganize the closets... as well as the normal cleaning. I feel like in order to start off 2010 in the right direction, I needed to do this.

I ate well today, but I did notice being terribly hungry at times. 5 o'clock rolled around & I thought to myself "FOOD NOW!". It also helps that I'm reading "Half Assed", a weight loss memoir.

Today I ate...

Strawberry Activia yogurt w/ half a serving of the Kashi GoLean Crunch! cereal
a salad for lunch w/ a slice of less fat cheddar in it & a serving of fat free cottage cheese

For dinner we made the Squashtastic Shepherd's Pie from the Hungry Girl cookbook (LOVE IT!). It consists of Boca meat, a bunch of veggies & a layer of pureed butternut squash on top (although I mix in some pureed sweet potatoes too). Before that we had a giant bowl of salad w/ very green lettuce (the more it looks like actual leaves, the more I like it), tomatoes, peppers, cranberries, raisins, walnuts & clementines. It was good, but even after dinner, I probably could have piled in a lot more food. I just had to tell myself "only one portion, no seconds, remember this is how you lost weight the first time".

Then w/ a cup of coffee I ate one serving of animal crackers (13 crackers to be exact).

Today was good... and I'm just going to take it one day at a time.

Worked Out...

for 45 minutes today at the gym. I shall be joining the one close to home this week. Get ready for a skinnier Maggie bitches!

I have changed.

Days like this I realize how my eating habits have changed. I'm about to go to bed & I've realized that I've only eaten one meal today. This morning I wasn't hungry when we left, so I just had a cup of coffee. Then after the photo shoot I was starving so Justin & I went to Flat Top. I made two bowls of veggie stir fry & some fake chicken. Dinner time rolled around and I wasn't hungry, I was still stuffed. The old Maggie would of ate because "it's breakfast time" or "it's dinner time" even if I wasn't hungry. I'm kinda proud of this. Anyone who is overweight knows what it feels like to never really feel full. You have to learn how to recognize when you're body is fully, especially when you just overeat all the time. Learning to only eat when you're hungry is new to me.

Relapse!

Ugh, I was really sick this weekend which I used as an excuse to eat really crappy food. I didn't exercise either.

I'm finally starting to feel better, but I still ate garbage... then I get really down on myself. I need to go grocery shopping. I need to start exercising. Why don't I just do it?

Thanks Sandi!

fitday.com is awesome... easy to track everything & it's nice to see how much nutritional value I get out of my food.  I don't really eat very much meat, maybe once every 2 weeks or so & mostly in the form of fish, so it was really nice to see that I actually do get a good amount of protein in my diet.  I also noticed how many carbs I eat!  Everything I eat has such a high carb count.  Even though I probably eat more veggies & fruit than the average American, I still feel like I don't eat enough of them!  Here's today's chart, click to make it larger.

For lunch I made a yummy wrap with tofurky slices w/ cheese & jam- gross?  no, tasty.  Then roasted brussel sprouts for dinner w/ a baked potato (w/ a little Agave Nectar on it & cinnamon) and Boca Meat sloppy joes.

Good Day.

1 Banana, 2 WW points
2 Clementines, 1 WW point

1 Low Fat/Calorie frozen lunch- Spinach, 7 WW points

1 mini bag of 100 Calorie popcorn- 3 WW points?

Panera for dinner, you pick two Low Fat black bean soup & Greek Salad- 10 WW points

That brought me to, 23 points & then I finished up with one of those no pudge pumpkin brownies... not bad.