Finally better!

After being sick for over a week, I am finally getting better! Wohoo! :) I was sooooo sick earlier... I ended up getting a sinus infection (yuk) but I got antibiotics for it so it's all good!

I've been pretty stable on the weight front though... I'll have to weigh myself tomorrow morning and see. I've been doing ooookay this week, not great though. So far today I've been good though, breakfast and lunch = 400 calories, 43 carbs. Not sure what I will be eating for dinner though.

This weekend will not be good either ha... It's my birthday this weekend (horray) so of course I have to eat the cake and ice cream, and my mom is making me dinner (quesadillas... yummm. But so bad for you haha). I'll probably gain some weight from it, but I don't even care! It's my birthday :)

Sick!

So I probably spoke too soon about not catching my roomie's sicknesses ha... I finally got them! =(

and UGHHHH I hate being sick! I woke up Monday with a sore throat and it's just gotten worse. I can barely talk today because I lost my voice, and my ear aches, and my glands are swollen, and it feels like someone is squeezing the sides of my head in =( Last night and today I also began to feel really dizzy out of nowhere.. that's kind of worrying me (I really, really do not want the flu!!) I took the strep throat test and thankfully that was negative... but I still feel soooo crappy. And I'm anal about my studies, I NEVER skip... so even though I'd love to sleep all day, I can't make myself stay home haha. Atleast it's almost the weekend.

I haven't been eating that badly either; yesterday I didn't eat lunch (really busy scheduele, I didn't have time!) but today I had soup and some hot tea, and that made my throat feel a little better. I just want to go to sleep.. all night I wake up because my throat hurts so bad! Sad haha... I hope I get better soon!!

So out of shape!

So I rode my bike today (horray!!) but OH MAN, I am SOOOOO out of shape!! Haha it was horrible... I do have to give myself a little credit; the area around my apartment is SUPER hilly. Some of those hills I rode up were really steep (I did, however, have to walk up one of them... sad....) Oh well. It was still nice to get out of the house and get some exercise.

Today I ate kinda bad (had a pot pie for lunch... oh man, 21 grams of fat) Oh well. But you know, once I started counting carbs and calories (I'm just curious to see how many I'm eating), I realized that I really don't eat that many. It can be anywhere from 850 - 1100, but I really don't ever eat more than that. I weighed myself today (because I am obsessed with my scale..) and it said 157!! But I know that you go up and down and you can only really count it once a week...  boo. :P

Horray

So the scale said 160.5 today!! That was mid-day too, not in the morning :) I'm pretty excited! Hopefully sometime soon I can hit the 150's mark? Hope so! I've been doing pretty well this week; I really need to start exercising though. I have a free weekend, so maybe I will start on Saturday!

Stupid weekends

So obviously I cannot control my eating on the weekends. I don't know why it's so hard, maybe because I have a lot more free time? Ugh! Sadly, this weekend I did rather horrible. It's okay though, hopefully I can be back on track now! I think I'm maintaining and just saying the same, around 162.something. At least I'm not gaining, that's a postive!

This weekend I went to my boyfriend's house for a little while and his mom had found a picture of us from about 4 years ago. I couldn't believe the way I looked! I was really overweight then. It did help to see the picture though, to remind me that I have lost a lot. At first I felt really good about myself after losing weight, but now that I've been around 165 for a long time, I'm starting to feel negative about my body again (before I felt skinny, but now that I'm used to being this size, I feel... well... fat again). I know it doesn't help to have a negative image about yourself though, so I try not to think that too much! My boyfriend has gained some weight since that picture was taken though, I wish I could get him to exercise with me! I guess you have to do it when you want to though; I can want him to all he wants ha, but he has to want it himself. Oh well!

Doing pretty good this week!

So for lunch today I'm eating Progresso's Light Southwestern Style Vegetable soup - it's so good!! Ha I am in love... and zero points, for all you WW people :) I love southwestern style food.. although, when  I smelled the soup it made me want chips and salsa, but I only had a little bit :P The other day I tried Progresso's reduced salt Italian Wedding soup, I wasn't that impressed with it though - it really didn't have any taste at all (hence the 45% less sodium, I suppose). It was kind of pointless because I ended up putting my own salt in it anyways. Oh well!

I've decided that my biggest problem is that I eat when I'm bored. It's not that I'm hungry, but especially at night, I get SOO bored and then I want to eat! Like I just want the feeling of putting food in my mouth, if that makes sense... I do so well during the day, because I'm busy and all, but at night it's tough.

However, so far this week I have been doing pretty well! I've been staying on track almost completely. Last night we used the crockpot (and I even did it, horray!! Big step for me - I can't cook ANYTHING). I don't know what I'd do without my roommate! But we made beef stew and it was really good, and we have lots of leftovers too :) The biggest challenge is of course the weekend, which is right around the corner... hopefully I will continue to stay on track!

Update

Sadly I think the Mexican food I ate on Friday has caught up with me ha... oh well. This morning I was 163.3. So far this week I have been doing pretty well though; it's just the weekends that kill me! But oh well!

I've actually thinking lately that maybe I shouldn't be doing low-carb.. I mean, I'm eating about 60 carbs a day, which isn't Atkins or anything - but my roomie (and best friend) is on WW and she loves it. And I won't lie ha, I'm jealous - she can eat way more than I can. Truthfully, almost everything has carbs... Who knows though!

I wish it still wasn't so crappy out, I want to ride my bike! Or go to the gym atleast, but it's hard to work up the motivation to go when it's so yukky outside and I have to walk there. :( Nice weather, please!

Update

I'm going to start weighing myself right when I wake up every time so it's consistent. So, the 162.2 is right after I woke up this morning. So far this week I have done pretty well on my diet, although this weekend I did HORRIBLE (friend's bday) so I probably made up for anything I did last week. =( But it's okay, I just have to keep myself on track!

I wish it wasn't so cold out though... I want to ride my new bike!! I've been trying not to take the bus to class either (it's a 15 minute walk to class from my apartment, or I can take the bus for free) but in the morning it's pretty hard to make myself get up any earlier than necessary. However, tomorrow morning (sad) I have to work at 7:15, so no bus for me tomorrow! Oh well. I need the exercise!

Funny story - I am pretty much incapable of cooking ANYTHING. Last night I tried to make fried eggs (I can make scrambled, atleast) but I totally failed at it and burnt the pan and because the kitchen got all smokey the alarm went off =( And then I had to wash all my yukky burnt dishes (ha) and I dropped the spatula on the floor and it freakin broke in half!!! I was so not lucky last night! Ha... I can't even make eggs =( Oh well, it's rather comical that I can't cook at all... :P

Back to posting

So wow, it's been forever! I haven't posted in a million years, but I'm going back on my diet and exercise plan, so I figured this will help me too.

I (attempted) to diet all break, and exercise when I could, and I think that I've lost about 5 pounds. I know I was way over 170 when I got home after the semester was over, but I just bought a new scale ($17.99, wohoo for sales!) and I got a bike for Christmas, so I'm going to try and work out a lot more and eat better.

I think I'm going to set my weight goal for now to 150; I think that is doable. I'm not so worried about my weight, because I'm pretty happy with where I am now actually (as long as I stay there); however, I am so NOT happy with the state of my body ha. I really really really need to tone up, my stomach the most. But hopefully I wil get in shape soon!

The roomie and I are going shopping tomorrow, so that will be good. I'm not going to buy any tempting food! It will help that she's doing Weight Watcherst too, because before she bought food that wasn't great for my diet but I'd just eat it anyways (but not anymore!) I'm not excited to see how much I will spend though!

Anyways, I hope everyone iis doing great on their diets/exercise plans/lifestyle changes/etc!!

Crap

Crap, I've gained 5 pounds since last time I posted granted, I have been eating like crap... Friday my boyfriend and I celebrated our 4 year anniversary so we went to Olive Garden and I loaded on the carbs ha... Saturday I went to a concert and ate crappy all day too; and today I went to Friendly's and ate like crap again. But I swear, tomorrow (well starting right now actually!) it's back to my diet! I just got back from the gym too, wohoo. Hopefully it will counteract some of my burger and fries and ice cream I had today for lunch ha.  I did 10 minutes on the treadmill and 10 on the elliptical; on the elliptical I worked my ass off so atleast I did that today. Now it's time to study for my big test I have on Thursday, I'll update soon!