Was 159.6 This Morning!
I believe the darn scale has actually started to like me again. Go figure! TOM came and went and generally made my life a living hell...to the point where I skipped working out Wed of last week and didn't pick it up again until today. I have to say that I missed going to the gym. Felt so good to do my upper body workout today. Tomorrow is cardio day, so not as much fun (to me anyway) but still keeps me working on my walk to job program. I'm up to 4 min walking | 3 min jogging intervals for a total of 39 minutes. Gettin' there!
I've been eating just fine lately, to the point where I'm not even really concerned that I'm going to fall off the deep end in terms of food. I'm even starting to enjoy breakfast....which is something that I had pretty much given up on in highschool. Can't say enough good things about All Bran's Guardian cereal (110 calories per 1 cup serving). It's yummy and unlike some other cereals you actually get to eat a decent serving size. Don't you just hate it when it say 2/3 of a cup or something so tiny that you don't even feel like you HAD breakfast?!?! So anyway, I'll do either that (All Bran Guardian) with some frozen strawberries or I'll have my large flake oatmeal with brown sugar sugar twin. Yummy stuff.
For lunch, I've been on a bit of a soup kick lately (fast and easy to prepare) and since I've always enjoyed Campbell's Healthy Request...I'll just have something from that line...like Tomato Garden Veggie or whatever. Quick and easy. I'll probably follow it with a yogurt. Sometimes I'll just grab a Lean Cuisine and make do with that, but it's more out of laziness than anything else.
Suppers are also pretty simple....some kind of lean meat, a salad or steamed veggies (brussel sprouts are a big fav right now), and either brown rice, baby new potatoes, or whole wheat pasta. Again, if the hubby and kids want something unhealthy I'll grab a Lean Cuisine, but not very often. We're all eating much healthier these days. I've even found a few decent fast food choices that I'm loving for when we just have to eat out. Harvey's makes this really great grilled chicken breast sandwhich and I pair it with a side salad (their salads are really yummy) and use part of the low fat dressing on the sandwhich instead of asking for mayo. Good stuff!
I'm also really trying to up my water intake. I've been limiting my pop to just one a day (sometimes not even that), too, which is good. My pop of choice is diet caffine free pepsi anyway, so not a lot of bad stuff in there to begin with....although I know pop is pop is pop and water is sooooo much better for you. Again, I'm tryin' my little heart out.
On the Personal Trainer Certification front...I haven't really had a whole lot of time to dig into the program. I'll be spending a lot of time in the coming weeks getting ready for September and our homeschool year and such, so I hope to have a plan finalized for just about everything. I work so much better with a plan!
Other tidbits... I'd really like to work towards early (as in 6 am early) workouts at the gym. Don't love how busy it is after work and with homeschooling I can't really get there *during* the day. So....we'll see how that goes. Would like to get the hubby there eventually, too. His dr. mentioned that his good cholesterol was quite low and he needs to be getting at least 30 minutes of exercise in each day. It's hard for him to find the time after work, so maybe I can convert BOTH of us into early morning workout junkies.
Also decided that I'm trying to do too much in terms of working out. Have eliminated the cardio on weight training days as it's really making the whole thing take too long and optimally you should only workout between 45 to 60 minutes anyway. So, back to weights one day and cardio the next. This will cut down on my time at the gym and hopefully have the desired effect. I'll keep you posted.
That's it for now. Fingers crossed that I reach that elusive "150*something" mark mid day at some point this week or next. Will be awesome to be able to permanently say goodbye to the 160's. Getting soooooo very close to the hubby's weight now. Will be so cool to someday weigh less than him. And, if things keep going well I should actually be on track to hit goal by Christmas. How cool would that be!?!? My only concern is that I want to be a "defined" 140, not just 140 and still not toned. Gotta work real hard to gain that definition.
Later my EP Lovelies!