Diminishing Days of Freedom

Today's Food Option

• Slimfast shake and 1 medium banana
• 1/2 spring mix and 3 oz of london broil
• 5 wheat crackers and hummus
• 1/2 serving of pineapple shake

Today's Workout

• 30 minutes step machine
• 30 minutes in 15 level incline of treadmill (interval walk and run)

What my office looks like during nursing school --

Ah.. I can almost smell it...

School.

The days are counting and I'm sure in no time the Fall semester will be in full swing. The days of being lazy and not thinking about work is over.

I've been doing real well with diet and exercise. I went to the gym this morning and did an hour of cardio and keeping track of my food.

I should be reading my textbook but not today.

End of the Week

Today's Food Option

• 1 cup grilled corn
• 1 cup coleslaw
• 3 pcs of grilled chicken
• Diet coke
• 1 cup of spring mix
• 3 oz of steak

Progress Review - Yesterday's food choices was ok. I made sure that my portions have more veggie than carb ratio, which left me still a little hungry afterwards. My plan is to drink tea after dinner to calm my belly maybe with that I can curb myself from eating more only because I'm not use to the new portion

Today's Exercise

• 30 min Abs circuit
• 20 min cardio

Dang! Another one?!

Today's Food Option

• Banana
• 2 cups of Rainier cherries
• 1 serving of TJ's gorgonzola crackers
• 1/2 serving Trader Joes Bacon Spinach Salad  - this time I'm sticking with it and eat it damnit!
• 1cup of Spring Mix
• 3 oz Tilapia fillet

Progress Review - Yesterday was a B- in nutrition. I drank some frappe and those are just loaded with empty calories, which I had to balance out with exercise for the day. I almost.. almost ate a piece of red velvet cake, but as soon as I cut the slice, I grew some cajones and gave the slice to my hubby instead. He ate the whole thing and didn't offer a bite to me. Which is a blessing!

Today's Exercise

• 1 hour Zumba or stepper machine (30 min) and elliptical (30 min)

Progress Review - Changing it up a bit. I'm heading to the gym today

Daily Musings

Weighed in this AM and lost another lbs.. holy kaboodles! that's 2 lbs loss this week!!!!! I'm not going to get all crazy with it because its probably just water-weight. I will celebrate once I am out of the woods, so to speak. I'm still within the weight range of doom (plateau) but once I surpassed that, the party WILL start and I can truly accept that scale victory.

Till then lovelies! I hope y'all having a fantastic day <3

Lots of Love and Appreciation to All of YOU! -- Thank you

Okay here I was thinking of myself -- where the heck is everybody?!

 I thought..man.. I miss hearing from everyone and I have not heard from any of my blogging buddies for a while and was wondering what's everyone been up to.

This is what I was thinking about until I decided to -- DUH.. to check my comments tab and realized there were numerous comments waiting to be moderated..

OH my Kadoodles.

So I wanted to apologize to everyone. I wasn't ignoring y'all!

 I just didn't know my blog setting was set were all my comments were just file away in the blackhole of the blogging-world.

I love you ladies! I'm going to go through all the messages and answer any questions that was left unanswered.. Oh my goodness..


I am SUCH a freaking DORK!

Calorie Differential

Today's Food Option

• Trader Joe's Bacon Spinach Salad Iced caramel frappe - 300 calories
• Rainer cheeries (10 pcs) Roasted Gorgonzola crackers - 140 calories
• HM iced-tea (green-jasmine-black tea combo) sweetened
• 1 egg and 1/2 cup egg white egg sausage burrito - 300
• 1 cup spring mix
• 3 oz NY steak

Progress Review - Gave in to the call of caffeine. Spark indicates 1342 calories total including dinner for today. I'm gonna try to save today by making up thru calorie differential

Exercise for Today

• 30 ABS circuit routine
• 30 minute spin bike

Progress Review - Total calories burned today 588 calories. Which puts me to -1096 calorie differential between eaten and burned. I'm going to the simple concept of total calories in and total calories out.  If my calculations are correct, if I maintain a caloric differential of 1000 calories 7 days a week, I may.. and I say.. MAY lose 2 lbs per week. We'll see!

Late Post Tuesday

Today's Food Option

 

• Trader Joe's spicy thai pasta salad
• 1 cup of sliced mangos
• 1 cup of green beans
• 1/4 cup of mac & cheese
• 2 beef ribs
• a sliver of home-made red velvet cake and cream cheese frosting

Progress Review - Today is my baby-girl's birthday. She's 3.. how time flies. So we made it special by cooking some BBQ ribs and she was a happy doggy. Unfortunately not too great for my diet.. which I officially went off-plan today. On a positive note, my ratio of good food to bad food, favors the good.

 

 

 

Today's Fitness

•  other than sweating and cooking and cleaning the house.. nada

Progress Review - I'm not too worried about not working out today. I plan to get back on track tomorrow and my sparkpage indicates I have about 181 calories to reach my fitness goal hours for the week. Weighed in the scale and discovered I lost 1 lbs.. bam!



Exercise Schizophrenia

Food Options for today

• 3 fried eggs
• 1 cup of roasted yams (butter and brown sugar)
• 2 hamburger patties
• broccoli salad (broccoli, tomato, mayo, balsamic vinegar, fig campote, shredded chicken)
• home-made sweet iced tea
• 1 cup of vanilla ice cream

Progress Review  - I honestly could have done better w/o the ice cream and the roasted yam probably better off just roasted w/o butter and brown sugar.  These are all the items I've eaten all day.

Exercise for Today

• 50 minute spin bike (interval circuit)

Progress Review - I am an exercise schizophrenia. I switch off and on different exercise in the span of one hour. I get bored easily. To maintain consistency, I break down my fitness sessions in different parts just so I keep my interest going. First day of the week! I'm glad I start it off with a good workout

End of the Week Recap

Today's Food Options

1/2 Spicy Italian sandwich from Subway
4 oz of home-made Raspberry iced tea

nuts and grapes for snack

Slimfast for snack

Protein and greens for dinner



Progress Notes

Finished precepting and been loving taking the time to work out! I haven't weighed in and not planning to only because I want to focus on establishing my positive habits . Besides, a week of good habits doesn't necessarily mean instant results.

I get that :)

So I'm just going to continue what I'm doing. I'm feeling good and it definately affects my overall mood about myself, my body and my outlook

One thing I need to work on is drinking more water and totally eliminated process stuff

I'm going to start with just drinking more water consistently