Day 15

Breakfast
2 sunny-side up eggs
1 piece of toast with minimal butter
2 pieces of bacon

Exercise
Treadmill @ 3mph for 30 minutes

Snack
Oh my TASTEY!
Warm apples with cinnamon & Truvia:

Recipe:
Slice up one good, crisp apple
Place inside a microwave-safe bowl
put about 2 TBS water in it
Microwave for 1 minute to 1 min 30 seconds
Sprinkle cinnamon on top
Sprinkle 1 packet of Truvia (0-calorie sugar)

*On the Biggest Loser episode last night (1/26/10), I believe Jillian Michaels said this was either a 60-calorie or an 80-calorie snack. And it's filling!


Lunch

Exercise

Snack

Dinner

Days 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, & 14

Okay. So I totally flunked my 2nd week! After my cheat day on my birthday, I made many excuses to snack and eat. {naughty!} I weighed myself on Monday and of course, I had gained my 2 lbs back. I decided that I'm going to give it another go, and this time I'm starting my week on Monday, even though it was one of my "naughty" days.

Monday

Weight: 150lbs

Breakfast:
The rest of my "celebration cake" from my birthday

Lunch:
leftover hawaiian haystacks

Dinner:
Chicken enchiladas

*No exercise


TODAY
Tuesday January 26, 2010

Breakfast:
1 1/2 cups mandarin orange cool-whip jello salad

Exercise:
Treadmill walk @ 3mph for 30 minutes

Lunch:
1/2 enchilada
1 almond granola bar

Exercise:
Treadmill walk @ 2mph for 20 minutes

Snack:
10 peanut butter m&m's

Dinner:
1 1/4 waffles with 1TBS syrup
water

Day 8: WEIGH-IN!

Today is "weigh-in" day, since it's been exactly one week since I started my weight-loss journey. I was so excited to see that I've lost 2 POUNDS!!! My trainer said to expect about a pound a week, so doubling that makes me even more determined than ever to keep to this regime. :) What I NEED to do before I lose anymore weight is to measure my body... I want to see just how many inches I end up losing!

Weigh-In 7:00am
Before: 150
After: 148

Breakfast: 7:15am
2 cups Frosted Flakes
1 cup 1% milk
bottle of water

Snack: 11:00am
1 almond granola bar, only because I was getting shakey... @95 calories

Exercise: 11:05-11:35am
Treadmill - walk @ 3mph for 30 minutes
water

Lunch: 12:30pm
Huge salad:
Green-leaf lettuce/Romaine
a handful of fishy crackers
1 TBS mozzerella cheese
1 TBS craisins
1 TBS ranch dressing
water

Exercise: I was supposed to start doing 20 minutes at 2mph in the afternoons, but I admit it- I got sidetracked on FB, cleaning house, doing laundry, etc.

Snack:
1 chocolate zinger. naughty!

Dinner:
Hawaiian Haystacks:
2 cups white rice
1/2 cup cream-of-mushroom soaked/cooked & shredded chicken
1/4 cup sweet peas
1 TBS sliced olives
1/2 cup chinese noodles
about 10 pineapple tidbits
1/3 cup cream-of-mushroom "gravy" to pour over
water

Dessert: YES! I caved! I had a large piece of chocolate-vanilla pudding cake! Happy Birthday to me! Lol.

Day 7

Breakfast: 8:20am (I need to eat right after I wake up, but this morning was hectic!)
2 packets peaches & cream oatmeal = 260 calories
water

Snack:
none

Lunch: 12:30pm
1 pizza hot pocket = 320 calories

Exercise: 2:00-2:30pm
Treadmill walk@ 3mph for 30 minutes
bottle of water


Snack: 4:30pm
1 almond granola bar @ 95 calories


Dinner:

Day 6

Breakfast:
2 packets peaches & cream oatmeal

Snack:
Yogurt

Lunch:
Jimmy Dean Bacon, Egg, & Cheese Biscuit

Snack:
Yogurt

Dinner:
2 hard-shell tacos
4 TBS seasoned hamburger
2 TBS cheese
sprinkling of diced tomatoes
topped with lots of lettuce
sprinkle of taco sauce
water

*Yep. I didn't exercise. Bad Lisa. I totally dropped the ball today! I just got lazy, and I got crampy so I made excuses. Tomorrow will be better!

Day 5

Breakfast:
Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, & Cheese cressant without the sausage

Lunch:
2 cups froot loops
1 cup milk

Snack:
Yogurt

Dinner:
1/3 Margarita Pizza

Day 4

Breakfast:
1 chocolate covered Krispy Kreme donut (had to quickly leave St. George, so we just grabbed donuts at the service station)

Lunch:
2 packets peaches & cream oatmeal
1 orange

Snack:
Yogurt

Dinner:
1 large tortilla
4 TBS seasoned shredded beef
1/3 cup sliced and sauteed bell peppers
1 tsp cheddar cheese
1 tsp sour cream
a few sips of orange juice

Day 3

"CHEAT" DAY!

I am allowed one "cheat" day per week, and this week I scheduled it for today, since we'll be going to St. George for my grandparents' 60th Wedding Anniversary and there's going to be a lot of food. :) A "Cheat" day just means that I eat what I would "normally" eat, without intentionally going overboard on the calories.

Breakfast: 7:00am

1 Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg, & Cheese cressant = 420 calories

(I ate two bites of the sausage, and because I'm not a big fan of sausage, I took it off the sandwich, and ate about 3/4 of the sandwich before I was full, so I know I didn't eat the whole 420 calories, maybe somewhere around half?)

Water

Snack:

Yogurt

Lunch:

1 1/2 cressant chicken sandwiches

water

Snack:

2 orange segments

Dinner:

Hot dog with bun

1 Tbs catsup

5 BBQ weenies

1 cup taco salad (lettuce, seasoned hamburger, thousand island dressing, tortilla chips, cheese)

1 piece of cake

water

Day 2

Breakfast: 7am
Bowl of oatmeal
3 Truvia packets
1 tsp brown sugar, because I couldn't taste the Truvia. Lol.
1 piece of toast
1/2 tsp butter

Exercise: 8:30-9:00am
Treadmill- Walk @ 3mph for 30 minutes
(Ugh! I realized I hate how monotonous the treadmill is!)

1 bottle of water

Snack: 10:05am
1 almond granola bar @ 95 calories
Starting another bottle of water

Lunch: 12:00pm
Peanut butter sandwich
half sick of string cheese
water

Snack: No

Exercise: 2:30-2:45pm
Treadmill- walk@ 3mph for 15 minutes before I just couldn't do it anymore. My legs hurt SO bad! I told my trainer and he told me to do my morning walk tomorrow and then rest until Monday. I hope by Monday I can get back on the treadmill for the entire time, because I REALLY want this to work!

Dinner: 5:45pm
1 large (bad lisa) cressant loaded with chicken salad
water

Snack: 9:00pm
1 almond granola bar
water

My trainer broke down my suggested caloric intakes for each meal. Here's what he told me today:

"We need you eating a certain amount of calories at each meal throughout the day. This is your caloric breakdown for each meal. 300 calories for breakfast, 100 calories for morning snack, 250 calories for lunch, 100 calories for afternoon snack, and 400 calories for dinner. That’s your target and you have to get as close to these numbers as possible. THE ONLY WAY YOU LOSE WEIGHT IS BY EATING SLIGHTLY LESS CALORIES THAN YOU BURN THROUGHOUT THE DAY. It doesn’t matter what you eat (to a point) it just means less calories than you burn. "

So there you have it, folks! I thought my cousin-in-law was CrAzY when she told me the secret to her weight loss was eating 1,000 calories/day. 1200/day is killing me! But I trust my friend and have faith that this WILL work if I stick to it.

**Thanks and hugs to my wonderful husband who is always there to let me whine and complain to him how much my body hurts, how hungry I am, and who put up with my crabiness. :) Eric (trainer) told me that if I can just get past these first couple of weeks, it will go much smoother. Yay!

In the beginning...

Here I go again! It's 2010 and I am trying to finish what I started. I'm going to lose this weight! I started up a blog to try and have "someone" to "report" to. A friend of mine lost 20+ lbs in about 10 weeks, and it inspired me to do the same. I am eating healthier and exercising- no excuses this time!

I'm NOT on any "diet", but I am starting a "Lifestyle Change" by good old-fashioned eating better and exercising. I'm basically eating the same things I usually do, only in smaller portions. I'm also trying hard to cut out "snacking" for the sake of snacking, and only having a "snack" when my low blood sugar starts giving me those annoying shakes. I already love ice water, so it won't be hard to try and drink more each day. I get one "cheat" day a week, where I can pretty much eat "normally" and not worry about consuming too many calories. Adding to this, I'm also going to exercise at least 1 hour a day for 5 days/week. Like I said, I am going through a lifestyle change, and hopefully it will stick. I want to be down to 130 lbs by summer.

I am going to post a lot of stuff on this blog, but because it's mainly for my own purpose, it might get boring at times. Lol. But I figure if I keep detailed notes, and this works, I would love to refer back to it when I need to, to see what I did.

DAY 1

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Weight: 150lbs

Breakfast:
Bowl of Frosted Flakes
1 cup 1% milk

Snack:
1 large banana

Exercise:
Treadmill- walk @ 3mph- 15min- 10:45-11:00am
Treadmill- walk @ 3mph- 15min- 11:30-11:45am

Lunch:
Huge salad:
5 cups iceburg lettuce
1/4 cup pineapple tidbits
2 TBS sliced beets
1 string cheese stick, diced
1/4 cup leftover ham, diced
2 TBS Ranch dressing

Exercise:
Treadmill-walk @ 3mph - 20 min- 2:45-3:05pm

Snack:
5 red grapes

Dinner:
1 chicken salad sandwich on large croissant:*
turkey chunks
mayo
pineapple tidbits
grapes
celery
cheddar cheese

Exercise:
Treadmill- walk @ 3mph- 10 min- 6:30-6:40pm
(hey, at least I got my full hour in today!)

*Dinner was hard. I was SO hungry, as I have been all day long, and my body kept screaming at me to eat 2 more sandwiches, which on any other day I would've! But I was strong. Ugh. I really hope this works. Lol.

Snack:
I'm posting that I'm going to have a banana or a yogurt, because I'm already starving.