So here we are again.
Today woke up at 5 again. Man I hate this little habit.
Didn’t do crap, I grabbed a yogurt for breakfast and a couple of apples and some peanut butter for my snacks.
Work isn’t going that well today, normally I love my job, today it’s not so fun. I made an error yesterday and instead of telling me privately, one of my 3 PM’s (project managers) decided to hold a meeting and bring it up in front of god and everybody. I mean crap, nice way to treat people. If someone makes an error and I notice it, before I jump on my soapbox, I email them to make sure what I am seeing is correct. If it isn’t then I’ll try and figure stuff out and try and fix it. It just upsets me a little bit, but I think most of that is just from simple sleep deprivation!
Today’s lunch was chicken mole’ soup, (mole’,mole’,mole’) and a small salad.
I am so freaking tired. Oh yeah I weighed myself this morning, (another reason I am having a crappy day) I currently weigh 383. So I need to get down to 373 for my goal of losing 10 pounds this month.
Which is not impossible, I plan on going for bike rides this weekend (and not passing out, like Sunday) and I have been eating so much healthier. I am having a salad at least once a day (or a form of veggies) eating mostly poultry
Okay so now I am mad. There was free food in the lunch room including salad and pasta. But I was good and only grabbed a cookie :D (old habits die hard) oh and a diet dr pepper. Like I said. Old habbits
And my new glasses were supposed to be in today and they were delayed again so I wont get them until probably Saturday.
Oh well
Well im starting to feel better now, sometimes you just have to talk shit out. Ya know.
dinner was lasanga and i didnt eat that much of it. my husband was hit by a car on his bike ride home from work. now i am just so worried about everything that happened there is no way i will be able to sleep tonight.
i will keep you posted
=the fat girl trying
Thursday, February 10, 2011
day 3 and all is well!
So let’s get to the point.
1. Do not make fun of or mimic the universe because it will always come to bite you on the butt.
a. Case in point, Yesterday I said that there was a rule about me not sleeping in past 5:30, well today I woke up at 4:45. All I can say is WTF
2. I kinda fell off of my diet a bit this morning,
a. Let me explain, so I needed to stop and get cash from the ATM in the 7-11 by work so I could by lunch today because today is another one of those, eat if you’re lucky kinda days. So right next door is a Starbucks. I hopped in to get a dark cherry yogurt parfait (so yummy) and a kids snack plate (which I save to eat until about 10 as my morning snack.) and then I saw it, my weakness, my kryptonite if you will. Banana Nut Bread. Now I don’t know what they do to their bread to make it so addictive but before I could stop myself I bought a piece and had it with my yogurt for breakfast.
3. Like I said, today is crazy meeting day (almost as bad as Fridays and Mondays) so I am going to be good and get some salad and a soup.
Lunch was great! I had some chicken and something i cant remember soup and a salad with some walnuts. super yummy.
i didnt get a chance to have an afternoon snack but when i got home i made tacos.
white corn tortitas and beans and chili and ground beef, topped with cheese, onion and a slice of avacado on top.
My problem with the home made tacos is that i always eat like 8. i mean if i get tacos from tacobell, i only eat like 3. i mean my tacos are like crack.
anyways once agian i feel asleep before i could post so i am a day late.
so here it is.
thanks for reading,
fat girl trying
1. Do not make fun of or mimic the universe because it will always come to bite you on the butt.
a. Case in point, Yesterday I said that there was a rule about me not sleeping in past 5:30, well today I woke up at 4:45. All I can say is WTF
2. I kinda fell off of my diet a bit this morning,
a. Let me explain, so I needed to stop and get cash from the ATM in the 7-11 by work so I could by lunch today because today is another one of those, eat if you’re lucky kinda days. So right next door is a Starbucks. I hopped in to get a dark cherry yogurt parfait (so yummy) and a kids snack plate (which I save to eat until about 10 as my morning snack.) and then I saw it, my weakness, my kryptonite if you will. Banana Nut Bread. Now I don’t know what they do to their bread to make it so addictive but before I could stop myself I bought a piece and had it with my yogurt for breakfast.
3. Like I said, today is crazy meeting day (almost as bad as Fridays and Mondays) so I am going to be good and get some salad and a soup.
Lunch was great! I had some chicken and something i cant remember soup and a salad with some walnuts. super yummy.
i didnt get a chance to have an afternoon snack but when i got home i made tacos.
white corn tortitas and beans and chili and ground beef, topped with cheese, onion and a slice of avacado on top.
My problem with the home made tacos is that i always eat like 8. i mean if i get tacos from tacobell, i only eat like 3. i mean my tacos are like crack.
anyways once agian i feel asleep before i could post so i am a day late.
so here it is.
thanks for reading,
fat girl trying
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
So here we are, 2 days in a row, Woo hoo!
So I guess yesterday when I said that, there was some sort of rule or universal law against me sleeping in past 5:30, thought it was hilarious because today I woke up at 5. WTF?
So I cut up a left over half of cantelope to take with me to work as my morning snack. Defrosted some shrimp as my metabolic starter and then sat back and relaxed for about an hour til it was time to get ready for work.
I once again packed my lunch, todays lunch was the leftover salad I had made with 2 tbs of ranch kept in a separate container. (because I didn’t want my salad to get soggy) and about 2 handfuls of baby carrots.
I wish I had some chicken left over from yesterday. It was so good. I used one of our brand new stainless steel pans and put about 2 tbs of oil on the bottom the pan, grabed two pieces of chicken, rubbed them in the oil, then lightly seasoned them with fresh cracked pepper, garlic salt, parsely, lemon peper, a hint of basil, celery salt, a dash of garlic powder and some celery flakes and plain old seasoning salt. It wasn’t over seasoned at all and everything complemented each other very well. I also cut an avocado into slices and shared with my hubby. We also made some rice because we thought that wouldn’t be enough to fill both of us, but we were wrong. What I did with my dinner was have a plate of salad with the avocado on top then I took a small bowl, filled it up with rice, sliced my chicken and put it on top and then poured some of the oil from the pan on top, just about 1 tbs worth to make sure I get my 2 tbs a day. (according to weight watchers, you should consume 2 tbs of any type of oil (not like deep fried oil) a day to help you digest easily and to prevent any um bathroom issues) any ways it was very good. Josh deciede what he was gonna do was use a high fiber wrap, place the salad on it, he also shreaded his chicken, then put the avocado on it and then he put his blue cheese salad dressing on it, wrapped it up and ate it, he had a small bowl or rice also, but his was plain.
One of my hubbys favorite snacks is the high fiber wraps, some bag salad mix, some salsa and then he wraps it and eats it. To him it is very yummy, to me, not so much. I hate tomattos. Cant stand them, had a very tramadic experience when I was a little kid and haven’t had them since if I can help it. Don’t get me wrong, I love pasta sauce, ketchup pretty much any byproduct, but not raw, not salsa and not in chunks on top of my pizza!
So tonight is going to be a test of the april dieting system. I need to go out to Antioch to do my taxes tonight, normally when I do I go to my moms and have dinner or we pickup dinner on our way back home. This will be my first test with the fast food since I started dieting again. We shall see how it turns out and I will keep you posted. My lunch break is officially over so I gotta get back to work. I will update when I get home.
Dinner was good. I ended up getting panda express. honey walnut shrimp and rice. so yummy.
Sorry about the delay, I feel asleep as soon as i got home. :(
thanks for reading,
-the fat girl trying
So I cut up a left over half of cantelope to take with me to work as my morning snack. Defrosted some shrimp as my metabolic starter and then sat back and relaxed for about an hour til it was time to get ready for work.
I once again packed my lunch, todays lunch was the leftover salad I had made with 2 tbs of ranch kept in a separate container. (because I didn’t want my salad to get soggy) and about 2 handfuls of baby carrots.
I wish I had some chicken left over from yesterday. It was so good. I used one of our brand new stainless steel pans and put about 2 tbs of oil on the bottom the pan, grabed two pieces of chicken, rubbed them in the oil, then lightly seasoned them with fresh cracked pepper, garlic salt, parsely, lemon peper, a hint of basil, celery salt, a dash of garlic powder and some celery flakes and plain old seasoning salt. It wasn’t over seasoned at all and everything complemented each other very well. I also cut an avocado into slices and shared with my hubby. We also made some rice because we thought that wouldn’t be enough to fill both of us, but we were wrong. What I did with my dinner was have a plate of salad with the avocado on top then I took a small bowl, filled it up with rice, sliced my chicken and put it on top and then poured some of the oil from the pan on top, just about 1 tbs worth to make sure I get my 2 tbs a day. (according to weight watchers, you should consume 2 tbs of any type of oil (not like deep fried oil) a day to help you digest easily and to prevent any um bathroom issues) any ways it was very good. Josh deciede what he was gonna do was use a high fiber wrap, place the salad on it, he also shreaded his chicken, then put the avocado on it and then he put his blue cheese salad dressing on it, wrapped it up and ate it, he had a small bowl or rice also, but his was plain.
One of my hubbys favorite snacks is the high fiber wraps, some bag salad mix, some salsa and then he wraps it and eats it. To him it is very yummy, to me, not so much. I hate tomattos. Cant stand them, had a very tramadic experience when I was a little kid and haven’t had them since if I can help it. Don’t get me wrong, I love pasta sauce, ketchup pretty much any byproduct, but not raw, not salsa and not in chunks on top of my pizza!
So tonight is going to be a test of the april dieting system. I need to go out to Antioch to do my taxes tonight, normally when I do I go to my moms and have dinner or we pickup dinner on our way back home. This will be my first test with the fast food since I started dieting again. We shall see how it turns out and I will keep you posted. My lunch break is officially over so I gotta get back to work. I will update when I get home.
Dinner was good. I ended up getting panda express. honey walnut shrimp and rice. so yummy.
Sorry about the delay, I feel asleep as soon as i got home. :(
thanks for reading,
-the fat girl trying
Monday, February 7, 2011
Here we go agian!
Day 1 – February 7, 2011
So here I go again, for those who don’t know my story or just want a refresh here it is, I am a 31 year old girl (not old enough to be a woman and not refined enough to be a lady) trying to lose weight and make a healthier lifestyle change. My goal is blog every night about everything I ate, what I went through that particular day and what exercise I did that day as well.
Since it has been a while, here are my current goals:
I would like to lose at least 10 pounds in the next month. That would be a healthy rate of 2 pounds a week.
I would like to be at least a size 20 by August. (Right now I am a right between size 24 and 28, depending on what store I am shopping at)
I would like to work out at least 4 times a week
I would like to be able to ride my bike at least 10 miles (one way) around Concord by the end of July
So here is how my day went:
I woke up at 5:30 (because there is a law or rule in the universe against me sleeping in any longer than that.) since I was up I made my lunch (2 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches) grabbed a yogurt to go for breakfast. Also packed a cliff bar for my morning snack and an apple for my afternoon snack (even packed some peanut butter in a small Tupperware container so I could some healthy protein fat) I also brought two bottles of water and a diet coke.
My drive to work was uneventful and boring. I guess boring isn’t the right word, I meant uneventful. Made to Livermore in 45 minutes (which is normal), got started on my to-do list for the day, and then started my day of conference calls. This is the first job I have had where I live out of conference rooms all day and normally I am on back to back calls. Mondays and Fridays are the worse. On Fridays I have a call from 8:30 – 9:00 then 9:00 – 10:00 then I have a break for an hour to actually get some work done then another call from 11:00 – 12:30 (and that call always runs long!) then I have my own call that I lead from 1:00 – 2:00. So here’s the deal, there is a catering company that comes out to our office from 11:30 – 12:30, but I have to leave during one of my calls just to grab something from the caterers and then run back and hope no one asked me a ?. :D
So here is what I ate:
Breakfast: cherry yogurt
Morning Snack: cliff bar (chocolate brownie)
Lunch: 2 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on double wheat bread
Afternoon Snack: an apple and some peanut butter
Evening Snack: leftover bean dip from the super bowl
Dinner: green salad with grilled chicken, some white rice and some avocado.
My Work out for the evening:
Hoping to go for a bike ride, and not black out this time.
That’s all I got for tonight, have a great night and as always thanks for your encouragement and helpfulness.
Love,
The fat girl trying!
So here I go again, for those who don’t know my story or just want a refresh here it is, I am a 31 year old girl (not old enough to be a woman and not refined enough to be a lady) trying to lose weight and make a healthier lifestyle change. My goal is blog every night about everything I ate, what I went through that particular day and what exercise I did that day as well.
Since it has been a while, here are my current goals:
I would like to lose at least 10 pounds in the next month. That would be a healthy rate of 2 pounds a week.
I would like to be at least a size 20 by August. (Right now I am a right between size 24 and 28, depending on what store I am shopping at)
I would like to work out at least 4 times a week
I would like to be able to ride my bike at least 10 miles (one way) around Concord by the end of July
So here is how my day went:
I woke up at 5:30 (because there is a law or rule in the universe against me sleeping in any longer than that.) since I was up I made my lunch (2 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches) grabbed a yogurt to go for breakfast. Also packed a cliff bar for my morning snack and an apple for my afternoon snack (even packed some peanut butter in a small Tupperware container so I could some healthy protein fat) I also brought two bottles of water and a diet coke.
My drive to work was uneventful and boring. I guess boring isn’t the right word, I meant uneventful. Made to Livermore in 45 minutes (which is normal), got started on my to-do list for the day, and then started my day of conference calls. This is the first job I have had where I live out of conference rooms all day and normally I am on back to back calls. Mondays and Fridays are the worse. On Fridays I have a call from 8:30 – 9:00 then 9:00 – 10:00 then I have a break for an hour to actually get some work done then another call from 11:00 – 12:30 (and that call always runs long!) then I have my own call that I lead from 1:00 – 2:00. So here’s the deal, there is a catering company that comes out to our office from 11:30 – 12:30, but I have to leave during one of my calls just to grab something from the caterers and then run back and hope no one asked me a ?. :D
So here is what I ate:
Breakfast: cherry yogurt
Morning Snack: cliff bar (chocolate brownie)
Lunch: 2 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on double wheat bread
Afternoon Snack: an apple and some peanut butter
Evening Snack: leftover bean dip from the super bowl
Dinner: green salad with grilled chicken, some white rice and some avocado.
My Work out for the evening:
Hoping to go for a bike ride, and not black out this time.
That’s all I got for tonight, have a great night and as always thanks for your encouragement and helpfulness.
Love,
The fat girl trying!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
360 Days to go!
Sorry for the not blogging yesterday. I was working all night on setting up my page on face book to sell my Tote bags.
Today was a great day. I had a light yogurt for breakfast. I had PB&J sandwiches’ for lunch and a bag of pretzels. For dinner we had pizza. After dinner we went for a bike ride. It was our first bike ride. When we get my Toto basket and streamers for my bike, I need to get a headlight.
Once we got to the shopping center, I went to Starbucks and got an iced tea, then we walked to the Fro Yo Shop and each got some frozen yogurt then rode back home. Sorry it isn’t much tonight. I am pooped!
Good Night!
Fat Girl Trying
Today was a great day. I had a light yogurt for breakfast. I had PB&J sandwiches’ for lunch and a bag of pretzels. For dinner we had pizza. After dinner we went for a bike ride. It was our first bike ride. When we get my Toto basket and streamers for my bike, I need to get a headlight.
Once we got to the shopping center, I went to Starbucks and got an iced tea, then we walked to the Fro Yo Shop and each got some frozen yogurt then rode back home. Sorry it isn’t much tonight. I am pooped!
Good Night!
Fat Girl Trying
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Happy Sunday night! 363 days to go!
So this morning, like every morning I woke up super early. But the difference today was that I woke up with a purpose! I was so inspired to get a dedicated on my side craft hobby thing. I make tote bags to sell at different craft shows and such. I haven’t been able to access them or any of my materials since Christmas. I know I will be laid off again soon, so any extra income we can get in is a good thing. But, yeah I am starting a web page to generate interest and show off what we have going into production and such.
So yea I woke up at 5:30. Watched some TV on Netflix. (I love having Netflix, it is the only thing that makes not having cable bearable). Then started to look around for something that I couldn’t find, so yeah Josh had these Stitch Prints that we need to get framed and I haven’t been able to find them. I tore the whole house apart looking for it and happened to be locked up in a cabinet. No wonder I couldn’t find it.
So after the great search, we got dressed and did the ride to star bucks again. Man it was harder today than it was yesterday. I had to stop and rest more today than yesterday. But once again after the star bucks, the ride back home was so much fun.
Once home, I spent most of the day cleaning up the spare room. Trying to get it all set up to store my inventory and such.
So the last inhabinent of that room left just random crap all around the place, so yeah I will be cleaning and find the most randomness’ stuff. (Some of which I wish I would have never have found)
So when I was almost done cleaning the room, josh made me stop. So I spent the rest of the night relaxing and enjoying the last of the weekend.
So I am gonna go to bed now. I am so sleepy and I am sincerely hoping that I can sleep until the alarm clock goes off at 6.
Good night and TTFN
-April
So yea I woke up at 5:30. Watched some TV on Netflix. (I love having Netflix, it is the only thing that makes not having cable bearable). Then started to look around for something that I couldn’t find, so yeah Josh had these Stitch Prints that we need to get framed and I haven’t been able to find them. I tore the whole house apart looking for it and happened to be locked up in a cabinet. No wonder I couldn’t find it.
So after the great search, we got dressed and did the ride to star bucks again. Man it was harder today than it was yesterday. I had to stop and rest more today than yesterday. But once again after the star bucks, the ride back home was so much fun.
Once home, I spent most of the day cleaning up the spare room. Trying to get it all set up to store my inventory and such.
So the last inhabinent of that room left just random crap all around the place, so yeah I will be cleaning and find the most randomness’ stuff. (Some of which I wish I would have never have found)
So when I was almost done cleaning the room, josh made me stop. So I spent the rest of the night relaxing and enjoying the last of the weekend.
So I am gonna go to bed now. I am so sleepy and I am sincerely hoping that I can sleep until the alarm clock goes off at 6.
Good night and TTFN
-April
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Well 364 days left. Work Starts Now!
Sorry about the long break. I had family visiting (Hi Daddy!), My Birthday, other commitments and the month of August was just a nonstop month in which we had 0 down time.
Last week, I bought my first Bike. Let me rephrase that, I had a bike as a kid, but this is the first bike that I have ever bought with my own money. Since the purchase of my bike I have been a lot more active, although my knees and legs have been very rubbery for lack of a better word to describe the wobblieness of my legs.
I worked out every day this week except for yesterday, Last Saturday, I built my bike, went for a ride around the neighborhood, picked up Jet and went for a ride to the school to let him romp and play, rode back home and then did the car rally which is nothing but riding in the car till you get to a certain place then kinda act like you are in a Chinese fire drill looking for stuff then back in the car and away you go. Our Car won for the second year in a row, but I know already that I won’t be able to make next years because it will be a week before the wedding and I know my sister and mom will need me for stuff.
So then on Sunday I tried to bike to the Closest Starbucks which happens to be a mile away, I made it half way before my knees were killing me and not feeling good. So I rode about a mile round trip.
Monday, we decided to go to Black Diamond Mines out in my Home town of Antioch. I grew up a couple of miles away from the mines, but have only been there 3 times. This was my second time taking the tour. So to take the tour you have to do this crazy hike uphill to the entrance to the mines. It was very steep and zigzagged and kicked my butt and made me winded. I was so happy that josh and I didn’t do our bike ride like I wanted to that morning. If I did I would have been in worse shape.
Tuesday, I went for a ride as soon as I got back home. I just rode around the loop. Okay one thing I wish I would have known before I bought my bike. Apparently, my whole neighborhood is sloped up hill. I bought a 1 speed cruiser bike because I never got the knack of changing my gears. I didn’t know my neighborhood was so hilly! So when I do the loop I start going uphill, then ride the whole way down, then work my way back uphill to my house. Well anyone can tell you that downhill is the best part, so after I get back to my house, I keep going right past it, up to the top of the street again then ride downhill to my house. :D (Best Part!!!!!) Then afterword I made dinner
Wednesday, I did exactly the same as Tuesday. Except that Josh wasn’t feeling good in the middle of the night and woke me up. Poor guy he has this thing that when he throws up he also half the time passes out. He didn’t want that to happen while no one was awake, which I understand. But needless to say it made me exhausted on Thursday
Thursday, I did not want to take my ride. But my Team Lead told me that taking it would be better for me because it would give me energy and make me able to sleep through the night. Blah blah blah. (There you go Duane) Josh was making dinner and said that it would be done as soon as I got home, he was wrong, it had 15 minutes left so I changed my clothes and took my ride, and josh was feeling better. (He was sick like Monday afternoon till just yesterday) but after the loop decided that he wasn’t as well as he thought.
Yesterday, I didn’t do anything. As soon as I got home I started feeling sick and I believe I caught that beautiful little bug that Josh had. I had energy just couldn’t really leave the house. So I did laundry and played with jet, it wasn’t much but at least it was something.
But this morning when I woke up at the butt crack of dawn. I was full of piss and vinegar. I woke up at 4:30 and did laundry and waited for the sun to come. When it was finally light out, we all (Josh, Jet and I) got bundled up and ready to go. Today we made it all the way to Starbucks! I was so proud of me. The uphill part is all the way there and where I had to stop at last time was like the high point. It took a while for us to get there, probably 10 minutes, after we had our water and other drinks. (I had an Ice Tea and Josh had some juice,) we rode back. It was literally all downhill from there. We made it back home in about 5 minutes. It was so much fun. I peddled most of the way home to still work my legs out. Jet didn’t like going so fast on the way back. But he liked our pace uphill.
Once we got Home I was so much fuller of energy, I couldn’t sit still. I did more Laundry and played Wii Sports to work out my arms a little bit. And now I am writing my blog and then I am gonna take a shower and go to mom in laws house.
See ya tomorrow!
The Fat Girl Trying
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