Week 8, Day 3

Diet
7:20 a.m. Protein Shake & Oatmeal
10:00 a.m. FF Yogurt
1:00 p.m. Egg Roll, 1/2 Pork Fried Rice, Fortune Cookie
7:00 p.m. Chicken Breast, Rice, Green Beans

Water - 2 bottles

Exercise
Planned - Upper Body
Actual - None

Comments
May be working late today, so we'll see how the exercise goes.

Week 8, Day 2 (Monday)

Diet
7:40 a.m. Protein Shake & Oatmeal
12:15 p.m. Turkey Cutlet, Egg Noodles, Carrots
7:00 p.m. 2 Ham & Cheese Lean Pockets

Water - 3 bottles

Exercise
Planned - Cardio & Abs
Actual - None

Comments
Today may be tough for exercise. I have an appointment to get Grace's picture taken at 6:30 p.m. That will through off my evening schedule a bit. Plus Supernanny is on tonight, so I won't want to do anything after Grace is in bed. I'll do my best.

I'm also going to start wearing a pedometer this week, so I'll record my daily steps too.

Forgot about the pedometer. Didn't get to exercise. Super busy day again at work, I forgot to eat my snacks. Didn't make the planned dinner, but ate Lean pockets instead of fast food, so I consider that a win. Also, wanted a snack around 10:00 (Hershey's Bar?), but decided to wait until morning. Yeah! Still need to do better on water intake.

Week 8, Day 1 (Sunday)

Diet
11:30 a.m. McDonalds - Quarter pounder with cheese, 1/2 fries, Coke, 2 apple pies
3:00 p.m. Coke
6:45 p.m. Turkey Cutlet, Egg Noodles
8:30 p.m. Hershey's Bar

Exercise
None.

Comments
Weigh-in - 159.0
I'll take it. I still haven't had a perfect week yet, but I think I've been doing better overall.

Week 7, Day 7

Diet
9:00 a.m. Oatmeal
12:00 p.m. Cashew Chicken & Rice
6:30 p.m. Houlihan's - Potato Skins (appetizer), Chicken Fajitas, Oreo Ice Cream Dessert

Water - 2 bottles?

Exercise
Planned - Housecleaning. I did clean the house.

Comments
Looking for a babysitter so we can do dinner and a movie tonight with Will & Samara. No luck so far, may just be dinner.

I'm curious to see what tomorrow's weigh in will be.

Week 7, Day 6

Diet
7:45 a.m. Protein Shake & Oatmeal
12:15 p.m. Grilled Chicken Strips, Carrots, Yogurt
4:30 p.m. Huge Apple
8:00 p.m. Ham & Cheese Lean Pocket

Water - 2 bottles

Exercise
Planned - Cardio and Abs. None.

Comments
Ok, I'm really not giving up. Although, seriously, this lack of willpower makes me sick. Not so much because I'm eating bad foods, but because I KNOW I can do this. I've done it before and hardly ever cheated. Now it seems like when I'm tempted I just give in and I hate that.

Anyway, I'm still going to attack this one day at a time, so despite all of my badness this week, today, Friday, I'm still going to start the day "on" the diet. I weighed myself this morning 158.5, so if I keep it up, I could still lose weight this week. For me, I think the key is that even though I haven't been obeying "all" of the rules, at least I'm thinking of them every single day. And instead of eating crap at every meal (like when pregnant), I'm only eating like that on occasion.

Goals for today. Drink all water! Focus on dinner. Cook those turkey cutlets when I get home. Really attempt the treadmill (I've got loads of housework, mostly laundry, so it me hard to find time.

Thoughts for next week. Consider having 2 free days, Wednesday and Saturday, so maybe I can be perfect the other days. On the Wednesday free day only lunch and dinner can be cheated on. No extra snacks or anything. Or I suppose I could get in gear and just do better every day!

HORRIBLE day at work. No time to cheat. Came home with a massive migraine and napped for an hour and a half. Didn't do the dinner I planned, but it could have been worse. I seriously need to work on my water intake.

Week 7, Day 5 (Thursday)

Diet
7:30 a.m. Protein Shake & Oatmeal
8:25 a.m. Grande Hot Chocolate
12:00 p.m. Salad w/Chicken from Broad Street
4:45 p.m. Apple
7:30 p.m. Steak & Sheak - Pepperjack Melt, shared plate of cheese fries, Coke

Water - 2 bottles

Exercise
Planned - Lower Body Pilates DVD
Actual - None.

Comments
Planning on eating the lunch I brought yesterday. Already have turkey cutlets thawed in frig for dinner. DVD is just 20 minutes, so shouldn't have problems with Grace behaving. I want to do better today. I got cocky with my early in the week weight loss (157.5), but today the scale said 159. No more fast food until Saturday!

I'm not sure why my friends even let me join me in this "competition." I really suck. Not sure what went wrong last night. I paid for the Steak & Shake in other ways though. Plus I had a migraine, so exercise didn't sound like fun.

Week 7, Day 4 (Wednesday)

Diet
7:45 a.m. Protein Shake & Apple
10:15 a.m. FF Cottage Cheese
12:00 p.m. Pork Fried Rice, Eggroll & Pink Lemonade
7:30 p.m. Wendy's Chicken Strips with Chipotle Sauce, Fries, & Coke

Water - 1 bottle

Exercise
Planned - Cardio and Abs. Completed None.

Comments
Worked until 6:45 p.m. That screwed up dinner and exercise. No excuses for lunch. Must do better on water!

Week 7, Day 3

Diet
7:45 a.m. Protein Shake & Wheat Bagel w/Cream Cheese
10:00 a.m. FF Cottage Cheese & FF Yogurt
12:00 p.m. Round Steak, Egg Noodles, Peas
2:45 p.m. Protein Shake & Popcorn
6:45 p.m. Wheat Tortilla, Southwest Chicken Strips, FF Cheddar cheese, dab of hot sauce and sour cream

Water - 3 bottle

Exercise
Planned - Upper body with weights. Completed! Yeah!

Comments
Took a peek at the scale this morning and it said 157.5. Not sure if that's right, but yahoo! I'm going to try to be really good this week I'd like those numbers to stick!

Still need to do better on water.

Must have willpower tomorrow. A co-worker told me this afternoon that they are going to get Chinese for lunch tomorrow. I need to prepare myself to say no.

Week 7, Day 2

Diet
7:45 a.m. Protein Shake & Oatmeal
12:15 p.m. Broad St. Salad w/Chicken
3:45 p.m. Protein Shake & Apple
6:15 p.m. Round Steak, Egg Noodles, & Peas
10:00 p.m. String Cheese & Popcorn

Water - 3 1/2 bottles

Exercise
Planned - Cardio and abs. Completed cardio with Grace watching in bouncy seat. Planning on abs after Grace is in bed. Didn't get abs done, but something is better than nothing!

Comments
Weighed in yesterday at 159.5. I think I got lucky. No cold or PMS this week, so I'm going to really try to do much better.

Have a craving for an ice cream drumstick, but thinking Monday is awfully early to start cheating. I'll make some popcorn in a little while.

Goal for tomorrow, drink more water.

Week 6, Day 4

Diet
8:00 a.m. Bob Evans - Western Omelet, Fruit, English Muffin w/strawberry jelly
12:00 p.m. Hobos - Hot Ham & Cheese Sandwich, cup of Potato Bacon soup
5:30 p.m. Apple

Exercise
None.

Comments
This week is heading downhill fast. Had a client meeting out of the office all day, so that explains that. Also battling a horrific cold, so don't really feel like exercising (or cooking). Dinner plans still up in the air.

Week 6, Day 3

Diet
7:45 a.m. Protein Shake & Oatmeal
10:15 a.m. FF Cottage Cheese
12:15 p.m. Southwest Chicken Wrap
6:30 p.m. Ham & Cheese Lean Pocket
8:30 p.m. 5 cookies

Water - 4 bottles

Exercise
Planned - Upper body with weights. Actual - None. I ended up taking Grace to the doctor in the afternoon, so I brought work home with me and stayed up until midnight working on it.

Comments
Today will be a challenge. I have a lunch meeting with an underwriter today and he chose to meet at this little pizza joint across the street. I know they have pasta too, but I think the only salads are little side salads. I may just eat 1 piece of pizza and hope it doesn't go straight to my thighs.

Also, I didn't get the grocery shopping done this weekend and didn't even get my meal plans and list done until yesterday evening. I'm picking up Grace today and we'll either head straight to the grocery store or home to feed her first, depending on her last bottle at daycare. It may be a little tough to get in the weight lifting, but I'll definately give it a shot. Can't miss The Amazing Race though.

Week 6, Day 2

Diet
8:00 a.m. Protein Shake & Oatmeal
10:30 a.m. FF Cottage Cheese & FF Yogurt
12:00 p.m. Broad St. Salad w/Chicken
7:00 p.m. Beef shish-k-bobs with green peppers, onions, and mushrooms, Egg noodles
9:30 p.m. FF Cottage Cheese & Low-fat popcorn

Water - 4 bottles

Exercise
Planned - 20 minutes on treadmill, abs on ball. Done 20 minutes BFL cardio on treadmill. One set of crunches and obliques on the ball.

Comments
I'm still alive. Sorry for the gap, things just seemed to get really crazy. To give you a brief update, I've completely blown off the diet since Thursday last week. Today starts a new week, however. Well, technically, it's day 2, but anyway, I'm going to attempt to do this right this week. No plans this weekend to trip me up.

I did weigh in yesterday, and held steady at 160.0. Trust me, if I'd recorded what I ate, you'd be surprised. So anyway, I now have 6 weeks until GWO and I'd still like to lose 15 pounds. That's just over 2 a week. I have the equipment, I know how to eat, now I just need the willpower.

May try to split up the exercise time on cardio/ab days. After the treadmill I'm tire and skimp on abs. Maybe do abs in the morning and cardio in the evening. Or cardio early evening and abs after Grace is in bed.

Goals

I removed my goal for March 1st from the sidebar, because I missed it by about 6 1/2 pounds. I'm really hoping that now that I have exercise equipment at home, I'll be on a better track. I'm losing weight slowly and that wouldn't bother me so much except that I know I have plenty to lose. A year ago I weighed about 10 pounds less than I do right now.

I know things are different for me now. My body is different, I definately have different priorities with my time, and I'm still sleep deprived. I am not committed to this process as much as I used to be, but I still would love to lose the weight.

Having this "competition" with my friends and this blog is helping me in many ways. I conciously choose better foods, because I know I'll have to write it down if I eat badly and that I'll get crap from my friends. (Deep down I know they love me and are doing it for my own good). I don't want to look like a failure to them or myself.

On the upside, Eric is starting to be more supportive too. He wants to help clean the basement out even more and has mentioned that he'll use the treadmill and weight bench. I would love for him to lose some weight too. Not for shallow, vain reasons, but for his health. He's to young to let himself go.

So anyway, I'm going to set a new goal of 145 pounds by GWO. That's 15 pounds in about 6 weeks. That should be doable if I really stay focused. After that 15, I'd like to lose another 5 or 10, but 15 would make me feel great and get me back into most of my old clothes.

Week 5, Day 4

Diet
8:00 a.m. Protein Shake & Oatmeal
10:30 a.m. FF Cottage Cheese & FF Yogurt
12:00 p.m. Salad from Broad St w/chicken, flatbread
4:30 p.m. Protein Shake & Apple
6:45 p.m. Chicken Strips, FF Cheese, dab of taco sauce and sour cream on wheat tortilla

Water - 4 bottles

Exercise
Planned Treadmill (Yeah!) & Abs on ball. Did 20 minutes on treadmill (9:00 p.m.) no ball. Hopefully can do both if start earlier in evening.

Comments
Good eating so far today. I tried the treadmill, but after only 90 seconds Grace starting fussing. I'm planning on having Eric keep an eye on her when he gets home and I can have my 20-30 minutes to work out. Hopefully, he'll cooperate.

Week 5, Day 3

Diet
7:45 a.m. Protein Shake & Oatmeal
12:00 p.m. Spinnakers - Southwestern Wrap - Grilled Chicken, Mexican Rice, Peppers, Onions & Cheese on a wrap, just a few french fries
8:30 p.m. 1/2 small container of Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie dough ice cream

Exercise
Planned Lower Body Pilates or Upper Body with weights (if I get bench put together). Completed upper body with weights. Had about 30 minute break 1/2 way through as I answered a phone call with a friend, but I go back and finish the workout.

Comments
Bench is almost together. I stayed up this morning after Grace's feeding and worked on it. I still need to tighten the bench/seat portion and we'll be ready to go.

One note on exercise, the treadmill people called and are delivering Wednesday afternoon. Yeah!

Please no comment on the food. Lunch wasn't too bad, probably way too many carbs, but I did skip my morning snack and then just got too busy to get the afternoon one in. Dinner on the other hand... Here's how my evening went.
Planned/Actual
6:00 - Feed Grace 6:00 Feed Grace
6:30 - Workout 6:30 Workout began
6:45 Answered phone and talked while picking up living room, loading dishwasher, etc.
7:00 - Make Broiled Chicken 7:15 Decided to start chicken (still on phone)
7:20 - Eat Dinner 7:30 Off phone, but chicken still cooking
7:45 - Give Grace Bath 7:40 Chicken burnt on outside, pink on inside
7:45 Finish workout
8:00 - TV Time 8:15 Grace Bath
8:30 Realize chicken ruined and I haven't eaten yet, go to freezer and see B&J ice cream, decide that will work
9:30 - Feed Grace 9:30 Feed Grace
10:15 - Grace to bed 10:15 Grace to bed
11:00 - Mom to bed 11:00 Mom to bed