Day 65

Today has been a pretty great day!  I got up really tired but by the time I got rolling in 1st hour I was feeling pretty good.

I ran and picked up some apples, yogurt and lunch meat at lunch and I'm normally not an apple (alone) person, but my brother, and then a student, turned me on to Honey Crisp Apples.  OH MAN they are good!  Normally I get a dry, waxy aftertaste with apples.  These are sweet enough that I don't get that!  This is a pretty exciting food development for me!


On another food note...  THE WEATHER HAS BEEN GORGEOUS HERE!  Hubs and I decided to grill tonight and MAN did we grill!  We did steaks with veggie skewers (mushrooms, tomatoes, onions, green bell peppers) steamed broccoli, grilled corn on the cob, and loaded potatoes au gratin.  HOLY COW it was amazing!  AND HEALTHY!

We hit the Y tonight after dinner and I did my weight circuit plus I added a couple more ab exercises onto my circuit!  At one point I was grabbing a weight off the rack and pinched my knuckle between the weight and the rack.  Tore some skin and swelled up a bit but it's all good now.  A little tender mayhaps, but still...  We played some racquetball and I got hit in the face with the ball.  Knocked my glasses into my nose and onto the floor.  We were really concerned they would be broken but it ended up ok!  It was a rough night for me!  LOL!  I'm telling ya, getting healthy really WILL kill me.

Day 43

Today has been a pretty good food day!  We were traveling back to the house and I made some excellent choices today.  We stopped back by my Dad's to have lunch and ended up going to a steak place.  I decided to go for their chicken strips (because they are DELISH) and instead of fries I opted to ask for green beans!  I also had a salad and a roll but managed to stay pretty low on calories!

We got home and went to the Y to run and then did our grocery shopping.  We're expecting snow tonight and I wanted to make sure we had food if we couldn't get out tomorrow. 

We did something tonight that I rarely do and had fish for dinner.  I'm just not a fan of food that comes from the ocean.  Never have been, but I'm trying to expand my horizons and decided that fish was the first step.  I decided on some Parmesan crusted tilapia and it was actually pretty good.  Not too much fishy taste.  Definitely something we can have again!

I'm hoping to get into bed pretty early tonight so I can be fully rested for when they DON'T cancel school in the morning.  I'm hoping for at least a delay, but probably won't receive that either.  OH WELL!  Here's to the end of a great diet week and the start of a new one!

Day 41

Yesterday was an overall good day.  I had a pretty good weigh in at school, down 1.5 pounds from my school weigh in last week! 

We decided at the last minute to head South for the weekend to visit my dad and Hubs' parents so we spent about 4 hours on the road after I got home from lunch.  We made smart decisions for on the road snacks and when we got to my Dad's my brother had made a pasta bake for dinner so we managed to eat pretty well all day yesterday.

My Dad even has an elliptical so I managed to get 30 minutes in for a work out!

Day 34

Today was an interesting day.  I had to take some of my kids to an Honor band at 7:30 this morning so it's been a pretty long one.  This also means that I had to eat out this afternoon.  I managed to resist fast food not once, not twice, but three times!  We went to a little cafe for lunch where I had half of a grilled chicken sandwich (I was too full to finish it!) and a garden salad with ranch.  Not my first choice but I didn't like their Italian!

I drank water all day and on the way home the kids were hungry so we stopped at a couple drive thrus on the way home and I held up my end of the bargain.  All in all a pretty good food day.  Dinner is in the oven and my calorie analysis says I'm on my 8th perfect day but I don't fully believe it.

Tomorrow is day 2 of the honor band and they cater in lunch so I'm hoping I can do as well tomorrow.  There will be a delicious dessert in my way tomorrow and I'm not sure if I'll splurge or not.  I know it's ok every once in a while, just have to weigh my options when I get there!  I guess a lot depends on what else they're serving.

I'm kinda disappointed I didn't get home in time to go swim but I'm still hoping to get to the Y after dinner to get in some weights and racquetball at least.  They close on an hour early tonight though so I'm on a tight schedule!