My Weekend and Hint of Onederland

It has been a really warm winter so far for us, and we have only had dustings of snow. At the end of last week we finally got about an inch or so where I am. Here is a picture of it actually snowing while I'm getting ready to drive to work.

On Friday I went to the gym after work. I made it to the gym a total of four times this week. I did my strength training plan with the machines three times and spent one time on the treadmill. Speaking of treadmill, I'm highly considering trying to fit as much as a C25K training in by the end of march so I can participate in a virtual 5K. The prizes are random and not by time, so that is right up my ally. Also, I can just run around my neighborhood and everyone will just think I'm working out and not doing a 5K which is fine by me considering how slow I'll probably be. ;)

Friday night I made singing game night for myself. I went online and played some Beatles Rock Band since I haven't done that forever. It is amazing how I can still play songs on hard and do good after not playing for so long. I guess I really know my Beatles.

I also played some Sing Party too. I'm trying really hard to get good at a couple of songs for when I play with my friends. I'm working on "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen and "Alone" by Heart. They are both kinda harder songs too.

Saturday morning I spent meal planning and grocery shopping. I had a big haul this week for groceries and other necessities.

Saturday afternoon I took my first quiz of my grad school career online. I was panicking because she gave us four hours to take this 25 question quiz. It ended up taking me only 36 minutes and I managed to miss one question. How do you miss a question on an open book test?

The rest of Saturday was spent going through my stash of gifts for people throughout the year and getting things organized. I'm pretty close to being finished with that. It is nice to not freak out when you need a gift for someone and just go down to the basement and find one waiting there.

Saturday night I found Sebastion under the fitted sheet and comforter on the futon. All I saw was part of his head sticking out. The dogs had a really lazy weekend!

Sunday I spent mostly cleaning, looking at stuff online, and cooking for the week. Here is the meal plan for this week:

 

 

I also randomly saw a limo sitting on our little side road.

Oh, and I forgot that I did some reading for my ethics class too. Lilly decided to help...

Anyways, back to the food. I made a recipe that I haven't made for a year- BLT pizza. I even found a refrigerated pizza crust that was made with whole wheat flour.

I also made some brown rice noodles and chicken for lunches. I'm going to top them with spaghetti sauce. I have never had brown rice noodles, so I hope that they taste good.

I made my usual pumpkin muffins, but failed to turn the oven down to the right temperature after making the pizza crust,so I burnt them! They don't taste nearly as good burnt. :(

Here's the pictures of the fridge all organized for the week:

Breakfast

Snacks

Dinner

Lunch

It is really slick and icy out here right now. My front steps are patches of ice that I almost fell on taking the dogs out.

I've also lost a good amount of weight this week too. I'll have that for tomorrow's weigh-in, but I will tell you that I've unofficially won my Diet Bet and I'm in Onederland!

Food for the Week and Daily Life

Monday and Tuesday have been good and productive days. Monday I didn't have to go to work or school because of MLK Jr. Day. I slept in until 6:30ish (Hey, that is sleeping in for me!) and spent the first part of my morning cooking my food for the week.

My three ingredient meatloaf that I found in the Hungry Girl 300 under 300 cookbook.

Another recipe from the cookbook mentioned above and also three ingredients. Since it was one of those things you make when you want it, I got all the things ready and put in the same drawer in the fridge.

All my snacks portioned out and ready to go.

I also did some chores like laundry, dishes, picking up stuff and putting it away. I took Benjamin to the vet to get his annual heart worm check.

Benjamin is a crazy one, but he is good to us.

I spent the afternoon running errands at a few stores and then went to the gym to do my workout plan on the machines. The evening was spent getting things ready for work and doing some reading for school.

Tuesday was a pretty typical work day. It was pretty darn cold though. Some parts of the state were so cold that schools had two hour delays. We didn't though. After work I ran to the Dollar Tree to pick up some 100 calorie packs of cookies (six for $1 is a good deal).

Then I went to the gym and did some walking on the treadmill. On the way home I stopped at the post office to mail a couple of gifts for some family members. I only had three people in front of me in line, so that was a positive. My plans for tonight are to do some dishes and laundry, play a little Song Pop and Sing Party, and read some more of the ACA code of ethics for school. I know I lead an exciting life. ;)

 
Random thought: I forgot to include this last week, but I walked into my classroom and found that the numbers/words I had on the board looked like they have melted into an evil smiley face. It was weird and creepy, but I think it was just because they used the wrong cleaner on the board.

I've planned out my food for the week like I have been doing, so here is the plan...

And here are the pictures:

Breakfast

Snack

Snack

Lunch

Snack

Dinner

Snack

Exercising and Cooking

I survived week one, day two of the C25K. I was very sore on Tuesday from Monday. In fact, I was still a little bit sore this morning, but I managed to make myself stretch and just go for it. I am just walking/jogging around my little "subdivision" of town. Where ever I end up in the end, I decided to just walk however long it is back as a cool down. My times/steps might be a little different because of that too.

I got a couple of new tank tops and shirts to do my workouts in since my other shirts are too big.

Wednesday's stats

• 3,896 aerobic steps
• 1.62 miles
• 32 minutes

As for the food front... Yesterday I made some jello for sweets or desserts. I know I shouldn't have any sweets at all, but I'm struggling with still wanting some. I've chosen sweets that have much less calories than I was eating before though. I have been surviving on mostly things I found I still have in my cabinets such as the jello, Tootsie roll pops, and Special K pastry crisps. All of these are 100 calories or less.

I also baked some more chicken today. I am going through a lot of chicken! This time I used a mixture of paprika, turmeric, cayenne pepper, and garlic powder. Most of the time I'm boring and just use pepper and seasoned salt (even though I shouldn't be eating salt at all...).

Easiest chicken ever- defrost frozen chicken.

Add seasonings.

Pop into Ronco Rotisserie for 20-30 minutes.

And ta-dah you've got yummy chicken.

I've also been drinking water like crazy since Monday and following my eating plan. I don't mind plain water, but I do like to add Crystal Light to my water. I've been making a gallon at a time and drinking it within a day or two.

I also spent a little bit of time working on some little notebooks to carry around with me with helpful hints for when I'm struggling with my eating plan. They are mostly exercises from the book "Life is Hard, Food is Easy." It is a good book if you struggle with emotional eating. Although I do that MUCH less than I used to, I still think it is a good idea to have the help ready, especially when I'm not home. That is why I made two of these little books. The purple one will go in my desk at school and the little tie-dye one will go in my purse.

I might write some more later on some of the exercises I find useful.

Food for the Day

Breakfast

Snack

I also had some whole wheat Goldfish crackers.

Lunch

Snack

Dinner

Snack