Showing posts with label positive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label positive. Show all posts

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Gaining Control

This week has had its share of ups and downs as far as the weight loss efforts go. I would like to focus this post on sharing the positives from this week.

  • I had the urge for candy bars today again (specifically Twix), but went for this instead.

  • I have been having burritos for dinner. I’ve used 100% whole wheat tortillas, 94% lean ground beef, fat free refried beans, shredded cheese, lettuce, onion, and tomatoes on them. They are tasty, filling, and easy to make. All I really had to cook was the ground beef.

  • There was Domino’s pizza and cinnamon bread at our staff meeting today. It smelled so good, but I didn’t have a bite of anything.
  • This week was the official start of the walking challenge at work. I need to walk over 8,000 steps a day (and upload my data once a week) to be eligible for a drawing to win a prize at the end. So far I’ve been over 8,000 steps every day. There was one day I even had over 13,000 steps!

  • I had prep time today and had the urge to snack while working in my room. I fought off the urge with a mint.
  • I have been doing my stretches every day this week. I switched to doing them at night, often times during a commercial break in one of my shows. American Idol has such long commercial breaks that I need something to get up and do so I’m not bored.
  • On Monday, I weighed in at 187.8 which is about a six pound loss for this month. I weighed more this morning, (Snacking on candy bars wouldn’t have anything to do with this, right?) but am confident as long as I get back on track I can be down to that six pound mark by the end of April. That means I met my goal for the month of 4-8 pounds down.
  • If I could get back down to 187 (which is the lowest I’ve been so far in this weight loss journey) I get to open up one of the C.D.s that have been taunting me all month and finally listen to it.


So here is to a good end of the week and weekend! On track and in control so that Monday weigh in is a good one.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Thursday Blahs

Today was kinda a "blah" day for me. I went to pull out of my driveway for work and saw this.


There were some positives, but there were so not so good choices as well. Today I thought I'd try something a little different for my post. A little list of the positive verses the negatives...

My cute outfit
Positive:                                                                         
cooked a healthy breakfast                                      
took my vitamins                                                            
wore a cute outfit                                                           
did my stretches                                                             
got most of the concert songs selected
ate a healthy lunch
did Wii Fit for 31 minutes

Negative:
ate the rest of those cookies I was talking about yesterday
didn't get everything done at work that I wanted to today
ate some rice crispy treats after lunch
weight went up a bit this morning
feel "blah-ish" from it being that TOM

Well, I'm happy to say at least I found more positive than negative. That is the beauty of this exercise. It usually always ends up with more positive than negative and some the negatives I can't control anyway.

Food for today:

Breakfast:



Snack:



Snack:



Lunch:
Yogurt instead of chips again.


Snack: rice crispy treats


Dinner: chicken tenders and fries

Exercise: Wii Fit, stretches