The Little Things

We had been having flurries this past weekend, but I had no idea that we were supposed to get snow last night. I woke up to about 1-2" in the yard. I didn't leave any earlier than usual, but I should have. The roads were horrible this morning, but all was melted and fine when I left work.

What my back yard looked like this morning.

As I was driving to work...

Near a major intersection and still snow covered.

What the roads looked like after work.

I've been concentrating too much on all of the stressful or negative things going on recently. So here is a list of the little things that are okay or good right now.

• I've almost made it through my first day of really trying again. I have to say that I wasn't all that tempted to eat junk food today, so that is good. I've been busy at work and running errands after work, so I don't know if much exercise will get done, but I did do some extra walking around stores to get some groceries and things for work.

None of this today!

• My dad had surgery today and is doing okay as of now.

• My father-in-law helped us replace our deadbolt (which was brass while the regular doorknob/lock was nickel) with a nice new nickel one.

• I got some new makeup brushes to go with my new makeup. My old powder brush was getting kinda icky anyway.

• I found some 90 and 100 calorie "sweet" things to help as I work on reducing my "unhealthy" snacks.

• I cooked my own dinner of a turkey burger today and made one for tomorrow since I have a late day at work.

• The piano at work was tuned and the broken caster was fixed! It hadn't been tuned since 2008.

• I got my engagement ring back (from being fixed) and am happy to be wearing my wedding ring with it again.

• I have crocuses pushing up in the yard that are blooming today.

• I made myself be accountable and took the "lbs." button off of my poundpuncher bracelet until I lose 2 pounds again.

Food for the Day:

Breakfast:

Snack:

Snack:

Lunch: chicken noodle soup, crackers, jello

Snack:

Snack:

Dinner:

I also had a 90 calorie brownie with this.

Workout: stretches, some extra walking, maybe a couple of chores around the house if I'm lucky

Back on Track Tuesday

Today was a long Tuesday. I was tired all day, but it seemed like a lot of other people were tired today too. Maybe it was just the weather. When I woke up, this is what it looked like outside.

Then this is what it looked like on the way home from work.

As you might have noticed, I haven't been posting much of what I've been eating lately. My meals have been mostly on track, but my snacks have been horrible. Today I decided to try really hard to get myself back on track, as much as I don't feel like it. The food and exercise I do will be back on my posts this week.

Food for the Day:

Breakfast:

Snack:

Snack:

Lunch:

Snack:

Dinner:

Snack:

Workout: stretches and Wii Fit

Snacking Woes and Snow

Our second real snow of the year happened today. It was clear until 10ish and the snow started and has not stopped at all.

The kids were released from school a few minutes early, but the roads were already pretty bad.

The first thing I did when I got home was shovel off the front steps and make a path for the dogs to go potty. Then I got to snow blow the driveway since my hubby wasn't home.

Me bundled up and covered in snow from snowblowing.

I'm pretty ashamed about not meeting blowing my snacking goal for this week again. I ate my healthy breakfast, but then gave into a craving on the way to work. I stopped to get some of these vanilla flavored cookie wafer sticks. They are so good, but eating as many as I did is not so good. I actually ate a little over half of the tin of them. My stomach was uncomfortably full and I felt funny from all of the sugar. I guess it is a good thing that I can't eat like I used to otherwise I feel sick. It took a couple of hours to feel normal again. Hopefully I can learn my lesson this time! Snack on "junk food" in moderation. I threw the rest of the cookies out as you can see in this picture.

I'm glad that I did meet my other goals for today and got back on track with my eating after my cookie wafer incident. I cooked my healthy breakfast, took my vitamins, did my stretches, and did my routine on the Wii Fit. I also ate a healthy lunch and dinner and passed up the Dunkin' Doughnuts in the lounge.

Food for the Day:

Breakfast:

Snack: the cookie wafers took place of my usual snack

Snack:

Lunch:

I had a light yogurt instead of chips.

Dinner:

Exercise: stretches, Wii Fit

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

Snow Delay Friday

Today we had a two hour snow delay where I teach. The snow wasn't incredibly deep, but it was windy and drifting today. The roads were horrible on Thursday driving home, a little bit better this morning, and not too shabby on the main roads coming home this afternoon.

I have plans with my group of St. Joe (college) friends to have a girls night/game night tomorrow at one of their apartments in Lafayette (most of my friends in this group live there). The main highway to Lafayette gets bad with snow, because there is a lot of open space for drifting to occur. This has been my "get through the week" thing, and it would be disappointing not to go.


Today was my last day of the week with my three goals that I discussed in this post. Today I switched up my Wii Fit routine just a tiny bit. I did one more aerobic game- Rhythm Kung Fu. I forgot about this game, but I remember really enjoying it before. I also didn't do the Soccer Heading or the Penguin Slide, but instead did the number one where you move front, back, or side to side to add the numbers to ten (don't remember the name of it).

Like my nice toe socks I wore today.

My meals today were on plan, but some of my snacks were not. That seems to be the one big problem I've been having this week. I'm thinking about goals for next week, and one definitely has to be about snacking. I've also been thinking about doing a giveaway of a small gift basket with some of my favorite snacks or foods, some cute notepads/notebooks like I'm using for my goals, two little books about yoga and toning, a water bottle, and possible some resistance bands or 1 lbs. dumbbells to walk with or practice form on toning exercises. It might be more items or a minus some items listed here as I need some time to finalize it and write the rules/legal info.

Here's the food for the day:

Breakfast:

Snack:

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I also had some rice crispy treats.

Lunch:

Snack:

Snack: some candy bars...

Dinner: