lovinaz's "getting her act together" journal

[toystoryduo]

Great job on the workout, on the vacation planning, and on getting your master bedroom spotless!

I hope you have a great day ahead!

 

[Amy&Dan]

Amy, great job getting back on track and resisting a donut! Cream filled donuts must be an "Amy" thing, I love em too! And well done on getting the master deep cleaned, I love that feeling. So glad you got your trip details worked out!

Keep up the good work!

Did you close today? That is PERFECT your friend will be renting the new house.

 

[traceycooper]

do you want to come over & do my bathroom??
happy birthday to DH for tomorrow
i'm sure you'll be back on track now - remember how great it felt when you hit 138 - heres to getting it back on friday & a few more off aswell

 

[lovinaz]

The last couple days have been a blur! Quick recap (the good) - closed on the rental house! Got my TurboJam DVDs! Food was great on Monday!!

Now for the bad... Gained back 3 lbs overnight Tuesday's food was a total train wreck. We're talking binge-city! I had 2 days straight of all-day meetings, with food. I avoided the pastries at breakfast, but things started going downhill with lunch (pizza and a brownie) and got worse after I got home.

So far so good today, but I was really disgusted with myself yesterday. Today I resisted bagels, deli sandwiches and cookies the size of dinner plates. I ate my salad I brought instead, then later ate my carrots and egg whites. I HAVE to get a grip mentally if I am ever going to succeed!

So, I'm not sure what the scale will say on Friday, but there is not much I can do about it now, so the only thing I can do is THINK about what I put in my mouth from now on and start winning these mind games I play with myself!

Monday food was great, exercise was 45min treadmill
Tuesday was a disaster and no exercise (funny how that works!)
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Tracy, thanks, I should spend more time cleaning and less time eating apple butter straight out of the jar...

Amy, I probably should have eaten that *&#$*& donut! Maybe then I could have staved off Tuesday's meltdown...

Tracey, at this point as long as I see something less than the dreaded 143 on Friday, I will be happy. B-day cake is being made tonight, heaven help me avoid going overboard with that!

 

[Amy&Dan]

Amy, don't despair, that three pounds is probably just water. You are probably stressed to the max now that you have closed and have this work ahead with the rental and when you add in work meetings/food, that's tough. You did well today and good job resisting those big cookies and eating your own healthy food instead. I am keeping my fingers crossed for your weigh in. Hang in there!

 

[toystoryduo]

Congrats on closing the rental house and on getting the Turbo Jam DVDs!! Did you try a workout yet?

I agree with Amy. I bet that gain is water weight. Drink plenty of water and it should just float away. (pun intended )

I hope you have a great day!

 

[lovinaz]

Yesterday turned out good foodwise. I avoided all the junk at work, plus at home. Today so far I have done so-so, I ate my wrap for lunch, but couldn't resist the brownies... But the key is to have 1 brownie and move on, without going off the deep end for the rest of the day. And that is exactly what I plan on doing!

Tonight we will have cake for DH's b-day, and I will probably take him out to dinner. Right before weigh-in, great... TOM decided to show up today, 7 weeks after the last one! That is a record for me. Plus, I didn't have a single PMS symptom (except for the horrible carb cravings!). I guess I am just getting to that age where I will have to get used to the inconsistencies.

For Wednesday:
1260 cal, 51g fat, 97g carb, 102g protein, 25g fiber
B: chocolate oatmeal
L: spinach salad w/chicken, cheese, LF dressing
S: 2 egg whites, 10 baby carrots
S: celery-n-hummus (2tbsp), 4 M&M's
D: crockpot beef roast, rutabaga, onion, carrots; HC fudge bar

E: 45min elliptical
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Amy, I think my main problem is not letting one bad meal ruin my whole day. I should have eaten the pizza and brownie for lunch, enjoyed it, then behaved the rest of the day instead of having the "well, I already went over on calories, I might as well eat whatever I want and get back on track tomorrow" mindset.

Tracy, I did the TurboSculpt workout this morning. It was different, not as challenging as I thought (but I'll let you know tomorrow, maybe I won't be able to move my arms and legs!). I think the real benefit of the series will be the cardio workouts, which I haven't tried yet.

 

[Amy&Dan]

I guess I am just getting to that age where I will have to get used to the inconsistencies.

Ahhh Amy, welcome to the club!! For years I was 28 days on the dot, never missed or was late unless I was pregnant. Then I hit my late 30's and now I literally never know when it will hit. I get pms but it lasts for weeks on end, often with no TOM to follow. Hopefully this was a fluke with you for at least a few more years!

Great job with food and exercise today. I think I can safely say all of us struggle with not letting a small splurge turn into an all out food fest! Its good you at least recognize you have that tendancy, that's half the battle right there!

I have a friend who is thinking about a beagle puppy, she wants a male and wants a "B" name so I told her to go with Buckley!! I still wish I would have named Daisy, Bailey. If only I had read your idea before I let the kids name her!

 

[toystoryduo]

Happy Birthday to your DH! Where did you go out to eat for his birthday last night?

I can't wait to hear more about the Turbo Jam! I definitely need to start getting workouts back into my daily routine and this sounds like a good one.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

 

[lovinaz]

Weight this morning was 141. And given all the garbage I've eaten this week, I am totally OK with it! I've been tracking my weight on FitDay and at least the overall trend is downward, even if there are little peaks here and there. That's to be expected... My body is so wacked anyway: Two weeks ago I was 142 on Fri, then 139 on Sat-Thu, then 138 last Fri-Sun, then 141 Mon-Tue, 142 on Wed and 141 on Thu and today.

This weekend will be hectic! We are having a little get-together tomorrow to celebrate DH's, his sister's and his mother's b-days (they are all in April). And the rest of the weekend will most likely be spent painting the rental house and possibly upgrading one if its bathrooms (the other one just needs paint and a new light fixture. Next weekend we are taking Fri off work (kids don't have school) and going up to our property for the weekend. Yes, that is a whole weekend we should be working on the rental, but OH WELL, we need a break! I have 2 UK trips coming up, I don't plan on visiting my dad in Germany since we will be there in June, but I might change my mind, depending on how much we can get done on the rental bewteen now and then!

I don't have any totals for yesterday, another day of not-so-great choices, but I should be back on track today. I NEED to be back on track today!

For Thursday:
B: chocolate oatmeal
L: FlatOut bread w/chicken lunchmeat, spinach, provolone, mustard; brownie
S: 5 pretzels; 6 M&M's
D: chips-n-salsa, 1 shrimp taco, 1 salmon taco
S: 2 pieces b-day cake (DD didn't finish hers, so I did... )

E: 40min TurboSculpt DVD
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Amy, geez, thanks for that ray of sunshine! That's all I need - a couple weeks of bloating with no end in sight. That would be great if your friend got a beagle! Why does she want a male? If I ever got another one, it would definitely be a female. We only got Buckley because his litter only had 1 tri-color female and she was already gone! We also like the name Baxter and DD likes Biscuit.

Tracy, I am not even sore from the TurboSculpt workout yesterday! Guess I need to use heavier weights... I might do the TurboJam CardioParty tomorrow (gotta work out 1 more time to get my 5x in this week!) and I'll let you know how it goes. We went to a local restaurant called Tia Rosa for dinner. It's one of our favorites! Baja Mexican, mmmmm

 

[Amy&Dan]

Sorry to be a downer about the "age" issue with your hormones! I actually never knew about these phantom TOM/pms things until Julie (goldcupmom) told me and sure enough my doctor confirmed. Hormone supplements really help, I just hesitate to take them because of my breast cancer worries.

Sounds like you have a busy weekend planned. I hope you have fun at yoru family bday celebration and that you get a lot done on the rental. I'll be thinking of you when I watch HGTV tomorrow to kill time during our blizzard!

I think that weigh in is a good one. I am betting next week will show a nice loss.

When do you go to th UK next?

No idea why my friend is set on a boy. I could tell her a thing or two about male beagles but then I have to say, Benjamin was a loyal and sweet member of the family even if he was a pill! Although, Daisy's brother Sam, whom my sister has, is much calmer than Ben was. Tell dd I love Biscuit for a name! I may have to use that for my next little hound friend! Its perfect since God knows beagles love to eat biscuits or anything else.

 

[toystoryduo]

It sounds like you have a busy weekend ahead of you. I hope you have a great time at the party and that working on the rental house goes well for you this weekend.

Have a great weekend!

 

[lovinaz]

Just a quick post to log my food from yesterday. I am sad to say that I did not work out this morning and it doesn't look like I will have time today at all. So, for the first time ALL YEAR I will not make my 5x/week exercise goal! But I did work out 4x this week and I will be cleaning all day, so it's not like I'm sitting on the couch eating bon bons (although that does sound tempting!)

DH and the kids went to the rental to start painting, I stayed back to clean the house, which is a total mess... Why we decided to have people over today is beyond me!

We got a carrot cake from Costco, I know I will be having some of that later. I just hope a lot of people eat it because I won't be able to control myself with the leftovers - those will have to go with DH to work on Monday.

For Friday:
B: chocolate oatmeal
L: FlatOut bread w/chicken lunchmeat, spinach, provolone, mustard
S: 3 egg whites, 10 baby carrots
S: celery w/hummus (2tbsp); 7 M&M's
D: chicken ole, broccoli, 1 piece b-day cake

E: 45min elliptical/stair climber combo
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Amy, I figured the hormone fun would be starting soon. My Dr has some supplements (not hormones, just vitamins & stuff) for PMS, I might get a bottle when I am there next week, to see if it helps. Just because I didn't have any PMS symptoms this time around doesn't mean I won't next time! I go to the UK on April 19th, coming back on the 24th. Then I turn right back around and leave on May 4th, coming back on the 8th. I'm exhausted just thinking about it!

Tracy, thanks. It seems that all weekends are busy! Except next weekend will be a nice break, since we will be up at our property. It's pretty relaxing up there.

 

[Amy&Dan]

Your food yesterday looked good. Its perfectly understandable why you didn't work out your five times this week. I think sometimes life happens and you have to look at it as something okay, understandable and give yourselfe an excused absence from a typical workout. YOu have a LOT going on right now! That UK travel schedule looks grueling, but think of those ff miles!

Hope your get together was fun, I LOVE that carrot cake, I've had it many times I must confess!

 

[lovinaz]

Boy oh boy was I BAD this weekend! Not really with food, but with drinking. I am WAY TOO OLD to be doing that kind of nonsense! I seriously don't think I will touch a drop of alcohol for a looooooong time. I can honestly say I don't think I have been that hungover since my college days. I was out of commission all day yesterday, I didn't start feeling better until about 6:30pm. And even then I wasn't 100%. But at least I wasn't throwing up anymore!

It all started so innocently... DH's family and my mom came over, we ate, had cake. I managed to drink a whole bottle of wine in a span of 3 hours. Then the family left (my mom took the kids to spend the night with her) and the friends came. I had a rum-n-diet, and one of our friends brought a bottle of Tequila Rose and a bottle of Long Island Ice Tea mix. I drank a glass of Tequila Rose, and by that time I should have stopped completely. But no, that was not in the cards... When I went to get the ice, I saw the bottle of Limoncello that has been in the freezer for months. That's when the shots started. I had at least 2-3 of Limoncello, plus at least 1 of the Long Island ice tea. All in a matter of 30 minutes or so... DH wasn't in much better shape. I started getting sick that night and it continued all day yesterday. My weight plummeted (which was nice, but SO not worth it!). So, I learned my lesson. Our 2 friends went out after they left our house and I heard this morning that they stayed out until 3am!

So I didn't get a single thing done - no grocery shopping, no laundry. I need to play catch-up big time today! I did feel well enough to do my Pilates DVD this morning, but there was no way I was going to do cardio. I need to recuperate first!

For Saturday:
B: chocolate oatmeal
L: FlatOut bread, chicken lunchmeat, spinach, mustard, provolone
S: string cheese, 1 serving mini rice cakes
D: 2 Costco turkey wrap rolls, pretzels, veggie tray (no dressing), 1 piece carrot cake

E: none

For Sunday:
B: 5 pretzels
L: 1 piece toast w/butter
S: HC fudge bar
D: microwave popcorn

E: none
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Amy, I already have 150k FF miles built up again! And I think they have a special where you get 50k bonus miles for the month of April, so I will have a lot by the time we take our trip in June. I thought I'd feel reall guilty about not working out 5x, but I was OK with it. 4x is good too!

 

[Amy&Dan]

Well it sounds like you had fun! And to think I was coming on here with my head hung in shame for having a few rum and diets on my weekend! I am telling you, I want to come to one of your parties. Sometimes you just gotta let loose.

Your food on Sunday was light! At least you didn't do the "gotta have grease thing". When I am hungover I have to have Taco Bell. See how much better you are than me??

 

[toystoryduo]

It sounds like you had fun on Saturday! Maybe not so much on Sunday though.

I have always wanted to try Limoncello. I saw Giada make it on the Food Network once and it looked soooooo good.

I hope you're feeling better and that you have a great day ahead!

 

[lovinaz]

I feel like a human again! Made it through work yesterday and did a couple loads of laundry. DH went to the grocery store, and everything is back to normal.

I did not get up to work out this morning, I was really tired so I skipped. I definitely don't want to get into the habit of this, but this week is wacky anyway, since we are going up north on Friday and my routine is all screwed up! So who knows how many days of working out I'll squeeze in, hopefully at least 4. I'm not going to worry too much about it!

I did something that shocked even me this morning - I threw out the rest of the carrot cake! (hey, none of my smilies are working!). I didn't want to be tempted by it, there were about 7-8 pieces left and I knew I'd be the one eating every single piece, so I got rid of the temptation. Yay me!

For Monday:
B: chocolate oatmeal
L: 2 Costco turkey wrap rolls
S: 3 mini cucumbers, string cheese
S: celery-n-hummus (2tbsp)
D: 1 slice cheese pizza, 1 slice ham-n-pineapple pizza, 1 piece carrot cake

E: 40min Pilates DVD
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Amy, people seem to really like our parties. They are fun, but Saturday was off the wall. A little TOO fun, let's say... I tend to get a little crazy when I am that impaired and it's not something I like to do often. You should come down for our annual Halloween party, that is always a blast!

Tracy, I wish I would have known you wanted to try Limoncello, I could have sent you the bottle and saved some of my liver function!

 

[lovinaz]

Our friend is definitely going to be renting our house, so we really need to get going on it! We wasted a whole day on Sunday because neither of us could move, let alone paint, and we are supposed to go up north this weekend. And we haven't been doing anything during the week, so we are really behind! He is wanting to move in on May 18th.

DH is starting to waffle on whether or not he wants to go up north, because it says there is a 40% chance of scattered thunderstorms. Plus the high is only 50 and the low is 30! That's pretty cold for a weather wimp like me. We are going to check the weather again tomorrow (but I doubt it will change, it's been that way the past 5 days or so!) and make the decision then. We have some friends that are also going to meet us up there, I guess DH talked to them and they wouldn't be crushed if we didn't go. But I know the kids would be! So we'll see...

I am not looking forward to all the Easter goodies that will be in full force after this weekend. I've been doing pretty good, I don't want to lose control!

I had to get my follow-up pap today, always a joy... I also talked to my Dr about my food allergies and he is referring me to an allergist for testing and gave me a prescription for an epi-pen. He said I shouldn't have to use it, and to try the Benadryl first, but it's best to have it in case I have a really strong reaction ('cause you just never know!).

For Tuesday:
B: chocolate oatmeal
L: 2 Costco turkey wrap rolls
S: 2 mini cucumbers, 3 egg whites
S: celery-n-hummus (2tbsp), 5 M&M's
D: whole wheat spaghetti, sauce w/veggie burger crumbles, HC fudge bar

E: none

 

[traceycooper]

wow amy you did have a wild night on saturday!!!
glad you got back on track
sounds like you have a busy week ahead