Day 16 - August 30, 2011

 This morning I had 2 pieces of wheat toast for breakfast.  Between breakfast and lunch I ate a bunch of red grapes again.  For lunch I didn't go home like I usually do so I was trying to figure out where I could go to get something I didn't have to chew a lot.  The first place I thought of was Dairy Queen, I figured I'd just get a shake and that'd be my lunch.  Well before I left for lunch I looked up nutrition facts for Dairy Queen and a medium caramel shake was over 700 calories, so I decided not to do that.  I just went to the store and got 2 string cheeses, a medium container of watermelon and a bag of the mini reese's peanut butter cups.  (I ate 5 of the mini peanut butter cups and took the rest home).  After lunch and before my root canal appointment I ate a raspberry cheesecake light yoplait yogurt.  I had read online that it's good to take an NSAID and/or pain pill before a root canal because then you're less likely to be in pain afterwards.  So that's what I did.  I drank 40 oz. of water up to this point.  I didn't get nervous for my root canal until after I was sitting in the chair and the doctor explained everything to me.  This may be TMI, but I didn't realize that the reason you need a root canal is because you have an infection in your tooth and they drill into your tooth and pus comes out.  I just think that's so weird that pus can be inside your tooth.  Sorry if that grossed anyone out, I just found that to be interesting.  Anyways, I listened to music on my MP3 player and just closed my eyes the whole time.  I pretty much napped through the whole thing.  It took about an hour and I didn't feel a thing.  He was pushing a lot, but nothing was painful.  And when they started taking everything off I was surprised, it seemed like it had only been 5 minutes.  I guess he drills into the tooth and cleans out all the infection then puts antibiotic gel or something in the tooth and seals in with a temporary filling.  I go back in 2 weeks for a permanent filling.  All I have to say is root canals are nothing especially compared to getting your wisdom teeth taken out.  It was not painful at all, even after the numbness wore off I was not in pain.  It was like a miracle, I have no pain anymore!  I've only been taking ibuprofen for soreness.  The only thing that's been really bothering me is my jaw, from my mouth being open for so long.  It's like an annoying soreness.  I'm just so happy my tooth pain is gone.  So if any of you are told you need a root canal, do not be afraid.  It's nothing.  The doctor said I can't chew on the side where the temporary filling is and no vigorous activity.  He said I need to treat this like an infection.  I need to drink lots of water, keep taking my antibiotics and take it easy.  Ugh, take it easy??  Still no working out!  I was thinking of maybe just doing a little working out, maybe a walk around the block or 1/2 a Pilates video.  I just don't want to have to wait another 2 weeks before I can work out.  Ok now on to dinner.  For dinner we went to Togo's.  I got a mini turkey avocado sandwich with mustard, pickles and pepperoncinis and broccoli cheddar soup. My sandwich was delicious.  The soup was ok, nothing like Quizno's broccoli cheddar soup.  It wasn't hard to eat either.  I drank a 20 oz. bottle of water with my dinner and had Skinny Cow Dark Chocolate Dreamy Clusters for dessert.

I weighed 242 this morning, up .2 lbs. from yesterday.  I'm not going to expect to lose any weight until I'm able to start working out.  I'm sure everyone knows if you're eating more calories than you're burning you're not going to lose weight.  At least I'm back to taking ibuprofen and not vicodin.  So I don't have to make sure I have enough food in my tummy before taking it.  So I'll be eating less than I have been.  Crossing my fingers that my weight stays the same or by some miracle goes down.  I do not want to be higher than 242.

Day 15 - August 29, 2011

So this morning, the first thing I did when I got up was call my dentist.  They couldn't get me in until 12:30pm, so I just went to work until then.  Since my tooth was hurting and it was hard to eat I was trying to find soft things that I didn't have to really chew a lot to eat.  I ate a nutrigrain bar for breakfast, which was really hard because it was kind of dry and hard to swallow.  Then when I got to work and until it was time for my appt. I snacked on some red grapes.  I was really hungry and those were a lot easier to eat.  I probably ate about 20 grapes.  At my appt. with my dentist he said I would need a root canal and got me set up for an appt. with another doctor tomorrow and gave me more pain meds. because I took my last pain pill this morning.  I have never taken so many pain pills in my life, that's how bad the pain is.  He also gave me a prescription for a different antibiotic since the one I was taking wasn't doing anything.  So as I was waiting for my prescription to be filled at Walgreen's I walked around looking for something to eat for lunch.  I ended up getting 2 string cheeses and a Zone Cookie Dough Bar.  I picked that Zone one because it was squishy, it wasn't like a hard, granola bar consistency so I knew it'd be easier to eat.  I drank a 40 oz. bottle of water up to this point.  I also was a little bit bad and stopped at Dairy Queen and got a small hot fudge and caramel sundae, oops.  For dinner I made white cheddar pasta with sauteed mushrooms. Yum!  The pasta isn't so healthy but I love mushrooms and they were sooo good!  I drank another 40 oz. before bed. And had Skinny Cow Dark Chocolate Dreamy Clusters for dessert.

I weighed 241.8 this morning, up .4 lbs from yesterday.  Also I'm 2 weeks into my weight loss journey and I have gained .4lbs since I've started.  This whole tooth/jaw pain is just killing me with my weight loss.  I'm disappointed, but I know I can do it.  I'm hoping all the pain will be gone and done with this week and I can get back to it.  It's just so frustrating.  I'm looking at my weights from the beginning and the first week I was doing really good, then the next week (when my jaw pain started) is when I started to suck.  Let's just hope the root canal fixes the pain and I can get back to normal.

Day 14 - August 28, 2011

Yay!!  I'm back to blogging!!! The last few days were so miserable for me.  I had been in so much pain I just could not sit up and type out a blog post.  So I'm going to try and catch up now.  I write everything down that I eat and I've been keeping track of my weight so I'll be able to do a post for each day to catch up.  Alrighty, so today (Sunday) I ate 2 pieces of toast, a small bowl of rice krispies and drank a 20 oz. bottle of water for breakfast.  For lunch my husband and I ordered a chef's salad and some buffalo wings from Jackson Creek Pizza.  They didn't bring the dressing I asked for so I just used some Ken's Lite Caesar Dressing, it's not the creamy kind it's the more clear kind, you know what I mean.  And their wings are baked not fried and they are delicious.  I had 4 wings.  And then I had a 20 oz. bottle of water.  For a snack after lunch I had 3 graham crackers, like the full cracker not broken in half.  For dinner I made burgers on our Foreman Grill.  The burgers were frozen, not handmade or anything.  I saw on a YouTube video recipe someone put some Laughing Cow cheese on a burger as a healthy alternative.  I happened to have some Light Swiss Laughing Cow Cheese, so I used that on my burger and added some pickles, mustard and ketchup and it was really good.  The cheese was really creamy and delicious.  It's healthier for you than a slice of cheese too because there's only 35 calories in one wedge of Light Laughing Cow cheese and I think the regular ones are 50 calories.  If you haven't tried that cheese you need to, it's really yummy.  I put it on crackers too.  Which brings me to the rest of my dinner.  With my burger I had a handful of wheat thins with one wedge of Light Swiss Laughing Cow cheese and for dessert was a s'more.  And I drank another 20 oz. bottle of water with my dinner and dessert. 

I weighed 241.4 today, that's down .2 lbs. from yesterday.  Tonight is when my jaw pain turned into tooth pain.  About 8:00pm all my pain went into one of my teeth.  It hurt to swallow, it hurt to eat, it hurt to barely touch my tooth.  It was horrible.  So I didn't workout today, I laid around most of the day just hoping the pain would stop.

Day 13 - August 27, 2011

Today was my best friend's wedding!!  I got up at 8:00am to get ready and had 2 pieces of toast and 8 oz. of water for breakfast.  The wedding was at 11:00am and about 10:55am as we were sitting there waiting my jaw started to hurt.  I had already taken my pain pill, but luckily I brought my ice pack so I used my ice pack for a few minutes and the pain went away.  The ceremony was great and the reception was right after that.  The food was a buffet and there was so much good stuff to choose from.  I had a small scoop of teriyaki chicken, a small scoop of pasta salad, a few strawberries and raspberries, a piece of pineapple, and 1/2 of a chicken caesar wrap.  To drink I had 16 oz. of lemonade and a small glass of sparkling cider.  And I had a small piece of cake, which was very yummy.  It was very pretty too.  We left at about 1:15pm and stopped at the local 7 Eleven to get some Icees.  I was very hot and wanted something really cold to drink.  I got a medium cherry & blue raspberry Icee.  When we got home I cropped all the pictures I took at the wedding and posted them on Facebook, then took a nap.  When I got up my jaw started hurting again and it was dinner time by then so I ate some left over mexican pasta with tortilla chips and fat free sour cream and on the side I had some baked sea salt & vinegar chips.  I drank 16 oz. of green tea with that.  After taking my pain pill I started feeling better so I decided to clean the spiderwebs off our front porch.  Seeing all the huge, creepy spiders pop out was so gross!  I got the front porch all clean though.  I started on the car port but the broom fell apart and I didn't want to touch it because I figured there were spiders stuck in the broom, so I just stopped there.  My jaw was hurting off and on today, like it usually does.  So there were times when I felt like doing things and times when I felt like just laying there.  At one point when I did feel ok I decided to do some Pilates, I did the Total Body Pilates from Hulu.com.  I really love that workout, it's only 20 mins. but you can really feel it.  When I weighed myself this morning I weighed 241.6, which is 1.2 lbs. up from yesterday, Ick!  I'm not surprised though with the extra food I've been eating to take my pain pills and not exercising.  I'm not going to stress out about it though.  I just need to squeeze in work outs when I'm feeling ok.  I really need to get this jaw pain figured out.  I don't feel like the antibiotics have changed anything.  And I'm tired of taking pain pills.  If I'm not any better by Monday I will be going back to the doctor or calling my dentist.  Fingers crossed for a little weight loss tomorrow.

Day12 - August 26, 2011

I decided to go to work today since I got some pain meds. to help with my jaw pain.   So I was up at 5:45am.   For breakfast at about 6:30am, while I was getting ready,  I ate 2 pieces of toast and a nutrigrain bar with a 20 oz. bottle of water.  At 10:00am I had a lara bar for my mid-morning snack.  For lunch I had a Roasted Chicken footlong on wheat from Subway.  For toppings I got lettuce, spinach, cucumbers, green peppers, pickles, olives, mustard and vinegar.  While eating my lunch my jaw started to really hurt, so I rushed back to work to get my ice pack (I had already taken my pain pill), but by the time I got to the parking lot it stopped hurting.  That's what's so weird about this.  I've been taking my pain pill every 4 hours so I don't have any pain, but I still end up having pain.  Like right now, as I type this I am in pain, but I just took my pain pill about 30-45 mins. ago.  And now my pain seems to be more in my neck and jaw.  I just wish the pain would go away.  It hurts so bad and it's in such a weird place.  Anyways, for dinner I made Mexican Pasta.  Here is the recipe:  http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/healthified-mexican-pasta-skillet/e86a1cb2-a7b3-4cb7-906a-9a2d7a9c218f  I've made this quite a few times.  It's quick and you only need to use one pot.  I don't use a skillet like it says to, I use a big pot so everything fits.  When I made it tonight I didn't realize that I didn't have any corn so I chopped up a green pepper and added that instead.  I also added some tortilla chips and fat free sour cream on top.  I didn't eat dinner until about 9:00pm though.  We had to run out to the store to get a gift for the wedding we're going to tomorrow and we didn't get back from the store until about 9:00pm.  I also drank 41.5 oz throughout the day at work then 20 more oz. with dinner.  For dessert I had 3 funfetti cake cookies.  Two things that really suck about having this jaw pain is #1 I eat more to make sure I have enough food in my stomach to take my pain med. and #2 I feel so crappy and exhausted from being in pain then not being in pain then being in pain, etc. that I just do not have the energy to workout.  If I don't feel better by Monday I'm going to call my dentist or doctor because something else must be wrong if I don't feel better by then.  This morning I weighed 240.4, that's up, 4 lbs. from yesterday.  And I drank 80 oz. of water today.  I think tomorrow, after the wedding, I'm going to do some Pilates when I'm feeling ok.  That's what I'm planning, but we'll have to wait and see.  I'm very excited for the wedding, I should be able to eat healthy while there too. 

Day 11 - August 25, 2011

Even though I wasn't going into work today I still got up early (6:30am) so I could be ready in case the dentist could see me right away.  For breakfast I ate 2 pieces of toast and a lara bar.  I try to make sure I eat enough food before taking a pain pill so I don't end up throwing up.  I've had that happen before and it is not fun.  So that was my breakfast and I took my antibiotic and pain pill.  I drank a 20 oz. bottle of water as well.  The dentist was able to see me at 9:30am and he tells me I don't have a tooth infection, but that I probably have a swollen lymph node.  He said the antibiotics I have should take care of that and then he gave me a prescription for pain meds.  I got my prescription filled right away because I did not want to have to deal with this pain I've been having anymore.  On my way home from getting my prescription I stopped at Burger King to get food for my husband and I.  Now yesterday when I was waiting to be seen at Urgent Care I was reading a magazine (can't remember which one, maybe Family Circle) and it had an article about the "healthiest" meals at different fast food restaurants.  I put a few in my phone so if I ate at any of those places I would know what to get.  So for Burger King it was a hamburger and unsalted value fries.  It listed the calories and everything in the article too, and I think this one was 400 something calories.  Anyways, so that's what I got for myself and I drank a 20 oz. bottle of water with that.  In case you're wondering the other 2 restaurants that I wrote down were McDonald's and KFC.  For McDonald's it was a honey mustard grilled chicken wrap and a snack size fruit and walnut salad.  And for KFC it was a honey bbq chicken sandwich and a large corn on the cob.  Wendy's was on there too and I think it was a large chili and mandarin oranges for them, but I wouldn't eat that so I didn't write it down.  Now after lunch I took a 3 hour nap, which was awesome because I haven't been sleeping lately.  For a snack, once I woke up, I had a Fiber Plus bar and a weight watcher's pecan cluster.  For dinner I made Chile Relleno Casserole.  The recipe was for mini casseroles, but I just made one big one.  Here is the recipe for anyone who is interested:  http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/mini_chile_relleno_casseroles.html  I think it turned out well.  The only thing is you really have drain the corn and chiles.  Otherwise there's a liquid at the bottom, which isn't a big deal but it just looks weird.  It tasted yummy, would be really yummy if you add chicken.  I think I'm going to do that next time.  Also, there were comments on the recipe that leftovers make really good breakfast burritos.  After dinner I drank a 40 oz. bottle of water.  Then for dessert I made funfetti cookies from cake mix and I had 2 of those with a Fiber Plus bar.  I was taking a pain pill before bed and wanted to make sure there was enough food in my tummy.  Oh, the cookies are really good.  It's so easy to make cookies from cake mix too. Just add 2 eggs and a 1/2 cup of oil to the mix then scoop it out and put it on a cookie sheet.  Easy! =)  This morning when I weighed myself I weighed 240, down 1 lb. from yesterday! Yes!  And one pound closer to saying Bye Bye to the 240's, I like seeing a new 2nd number in my weight =)  I had planned on trying to do some more pilates tonight, but I've felt pretty bad all day.  I can feel kind of normal for a little while, but then once the medication wears off I'm back to feeling horrible.  My dentist said I should start feeling better by tomorrow afternoon, so let's hope he's right.  Oh and the awesome thing today was that I could feel the pain in my abs from doing pilates.  So that means it's definitely working. =)  Another good thing is I drank 80 oz. of water today!  Even when you're feeling pretty crappy you can still do pretty good =D

Day 10 - August 24, 2011

Once again I had a horrible night of sleep.  I woke up every hour with terrible jaw pain.  Then at 4:30am one of our dogs started barking, at nothing.  Then starting at 5:00am I woke up every 5 min., so finally at 5:30am I just got up.  I ate a Nutrigrain bar when I got up, I was feeling very hungry.  I got ready for work then at work, a little after 8am, I ate a lara bar and drank 20 oz. of water with Crystal Light Strawberry Energy.  I had a Fiber Plus bar for my mid-morning snack.  Then for lunch I had leftover tortellini, but since there wasn't very much leftover I toasted a piece of bread then put some Ragu sauce and Fat Free Cheddar Cheese on top and had that for lunch too.  I had one rectangle of a symphony chocolate bar and drank a 20 oz. bottle of water.  For my mid-afternoon snack I had a Fiber Plus bar.  Now during work all day my jaw was bothering me.  I took Aleve in the morning then took another Aleve at lunch time with 2 Tylenol.  The pain would go away for maybe an hour then come back.  So after work I decided to go to urgent care.  The doctor said he thinks I have a dental infection and I need to see my dentist and he gave me a prescription for antibiotics.  I went to the pharmacy got my prescription and picked up some more Aleve and Tylenol, then headed home.  I was feeling ok at that point, just really hungry because it was 7:00pm by then.  So I made BBQ chicken sandwiches and garlic green beans for dinner.  It was the first time I ever made green beans and they turned out pretty good.  And for the chicken I actually used the chicken from a can, yes I know that sounds so gross.  It turned out really good though.  I shredded it up and put it in a pan with BBQ sauce and you never would've known it came from a can.  After dinner my jaw pain was so excruciating I just didn't know what to do with myself.  I called my dentist and left a message to get an appt. right away tomorrow morning.  I called my boss and told her I'd probably be late or not be coming in tomorrow at all.  I ended up putting ice on my jaw and took some more pain relievers and just laid down.  The suckiest thing is I really, really wanted to do Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred as my workout today.  And because of my jaw I didn't get to workout at all.  So hopefully I can see my dentist tomorrow and get this fixed so I can get back on track with my working out.  Oh Oh, I'm also looking into getting an elliptical or treadmill!  Yay!  I'll be so excited if I get one.  Ok I did remember to weigh myself this morning and I weighed 241 =(  That's up .4 lbs. from Monday.  I know, that's pretty much nothing.  It's still disappointing to me though.  Good news is I drank about 10 - 8 oz. glasses of water today!  Let's hope tomorrow is a better day and I can workout. =)

Day 9 - August 23, 2011

I started having horrible pain in my jaw last night, so I got barely any sleep because I kept waking up in pain.  I felt like a zombie when I got up.  So I stopped at Human Bean and got a 16 oz. Low Fat Caramel Granita before work.  I knew I was going to need the caffeine to get me thru the day.  I had a lara bar when I got to work, oh and I didn't drink all of my granita.  I probably drank about 10 oz. of it.  I just didn't want anymore, it was kind of grossing me out.  I don't know.  For my mid-morning snack I had a Fiber Plus bar.  Then for lunch I used up the left over taco meat from last night's dinner and had a small taco salad with the same toppings as last night and I had 10 oz. of water to drink with that.  For my mid-afternoon snack I had another Fiber Plus bar.  Then for dinner I made cheese tortellini with Chunky Mushroom Ragu sauce.  I guess Ragu sauce has a full serving of veggies in each 1/2 cup of sauce, so I thought it would be a good sauce to try.  I blended the sauce to make it smooth because Casey & I don't like chunks of tomatoes in our sauce and the sauce was actually really yummy.  I usually get the Classico brand of sauce and it's good, I just wanted to try something different.  So anyways, I'll definitely be using Ragu sauce again because I really liked it.  With the tortellini I had a handful of wheat thins and a 10 oz. glass of water.  Then for dessert was a s'more, yum yum!  Now I have some badish news.  I forgot to weigh myself this morning.  I think it was my lack of sleep and just being out of it or something, but I just forgot to do it.  So no weight today =(  I promise I'll remember tomorrow though.
Update:  I totally forgot to mention that I worked out today.  I found a video on Hulu.com called Total Body Pilates.  It was a 20 min. video and it was definitely hard.  I really liked the workout and I liked the instructor.  She's kind of cheesy, but very encouraging.  Then I also did Pilates Abs with the same instructor which was 10 mins.  I will be doing those exercises again, maybe with some Yoga videos. 

Day 8 - August 22, 2011

This morning I stopped at Starbuck's and got a Venti Nonfat Iced Awake Tea Latte, which I just looked up online and it's 250 calories!  Yikes!  The grande is only 170 calories.  I usually get the Venti with iced drinks because they put so much ice in it that you barely get anything to drink, but I will not be getting the Venti anymore.  I ate a lara bar with my drink for breakfast.  As a midday snack I had a Fiber Plus bar.  For lunch I made a really, really yummy sandwich.  It had turkey, ham, lettuce, cucumbers, pickles, and mustard.  I had a handful of wheat thins, 2 rectangles of a symphony chocolate bar and 8 oz. of water with my sandwich.  For dinner I made Taco Salad.  I used 85% lean ground beef.  I added some carne asada seasoning and green peppers to the meat.  Then for toppings we had the lettuce & chips, of course, and then olives, black beans, fat free cheddar cheese, avocado, fat free sour cream and taco sauce.  It was sooo good!  I had my taco salad with a raspberry tea and then dessert was a s'more.  We have the giant marshmallows, so you can't really eat more than one because they are so huge and filling.   I had planned to workout tonight, once again, but my plan never seems to work.  I always plan to workout after dinner, but then I end up doing stuff on the computer and all of a sudden it's time to get ready for bed.  So my new plan will be to workout before dinner, then it's done and I don't have to think about it.  I really wish I had a treadmill or an elliptical machine.  Then I could set it up in front of the Tv and workout as I watch my shows.  Anyways, my weight this morning was 240.6.  So that means I lost .8 lbs. for my first week.  I would say that's pretty good considering I've only worked out once and I had a really bad night with drinking alcohol and eating really late at night.  I'm getting better with food, but now I have to get better with portion control.  I need to eat smaller portions.  And then I obviously need to workout more.  My goal this week will be to workout at least 3 days.  I'm also trying to eat every 2-3 hours.  Like have 3 small meals and 3 snacks.  I hear that's supposed to keep your metabolism going.  So I'll try that out.  

Day 7 - August 21, 2011

I woke up in the afternoon today, because I was up late and didn't feel so great.  But I still had my bowl of cracklin oat bran.  For a late lunch we went to the store and got some sandwiches and chips.  I had a turkey, swiss and mustard sandwich with a small bag of BBQ chips and a 20 oz. bottle of water.  My husband was getting his first tattoo today, so we ate our food quickly and headed over to get his tattoo.  That took about 2 hours, maybe a little longer and afterwards he went to show some friends and I came home and took a nap.  I was still tired from the night before.  By the time I woke up it was 7:30pm.  We really needed food in the house, so I left about 8:30pm to go grocery shopping.  I came back around 9:30pm and it wasn't until 10:30pm that I realized I never ate dinner.  I wasn't really hungry so I just drank a 20 oz. bottle of water and had 2 rectangles from a symphony bar.  I really wanted to workout today, but it seemed like the time just got away from me and before I knew it, it was time for bed.  When I got up I weight myself and I weighed 240.8.  Which is expected after all the junk I drank and ate last night.  I did drink 40 oz. of water today, so that's good.    

Day 6 - August 20, 2011

 I started my day with a bowl of cracklin oat bran cereal with fat free milk.  For a late lunch I had some broccoli beef and mushroom chicken with steamed rice from Panda Express.  I didn't finish all of the mushroom chicken though.  I drank 10 oz. of water with that too.  Then I headed to my best friend's bridal shower.  I had 2 mini cornbread muffins, about 10 oz. of punch and 2 fruit/brownie kabobs.  The fruit/brownie kabobs were so yummy.  They had strawberries, bananas, pineapples and chunks of brownies then drizzled with chocolate.  The bridal shower was so much fun.  We played a bunch of different games, some I've never heard of for bridal showers.  Makes me wish I was able to go to my sister's bridal shower so we could play some of those games.  Then after the bridal shower we went to my friend's house to hang out until everyone was ready to go out for the bachelorette party.  The first place we went to was called 4 Daughters, it's an irish pub.  There I had a drink called Malibu Barbie and a chocolate cake shot.  The Malibu Barbie drink was really good, the chocolate cake shot was ok.  It came with a lemon wedge, which I thought was weird and it didn't fill the shot glass.  I don't go to bars ever so I guess I just don't know things about drinks and shots.  To eat I had 2 chicken shots, which are basically like chicken nuggets with sauce on them, and about a handful of fries.  After 4 Daughters we went to Havana Republic which is a really nice bohemian bar, but there was no place to sit, so we left and went to Shenanigan's.  Shenanigan's was interesting, not sure if I'd like to go back.  There I drank 1/2 of a fruity drink. Not sure what is was I just said I wanted something fruity.  The group was heading to another bar called Whiskey River after that, but I ended up going home.  I was pretty hungry and so was my husband, so I got us Jack in the Box.  I had 2 grilled chicken strips, 2 tacos, a small curly fry and lemonade.  Obviously it is not good to eat all that or anything really at 1:00am, but I didn't want to wake up feeling hung over and I was really hungry.  This for sure was my worst night this week.  So when I weighed myself this morning I weighed 239.8, which is .2 lbs up from Friday.  And today was not a good water day, didn't drink much water at all.  It's ok, I'll do better tomorrow. =)

Day Five - August 19, 2011

Just like the last few days I started my morning at work with a 16 oz. glass of water with Crystal Light Strawberry Energy and a Lara Bar.  As a mid-morning snack, so about 2 hours after breakfast, I had some trail mix.  For lunch I had a Subway sandwich.  I got the same one as yesterday; 6 in. roasted chicken on wheat, no cheese, with lettuce, spinach, green pepper, cucumbers, pickles, olives, regular mustard and vinegar.  I got a bag of baked BBQ chips and a bottle of water too.  For whatever reason I've always thought the normal sized bottles of water were all 16 oz., I thought that was the normal size.  Well apparently not, because my "normal sized" bottle of water is 20 oz.  Drinking water from the bottle I got is way easier than the reusable cup I have from Human Bean.  I drank so much water today because I just kept refilling the bottle.  I think I will definitely keep a water bottle around.  So for dinner tonight we had Quizno's.  Again, we really need to go grocery shopping so we don't really have anything here to eat.  I wanted a turkey club bullet with the broccoli cheese soup, but I'm not sure what sandwich I ended up with.  Casey went and got it, so I wasn't there.  The sandwich I wanted was supposed to have red wine vinaigrette on it, but the one I ended up with had some kind of white sauce on it.  So whatever, I ate most of the sandwich.  For dessert I had 7 swedish fish and 1 1/2 rectangles of a symphony chocolate bar.  I ended up drinking a total of 76 oz. of water today, that's 9 1/2- 8 oz. glasses of water.  That's just crazy to me.  If you have a hard time drinking lots of water, drink it out of a water bottle.  Mine is a Dasani one.  This morning my weight was 239.6, that is down .2 lbs. from yesterday.  It's so weird weighing myself every day, but it is helpful.  I won't go off track as easily.  I have a couple other things to talk about real quick. =)

I received my bridesmaid dress in the mail today.  Of course I tried it on.  I really don't understand why you take the time to get measured when they don't actually make the dress to those measurements.  They just look at your measurements, then suggest a size.  The top is way, way too big and the front is too short.  No worries though, I'm sure the alterations lady will be able to fix it all.  I'm not sure when I'm going to meet with the alterations lady since I plan on losing weight, I don't want to have to get it altered more than once.  One last thing, tomorrow night is my best friend's bridal shower/bachelorette party.  I am definitely not getting wasted, that'd just be a waste of everything I've done this week.  I'm not sure what we're doing or where we're going, so I don't know what to expect or prepare myself for.  I'm just going to be strong and not give in to temptation. =)  I'll let you all know how I do tomorrow.

Day Four - August 18, 2011

Started my morning at work with a 16 oz. glass of water with Crystal Light Wild Strawberry Energy and a Lara bar.  Work has been super busy for me lately, so I try to eat my breakfast right when I get to work so I don't forget to eat.  For lunch I got Subway for Casey & I.  My sandwich was soooooo good!  Even though it took forever for the 4 people working to make it.  Anyways, I got a 6 in. roasted chicken on wheat with lettuce, spinach, cucumbers, green peppers, pickles, olives, regular mustard and vinegar.  If you've never gotten spinach on your Subway sandwich, try it next time. =)  I also got some of their Fuse Unsweetened Tea with a splash of Lemonade but ended up spilling it on my white pants, so that was lovely.  I decided to leave that drink at home and drank an 8 oz. glass of green tea with my sandwich instead.  My sandwich was so good I'm thinking about having it again for lunch tomorrow.  After lunch I snacked on some Cracklin Oat Bran cereal, maybe 1/4 cup if that.  And I drank another 16 oz. glass of water with the Crystal Light Strawberry, I didn't realize I grabbed 2 of the same flavor.  Then for dinner I made myself a salmon sandwich.  I use the Pink Salmon from the pouch and mixed it with miracle whip and pickle relish, then put it on some sourdough bread.  I had some baked salt & vinegar chips with my sandwich and a 16 oz. glass of regular water.  The baked chips I had were very yummy, they are the Target brand chips.  Some of the baked chips taste like cardboard to me, but not these ones.  Even Casey liked them.  Then for dessert tonight I had 10 Swedish Fish, the big ones not the baby ones.  

Tonight was my first workout night.  I did 20 mins. of Yoga and 30 mins. of Fruit Ninja on Xbox Kinect.  For Yoga I did Move & Sweat from yogajournal.com.  Thank you to my friend, Niki, for recommending this site =)  There was one part of this video that was super hard for me to keep up with, but I've done a Yoga type class before so I kind of remember some of the moves.  It was still hard though.  I just love Yoga, it's like a relaxing workout- if that makes any sense.  You get a workout but there's a soothing, calmness to Yoga.  I love it!  Then the Fruit Ninja definitely works out my arms.  My arms are still sore from it.  Basically fruit pops up on the screen and you have to chop it with your hand like a ninja.  But it comes fast and you want to chop a bunch of fruit at once to get more points, then there are bombs that pop up that you have to avoid.  It's very fun.  

My total for water I drank today was 6- 8 oz. glasses plus an 8 oz. glass of green tea.  Now for my weight, when I weighed myself this morning I weighed 239.8.  So I'm up .8 lbs, I kinda knew that was going to happen because of what I had for dinner last night, but it's ok.  I'm still down from where I started.  I'm excited to see what I weigh tomorrow, to see if my workout helped.  Well that's it for tonight.  Talk at you tomorrow =]

Day Three - August 17, 2011

I didn't stop for a coffee drink on my way to work again, Yes!  I drank the Crystal Light Wild Strawberry Energy again in 16 oz. of water.  This stuff tastes very good, and it has to be giving me energy.  Normally if I didn't have time to stop and get a coffee on my way to work I would be nodding off until lunch time when I'd get my coffee drink.  I haven't felt sleepy at all since not getting a coffee drink.  I know I'll still get them just because if I don't then I'll crave them.  But I can not get them everyday like I had been.  So for breakfast I had a Lara bar.  For lunch I made an egg salad sandwich on wheat bread again and had a Fuji apple with that.  Fuji apples are my favorite!  I've never eaten a Fuji apple I didn't like.  They're so sweet, they're like a dessert.  I had 2 rectangles of a symphony chocolate bar.  Oh and to drink I started drinking an Arizona Sweet Tea, then decided I didn't want to drink that and made a Lipton Raspberry tea in my 16 oz. cup of water, I only drank 8 oz. of this though.  After lunch I felt very weird.  I felt like I couldn't get a good breath and like something heavy was sitting on my chest.  I felt this way for probably about 20 mins.  After that I felt drained.  My legs felt like jello when I was walking,  My whole body felt heavy.  I just felt so tired and exhausted.  I don't know what brought this on.   I ate a Lara bar on my way home for work, thinking maybe I just needed to eat something.   It all went away and I was fine by about 6:00pm.  It was just weird.  I had to go to the store and grab a few things after work, one being a monster bone for my dog, Remy.  It is his first birthday today!  After I got done at the store I called my husband to see what he wanted for dinner (we need to go grocery shopping really bad) and he wanted Panda Express.  So I got steamed rice (usually I'd get the chow mein) with Kobari Beef and Honey Walnut Shrimp.  We very rarely eat at Panda Express, so I HAVE to get the Honey Walnut Shrimp every time.  That stuff is soooo yummy!!  I looked up the nutritional info. online for the 2 things I got and they are definitely not the worst ones.  I had that with a 16 oz. glass of water.  Then dessert was one rectangle of a symphony chocolate bar.  Oh and throughout the day at work I had 3 werther's hard candies.  So, it looks like today I had 5- 8 oz. glasses of water.  Not bad.  And this morning when I weighed myself I was 239.0!  Gotta love that!  I'm hoping it doesn't go up tomorrow morning because of what I had for dinner tonight.  We'll just have to wait and see.

Day Two - August 16, 2011

I did not stop for a coffee drink this morning, Yay!  Instead I had a 16 oz. cup of water with Crystal Light Wild Strawberry Energy.  It seemed to work.  I didn't get tired at all, although I was super busy all day.  I didn't really have time to be tired.  With that drink I had a Lara bar for breakfast.  These things are sooooo good.  If you've never had them or heard of them, go find them and try one.  I've seen them at Walmart, Winco & Target so far.  I get mine at Target because they have the biggest selection of flavors. My favorite is Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.  The ingredients in it are: Cashews, Dates & Chocolate Chips. That's it!  They have quite a few different flavors too.  A few other ones I like are Cashew Cookie, Peanut Butter Cookie and Chocolate Chip Brownie.  The only one I haven't liked so far is the Cherry Pie.  It was too bitter for me.  Anyways, these things are so yummy and don't have any weird ingredients, it's real food!  So moving on, about an hour before lunch I had another Lara bar.  We had a meeting during lunch at work so I got food from the "cafeteria".  I don't know what to call it. It's like a buffet, you pick a plate, put food on it, then you pay for how much your plate weighs.  So for lunch I had a salad with a little cheese, sunflower seeds (without the shells, obviously) and 1,000 Island Dressing.  You can never tell what dressings they have, so I just got the one I recognized.  I also had about 10-15 red grapes & some cottage cheese.  To drink I had a 16 oz. cup of water with Lipton Raspberry Tea flavoring.  Throughout the day at work I had 3 werther's hard candies.  For dinner we had Burger King.  I got a grilled chicken sandwich with mustard and lettuce and some apple fries.  I love that apple fries are an option for a side at Burger King.  It seems like all the other fast food places have fries or onion rings.  To drink I had a 16 oz. cup of water and for dessert a peanut butter bar that I made.  It was the last one.  So today I almost made my goal of 8 glasses of water, I drank 6- 8 oz. glasses of water today.  I never drink that much water.  Oh, almost forgot.  When I weighed myself this morning (Aug. 16), I weighed 241.2, so I lost .2 lbs.  That's pretty much nothing, but I like that the number at least changed.

Day One - August 15, 2011 (with pictures)

Exactly 2 months before my sister's wedding, which is why I wanted to start on this day.  I had planned to start my blog on this day as well, but it took my a little longer than I had planned to come up with a name for my blog.  I took a couple pictures of myself so everyone can see how I look starting this journey.  There's no sucking in going on in these pictures.

  Anyways, I started my morning with a small glass of green tea before I started getting ready for work.  I stopped at one of the local coffee stands (Human Bean) on my way to work and got a 16 oz. Low Fat Caramel Granita.  This is one thing I need to work on, not getting so many coffee drinks.  It's normal for me to have one every single morning.  For lunch I had an egg salad sandwich on wheat bread.  I actually made the egg salad myself for the first time ever.  It turned out really good too.  Just wish I had come celery to add to it.  I also had a Fuji apple and to drink I had a 16 oz. Nonfat Iced Awake Tea Latte from Starbucks.  Now normally I wouldn't get 2 drinks from 2 different coffee places in the same day, but one of the drug reps at work brought us coffee unexpectedly.  So I just drank the one she brought us for lunch.  For dinner I had a shredded chicken enchilada.  My mother-in-law made them so I'm not 100% sure what was in them but I could tell there was the shredded chicken, beans, olives, the tortilla and enchilada sauce.  Not sure if there was anything else in there.  It was very yummy.  I also had a small handful of tortilla chips with freshly smashed avocado.  And for dessert I had 3 rectangles of a symphony chocolate bar.  Throughout the day I drank 2- 8 oz. glasses of water. Ok I said I wasn't ready to say how much I weigh, but whatever I'm just going to say it.  It's just a number, right?  *Sigh*  I weigh myself every morning and today (Aug. 15) I weighed 241.4.  At the beginning of the year I weighed 248, the most I've ever weighed.  So I've lost 7 pounds since then, but I've also been up and down since then.  So this is the time for that number to go down and continue going down.  I would eventually love to be under 200 lbs., but losing 10-20 lbs. to start is good for me.  

Introduction

Welcome to my 2 month weight loss journey! =^]  In 2 months I will be going to Illinois to be in my younger sister’s wedding.  There’s nothing worse than being the “fat girl” in the wedding party.  Been there, done that, don’t want to do it again.  So I am now motivated to lose some weight before her wedding.  I’ve tried several times to lose weight and do good for about the first week or so then go back to my unhealthy ways.  I think why I have failed in the past is because I just stopped everything cold turkey, like one day I was drinking soda and eating fast food constantly and then I start my “diet” & I completely stopped drinking soda, didn’t eat any fast food and tried working out everyday.  My motto for losing weight this time will be everything in moderation.  I may still eat fast food but it won't be every day.  I haven’t had any soda  or anything carbonated for probably a month now.  I just don’t like the way I feel after drinking carbonated beverages.  So I won't have to worry about cutting out soda.  


I have a four goals for my weight loss journey: 
 #1 I want to lose 10-20 lbs.  This may not sound like a lot, but we’re talking about 2 months.  I would love to lose 20 lbs. but I feel like if I say I’m losing 20 lbs. then I don’t it’ll make me feel like I just can’t do it.  Also, I would be completely happy with losing 10 lbs. before the wedding. 
 #2  I want to drink more water.  I’ve been drinking a lot of tea lately, but not much water.  I want to  drink at least 8-8oz. glasses of water a day.  I’m going to drink as much as I can.  I have those little flavor packets that you put in a water bottle and shake it up, so I don’t get bored with plain water.  
#3  I want to get 7-9 hours of sleep per night.  Right now I’ve been getting anywhere from 4 ½-6 hrs. of sleep per night.  I’m a night owl, I don’t really like being up early in the morning but I have to be to work at 8:00am and get up at 5:45am every day of the week.  I try to catch up on my sleep over the weekend but it doesn’t really work that way.  So I just need to make sure I’m ready for bed by 10:00pm or earlier.  Gosh, that sounds impossible right now.  Earlier than 10:00 just seems so early to me.   
#4  I want to eat more fruit & vegetables.  I like lots of fruit, but can’t find a lot of vegetables that I like.  I know a good way to have vegetables that are really good for you  that you don’t like is in a smoothie.  I might make some and share the recipe, if it tastes ok.   I’ll just need to keep trying veggies and see what I like.
  So those are my goals for my 2 month weight loss journey..  So far I’ve been doing really good with goal #2.  Those flavor packets help a lot with drinking more water.  Right now I have Crystal Light Wild Strawberry & Raspberry Lemonade and Lipton Raspberry White Tea.  All of them taste good and the Strawberry one is supposed to give you energy.  


I know this is all about me losing weight so it would make sense for me to post my weight, my size and maybe my measurements but I’m not sure I feel so comfortable doing that yet.  I think people who know me would be surprised to know how much I weigh and what size I wear, I don’t think I look like I weigh as much as I do, but I also think I see myself smaller than what I really am.  So maybe no one would be surprised.  I do plan on sharing how much I weigh and everything, just not yet.  I will be weighing myself everyday and keeping track of that.  I’m also keeping a food journal.  I’m not keeping track of calories, that’s just too complicated and too much work for me, but I’m writing down everything that I eat and drink.  I’m also going to start with working out 2 times a week.  I don’t want to start out with too much and end up quitting.  My work outs will vary every time.  I’ll do some Xbox Kinect stuff, some Yoga, some workout DVDs and then just walking more.  I am not telling anyone to do what I do or saying that what I’m going to be doing is the right way.  It’s just what I’m doing and I wanted to share.  Maybe I'll even inspire a few people to come on this journey with me. =)