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.