Day 43 - September 26, 2011

I had a Slimfast Shake for breakfast and a FiberOne Bar for a mid-morning snack.  I had a dentist appointment today at 11:00am.  I thought it was to get my crown for the tooth that I had a root canal on and thought this would be by last dentist appointment, besides cleanings.  Well I got a temporary crown and have to go back one more time for a permanent crown, then I'll be done.  So after my dentist appointment I went home and had some lunch.  I had a Slimfast Meal bar and some Baked Cheetos.  For dinner I made burgers with colby jack cheese.  On my burger I put raw green pepper, a fried egg, pickle, mustard and ketchup. Fried eggs on a burger are soooo good.  If you've never tried it before you really should.  For exercise today I did 3 reps of 15 bicycle crunches, 3 reps of 15 regular crunches and Pilates 100.  I didn't mention this earlier but I don't know if anyone noticed that I made it thru the whole week with doing some sort of exercise every day and I'm still going. =)  Yay I reached a goal.  I want to do more exercise but right now I feel like my crunches are what I have time for.  I do them right before I go to bed.

Today I weighed 235.0.  I just wanted to say that it's been at least 6 months since I have had any soda.  And I've actually tried a sip of my husband's Pepsi and Dr. Pepper two different times and it does not taste like anything to me.  All I tasted was carbonation.  It was weird.  I used to love Cherry Dr. Pepper and Mountain Dew and I haven't tried either of those since I've stopped drinking soda.  I probably won't like them though.  I was drinking flavored sparkling water when I was trying to stop drinking soda and I really liked those for a while, but I don't even like those anymore.  I don't like anything with carbonation.  It just makes me feel like crap.  I don't know why I wanted to bring that up.  Maybe if you're trying to stop drinking soda this will help you and you'll see that it's possible.  I had tried to stop drinking soda at least 2 times before the time that I really stopped.

Day 41 & 42 - September 24 & 25, 2011

September 24 - I had a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch for breakfast.  We had to take our dogs to the vet today.  Oh my gosh, it was so cute!  One of our dogs, Remy, is a boxer bullmastiff mix and there was a female boxer at the vet's office (who just had puppies) and Remy laid down in front of her, like nose to nose with her.  He was smelling her and almost cuddling her.  It was so cute!  After the vet I was starving, so we stopped at one of the local Taco Carts and I got a carne asada burrito!  Yummy yummy yummy!  Besides the carne asada it had guacamole, sour cream, lettuce and salsa.  I drank a Sobe Lean Honey Green Tea with my burrito.  I didn't finish my burrito.  It's so huge.  I ate a little more than half of it.  After my burrito I had some sour gummy worms.  More specifically Trolli Brite Crawlers, my favorite!!  Love these!!  I want to find a huge bag of these.  All I ever find is the small bags, I need a bulk bag of these lol!  One of our friends stopped by and brought his new puppy over.  He has an 8 week old yellow lab who is the same size as our dog, Pooper =P, and pretty much the same color as him too.  His puppy's name is Porter and he's a typical puppy.  Very playful and energetic.  Pooper and Porter played non stop while they were here.  For dinner I had 2 hot dogs with ketchup, mustard and pickles and dessert was some Peanut Butter Fudge Brownie Trifle.  My exercise was 3 reps of 15 bicycle crunches, 3 reps of 15 regular crunches and Pilates 100.

Today I weighed 234.8, down 1.4 lbs. from yesterday. =)

September 25- For breakfast I had 2 pieces of wheat toast.  And today I had my first alterations appointment to get my bridesmaids dress fixed.  The appointment went well.  The lady I'm going to did all the alterations for my wedding and did great so I knew I had to go back to her.  I go back next Sunday for my fitting.  I can't wait to see it on and see how it fits =).  On my way home from my appointment I stopped at Human Bean and got a 12oz. Caramel Granita.  Notice it wasn't a Low Fat one?  Well at first the girl tried giving me a caramel latte.  Huh?  It's hot outside, why would I order a hot drink?  And how does granita sound like latte?  So I told her what I wanted again and she made a regular granita, I was pretty annoyed with her so I just took it.  I ended up only drinking half of it anyways because my neighbor came over and I did her makeup =).  For those of you reading this that don't know me in real life I love makeup.  I've gotten really good at it over the past year basically from watching YouTube videos and practicing.  So my sister asked me to do makeup for the bridesmaids for her wedding and I wanted to practice before her wedding.  My neighbor volunteered and I had a lot of fun doing her makeup.  Anyways back to food, lol, my husband wanted McDonald's for dinner which was ok with me because I had been craving a Big Mac for that past week and they have a buy one get one free with Big Macs and Quarter Pounders right now.  So I had a Big Mac and Honey Mustard Chicken Wrap with a Sweet Tea for dinner.  And had some more of that Peanut Butter Fudge Brownie Trifle for dessert.  My exercise was 3 reps of 15 bicycle crunches, 3 reps of 15 regular crunches, 2 reps of 10 diagonal crunches and Pilates 100.

Today I forgot to weigh myself =(  I really hate it when I do that.  It's mostly on the weekends when I forget because there isn't a specific time I get up during the weekend like there is during the week.

Day 39 & 40 - September 22 & 23, 2011

September 22- I had a 12 oz. Lowfat Caramel Granita with a piece of pumpkin bread this morning.  For lunch I had a Slimfast Meal Bar with grapes & blackberries.  For dinner my husband and I made Mongolian Beef.  We use some mongolian sauce packets then add that to the meat with red peppers, peanuts, mushrooms and snow peas.  And we put it on top of quinoa.  So yummy!  For dessert I had 3 mini peanut butter cups.  My exercise today was 4 reps of 15 bicycle crunches, 4 reps of 15 regular crunches, Pilates 100 and 2 reps of 15 diagonal crunches.

Today I weighed 235.6, down .2 lbs. from yesterday.

September 23- For breakfast I had a Slimfast Shake and my mid-morning snack was 1/2 of a Lara bar.    For lunch I had a Slimfast Meal Bar and 1/2 a bag of Smart Pop popcorn.  For dinner I got us Panda Express.  I had Honey Walnut Shrimp and Beijing Beef on white rice.  My exercise today was 3 reps of 15 bicycle crunches, 3 reps of 15 regular crunches and Pilates 100.  If you've never done Pilates 100 you should google it and try it.  You can really feel it in your abs after doing it.

Today I weighed 236.2, that's plus .6 lbs. from yesterday.

Day 37 & 38 - September 20 & 21, 2011

September 20- This morning I had a Slimfast shake for breakfast, then had a Fiber Plus bar for a mid-morning snack.  For lunch I had a Slimfast Meal Bar and grapes, strawberries & blackberries.  My husband got some really yummy blackberries.  They look so perfect I didn't want to eat them, but I did and they were soo yummy!  For dinner my husband made us kabobs with steak, mushrooms and red peppers.  He marinated some of the meat in teriyaki sauce and just used some seasoning on the other meat.  They turned out really good.  I wasn't so into the red peppers though.  The texture of them with the meat and mushrooms just didn't work for me.  For dessert I had 5 rolos.  Tonight for exercise I did 4 reps of 15 bicycle crunches (if you haven't noticed I plan on doing these every night no matter what my other exercise is) and 2 reps of 15 regular crunches.  

Today I weighed 235.2 =), down 1.2 lbs. from yesterday.  

September 21- Once again this week has been bad for sleep.  I've been going to bed between 12:30am & 1:00am.  I just have so much I need to get done before we leave for Illinois and I feel like I don't have enough time to do it all.  So anyways I stopped and got a 12 oz. Lowfat Caramel Granita this morning and had a Fiber Plus bar as a mid-morning snack.  For lunch I had a Slimfast Meal Bar with grapes & blackberries.  Yum!  After work I went to Old Navy (my Favorite Store!!) to do a little shopping and while I was there my husband called and asked if I'd stop and get dinner on my way home.  And for dinner we had Togo's.  I had my usual Turkey & Avocado sandwich.  I almost tried a chicken sandwich, but there's a picture of the Turkey & Avocado sandwich on their menu and it just looks too good to pass up.  I had 16 oz. glass of Arizona Raspberry Iced Tea with my dinner and dessert was 2 mini Reese's PB Cups.  I did 4 or 5 reps (I lost track of how many reps I did, oops) of bicycle crunches and 2 reps of diagonal crunches.  I have been running out of time to do a real workout so I've been doing my crunches right before I go to bed.

Today I weighed 235.8, up .6 lbs from yesterday.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to start a 3 day detox this friday.  If I don't start it this friday then for sure next friday.  And, of course, I'll document everything that I do as far as what I eat and drink and how I feel that day.

Day 36 - September 19, 2011

This morning I stopped at Human Bean and got the usual, 12 oz. Lowfat Caramel Granita.  I know I need to cut back on these again and I will.  I also got a slice of Pumpkin bread with my granita.  I'm really starting to get excited for fall (it's still in the high 80s to low 90s here) and Human Bean had their sign up for Pumpkin smoothies and Pumpkin Lattes, so that's why I decided to get the pumpkin bread.  The ingredients of the pumpkin bread were:  wheat flour, butter, brown sugar,  eggs, walnuts, salt, baking powder, pumpkin, cinnamon and nutmeg.  It was really yummy and now I want Pumpkin Pie. =)  For lunch I had a Slimfast Meal Bar and a bowl of grapes & strawberries.  For dinner I had a cheese bagel with cream cheese.  And dessert were some Strawberry Sour Punch Bites.  These things are so addicting.  It's so hard to stop eating them.  After I ate dinner I went grocery shopping.  Which I actually like to do by myself, most of the time.  I get done quicker & spend less money if I go by myself.  So now we're set for meals for the rest of the week.  I think I might be making a couple new things too, if I do I'll post the recipe with my blog post.  Also, tonight I did my workout.  Since it was so late by the time I had time to workout I just did 3 reps of 15 bicycle crunches and 1 rep of 15 regular crunches.  Maybe by the end of this week I'll have a 6 pack, hee hee.  Just kidding.

Today I weighed 236.4, still the same.  You know if my dogs weren't such nut jobs on leashes I'd take them for walks as part of my exercise.  Maybe I'll just take one dog instead.  Hmmm...

Day 35 - September 18, 2011

This morning I had a bowl of Kashi Toasted Berry Crumble cereal.  Don't think I'll buy this one again.  I really like the Go Lean Honey Almond Flax and just wanted to try something different.  But the Toasted Berry Crumble is just bland to me unless you get a bite with a little dried berry.  Just wasn't very good.  For lunch I had taco salad and a 20 oz. bottle of water.  I decided today that I'm going to workout every day starting now until Saturday the 24th.  So this whole week I am going to workout every day.  Today I started my workout outside and I did some Pilates moves and 40 chest flies and 20 lunges.  I was going to continue my workout outside because it's been so nice out but I was getting swarmed by flies and it was so annoying.  So I came inside and did my 20 minute Total Body Pilates video and I did 3 reps of 15 bicycle crunches.  I was still hot after showering and when I was getting ready so I didn't want to use my blow dryer to style my hair.  So I did a no heat hairstyle, tried it for the first time.  Yeah that was a bad idea.  It looked horrible and I was going to go grocery shopping tonight, but I was so frustrated and annoyed with everything that I just didn't go.  So for dinner I had a cheese bagel with cream cheese and watermelon juice.  My husband got the watermelon juice and it's from a brand called Earthwise and it's all natural.  I guess it's a new brand in our grocery store (Safeway), but it's really yummy.  For dessert I had a small bowl of Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream.

Today I weighed 236.4, same as yesterday.  I'm hoping my plan of working out every day for a week will help me lose a couple more pounds.  I'm also thinking about doing a 3 day cleanse.

Day 34 - September 17, 2011

When I got up this morning I had a Slimfast Shake for breakfast.  Then I started my day of cleaning.  I wanted to get a head start on cleaning so everything will be easy once it's time for us to leave for Illinois.  If I clean like crazy now, then it'll just be simple wiping down later.  So I cleaned the crap out of our kitchen.  I think the only other time it was this clean was when we first moved in over a year ago.  I know that's horrible, but I do clean I just don't move things and clean behind them and stuff like that.  Anyways the kitchen is all done.  I also did 3 loads of laundry and 2 loads of dishes.  I took a break in between all the cleaning and had some lunch.  I had my leftover Pad Thai from last night, it heats up really well.  It tastes just as good if not better than the first night.  I also had a small bowl of Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream.  After I finished cleaning the kitchen I started on our bedroom.  We're going to have someone stay at our house and watch our dogs while we're gone and I don't know if they'll want to stay in our room or the guest room so I have to make sure both are clean.  I would've cleaned both either way though.  I got a pretty good amount of cleaning done in our room, just need to do some straightening up of things now.  While I was home cleaning my husband had gone to his parents house to watch the Oregon Ducks game.  So when he got home he had taco meat.  For dinner we had taco salad.  On mine I had lettuce, tortilla chips, taco meat, 1/2 of an avocado, fat free sour cream, reduced fat cheddar cheese and Ortega taco sauce.  I had Arizona Sweet Tea to drink with my dinner.  Tonight we watched the movie Paul.  It has the 2 guys from Shaun of the Dead & Hot Fuzz in it.  I didn't think I was going to like this movie, but it was actually pretty funny.  It's a movie that I would watch again.  For dessert I had half of a Magnum White Chocolate Ice Cream Bar, my husband and I shared it.  I guess this is a new flavor from Magnum, it's very yummy but my favorite is the Double Caramel, Yum!

Today I weighed 236.4.

Day 32 & 33 - September 15 & 16, 2011

September 15- Got a 12 oz. Lowfat Caramel Granita from Human Bean this morning and ate a lara bar with it.  For lunch I had a Slimfast Meal Bar with goldfish crackers and Skinny Cow Dreamy Clusters.  I also drank 30 oz. of water with my lunch.  For dinner I made Betty Crocker Complete Meal Cheesy Chicken Helper.  And I had a S'mores Brownie for dessert.  Nothing exciting happened today.

Today I weighed 236.6, down .8 lbs from yesterday.

September 16- This morning I woke up so late.  I usually get up at 5:45am and I didn't get up until 7:00am.  I have to leave for work between 7:30am & 7:40am.  So I didn't weigh myself because I had to rush to get ready for work.  I probably over slept because I haven't been falling asleep until after 1:00am every day this week.  So since I was already running late I figured it wouldn't matter for me to stop for a few minutes and get a 12 oz.  Lowfat Caramel Granita, which is what I did.  I had a Fiber Plus bar as a mid morning snack.  For lunch I had a turkey & ham lunchable with some grapes and 3 cherry/citrus twizzlers.  I was really craving some Thai food, so we ordered some for dinner. =)  I got Pad Thai, my husband got Pad Kee Mao.  And I drank some Arizona Sweet Tea.  My husband pointed out that I used to not like tea or Thai food and I was having both.  And I actually crave Thai food now, it's so yummy!  I'm hoping we can go to a Thai place in Illinois when we go out there for my sister's wedding. =)  Anyways, we watched Rango tonight.  Which I thought was a cute movie.  Good kid's movie.

Day 31 - September 14, 2011

I stopped at Human Bean on my way to work and got a 12 oz. Lowfat Caramel Granita.  I've been getting horrible sleep all week and really need the caffeine.  With my granita I had a lara bar.  Today was the Extreme Makeover Home Edition reveal, so I left work at 12:30pm so I could go to it.  On the radio they were saying it would happen around 3:00, so I thought I'd get there early and hopefully get a good spot.  I ate a Slimfast Meal Bar before I went and took a big bottle of water with me.  I got out to the house about 1:00pm and there was already a lot of people there.  If the people were in actual rows I was probably in the 4th or 5th row, but there was a whole section blocked off in front of where we all were that was for VIP.  So I ended being a lot farther back.  I got a few good pictures, but I just held my camera up and took pictures because I couldn't see anything.  It was interesting to experience the behind the scenes of the show.  And be a part of the filming.  It's not as exciting as the actual show because you do one scene like 3 times.  For example, we did the "move that bus" scene 3 times before the family was even there and then we did it 2 more times once the family came.  So by the time if was the real thing it was not very exciting.  The reveal didn't actually happen until 5:30pm and I ended up leaving at 6:00pm.  I couldn't see anything and I figured they'd be going in the house after that.  Plus my body was hurting from standing for 5 hours and 1/2 of my body was sunburned.  I don't know if I'd ever go again if I had the opportunity, but it was an interesting experience.  And for anyone that is wondering and may want to watch the episode to look for me it'll air on November 25th.  So I was starving and so thirsty by the time I left.  McDonald's is right by where we had to park so I went there to get dinner.  I had a Honey Mustard Chicken Wrap and an Angus Chipotle Wrap and I had some Arizona Sweet Tea to drink.

Today I weighed 237.4.  Check out the pictures below from Extreme Makeover Home Edition.

Here is the house:

Ty Pennington taking a picture of the crowd:

Paulie & Ed:

Paige:

 The crowd & camera crew:

Day 29 & 30 - September 12 & 13, 2011

September 12- I had a Slimfast French Vanilla shake for breakfast.  I don't think I'll rebuy this flavor.  It's not very good.  I think I'm going to buy the shake mix stuff instead, we'll see.  For a mid -morning snack I had a Fiber Plus bar.  Lunch was a Slimfast Meal Bar, Yoplait Light Strawberry White Chocolate yogurt and Skinny Cow Dreamy Clusters.  And while I'm thinking about it, remember when I said I bought a Raspberry Lemonade yogurt?  Well my husband tried it and I tried some too.  It was really good.  There were no seeds in it and it there was no really sour lemon flavor.  If I find that flavor again I'll definitely get it.  Ok so before I went back to work from my lunch break I went to Human Bean and got a 12 oz. Lowfat Caramel Granita.  I can't remember if I've mentioned this yet, but Extreme Makeover Home Edition has been in my town since 9/7/11.  Which I think is really exciting.  So at work I got an email with a flyer to use at Mucho Gusto and 25% of what you spend goes towards the family that was picked.  So, of course, we had Mucho Gusto for dinner.  I had a 1/2 beef 1/2 pork taco salad in a wheat tortilla bowl.  On it I put black beans, lettuce, cabbage, cheddar jack cheese, cilantro, lime cilantro sour cream and medium salsa.  I love their taco salads, the only thing is their huge!  And you also get chips & salsa with it.  I ended up eating the whole thing, not a good idea.  It was just so yummy.  I wasn't sure it would last in the fridge over night and I didn't want all that goodness to go to waste.  With my dinner I drank 30 oz. of water.  Tomorrow is my follow up root canal appointment for me to get my permanent filling and I really wanted to make some cookies or something for my dentist because they got me in so quickly and took care of me.  I just really appreciated them helping me out when I was in so much pain.  And I was going to make some "healthy" dessert or some fruit type dessert because it is my dentist.  But in the end I decided to make something that I would like, something more my style of baking.  It was also our neighbor's daughter's birthday so I was going to make something for her too.  I had to go to the store to grab a few things, then came back and I made S'mores Brownies for our neighbor's daughter and I made chocolate chip rolo cookies that were half dipped in chocolate for my dentist's office. =)   See pictures below:

For dessert I had 1/2 of a brownie & 1/2 of a cookie (shared with my husband).  They're both really good.  The brownies are pretty messy because of the marshmallows, but still very good.

This morning I weighed 235.6, down 1.2 lbs. from yesterday!

September 13 - I have no idea what happened on this day.  You'll see once I post this that I am typing this on 9/15/11, which I usually type out my blog posts a day or two later.  But I always write everything that I eat and do in my planner and put my weight in my phone.  For the 13th I didn't write anything down and I didn't put my weight in my phone.  So the only thing I can remember from this day is I dropped those cookies off at my dentist's office and they were very excited about that.  I had my follow up appointment for my root canal (I went to a dental surgeon for this), which only took 45 mins.  And my face was super numb this time and my tooth did hurt afterwards.  But not an unbearable pain.  It was just sore.   Also, today was very exciting because I got to walk thru the Extreme Makeover Home Edition house.  My husband's work made something to go in the house so one of his co-workers had a VIP pass.  The house is amazing!  I think my favorite part is the master bathroom.  But there are so many amazing things in that house.  I know we went there about 7:00pm/7:30pm and I don't think we ate dinner until after we got back.  But I'm not sure what we ate.  Ugh!  This sucks, I can't believe I didn't write anything down.  Sorry, I failed!

Day 27 & 28 - September 10 & 11, 2011

I decided to combine these 2 days because the blog posts for each were going to be pretty short and it'll help me catch up on my posts too.

September 10, 2011 - I had a bowl of Fiber Plus Caramel Pecan Crunch cereal for breakfast.  For lunch I had a SlimFast Meal Bar, Yoplait Light Strawberry White Chocolate yogurt, a banana and Skinny Cow Dreamy Clusters.  I had a 16 oz. glass of raspberry iced tea to drink.  Tonight was "date night" with my husband.  Neither of us felt like going anywhere because it's been sooo hot outside.  But we did go out to pick up our food.  We got Hawaiian food from Noho's.  I got teriyaki chicken and it comes with mac salad and rice.  I only ate 1/2 of it and save the rest and I drank about 32 oz. of water with my dinner.  We watched Sucker Punch while we were eating dinner and I really liked that movie.  If I hadn't read the description of the movie I would've been really confused.  It didn't make sense at first, but then I caught on.  If you like movies where the girls kick ass, then you'd like this one.  It's a movie that I would definitely watch more than once.

This morning I weighed 236.4, down 1 lb. from yesterday.  

September 11, 2011 - I had a SlimFast Meal Bar for breakfast.  For lunch I ate my leftover Noho's and had a small bowl of Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream.  I ate lunch around 2:30pm and then I ended up going to the store around 8:00pm.  Somehow I never ate dinner.  I guess I was never hungry for it.  But when I got back from the store I had a watermelon popsicle.  I think the leftover Noho's just really filled me up.  Today was a boring day.  Sundays usually are pretty boring.  Maybe I need to start running or jogging or something.  So at least I'm doing something on a Sunday.  This morning I weighed 236.8, up .4 lbs. from yesterday.

Day 26 - September 9, 2011

I had a Slimfast Meal Bar for breakfast and a Fiber Plus bar for a mid-morning snack.  I also drank 20 oz. of water by the time I finished my snack.  For lunch I had a Slimfast Meal bar, some grapes and a Skinny Cow milk chocolate heavenly crisp.  Before I left work my husband texted me and said his parents wanted to take us out to dinner.  So after I got off work they picked us up and we went to a place called Ali's Thai Kitchen. I used to not really like Thai food at all, but I've become more open with trying new foods and have really grown to like Thai food.  My father-in-law likes to order food "family style", so we ordered 2 appetizers (golden fried shrimp and spring rolls) and 3 entrees (cucumber salad, pad thai and spicy fish) and we all shared them.  It's actually better to order that way with a group because you don't eat as much.  You want to make sure everyone gets some so you tend to take less.  The golden fried shrimp also come with 2 fried broccoli, an onion ring and a fried banana.  I had one fried shrimp and one fried broccoli and I also tried a little piece of the banana just because I had never tried it before.  It was not good, the consistency of it grossed me out.  It was crunchy on the outside and mushy on the inside. Ick!  I also had one spring roll.  Then for dinner I had some of the cucumber salad and pad thai.  I didn't eat any of the spicy fish because it's too spicy for me.  I had never tried the cucumber salad before but it was very good as was the pad thai.  I think this place has the best pad thai.  I could eat it probably 3 times a week and never get sick of it.  After dinner we all went to my husband's cousin's high school football game.  It was 97 degrees when we got there at 7:00pm and it was still sunny.  And of course you squish in between a bunch of people in the bleachers.  It was so gross, you could feel the sweatiness of the people around you.  And there were several people around me that had way too much perfume or cologne on.  I kept smelling different scents, some were good and some not so good, but it was giving me a headache.  And being in a crowd like that just made it feel even hotter.  Near the end it got a little better, it was a little cooler and the people who were sitting in front of me moved so I could stretch out and every once in a while I felt a little breeze.  I realized I like people watching more than paying attention to the game.  Pretty much the whole time I would be watching what all the people were doing.  I would watch when his cousin was in the game and I saw the part where one of the players got hit with the ball because he was running and not paying attention to where the ball was.  That was hilarious! So I ended up sweating for 3 hours straight, I thought maybe my body would think I was working out and I'd lose some weight, LOL.  At the game I drank a red gatorade and my mother-in-law had some snacks so I had a tiny bag of peanut M&Ms.  You know the little bags you get when you go trick-or-treating?  It was one of those.  Once I got home all I wanted to do was lay down.  Which is pretty much what I did.  We got home around 10:00pm and I started watching some YouTube videos and fell asleep.  I would wake up every once in a while, but I was just too tired to get up. I ended up getting up at 2:00am to take off my makeup and brush my teeth, then went back to bed.  Oh I forgot to say that my husband's cousin's team won!  The other team was really bad.

This morning I weighed 237.4, up .2 lbs. from yesterday.  And I didn't workout today, I'm counting my 3 hours of sweating as a workout. =P

Day 25 - September 8, 2011

This morning I had a Fiber Plus bar for breakfast and some grapes for a mid-morning snack.  For lunch I went to the grocery store and decided to buy a box of Slim Fast Cookie Dough Meal Bars.  I did the Slim Fast diet a few years ago and it did work for me.  So I thought I'd try it again.  I was going to get some of the shake making powder too because they have a high protein one now, but I didn't.  I may go back and get some because I think it would be a great thing for breakfast.  I had one of the meal bars for my lunch with some grapes and a 20oz. Sobe Lean Honey Green Tea.  I would've never bought green tea about 3 months ago.  I used to hate all kinds of tea, none of it tasted it good to me.  Anytime I had tried it before it tasted like something that was really watered down and had no flavor.  Now I love tea and don't know how I hated it before.  I really was not in the mood to cook dinner tonight, it's been between 98-102 degrees out all week.  So I go lucky when the Tamale man came to our house.  I was so happy!  We bought 6 chicken & 6 pork tamales.  They were soo hot too.  He carries them around in a little cooler, so I wonder if he has some kind of warmer in his van or maybe he just lives really close.  I don't know, but they are soo yummy!  I had 3 for dinner (they're pretty small) and I put fat free sour cream and Ortega taco sauce on them.  Ortega taco sauce is the BEST taco sauce around!!  If you've never tried it you need to.  When I first moved to Oregon I couldn't find it anywhere, so I had my parents mail it to me.  Then finally one of our stores started carrying it.  I can not live without this sauce.  For dessert I had a small bowl of Breyer's Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream.  This is one of my favorite ice creams.  I love mint chocolate chip ice cream and this is the best one.  I don't like the ones that are green, it just doesn't look right or taste right to me.  I also had 3 pieces of Cary's Milk Chocolate Almond English Toffee.  I bought it because it was made in Grants Pass, which isn't too far from me.  So I thought that was neat and my husband and I wanted to try it.  It was really good.  There were two other kinds too, but I can't remember what they were.

This morning I weighed 237.2, that's down .2 lbs. from yesterday.  And tonight I did 30 regular crunches and 20 side crunches.

Day 24 - September 7, 2011

My breakfast today was a Light Yoplait Raspberry Cheesecake Yogurt.  I decided I don't like this yogurt.  There are seeds from the raspberries in it and the seeds are very annoying.  I'll stick to my White Chocolate Strawberry yogurt.  I did find Raspberry Lemonade yogurt today and got one.  I'm going to have my husband be the guinea pig and try it first.  It just sounded like a very interesting flavor to me.  I wonder if it'll have those annoying seeds too.  Anyways, for my mid-morning snack I had a fiber plus bar.  For lunch I went home and made 2 pieces of wheat toast and spread some bestlife buttery spread on my toast.  This buttery spread has 40% Fewer Calories and 70% Less Saturated Fat than Butter.  It tasted just like butter to me.  I also sprinkled a little low fat cheese on top of my toast.  I ate a handful of pretzels and had a skinny cow peanut butter crisp as well.  Today I had a normal dentist appointment, I was getting a filling, so I brought my toothpaste and toothbrush with me to work so I could brush my teeth before my appointment.  Well usually I put them in a baggy, but just didn't this time.  Boy was that a mistake.  I stopped at Human Bean on my way back to work & got a 12 oz Low Fat Caramel Granita (I was up until 1am, so I was really falling asleep at work) and set my wallet on my lap to grab my money to pay.  When I got to work and started to get out of the car I noticed something on my pants.  I couldn't figure out what it was until I touched it and smelled it, it was toothpaste!!  The cap opened in my purse and it got on my wallet then got on my pants.  So I walked back into work with 2 spots of toothpaste on my pants.  I tried getting it out, but all it did was dry to a nasty, white mess.  It was so embarrassing!  Luckily I left 2 hours after that and went home real quick to change my pants before my dentist appointment.  I thought I'd share that story, everyone at work thought it was funny.  So for dinner I made hamburgers.  I put Laughing Cow Swiss Cheese, ketchup, mustard, pickles and lettuce on my burger.  I wish we had green peppers, those raw on a burger is sooooo good!  I was really in the mood for some ice cream today too, so my husband was running out to the little corner store up the road from our house and I asked him to grab me some ice cream.  I asked him to get me something at least semi-healthy.  He came back and said they didn't have anything healthy so he got my some Haagen Dazs Caramel Cone ice cream.  I ate about a 1/2 cup, maybe a little more of that for my dessert.  After my food settled I did the Total Body Pilates workout on Hulu.com.

This morning I weighed 237.4, up 1 lb. from yesterday. Blah!  I really want to lose most of the weight in my stomach, so I'm thinking about doing lots of crunches before bed every night and maybe that'll help my tummy go away some. =)

Day 23 - September 6, 2011

I woke up this morning and had a little bit of extra time before I needed to start getting ready, so at 6:00am I had a small bowl of Fiber Plus Caramel Pecan Crunch cereal.  At 8:00am I had a lara bar and at 11:00am I had some red grapes.  For lunch I was going to have the leftover half of my turkey avocado sandwich from Togo's, but I didn't think about the avocado on the sandwich.  It was all brown and nasty looking, so I threw that away.  I ended up eating some cut up cantaloupe and a Fiber Plus bar and had a 12 oz. Low Fat Caramel Granita to drink.  For dinner, my husband wanted to get some fast food.  You may be thinking that's mean of him to want fast food when I'm trying to lose weight, but I don't want to make him stop eating what he wants to eat just because I want to lose weight.  He should be able to eat what he wants to.  If he want's to diet with me then there will be a lot less fast food/pizza eating.  Anyways, I have the Eat This Not That book, so I looked in there to see what they suggested for certain places.  The one that sounded the best to me was Wendy's.  The book's rating for Wendy's is a B+, basically because they have side choices like mandarin oranges and chili, and they have Jr. burgers that aren't much more than 300 calories.  But where Wendy's is bad is all their double & triple burgers and lost of desserts.  Ok anyways, they suggest a double stack and small chili, which together have 550 calories & 24 grams of fat.  It also says together they have 37 grams of protein and 6 grams of fiber, that sounds good to me.  So that's what I got for dinner.  And as I was on Wendy's site trying to help my husband decide on what to eat I saw they had this Berry Frosty Parfait thing, so we got that and shared it.  It was a lot smaller than I thought it was going to be and it wasn't all the great.  I would rather make my own with fresh fruit and frozen yogurt.  After dinner I worked out to the first video challenge from Tone It Up.  Tone It Up is 2 girls, Karina & Katrina, and I guess lots of celebrities follow their nutritional plans and their workouts.  So I joined their Fall Challenge and you get a calendar of challenges for the month of September.  Today was the Detention workout.  (link:  http://toneitup.com/blog.php?Detention-Workout-5175 )  You should all try it!  Or at least watch it and see what I did. =)  It was really hard for me, especially the part where you have to be in a plank position on an exercise ball and write out the words "I will tone it up" with the ball.  I did the circuit 2 times, they recommend you do it 2-3 times and I was sweating!  I went and laid on the floor in our guest bedroom after doing this because it's a lot cooler in there and my dog (he's a boxer bullmastiff) came over and sat right on my stomach.  It was hilarious!  He just sat there like it's normal for him to sit on me.  He seemed pretty comfortable too, lol.  He thinks he's a lap dog and he's definitely not.  

So today I weighed 236.4, down .4 lbs. from yesterday.  That's good, still going down.  I haven't been doing so well with drinking water.  I think it might be because I bring a big water bottle to work with me instead of bringing a 20 oz bottle of water.  I think I'll try bringing a 20 oz. bottle instead and see if I drink more water.  That's it for now!

Day 22 - September 5, 2011

Happy Labor Day!!  I started my day with a bowl of Fiber Plus Caramel Pecan Crunch cereal.  Pretty soon I'm going to be out of this cereal and I haven't decided if I'm going to repurchase it or buy one of the other ones.  Hmmm... I'll have to think about that.  For lunch I decided to make a little mini pizza.  I know what you're thinking, More Pizza?!?!  The only reason I decided to make a mini pizza is because there were leftover mushrooms and I didn't want those to go bad AND we have spinach, which doesn't last very long, so I wanted to use some of that too.  So I used a wheat tortilla, spread some Ragu sauce on it.  Then I cooked some spinach and mushrooms and put those on top of the sauce.  Then topped it with low fat mozzarella cheese.  My husband had a little accident in the oven last night when he flipped his party pizza and it landed upside down on the bottom of the oven.  So the oven was unusable when I made my pizza because we needed to figure out how to get all that mess out of the oven.  I used the broiler instead.  I just put it under the broiler until the cheese started to brown a little.  This mini pizza was definitely yummy.  The spinach and mushrooms were a perfect combination.  And this was a good way to easily eat a lot of spinach.  I put about 2 handfuls of spinach in the pan and after it cooked down it was the smallest amount.  I may just add spinach to any pizza we make or order from now on.  With my mini pizza I had a Light Yoplait White Chocolate Strawberry yogurt.  By the time dinner came around one of my husband's friends had stopped by and we were all hungry.  His friend had never been to Togo's so that's what we had for dinner again.  This time I could only eat half of my 6 inch Turkey Avocado sandwich.  I was so full after 1/2, I'm not sure if they added more meat this time or I was just full, but it was still really yummy.  I drank a raspberry iced tea with that and had 1/2 of a chocolate chunk cookie.  While my husband was at the neighbor's house one of his other friends stopped by and dropped off some Muddy Buddies.  At least that's what they are called in Oregon, where I'm from (Illinois) we called them Puppy Chow.  So whatever you call them from wherever you are, they are chex with peanut butter, chocolate and powdered sugar.  So good!  I've never made them because they look like a pain in the butt to make, but they are just soo yummy!  So I had a little bit of those too. Hee Hee =)

I weighed 236.8 this morning. that's down 1.8lbs from Saturday (since I forgot to weigh myself yesterday).  That's also down 4.6lbs. since I started 3 weeks ago!!  And that's down 11.2lbs since January!  WooHoo!  I think 4.6 lbs. in 3 weeks is good.  I think 1-2lbs a week is healthy, right?

Day 21 - September 4, 2011

Thanks to Labor Day I get to have a 3 day weekend!  So normally today would be my lazy day, I don't know why but I never feel like doing anything on Sundays.  But since I don't have to work tomorrow my husband and I are having date night tonight.  I'll get into that later.  I started today with a bowl of Fiber Plus Caramel Pecan Crunch cereal.  For lunch I had 3 pieces of pizza (2 mushroom leftover from Jackson Creek Pizza & one BBQ chicken leftover from when I made it), a 90 calorie Fiber One brownie and some sun tea that my husband made.  As kind of a between early lunch and late dinner snack I had about 1/4 cup of dark chocolate covered raisins.  For dinner and the start of our date night we went to Togo's.  I got a 6 inch Turkey Avocado on wheat with mustard, lettuce, pickles and pepperoncinis and we got a raspberry iced tea to share.  We ordered this to go because we were going to watch a movie while we ate.  We ended up watching Limitless with Bradley Cooper.  If you haven't seen it, you need to.  It's a really good movie. And Bradley Cooper is starting to be one of my favorite actors, I really like him.  Anyways, we got a chocolate chunk cookie with our combo from Togo's so we shared that too.  I really wanted to go to this frozen yogurt place called Yogurt Hut that we have out here, but there's a new frozen yogurt place called Yotopia that's a lot closer to our house.  We decided to go and try Yotopia and I am so glad we did!  They had about 8 different flavors of frozen yogurt, a bunch of different fresh fruit, a ton of different kinds of candies & cookies, about 15 different syrups & hard shell toppings, and they had these things they called poppers.  There were 3 different flavors and they looked like fish eggs, but the girl said they're little juice balls that are wrapped in seaweed.  You don't taste the seaweed, you pop it in your mouth and taste the juice.  They were yummy.  So I got Reese's PB Cup, Praline & Cake Batter frozen yogurt.  Then on top I got raspberries, some of those poppers, marshmallow fluff, mini PB cups, and some weird marshmallow things (I think they're called mochi or something).  I wish I would've seen all the fruit before I picked my flavors. My husband got this blackberry infused whip cream with fresh blackberries on cheesecake frozen yogurt, omg that was delicious!!  All in all I am so happy we went to Yotopia instead of Yogurt Hut.  And I am so happy it's not that far from my house =)

Unfortunately today I woke up later than I had planned and didn't remember to weigh myself until about 3:00pm and thought it was pointless by then.  So no weight today =(  

Day 20 - September 3, 2011

Funny story - I actually woke up at 6:05am today, got up and started rushing around to get ready for work.  I weighed myself before I was going to get in the shower and when I put it in my phone I realized it was Saturday. Duh!  So I went back to bed and got up at a normal weekend time.  I felt like such a dummy for doing then.  So anyways once I really got up I had a bowl of Fiber Plus Caramel Pecan Crunch cereal for breakfast.  This cereal is soo good!  I get the Fiber Plus bars a lot and they just came out with a few cereals.  The other 2 were Cinnamon Oat Crunch and Berry Yogurt Crunch.  For lunch I had a small bowl of leftover white cheddar pasta with some wheat thins and Laughing Cow Swiss Cheese.  Today was the first Oregon Ducks game of the season, so my husband had someone over to watch the game with him.  We ended up ordering a couple pizzas from Jackson Creek Pizza.  I can't remember what the guys got on their pizza, a bunch of different kinds of meat or something.  And then on mine I just got mushrooms.  My husband has this card that he got from his cousin's football team that has all these deals on it and one is for this pizza place where you buy a large pizza and get a medium for free.  So that's what we did.  I ate 3 pieces of mushroom pizza.  The pieces weren't that big so I figured 3 wouldn't be that bad.  Then for dessert I had about 1/4 cup of dark chocolate covered raisins.  And I drank about 45 oz. of water today.

I weighed 238.6 this morning, that's down .8 lbs. from yesterday.  I'm not sure what I'm doing that's making my weight go down.  Once I figure it out I'll make sure I continue to do it.  But I'm happy it's continuing to go down instead of up and down, etc.

Day 19 - September 2, 2011

I had a lara bar for breakfast this morning.  In case anyone is wondering I've been eating the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Lara Bars lately.  I had a Raspberry Nutrigrain bar for my mid-morning snack.  On my lunch break I had to go to the bank, so I didn't go home for lunch again.  Today I went to to the store to check out the premade sandwiches they had.  Most of the ones they had out were huge, I decided to grab a Pastrami sandwich.  Then I also got a container of precut cantaloupe.  The pastrami sandwich was not good.  I couldn't really see what was on the sandwich from the bag it was in, so I when I opened it there was the pastrami, swiss cheese and sauerkraut.  All those ingredients are fine, but the sauerkraut made the bread soggy and made the cheese gross.  So I took the pastrami off the sandwich and was just eating that, but it didn't taste that good so I didn't eat much.  The cantaloupe was delicious though.  On my way back to work I got a 12 oz. Low Fat Caramel Granita.  The 12 oz. is actually a perfect size for me.  For a mid-afternoon snack I had a Fiber One 90 calorie Brownie.  I ran out of nutrigrain bars and fruit today, so this was my snack choice.  For dinner I really wanted to make pizza, so I headed to the store to get the ingredients.  I made a mushroom & pepperoni pizza and a bbq chicken pizza.  The mushroom & pepperoni pizza had baby bella mushrooms, turkey pepperoni (shhh, don't tell my husband it wasn't real pepperoni), and low fat mozzarella cheese.  For the sauce I used a Ragu sauce and this one was on a white crust.  The bbq chicken pizza had sweet baby ray's bbq sauce, canned chicken (shredded) and low fat mozzarella cheese.  This one was on a wheat crust.  I had 2 pieces of the mushroom one and one of the chicken one.  For dessert I had a Skinny Cow Peanut Butter Heavenly Crisp.  Today I drank about 50 oz. of water.

This morning I weighed 239.4,  down .2 lbs. from yesterday.  Again, I'm not really sure how my weight is going down, but I'll take it =).  Tomorrow I think I'm going to try to workout a little bit.  I've been feeling great.  My tooth and jaw have felt so good that I almost started chewing my food on that side of my mouth today.  Which I'm not supposed to do until after I go back and get my permanent filling.  Plus I have 2 days of antibiotics left, I should be fine to do some working out.

Day 18 - September 1, 2011

For breakfast I had a lara bar with 20 oz. of water.  For a mid-morning snack I had some grapes & strawberries.  During my lunch break I had to go pay our mortgage payment, so I wouldn't have time to go home to eat.  I wanted to eat at Togo's, but there was a line of about 10 people and I didn't have time to wait.  There was a line at Mucho Gusto as well.  Then I decided to go to KFC.  Remember that magazine article I talked about that listed the "healthiest" fast food meals.  For KFC it was a honey bbq chicken sandwich with a large corn on the cob.  I got the BBQ Chicken Sandwich, but I didn't think eating corn on the cob was such a good idea when I was going back to work, so I got coleslaw with my sandwich.  I was already running late getting back to work, so I just ate my lunch at my desk.  I have to say, the bbq chicken sandwich sucked.  I won't be ordering that again.  I made a better BBQ chicken sandwich using canned chicken. For a mid afternoon snack I had a Skinny Cow Peanut Butter Heavenly Crisp, I know not the best snack choice, but it was all I had and I needed something.  For dinner my husband was really hungry and wanted me to stop and pick something up.  I stopped at Burger King and I got a hamburger and apple fries.  For dessert I had Skinny Cow Dark Chocolate Dreamy Clusters.  Today I had about 60 oz. of water.

This morning I weighed 239.6, down 2.2 lbs from yesterday.  Huh?  I have no idea how that happened.  This one definitely confuses me.  It's a good thing, just weird.  

Day 17 - August 31, 2011

I started my morning with a Light Yoplait White Chocolate Strawberry yogurt and some grapes.  That yogurt is so good, it tasted like dessert.  For a mid-morning snack I had a Kashi Dark Chocolate Peanutty bar.  I actually had this sent to me as a free sample from Kashi.  I haven't seen these in the store before, but I haven't checked since I got the sample, so maybe they're there.  It was pretty good though.  I really like some of the Kashi stuff, especially the Go Lean Honey Almond Flax cereal.  For lunch I made a wrap with turkey, ham, lettuce, spinach, mustard and Laughing Cow Garlic & Herb Cheese in a wheat tortilla.  I didn't have a lot of time to eat it before I had to head back to work, so I only ate half of it then took some strawberries with me to eat at work.  I stopped at Human Bean on my way back to work and got a 12 oz. Low Fat Caramel Granita.  I had been falling asleep at work all day and really needed something to wake me up.  For a mid-afternoon snack I had a lara bar.  Dinner was fettucine alfredo with chicken.  Pasta from the box is cheap and when you're between paychecks it's better than not eating at all.  So it's definitely not my choice for dinner, but it's what we had.  For dessert I had the Skinny Cow Dreamy Clusters.  And today I drank about 40 oz of water.

This morning I weighed 241.8, down .2 lbs. from yesterday.