This weekend was ROUGH! As I mentioned in my previous post, Saturday was definitely a challenge on my will power; although it helps tremendously that Brandon is going through the same thing I am. First let me say how disppointed I am in Shoney's. The only "healthy" options that they had were a steamed vegetable plate and one entree of grilled seafood. Even their dinner salads couldn't be considered healthy...that means you put ENTIRELY too much junk on your salads! I had looked online at the menu in hopes that I would know what I was going to order and have my taste buds craving it when we got there. I clicked on the "salads" link, and they had a picture of a grilled chicken salad with strawberries on it, and that was what i was going to get...until it wasn't even listed as a menu item online or on the real menu. My family started ordering, "breakfast bar", "breakfast bar," "breakfast bar," "country fried breakfast"...I ordered the "salad bar," knowing full well that it was still the breakfast bar, but I wasn't going to tear into that. I had a salad and what I though would have been one scrambled egg, and Brandon did the same. Also, bad on Shoney's part, the fruit on the bar is all swimming in sugary juice, not fruit juice!! I did NOT partake in the yummy breakfast, but I still had to feed it to Rylan! That kid loves breakfast!! Man, I really wanted a biscuit and gravy!!
Saturday night was the Christmas party for my group of girl-friends! We had a BLAST! I was really worried about what I was going to eat, so I brought two items that I knew were safER (although not really "healthy"). But the closer it got to time to celebrate, I thought, "I had a salad with sunflower seeds (protein) for lunch...I just won't over-indulge in the goodies. So that's what I did! What was so thoughtful was that there were a couple of friends who kept in mind that I was trying to eat better, so they substituted "better" items in their recipies (Fat free when they could, turkey bacon, "light" margarita mix...thx Brit!)! I ate all of the items that I wanted to, I just ate one of them (except a certain person's choc oatmeal cookies...I had 2 or 3 of them... but they're oatmeal, right?!).
Sunday was our day off from Insanity, but that doesn't mean that it is a day off from the diet! Sundays we always eat lunch with my family, and this week we decided to go out. I got the grilled chicken salad with buffalo sauce and fat free ranch on the side. FYI, buffalo has very few calories in it and fat free ranch isn't awesome by itself...but combined, they are pretty good, and a little bit goes a long way. We ate at the Catfish House, so of course there was fried okra in my face, and my family loves onion rings, so a large order of onion rings was also on the table. I ate NON of them! I was pretty impressed with myself! Brandon had a 6 oz sirloin and steamed veggies; we both left satisfied and pretty proud of ourselves!
Today was back to the grind! I'm really enjoying having the protein shakes for breakfast, then low fat string cheese for mid-morning snack, a grilled chicken concoction (I grill it all on Sunday)...sometimes a wrap, sometimes a salad with some fruit, then some fruit when I get home. Last week, I cooked every night, just cooked healthy items. This week, Brandon has suggested not cooking because he thinks he can eat lighter and lose more weight, but just for this week...I'm willing to try whatever.
Tonight's workout was "Cardio Power and Resistance" and it was our second time doing this workout. First, I have to say, I made it through the warm-up without taking a break!!!! You have no idea how good that felt and how proud I was! We've only been at this a week!!! Tonight's workout was SOOO much better than when we did it last week! We kept looking at each other saying, "I did way more tonight than I did last time!" There weren't nearly as many breaks, and more reps! All together, I probably did more push-ups tonight than I have since my old gymnastics days! Right now I am SOOO proud of myself!!
I have had two random people ask me "How much weight have you lost?" and one was a random parent in the car line! I have only lost 3 pounds (my goal was to average 2.5 per week), but I definitely feel like it is more and I can tell way more when I look in the mirror (muscle tone wise)! I'll redo my measurements next week when we do our fit test so I can see how much change I have made. I feel so much better about myself; I feel like I'm walking taller!
Definitely ending on a postitive note...until Brandon just reminded me that "Pure Cardio" is tomorrow...whomp whomp :( (see previous post)
Well I certainly don't think you have any weight to loose but I also know it's all about how you feel about yourself. You are doing a great job! If you've noticed my status's on FB you know I'm trying to loose weight too, I've got a long way to go. It's hard for me because I'm a very picky eater and don't eat veggies or anything green so that makes it difficult. I'm trying to cut down on my portion sizes and lots of exercise. Keep up the good work, but I already think you look great!
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