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Fit Chicks 2011!!!
Okay, ladies! This is it! It's go time! 
I'm back on the wagon.... The joke is over, the holidays have come and gone, and I've got some serious baby weight to get rid of! No unrealistic expectations or resolutions, just back at it. My goals: working out 3x a week, cutting back on my wine consumption (which increased once I dropped Nolan's night nursing and now he's weaned completely so you can guess what vacation was like!), healthy meals and portion sizes, and hopefully 10 pounds by February vacation.
On the menu today:
Bfast: yogurt
Lunch: tomato soup
Snacks: banana, cereal bar, Triscuits
Dinner: chicken kielbasa with onions and peppers over brown rice
Dessert: one of the little treats from my stockings - either some Hot Tamales or Twizzlers....no wine!!!
Exercise: A quick run with Buckley if I get home before it's too dark, or one of my videos
What's everyone up to? Any resolutions/goals? Good luck everyone!
Re: Fit Chicks 2011!!!
Here we go! I actually lost weight during the holidays due to the flu, so my goal is to keep that off and lose 5 more lbs. Going to keep up my routine of working out on the weekday mornings that DH is home (M,T,F one week and W,Th the next) and at least once a weekend. Also tracking food and exercise on Lose It again.
Exercise: As you may have seen on FB, I realized I could do picture in picture with On Demand and DVR, so this morning I did Jillian's 30 Day Shred while watching last night's Kendra. Since I done it so many times I don't need to hear the instructions and can just watch the little box for when they switch moves. It was great! Unfortunately only level 1 is on demand, so I'd need to use my DVD for the others.
Breakfast: Half wheat bagel with peanut butter, coffee, banana
Lunch: Leftover ham steak, peas and sweet potatos w/ a slice of beer bread.
Snacks: Oatmeal, yogurt and granola bar
Dinner: Not sure, probably something with leftover chicken. Maybe homemade bbq chicken pizza?
Dessert: Mini ice cream sandwich or a peanut butter cookie w/ hot cocoa.
My goals are to start tracking my calories again using Loseit.com. Also DH and I are starting P90X again (after a several month long hiatus).
Today
Breakfast- Hot Ovaltine, Whole Wheat English muffin with natural PB
Lunch- Leftover beef stew (it's actually a "healthier" version than the traditional, with loads of veggies) and slice of whole wheat bread.
Dinner- Homemade white pizza with broccoli, side salad
Snacks (I will select from the following as/if needed)- Apple with pb, walnuts, rice cake with Nutella.
Workout
P90X 50 min Weight Routine (don't remember which one is tonight) and 15 min Abs.
Oooh- it is definitely time for me to get back in the saddle! After telling my aunt I was PG she said "Oh, I wondered if something was up, you are usually so small, but you looked a little different." No, no Aunt Carolyn, that's not a baby, that's just holiday fat, thanks. Ouch. My new Long & Lean Prenatal Workout tape showed up in the mail while we were on vacation (woohoo!), and there is a local maternity boutique that offers prenatal yoga classes twice a week, so I am planning on signing up in a few weeks for that as well, and I'm really looking forward to it. As far as food today...
Breakfast: Decaf coffee, Morse's black raspberry linzertorte cookie (only 2 more left!) & Activia light strawberry yogurt.
Lunch: Healthy Choice tomato soup & whole wheat bagel w/ light cream cheese.
Snack: Pretzels, grapes
Dinner: No idea- I have pretty much zero food in the house since we've been gone (except for the two giant containers of half-sour and sour mustard pickles from Morse's that I brought back!), and my brother is crashing for the night on his way south, so it will more than likely be some sort of takeout. I'm kind of craving a salad, so we'll see.
Workout: Nothing today, but planning on starting the L&L DVD tomorrow!
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. -Henry Miller
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UGH...I have been half-dreading and half-looking forward to this post!
As you all know, I have a wedding that I need to be skinny for on 8/27/11. Here is my plan for today:
Bfast: Small (er than usual) bowl of multigrain Cheerios with skim milk; coffee with light eggnog (trying to get rid of it).
Lunch: Pineapple low-fat greek yogurt
Dinner: Leftover pasta bake with whole wheat penne, light ricotta, light mozzarella, spinach and sausage.
Snack: Some kind of chocolate leftover from the holidays. It is from the Harbor Candy Shop in Ogunquit, so there is no way that I can just throw it away. I figure I can eat one piece a day until it is gone as my treat, and then move on to fruit, veggies and 100 calorie packs.
I have had a week's hiatus from cardio since the gym was closed for the College break last week. I am back at it today though. Fifty minutes of cardio, split between the incumbent bike, the stair climber, and the elliptical, plus a strength training routine tonight.
I think I've gained like 8-10 lbs since Thanksgiving - one part holiday eating, one part sitting around a lot recovering from two surgeries, and one part having no thyroid. Ick! Tracking food/calories was my New Year's resolution anyway, and now I've got to do this low iodine diet for a few weeks to prep for my radioactive iodine. It's actually a good thing because I want any thyroid cells left to soak up as much radioactive iodine as possible, so I'm pretty committed to doing a good job on this diet, and a bonus should be losing some weight since I'm not allowed any dairy, no commercial bread products, limited meat and limited grains, no processed foods that include salt, no canned foods, no soy, no seafood or sea-additives like carageenan. I prepped a bunch of food yesterday since I pretty much have to make everything from scratch. I hate to exercise, but we do now have a treadmill in the basement (for the dog), so I figure I might want to set a small goal for that, but not sure yet
Breakfast: steel cut oats with maple syrup
Lunch: tabouleh w/ black beans
Snacks: 2 clementines
Dinner: leftover beef stew and a slice of beer bread
Dessert: italian ice
I fell off the bandwagon way too long ago. Luckily we got an eliptical for Christmas so I'm feeling a little motivation again.
Breakfast: Oatmeal & coffee
Lunch: Leftover homemade pineapple pizza & carrots
Snack: Fiber plus bar
Dinner: Something made with boneless chicken breast, not sure what yet
I only gained a couple of pounds over the holidays but I took a longer break from exercise than I should have (10 days) and my back muscles are punishing me today! So exercise will definitely start up again tonight but I won't be sure what I'm doing until I see how my back is behaving this eveing.
MH wants a bread and soup week so I made a couple of loaves of whole wheat bread this weekend. We'll make one soup per night and eat the leftovers for lunch. Soups will be cauliflower with curried apple, potato & leek, french onion, green minestrone and white bean. Breakfasts are kashi cereal or oatmeal with bananas. We have tons of stocking candy left in the house so dessert will be a small piece of chocolate. No dessert or breakfast baking allowed until we eat up some of the chocolate!
I have started the new Weight Watchers Online program and bought Dance Central for the Kinetic so I am hoping I won't get bored between that and the Personal Training Game.
Breakfast- Lowfat multi-grain waffles with sugar free perserves
Snack- Banana
Lunch- Non-fat blueberry greek yogurt, carrots, orange
Snack- fruit and yogurt bites, fiber plus bar
Supper- Hungry Girls Baked Ziti recipe?
I WILL stop eating everything in sight. I did an excellent job getting back to my pre pregnancy weight. And then I quit. And now I have stubborn pounds that needed to come off before baby that are just hanging out.
I'm stable mable with exercising regularly. Have been for years. I STINK at snacking and limiting sweets.
Goal: Portions to be enough for Jackie, not an entire football team. One treat a day. All other snacks be healthy snacks. I will go back to consuming a TON Of water.
Breakfast: Grapefruit. One piece homemade raisin wheat toast.
Lunch: Carrots, hummus. Cheese stick. (I had yogurt but was so busy, I didn't eat it).
Snack: Banana.
Dinner: Moroccan Chicken and Cous Cous dish that I posted yesterday.
Dessert. 1, yes ONE piece of fudge. I can do it!