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Fit Chicks! A Wednesday check-in
This week has already flown by! With Monday being a day off from work for me and yesterday's storm, I'm just realizing we need a check-in.
So share from your weekend if you wish, and meals and goals for this week! 
Re: Fit Chicks! A Wednesday check-in
I ended up running 3 miles outside on Saturday and Monday. I was pretty proud since it was so chilly and I was tempted to wimp out. Yesterday I did 30DS in the morning and am taking today and tomorrow off from working out because of DH's work schedule and I have had a sore throat since last night. I plan on doing a DVD Friday morning and then going for a run on Sunday.
I have been doing okay with eating, although I am losing motivation for tracking food on Lose It! I love the website and app, but after tracking everything for 2 months I am a little tired of it. I have met my initial goal and am back comfortably within my regular weight range, but need to step it up and get to my new goal.
We had chicken tortilla soup last night that I had frozen a few weeks ago. Nice and warm, filling and pretty low calorie and fat. Don't really have many more meals planned out but look forward to hear what you other ladies are cooking!
I've been doing pretty well overall recently, and trying to take advantage of upped energy levels from 2nd tri. I alternated between floor and standing routines for my Long & Lean workout on Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday, and I plan on doing floor today after work. DH actually wants to try the workout with me, since he's heard me talking about how I can feel the burn- I think it'll be hilarious!
Food-wise I've been relatively well-behaved, although I ate about 60% of a large popcorn at the movies on Monday- so good! Otherwise I've been sticking to my usual yogurt/cereal breakfast, salad/soup lunch and something homemade w/ lots of veggies for dinner. We had pork tacos on Sunday, which was slightly bad, although I tried to keep them a bit lighter, and everything was preservative free, so I feel a bit better! We're heading to Pittsburgh for the weekend, so I feel a lot of bad food coming (hello, Primanti Brothers!), but I'll get back on track after DH heads back to the ship.
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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Weekend was okay - I ran 3 miles two of the days and did lunch and shopping with girlfriends on the other day. I did not get a chance to workout yesterday due to the storm with getting home early and taking care of Nolan. Hoping to do 30DS today while he rolls around on the floor and laughs at me and then another DVD tomorrow with a run on Friday.
This week's meals are - baked lemon pepper chicken, collard greens with balsamic vinegar and turkey bacon, and carrots and potatoes, then turkey kielbasa with peppers and onions and beans over brown rice, simple grilled cheese and tomato soup because tomorrow is a busy night, and bookclub Friday night will just ruin everything! (hello yummy snacks and wine!) Snacks have been light yogurts, bananas, blueberries, oranges, fat free animal crackers, pomegranate flavored craisins and pretzels.
I still feel like the scale hasn't budged!
I did pretty well this weekend. I did 30ds on Saturday, and Sunday I felt a little bored so I checked out some of the workout videos on Netflix instant watch. I tried a couple weight-loss pilates videos on there that I really liked. I've never done pilates before, but it was enjoyable without being super difficult (with modifications), and could feel it in my muscles the next day. Monday I did 30ds and a pilates video, and yesterday I took the day off. I'm pretty proud of myself for keeping up with the exercise bit because I really hate to exercise for the purpose of exercising, but I'm feeling pretty committed to it and mixing it up and trying different things has been good. I took some measurements yesterday and things are getting a little smaller ( 1/2" inch here and there), and the number on the scale is slowly getting smaller.
Foodwise, I've done great about tracking everything with LoseIt and many days being under budget. I'm still on the low-iodine diet until next Friday, hopefully I can keep up some good habits from it afterwards. I made meringue cookies this weekend for the first time which were a really delicious 12 calorie treat (of course I ate a dozen a day, but still ended up being pretty low cal!). We had pot roast Sunday, fajitas with leftover beef Monday, leftover manestra yesterday, and tonight is porkchops with corn pepper relish and I don't know what else. Lunches have mostly been some pasta e ceci I made this weekend.
I'm back on the fit chicks bandwagon. This week is dedicated to just getting back in the mindset and figuring out goals, next week I'll worry about the scale.
I dance on Sunday nights and as of this week my dance instructor is also teaching zumba right after, so I signed up for that as well. Monday I started C25K for the first time just to try it out and will be doing day 2 today. I'm a little bored with the first week so far but I'm trying not to rush things and keep up with the schedule. I seem to need a goal to stay motivated so I'm counting on this bringing me through 9 weeks of indoor running and be in shape to improve my 5k time by spring. I also found a kettlebell dvd on netflix (but it's not available yet) and have brought out a few dusty dvds (yoga, 30DS, BL workouts, etc.) and plan to mix those in as I feel.
As far as food goes, I'll just say that next week will be planned out better.
I was good this weekend. I made it to the gym on Saturday to make up for Wednesday's snow day and then again on Sunday to make up for MLK Day. I have done/will do 50 minutes of cardio Tues-Fri and then 20 minutes of strength training on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
I have really stayed on track with food too and lost another pound last week. I am trying to psych myself up about the pound a week loss going forward. I think that is just the way that it is going to be this time around. The days of losing 2-3 pounds a week have past. Damn you late 30s!
Breakfasts are coffee with eggnog latte Coffeemate and multigrain Cheerios with skim milk. Lunches are leftover turkey couscous salad, low-fat or non-fat greek yogurts, and I had leftover pizza yesterday (because I forgot to bring anything else and needed to eat what was in the fridge at my office). Snacks are Special K chocolate pretzel bars and 100 calorie packs. Dinners are leftover turkey pot pie, whole wheat macaroni and meatballs, and fancy dinner out tomorrow night (I think I will try to stick with a salad and a roasted scallop dish).
I didn't do my P90X this weekend, but I did go for a long walk on Saturday. I did awesome this past weekend with tracking my calories!! I was very proud of myself, because weekends are usually where I fail when it comes to diet. I still treated myself and had a couple of beers Saturday night and I made some popcorn as a snack. I didn't go overboard and didn't buy any snacks or anything when I went out. I did go over slightly on Sun (about 80 calories), but that's still much better than I normally do on weekends!
On Sunday I made a Broccoli-Cannelini Bean Soup that I've been having for lunches this week. I also made some banana bread from Cooking Light that I've been having for my breakfast.
This weeks dinners (main dishes...I'm too lazy to write out the sides. LOL)
Mon- Turkey BLT's
Tues- Mac and cheese
Wed- Shrimp 'Po Boys http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/shrimp_po_boy.html
Thurs- Bean Burritos
Fri- Dh will make pizza
Sat- Salmon
Sun- Beef Stew