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Fit Chicks
I don't even belong in this group! I am a Fat Chick! Ugh, last week threw me for a loop with the snow days and being home with Nolan most of the week. So basically I didn't get to work out at all last week. Annoying. And now I'm having a hard time with my motivation. Hoping that temps go up and I can find time to squeeze in some workouts this week. Strangely enough, i finally lost a pound! Ha ha! Soooo goals for the week and meals....
Hoping to do 30DS when N naps today. (I'm home with him today). Other than that I really want to get some runs in but that all depends on the weather. I'm not a crazy runner girl in that I don't run in just any kind of weather. No thanks. I've run in snowstorms before, but now when temps are so low! And I hate running when it's too windy, too. That sucks.
Meals - pork chops, kale and rice pilaf, other than that, I have to go grocery shopping today so I'll be looking for some ideas!
Snacks and lunches will be yogurt, bananas, oranges, blueberries, animal crackers or pretzels, oatmeal, salads, etc.
Re: Fit Chicks
I've been exercising a ton since I joined the gym a couple weeks ago. Now I just want to start seeing it pay off!
I'm planning to hit the gym for an hour before picking DH up from the airport tonight. Dinner will likely be turkey chili leftovers.
As for the rest of our meals, I'm planning to start trying the cook once a month thing and make all of our meals up in advance. We're really bad about portion sizes, so my hope is that if there is only 2 serves in a pack then we can't over eat like we normally do. I just got my vacuum sealer yesterday, so I think that I'll be cooking up a storm this weekend (when I'm not editing or at the gym).
I was absolutely terrible over the weekend while we were in Pittsbugh (uhm, hi Primanti Bros, Yo Rita tacos, LuLu's Noodle Shop) so I'm just going to accept that for what it is and move on. While piling more fries onto my sandwich, I kept assuring DH "I'm not even hungry- this if for the BABY!". Suuuuuuure.
I took yesterday off from working out since I didn't get in until 1230 on Sunday night due to flight fiascos, and I was exhausted by the time I got home. I made up about 1/2 a pint of roasted cherry tomatoes & garlic, and burned the hell out of my hand while making them, so had to eat all of the tomatoes out of spite, clearly. The rest of the week I plan on pretty simple meals- I have a lot of good soups, veggie casseroles and lean proteins in the freeze so I plan on using those up. Lunches are pretty much salads, whole wheat bagels or soups with yogurt, clementines and almonds for snacks.
I'm getting back on the Long & Lean Prenatal pilates workouts starting tonight, and I should be able to be pretty consistent with them over the next few weeks, since I don't plan on much weekend travel for a while.
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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I lost two pounds last week. WAHOO!
I plan to do 50 minutes of cardio five times this week and another 20 minutes of strength training three times this week.
Breakfast will be mostly multigrain Cheerios with skim milk and coffee with Coffeemate (although I had a breakfast meeting this morning that consisted of yummy treats instead).
Lunches are open-faced turkey salad with asparagus sandwiches and either a Special K bar or a 100 Calorie Pack of Cheez Nips.
Dinners are chicken enchilada casserole leftovers and broccoli.
Snacks are 100 Calorie Packs of cookies or Breyers Delights ice cream sandwiches.
Yeah, I have been iffy lately too. I ran on Saturday, but didn't work out Sunday or Monday. Although I did play Wii Fit and Just Dance for a while last night, so that counts for something. I will do 30DS or something else on Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Hoping to run outside at some point this weekend, but DH is working so that makes it a challenge. DH had to move the treadmill in the basement temporarily, so now it isn't near the tv, making it even more dreadful for me to run down there.
I'm with you Annie- running outside is definitely my exercise of choice, but I won't run if it is under 15, super windy or anything like that. Plus the roads I run on are rural, so not busy with traffic, but pretty narrow, meaning that I end up running on leftover snow and junk even after the roads are plowed. I just ordered some YakTrax to try so we'll see if that helps.
Food wise, I am still struggling with staying motivated to track on Lose It. I think I am staying pretty on target on my own, but there is definetely more mindless bites and snacks here and there when I'm not logging everything. My weight has been staying the same, which is okay because I am within my comfort zone, but I was hoping to keep the momentum I had going and lose more. Breakfast is always coffee, a half bagel with peanut butter or a scrambled egg. Lunches are usually leftovers. We are kind of flying by the seat of our pants with dinners this week, pulling stuff out of the freezer and seeing what we find. Snacks are clementines, bananas, yogurt, granola bars, etc.
I'm struggling right now with trying to fit in exercise, healthy dinners, and all the other daily stuff. Had a big fight with MH about it last night.
Anyways...it seems like I've noticed in your posts that you always have lots of leftovers for lunch/dinner. Do you just do all your cooking on the weekends and have it for the week? I'm looking for ideas to make my weeknight quicker for dinner. Also for lunches, etc.
Yes, that is exactly what I have started to do. I made the turkey salad and the chicken casserole on Sunday so that we can eat it throughout the week.
That's exactly what I'm going to have to start doing. It's just too much trying to fit it all in at night during the week!
Oh and congrats on losing 2 pounds!!
This weekend = bad choices all around, including not going grocery shopping. That means we'll use up some of our frozen veggies and pasta until I can get to the store. Breakfast is always either oatmeal or scrambled eggs and an english muffin, snacks this week are oranges and anything else I find, and lunch is doomed since it's usually leftovers from dinner.
This week has been better with regards to working out though. I was at dance and zumba for 2 hours on Sunday and yesterday I went as a guest to a core class at my sister's gym. I'm supposed to go to zumba with her tonight but I'm more sick than I thought when I left the house this morning (fever & chills, awesome!) so I can imagin the next day or so won't be good. I need to pull myself together.
This weekend was fine. I could have been better but I could have been worse. I do need to try harder to push myself extra on the weekends since I have more time to exercise.
I have time to work out every evening this week which is good because I had a big lunch out yesterday and am eating out tomorrow as well and possibly having a date with MH Friday evening.
Lunches and snacks that I'm packing this week: PB&J sandwiches, granola bars, baby carrots, apples, kiwis, popcorn, cheese & crackers.
Dinners for this week: chili and salad, an Asian-style apricot-chicken with brown rice and a steamed veggie on the side (both meals make plenty of leftovers)
This weekend wasn't fantastic as far as eating and exercise, but it wasn't horrible either. This is my last week of the low iodine diet, thank goodness! It has been really limiting especially for snacks, so I find myself over-snacking trying to find something to substitute the one thing I really want - like I want a piece of cheese, but can't have one, so I ended up eating a lot of other snacks I don't even want trying to meet the cheese-need. I just hopefully don't go overboard on the cheese and eating out when I finally can
I tried to do 30DS on Saturday, but ended up being interrupted 50 times because I was on-call and there was a big crisis, so I didn't end up finishing and didn't do it on Sunday , because it was hard to be on the phone and all out of breath! I'm down 3.5lbs since Jan 1st; I wish it was more, but I guess it's something, and at least I'm not gaining.
Breakfast has been steel cut oats and honey. I made a southwest type pasta salad on Sunday for lunches this week. Dinners have been rosemary-garlic pork tenderloin (CL), chicken fajitas, sweet and spicy chicken and potatoes (WD), and chicken with italian salsa (CL).
I'm a half ass-er when it comes to this, right now. Although, Abby was playing with the remote today while I was cleaning up from snack and found Jazzercise on Chanel 9 (we have time warner cable). No joke - I think she's telling me something. I DVR'd it and hopefully I can do it during nap time. We eat pretty healthy for the most part - it's the portion control I need to get under control.
Breakfast - cheerios, eggs, carnation instant breakfast, grapenuts, or yogurt
Lunch -leftovers from dinner the night before
Dinners - baked ziti, roast with mashed potatoes, cous cous chicken salad, pork chops, homemade pizza, and baked chicken (all with veggies of some sort)
snacks - fruit, 100 calorie granola bars, yogurt, gold fish :-)
I failed miserably at the food piece last night. I was overcome by some kind of premenstrual demon (note that I haven't had my period because of my Mirena in about four months) and decided that eating a lot of Teddy Grahams smothered in chocolate frosting was a good idea.
Back on the bandwagon today.
Mmmmmmm....Kristen, that sounds delicious!!!