Saturday, December 18, 2010

Lazy Saturday

Ah, its been a while. A looooong while in the blog world. I've been watching post after post of amazing holiday treat recipes go up, found out one of my favorite health bloggers is pregnant (I'll miss her posts on weight loss, but am excited to read about her new journey. I'm glad I'll see some one else go through it before Matt and I decide to take the plunge), and still I haven't managed to do a post of my own. For starters, I am working a new position at my job and worked about 60 hours this week! I feel like I haven't had time to breathe much or control my life. I have been tracking food for the most part and exercising so I'll post pictures from the week later. I probably gained a little this week, but we'll see Monday. I weighed last Monday at 161.8 which was down 1.6 lbs from the previous Wednesday. (hooray!)

Today was more work, but just a half day. I woke up a little weakened from Friday night activities if you know what I mean. I grabbed an apple and headed to work. 2pts (180 calories)

Lunch was a Lean Cuisine Steamer 5pts and 270 calories.


I was hungry again after work and cooked some parmesan risotto. I had 1/2 a cup for 3pts and 140 calories. I snacked on the rest of the risotto throughout the day for another 7pts and 310 calories. Oof- should have grabbed the salad!


I was lazy so after running errands (ignoring errands I was supposed to do and shopping instead), I made organic baked fries 4pts and 250 calories.


SATURDAY STATS:
Points: 21/23
Calories: 1,050
Weekly Allowance Points: 0 used / 35 (? left) weekly
Exercise: walking around the mall
Water: 50 oz.
Weekly Weight Loss: -1.6 lbs / 36.6 lbs total

Here's a photo recap of the rest of my week:
Ham, light egg, and cheese bagel from bodos (hangover cure-all)
More fries
Weight Loss Monday
Salad ap from a lunch Date at Ragazzi's. Monday after doing the morning news at 6am! By the way, there is a world out there at 4:30 am- I never knew!
Breadstick

Spinach/tomato maniconti

only had 1/2
pb&j (weeknight staple)

Little bear likes peanut butter

Peanut butter and beer...also a weeknight staple

Beer and chocolate chips- ok this should be a weeknight staple

Breakfast cliff bars

Smart Ones Ravioli

Honey Roasted Peanuts

Lean Cuisine Steamer
Jimmy John's turkey sammich. Catered for working until 9:30 one night. The other late night was Raising Cane's- not so hot.

Proof I went to the gym...

...a few times

More fries.

Mexican lunch date! Fajitas! (and chips with cheese dip- achilles heel)

Veggie Pizza from the brick oven for the win.

That sums up my week in a nutshell! Hope you all had a great one! I'll be back to my normal posting schedule soon, maybe with some holiday recipes too!

Sunday, December 12, 2010

And the Holiday Parties Commence

Saturday was almost a normal work day. I have several students doing sessions over the weekend to make up for holiday vacation time. I didn't get breakfast before work so by 11 I was starving! I found a cliff bar in my desk at work for 2pts (130 calories).

After working with students most of the morning and part of the afternoon, I came home and hit the gym with Matt. I got in a 20 minute run 3pts 200 calories, and 35 minutes on the cross trainer 3pts and 400 calories. Its been so cold lately, I've been skipping out on running because I hate running in the cold, but today, I ran on the dreadmill and it wasn't as bad as I was expecting. I finished off the workout with 120 crunches and 2 sets of leg lifts 1pt (no clue calories).

Dreadmill

Sweaty, but happy, mess

Cross Trainer Action
I was starving again by the time we had lunch at 3:30. I had a taco for 4pts (2 pts 96% ff taco meat, 1pt ff tortilla, 1pt cheese) and 250 calories.

I also snagged 2 cookies as a snack 1pt 40 calories! They were gone before I could find my camera! Sorry!! After lunch, I went back out to run errands for work. I am going to be on the news Monday morning at 6am doing a segment on creating a  "Smart Mom's Toy Box" for LearningRx so you should check it out!

After errands, Matt and I went to our advisor's holiday party. I had 14pts of alcohol, 8pts of appetizers, and 5pts on a cookie...estimated calories- 1,400 calories. whew. Wopper there.

SATURDAY STATS:
Points: 33/23
Calories: 1,830
Weekly Allowance Points: 19 used / 16 remaining
Weekly Activity Points: 7 today/19 for the week
Exercise: 20 minute run, 35 minute cross trainer, strength training 650 calories
Water: 60 oz.
Weekly Weight Loss: -3 lbs / -35.0 lbs total