I Ate Pie. And It's Not My Cheat Day.

And that about sums up today.

Yesterday was my cheat day. It involved tortilla chips, salsa, sour cream and popcorn.

My ankles are a little puffy today.

Today I ate super clean all day, and low on calories, so that I could afford a piece of pie and some ice cream tonight for my nephew's birthday.

That right there is the tip of the day: If you know you have some sort of celebration, plan for it earlier in the day (or even earlier in the week). That way you can enjoy a small treat without blowing your calorie budget out the window.

Now we're watching 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, or as Finn calls it 40,000 Legs Under the Sea. We challenged him to count how many legs he sees during the course of the movie.

Surprise!

I weighed this morning and was down another pound. I won't officially believe that another pound is gone until I weigh again and see that it has stayed down. Again, I suspect that I was dehydrated. Because nothing can explain a loss of 3 lbs. in one week!

My two days off in a row ended up being a good thing. I had a really good workout this morning: Turbo Fire Fire 45 and Stretch 10. Fire 45 is my favorite workout, I think. I got up at 4:45am to do it!

I also worked at ski school for a few hours.

Calorie wise I came out at about 1529 so I'll have a 500 calorie deficit. And now, I'm going to have to go to bed because I am literally falling asleep...

In Short

I have nothing good to say about today.

Rest day.
Sick kid (not terribly sick though).
No work on mountain (I'm actually OK with that).
Writing work deadlines by 5pm tomorrow.
Much chocolate consumed today. Milk chocolate makes me binge.
Made horrible Indian dinner--the house still smells.

I'm sure I'm over calories for the day, but I couldn't even begin to try and decipher the combination foods I ate today.

I'm going to bed.

Hope you had a good day. Three challenge days left!

Ah, the Holidays!

Confessions:

-I haven't worked out since Tuesday
-Today I ate cookie dough
-I will likely eat cookie dough again tomorrow

I've made an interesting discovery these past few days. I finished my work on Tuesday, so I haven't been sitting and working. But even though I haven't exercised, I also haven't been sitting on my rear all day. The result is that I've actually hit my BodyBugg goals without working out. Nice.

It won't last forever, I realize. Eventually, I'll have to sit back down and type all day, but until then, I'm digging this.

Actually, I plan to workout tomorrow, lest I get a little too lazy. Because let's face it, if you take too long off from working out, getting back into a routine is hell.

Plus, Turbo Fire arrived last week and Santa will give it to me a week from today. Thank you, Santa!

Watch Me Get Off Track...And Back On Again!

So this weekend is the perfect example of how things haven't gone as I planned.

At all.

I sit down once every week or 10 days to plan out menus and make a grocery list. This helps me stick to a budget and my healhier eating at the same time.

And I had this weekend all planned out. Or so I thought.

My older son is playing in a hockey tournament, and as terrible as this sounds, I didn't think the team would do as well as they have done because I figured we'd be home for dinner each night.

That plan went out the window--hence the hot dog for dinner last night.

Tonight, I'm not actually even eating dinner because I'm going to eat my popcorn if it kills me. I hope I don't choke on a kernal now that I said that.

Anyway, my point here is that the best laid plans go awry. Or, like me today, you take healthy food along with you and you don't necessarily eat it. Sometimes I'm good. Sometimes I'm not. I'm good more often than I'm not, and that's the important thing.

Today's workout: Missed it.

Food

Breakfast: Two eggs, gluten free toast (annnnd, two bites of cookie dough. Had to make cookies for the hospitality room at the tournament and I was so tired last night, I didn't do it. But apparently I wasn't too tired to blog last night.)

Snack: I think we should probably consider the cookie dough my snack

Lunch: In the hospitality room--Chili with cheese, 1/2 piece of pizza, grapes, carrots, 1/2 of someone else's cookie (that they made, not that they were eating!).

Snack: Cornbread w/milk and syrup

Dinner: None. I'm abstaining until popcorn.

Trust me when I tell you I don't eat this way on a daily basis. I'm realizing this is a terrible way to start this blog. And thank goodness I hadn't started a week ago on Friday when I went to SmashBurger. It would have been a bummer to confess that!

You'll start seeing some clean eating form me, I swear. But I definitely want you to see that I have feet of clay. The important thing is that I USED to eat like this more often than not. But I've learned I can have a bad day or two, or even go off the rails on vacation, and I can get back on and pull myself back together. That concept was a huge turning point for me.

Over the course of the next few weeks I'll talk more about how I eat and exercise to keep myself moving forward.

BodyBugg stats as of 6:06pm:
Calories burned = 1723. I won't be hitting my goal for today!
Steps = 5726
Activity = 35 minutes

Clearly, too much sitting in a hockey rink today.

For Meg: A word about the shakes. I have looked the world over for a whey protein shake. I researched different brands, I spent good money on them. Some were good. Some were just plain nasty. I feel like I drank a lot of whey protein frogs before I found the prince of shakes. I have been drinking Shakeology nearly every day for the last five months. Sometimes I use it as a meal replacement, sometimes I drink it as a snack. I love it. I buy it, of course, through BeachBody. It's got really great ingredients. It comes in two flavors--chocolate and greenberry. I mix it with almond milk and ice, sometimes adding other stuff, but you can do water, skim milk, different juices, etc. I surprise even myself that I can drink it nearly every day and not get sick of it. It must have been all those years of searching. I actually get a little case of the DTs when I skip it, which makes me wonder if there's something suspicious in it.

I'm kidding of course. It does contain an ingredient called camu camu which, when I had camu camu once like a tea at a party, everyone who drank it got all giddy and giggly. It was hilarious.

So anyway, I dig it.

Another Blog. Exactly What I Have Time For.

Eamonn is reading this and hitting himself in the forehead. My work is busy, our lives are busy and yet, I am starting another blog.

What will you see here that's different from my other blog? I'll be focusing on fitness and nutrition--two things near and dear to my heart.

As I said on my other blog, finding the BeachBody DVDs and finding online support has really changed my life. I no longer feel like I have to fight with food, which sounds weird if you've never fought with food, I know.

I know not everyone wants to talk/read about diet and exercise, so that's why I started a separate blog. Here I'll be talking about what I've learned, what worked for me, and stuff I read about.

I'll also be posting what types of workouts I'm doing each day to keep my girlish figure, and what I'm eating.

Because truly, that's what weightloss (and maintenance comes down to)--calories in and calories out.

This blog is a little different in that because I am a "coach" (that just means a cheerleader really) with BeachBody, you'll see advertisements on this blog for the products that I like the best and use myself.

Yes, I sell this stuff now because I truly believe in it. That's really my only disclaimer.

You'll see the blog changing over the next few weeks. I'm trying to figure out how to do tabs and other stuff I've never done before. It's a work in progress. Like me.

So, I'm keeping this first post short and sweet. And official. Here's my check in--which I'm doing as much for myself, to hold myself accountable to reach my goals before my 25th high school reunion which may or may not be next summer. I'm getting ready just in case...

Today's workout: Kathy Smith's Timesaver Cardio Fatburner (hilarious that my first accountability wasn't even a BeachBody workout)

Nutrition:
Breakfast--1/4 cup mango
Snack--Chocolate Shakeology, 8 oz. almond milk
Lunch--Salad greens, 3.5 oz. tuna, 1/4 avocado, hard boiled egg, 6 kalamata olives, 1/4 yellow pepper, 1/4 cucumber, 1/4 cup celery, 1 tablespoon olive oil, lemon juice, Bragg's Liquid Aminos...two squares dark chocolate...
Snack--banana with 2 tablespoons maple almond butter (holy cow, that stuff's good)
Dinner--two servings tofu stir fry

Total calories for the day: 1629

BodyBugg Stats as of 10pm MST:
Calories burned = 2126
Steps = 11,288
Activity = 1 hour, 25 minutes