Menu Plan and Update on Progress!

Hi All! Here's is what is going on in my neck of the woods right now!

Sunday

• Breakfast: Breakfast sandwich (light whole grain English muffin w/ 1 egg, hot sauce, & 1 slice of American cheese)
•  Lunch: Egg salad
• Snack:  chocolate chip cookie after gym
• Dinner:  Chicken stuff shells with mixed frozen veggies and garlic toasts
• Snack: 100 calories bag of popcorn with a few chocolate chips thrown in

Monday

• Breakfast: Breakfast sandwich (light whole grain English muffin w/ 1 egg, hot sauce, and slice of American cheese)
• Lunch: Bacon white cheddar cheeseburger on open bun with small side of fries) from Big City Burgers and Green’s
• Snack:  chocolate chip cookie after gym
• Dinner:  Asian Chicken Salad (broccoli slaw with green onions, roasted chicken breast, diced tomatoes, and wasabi almonds w/ ginger sesame dressing
• Snack: 100 calories bag of popcorn

Tuesday

• Breakfast: Cottage cheese and fruit salad (strawberries, pineapple, and red grapes)
• Lunch: Chopped veggie (carrots, tomato, green onions) salad with hardboiled egg & ginger sesame dressing
• Snack: Apple Straws
• Dinner: Spinach ravioli and chicken with garlic toasts
•  Snack: Angel food cake nuggets

Wednesday

• Breakfast: Small cottage cheese, jello, and fruit salad (strawberries, pineapple, and red grapes
• Lunch: Chopped veggie (carrots, tomato, green onions) salad with hardboiled egg & ranch dressing
• Snack: Veggie straws
• Dinner:  Orange soy cod with brown rice
• Snack:  Caramel rice cakes

Thursday

• Breakfast:  Egg beaters scramble with salsa on sandwich thin and fruit salad (strawberries, pineapple, and red grapes
• Lunch: Chopped veggie (carrots, tomato, green onions) salad with hardboiled egg & ranch dressing
• Snack: Caramel rice cakes
• Dinner:  Friends’ Biggest Loser Night @ my house: Debating between BBQ chicken pita pockets with sweet potato fries or roasted red pepper soup with chicken and garlic bread ---HELP!!
• Snack:  Caramel rice cakes

Friday

• Breakfast:  Egg beaters scramble with salsa on sandwich thin and fruit salad (strawberries, pineapple, and red grapes)
• Lunch: Chopped veggie (carrots, tomato, green onions) salad with hard boiled egg & Asian toasted sesame dressing
• Snack: Fiber chocolate chip bar
• Dinner:  Maybe date night @ Sam and Gabe’s via Livingsocial.com deal?

CHECK OUT THE PROGRESS!!! Down 21 lbs, this week is prelude to my time of the month so next week we should see something new lows!!

Here’s to going to the GYM every day this week and BUSTIN' ASS!!

51 days until FLORIDA!!!

Monday Weigh In!

Down 13lbs for far to date! CAN I GET A WHAT WHAT?

That is 3 more down since last Monday, up 1 from the lowest weigh in throughout the weekly (weighing in daily=NUTZ!), and 36 down from start of 2010.

I'm happy with it. A loss is a loss but I was hoping for a bit more. I like to see 5lbs a week but let's be serious here: I'm not on the biggest loser!

I did work out each day for an hour but neglected to incorporate anything besides cardio. I feel like I get the most bang for my buck here time wise for calories burnt. I know I know, strength training is pertinent, I'll work it in. I saw a sign on a gym in Urbandale (near Walgreens and Kum & Go on Douglas & 76th-ish) that was promoting $10 personal training so I may look into that. Who knows? I just don't know what I'm doing in that department.

This week could have been a lower loss but also could have skipped the naked hot wings I ate yesterday during the football game. They were SO GOOD! Worth every calorie! Skipped the butter filled hot sauce so that was a good sign...

Some non-scale victories this week included:

• Smaller pair of jeans fit and I didn't have to lay on the bed with my breath held to get them to zip. Biggest muffin top I've ever had but damn it they zipped!
• Size large t-shirt fit too! Tight all over but still went on!
• Made a new chicken verde soup that is practically calorie free (not really) but so tasty!!! WILL BE MAKING AGAIN so will post pics and recipe...LOVED IT!!
• Shaved almost 2 minutes from the time that it takes on the elliptical to do 5 miles (started at just over 60 and now just around 58!)
• Took a half batch of leftover cookies to work and gave them away instead of eating them all myself!

What some non-scale victories make you giddy all over?
PS: Little less than 12 days until the Superbowl (IE: day we leave for Mexico) and I have 7lbs to go to hit the goal of 20 lbs lost. I need a pedicure so am dying working hard at the gym this week and in the kitchen to get it!!

Stay tuned….trying to find pics to post for before and afters. Anyone have some from NYE 2009/10?

What are you doing this week to make sure you are still working towards your

END RESULT??

Weigh in Wednesday

It's that time of the week again!

And the results are......down 34.6 lbs!! I guess carefully planning all your meals, following through on them, and exercising everyday (with that one awesome rest day) really DOES work! Next weeks goal: 37lbs! 40 seems so close!!

Thanks for all the support and get ready for another post tonight. It's food day at work, let's see if I can manage something healthy. I'm bringing the mac and cheese(not healthy) but also am bringing my regular in case there isn't anything healthy to choose from.

You haven't seen this handsome devil recently so ENJOY!!!

Weigh in Wednesday....Continued!

Top 'o' the morning to you laddies!

SCALE rings in @ down 32.8lbs!!!

This morning I was up before my alarm went off(which rarely happens) and I attribute that to a week full of eating healthy and getting in over an hour of exercise per day. Not only does exercising give you more energy, I think it also gives us more motivation to keep going. It's a weird phenomenon I know but I really beleive in it.

This guy DOES NOT!!! I can even still hear him in bed snoring away. So Cute!

Have a good day all, off to go cook up a quick breakfast and help the children of the world with a day of volunteering!