TGIF!!

Yes! It's finally Friday! Can I hear a "woohoooooooooooooooooooooooo!"

The rest of the week was long and boring. I've been a little pathetic and haven't worked out at all, but that is all changing as of tomorrow! Hubs was off the last few days.. and I dunno.. when he is off, I just can't drag myself to the gym and miss out on time with him. (that's bad, isn't it?) It's just.. we have such conflicting schedules and when either of us has some off time, we like to be together. Oh well, I guess it all works out.

We did have a very productive night yesterday!! I finaaaaaaaally got him to sit down and sort through the 1000+ wedding proofs! After 3 long hours of staring at ourselves, we narrowed them down to 75! YES! They are off to the photographer and we'll have our album in 6 months. WOHOOO!

As for the food.. I've been doing AMAZING. Today was the first day (since using Sparkpeople and tracking the food) that I've gone over my alotted calories. Of course I still can't figure out how to link it back here, but I was about 59 calories over today. The rest of the week I was in the right range.. so I guess I'm doing OK!

so far, I love Sparkpeople!

Is anyone else on there? If so, lets be friends! (Let me know so we can friend each other!)

The website is super easy, full of information and FREE! yay! I'm still learning some things on there, but I have mastered how to track my daily eats.. and found out that today I could have eaten a little more than I did (I may go have an apple.. or a popsicle). Over the years I had gotten so used to counting points or carbs that I have no clue how many calories things are. Total eye-opener.

Anyways, today I had 1180 calories, 144 carbs, 30 fat and 82 protein. I know.. I'm very low on calories, and I am even on the low end of the carbs and fat, so tomorrow I'm going to try to work on that. Then again, on Tuesday I ate over 2000 calories and over 100 grams of fat (!!!!!!!).

woohoooo

..I'm a little late..

But WTH, I am going to post my May goals:

Mind you, I will be vacationing for a week at the end of the month, so between now and May 20th, I plan on sticking to my goals :-)

• Track every single morsel of food (I started this today and it was an eye opener b/c I eat way too much!)
• Aim to burn at least 1600 calories between now and the 20th
  
• Try 3 new recipes
• Plan meals
  

So basically, I am still going to continue being low carb.. but I really need to watch the calories too. Today I ate almost 2000 calories! That's just insane! If I can figure out how to link my food from Sparkpeople.com onto this thing, I will. (someone please help me figure that out! haha)

Back to Biggest Loser! Let's go Mike! (he's such a cutie! hehe)

what a week!

TGIAF!

This week is draaaaagging. wow. Not sure if it's because it is just a blah kind of week at work, or what, but whoa, I can't wait to wake up and kiss Friday morning. hahaha.

The eats this week have been pretty good.. lots of salads :-)

and tonight I tried yoga for the first time. Not sure what my feelings are about it. It's hard! I may give it another go in a few weeks, but we'll see :-)

Hope everyone is having a quicker week then me!!

Cardio for the week

I want to start planning my cardio for the week and maybe that will help me stick to it and get myself there. So I'm thinking:

Monday: 30 mins elliptical, 15 min walk/jog on treadmill, abs and arms
Tuesday: 45 mins walk/jog on treadmill
Wednesday: Off. Spending time with the Hubs.
Thursday: Yoga (my first time!)
Friday: 30 mins elliptical, 15 min walk/jog on treadmill, legs
Saturday: Off. I have 2 communion parties and 1 engagement party to go to! (ahhhh!)
Sunday: Zumba!

Since I'm kinda new to this, and really new to strength training, I need to find some exercises to do for the various body parts. Arms and legs I know, but back, shoulders, chest and tush have me in the dark. Any websites out there that would help me?

Today was my cheat day

I had to do it.

Hubs took the day off as we had tickets to go to a Mets game at their new stadium :-) YAY!

We started the day off with bagels. YUM. I did 'scoop' mine out though ;-)

At the game, sheesh, just too many options. It started with a beer.. then onto chicken nachos (MY FAV!) then I had a nibble of Hubs' sausage hero. yikes!

Luckily I refocused myself and had a SB friendly dinner: steak and veggies

The only downside was that I didn't drink a lot of water.. so tomorrow I am going to drink a little more. :-)

Day 5 and I lost my willpower ..then found it again!

yes, it's true. work was stressful today and a co-worker asked if I wanted Taco Bell.

....


I said YES!

grrr

Luckily, this co-worker always seems to F up my orders, so I wound up with 2 tacos that I don't particularily like. (I know it's shocking that I actually don't like this type of taco, but it's true). Anyways, I ate one and threw the 2nd out. Does that count as a small victory??

Besides the minor lunch pitfall, I stuck to my plan the remainder of the day. BIG VICTORY!

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with salsa and black beans. (I need new breakfast ideas.. help!)
Snack: almonds
Lunch: Read above :-P
Snack: Apple
Dinner: I believe the Hubs and I are going to get some Chinese, so I plan on having chicken with string beans.. hold the rice.

No work out today b/c I sat in over an hour worth of traffic to get home. God I love NYC. haha.