Healthy Journey Day 292

Weighin Sunday.   192.8.  I was surprised.  Not only is this my PMS week...but I ate breakfast before weighing (a no no!)   That puts me at 6 pounds down in 2 weeks.   Best results I have had in a long time.  I am focused on my three habits...steps, water and veggies/fruits.   That is it!   I have not even been very good about the veggies/fruit one yet.   Loving this progress!!

No blood sugar

Breakfast at 9:30 Chocolate smoothie.  Carnation IB in milk, (half a serving)   Two handfuls of greens, half a banana, blueberries and some chocolate protein powder.

Healthy Journey Day 291

A fun day today.  We took a drive up and walked through some trailers and visited smith and Edwards.  It was a great mini road trip.  

Blood sugar was 92 this morning. Nice!

Breakfast. An orange and a bowl of mini wheats and milk. 

Snacks:  peanut butter crackers and pretzels fruit snacks. (Road trip food) usually I don't take anything with us so having that and water was a huge plus. 

Lunch. Brats and hotdogs.  Hubby had picked up some he found at target.  I cooked them on the grill. Love our new grill!! 

Snack.  1 cup of green monster smoothie

Dinner I wasn't very hungry so snacked on veggies and some Oreos with milk.  

I made the rest of the family ham sandwiches. 

Finishing up my water.  Exercise was 30 minutes on the bike. So steps aren't too high today. 

Healthy Journey Day 290

I actually took my blood sugar this morning.  It was 101.   Nice.  I felt really good about that.  Not that I ate in a way that should warrant it.

Breakfast was an orange.

I procrastinated exercise and snacked on the candy pumpkins we bought yesterday.

Completed a JR workout and then ran/walked to a neighbors house and back.

Lunch was a breakfast sandwich.

More snacking on pumpkins, the samples at sams club and fruit snacks

Dinner:   Pork tenderloin in a maple glaze.  Veggies and milk. a little ranch dressing too.

Healthy Journey 289

It's been a crazy day.  I didn't sleep well last night and didn't feel to good either so today I have felt like I hit a brick wall. 

Breakfast was oatmeal:

Snack:  Orange.

Trainer workout.  Ran ladders.  12 lb weights for lunges, deltoids (10 lbs) abs, more ladders, squats and more shoulders.  Tiring!  Only about 500 calories in an hour...Gee only.  I think that's pretty good!

I ate a breakfast sandwich and two toaster strudel for my after workout meal.  Then my hubby came home about noon.   I didn't get much else done.

Healthy Journey Day 288

It's been a good day.  One where I spent more time sitting.  But thats ok.   I had to wait for someone at the building for my hubby.  So that took a chunk out of my day.   Started out making pancakes for the kiddos.  I had some with peaches and yogurt and a little syrup.  Yum.  The peaches are about dead though. 

I ate an apple while I was driving.  We left at noon and I was a little hungry.  I had been snacking on pumpkin chocolate chip cookies too. 

Healthy Journey day 287

Be Your Best Self Today
  

Gratitudes:  email, telephones, Tv.   Computers.  We have amazing electronics!
 
Intentions for the day: Clean house, do laundry.  Survive taking the boys to Tball.  Plan menus and run to costco

Morning Blood Sugar: Gee I forgot it again.   Don't know why I am out of the habit.


Exercise:  lifted 15 lb weights...biceps and overhead press.  20 reps.  40 forward lunges. one ladder. 

Breakfast:
Time: 7
Hunger  Level *:
Ate:toast pb and peaches
Comments:


Snack:
Time:11
Hunger Level*:
Ate:english muffin with egg and bacon
Comments:

Lunch:   a pumpkin chocolate chip cookie. 

Snack:
Time:  3:30
Hunger Level*:
Ate:  chicken salad on crackers, a little nutella
Comments:

Dinner:
Time: 5:15  had to eat early to get to tball sorta ontime.
Hunger Level*:
Ate:  Lemon Pepper chicken.  Noodles.
Comments:  Afterwards I grabbed a thing of water and orange cupcakes as I was driving home.  Only ate one cupcake...
Water intake:  72 plus oz

Daily Wins:  I have 15000 steps.  Talked with my SIL for 1 & 1/2 hours.  Apparently we had a lot to talk about.   I paced the whole time.  Feel worn out but yet accomplished.  Especially since I really didn't exercise...It was a token amount.  :)

Daily goal:
Drink 64 oz water  Complete.   Continue to strive for daily. 
1 fruit, 1 Veg. 
One load of laundry to completion:  wash-dry-fold-put away

2015 Goals:

1.  Post a total of 365 days on the blog

2.  Run a 10 min mile
3.  Squat 95 lbs

4.  Complete morning and evening routines on a daily basis.

5.  Weekly meal planning

6.  Run a Half Marathon in October
7.  The Amy stretch!
8.  Brenda Vance Stairs
9.  10 full pushups--met!!

I am 34 inches thinner from my bust/waist and hips and a size 8's measurements of 36/28/38 on October 7, 2015.  I am following the trainers workout and food plans drink 64 oz of water a day and getting 8 hours of sleep every night.
I track this by completing my measurements every 4 weeks and weighing in weekly. My expectation is to see a decrease of approximately 5 inches per month.

 I am completing my daily trainer workouts, planning my meals, eating as I am hungry and listening to my fullness cues. I get in 10000 steps 6 times a week. I measure my progress with Sunday Morning weigh ins and document it on my blog. I stick to a regular bedtime and use a timer when I am on the computer.  I feel energetic and strong. I Feel good in my own skin.

**Hunger Scale is from 0-10 with zero being absolutely empty, ravenous and 10 being so stuffed that you are absolutely sick.
0--Empty
1--Ravenous
3--Set
4--Pangs
5--Neutral
6.5--Satisfied
8--Full
9--Stuffed
10--Sick
"Every time you start to eat, check your hunger level.  Ideally, aim for around a level of 3 to begin eating.  If you are at a 5 or above, you are not biologically hungry.  If you are at 2 or lower, you're likely over hungry and at risk for overeating."  Scale and comments taken from the book "Intuitive Eating" by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. 

Healthy Journey Day 286

Be Your Best Self Today
  

Gratitudes:  Home, family, husband

   
Intentions for the day:  clean, clean, clean


Morning Blood Sugar: forgot to check it.


Exercise:  45 min treadmill at 3.2-3.4, 20 pushups 90 sec plank

Healthy Journey Day 285

Its Fast Sunday today.  I had stayed up late last night, avoiding thinking apparently.  I have a new stitch fix coming so was having fun looking up clothes to put on my pinterest board.  Then I really slept in this morning...I mean really. Much later than I have probably since working nights.   We ended up rushing to church.  

I did weigh in though:   194.8   I was pleasantly surprised.  Looks like the changes I have been working on this week have been fruitful!    

Healthy Journey Days 283 and 284

So yesterday We had multiple power outages that turned my computer off.   At that point I gave up and didn't write a post.  :)   So here we are now.

Yesterdays exercise:   Stairs, I ran 8 flights and then biceps, overhead presses and squat kicks.  15 lb weights and 12 lb for the second set of overhead presses.  (I repeated the 8 flights too)

A peach before exercising,

peach pb and toast after.

Chicken salad on a roll a couple hours later

another couple hours later I had chicken salad on crackers.  

Can't remember much else but I definitely was munchy.   We ate tortilla chips and cheese at 9 pm.   

10k steps.  I ran in place for most of the last hour before going to bed in order to get them.   72 oz water.  

Today:

Blood sugar 93...surprising

We went on a bit of a road trip today.  IT has been great fun!   

I ate a mini chocolate chip muffin before we left and then we picked up some treats on the road.  I had chocolate milk and mini cinnamon rolls.   A couple grapes.   Then on our way back we grabbed dinner for tomorrow, and some twizzler cherry nibs.  Not as tasty as I hoped they would be.  

For dinner we ate wing stop.   Our usual...wings (plain) ranch, veggies and fries.   Very yummy.   My hubby gets the hot wings, I tried one but the plain boneless wings were yummy today.

Still working on my water and 10k steps...hope to get them all in before bed.  :)

Healthy Journey Day 282

I had great intentions about keeping track through the day but ended up busy enough that I didn't get to it.

Breakfast:  Toast, PB and a peach.  YUMMY!

Exercise:   45 min walk, 90sec plank x 2, 20 pushups x 2

Healthy Journey Day 281

First day back in training.   Back to the basics  ;)

I got a call shortly after sending my daughter off in the car pool this morning (7:30) that they were going to deliver our new mattress in 30 minutes.   I set aside my peach with greek yogurt and granola and went to work pulling off our old mattress and stashing and dashing stuff from my room...yes I tend to allow my room to become a graveyard for things without a home.  Not my best form. 

The mattress came just in time and I was able to get my son off to school before the bell even rang.  YAY!   I ate a couple more bites of my peach and then set to work gathering stuff for my workout.   Some how my strength band has been misplaced so I spent a bunch of time looking for it...never found it. 

Healthy Journey Day 280

Started out with a good blood sugar again.  Although it was really hard to wake up this morning.   Time to go to bed earlier!

Breakfast around 7, peach, greek yogurt and granola.  I had planned on doing something with those peaches today but never got around to it. 

Exercise:  Tried out a couple of new coaches on Boot camp hub with my friend.  We found one we enjoyed and another we didn't.  A great workout though.