heather73

It’s been over one week since I posted, but hey! I lost a few more pounds and reached my mini goal!! YEAH!!

Haven’t really worked out much this week, just swimming really. But I did eat healthier all week long, so I imagine that helped alot.

Oh, well, gotta go - will write more later!!

–Heather

Haven’t blogged in a few days but here’s what my food intake has been:

Sunday-

You know- I can always tell when I need to work out– My back starts hurting again!! When I’m working out regularly, I don’t have as much back pain!!

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Water aerobics 60minutes + laps.

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1 pop tart 200 calories

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1 pc. multi grain bread with polaner all fruit–blueberry.

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3 small bags cheetos. (not at the same time…..)
1/4 cup Bare Naked Granola
1 Sam Adams Summer Ale

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Monday:

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I have been extremely lazy this past week. I always forget to take vitamins etc. when I am off from work. That might have something to do w/ it.

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water aerobics in the pool plus some laps.
water jogging included.

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1/3 cup lucky charms w/ 1/2 cup skim milk 160 calories

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1 jamaican beef patty. about 450 calories

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1 small back cheetos. 160 calories
bare naked all natural granola. (fruit and nut)
another bag of cheetos.
a handful of frozen grapes. yum…

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Turkey breast grilled.

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I need to start doing Turbo Jam again!! My weight’s been stable, but no decrease. I need to step it up and start burning calories. I’ll post how I end up doing at the end of the day. I just have so much cleaning and organizing to do this week too. I have family coming from Scotland to visit for 2 weeks and our house is a disaster. For one thing, we’re in the middle of construction type work. The kitchen is getting ready to be torn out. The living room/dining room is just getting finished with Tile floor and painting. So, I have to clean the rest of the house, but have no place to put the stuff that is SUPPOSED to go in the LR/ DR/ and Kitchen!!! And Laundry Room!! If you feel like saying a quick prayer for me, feel free!

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Talk soon,

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–Heather

OK- so I have been working my ass off this week. Not literally - unfortunatly. Work has been hectic. And for some reason, haven’t been able to sleep too much. I am so over-tired. I didn’t do any working out Friday. And I can’t even remember Thursday. Oh yeah, Thursday I did Turbo Jam for 30minutes, TJ abs for 10min, and went swimming for 20minutes.

I am trying to decrease the amount of food I eat in a day. Seems I take in an aweful lot of calories.

Anyway, tonight is my last night for work then I am off till wed. (except for being “on-call”).

My work out goals for the next few days include:

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• Go to the track and jog. rn
• Take the kids to the bike trail and ride for a few miles. rn
• Do Turbo Jam each day for a minimum of 20minutes cardio and 10min. abs. rn
• swim and do “water aerobics” each day that it’s nice out for a min of 20min.

My Food goals  for the next few days are:

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• To keep my portions small. rn
• To drink water before I decide to get a snack.

 Here’s What I did and ate today (friday) rn

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approx 2 cups cheetos.

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Bacon (beef), Lettuce, Tomatoe on toast (white bread… I know…) with small amt. mayo.
A few sips of Light Grape juice.

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1 slice of cheddar cheese.

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1 small pc of chicken wing with bbq sauce
1/2 cup vegetarian baked beans.
1 small cup Strawberry soda- bad, I know.

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Hopefully, I can behave at work tonight and avoid snacking. Last night I did pretty good, of course I was too busy to even think about eating. I think that’s the ticket!!

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Update: Snacks at work consisted of 1 Pop Tart at 200 calories, 1 small bag of plain chips for 150 calories and about 1/2 cup noodles w/ gravy and 1/2 cup broccoli.

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You would think I lived in Seattle or something!!! rn

A rainy crummy day. So, I can’t get outside and do anything. Stuck in the house for working out. I went on the treadmill today- yippee. Problem is - it’s in the creepy, messy, cobwebbed basement and I HATE going down there! You’d think it would make me run faster…but I just don’t like it. I need a radio or something down there maybe. I get so bored. Then I start taking notice of how far I’ve run. Other than that, I did do the 40min dvd for Turbo Jam.

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On a positive note- I got a fairly newer style STATIONARY bike for FREE!!! From www.freecycle.org . So, as soon as I get my stuff out of the other side of the basement (the cleaner side), then I can put all the workout equipment in there. I have the treadmill and a stepper as well as some weights and weight benches. Oh, and punching bags, tons of jump ropes, etc… Most of which I got for free either from someone giving it away or from the ….. DUMP!! my other favorite place for free stuff!!

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Here’s how I did today. Still - the eating thing. It’s amazing how many calories are in the foods we eat. I mean, I ate Taco Bell with all those calories and all I really had was 2 measly tacos and the apple pie. That’s sick!!

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I almost wish I lived in the days when “voluptuous” women were “in style”!! (too bad the food sucked back then!!). Now we have good fattening food and shouldn’t eat it!!  The irony.

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Turbo Jam Cardio Blast dvd.
Ran/walked on the treadmill approx. 1/4 mile

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1/3 cup Lucky Charms with 1/2 cup skim milk 150 calories

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Taco Bell 2 regular beef tacos 430 calories
Taco Bell Empenada (apple pie) 290 calories

Total= 720calories. BAD.

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1 pc. multi grain bread with blueberry all fruit. (170cals)

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So, it sounds ok up till this point. But alas, I still have to go to work. And you know how that it— tons of snacks. I think I’ll just bring veggies for dinner. Birds Eye makes these frozen veggies w/ some herbs and stuff in them and you just microwave them - not too bad. I have to go to the store and get some Slim Fast shakes to take to work. Maybe Ill have time to stop there on the way in.

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Well, wish me luck for the rest of the day!

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Later,

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Heather

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Update- Dinner and work went badly.

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green beens birds eye 150cal
1 cookie 170cal
1 apple 25 cal
salad w/ SMaLL amt creamy italian dsg. 76 cal
about 5 pc. Provolone cheese 490 cal. (WOW- I never would’ve thought!!)
1/2 small Eclair. about 50calories
ToTal for Dinner- 961 calories.

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2001 calories!! OMG!!!

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OK- not a very productive day in terms of fitness. I ate decent though-

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• breakfast- 1/3 cup Lucky Charms with 1/2 cup skim milk. (150cal total)  (I like junky cereals, can you tell??) I’ll eat the healthier stuff, but I don’t like it as much and it has more calories anyway…. rn
• Lunch- Chicken breast with pesto hummus. (140 cal) ( 70cal for the hummus) About 1/4 cup tomato salad with a SMALL pc of Italian bread to dip in the oil/vinegar. (100cal) rn
• Dinner- 1/2 cup fat free cottage cheese (80cal) with 1 pc of multi grain bread (130cal) and polaner all fruit blueberry (40cal) on it. - rn
• Snack- Here’s where I screwed up as usual- Cheese dip- NOT the recommended 2 Tbsp serving, nope- more like 6 tbsp!! at 40 cal /2 =120 calories - WITH Tostitos. Those are about 130 cal for 7 whole chips. Of course, the chips are Never WHOLE!! So, I am going to say I had about 7 WHOLE ones. For a total of 250calories.  And a grand total of about 960calories. oh, plus the 1 Tbsp peanut butter I had which is like 95 calories. So that brings it up to 1055cal. I drank diet soda X2 which has no calories. ( I don’t usually drink soda at all, but it was there….)Oh shoot, forgot the bread too, how convenient!! That adds another 80cal or so bringing the total to 1135calories. (I knew it was too good to be true!! )

Now that all sounds so wonderful, except that I did NOTHING physical today!! I was up till about 4:30am this morning cuz I couldn’t sleep, so I ended up sleeping in till about 11am. Then got up and did some errands and took a nap for about 2 hrs. Now it’s after 8pm and I haven’t worked out yet. So…I am going to do a Turbo Jam dvd at least and maybe some weights. Let you know how it goes!!

–Heather

Update: I ended up doing Turbo Jam “burn” dvd. (It’s a short one) and did about 15 minutes of the Turbo Jam sculpt dvd. I suppose at least I got something in!!

OK- Monday came and went and I didn’t do half bad!!

Food intake consisted approximatly of the following:

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• Breakfast- Lucky Charms (measured) w/ skim milk (measured)
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• Lunch- Hometown Buffet– not so good. I stuck with the healthiest stuff there, but had a little too much. I had 2 plates total. the worst things on the plates were about 1/2 cup mashed potatoes w/ gravy and about 1/3 cup mac and cheese. everything else was a veggie/salad/ etc. w/ low cal dressing - italian, and some other healthy stuff. Oh, and had a diet coke (yuck).
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• Dinner- 1 chicken breast grilled - cut into pcs and dipped into pesto hummus.
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• dessert- 2 tbsp peanut butter and a pc of multi grain bread w/ some polaner all fruit (blueberry). (Actually the peanut butter has like 190 calories and the bread has 130calories. The all fruit only has like 60 I think. But basically, it wasn’t a really great choice.) I have to cut out the Peanut butter I think.

Now for the Workouts-

Here, I did much better-

First, I did the 40min. Turbo Jam dvd Cardio Party. Awesome.

Then I went swimming for about 30 minutes. (didn’t swim the whole time though. I have the baby, so I have to push him along in his floatie thing.)

Finally, I took the kids to the park and ran/ walked on the track. I alternated and ended up running 3 times around and walking 2 times around.

My legs are killing me. I was so out of breath by the time I got half way around the damn thing. And I quit smoking in May. My lung capacity is shot!! My endurance sucks. If I want to even consider running a 5K, I am going to have to really get my butt up there regularly!!

Hopefully I won’t be out of commission for tomorrow!! I would like to take the kids bike riding. We’ll see how it goes!!

Later,

Heather

Turned out to be a great day as I expected!! Rode bikes with all the kids and DH for about 1 mile plus! I got a little winded at times!! Then did 20min Turbo Jam dvd- LOVE it!! And got in the pool. Did some laps but mostly just walked the perimeter. Those damn ant things keep getting in there and I am psychotic about fishing them all out with the net thing. Grosses me out.

Eating well thus far today too. Skipped breakfast cuz there wasn’t any good cereal.

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• 1 pc. Boars head bbq chicken with 1/2 cup no fat cottage cheese and 1 cup cut strawberries.
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• water
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• 2 small pc of celery w/ about 2 tbsp peanut butter.
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• 1 slice multi grain bread with polaner all fruit (blueberry).

Perricone diet stresses the blueberries, cantalopes, salmon, etc. so I try to incorporate those. Don’t care for salmon though.

I am a bit nervous however, as we are supposed to be going out w/ some friends later tonight. - to a place that is a bar/ restaurant. And of course, it isn’t the kind of restaurant that serves healthy fare- I should be so lucky!! Nope, this is an Irish place with Irish food. And it’s really GOOD= and probably really FATTENING. I may do another quick workout before we go. Even if I don’t eat anything or make healthy choices - then you still have the calories in the beer I would like to drink. ( I work almost every day and rarely have a day and night off together!! Consequently, I don’t generally drink alchohol at all….)

Anyway, Hope everyone is having a productive and healthy day!! Remember:

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• Keep snacks small and healthy!!
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• Make positive food choices at meal time!!
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• Do SOME activity today.

And Finally- I started to ask myself before putting ANY calories in my mouth this question “What do I want MORE?? This (food) OR to have a thinner body??

(Got that from TJ!!) And it’s helping.

Later,

Heather

Hey everyone!!

Another sunny day!! yeah! I’m going to head out and ride bikes with the kids. Nothing major. Then I’ll come back home, workout and jump in the pool.

Oh- Turbo Jam- very cool. I love it! The first Cardio dvd that I can actually mostly follow!! ( I am completely UNcoordinated). Much more fun than Tai Bo I think.

I’ve done it the past few days and really feel like I’m actually accomplishing something.

Eating has been good. Did REAL good yesterday- (good for me anyway)

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• lucky charms measured out w/ Skim milk
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• Grilled chicken piece with corn and cottage cheese
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• –bad– some cheetos.
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• 1/2 a hotdog for dinner. yuck, not worth getting out of bed for.

I always seem to do very well in the morning, then by evening or afternoon forget it!! Oh, and I snacked at work a bit cuz we had a party for this girl. I’ll do an extra workout today though.

Later,

Heather

OK- That turbo jam finally arrived today!! yeah! I hope it’s as good as they say it is! I have to head off to work now, so I’ll take it with me and read through everything tonight. When I get home tomorrow, Ill give it a shot!!

Other than that, I went in the pool and did some laps today. Past two days I did my own workout with some hand weights, stretching, and tons of abs and push-ups.

Gotta go!!

–Heather