Less 2

I had a really good day of eating yesterday--perfect if I can say that. All of my meals and snacks were healthy, and I even had dessert! I made Zonya's "Blueberry Buckle", a dessert she says is healthy enough to eat for breakfast. It felt really good to do so well. This morning, I was down 2 of the 4.5 lbs I was up, so that's a good start.

Monday

My weekly weigh-ins are planned for Mondays. Since going out of town this weekend, I didn't eat as healthy as I should have. I ate out a few times and ate more treats than usual. And the day or two before going out of town weren't great eating ones for me, either. I stepped on the scale clothed this morning & I was at 142.5. Yikes! I haven't seen those kind of numbers since being pregnant! Yesterday I felt like I was retaining water, which is rare for me. I'm going to re-weigh myself tomorrow in hopes that it will be a more accurate measure of this past week. I know I'll probably still be up.

But you know, I'm trying. I had a super healthy & delicious breakfast this morning. (scrambled egg w/ yellow squash & potatoes & a blueberry smoothie with all sorts of nutritous ingredients...yum!) I also flipped to FitTV and did 10 minutes of a workout before getting breakfast. I think I'll check that channel out more often, even if I only get a few minutes in at a time. That's better than nothing & quite doable. So, that's my story this Monday morning. Now I'd better go get some meat marinading for dinner & go bathe the girls...Jenna's got blueberry smoothie all over herself.

Try, try again...

It's been a while since I've posted anything here. I've decided I'm going to give another honest shot at getting my weight down. It's so easy to not try & just eat whatever I want. I've developed some not-great habits lately: staying up too late, sleeping in, eating breakfast late, etc., all of which can and will affect weight. My breakfast and dinner meals are typically quite healthy. Eating corn dogs for lunch isn't, however, so I'm going to focus on making my lunches more healthy. I'm also going to plan on making desserts--healthy ones that I won't have to feel guilty about. I still need to figure out what I want to do with exercise--when, what, where, etc.

So...this morning, I remeasured myself. I did my BMI. I'm only going to measure myself every other week & I'll weigh weekly. I'll evaluate my BMI monthly. My goal is to have my weight down to where I'm happy with it by my birthday. What a great gift! I honestly don't know if I have to get my weight down to 112-114 to be happy. Anything under 120 would be great! So, here goes again.