The weekend is here :)

Only 1 more day of workout 1 and 2 more of workout 2. I prefer workout 2 more than 1 but will still be happy to not do either of them again till I start another 90 days in August. I really like that these workouts are not too repetitive. Makes it easier to continue with it. Although I had forgot to do my workout yesterday until after I was laying in bed, so like a good girl I got out of bed and did my workout. To avoid that issue today I did my workout early this morning.

I'm off all weekend :) I plan on enjoying this holiday weekend with Cassie since I get to have her for a few extra weeks then planned this summer. This makes for a very happy mommy :). I'm going to do some cleaning, getting a few extra workouts in and if it warms up some tomorrow and its sunny I might just walk the 7 miles around the lake.

Dinner tonight: Grilled chicken breasts, grilled garlic potatoes and a salad. It doesn't look the greatest. But pretty good for my first grilling attempt. Its cooked all the way through and not burnt. Plus it tasted good :)

Breakfast tomorrow...
Picture from bhg.com

I love angel food cake and French toast so I spend a lot of time finding and trying recipes that can get as close to the actual food without the use of eggs for my egg allergy child. Through my trial and errors I use The Vegan Chronicle's angel food cake recipe and omit the berries from it. For this version of French toast I then follow bhg's Angel food cake French toast recipe omitting the eggs, use so delicious coconut milk instead of reg milk and top with fresh berries and fat free cool whip -because after a recipe like this I needed to cut calories somewhere ;) . Not the healthiest of breakfast choices, but oh so yummy anyway.

I hope everyone has a Happy and safe Memorial weekend.

Day 3 and 4

Today is Wednesday which means weigh in....I've gained and a lot. I know how it happened. I went on vacation, ate stuff I had cut out and didn't do my workouts. I could have stayed on track but chose not to. Now I am paying for it. Todays weight = 214.2 OUCH!! I have now gained 16 lbs since April 15th when the dietbet ended. Stupid, Stupid me.

I decided to combine days 3 and 4 together and did workout 1 again and cardio 1. I was going to skip the cardio today I'm just not overly fond of it.  Since It's only 26 mins I did it anyway. I really, really dislike the suicides. My plan is to start over with the 90 days when I finish the 12 weeks.

I wanted to share my new drink of choice and snack pack with you.

Its Chia seeds in like a lemonade water. I have mine without the lemonade part and use crystal lite instead. The chia seeds have 6g of fiber and 5g of protein in half a serving (1.5 tbs) unfortunately they have 80 calories and 5g of fat in that same half serving.

Snack pack: These are snack size bags that have cherries (74 Cal), grapes (50 Cal), raspberries (30 Cal) and carrots (31 Cal) in them along with a Cherry Almond Greek yogurt bar (160 Cal) and a Special K Strawberry Pastry Crisp (100 Cal). They all fit nicely into a quart size bag for a total of 445 Calories if I was to eat the entire bag.

I don't plan on eating the entire quart size bag of goodies, I just want to have them available to help avoid the drive thru while I'm out and about. Whatever is left at the end of the outing will go back into the fridge to be used for the next one (adding back in something like the item eaten or another low calorie snack like a cheese stick)

Rest day

Cass and I went to the store and stocked up on fresh fruits and veggies. We also picked up some bottled water. I normally use a refillable water bottle but I'm finding it hard to get in my days water. I'm hoping that have the bottles in the fridge to just grab will help. I baked up the cookies for the bake sale and spent some time with my youngest niece. So not a lot of resting going on today, but had a good last day of vacation. Back to work tomorrow.

Body Revolution:
I did workout 2 tonight. It's a good workout and one that seems like it fly's by. I feel as though I should give more of a review on it, but its late and I'm tired.

Back from vacation

I just got back from 10 days in Florida for our family vacation. Vacations are nice, but its oh so good to be home. We had plane delays from both planes going there that left us 11 hours behind schedule and 40 minutes stuck on the plane at our airport here in MI coming home. While in FL we spent a day at Disney World, went and climbed a 17 story light house, swam in the ocean and the pool at my mom's house and went the Marine Science Center (which was Cassie's big highlight of the trip). We will rest up tomorrow, bake some cookies for my Niece's school bake sale and spend some time with our pets that missed us like crazy.


Tonight I started over on Jillian Michaels Body revolution. I was on day 15 before we left for the trip. However I didn't do it at all while there, even though I brought the DVD's with me. I'm feeling not overly bright especially since I ate horrible most of the trip as well. The scale's not going to be nice come Wednesday mornings weigh in. The workout was nice, I like both workouts 1 and 2. I should since I can't seem to make it to workout 3.  I'm looking forward to workout 2 tomorrow and I love that you change the workouts each day as I found myself getting bored doing the same DVD every day. Here's to a fresh start on it.

Kicking up the workouts

Today I decided to give my Jillian Michaels Body Revolution dvd's another try. I have 15 days until our vacation so it couldn't hurt to kickup my workouts (or rather start working out, 2 days a week doesn't really count). I would like to see at least 4 pounds by then. Wednesday's are my preferred day for my weekly weigh ins, today I weighed in at 204. Ouch I should have continued with the dietbet. I took my measurements also and will post the amounts lost or gained later. I know that some don't agree with taking the measurements yourself. I also think these can be a little off, however I left myself detailed notes with the area I put the tape measure like a mole, scar ect. For me that is good enough. I like these workouts except while doing them I swear JM's trying to kill me. Its all good though. I feel really good after working out. I just need to keep the motivation to actually DO the workout.

Dietbet

I came across this site called Dietbet. How it works is you pay whatever the fee is for the one you want to join and have to lose 4% of your weight in 28 days. Everyone who reaches that goal, shares the pot. If you reach yours the least you would go home with is the amount the bet was. The one that I'm doing is $25 and starts today. My 4% is 8 pounds. So if you win the least I would walk away with is that $25. It was just motivation enough to get me to kick myself into gear, my final weigh in was 198 :)

In gear

Time to kick my life in gear and headed on track back. I'm feeling like for a bit here recently it's veering off slightly. I thought that having our belongings here with us and not in storage things would be falling into place, instead its very overwhelming. I'm starting to get into this funk. I feel drained and not energized like I thought I would. Tomorrow I am working till noon and then its time to tackle the mess of boxes and just get them out of the way. Hopefully with everything put into its proper place or as close to that as possible things won't seem so overwhelming.

On another note, going to MN and back I lost motivation for my weightloss and its showing on the scale. 208 oh how I hate seeing that 200+ on the scale, yet what did I do when I saw it? I took a nap and then ate some girl scout cookies.