Excursions to the gym

So I went to the Y for the first time on Wednesday for a weights class with Weiner and Holly. It was pretty awesome and I did things that I didn't think I would ever be able to do, like dips! Plus there were tons of squats. Needless to say, I felt the squats for days after when I couldn't easily walk up and down stairs.

We went to the movies in SJ on Friday, and of course we sat in the very top row of the stadium seating auditorium! *eeps* That hurt.

It felt good to hurt again, though. But I held back on going to the gym again for anything else because I wasn't sure if my legs could handle it again or not so soon. I thought about going to the spin class this morning, but I think the girls say they call around 6am to get in, and I definitely wasn't sure enough to call. I am taking Bailey skating this afternoon though. It should be fun. It'll be my first time at the Wille O'Ree Centre. I just have to get to Mom & Dad's for my skates and then get them sharpened.

My eating has been kind of crappy since Friday and I've basically fucked off on all of my challenges. :( I don't know what's gotten into me lately. Getting lazy again, I guess. I need to pick up where I left off again. I am still within all of my points though without touching my activity points!

Monday

This morning I got up at 7am, made breakfast, made lunch and did 18 minutes of yoga!

Breakfast: (~7:30am)
2C skim milk
1 banana
1 English muffin
1 Tbsp PB

Lunch: (~12:30pm)
Salad (2C greens, 1/2C onions & cucumbers)
1 ham wrap (2.5 slices of ham, 1 Becel tortilla, 1 Tbsp tzeiki sauce, 1C greens, cukes & onions)
3C water

Dinner: (~10:40pm)
Lean Cuisine Spa - Chicken Teriyaki Stirfry
3C water

Snacks:
2C frozen Pepsi

7 remaining points for the day! Eek!

I still haven't done my sit-ups and push ups. :S
I was planning to do another 15min on Wii Fit tonight, but it's 11:20pm and all I want to do is go to bed. I'll have to eat something to use up more of my points for the day first. *sigh*
I bought a marinating steak for tomorrow for supper, so I'll definitely make use of my extra points!

Sunday Update

Well, I fell off making my meal plan up ahead of time yesterday. We slept in instead of going to the market for breakfast, so it threw everything off. It's an excuse and needless. I didn't even do any exercise and I had no reason not to. :( It's too bad.

For today:

Breakfast (~noon)
1 english muffin
1 Tbsp PB
2C skim milk
1 banana

Supper
1C butternut squash
2C potatoes
1 banana muffin

Snacks
1 cheese stick
other snacks = 4.5pts

I am committed to doing my 30 push-ups & 30 sit-ups, as well as 30min of Wii Fit tonight, either before or after going to Mom & Dad's to do laundry.

I am also committed to putting my mini-fridge, elliptical and Jeff's nightstand on Kijiji tonight. I also plan to sit down and list some goals for this year to help me focus. One or two will definitely be financial as I'm trying to save more money this year.

Thursday

I got up and scraped/cleaned off the car for 15min, then came in and did a wii fit body test while getting breakfast together. Jeff ate the last of the english muffins, so I had to come up with another plan.

Breakfast:
2C skim milk
1 pkg peaches 'n' cream oatmeal
1 cheese string

Lunch:
Veggie quesadilla + garden salad & vinaigrette
Water

Supper:
1 sweet potato
1C brown rice
white fish + spices
Baked Chicken Taquitos (Jungle Jim's) + 1/4C salsa
4C water

Snacks:
1 med. frozen coke
1C frozen yogurt
1.5 shortbread cookies + frosting

Wednesday

Well, over the two breaks of Christmas where I went crazy with food, according to my scale I only gain 1.6 lbs since Dec. 18th! Woot woot! Very fantastic.

Meal Plan

Breakfast:
2 1C skim milk
1 english muffin
1 Tbsp PB

Lunch:
1 cheese string
1/2 C potatoes

Supper:
Wild Boar Burger on 2 slices ww Bodywise Bread
2 small wild boar burgers (~5oz total) with 1 ww burger bun
1 Tbsp ketchup
1.5 1 C salad greens
1 Tbsp raspberry vinaigrette
1C potatoes

Snacks:
2 shortbread cookies with 1.5 Tbsp frosting
1 shortbread cookie

Tuesday Meal Plan

Breakfast:
N/A (slept in)

Lunch:
Meal at new Japanese/Korean restaurant downtown with water to drink.
Had the Galbi plate. Galbi is beef that is kind of BBQ'ed (and delicious) with white rice, vegetables and these little things that seemed like potato pancakes.

Dinner:
Wild Boar burger on ww Bodywise Bread with cheese
1C salad
1/2-1 C potatoes
Frozen Thai Chicken dinner (around 11pm)
** Was not able to get home and make dinner; got home after 10:15pm

Snack:
1 cheese string
1C skim milk
2 shortbread cookie + frosting
2 chocolate chip cookies (while stuck late at parents' house)

Monday Night Update

Meal Plan

Breakfast:
1 english muffin
1 Tbsp peanut butter
1C skim milk
1 sm. apple
1 Pull 'n' Peel

Lunch:
2 samosas

Dinner:
1C potatoes
3C water
1.5C salad
1 wild boar burger
1 beef medallion

Snack:
4 frosted homemade shortbread cookies
1 chocolate chip cookie

Obviously the snack was a huge step back, but we had frosting from Christmas that needed to be eaten up and I had promised Jeff shortbread cookies if he cleaned the kitchen (and back before Christmas!). They turned out okay and were made with half whole wheat flour and half whole white flour, plus we chose the healthier recipe. Unfortunately all of this happened after midnight and dinner was also very late after I got home from Mom & Dad's where I was hemming.

One NSV: I kept myself from caving and eating supper at Mom & Dad's. I purposefully ate the samosas before I went so that I would not be tempted and even though I was starving, I only ate one cookie.

Challenges

I just joined two challenges on the WW Fitness Board.

I've committed to a goal of 20hours on Wii Fit by February 14th as part of the Wii Fit Challenge. We'll post our stats twice a week.

I've also just joined the "I Challenge You To..." challenge. Each week someone different will challenge the group to complete different tasks. This week it is to record our meal plan ahead of time and record any changes in a different coloured pen, etc. and to complete a minimum 3 sessions of 15min stretching. Yoga does count as stretching, so I can double up the Wii Fit yoga for this one! :)

Lagging...

Small Victories
Saturday when I got home from the market I went out walking for 45min by myself!
Then in the evening when we stopped in to visit the girls, I kept myself from having a drink or chips!
Finally, I convinced myself to wait until we got home to decide if I really wanted to order garlic fingers or not...and then didn't!

Sunday
While I caved and split a small garlic fingers with Mom, I turned down all the drink offers except for water!
Dad said that if I want to go to a gym that he'll pay for it and some sessions with a personal trainer. While I said that I'd buy my own membership in hopes that spending my own money will motivate me, I did agree to let him pay for a personal trainer. :)

Monday
So far today I had a delicious healthy breakfast, but I did cave and eat a Pull 'n' Peel because they're sitting open on my desk. I think I'm probably going to just throw the rest out to avoid eating them.

Getting back in the groove...

Wow.

I had completely forgotten that I had a blog to help keep me on track with my fitness journey, a journey that I fell off of, basically.

I haven't gained back all of the weight that I lost, but I became so lax in tracking what I've been eating for several months that I am back up over 190 again. I highly doubt that I lost weight over Christmas because I know I was bad. Too many sweets and no exercise will do that to you.

The elliptical that I was so pumped to buy last year has barely seen any love. Unfortunately, I find it a bit tippy feeling, so I don't really enjoy using it. This new year I'm actually considering selling it so that we have more space and using the money to help me buy a gym membership that has classes. I've been thinking about joining the Y since that's where my girlfriends all go, but it's super busy and small, though it offers more than the other gyms in town. I wouldn't be able to work out with them for awhile either because they've all been going to hardcore spinning classes for over a year together. We'll see, I guess.

I was on the WW challenge boards for the first time in a looooooooong time today looking for a challenge I can start up. I think I'm going to be participating in a Wii Fit challenge, though I'd kind of like to do a more comprehensive challenge like the BLC ones that I was involved with before. Maybe I will finally make one happen for Jeff and I. It's just really hard to organise things sometimes.

The only bonus to gaining back a bit of weight is that I was finally able to buy some new and required pants! I was down to one pair because I didn't want to buy more until I lost weight, but at the same time I wasn't committing the way that I need to in order to do so!

I'm not making getting fit a New Year's Resolution because those always seem easy to break, so I'm making it just one of my goals, along with becoming more financially accountable to myself. Since we just bought a bunch of furniture, the finance one is a big one.

Well, I'm off to try to be productive!