Weeks 6 & 7 at Home

September 5th-September 18th, 2011:  Ok, so the last 2 weeks haven't been the smoothest in my life, but coming out of them both, I guess I have survived without too much of a pounding to my health!  My breakasts week 6 consisted of eggs with peppers and onions in a whole wheat tortilla and some baby tomatoes.  Lunches were my favorite: peanut butter & jelly tortilla wraps with some raw veggies and Dinners were mainly turkey chili wtih multi-grain croutons I made from some hard bread (easy: just cut them into small pieces, mixed them with a little olive oil and parmesean cheese and baked on 350 degrees till brown).  Snacks were my old stand-bys of fruit and cheese, 1/2 protein bar and fruit, and triscuits with a cheese wedge. 

Week 7, I tried to do something new for breakfast, so I tried Kellogg's Special K MultiGrain Oats & Honey cereal with skim milk, a hard boiled egg and fruit.  That was a nice change.  Lunch was mainly tuna with whole wheat crackers and raw veggies.  And dinners consisted of Turkey Chili (that last batch I doubled made a LOT if you couldn't tell) with a multi-grain roll.  Tried some new things for snacks too: did applesauce with a cheesestick, fruit and yogurt, and triscuits with hummus (finally able to eat it again after all those days of it in Utah)! 

I got in a few alternative types of exercise this last week besides just the days at the gym:  helped my dad and brother carry yard sale leftovers to the basement at his house which was 3 sets of steps each load!  Also walked the roanoke city greenway with my aunt for an hour and a half on Sunday!  Nice to do something besides the gym for a change.  I also did 2 at home "outdoor workouts" that I brought back from the camp.  Mixing it up is key for me to keep from getting bored or burnt out!

Good News/Bad News: Started keeping track of my inches again.  So in the last week I lost a little over 2 more inches total with all the different location measurements I do, but gained 1 pound!  What an unfair trade off!  But I have to remember that they told us at the camp this might happen from time to time due to lean muscle being built, etc.  Blah, blah, blah though when you actually experience it!  Ha!  Wish me luck! 

Week 5 at Home

August 29-September 4, 2011:  I was determined to lose more than a 1/2 pound this week!  Breakfasts consisted of 2 slices of Turkey Bacon, 1 Egg fried in Pam spray and mustard on a Thin Bagle with some baby tomatoes on the side.  For Lunches I had peanut butter and jelly multi-grain tortilla roll-ups with veggies on the side.  Then for Dinners I had freezer clean out foods!  One night was a piece of Filet Mignon with veggies and multi-grain bread.  The others were chicken, weight watcher's soup and multi-grain bread.  Snacks were cheese and fruit, 1/2 protein bar and fruit & those Kellogg's Cracker Chips with my Laughing Cow cheese wedges.  Thought I'd see how the Kellogg's version tasted against my Pop Chips.  They have less sodium and you get more of them for the calorie count, but don't like them as much.  Pop Chips still win out!  I hit the gym Wednesday and Thursday mornings this week doing alternating arms and legs.  Then on Friday morning I tried the Outdoor Workout our trainer Elena had given us.  Just went outside here at the house & did it.  That was a nice change.  Then cleaned Mom's house on Saturday for a good workout!  Time for the weigh in on Monday: lost another 2 pounds this week!  Yippee!