Uh oh......

Ok, so I have been doing pretty well and staying away from sweets and keeping the calories below 1500. And walking a couple of miles, though today I haven't because one walking buddy is off and I didn't feel like walking down by myself to the track to meet the other. (Not to mention it is raining a bit.) But I am going to get on the treadmill when I get home and make up for it, as much fun as that sounds. Not. lol

However, food-wise today hasn't been my best.......this morning when the barista made my drink she put whipped cream on it, because after all, it IS Friday and she thought I needed it.  (To be fair, before I went on this diet, they were all kind of used to putting whipped cream on my drink on Fridays and she figured this was no different.) And, well, whipped cream....I couldn't be rude and tell her to take it off. And when I got outside I couldn't just very well pop off the lid and scoop it off.....without making a mess anyway and I didn't want to do that.  So of course I ate it. And of course had to count that extra 100 calories into my calorie count, along with my oatmeal and actual drink. 

Then along comes lunch time.  I brought a Lean Cuisine, a banana, and a tangerine with me this morning, with the intention of the LC for lunch, and then if I got hungry in the afternoon the fruit would be a good healthy snack (though honestly I meant to have the banana with my oatmeal and then didn't after the whipped cream).  So I had my LC for lunch, and it was pretty good,  except that whenever I eat one of those things, for some reason I crave sweets after them.  And I don't mean sweet fruit, either.  I mean like the chocolate I keep in a jar on my desk for the Marines here.  Normally I am not even tempted by it so it is usually not a problem.  But after that LC,  I kept hearing the miniature Hershey bars calling my name, and, well, I ate 5 of them.  ***hangs head in shame***  So there's an extra 210 calories I hadn't counted on for today. 

And that makes my entire calorie count at 1170, and which doesn't leave much in the way of dinner, though dinner is supposed to be salmon, baked sweet potato, and broccoli. 3 oz of salmon has 127 calories and a baked sweet potato has about 100, and a spear of broccoli only has 13, so I guess I'll be good to go, but I also realize those extra calories I had today were not what one would call healthy.  At least I won't go over 1500 calories, and I will hopefully work off a couple of hundred on the treadmill, so all is not lost. 

I guess I need to break it to the barista no more whipped cream Fridays.  ***sigh***

Let The Games Begin....

Well, okay, actually they started officially on Sunday and, if I do say so myself, so far so good.

 I printed out journal pages for what I eat and what exercise I do and bought myself a binder to put them in, and started them on this past Sunday.  Granted, I am only 4 days into this, but better than not, right?  I have been counting calories and so far have kept under 1300 which I didn't really mean to do.  I would like to keep them between 1400 - 1600 so that I have room to go below in case I hit a plateau.

 It is amazing how many calories things have! lol   And for just small amounts of things, you know?  Like 190 calories for just 2 Tbls of peanut butter.  To eat just a peanut butter sandwich, using the 100 calorie bread, is 290, though, of course, if I didn't really want to taste the peanut butter I could put half that amount.  On the other hand peanut butter is a good protein and it is actually what I had for lunch today, a peanut butter banana sandwich and it has kept me full all afternoon and that's a good thing.

I have hit the treadmill at half an hour at a time, doing a little over a mile.  I'm just not gonna kill myself over this and just build up to a good pace eventually.  Today I went walking around the track with two women at work and I have to say that was so much more fun than on a boring treadmill with no one to talk to.  We walked about 1 3/4 mile like it was nothing, so I enjoyed that.  And we're going to keep on walking as long as the weather isn't too crappy out.  Next week I am going to add other exercise to my regime so that I get in some weights, etc. 

I have also found some great ideas on Pinterest both in food and exercise that I am printing out and keeping around so that I can see them and not forget about them.  

So, Week One has started and we'll see what happens.  Let's hope the motivation stays with me!

Back On The Treadmill

Yep, I did it. I got back on the treadmill today. I went a little over a mile in a half hour and even though it was not a long time or distance, it still made me feel good.  I decided that I am just not going to push it too far like I have before, and plus I really don't want to re-injure my left ankle. So I figure I just start out nice and slow and pick up the pace as I go along, and add in other exercises too. I didn't gain the weight overnight and I won't lose it overnight, so I am going to just try and take it one day at a time.

The one thing I need to do though is make some kind of logbook and log in what I've done as far as exercise, what I've eaten, calories, weight, etc, so I can keep track of that sort of thing, so I can see my (hopefully) progress. Tomorrow I am going to look online and see if there is anything like that that I can print out and make into a binder for myself.  I have seen actual books like that at the bookstore but not for  exactly what I want to put in it, so I figure I'm going to just have to make my own if I can't find any on the computer. 

But at least I have finally taken that first step. May 2013 be THE year I get thin. Wish me luck!

January 1, 2013

Well, here we go.......

***crosses fingers***