Tonights dinner and plan for next week

I want to start by saying I just had the best dinner!
First I went through the calorie counter, because we are having chicken fajitas, and Kyle bought chips and cheese dip.....I wanted to see what I could eat/couldn't eat and somehow stay inside my target....plan, plan, plan
So...I traded flour tortillas for crispy romain lettuce leaves. (They're leaves right?)
Anyway, so kinda like a spring roll, but mexican style. Then I took some bottled salsa (8cal a tbls) and added diced tomatoes, onions and jalapenos..to make it extra chunky, therefore feels like more. But hardly any calories...just watch salt in the salsa. I did add, 1/2 tbls of sourcream to each, but next time I know I can go without it. Plus no cheese, because I'm saving for the cheese dip...
OMG they were wonderful!!
The crispy lettuce was actually BETTER than the tortillas. No more of that doughy crap for me! They were a little messy and took some time to hold it just right...but filled me right up!
Then I instantly, while still full, re-evaluated my food diary. Right now, I don't even want the chips and cheese. Check back in an hour.
I am planning on having a protein shake for dessert, Kyle got ice cream...but I need the calories and protein to bring down my fat% intake for today.
MOVING ON TO GOALS FOR NEXT WEEK....
1. Get to gym at least 3 times a week - build up to 30mins on eliptical.
2. keep fat intake for the week no more than 30% of my calories
3. while at gym, scope out trainers also get as much free advice that I can
4. check out Zumba class at gym hope to join in soon
5. continue reading "Ending Overeating"
6. Remember how good it feels to choose what to eat, not feel like giving in to compulsive eating

Tomorrow is weigh in day, hoping to be down.
12 weeks til my birthday - goal to be down 20lbs!!!

YAY ME!!

Finally...I finally got my butt in the gym.

Woo hoo. I didn't do much. Well at the time it didn't feel that way, although I felt like I could do more, just wasn't sure what to do next. Plus didn't want to overdo it too much the first day.

So....to ensure that I continue in this journey, I will continue to fully document where I'm starting at, what I'm doing and hopefully show how far I will have come. So I've decided that in order to do that, I have to be completely open and honest. Otherwise I will make excuses, cover it up, lie....plus I figure if I post the most hideous pictures of myself, I will work extra hard to get to the better...lighter..healthier pictures of myself.

Here we go.....(deep breath)

Take a look at this!

Check out this site:
http://www.good.is/post/picture-show-visions-of-fast-food/?GT1=48001

Here's a write up about it...

Picture Show: Visions of Fast Food
Posted by: GOOD , Jon Feinstein
on September 16, 2009 at 9:30 am
In the short time since fast food chains have become part of our national (and global) culture, a number of burger shops have begotten some truly iconic–and insalubrious—food items, the mass production and marketing of which is utterly astounding. However, when removed from their brightly colored wrappers and shot against a stark, clinical background, as in the case of Jon Feinstein’s photographic series, “Fast Food,” the archetypal snacks and sandwiches take on a decidedly unsettling quality.
“There’s this weird relationship that we as Americans have with fast food,” says Feinstein, who titled each image with the given item’s fat content, in grams. “I made a project where the food mostly looks disgusting, yet some of it is still strangely enticing—probably because the branding is so embedded in our psyches.” He adds, “I may eat it on a lower frequency now.”
What follows is a selection from Jon Feinstein’s “Fast Food.”

Here's an incentive for ya!!!

4/27/2009--Introduced.Personal Health Investment Today Act of 2009 or the PHIT Act of 2009 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a medical care tax deduction for up to $1,000 ($2,000 for married couples filing jointly or heads of household) of qualified sports and fitness expenses. Defines "qualified sports and fitness expenses" as amounts paid for fitness center memberships, physical exercise programs, and exercise equipment.

Dang it!!

I need to stop talking the talk and walking the....well just plain ol walking!!
I didn't get in any real activity last week and now it shows on the scale. I'm up about a lb and a half. Which it could be worse. But it may be a good thing in the long run.
It certainly got my attention.
So it's about 530pm, just woke up and my husband asks,
"what's for dinner??"
"fruit and water" I said.
"Doesn't french toast and sausage sound good for dinner?" (yes it sounds freaking wonderful)
"NO, I can't eat that stuff, you go ahead, I'll have fruit and water."
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"Why can't you eat it?"
"Because I'm a hundred lbs over weight, dear" And thanks for asking....
So he starts cooking next to me as I get all of my ingredients out for my first protein shake.
I do have to give him some credit, he apologized and asked if it was mean to be cooking that stuff while I was trying to "diet". <>
Nope, go ahead. I need to be able to be in the presence of that crap and not be tempted. I was actually pleasantly surprised that my shake was actually pretty good. Maybe it tasted better with the french toast aroma in the air......lol

So, tonight taking Boomer for a walk. Get in a routine walking him...
I WILL go to the gym this week. Depending on what all happens at work tomorrow and how that may imipact my work schedule. I will either go Tues night or Weds during the day. I need to get over the road block keeping me from walking into the gym. I've done it before, just need to start!
Why is that so hard? Once I get going, I'm fine and actually enjoy going to the gym. I really like the way I feel when I'm done. I'm off to pack a gym bag and throw it in the car, so I have no excuses!!

Learn something new everyday.....

Thought this was interesting and thought I would share....

First how I got to this revelation.

So...as you may or may not know, I can drink beer.
No, I mean I can DRINK some beer! Which, now that I think about it, mixed with the love of cheese, bread and potatoes is what got me here. Make all of those things disappear and I would look like a completely different person. Wait a minute, my life would be completely different. In good and bad ways. How sad is that?
I digress....
So I'm sitting here drinking a beer. Log into CalorieKing to log my food etc. I log my beer, because I am being as honest as I possibly can, and now kinda scared to see how many "empty" calories I'm consuming at the moment.
Why doesn't beer/liquor/wines etc companies post on the product the "nutrition" info on the label?
So, I'm scrolling and looking for Michelob Ultra w/Lime, find it, pull it up and....
65 calories/glass. Wait this is only 65 calories? AWESOME!
AND MDG 64???
64 calories/glass. Wow, I'm thinking, pretty cool.
Wait...
What's a glass.
A glass is 8oz. A BOTTLE is 12oz.
So that whole MGD 64 commercial where the bartender has to pore half a glass of wine or whatever, should be pouring some out of the bottle too!
Isn't that false advertizing??
I guess that's why they don't put it on the label.

Another 2lbs thank you very much!

I haven't been logging and blogging, holiday weekend kept me away from the computer.We went camping at the lake. Which was a blast!While I did keep in mind what I was eating....I didn't watch what I was drinking! There was cooking on the grill, floating on the water and fishing...so there was drinking. BUT!I did make sure I drank plenty of water and took baggies of apples to eat instead of munching on chips and what we did eat was pretty good for us. Plus there was some physical activity....badmitton (I don't think I spelled that right) which I haven't played in 20yrs, frisbee and hiking. So it wasn't completely a lost weekend. Anyway, on the way home Monday we stopped and got Wendy's (yuck) and within 4hrs I was sick as a dog. Oh my goodness I have not been that sick to my stomach in forever. Good news is that I'm down 2lbs from last week!Bad news is I don't know if I actually did what I was supposed to as far as my lifestyle change ....or because I got sick, I got to "erase" all the damage I did. But now I'm back on track...even though it's Weds...it has taken me 2 days to recover. I'm ready for the next week!