I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up!

Posted on February 8, 2010 by meyergirl

Okay, not really.  Not yet, anyway!  Apparently I wasn’t using as good of form as I thought during that kettlebell class on Thursday.  Saturday morning I bent over and felt my back pull.  I’ve been walking around bent over like an old woman ever since.  I even worked from home today. :(   This is not helping my training schedule.  I haven’t been able to do anything since Thursday.

In the meantime, here’s some of the food I’ve been eating in the past few days.

I found this Yoplait Greek yogurt and since I’d never seen it before, I decided to try it.  I actually didn’t think it tasted that different than regular yogurt so it was a little disappointing.

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I mixed it with strawberries and Multigrain Cheerios.

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Some whole wheat toast with yogurt spread and cranberry apple butter.

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Crockpot roast that the HUSBAND made with half a baked potato and a couple of biscuits.

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Here’s a creation I’m very proud of.  An omelet with two eggs and an additional two egg whites.  Inside was a bunch of chopped baby spinach and cheese.  The bacon is Gwaltney’s 40% less fat.

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Kim and Keenan brought me some gifts from their recent trips. 

Moonshine Jelly!  I’m excited to try this soon!

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This wine looks fantastic.  Judging by the label, that is! ;)

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Other than the back issues (and the Super Bowl) it was a pretty uneventful weekend.  It snowed a little again on Saturday so I spent most of the day inside.  Sunday morning was spent at church and then I napped ALL afternoon until time to leave for a friend’s Super Bowl party. 

He catered it with Moe’s so I had one soft taco and one regular taco.  I also had a bunch of pepperoni and cheese and 2 3 Saints cupcakes.  Hey, I had to represent!  Go Saints!

Also consumed were multiple drinks consisting of pomegranate mixer, tonic water, and vodka.  I managed to take it to that point of perfect drunkness. Hard place to find. :)

Now, I’m off to take some Ibuprofen and hit the hay!  Have a great night!

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Finally Made It!

Posted on February 4, 2010 by meyergirl

Good evening!!  Can you believe it!?  I finally made it to a kettlebell cardio class! :)   It was awesome!!  I have a feeling I wont be making it to Body Pump tomorrow.  This class worked all the muscle groups!  Definitely a class I plan on returning to.  Imagine doing an aerobics class with a weight in your hands at all times.  There were lots of squats and lunches, shoulder lifts, etc.  I think I’m gonna be feeling it tomorrow…stay tuned!

Here’s some of what I’ve been eating over the last two days.

Greek yogurt with strawberries and Multigrain Cheerios.

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The ever present burrito.

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Planters nut-trition packs.  Has a TON of different nuts in it.

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A fruit strip.

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An apple peanut butter dipper from wawa

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Mini Luna bars.  Not my fave.  Have that protein bar smell when you open them and slightly chalky taste.

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I’ve also updated my 8k training schedule based on my current performance level and ability.  Hopefully this will help me survive it.

Now, I’m off to bed before I….ZZZZzzzzzzzz…….

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On My Way Down!

Posted on February 2, 2010 by meyergirl

Hey, hey there peeps! 

Yesterday was supposed to be the day I finally weighed myself for the first time since before Christmas.  Unfortunately, my scale had broken so I had to go buy a new one.

This afternoon after work I went to Target and bought the Taylor “Biggest Loser” CalMax scale.  I’m a little worried after reading the reviews on Amazon, but hopefully I won’t have any problems with it.

I was going to wait until tomorrow morning, but was impatient so I went ahead and weighed tonight.  163.2!!  I’m happy with that. :)   I pretty much stayed the same over the holidays.

This scale also gives BMI and the # of calories you would have to consume to maintain your weight.  As you can see on the Progress tab, I am marginally overweight.  I need to lose about 7-10 lbs to be at a healthy weight.

According to the scale I could eat 2542 cal./day and stay the same.  So, using this as a guide if I consume 2000 cal./day I should lose about a lb./week.  Interesting hypothesis.  I realize that a scale is not the best source of information, but I think it could be a good guide in the process.

Now…on to the food.  The husband brought me home my favorite for breakfast this morning.  A doughnut!  Yum!

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Not the healthiest start to the day, but I made up for it with my mid-morning snack.

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I had a single serving container of 0% Fage with strawberries and Multigrain Cheerios.  This kept me full for a couple of hours before I dug into lunch. 

Lunch was a packet of Madras Lentils mixed with some leftover Amy’s Lentil Soup I needed to eat.

No pictures, but it would have just looked like a brown yucky mess anyway.

After lunch I let the stress of stuff going on at work drive me to eat a Hershey’s Bar with Almonds.

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As I said previously I stopped at Target after work.  I stopped at Starbucks inside and decided to try something new.  A Vanilla Roiboos Tea Latte.  It was a thumbs down from me.  I barely drank any of it.  I’ll be sticking to Chai Tea Lattes from now on.

While at Target I picked up a knee sleeve, some mini Luna Bars, the scale, and a lunch bag.  I’ll try to remember to take a picture of the bag tomorrow.  It’s super cute.  I also got a Clif Mojo Peanut Butter Pretzel Bar that I ate in the car.

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This was great!  I’ll definitely be picking this up again. :mrgreen:

Other things that ended up in my shopping bag were Annie’s Mac n Cheese and Mary’s Gone Crackers.

The Mac N’ Cheese became part of dinner.  It was mixed with peas and tuna.  Total Comfort Food!!

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Dessert (because I so obviously needed it) was some 1/2 the fat Vanilla ice cream with an Oreo cone crumbled on top.

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So, I need to focus on eating around 2000 cal. and/or burning any extra calories.  Obviously I also need to focus on cutting down on the sugar, too.

Now, it’s time for me to go to bed.  I hope you had a wonderful day!

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Back to Reality

Posted on February 1, 2010 by meyergirl

It was such a wonderful weekend!  The snow was beautiful and a great excuse to relax.  ;)   It’s actually been 21 years since this area saw anywhere near that much snow!!  Usually, there’s some sort of Bermuda Triangle-type thing that goes on and it snows all around us, but just rains here. 

Because no one is used to that weather everything shuts down when it snows more than a few inches.  Church was even cancelled, yesterday!!

Due to road conditions I worked from home today, but tomorrow I have to get back to reality.  I’ll be blogging only in the evenings for another two weeks and then I should be able to get back to at least twice daily for about a month or so.

This morning I mixed some cereals and ate them with some skim milk.  Since I was bad about taking pictures of my meals today, you’ll mostly just see the ingredients.

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Lunch was whole wheat pasta with light tomato sauce.

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Dinner was leftovers from yesterday when I mixed some Uncle Ben’s Vegetable Harvest Rice with Amy’s Organic Minestrone soup.

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After dinner, Josh and I went to the gym.  I did two miles on the treadmill at a 10:54 pace (5.5 mph).  Then I stretched and did some ab work.  See the workouts tab for details.

Confession Time

So I’ve pretty much fallen off the no soda wagon.  I bought a six-pack of these, the 8 oz. cans of Diet Pepsi. :oops:   Oh, well. 

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Since no soda was one of my NY resolutions, let’s take a moment to check in on those resolutions.

No soda: Well, we know what the answer is here.

Get up earlier: I was getting up earlier b/c the puppy was waking me up, but then he started sleeping through the night.  Now I’m getting up earlier, but work is 45 minutes away right now and so I’m not really getting more done.

Walk the dog more:  Some, but still need to do more.  We took them both out yesterday to enjoy the snow.

8k/10k: Working on it.  Have to make up this weekend’s 3 mile run on Wed. and then Sat. is supposed to be a 4 miler, which will be my longest distance ever.  I’m more than a little skeered.

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Snowwwwww!!!!

Posted on January 30, 2010 by meyergirl

Yay!!!!  Not much else to post about other than the snow.  I had a bowl of Multigrain Cheerios with skim milk for breakfast and the rest of the morning was spent playing in the SNOWWW!!!  :)   Right now I’ve got a tuckered out puppy on my lap and another one on the floor with his legs in the air.

 

If you can’t see the video above for some reason, here are some actions shots.

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And some gratuitous Goliath shots.

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OMG, I love this picture!

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Here’s my snow angel.

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:mrgreen:

Talk to you later!

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Apologies

Posted on January 29, 2010 by meyergirl

I wasn’t good about taking pictures of food today. Same exact breakfast as Wednesday. Junky lunch. Yummy dinner made by the husband. Whole grain pasta with spinach, garlic, and vodka sauce.

No workout today, but plans to do Body Pump and run tomorrow. It’s supposed to snow a LOT, but I’m afraid to get my hopes up. If I wake up and there’s no snow on the ground tomorrow, I think I might cry. :(

The apologies are because I know you don’t read this or any blog in order to watch someone make the same mistakes again and again even though they know better, which is how I feel I’ve been with food lately. So…I’m getting my butt in gear starting when I get up tomorrow or mentally right now.

I am NOT looking forward to weighing myself on Monday especially since it’s the day after our biannual restaurant week dinner. BUT I thinks it’s going to be a necessary kick to the rear. ;)

Now, I’m off to bed and hopefully there’s snow in my future. Wish me luck!
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Last Nice Day

Posted on January 28, 2010 by meyergirl

Boo!  I already wrote this post, but my computer decided to update itself in the middle.  Grrr….

Anyway…Today was the last nice day before the temperatures drop.  It’s even supposed to snow Saturday.  I’ll believe it when I see it.  So, I decided to do my scheduled 2 miles run.  I would have done both that and the kettlebell class, but I got to work late so I had to stay late.  Don’t you hate those days when you leave stuff at home and have to go back for it!?

Breakfast this morning was pretty much the same as yesterday.

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I nixed the toast and juice so this wasn’t quite as filling as yesterday.  For lunch I went to the grocery store and they had catfish in the deli!  I love catfish!

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Unfortunately, this wasn’t that great. :(   It was a little soggy as thought it had been sitting a little while and the heat condensation got to it.  The mac n’ cheese was yummy, though!

For dessert, I had a Kashi Dark Chocolate Oatmeal cookie.

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Not my fave.  They were soft, but not in a good way.  More like a crunchy cookie that had gone stale.

Obviously I’ve been craving a lot of sweets lately (probably because I’ve been giving in).  My afternoon snack was a Smart Ones Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Sundae.

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After work I headed out for my 2 mile run on base at a 10:42 pace.  After my run I headed home, but on the way I picked up these:

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I ate a LOT of them, so I wasn’t very hungry for dinner.  All I had was an unpictured bowl of Multigrain Cheerios with skim milk.

I think tomorrow will be another Body Pump today and Saturday might be yoga and 3 miles on the treadmill if the weather is good enough to drive in.

Now, I’m going to finish watch The Vampire Diaries :oops: and head to bed.   Have a good night!

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Yummy New Breakfast!

Posted on January 27, 2010 by meyergirl

This morning I was very excited about the breakfast I had planned.  It was pretty much the same as yesterday, but with a twist.

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I microwaved two eggs with a tbl of water for about a minute.  Only, this time, I mixed in chopped baby spinach!

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Boy, I wish I could show you the finished product, because it was actually quite pretty.  I added a little salt and pepper, too!

A little tip: If you want to keep spices at work (the basics) I suggest going to the camping section of your local Wal-Mart.  They have these spice containers for on-the go that are sectioned off and have the basics like salt, pepper, paprika, seasoned salt, etc.  Nice and compact.

On the way to work I stopped at 7eleven and picked up a cranberry juice, bag of peanut butter M & Ms and this guy…

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It had a bunch of “natural” ingredients, but I still tasted an artificial sweetener aftertaste.  I only drank a little and had the cranberry juice instead with my breakfast.  Man, oh, man that was a filling breakfast…the eggs with spinach, juice, and toast with yogurt spread.

Despite feeling full I still managed to snack all morning and after lunch on the bag of peanut butter M & Ms.  Yeah…those go on the list of things I can’t try to “eat just a little of.” ;)

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Is it weird that my cell phone pics are looking better than my camera pics?  I think it’s the lighting.

When lunch rolled around, I still wasn’t very hungry so I only had a burrito.

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I don’t think I had a afternoon snack, either, at least not one that’s coming to mind right now.

When I got home from work, I snacked on some unpictured brown rice chips.  Finally. around 6PM I started dinner.  Salmon with leftover barbecue sauce (from the ribs last week), peas, and two biscuits.

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I put a little yogurt spread and cranberry apple butter on the biscuits.  After dinner, I spent a little time with the husband after he woke up and before he left for work and then I called to wish my big brother HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

We hadn’t talked since he got back from his honeymoon a couple of weeks ago, so we ended up talking for over an hour.   He turned 33 today!!

Now, I’m off to bed so I can rest before tomorrow.  I’m planning on doing a Kettlebell Cardio class (finally) tomorrow so I’m looking forward to that.  I’m trying to switch my running schedule from T, TR, Sun to M, W, S…so I may skip tomorrow’s run in favor of the kettlebell class and pick it up again with the 3miler on Saturday.

Wish me luck!

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Iron Woman!

Posted on January 26, 2010 by meyergirl

I feel strong today because I did a Body Pump class AND ran 2 miles! :)  

Backing up a little, though…

I managed to remember to take pictures of my food before I left for work this morning.

Breakfast was two eggs and two pieces of whole wheat bread.  I put scrambled the eggs and put them with a TBL of water in the microwave.  Works great!!

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Lunch was a whole wheat pita with turkey, spinach, hummus, RF mayo, and a slice of 2% American Cheese.

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Mid-day I had a grapefruit and an unpictured fruit leather.  I didn’t have the popcorn.

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After work I went straight to the gym to a Body Pump class.  I LOVE Body Pump!  Gonna have to go more often.  After the gym I drove straight home and snacked on some unpictured Multigrain Cheerios and a piece of WW toast with PB.

At 6:45, Loreta and I went for a 2 mile run.  I’m thankful that Loreta is being so supportive b/c it was COLD out and without her I would have come up with some sort of excuse.  My tracking program has been finicky lately so I only got the pace for the last mile, which was a 10:46 mile. 

My husband was also very supportive tonight and brought me dinner so I wouldn’t have to cook.  He picked up one of Boston Market’s new $5 meals.

Rotisserie chicken, cornbread, and mashed potatoes with a little gravy.  Yum!!

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No word from the insurance company, yet, so keep your fingers crossed. 

Now, I’m off to bed!!!  Have a great night!

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One of Those Days

Posted on January 25, 2010 by meyergirl

Last night we had a big storm blow through.  It was actually loud enough to wake me up more than once and in fact I thought it felt like the house was shaking from the wind.  I knew there would be limbs on the ground in the morning since we have a lot of trees.

In fact, this is what I found when I woke up.

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Yep.  Those are the shingles from our roof.

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Arrrgghhh!!  The insurance company sent someone out to tarp it and we’ll know in the next 4 days or so whether or not they will cover the damage.  Even if they do, though, we’re responsible for the first $1000. :(

As you can imagine this was not the best start to my day.  Of course this delayed me getting to work and I didn’t have time to make breakfast or lunch.  I actually had a bag of pretzels for breakfast. :oops:

And…dun, dun, dun….I fell off the soda wagon and had a Coke.  No worries, though, I’m back on the program now. :mrgreen:

For lunch I went to the local grocery store and got a huge salad from the salad bar,  It had Romaine, spring mix, spinach, carrots, mushrooms, cauliflower, broccoli, chickpeas, egg, ham, and sunflower seeds.  I bought a bottle of Bolthouse Farms Yogurt Thousand Island dressing to go on it.  I have to say, I am in LOVE with these Bolthouse Farms dressings!!!  This was Thousand Island for 70 cal. per serving and it tasted good!!

On the side I had some fruit and a little pasta salad.  Dessert was a York Peppermint patty.  Of course there are no pictures because no cell phones or cameras at work and I rode with someone else to get lunch so I couldn’t get my phone out of my car.

I had a somewhat stressful day at work, it’s a noisy environment (an officer was chewing out a junior sailor for a good 10 minutes on the other side of my cubicle…he deserved it) which makes it hard to concentrate.  Plus my supervisor was annoying me.  I’m sure we’ve all been there, though, right!?  ;)

When I got home from work the husband and I made a quick trip to the mall where I managed to drop my G1 and crack the screen.  :cry:   I am SO sad.  Luckily it’s not completely useless, but still…

After the mall and a comforting hug from the husband we headed back to the house for dinner which consisted of whole grain penne with vodka sauce and turkey sausage.  It was quite tasty!! I added a little Parmesan on top.  Thanks husband!!

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Now, I’m headed to bed because I’ve got a sore throat and no sick leave so I’ve got to get some rest.  Have a great night!

P.S. I’m well aware I’ve been emotionally eating (and drinking) and I’m working on ways to curb that.  What’s works for you!?

P.P.S Pray the insurance company covers the roof!!

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