May Day Challenge! Take 2!

My goal for this week is to log everyday and to plan out my meals for the whole week Sunday afternoon BEFORE I go shopping (makes it MUCH easier!). I will check in everyday to let you know how I am progressing on these goals. Next week I will add back in the situp challenge.

Ok, step one to reaching my goals for the week- I have logged all of my food for the day today. I finished with about 100 cals left. I'll be having one of my Skinny Cow ice cream bars in a few minutes to help lower that deficit.

Step two- tomorrow for breakfast I will have 2 chocolate rice cakes with White Chocolate Wonderful peanut butter and a banana (sliced on top of the rice cakes is DELICIOUS!), I will probably have some fruits and veggies for snack (I will be at a music festival, so it will be whatever f&v they have in the hospitality room). For lunch it will be Subway, either a 6" roast beef, or chicken sub with no chips, and water to drink. I don't know what the dinner plans are just yet because I will be at my cousin's house. However, I know that whatever we decide will be pretty good calorie-wise. The tough part of tomorrow will be the party I am going to tomorrow evening. I don't know what all my little sis will be serving, but I will be very careful to watch that I stick to veggies and fruits.

Sunday will be breakfast at my cousin's house, lunch with my in-laws, and dinner at snack at home. I will post tomorrow sometime the details of those meals (I have to talk with MIL first to see what is on the menu for lunch:laugh: ).

I WILL get back to the habits that worked so well for me to begin with! I will NOT have to pull the jeans I just packed up back out! I REFUSE TO!!!!!! (that's not really an "angry" face, more like DETERMINED!!!)

Well, I stuck with the plan Saturday. At the party I had a few chips with queso dip.

Yesterday was pancakes for breakfast, McDonald's for lunch:ohwell:, and then dinner at the in-laws' house. I haven't logged all of that just yet because I didn't have a chance to get online. I probably won't get it all enterred.:grumble: Just to busy this week. (Really I shouldn't even be on here, I should be working, but a girl's gotta have a break!)

Meals for this week are:
Monday- breakfast- white chocolate wonderful and chocolate rice cakes
lunch- 6" roast beef sub from Subway, carrots, orange
dinner-chicken nuggets, mac&cheese and corn (kids' night to pick:laugh: )
snacks- skinny cow caramel truffle bar, and ???
Tuesday- breakfast- Honey Bunches of Oats (generic version) with milk, with banana
lunch- ????
dinner- lean beef tacos, with fresh salsa, tomatoes, lettuce, sour cream, flour tortillas and corn
snack- carrots, ?????
Wednesday- breakfast- muffins/breads
lunch- smoked pork shoulder, bbq sauce, side dishes of some sort (pot luck ), and dessert of some sort
dinner- steak, baked sweet potato, grean beans
snacks- cookies, maragrita?
Thursday- breakfast- Honey Oats cereal with milk, and fruit
lunch- probably left over shoulder, and salad
dinner- spaghetti with green beans
snacks- ???
Friday- breakfasts- Honey Oats cereal with milk, and banana
lunch- probably left over shoulder
dinner- salsa chicken with corn, sour cream, and rice
snacks- skinny cow caramel truffle, ???
Saturday- breakfast- cereal with milk and fruit
lunch- pb&j, pudding cup, carrots, fruit
dinner- Easter dinner at in-laws' house, NO idea!
snacks- fruit snacks, cookies, ???
Sunday- breakfast- scrambled eggs with fresh salsa and toast
lunch- probably go out to eat
dinner- not planned yet
snacks- Easter candy, carrots, fruit, ????

So far Monday has gone as planned. I decided to skip the mac&cheese. If I'm gonna have that many carbs, I decided I wanted them in form or REAL ice cream:laugh: To get that treat though, the kids and I will walk the 1/2 mile to the store, eat the treat, and then walk the 1/2 mile back. That'll burn off SOME of those calories. I didn't eat my whole orange at lunch (it was NOT very good), and I didn't eat the carrots (they were dried out, I grabbed the old bag instead of the new bag:grumble: ). I don't know what I'm going to do about lunch tomorrow. Nothing in my fridge is looking tempting. I may just grill up a chicken breast, fix some rice, and add some fresh salsa. Pair that with Jello and a salad, and that should work. Maybe.

Wednesday is the day I've been stressing over for a couple months now. This week is DEFINATELY not going as smoothly as I'd hoped! I had to put out 4 fires before the first bell rang this morning. C'est la vie! It will soon be over.

Thursday- breakfast- Honey Oats cereal with milk, and fruit
lunch- probably left over shoulder, and salad
dinner- spaghetti with green beans
snacks- ???

Well, for breakfast I had a leftover piece of pizza from last night:blushing: and a banana:laugh: . For lunch I had sugar-free jello, carrots, and a 6" chicken terriyaki sub sandwich with no cheese, no extra sauce, and lettuce and tomato. For morning snack I had a pack of peanut M&Ms, given to me by a student:ohwell: . For after school snack I had a Skinny Cow Caramel Truffle bar. YUMMMM! . Dinner was the tacos we were SUPPOSED to have Tueaday. Only problem is that the tomatoes I bought to have with it ended up at my in-laws' house:ohwell:

Today was a beautiful day, so we took a family walk across town and back (about a mile and a half, we don't go ALL the way because 2 miles is a little much for my son:laugh: ). After all of this, I have 288 cals left. I may go have myself a little cereal for a snack. (I know it's late, but I'm hungry!)

I hope everyone has a good weigh in tomorrow!:drinker:

Start weight: 182
Dec. 25: 182
Jan. 1: Didn't weigh in
Jan. 8: 180
Jan. 15: 177
Jan. 22: 178
Jan. 29: 175
Feb. 5: 174
Feb. 12: 174
Feb. 19: 171
Feb. 26: 170
March 5: 170
March 12: 169
March 19: Didn't weigh in
March 26: 169
April 2: 169
April 9:
April 16:
April 23:
April 30: 165!!!

I've had a pretty good week, a little light on the water, but other than that it was good. Next week will be even better because now I don't have the stress of festival weighing on me. Hopefully between the two I'll be able to drop these last few pounds!

I've debated with myself about what my final goal weight should be. According to the BMI scale, my "ideal" weight is about 140 lbs. In high school, when I was at my strongest physically, I weighed in at 175 lbs. The very edge of "Healthy" for me is 164 lbs. I honestly don't remember the last time I weighed less than 170lbs! I maintained in the 175 range (give or take 5 lbs) all through HS and college. So the territory I am now in is unknown!:laugh: After all this rambling, anyone have advice on how to best set my final goal?

This week I am going to restart the situp challenge. Tonight I will do the test, and then go from there. I am also going to get back into doing my wii fit workout every day, again! My third goal is to continue to plan out my meals in advance.

Sunday afternoon I will post the next week's meals, along with my workout plan.

Here's to reaching our goals in a healthy, maintainable way!:drinker: