One of those days...

I've been a pig who exercised today, that's the bottom line.

I think I didn't eat enough during the day and was starving tonight. My day started by sleeping in and not going on the treadmill (hell, after my drive home last night... i felt getting sleep was a priority). I went to work and resisted the cupcakes I took in for a birthday celebration. I came home and ate dinner... and kept eating... and kept eating. I went on the treadmill for an hour. Now here we are.

Here's what I've eaten:
BF - weight control oatmeal (2) with flaxseed (0)
Lunch - romaine (0), 1/2c chick peas (2), allegro cheese 30 g(1), vegetables (0), 3 tbsp ff italian (0). yogurt (1), pear (1), cup of soup (1)
Dinner - flatout bread (1), egg (2), 2 egg whites (0), 2 tbsp light cream cheese (1), steamed broccoli and peas (0),fibre 1 bar (2)... ANOTHER fibre 1 bar (2)... 100 calorie cookies (2), granola bites (2), crispy delights (2)... and finally 100 cal hostess cakes (2).

I saw in my SHAPE magazine there are new hostess cake (100 cal) flavours in the states! 2 kinds of muffins and a coffee cake!

Tomorrow Alex is coming with me to weigh in and we are going out for a valentine's dinner (hopefully at mongolian grill). I'm not sure if I'll weigh in or not tomorrow... we'll see how I feel come tomorrow afternoon!!!!

Crabby

I hate the drivers here when there is lot's of snow. My 1hr drive to my parent group tonight took 1.5hrs... oh well. my drive home? i'm too exhausted to type out how exciting it was... almost NOT making it up the hills... being stuck on the DVP because cars couldn't make it up the hill... my gas light on... my side street adventures to find a gas station.... my freaking TWO AND A HALF HOUR DRIVE HOME. I just got home before 10pm. I'm tired and NOT in a good mood! At least my parent group is done and I am FREE on Tuesdays!

Here's what I ate today:
BF - weight control oatmeal (2)
Lunch - salad with cheese and tuna (2), ff italian (0), yogurt (1), pear (1), dill pickles (0)
Snack - chicken noodle cup of soup (1), more pickles (0), 100 cal cheese nips (2)
Dinner - ww bagel (2), cheese slice (1), lettuce (0), PICKLES (0), fibre 1 bar (2)

I had more to eat for dinner but it was too crazy trying to eat while driving in that bad weather... and on the way home was even worse. now i have a headache and am exhausted... so eating is not in the cards right now.

I hope hump day is okay for everyone!!! it has GOT to be better than today for crying out loud!!! Only 2 more days until i have a whole WEEK off (it could be week off if i wasn't working at sickkids!!).

Goodnight... sleep tight!!!

What am I doing here??

I totally sabotaged my hard work this past weekend. I ate EVERYTHING i baked... i showed ZERO self restraint!! Today... I pay for it on the scale. I have GOT to work hard and get back down this week... i don't want to lose my 70lb weight loss!!!

So, in an effort to stop dwelling on the weekend and move forward... i won't go over what i ate and how horrible i was at lack of activity this weekend. here's how today went. I got on the treadmill this morning (although could have worked harder)... and then here's what I ate:

BF - oatmeal (2)
Snack - spoonful of cream cheese frosting - oops. (2)
Lunch - flatout bread with salsa and cheese slice (3), ff cottage cheese and fruit cup (2), chicken noodle cup a soup (1), pear (1), granola bites (2)
Snack - 100 cal cookies (2), yogos (2)
Dinner - salad with tuna (1) and cheese (1), kalamata olives (1), ff italian 3tbsp (0), yogurt (1), apple (1)

Man, I better work hard the rest of the week... but when you step on the scale today and you're 6lbs heavier than you were on friday.. it's discouraging (i always tend to go up a few pounds over the weekend and lose it by thursday... but this is more than a few pounds!).

onwards and upwards from here... right?

Here's the evidence of my baking (chocolate cake with peanut butter filling... and chocolate buttercream icing - although the final product is not pictured. and lemon cupcakes with whipped filling and cream cheese frosting).

New Food Finds! New 100 calorie packs to Canada!

So, I'm at Walmart yesterday and look what I came across!!!

Tara - I immediately thought of you, because I know you like crackers!!!

Here's what I ate yesterday:
BF - 2/3c smart bran (1), 8 almonds (1), 20 g raisins (1), 1/2c skim milk (1)
Lunch - salad with veggies (0), cheese (1), tuna (1), hellmans spritzer (0), apple (1), yogurt (1), yogos watermelon flavour (2)
Snack - cadbury thins with ALMONDS - a new kind of cadbury thins for me! (2)
Dinner - salad with egg, but I took out half the egg white (1), cheese (2), kalamata olives (1), croutons (2), 3 tbsp ff italian (0), 6 slices edge veggie (6)
Snack (during Paradise Hotel with Alex!)- sour patch kids (3)

Today's plan is (in no particular order) - cleaning, baking cupcakes and cake, treadmill, quality time on my couch with chick flicks! I've already been grocery shopping (i love going first thing in the morning before it gets busy).

So far today I've had (and I will update throughout the day):
BF - strawberries and pineapple (1), ww bagel (2), 1 tbsp light jif PB (2)

With any luck... I'll be at my goal weight and look like this for Tara's wedding!!:

HAHA! Thank you Hilary Duff for the TEMPORARY body double!!!

And... one more photos for fun!

Do we look at all alike?

Happy Saturday everyone - yay for the weekend!!!!

God Bless the Treadmill!

I was down 1.0lb!

Totally surprising... I always try to guage in the mornings how I will likely do by the evening... Today I was 0.2lb heavier than last Thursday morning... that's why I got on the treadmill AND went walking in the Oshawa Centre on my lunch... it seems to have worked!

now, this weekend I have to be GOOD and be ACTIVE so I don't have to worry so much by next Thursday!

The good news is, I have now lost a total of 70.2lbs since starting WW!

Creature of Habit AND Superstitious!

And for all of the aforementioned reasons...


So, I wish Tara and I:


Tara - have fun tonight!!! and TOMORROW!!! i want details this weekend!!

I will be back with the results tonight... although I don't think they are favourable this week unfortunately.

PS - I DID go on the treadmill this morning for a half hour jog! (my last ditch effort... but I am still pessimistic today)

I am a creature of habit...

... and that is why I start my hump day post, yet again, with this:


So, today I woke up with my neck feeling more stiff than yesterday and the pain was into my sinuses and down into my back... so, no treadmill. I didn't feel like going to work and sitting at a desk all day... but I knew that if I called in sick it would look like I was calling in only because of the weather - so I trudged on into the office, heating pad in tow. I kept the heating pad on my neck all afternoon and low and behold - my neck feels much better tonight. Soooo... after my LONG 1hr drive home (thanks to the snow storm), I ate dinner and went on the treadmill for a ONE HOUR JOG! yay! I don't think I'm down my 0.8lbs this week, thanks to my poor choices on the weekend AND my inactivity this week... but if i'm not, so be it - I will next week!

Here's what I ate today:
BF - 2/3c smart bran (1), 1/2c skim milk (1), clementines x2 (1)
Lunch - romaine (0), tomato and cucumber and red pepper and green onion (0), tuna (1), maple dale jalepeno cheese (1), hellman's red wine spritzer (0), vitalicious cran-bran muffin (1), apple (1), spring vegetable cup of soup (1)
Dinner - egg whites (1), 2 eggs (4), blue menu ketchup (0), ww bagel (2),carrots (0), wendy and barb's skinny dips hummus (1), wasa crisps x3 (1), 2tbsp lactantia spinach and feta cream cheese (1), TWO waist watcher cheesecakes (2)

Good luck tomorrow!!!

Short and Sweet... mmm... sweets

Speaking of sweet... why not post a photo of Simon just to make everyone smile?

Today did NOT start off with me going on the treadmill. I had a bad dream in the night and woke up not feeling well (periodically I get dreams where people are trying to kill me... bizarre). This morning I still woke up early, but then started to feel sick after I ate breakfast. PLUS I have a stiff neck for some reason. I'm banking on it being gone by tomorrow and the treadmill happening again... because I NEED to lose 0.8lbs this week!!! I'm thinking a jog tomorrow morning and a longer walk tomorrow night (we'll see how that pans out... you know me... big dreamer!).

Due to not feeling the greatest today, I didn't eat much... I had to force myself to eat when my stomach growled (but would regret eating about 30min later!).
BF - 2/3c smart bran (1), 1/2 c milk (1), ff cottage cheese and fruit cup (2)
Lunch - gardennay leak soup (2), lettuce and cheese (1) with hellman's spritzer (0). yogurt (1), carrots (0), wendy and barb's skinny dip hummus 2 tbsp (1)
Dinner - ww bagel - almost done my US ones! (2), veggie burger (3), cheese slice (1).

I'm craving sweets AND greasey food tonight. Luckily, I have not caved. I think if I eate before bed that can sometimes be the cause of my disturbing dreams!

Happy hump day everyone!

Same Crap, Different Monday!

This was me on the weekend:


This is me today:


I did get on the treadmill today... but I know I could have worked harder. I then went to work, listened to people whine and complain... then met Alex after work for a candy-run to Shopper's (for him, not me!), then came home and made my lunch and dinner for tomorrow's long day.

Here's what I ate today (I cut back today to try to accomodate for how much I ate on the weekend... may not be smart, but it helped me keep my sanity):
BF - 2/3c smart bran (1), 1/2c milk (1), 20 g raisins (1)
Lunch - gardennay soup, 1c (2), 1/2 c ff cottage cheese and fruit (2), ww bagel (2), 2 tbsp lactantia spinach and feta cream cheese (1)
Snack - carrots (0), Wendy and Barb's Skinny Dips Baba Ganosh, 2 tbsp (1), cup a soup spring vegetable (1)
Dinner - 1/2c chick peas (2), allegro cheese (1), cucumbers and grape tomatoes and red peppers and green onion (0), 3 tbsp ff italian (0), apple (1), 100 calorie doritos (2)

I'm sooooo ready for bed!! Happy Tuesday everyone - make it a good one!

Where does the weekend go?

Let's try this again. When I've tried posting earlier this weekend it didn't work out... but i'll cross my fingers for this time. Let's recap my extended weekend. It started Friday with horrible weather, my ATTEMPT to get to work (but not even able to make it to the highway), so an hour and a half to get around the corner resulted in me turning around and coming home (when cars aren't making it up the hills around my place, it makes it hard to get to work). This was the view from here:




so, Friday was spent eating way too much and baking 4 dozen cupcakes for the engagement party.

Saturday I went on the treadmill and then we went to mom and dad's for dinner with them and Kristen... then off to the engagement party.

Today was spent being LAZY and STILL eating too much. I did some cleaning and grocery shopping... and otherwise have been on the couch.

I've eaten far too much to be able to post what I've had... let's just say, I really want to lose 0.8lbs at LEAST this week and i'm DEFINITELY NOT on my way to accomplishing that at this point. It was a tough weekend... but I can still get myself on track for the rest of the week and hopefully still pull off a lose. It will mean treadmill every morning... but it will be worth it.

I hope everyone had a great weekend and has a wonderful week! My busy weekend is over and I'll be back to posting every day (including MENUS!!!)