Eye Candy

Hey I get to see that eye candy everyday, ha ha ha!

Daily Plate

Last year I was using the Daily Plate website to keep track of what I ate and how I exercised. I decided that it would help me not mindlessly eat, see post below, so I'm starting again today. :) www.thedailyplate.com in case you're interested! :)

Please read Jen's post below

In no way do I want to hijack her post, because, well, I have been a crappy blogger lady (ha! have another one that hasn't been updated in a year!).  So, I am thrilled that she has helped out - EVERYONE should be jumping in :-)

We all know that we have eaten extra calories, ok, and possibly drank a few of them too, but I was thinking that laughter has to burn some of that right?  So, here's to last Saturday... I had so much fun at cousin's dinner, seeing Charlotte and Aunt Annetta, and then Saturday evening.... what happens in mom's dining room stays in mom's dining room... but just a visual jolt for ya!! EYE CANDY! :-) Yum... that's calorie free, right??

Does he realize this is NOT a cordless phone, it's just a phone with the cord missing?

Mindless Eating

I started listening to podcasts on my ipod in the car when I don't like what's on the radio stations. I found one from the "Vicky and Jen" series called Mindless Eating. Really interesting stuff! They had a guy on who studies nutrition said we make 250 food choices per day, while we all think we make only 20 food choices per day because most of our eating/bad habits are mindless. He used an example of secretaries who have the candy jar at their desk. He said they moved the candy jar just 6 ft. away and the secretaries ate less than half the candy they'd eaten before. The walk to get the candy wasn't "too far" it was just that it was a mindless thing to eat it and eat it. Those secretaries saved about 125 calories per day which amounted, for them, to be about 13 pounds per year!

He said there was also a guy who drank about 8 sodas per day. They tried putting his soda in a fridge out in the garage, but that didn't really make him think about it. So, they said he could only keep two in the fridge per day. If he took one out, he'd just have to put one back in-thus thinking about it- or if he forgot, he'd have to drink warm soda, also making him think about it.

Anyway, I just thought it was interesting. My evening tv/snack habit is mindless. I watch tv and enjoy the show, eating all the while, only realizing after the show is over that I've eaten quite a bit of chips. An update on that, I have been into an every other day pattern, which is better than nothing, but still not at my goal. I haven't ran in over a week, although I walked to get Madeline yesterday from school, and Chris and I went for a walk last night.

Was great to see you all over the weekend! Hugs!

How is Everyone??

Hello! Hadn't seen a post in a while or heard how anyone is doing, so I thought I'd post. I have only exercised once in about a week and a half... and I ate well over the Thanksgiving holiday! I feel like I'm heading into hibernation zone where I want to eat everything bad for me and not exercise at all, which is a bad combo. I'm setting a goal for myself here: no snacks after dinner. No glasses of wine unless it is a special occasion-I mean a real special occasion, not "the day is over!" :) However, the holidays are coming up and a glass here or there isn't awful. So, I will check in later this week and let you know if I've succumbed to chips as an evening snack... Wish me luck! And, how about you all? Any food that really gets to you? Or a time of the day when you snack?

Loathing Loss

Not weight loss of course - loss of any other kind. Loss of my youth, loss of  my kids now that they are older, and mostly I loathe the loss of my mind.

I've done remarkably well this week, and managed to drop 5 lbs without even trying, Isn't stress a strange thing that way?  I have also done very well with my food, Tonight was about 3 Oz of salmon, spinach, 1/2 of a gold sweet potato, and a huge salad.  Later Nehemiah and I had air popped popcorn with ranch seasoning and then a fat free sugar free Jell-O.  Yum!

My insomnia last night made me come in my office and find my last Turtle though, and eat it at 2 AM.  Which led to about 5 Milk Duds! Love chocolate and caramel!

I have been doing tons of work around the house still, and I am using that to compensate for the exercise I'm not getting in. I put the second coat in bathroom today, it looks great, like a creamy latte brown - purdy!  Then switched two closets and went through all of Nehemiah's clothes again to make sure his pants weren't butt huggers super tight, because if he can get them on ~ "they fit"!  I was down to my last load of laundry until we began this expedition. You'd be surprised at the amount of dirty clothes a boy can keep in his closet!

I also finally finished my ACE Personal Trainer Course Book -  Now I have a TON of review to do. I'd like to take my exam right around the new year - just start it off with a bang and set it up to be WAY better than this one has turned out!

Tomorrow will be starting laundry over again - But I think I might take a guest pass to Bally's and see how I like it.  I guess I should go to sleep if I have such lofty plans! :-)

Everyone have a great one and keep on trying!  Baby Steps :-)

Sunday

Hello! It's Sunday! It's sad when the weekend goes so fast that I typed "Saturday" as the title and had to change it! Ah, I don't like that weekends speed by so quickly! :)
On the exercise front, I ran the last Friday and Saturday, and yesterday I cleaned out my big perennial garden, breaking a nice sweat. Unfortunately, on the food front, I ate at a Mexican restaurant on Friday night (bad, fried food and chips...) and had chips last night, too... Anyone else feel like it's one step forward and two steps back? :) Better than just two steps back, I guess. Hope you all are doing great!! Tomorrow (or today, depending on your calendar ;)) is the beginning of a new week!! We can have a good week (let's try hard since Thanksgiving and LOTS of food is around the corner!! :))