Success

Well folks, just as I'd hoped, I was down 4.6 pounds today!  Bringing the total lost since January to 15.6 pounds.  And now my widget says I lost!  Awesome day.  

15 hours until weigh in...

I'm so geeked to weigh in.  I hope I'm not disappointed.  It's been a really good week.  Here's why:

• I was significantly under my calories every day except one
• I worked out 4 times 
• I was cleared by Dr. Sprunger to do the Color Run.  I only have to see him as needed now.  (Sort of disappointing, because he's smokin' hot.)
• Our juicer came from Amazon
• I worked my ass off at work all week and accomplished a lot
• hung out with the neighbors last night, who I've missed.  Didn't drink!

Screen shot of my totals for the week (except today - not complete)

My allowance at this point is 1,997 calories per day.  Not bad.

So lemme tell you a story about this juicer ordeal.  Ryan's browsing Netflix one day and comes across the documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.  Basically, Joe was a big fat guy with an immune disease.  He drives across the country, juicing for 60 days.  He lost 80 pounds and his disease is gone.  He looks amazing and is super healthy.  He has a website with juicing recipes and basically a how-to manual if you want to go the juicing way.  He's also Australian, so he's a treat for the ears as well as the eyes.

Ryan decides he wants to Reboot with Joe, and I'm on board as well, so with an amazon.com giftcard I had, we ordered a juicer.  We chose to go with a cheaper one in case this juicing business blows.  

We tried it out this morning.  Here's the pic and recipe:

5 stalks of celery

6 stalks of kale

1 cucumber

½ lemon

2 granny smith apples

ginger - not sure of the unit of measurement to use.  a 1½ inch piece?

Here's the vid of Ryan juicing it.  

At first I thought it was kind of gross.   Then after a few minutes, I thought it was really gross.  There was a little too much ginger, I think.  I felt like all I could taste was ginger and lemon.  I'm not giving up just yet.  We'll tweek it a bit, maybe add some more fruit.  Plus, there's about a million juicing recipes online.  More to come on that.  

This week, my goal is to hit the gym 5 times.  The last couple of weeks have been 4.  Ryan and I have been bitching out on Saturdays, which has become unacceptable.  Sundays and one day during the week can be a rest day.  I tend to cheat on my eating (meaning eating things that aren't great for me, not going over my calorie allowance) on the weekends, so eliminating the gym on Saturday is no bueno.  

Today is going to just be a chill day.  I used some Barnes and Noble gift cards I had yesterday and bought a few new books.  I'm gonna relax, read a bit, and get ready for tomorrow.  Weigh-in in T minus 15 hours!  Here's to hoping my livestrong widget says "lost" tomorrow!

Great week!

This week has been awesome, both in regards to my diet/working out and at work.  It's all too long to get into right now, but I'll write a longer post tomorrow or Sunday.  I can't WAIT for weigh-in on Monday morning!  <3>

Phew

Weigh in today!  Down another 2 1/2 lbs!  Now my little widget says that I gained 2 lbs instead of 11, lol.  Soon it will say lost!  

Now that I'm trying to cut my calories down, I've realized more and more that I love Country Crock and that it's effing terrible for you.  I like...cannot control my portion of Country Crock and I end up eating 4 times the serving size.  

Here's a screen shot of my dinner:

A serving size of salmon is 4 oz, and since I had one filet in a two-filet, 16oz package, I marked it as two servings.  What has two thumbs and is a math genius?  This girl.  I went overboard on rice and butter.  Damn.  The butter had almost as many calories as one serving of fish did.  And 962 calories?  And salmon as the main dish?  Ugh.  I will get better at this!

I worked out super hard today.  I hit my record on the leg press today.  2 sets of 12 at 230, then 1 set of 12 at 250.  Vastus lateralis muscles of steel right heah!

PMS SOS

This week has been an epic failure.  I tried not to be so hard on myself, but I've been the shit out of my self esteem.  :(  Shark week is comin' any minute now.  Should have been yesterday, actually.  My eating hasn't been terrible, but it hasn't really been spectacular either.  And my knee has been bothering me the past two days.  It seems a little better today than it was yesterday, but I'm resting it for the weekend so I can be good to do some serious calorie damage next week.  I just hate myself right now.  :(  Ryan's at the gym, and I'm just sitting around being fat.  UGH.

Good week

Well, folks, I did pretty well this week.  I went to the gym Monday-Friday.  Veronica and I now have a standing gym date every week.  Can't wait to weigh in tomorrow morning!

Here was my weekend.

Friday, Ryan and I met at the gym after work.  The Planet Fitness on Hall is weird.  It's huge and really nice.  But the machines are different than PF Clinton Township, and I had to learn how to use them.  I didn't get a great workout in regards to weights, but my cardio was up there.  Put another mile and a half on my new kicks.

Second workout in the new shoes.

First day I did all three sets at 210.  I own the leg press machine.

Saturday, Ryan and I woke up and decided to take the day off from the gym.  We were both extremely sore, so we decided it was best.  We had some errands to run and Ryan suggested we go to Stir Crazy at Great Lakes Crossing for lunch.  Since stir fry is my favorite food ever, he didn't have to work hard to convince me.  It was so yum, too.

Create your own stir fry with chicken, pea pods, broccoli, carrots, water chestnuts, brown rice, and classic Chinese sauce.  So delicious.  

Double fortune cookie!  

After lunch, we walked around Great Lakes Crossing, which is approximately one mile all around the mall.  So technically, we did get our exercise in.  Ryan got a new pair of gym shoes at Puma and he bought me some Puma texting gloves and a t-shirt.  I also got an everyday corgi calendar!  A whole year of cuteness.  We did get Dairy Queen for a dessert, but I felt ok in doing it.  I just ordered a small blizzard and took my time with it.  I had just walked a mile, geez.  

Ryan got some new workout clothes.  We started cleaning the bedroom up and putting things away when one thing turned into another, and Ryan cleaned out his side of the closet.  That led me to (sort of) clean up my side.  This is what we pulled out and are donating to Salvation Army:

< This pile was heaping, even more than you can tell by this pic. 


Shoes I got in Germany that I'm finally getting rid of.  :(

Mavie in my Detroit Choppers shirt.  He's such a badass.

 

Today, we went grocery shopping to stock up for the next two weeks.  We bought a shit ton of fruit and veggies.  We came home and Ryan started prepping all of the fruit for the smoothies while I prepped the veggies for our lunches.  We meal planned like pros.  All I have to do all week is just grab a few things out of the fridge and I'm good to go.

I did pretty well on my calories this week, too.  Here's the screen dump of livestrong:

I didn't track anything from this Saturday or Sunday.  Saturday, my whole day consisted of Stir Crazy (lunch and leftovers) and Dairy Queen.  Today, I didn't eat much, and was just busy, so I didn't track.  Last Sunday, I didn't track either and I'm not sure why.  Oh well.

Oh yeah!  And we signed up for the Color Run!  5/11, baby, here we come!  Our team name was this close to being Jenny and the Jets, but we are team Running in Technicolor.  So geeked.

Alright, need to go pack my bag for tomorrow.  It's a new week, Schmidt!  It's your opportunity to do better!

It's been a good week...

...yes sir it has.  I've gone to the gym every day so far, and am going tomorrow evening with my bearface.  I've been under my calories every day and I feel awesome.  Can't wait til Monday to weigh myself!  (Thought: maybe I should change my weigh in day to Friday morning.  But a pro to it being Monday morning is that it makes me stop myself from cheating so much on the weekend.  Hmm.)

Anyway, Color Run sign up tomorrow.  Need. A. Team. Name.  

Got my new gym kicks I ordered from Amazon.  They were on sale for $59.99, which I thought was an awesome deal for Under Armour.  

Tonight was their maiden voyage on the gym floor.  They felt awesome and super light.  Did 1.39 miles in em.  I hope to do 1.5 tomorrow.


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