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.