Yesterday: 12/28 Friend's birthday that I debated about going to. Was pretty fun, despite the torrential SF downpour.

Fried egg whites for breakfast.
2 potstickers as a snack.
1/2 a roast been and provolone sandwich
Chips and guacamole and two beef tacos for dinner
2 beers
2 chicken wings (they were huge!)
Half a piece of chocolate cake

No gym exercise but I did walk the dog 2 miles around our neighborhood, which includes up Yerba Buena hill which I think should count for more.

Oh, and that night (27th into 28th) at like 2 a.m. I was eating chips and dip. Gotta cut the late night eating thing off.

Today (thus far):
Roast beef and provolone sandwich (Christmas leftovers)
Chips and dip
3 mexican butter cookies

Headed to the gym as soon as my mother gets home because I've discovered I can just NOT stand being around my family. Bar is already beginning to make me super anxious/cranky. WHEEEEEEE!

Have got to figure out a way to get more fruits and veggies in my diet. Go back to multivitamins too. Maybe a salad for dinner?

Update: I did eat a salad for dinner. Romaine lettuce, 2 hard boiled eggs, red onion, croutons, kidney and garbanzo beans, House of Prime Rib salad dressing. I'm resisting getting a piece of cheesecake I know is in the downstairs fridge.

90 minutes of cardio at the gym: 40 minutes on the elliptical, 30 minutes walking on the treadmill (I have to start going harder there), stretching, 20 minutes on the trike.

I got no titles. Yesterday ended up being a wash as well. Does throwing up on Saturday night make anything on Sunday not count? No? Oh well. Thanks, though, alcohol!

So after being half asleep all day Sunday, we got back at it today. I had a lackluster final work out with my trainer who is moving to Thailand to get an international relations degree but it kinda counts for something, right?

I had Tyson wing strips for lunch. (Ugh. The housekeeper was here, I didn't want to be too in her way. Those things are awful. But I have an addiction.) I had a Dr Pepper when I got home from the store.

I did an hour of cardio at the gym. 40 minutes on the elliptical, 20 minutes of trike-ing. (This is means I get to sit comfortably, rather than being on a stupid bike seat, but same principle.) The super crowded for the next couple weeks gym is gonna be ANNOYING and mean I am going to push my workouts as late as I can. But whachya gonna do? You go, all you people with new years resolutions! No, really, go home.

For dinner I had a pretty hearty sandwich. Ciabatta bread with sliced prime rib, two slices of provolone cheese, and onions and peppers. I also cracked open one of the sparkling apple ciders from Christmas and drank about half the large bottle before discovering 8 oz has more calories than 8 oz of soda. But it's pure apple and has actual nutritional value, as opposed to the none in soda so...ya know...

And now I'm sitting on the couch feeling way full and watching football. So much work to be done...

Aww fuck it

I got sucked into making cookies and other things today so I didn't manage to make it to the gym even though I REALLY wanted to and my room is still a giant mess...

I have no idea what the gym schedule is but tomorrow is full of family, as is this evening.

So, despite intentions to the contrary, we're just calling these next two days a wash and will get back to it on Sunday. I'm not going to even claim to what I am going to eat because it's just pure gluttony. Enjoyable, fantastic, gluttony.

Merry Christmas to all!

Doing it wrong

Yesterday I ate leftover chicken enchilada casserole (aren't leftovers exciting?!) for lunch and chicken teriyaki/tempura combo at a Japanese joint by our house which means I also ate salad, miso soup, and white rice. I also drank a shit ton of cider and beer. And by shit ton I mean...8 pints-ish. I took the dog for a fifteen minute walk but that's all the exercising I did.

Today I had every intention of going to the gym but it's 8:30 at night and I don't see that happening. So no exercise. Will go when I wake up tomorrow but all this holiday stuff! I have taken on quite a bit in the kitchen.

I had the leftover sausage and noodles for lunch, four Triscuits, and an omelette with cheese, bacon, sauteed onions, and avocado for dinner with a side of fries. I also drank my first Dr Pepper in two days.

I need to clean my room and get my act together before everyone comes over here on Christmas Day.

Not full of win

Today. God I hate to admit to today but that's the point of this so:

McDonald's chicken nuggets, fries, and a Dr Pepper.
Handful of Triscuits
2 cookies. (Holiday bake-a-thon 2010!)
A 1/4 of a lobster dipped in butter
Slice and a half of homemade meatloaf with ketchup
Tater tots dipped in ranch. Oh, which led my brother to go "You put ranch on EVERYTHING. Can you go a day without eating ranch?" First of all: Not true. It goes on wings, fries sometimes, salad, and crudites. That's it. Secondly, hey asshat, you go without beer for a week and get back to me, mkay?
Steamed broccoli spears
And I am currently sitting on my bed eating mini swedish fish that I bought to put in other people's stockings. Whatevs.

Did 30 minutes on the elliptical and 30 minutes on the treadmill. My freaking iPod died at the 55 minute mark even though I just charged it and the thought of doing another half an hour without music in my ear was more than I could bear. So we cut it short. Grumble.

Tomorrow we'll go harder. (If at all, actually, I have plans to go out tomorrow night. I'd kinda like to cancel those plans but have also been anti-social as of late so I'm not sure...)

Today I went to the trainer which was good but not that hard. I contemplated the gym also but passed and will go tomorrow during the day. Trying to plan workouts around everything else that goes on is difficult. I think I need to just pick a time and stick with it. Because some days I can do the evening and other days I can do during the day but then 2 work outs in less than 24 hours seems like a lot... So I think I need to just schedule it in and stick with a consistent time.

I ate leftover chicken enchilada casserole when I got home from the trainer. I had several reduced fat triscuits for a snack. Two of the butter cookies I made the other day. Two cups of tea with honey, one black, one peppermint. I ate 4 strips of bacon, two fried eggs and two pieces of toast for dinner but was still feeling hungry so had two wing strips because I felt the urge to dip things in ranch. I also ate more cookie batter than I'd like to admit to but omg mint and chocolate go together!

Some Days

It's 8 p.m. and I want to go to bed like NOW. So we're, as mentioned, skipping the gym tonight. Trainer tomorrow. Maybe some cardio as well at the gym. Some days you just can't drag yourself. Not that I'm particularly for it today. If I had to, I could. (I swear! I could!)

Today I had the leg and thigh from a costco roast chicken, with leftover roasted potatoes reheated in olive oil covered in chicken gravy (homemade, natch), and roast carrots. That was lunch.

Proud of myself for making a day without Dr Pepper, it is my vice.

I did however have four of these cookies that I made. I'm usually not a sweet tooth person, I worship much more at the altar of the starch than the sweet, but these? They're freaking good. Buttery and crumbly and tasty with the right amount of crunch from the sprinkles. Delish! I will be making another batch or three for holiday bake-a-thon 2010! But, ya know, gotta stop eating the cookies.

For dinner we had chicken enchilada casserole. I had two helpings. And a ton of salad that had the house dressing from the House of Prime Rib on it. (I don't mean this thing to be food porn but, ya know, we eat well. Probably too well.)

And that's it. I'm going to lay in bed and watch movies and get back at it tomorrow. Whee!

So...

I decided to start an offshoot blog. Because no one who reads the regular stories of my life wants to hear about my battle with my waistline. IT'S FUCKING BORING! Even for me. But in an attempt to keep myself honest about it all, and to chart my successes, I wanted, nay needed, to write about it. (Sing it with me: We're living in a narcissistic world, and I am a narcissistic girl!)

Mostly I figure this will be a daily log of what I ate and my little victories. And even of my setbacks and my general plaintive whining about how much trying to lose weight sucks. I titled the blog how we all generally feel about this topic.

So we begin with yesterday wherein I ate Tyson frozen chicken wing strips for lunch with ranch dressing, had a 2 Dr Pepper kinda day, and had sausage and noodles for dinner. Sausage and noodles is a family stir fry thing. Who knows where it came from. It's stir fried veggies with Hillshire farms kilbasa sliced up until everything is al dente, then served over egg noodles. Not glamourous but tasty. I came home and ate the rest of my chocolate covered caramel apple from Disney World. My Saturday nights are HELLA exciting, yo.

But more to the point: I killed it at the gym. KILLED IT. I did 40 straight minutes on the elliptical at a resistance of 10 for 475 calories and 4.1 miles. Usually I pause at the 20 minute mark and then the 30 minute mark. Last night I did not. After that I got on the treadmill and walked. I did that for 30 minutes, even jogging for a couple of minutes, for something like 230 calories. Stretched after that for a good ten minutes before hitting the rowing machine (erg) for 10 minutes/2k meters/100 calories. Then finished off with 15 minutes on the bike for another 100 calories.

I think that's the hardest straight through work out I've done ever. And honestly? I think I could have done more.

And apparently the gym IS where the cool kids hang out on Saturday night, as my cousin was there. And not some play cousin like crazy southern people have but like my mom's sister's kid ACTUAL first cousin. Kinda funny. I think having him there worked as peer pressure though and is why I could kill it. I usually say I did 90 minutes of cardio, fudging the numbers a bit, but for the past couple workouts, I've actually been doing 90 minutes of cardio. I don't know where I got the kick in the ass I needed but we've definitely ratcheted up the workouts. We're gonna continue doing that and I need to work on getting from the safety of the elliptical to seeing if I can actually start jogging for stretches of time. I used to, when I hated the elliptical and loved the treadmill, but now things have changed. Time to change them again.

I didn't drink my daily Dr Pepper today, trying to balance out having two yesterday and I'm skipping the gym tonight. My head feels like it is in a vice grip (thanks, sinuses!) and I'm meeting with the trainer tomorrow so I figure giving myself a rest would be a good idea. Instead I baked today, as it's holiday bake-a-thon 2010! But if you want to read about that, go check out the real blog.

Looking forward to seeing my trainer tomorrow, who I haven't seen in 3 weeks, and seeing how I do with the core/sprint stuff. Weather permitting...