A fantastic week!

So I am on Twitter and I love it...especially on my new iphone! I have been able to update easily and not have to wait forever for the page to load like on my blackberry. And then I have my fav healthy people on there and the opinions and tips are great! Not only is Twitter helping me stay on track, so is the application My Fitness Pal.  This has been a life saver in food tracking and the ease of it makes tracking very slick. I can also track my cardio and strength training and water.  It has a friends area where you can hook up with other fitness pals and see what they are up to.  It lets you enter your weight and it gives you kudos for doing well.  At the end of the day I submit my daily tracker and it tells me what I would weigh in 5 weeks if I continue on that same eating track.  The whole thing is very sweet!

With these new ways and new tools, I have seen the scale drop!!! So tomorrow should be a good weigh in day!!!  :)  Stay tuned!

Tonight I am going to get some kale roasted for some snacks.  In the afternoons, I am dying for something to snack on so I think that would help me tremendously.  The other night we had roasted broccoli....YUM!  Next I will try roasted cauliflower! :)  Even my daughter loved the broccoli! 

Christmas time is hectic around my house.  Lots of family and lots of crafting! I think I have most of my crafting done, just a few little things.  I am excited to see every ones reactions when they open their gifts!!! I got my husband some snowshoes for hunting...speaking of hunting...so I have went with my husband coyote hunting.  This was the funniest thing I have ever done!  We are crouching, walking, quietly, sneaking up on them.  I am behind my husband who slowly turns around and signals me to crouch lower and to shush (like finger to lips shush).  I bust up laughing...I feel like a Elmer Fud cartoon!!!  He looks at me like I am crazy and motions "what?" I quietly tell him about Elmer Fud and he shakes his head and tells me again to shush.  LOL!  I can't stop laughing!!! Tears are rolling down my cheeks cause as we sneak up to where we will aim at the coyotes, all I can think about is "Rabbit season, Duck season, Rabbit season, Duck season"!!! HA!!!  Heck, no my dear hubby it is Coyote season!!!!  He hasn't taken me again since. 

Life Challenges

I am taking all these life challenges with stride this week!  Today I have to take my baby boy to the doctor because I want to make sure he is hydrated cause he has a cold.  Then my daughter is at her dads this week but I got a message that she is sicky too.  My poor babies!!!  I hate to see them like this! I got my dog spayed yesterday and she is at home resting but has no clue what is going on lol! She has been staring at the dryer all morning!  Still loopy from the meds. My husband has been working late every night this week which means no help at home.  BUT...I am not sore anymore, I took a rest day yesterday on my exercising.  I have still packed my food for the day and kept it healthy...although I did have a slice of homemade carrot cake last night but I also didn't get dinner.  So not really extra calories, just not too healthy! But it has carrots right??  LOL! I have done really well considering what life is throwing at me.  I am exhausted but I am chuggin along!!!  Usually this is when I fall off the wagon and just land in the puddle of processed foods!!  The quick and easy unhealthy stuff! 

So, for my food journal:

Greek yogurt with oatmeal and flax: 225
Chicken with carrots and celery: 185
2 Fruit snacks (keeps me from the snickers) - 120
Hard boiled egg - 78
Ritz crackers - 70 (did you know a single package of those things are 1983 calories?!?!  I stuck with 5 at lunch with my chicken and veggies!)
carrot cake - 375
Pear - 81

Total: 1134

It Hump Day!

Yes, Wednesday came on quick and busy!  Had to take the dog to the vet first thing to get spayed and then drop off money at the school for pictures and then drop off the baby at the sitters and then go to work.  My day is zooming by!!! 

So Trisha is doing things that I want to try.  I have started to journal my food.  I know that I said I was going to do this before but I didn't follow through.  But it is working for her...so it should work for me too right?! :) The challenges we do work for me so this should too!? ;)  So for the last couple of days I have been writing down my intake of calories and I am doing pretty darn good! Especially since my calories out is good too!

So here is yesterdays journal:

Greek Yogurt with oatmeal - 225
Cherrys - 50
Protein Shake - 100
PB&J - 400
coffee (black) - 10
fruit leather snack - 60 (helps with my sugar cravings)
homemade BBQ ribs - 338
1/2 corn on the cob - 30

Total: 1213

Calories out: walked 5K at the track and Ash hill on break - 479

It's Tuesday!

I so totally couldn't think of a more fun title!  I am tired!!  My brain is not functioning today and the negative is creeping in...so I thought I would hop on here and finish up my food journal for yesterday and see where I ended up. And also blogging makes me feel better. :)  I must be in a funk!

So food journal:
Yesterday afternoon total: 601

slice of cheese: 60
Homemade toast with butter: 225
glass of milk: 122
snickers mini: 45

Night time total: 452  (not the best dinner but I was craving carbs!!!)

Day total: 1053

I walked a total of 5 miles yesterday!!  And I didn't get to sit down until I went to bed at 8! So it was a pretty good day! See I feel better already! :) 

Thank you blog world!