Proud of myself

A couple of my fellow law students wanted to go out for Burgers and Beers after class today…

I had a chicken breast marinating at home, but a burger sounded SO good.

HOwever… I stayed strong and headed home instead of wasting money and points that I don’t have to waste. And guess what? I’m not too disappointed!

I didn’t have any marinade earlier, so I made some on my own. I used salt, pepper, cilantro, minced garlic, oregano, italian dressing, and a little bit of worcestershire sauce. I let it marinate for about 5 hours while I went to class, then it was ready to go when I got home from class tonight.

I cooked it a skillet with some olive oil (is that called frying? I don’t even know), and it was pretty yummy. I ate some peas and carrots with it, and it was a lovely little dinner.

Of course it was no cheeseburger (What is?!), but it wasn’t bad.

Congrats to me for making good decisions! Now I just hope it pays off for Weigh-in Wednesday tomorrow!

I hope everyone else had a healthy tuesday!

Success!

Weigh-In Wednesday was a success! I lost 1.5 pounds this week.

Starting Weight: 205

Last week: 194.5

This week: 193

Whoohoo! Even better… I had a pretty good work out today. Did a 5 minute warmup on the stationery bike, then 30 minutes of running/walking on the treadmill (actually ran for 15 minutes of it!), then 15 minutes on the stairmaster, then ab work. Approx 600 calories burned, for 6 Activity Points! Yay!

THEN, when I came back upstairs, I hopped on the scale again and it was 191! Whooo! I haven’t weighed less than 190 since prob. junior year of college (3 years ago), and I can’t wait to see 180′s on the scale.

AND, even better… I am currently in bed, and for the first time in 12 (13? i can’t remember!) weeks of Weight Watchers, I am about to go to sleep with 2 points left over! That never happens!

Man, what a great day!

Hope everyone else was successful today/this week! If not, tomorrow is a new day! Get re-committed!

p.s. – does anyone know how to get single spacing on WordPress?! It’s driving me nuts!!

Bottomless Pit

I have ALWAYS been a bottomless pit. My doctor has actually said before that he thinks that there is something wrong with me and that I’m missing the little part of your brain that tells you when your full.

I’ve taken medication for it before, and it’s worked… I would usually lose like 10 pounds or so, but then I’d get used to the medication and it wouldn’t really be working anymore and the pounds would creep back on. Even if it was working though, I know that medication is not a solution to my problem. I need to learn to STOP eating, even when I’m not full. And, medication is not a long term solution.  Lifestyle change is the only longterm solution.

That’s why I chose to do weight watchers. The points gives me the structure to know that I CANNOT keep eating, even when I really really really want to. And WW still allows me to eat cheetos and whatnot when I want to, which is very important.

Today, I made some poor eating decisions, but I also made some good ones.

• Poor – I went to Chick-fil-a for lunch. Negating factor – it was breakfast/lunch, and I only ate it because we don’t have Chick-fil-a in Chicago and I’m on Spring break!
• Poor – Ate cheetos for a snack. Negating factor – I put the cheetos down before I got carried away and ate some raw veggies with light ranch dressing instead. Then I ran/walked for 40 minutes and burned 400 cals.
• Poor – big ole steak for dinner. Negating factor – ate lots of steamed veggies with it, and I didn’t finish the entire steak. Gave some to my dad and some to the dog. I loooooove steak though. I never have it when I’m in Chicago because I can’t afford to buy it, never go out to restaurants that serve steak, and don’t have a girl to cook it on even if I could afford it! So again, spring break splurge!
• Poor – I had a biiiig ole bowl of ice cream during Grey’s Anatomy. Negating factor – it was blue bell, it was delish, and we don’t have that in Chicago. Also – I never keep ice cream in my house so I never do that! So really, no negating factors there…. but it was worth it.

I have my alarm set to get up before my hair appt. in the A.M. so I can get a decent workout in. Which will be needed because we are going out to dinner to an Italian place tomorrow night with my grandparents. I will try to steer clear of the bread basket, but let’s be honest here… that’s likely not happening. But it’s Friday during Lent, so no meat means I’ll likely just have some plain pasta, which isn’t sooooo bad.

I’m off to dream land now… sorry if this post was a bit rambley! Hope everyone is doing well and staying on point!