Tuesday

Upcoming events:
May 25: visit with the in laws, im assuming BBQ
May 26: friends with benefits get together (just me hanging out with my 3 besties-more than likely a lunch or dinner, or maybe a movie? yes a naughty name for it, but it is just for fun.)
May 27: offical holiay, no work
May 31 9am: endocrinologist appointment
June 1: weigh in and measurement (start of new phase)

scheduled workout (May 20): gym
actual workout: gym (30 mins on the treadmill, the rest on the ellipitcal machine while i watched the new girl-it was a rerun but it had me laughing)

 

it says 1 hour 6 mins and 50 seconds, with 501 cals burned (there is a giant glare on the watch).  it honestly felt like 2 hours at the gym. 

 motivation percent: 5% im tired right now, like super tired.  :(  hopefully my energy levels kick up before i get home from work. im too far into this month to give up.
total workout time since May 1: 930 minutes and 01 seconds.
total calories burned: 7002

tonights workout: 30 day shred level ? i think 1, dance central 3 and walk it out

Monday

Upcoming events:
May 31 9am: endocrinologist appointment
June 1: weigh in and measurement (start of new phase)

scheduled workout (May 19): 30 day shred level 3, dance central 3 and walk it out
actual workout: 30 day shred level 3, dance central 3 and walk it out

 motivation percent: 80%
total workout time since May 1: 863 minutes and 11 seconds.
total calories burned: 6501
tonights workout: gym (i write up my schedule at the end of each month, giving myself 2 days off a week, and for some reason this weeks days off are like wednesday and friday.  awesome job-you think they would be more spread out than that).

i sucked again at tracking my food (writing down wise) this entire weekend.  I need to not do that. i was loosely keeping track but i know i cannot be trusted to remember everything i ate.  :(  my weight was slightly up this morning.  i dont want to be working my butt off all week to erase it on the weekend.  I am not at my goal weight, therefore this cannot happen.  so im throwing in a goal of tracking ALL WEEK. 

besides the working out thing, i had a weird dream last night.  if you dont know already that my husband and I have been trying to get pregnant (me not him) for a few years now, and i refuse to get additional testing done (i am ok with not having children of my own).  so in this dream im at the docs office and getting yelled at for not following her advice, which in real life was to have sex every other day from day 11 until 16 of my cycle-i might be off on those numbers, its been a year since ive seen her.  in this dream she yelled at me for not doing that.  then she put this thing on my belly button that sucked my belly button out (i have an innie) and measured it (? like i said it was a dream, they dont need to make sense).  what an odd dream. 

in real life im switching docs. cause i dont really like mine, im supposed to get free preventative care (aka yearly exam). she asked me the last time if i wanted a new script for my birth control and i said no thanks, then she warned me i could get pregnant and i said that is kind of the way i want it to go, now that im married and in my 30s i figure i better get to baby making.  she chatted to me about the best way of getting pregnant and gave me free samples of a pre natal vitamin. then  i got charged a 20 dollar co pay.  i did not ASK her to talk to me about these things.  she talked about it.  would i have gotten charged 20 bucks to get a script for birth control?  i tried to fight the charges but the insurance recommended paying it so it doesnt haunt me later, i could always get it back.  the weirdest part, is that since she is a gyno, she is considered a specialist, which my co pay is $40.  someone figure that one out for me? 

OH she also told me not to eat chips and cookies and to workout, meanwhile never asking me what i do currently.  i had a chat with my endo (i see her so often we are almost bffs) and my endo is praising me for being awesome in the weight loss department and told me not to worry about the gynos statements.
do any of you guys have doggies?  cause mine started barking at 5am!!! my husband woke up and said what was that? i told him that he forgot to give kira the night off (i always give her the day off when she is on edge, but she doesnt understand human words except for treat, potty and carride) he got up and went downstairs and let our cat lilly inside who was sleeping soundly on the chair on the front porch.  who knows what the doggie heard.  we live a bit out in the country, sometimes there are foxes or racoons around.  or even the neighbors cat indigo (he is friends with my cat lilly, about 90% of the time).

late night saturday update

Upcoming events:
May 31 9am: endocrinologist appointment
June 1: weigh in and measurement (start of new phase)

Scheduled (May 17): 30 day shred level 2, dance central 3 and walk it out.
actual: 30 day shred level 2, dance central 3 and walk it out.

Scheduled (May 18):gym
actual: gym: 30 mins on treadmill, 1000 meters on rowing machine and the rest on elliptical

i was outside with the puppy when i took this pic, which is why you see my old pool equipment (that is making me angry that it is still out there, my brother was supposed to take it away when they took the pool out-he claims he will get it but their big truck is in the shop).

 motivation percent: 80%
total workout time since May 1: 799 minutes and 56 seconds.
total calories burned: 6005
tomorrows workout: 30 day shred level 3, dance central 3 and walk it out.


so my husband really wanted to go out to eat last night to a place that is known to be super busy on a friday night.  so i suggested instead we go today for a late lunch with the step son.  it is called pj wehlihan's pub and restaurant.  http://www.pjspub.com/index.php
looks like they are only in PA and new jersey.  sorry if you arent from those areas.
a while ago one of my fav bloggers posted pics of her nachos.  i had left a comment that those are not nachos.  so today i took a pic of our nachos.  between the 3 of us, we barely ate half of them.

they are cheese steak nachos (i should mention that i live in west chester, pa as in 45 mins from philly, this is cheesesteak territory)  this was soooo good.

here is my burger, its called a california turkey burger.  except i am not a fan of their turkey burger (the spices i think are wrong in it, i mean for me anyway, so i subbed a regular burger). avocado and goat cheese, there are supposed to be sun dried tomatoes but i asked for them not to be there (not a fan of tomatoes unless it is in salsa).  the sucky part about this place is that they charge extra for french fries!!!  but i figured since we got the appetizer that id be ok not eating any sides.  i probably ate 4 potato chips and i ate most of the burger (left a tiny bit on my plate). 
me and the step son got into a debate on if pepsi and coke taste different.  i claim they do.  that i like coke with pizza but i prefer diet pepsi over diet coke, but ill drink either.  what i should tell everyone is that i believe im a super taster, since i taste things differently than most people.  for example i could never eat half of that burger and take it home and reheat it.  i think reheated beef is HORRIBLE.  i also hate drinking out of plastic cups cause i think i can taste the plastic.  yes call me weird, im used to it.    i also cannot eat cilantro or pico de gallo, both taste like perfume to me.  (i also have a super sensitive nose and can smell body odor so far away from the smelly person-the funny part is i have really bad allergies but it doesnt seem to hurt my sense of taste or my BO smelling abilities).  i think i spent most of my time in disney world being upset that people dont wear deodorant. 

thursday

Upcoming events:
May 31 9am: endocrinologist appointment
June 1: weigh in and measurement (start of new phase)

Scheduled (May 15): 30 day shred level 1, dance central 3 and walk it out.
actual: 30 day shred level 1, dance central 3 and walk it out.

sideways view of my watch (i tried to rotate it.  i guess im not allowed to?)

motivation percent: 80%
total workout time since May 1: 669 minutes and 18 seconds.
total calories burned: 5005
tonights workout: off i think
today is my little bros b day, he is 28.  isnt it once you are past 27 you are good ?  i think that is a celebrity curse though.  my brother works for a paving company.  he was born in 1985 and born super early, early enough that he almost died (i think there is some hole in a babies heart that closes up shortly before birth? well he didnt have time to do that).  he was an emergency C section too.  he has no side effects from being born early or with a hole in his heart.  no open heart surgery or anything. 
i was also born a month early.  my mom was watching my cousin (who is 3 years older than me) and she ran after her and tripped and my mom went into labor.  funny thing is that my cousin's b day is april 8 and mine is april 7.  :)  other than being born a bit hairier than normal i am completely ok too.  i believe my other two brothers were born on schedule. 
other news: im trying to get us annual passes to this water park that is about an hour away (it is both indoor and outdoor which is why it is annual).  it is somewhat near my in laws house too.  i was thinking with how excited my step son was for dorney park that we should do this stuff more often.  an annual pass is 99 bucks (and good for one entire year) and that is per person.  if you go 3 times you have already used it well.  there is another amusment park called cleminton park that is only 55 for a season pass, but only open in the summer months (memorial day to labor day? i think that is how they run around here). 
we are lucky with my step son, he is a very well behaved kid, he doesnt ask for much.  how many 13 year olds do you know that dont really ask for anything or take into consideration an adults point of view (like if i ask if he wants pizza for dinner, he will ask if i would also like pizza-which im off pizza right now). 

Wednesday

Upcoming events:
May 31 9am: endocrinologist appointment
June 1: weigh in and measurement (start of new phase)

Scheduled (May 14): Gym
actual: gym, 30 minutes on the treadmill and the remaining time on the arc trainer (that is what it is called, cybex is the maker). 

whoa sorry that is so blurry.  i put the watch on my right wrist since i have my nike fuel band on my left.  so i took the pic while it was still on my wrist, and im right handed.  it says 1 hour and 55 seconds. and 499 calories (one calorie shy?  why? dunno). 

motivation percent: 50%, same feeling as yesterday
total workout time since May 1: 605 minutes and 9 seconds.
total calories burned: 4504

tonights workout: i think 30 day shred dont remember which level, maybe 1?, dance central 3 and walk it out.
so i was having a deep thought earlier today, my entire life ive always viewed myself as chubby (never fat though, i think chubby is a cuter word than FAT).  so at what point do i venture over the line from chubby to healthy and would i know if i hit it? 

this pic was taken after 5 months of Weight watchers, the weekend before graduated from college (2007 at the ripe age of 27-yes i dont look my age) i only know it is either the weekend before or the actual weekend since i cut my hair off the week after i graduated. 
the pants im wearing are a size 11, i am about 180ish here.  i feel like i look pretty skinny.  I carry most of my weight in my belly/breast area.  I am a little shorter than 5 foot 5 inches.  therefore according to BMI charts i should weigh around 150 at the most.  I am also pretty muscular (which i love by the way) so I am not sure that number is great for me.  the shirt is a large, i still have it (well i guess it is two shirts, once again it is the boob curse, i dont want to look like a porn star). 
back when i was doing weight watchers, i was also spending an hour a day at the gym working out (with my one friend).  I just remember being so tired all of the time.  but i guess technically i am doing the same thing now, with a bit more calories than weight watchers allows.

tuesday

Upcoming events:
May 31 9am: endocrinologist appointment
June 1: weigh in and measurement (start of new phase)

Scheduled (May 12): rest
actual: rest, good thing too i was so tired.  we ate at an all you can eat buffet (that was super tiny by the way).  the food wasnt that great, so i just stopped eating.  we got lectured by Grandma for not visiting at xmas time, the only problem with that converstation is that we were there xmas eve.  :(  she is almost 85 and swears up and down we never came to visit her.  she ended that converstation with saying she is going to have to ask her sweetie (that is her b/f) if we did come to visit.  he wasnt home.

Scheduled (May 13): 30 day shred level 3, dance central 3 and walk it out.
actual: 30 day shred level 3, dance central 3 and walk it out. (haha i tried 3 times to paste the watch pic below this, but it wants to be where it posted it.  so whatever, that watch pic is from monday's workout).

motivation percent: 50%, im feeling like may is a long month.  but im going to just put one foot in front of the other and move on.
total workout time since May 1: 544 minutes and 14 seconds.
total calories burned: 4005

tonights workout: gym
i am back on track when it comes to writing down what im eating.  i swear my intentions were good, i was being like, ok i ate a bagel with cream cheese, so that is 200, plus a banana, 100 then i ate half of a stromboli, 600 (that is a complete guess).  then id eat dinner and a snack and be like yeah, im doing alright.  but i know there are foods in there that i dont write down.  i need to remember the weight watchers little sayings, "if you bite it, you write it" "if you nibble it, you scribble it"  no im not doing weight watchers, im just counting calories. :)  but its good advice.  so sneak peak at my weight right now, i was 203.0 on the nose this morning.  i was actually 206.0 the day i started phase 1.2 (thanks to my endless eating on may 1).  id really like to be under 200 at my endo's appointment, at least on my home scale.  so i can lose 3 lbs in 2.5 weeks right? 
my endo likes to see 5 lbs loss every time i see her (once every 3-4 months, depending on when she wants to see me).  she also likes to see my blood sugars drop, which im not diabetic im pre, but when you are trying to get knocked up that makes a difference.  last time they were better but my weight was up (and i was not taking the meds like i am supposed to, im also not doing it now, i dont like the side effects, id rather not have to run to the bathroom in the middle of my workout).  the main reason i actually see her is that i have a thyroid condition.

sunday-Happy mothers day

Upcoming events:
May 12: mothers day (plans are now a buffet lunch near grandmas with my inlaws)
May 31 9am: endocrinologist appointment

Scheduled (May 10): rest
actual: rest, trip to dorney park was a success!!!  the only snag was somehow our battery in our car died, so we were there an extra hour waiting for a jump.  some random guy jumped us.  he rocked!!!

Scheduled (May 11): 30 day shred level 2, dance central 3 and walk it out.
actual: 30 day shred level 2, dance central 3 and walk it out.
my photobucket app is acting up.  it keeps freezing and that is how i post pics
so time: 1 hour 8 mins and 27 seconds
500 calories burned

yesterday was freaking humid (raining on and off all day long) so i was sweating up a storm while working out.

motivation percent: 75%
total workout time since May 1: 462 minutes and 21 seconds.
total calories burned: 3504

tonights workout: rest
ive been being bad since thursday night.  i havent been logging in my paper journal.  ive been loosely keeping track of my calories, which i  know doesnt work for me.  :( 
even yesterday i know i was being bad.  i ate a really late lunch (cause i decided to take a 5 hour nap? i was still tired from the night before- i missed the dedication ceremony for my work project, but at least i was not required to go).  so for dinner i just ate a bagel with cream cheese.  i was figuring that was only 200 calories, so that left me with about 200 ish just to snack on at game night, plus i normally have about a 150 calorie snack at night time anyway. 
i had to leave at 6:50 to get my cousins house since game night started at 7. i picked up my friend on the way (i figured he might want to have a beer or two, where i am not a drinker).  i ate a few brownie bites (not diet) and some smartfood popcorn (that is what i took with me).  i guess i didnt do too bad.  i wasnt eating everything in site. 
so i did good with my working out before going to game night.  oh i wanted to leave by midnight.  yeah we left at 2am.  LOL.  i havent hung out with my cousin in forever, it was good catching up. 
anyway time to get moving to go to grandmas (i think we are going to an all you can eat buffet-which i hate those things, im all about getting my moneys worth, but i need to remember that im not footing the bill).