Promises to Myself for the New Year

So this morning I realized I had forgotten my water bottle, and I only have a ten dollar bill on me. So I stop at dunkin donuts on the way to work. and I decide that I'll save myself a stop tonight and just get the dunkachino I've been promising myself now, instead of late.

I wanted one on monday, but since I had a mini binge on chocolate, I resisted
I wanted one on Tuesday, but since I was drinking, I resisted, and said Wednesday I could get one.

Unfortunetly, I slipped up and ordered a donut too, not even thinking. Back to my ways.

17 points later, I don't feel great about my choice. I shoulda stuck with teh dunkachino and my oatmeal.

Which got me thinking- Why? Why do I do this to myself? Why can't I indulge in one thing without completely throwing caution to the wind? Why Why Why?

My sister, when she was losing her weight, did a thing where every week she put together a baggie of candy, cookies, whatever she was craving during the week, and would let herself splurge normally one day a week by eating that baggie.

I need my own version of a baggie

The thing is, I'm great with planning ahead, being good with my meals. Last night I needed dinner in a pinch, and we were at the bar. I ordered a turkey burger and sweet potato fries. I gave M 3/4 of my fries, and enjoyed the burger, whcih I clocked in at around 11 points (the pattie wasn't too large, and the roll was fresh but not buttered or cooked, which was great.) I know past Marie would have eating everything on that plate, with no problem. Yes I ate the whole burger, but I cut out a lot of points by giving M the majority of my fries. And a turkey burger was definitely a smarter choice than other things on that menu. I had a beer and  a half, and only ended up over my dailies by 3.

So These are my promises to myself for the new year. This is my planning ahead, my way of making it work for me. I am going to update my challenge page, with the Memorial day challenge from the boards, and This personal Challenge.

• Work out 3X a week, minimum. Unless I'm sick. Even if it's just a walk.
• Indulge no more than 3X a week. Definition of Indulge (for my purposes): More than 1 alcoholic drink, candy/chocolate/ice cream/dessert worth more than 4 points.
• Fall back into the C25K plan. I fell off the wagon after the 5K, I want to get back up the the 3 miles I was doing, and be able to do them without stopping more than 3X
• Focus on getting in one GHG a week. (obviously get the others in too, but have one be the primary focus, finding new ways to incorporate it into my eating habits. I did this last month, and it really helped me get in the dairy and oil ones, my hardest)
• Track everything. Even if it sucks

Lets see how we do!!

Christmas Week!!

So I made a full recovery, although it did take me most of the week :-( I'm still a bit sniffly, but overall I feel a million times better!

I took the weekend off from going out and layed low. Friday morning I maintained at WI, which I expected at least that if not a gain. I took advantage of the fact that by Wednesday I could taste food again, and definitely ate more than I should have. That coupled with the fact that my breathing was still so rotten I couldn't work out, I used up all my weeklies and earned zero APs. Bah to that.

Friday I ate well during the day, and then went shopping with my sister at night. We were both so hungry and we ended up at McDonalds for a happy meal. I felt so gross afterwards, which was cool because it made me not want to indulge in McDs for a while. Shopping adventure was successful however. Which is good :-) And I only went over my dailies by a few, since I didn't drink at all on Friday.

Saturday I relaxed, watched a movie with M (Dinner for Schmucks. It was surprisingly enjoyable, I wasn't expecting it to be!), got panera for lunch which I made smart choices, even though I really wanted a frontega chicken sandwich, I got half of a smokehouse turkey panini and half a french onion soup. Definitely could have been worse.

Then I came home and had cookies (!!!) left over from my sisters baking. badd marie! I ate 10 points worth, and felt so discouraged after. Later on I went to my friends house to build gingerbread houses. It was fun, and we ordered a veggie pizza, which I was starving for and did have 3 slices. But considering they had 5 each (we had 2 pizzas), I didn't indulge as much as I could have. Even though I really wanted another one. They also were drinking peppermint schnapps, which I made into minty chocolate milks, which hurt my stomach after 2. So that definitely kept my drinking down :-(For the best really, they were around 7points a cup.

Sunday I woke up, had some delicious pancakes courtesy of my sister (2 points each, how could I say no?) and a bowl of fresh fruit. Then I helped my mom with the xmas lights, and went to the gym, for the first time in over a week (the last time I worked out was a week ago last Thursday-yikes!) I had taken a weekend off due to some minor knee pain, and then came down with that stupid sickness, so I could bearly breathe all week let alone work out.

It went a lot better than I thought it would!!I was honestly really nervous about running, because I figured my breathing would be all shot still. But I think because I was so focused on my breathing I was able to last pretty well. I did take breaks, just to catch my breath and drink some water, but I did a total of 32 minutes, Warm up 5
Run 10 (with a small break in the middle to catch my breath)
walk 3 (at a fast pace)
Run 10 (with the same small break)
cool down for 5

I then moved onto strength, I did 20 minutes of free weights (squats, lunges, dead lifts, lots of arm moves), and then 15 minutes of nautilus followed by 5 minutes of abs. I was so sore!! Even today my thighs are burning everytime I walk standup, or sitdown. Definitely expected it though.

So my plan for the week (amid christmas shopping, and hanging out)
Today hopefully do a video, work through the pain. I know I'll feel better after
Tomorrow take a rest day, and go to trivia with M!
Wednesday do a video
Thursday gym again
Friday morning do a light gym session
Saturday day off :-)

Merry Christmas!

The one bright side of being sick

Is that I have to force myself to eat. My friends came up on Friday night, and we had a blast going out (minus the train being lame and having major delays, making us miss the slutcracker).

We drank instead. A lot. And unfortunetly I woke up saturday morning feeling like this :

also sadly, my friends were up till Sunday, so I couldn't just leave my friends house and go home and sleep. We spent most of saturday watching TV, and went out saturday night, which was really fun although I felt like shit. I didn't drink though, besides a cocktail with dinner and one beer when we got there. After that I didn't want to anymore. I'm happy I didn't, I would have been 10 times sicker Sunday.

Sunday I basically slept all day, yesterday I went into work late, and wish I had just taken the day off, because I was useless. I feel a bit better today, but still have little to no appetite. Which should help with all the food I ate and drinks I drank on friday :-) Now if only I could stop coughing...

Week 36

Down 2.5!!!

After weeks of maintaining and not really trying, I did it. I have to say, following the new plan made me feel so much fuller and energetic, probably because I'm working so much fruit and GHG's into my diet! I only worked out twice this week due to my knee pain,, that was the main area I could work on. And I mean, what am I supposed to do, hurt myself by working through the pain? no thanks!


I'm especially excited because My friends A and L are coming to visit this weekend, which is awesome! However, when we all spend time together, it tends to involve tons of food. So My hope is this loss motivates me to chose wisely with drinks and to not overindulge or drunk eat. Because I definitely did that last weekend. Thankfully I ate healthy dinners so It didn't hurt me, and I made wise choices, but still.

Anyways I'll update after my weekend!

It's the most wonderful time, of the year

So week 35 (today) I maintained. I also have a broken scale. One of the four pegs that hold it steady above the ground fell off a few weeks ago. Which means basically that every time I weigh myself I get a different answer, normally either really low or really high.

So after 10 tries I was either 2 pounds up or 2 down, maintaining is safe :-) I have a feeling when my new scale arrives  I'm going to get an entirely different number entirely, hopefully a good one. I just don't trust this one.

So that's that :-)

It's been ages since I've posted! To be honest, I haven't been in much of a posting mood.  This week has flown, but at the same time It's been blah. Thanksgiving was nice, but quiet. The night before I went out with R and J, which was really fun. And I worked out the morning of. Ok I had a pathetic run and did the eliptical, but hey, I was hungover and felt sick, so go me!

It was nice having a long weekend off, but it went by wayy too fast! Friday M and I stayed in bed late, ate turkey gobblers, went to a beer tasting, and then hung out with friends. It was quiet, but in a good way. Then saturday I worked out and babysat. Sunday I had a great WO session with M, he told me afterwards that he was impressed with how I was pushing myself, which made me happy :-)

During the week I spent most of my time getting aquainted with the new WW plan. So far, I love it :-) I feel like because there are so many more points in a day, that I'm not "wasting" them getting in my oils or dairy. The only part I don't like is how much alcohol has gone up, but I feel like I will be more careful with my day to day eating to make room for a beer here and there :-)

Plus, with so many more dailies and weeklies, it pretty much evens out. I drank both friday and saturday night this past weekend, and still have 27 weeklies left.

the weekend was uneventful,although it made me realize that I'm falling back into the drunk eating spectrum. not fast food or whatever, but friday night I had some leftover chicken and saturday I made myself a sandwich. Sat night I didn't have that much to eat for dinner (just some pizza), but Friday, I wasn't even hungry, I only had it because it was there. That will be something I work on going forward.

I took the weekend off from working out, just because my knee was bothering me, althoguh I did dance on Saturday night. Tongiht I'm back at the gym, so hopefully it goes well.

I'll give a better recap later on in the week. I have some friends coming up to visit on friday, which should be fun, and pointy. hopefully I stay on the wagon!