Week 4 (November 2-8)

1. Hit 2200 Calories burnt a week  (4 times a week)-3379, 4 good workouts, 1 light walk :)
2. stay within my range at least 5 days a week See yesterday, I definitely improved with this. Not perfect there but I'm getting closer!
3. Eat 5 servings fruits and veggies- Definitely focusing on this more next week. I have no problem getting them at dinner, and most of the time lunch, but snacks/breakfast? I need to work at this
4. Try 4 new recipes- no new recipes this week! Maybe next week though
5. Limit eating out to one lunch and one dinner a week- Ate out lunch last Friday, and didn't eat out once for dinner!
6. Limit drinking to twice a week, and dessert (over 100 calories, and that includes eating candy/dessert with lunch or as a snack as well) to once a week- Only reeses on Saturday night, and then drinks Friday and Tuesday night :)

Weigh in:

Boom Baby

Lots of positives this week:
-This week has looked a LOT better

And that's including the bottle of wine I drank on Tuesday night. I can never stop at one glass, can I?
-I'll get into the details of my week once I do my weigh in, but I had a pretty good week overall. I tracked everything, didn't go crazy with my drinking, (not including that bottle...)
-I also got 3 more workouts in this week. Thanks to my nagging shoulder, I avoided strength this week, and just did cardio Monday/Tuesday(which was fine because Tuesday I had to cut my workout short to vote anyways),  took yesterday off (preplanned rest day) and then got back at it tonight and had a solid workout.
 -Not much up this weekend, babysitting tomorrow and Saturday, lots of cleaning and organizing since we are road tripping to PA next weekend for my friend L's wedding! This is wedding 3/4 this fall!

:-)

Setting up Sunday

So my weigh in was up 1.4, to 206.4. Yuck yuck yuck. But It was completely deserved, because I acted like I couldn't have given two craps about losing, which I already went into and am moving on from.

So my plan was to focus on losing, work out Friday, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday, and really focus on dieting and eating well.

How have I done so far?
-I didn't work out Friday, I chose to meet with Matt at a bar instead. I know, boo Marie, but to make up for it I made sure I had about 20 weeklies left after Friday, and really tried to restrict a bit. And I think I did pretty well with that.
-I DID workout Saturday, and had a really great workout. 967 burnt, 25 minutes of strength, 40 minutes of pure cardio, it was like old times :-) It really helps to have a great book to read at the gym. My current obsession is this:

I'm actually onto the second in the trilogy, because this was so addictive I couldn't put it down! At first the characters were so frustrating, but I slowly fell in love with them, and their story. I also loved the history part of it, and reading about soviet Russia fascinates me, so I speed through the main part of the book just because I couldn't get over how haunting it was, and kept on reading more. Definitely recommend it if you love a good historical fiction/epic romance.I can't wait to finish the trilogy.

Sadly, since I went to the gym on Saturday, but shoulder has been bugging me. I think its just me working it harder than usual/sleeping on it weird on Friday night. So today Matt and I just took a nice walk (It was gorgeous out here today! Probably one of our last really good fall days :)), and I burnt another 230 calories, so it wasn't a total loss.

As far as the rest of the week, I want to get back into my old ways, of restricting on weekdays and being a bit loose on the weekends. I did well with this on the weekend, so now the real test starts :)

Meal Plan:
M-mini meatballs with spaghetti squash
T- zesty chicken drumsticks, rice, brussel sprouts
W- Turkey burgers, homemade fries, salad
Th-Steak
Fri-Out, somewhere cheap and healthy
Breakfast- Overnight Oats! Next week I'm going to buy some cereal, I'm getting a little sick of oatmeal to be honest, haha
Lunches- LO Meatloaf courtesy of Matt's mom, and then Beef Stew!

Workout Schedule-
M- Light Circuit- between 300-400 calories
T-cardio/strength- 700-900 calories
W-off- babysitting
Th- gym-cardio.strength-700-900 calories

So my off days this week are Friday and Wednesday, with a light workout today. I hope to hit around 3000 this week. Get some!