I woke up at 5:30am this morning to walk on the treadmill. Seriously, that might just be a miracle. I haven’t been very consistent about doing any extra walks other than the usual 2 miles a day that my dog gets, since the Turkey Trot 5k on Thanksgiving Day. I’ve randomly walked, but more because the treadmill was giving me the evil stare (aka guilt) than anything else. Yesterday, while I was thinking about my goal of just not gaining anymore weight during the holidays, I decided I need to burn a couple of hundred extra calories at least 4 or 5 days a week. Anything to curb the weight gain I suppose.
I have too many events going on in the evenings, so I figured morning times would be the best. I laid out my clothes last night, slept in the shirt that I was going to walk in, set the shoes on the treadmill and filled my water bottle. Sure I wanted to kill my alarm clock for thinking it was OK to go off at 5:20 in the morning, but you bet you’re bootie I was walking by 5:30. At first it was a little suckie, but it got better, and WOW does TV suck at 5:30 in the morning. At the end I thought “holy crap, its 6am and I’ve already exercised!” Besides trying to curb weight gain, I also need to start to prepare myself for the Reindeer 5k on 12/19, which is just a week and a half away. If I have any chance of beating my last time, I’m going to need to start walking more!
I am weighing myself everyday; just to keep an eye on the scale to ensure that the weight doesn’t creep up without me looking. For some people daily weighing isn’t best, but for me, Id rather just face the reality each morning.
I am one person’s gifts and stocking stuffers away from being done with my holiday shopping. I’ll admit, I just started yesterday, but online shopping is so easy, especially with all of the free shipping deals that are out there! Fireman just needs to get his act together and let me know what it is that he wants, so that he has something under the tree!
Tata for now,
Scale Warfare
PS-How AMAZING did everyone look on The Biggest Loser last night!!!
I’ll go ahead and get it over with. The scale was up again today, but this time only by 0.6. Seriously, I think my goal for the rest of the year is to just quit gaining weight. Between Fireman’s holiday party, the snow day eating (I’ll explain that in a bit), and the Redskins Game tailgating I figure up 0.6 not to shabby! This week will be even worse. My company’s holiday party on Thursday, dinner on Wednesday with another couple before we go to see Trans Siberian Orchestra, future step daughters birthday party at our house on Saturday (her big party is the following weekend!) lunch in Richmond on Sunday with one group of my girlfriends, dinner on Sunday with another group of my girlfriends. Seriously, there just aren’t enough flex points in a day to get through all of these things. My hope is to be able to exercise enough on most days of the week and stick to my points with lots of fruits and veggies whenever possible. Bigger goal, DO NOT GAIN.
So my Countdown to Christmas Goal has changed to just that, do not gain between now and Christmas. Seriously, THAT would be a Christmas Miracle lol. This time of the year is just so busy with things going on. Next week it becomes even busier than this week, yowzas.
So about the eating and snow I mentioned previously. There is just something about a lazy day with snow piling up outside that says to me “make something warm and hearty and watch movies!” My Mom would always stay home from work with us on snow days and make wonderfully yummy warm foods like beef burgundy, homemade French bread, cookies, etc. Back then we’d play out in the snow all day long so the food didn’t pack on the pounds. For those of you not in the DC area, the 4” or so of snow that we received would have shut schools down for two days had it happened during the week AND the grocery stores would have been out of milk, bread and toilet paper (yeah, seriously.) Fireman and I headed off to the grocery store, because we were legitimately out of milk. I told him we’d pick up some movies and snacks at the grocery store and I’d make a big warm dinner. I made a healthier version of Lasagna, served it with a side salad and glass of wine (um and garlic bread yikes.) It was delicious, but the portion I cut for myself was HUGE.
Sunday at the football game I probably got more points in from drinking that I did from food, but still neither food nor drink were great. I didn’t track points.
Overall my weekend was amazing, sure the food wasn’t great, but it was just so much fun. I’m looking forward to the next few weeks and all of the fun things that are planned. Now I just need to not gain weight!
Tata for now,
Scale Warfare
So yesterday I was doing GREAT. I was right on track, thought I had a plan all set in place for Fireman’s annual company holiday party, until I got there. The event started out with passed hors doeuvres and an appetizer buffet. There wasn’t a lick of a vegetable to be found; Cheeses, Mini Lamb Chops, Crab Claws in a Shrimp Mouse (fried), Brie en Crute, more cheese, etc. I should have skipped this course. The second course, I wouldn’t say I did horribly; I filled half of my plate with salad and veggies. The meat choices were between roast beef and a chicken roulade stuffed with prosciutto, asparagus and brie, in a heavy cream sauce. I scrapped off as much as the cream sauce as I could and then split the roulade with Fireman and has probably 2 oz of the roast beef…oh and then the buttered roll.
The huge FAIL of the evening was the dessert buffet. We knew we were in trouble when we say other people bringing back 2-3 plates of desserts, each. We stuck to one appetizer plate each, but um you can fit a lot of mini desserts on an appetizer plate AND a piece of chocolate cake and a piece of cheese cake. We ate the four mini desserts and finished off the chocolate cake (we shared everything) and I wound up not even touching the cheese cake. I felt like I had a food baby, make that a food set of triplets. Ugh I felt so horrible when we left. I’m pretty sure I’m still full the next morning!
So how do I turn this food frown upside down? Today I am going to do something I’ve never done before and try to drastically reduce my points intake, just for one day. I feel like my body needs a bit of a break from digesting food! Today’s goal is to stick to between 20 and 22 points (down from my allowance of 33 points per day.) I wouldn’t normally go that low in points, but I’m just not feeling the food today lol.
This weekend has a few really fun things coming! Tonight is Miracle on 34th Street with PJ’s and Champagne with some of my girlfriends. I’m making tacos for dinner and will be using 99% lean ground turkey for them along with a salad with salsa for the dressing. Sunday is the big one, one of my bridesmaids got box seats, along with a “fun bus” to a catered RV for this weekends Redskins game! Sure the Redskins are sucking this season, but man, a “fun bus” (aka a bus you can party and drink on, think limo but way bigger) tailgating which is going to be catered by a really high end restaurant and the box seats for the game. I am so flipping excited! Weigh In will be Sunday morning; I don’t want to risk what could happen if I decide to weigh in on Monday after such a fun day on Sunday!
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Tata for now,
Scale Warfare
Per a few requests, here is a picture of our tree. We go with a real one each year. We take a trip to a tree farm and go and pick one down to cut down. The house smells like a tree, it's awesome! We are also still in the process of collecting ornaments, so the tree is fairly basic, but I love it!
Sammie dog says Happy Holidays!
Tata for now,
Scale Warfare
Seriously, I really don’t know how I would keep trucking along this weight loss journey without the wonderful comments and emails that I receive on this blog. You are all right, I can’t focus on my SIL, and I need to focus on being true to myself and working on my journey. She’s just extra motivation to keep doing well (catty? YES, love it!) There was something in each of the comments and emails that I received that in some way struck a cord with me!
The scale was down 1.2 this morning, so hopefully the 3.2 that I gained from last week will be gone quickly! I love how it takes 3 days to gain 3 pounds, but 2 or 3 weeks to lose it! Yesterday I was 100% on plan, and ate exactly at my 33 points for the day. Today is already all planned out, so I will be right at 33 again. I’m saving my weekly flex points for Fireman’s company holiday party on Thursday and for the Redskins game on Sunday (one of my girlfriends got box seats through work!) I might do my weigh in Sunday morning instead of Monday. Even though I’ll stay on plan Sunday, I don’t want to risk seeing a gain because of using some of my extra points on Sunday!
Also-I am all signed up for the Reindeer Run 5k, which I will of course be walking. It’ll be burr cold out, but it should be fun. We ordered reindeer antler headbands to wear for the event! My only goal is to do better than my time of 53 minutes at the Turkey Trot last week. I’m a bit disappointed that this event doesn’t seem to back a charity (at least from what I can tell on active.com) but I’ll think of it as a charity donation to my health!
Have I ever mentioned how much I love Christmas? We went tree hunting on Sunday and brought home an absolutely gorgeous tree. The house is now almost completely decorated. Friday I’m going to watch Miracle on 34th Street and drink champagne with a few of my girlfriends, seriously, this time of year is just the bestest. Plus I’m still Christmas Cookie & Chex Mix Free. Only 31 days or 5 weeks in December, and I plan on making those 31 days count on my weight loss journey! I know there will be cookies & Chex mix, but this year they will stay under control.
This will be my first year where I wasn’t trying to eat as much as possible in December because I knew I’d be starting a new diet on January 1st. This December is like all of the other months, a journey to a healthier, happier version of my “authentic self” (Thank you emmabovary!)
Tata for now,
Scale Warfare
