Food Journal: 5/16/2011

I use the Weight Watchers PointsPlus* iphone app as my food journal.  I just did screen shots instead of re-typing everything into blogger.  The top bar shows how many PointsPlus* I've used for the day, how many Weekly PointsPlus* are remaining, how many Activity PointsPlus* I've earned that day and how many Activity PointsPlus* are left for the week.  The bottom part of the screen shows the food I logged and their PointsPlus* values.

Monday was not a great day for me nutritionally, but I logged still everything.  I went to the grocery store Monday night, so before that, we didn't have hardly anything fresh to eat.

Above: Breakfast and Lunch

Above: Dinner and Activity

My daily checks are shown below.  Each row represents items that you are supposed to check off throughout the day.  Here is what the list represents (with the daily target listed in parentheses), from the top down: Water (6-8 cups), Milk/Dairy (2 servings), Fruits and Veggies (5 servings), Multi-Vitamin (yes or no), Healthy Oils (2 servings), Activity (yes or no).  If I met the Target, it gives me a little smiley face.  

I got everything in except for 2 Fruit/Veggie servings and 1 Healthy Oil serving (those are always the hardest for me).

*If you are not familiar with Weight Watchers PointsPlus, here is the basic idea: I get 29 PointsPlus a day and 49 extra PointsPlus that can be used at any time throughout the week.  A PointPlus is calculated by the grams of Fat, Carb, Protien and Fiber for each food.  If I exercise, I get extra PointsPlus that can be used at any time throughout the week.

Weigh In: Week 7

I HATE THE SCALE!  That's all.

C25K - I graduated

Tonight was my final workout of Couch to 5K.  Week 9, Day 3!!!  It was really easy tonight.  I ran 30 minutes straight and covered somewhere between 3.1 miles and 3.4 miles (including the 5 minute warm-up and 5 minute cool down).  My GPS tracker acted up a little, so that is why I don't know the exact distance.

I've been thinking about what's next for me.  There is a Bridge to 10K plan that I would like to do.  I also thought about just adding 2 minutes per week (i.e. 32 min next week, 34 min the week after that, etc).  All I know is that I don't want to lose the momentum that I have built up!

A neighbor walked by earlier today when Lance and I were working in the flower beds outside and she said, "WOW, you are looking skinny!  Look at your legs!"  I can't tell you how good her comments made me feel.  Espically since I have been feeling like the scale is stuck for about 5 weeks now.  It even helped me to make good choices when we went out to eat for lunch.  I had grilled chicken with steamed brocolli instead of chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy :)  So if you are reading this Diana - thanks!!!

Weigh In: Week 6

Sorry, I know I am really, really late in posting this weeks results.  I was down 1 pound on Monday morning but I was so busy this week that I just wasn't able to find the time to blog about it.

I know I said I was going to publish my food journal and I had every intention of doing so, but it just didn't happen.  Hopefully next week will not be as busy and I will be able to do it then.  Stay tuned...

Weigh In: Week 5

Well, I clearly didn't meet my 7 pound goal for April :(

It's okay though, I'm focused on May now and my two goals: lose 5 pounds and complete C25K.  I'll be posting my food journal each night this week starting tonight.  Stay tuned...

Goals

I am going to start setting goals on this blog each month until I reach my ultimate goal.

When I weigh in next Monday, I'm going to count that towards April.  Therefore, April will end up being a long month (3/28 - 5/2), and so I think its very reasonable to set my April goal to lose 7 pounds.  I've already lost five, so that is two more to go by Monday.

For May (5/2 - 5/30), I have two goals:

• Lose 5 pounds
• Finish the C25K program

Speaking of C25K, I'm doing Week 7, Day 2 this afternoon.  I'm finding myself looking forward to running days and excited to see what I can accomplish for each run.  When I started C25K, I did it because I thought it would be an effective way to get in shape and lose weight.  I never did it because I thought running was fun.  But the more I do it and the better I get, I'm starting to find it very enjoyable and fun.  It's amazing how much can change is just 7 weeks :)

Weigh In: Week 4

I'm down one pound this morning. Happy :)
I'm thinking about posting my food journal on the blog everyday this week to see 1) if it helps me to make good food choices and 2) if I can get some feedback on what I could do better. What do you think? Would anyone be willing to give me some feedback?