Perfect Week... Accountable!!

Perfect Monday:
Breakfast... coffee, greek yogurt, 16oz water

Ran 1.66 miles, burning 222 calories and drank another 16oz water

Lunch... spinach/hummus wrap

Snack... 300 calorie diet meal, 16 oz water

Snack... one piece of wheat bread with peanut butter.

Peas/98% fat free mushroom soup, 16 oz water

Perfect Tuesday:

Awesome high fiber breakfast with Mary!!!!  High fiber cereal, fruit, yogurt and one egg.  Coffee. Looks like a lot of food right??

Work out with Mary... 2.22 miles, 20 min elliptical, 2/10 glute machine and 2/10 leg press. 32 oz water....burned 303 calories.
Lunch... Greek tomato wraps (wrap, hummus, dill mustard, spinach, goat cheese, calamata olives) and cauliflower salad. Yummmmmmm!

Dinner: Great big salad, very light dressing. 16oz water
16 oz water.
Glass of wine.
Spoon of peanut butter

Perfect Wednesday:
Early 1.41 mile run with Mary.  16oz water.
Mary goes home today. :( 
Challenging day today, as we will be in Pittsburg, shopping, etc. Hard to eat right and get my water!

Breakfast: Fruit, high fiber cereal.

Lunch: Mexican Restaurant!!! Tough!! :) Had spinach enchiladas...but also chips, salsa, etc. BUT also had 32 oz water with it!

Dinner: Spinach wrap
Snack: spinach quesadilla

Second run/walk just to feel better about the day...
1.1 miles, 147 calories

Perfect Thursday:
Ugh! Out of town again!

Ok, my eating, was all over and not great, BUT not a lot either, so probably not over my calories, regardless of content.  Coffee, chinese, mini donuts, sunflower seeds, small salad.

Did get my 64oz of water and DID get to the gym 30 minutes before they closed! 1.7 miles! :)

Perfect Friday:

Ugh. Regardless of weighing..I can tell I am not losing. I can feel it. This makes me grumpy. I have been to the gym everyday! I blame the water and muscle..so I will stay the course. :/

Breakfast: High fiber cereal, coffee.
Lunch: Spinach wrap
Dinner: Portabella burger
snack: grapes
water: 50oz

No gym today. Decided to give my legs a break... but then remembered the gym is closed on the weekends... so I may have to run in the HEAT,,, gasp!!! I'm pretty grumpy. I feel fat. How can that be????  Ugh!

Not-so-Perfect Saturday:

Saturday started out with a spinach/hummus wrap and coffee. No big deal. But then we went to Bartlesville and it was downhill from there. Only slightly worse than Thursday, with some eating out and though maybe not an extremely high calorie count, probably not the best for quality of food. Dinner at Golden Corral (ugh) but I made wise choices.

Water probably about 40oz and no exercise...unless you count walking the mall!! :)

PERFECT Sunday!!:

Perhaps if I capitalize things, my brain will get the idea. :)

Breakfast: Ice. I eat tiny ice cubes while writing and I have a blog due tomorrow. :)
Lunch: Spinach wrap
Dinner: Popcorn   (I know...!!lol)

No exercise, ok on water

WEIGH IN MONDAY:

Cherilyn, Lost 1.4%
Mary, Lost .069%

We are underwhelmed, but loss is loss... we power on.
This week I will be in Topeka, in a hotel... no gym, eating out...you know the drill! We'll see how I overcome this challenge!! :)

Wading throuth the Water

So... I'm not a doctor, but I've seen some on tv.  So then...

I'm wondering about this whole water thing. Of course we should drink 64oz of water a day. If you don't know that, you live under a rock or something. So it occurs to me, that if you find it difficult to adhere to this rule, when you finally start to insert some discipline, exercise, diet, whatever - then obviously you haven't been doing it, for quite some time, if ever! Perhaps you have been walking around dehydrated for years! Ugggghhhh!  Why is this sooo bad??

Water weighs alot.
If I used to be dehydrated and now I am drinking a lot...even though, yes, the water does aid in weight loss and general good health... I am giving my body more water, some of which it will keep, because I was never walking around with enough in there in the first place!!!

Translation?
It seems to me, I will gain a little, before I lose. As I am losing fat and other ugly stuff, I am gaining water. The water will balance out and the weight will continue to decline, so it's a temporary bump, but geeeez.... a bump just the same!!!  Oh well. I feel great.  :)

Portions.... Don't make it hard on yourself...

We all know about portions right? We all know that the amount listed as the 'serving' amount is tiny and it breaks our heart and our stride, every time we see it!!!!  Why is this so hard??

Probably because we're trying to eat our cereal out of popcorn bowls and we don't understand why we can't lose weight!!!

So... as Mary and I were enjoying our super high fiber breakfast this morning, on Perfect Tuesday... we ate our Fiber One and greek yogurt out of tiny bowls like those pictured above. Of course Melamine, my favorite material of all time! But you can use coffee, cups, measuring cups, paper bowls, anything SMALL will work!

Stop relying on your will power.
Stop fighting with yourself at the kitchen counter.
The stories about smaller plates are TRUE!!

Also... if you are awesome and actually give yourself tony servings in these oversized dishes, as you look down at the dwarfed amount of food, you're brain is already thinking, 'this isn't enough,' 'I'm still hungry!!!'

Small bowls. Enough said. :)

The Perfect Storm

Cherilyn: GAINED, 2.3%
Mary: LOST .39%   ...and the RockStar disco ball for this week goes tooooooo.....

Weigh in Monday and all my motivational speeches have not miraculously made me smaller!! I know, I am shocked as well! haha!! But seriously... shall I list my excuses? Company all week...still haven't run... heat? Ok, I'm worthless, but as always,  I have the answer.  

I have always talked about the skinny girl in me. That I have never seen this woman in me, a third smaller with a small waist and tank top worthy arms, etc... I have seen glimpses of her and when I imagine what she must be like!!??   Woooooweee!! :P Lol.  Anyway, I think this calls for a perfect week. I mean perfect. Water everyday, eating right everyday, exercise everyday. It's like finals week, when you have to ignore your friends calling, let the laundry go and focus on one thing...just for one week. No excuses. I don't want to hear about all your responsibilities!!! Shouldn't responsibilities be me first and then the rest...in that order??  Once we're in the best health of our lives, we will be better wives, mothers, employees, daughters and friends! The sacrifice is worth it, the rewards are great!

Why? Here's why. Throughout a typical week...we him and haw, we have ups and downs and we manage. I think it's because we never really believe it. We never REALLY believe the weight is going to come off, all of it, for good. We need something dramatic. We need to stand on the scale and look down and say... "Whoa. It really does work." I think the motivating adrenaline from that shot of success will carry on. I don't mean perfect months or anything, but we will get rid of the negative Nancy sitting on our left shoulder, because we will know, when we do the work, our bodies respond, just like we want them to.

Perfect Week people....it's time! :)

Did she say perfect? We can't be perfect...what happened to "no one's perfect?" 

Stop!!   It's a week. Seven little days!! If you have to, break it up... it's actually just a perfect day... seven times! Whatever you have to tell yourself. It's those tiny little slips all week long that kill us on the scale, that turn months into years and here we are, thirty-something, trying to lose weight!! I will NOT do this when I am forty! I refuse! I will spend this Christmas eating pie and not worrying because I am so much smaller and I know how to get it right back off come January. I will wear a smokin hot dress on New Year's and I WILL look better than I did in high school, at me twenty year reunion!!  Whew. There. Sorry I yelled. :)  I promise...this will pave the way, making more perfect days easier down the road! :)

.......... insert Jeopardy music here........

I know right??

It's weigh in Monday... and where's the blog??

I have it ready, drafted, waiting...for Mary!!! I was being sympathetic, thinking her poor little butt was sleepin in.. but NO, she's on facebook, chatting away, but ignoring my texts for her Monday report!!!

Blasphemy!!

Yes, she did just run four miles..... I know, she's awesome!!! All the more reason I am holding her awesome, Nike running, cellulite sweating, Cherilyn killing butt accountable!!!!!!!

So.. there is not blog yet. We are waiting for Mary!!! :P