Week 7

Week 7 weigh-in

Eggs for my breakfast sandwiches

This week has been a successful one. I lost 3 lbs this week. I was very happy to see results after putting in a lot of hard work.This week I lowered my calories to 1200. However, on days that I worked out, I allowed myself to eat over that amount. I also started measuring my water and I made sure to drink plenty of water. In the beginning of the week I decided to make something to have for breakfast for the rest of the week. I am still struggling with making myself eat breakfast. I don't know what it is, but I just don't like eating breakfast. So I made some homemade breakfast sandwiches. I mixed some eggs with peppers and onions and baked them. After they cooled I topped them with a slice of cheese and an ounce of ham and made them a sandwich with some sandwich thins. I froze them and grabbed one each morning. They turned out pretty good. This week I will be making some changes to them, I just used what I had on hand the last time. I am not a huge ham fan so I am going to either add turkey sausage or maybe just add more to the egg for more flavor and skip the meat.

Home made breakfast sandwich

Confirmation of Crossfit class registration

I did really well this week with tracking my food and exercising. I did Zumba on Wed., gym on Tuesday and Thursday and a 2 hour Zumbathon on Saturday. My work out on Tuesday was really good. I made myself do more than normal and pushed myself to go at a higher rate. Thursday was not as great. I am not sure what was going on but it just felt like everything was just so hard for my body to do. I could barely stand to walk on the treadmill. But I made myself stick it out and got my work out in. On Friday, my friend Katie and I were talking about working out and things like that. The topic of Crossfit came up. She mentioned that she wanted to try it but it is to expensive to do it. But she thought that maybe going to one of the classes would help her get motivated to start working out again. I know a couple that does it regularly, and they have asked me to come with them, but I have always been to worried about not being in shape enough. I consider both of them to be athletes and I just wouldn't be comfortable. Katie and I kept talking about it and finally decided to take the plunge. There is a free introduction class, and we both signed up. We will be doing it Tuesday. (Which is actually today) I am excited about it and maybe it will hit me here later but as of right now I am not nervous. I am excited to see what it is all about. And like Katie said, I am hoping this will also give me a boost. I am glad Katie is actually going to come with me. I have been frustrated lately with working out alone. I have had several people tell me that they want to work out with me and even have had plans to do so, but they keep backing out. I just think that having a friend there would make it more entertaining. (Lisa is definitely and exception to this. She has come to Zumba and the Zumbathons with me and it's been great!)


After work on Friday I met with Lisa and Ciara for a "roommate" dinner. We haven't all 3 hung out together since we moved so it has been long overdue. We were going to Piada and I had looked online to get my nutrition information. I pretracked and stuck with my plan. It was so yummy! I made sure to eat light for the day so I could eat the pasta. I got the salmon with the pomodoro sauce. It was really good! And it was a good time catching up with Ciara, I don't get to see her often. We were there for several hours talking about anything and everything. It was a great time. When I got home Friday night I had a card in the mail that came that day. It was from Grandma McKinney! (My uncle Ken's mom) She had sent me a card and stuck a picture of me holding my cousin Brianna's baby that she just had. I was so excited to get the card from her, but not so much the picture. I hate having my picture taken and that picture shows the exact reason. This was back in December of 2013. And the sad thing is, this wasn't even when I was at my heaviest weight. I am hoping that if I want to quit at any point, I can look at this picture and realize why I have to keep going. It just makes me sick. The kids were at my parents house this weekend so after I got home and settled I got into a good game of cards with Abbie, Alex, and my mom. When I was a kid, we would always play cards with my grandma Buschur, and it was the best thing in the world! So whenever I play cards with the kids it brings back great memories.

Abbie and Alex playing cards

My mom and Alex playing cards

Adelynn with her new hat!
(And chocolate on her face)

Before leaving for the Zumbathon

 Saturday morning Lisa and I had a Zumbathon to go to. I got up and ready and just wasn't feeling it. I felt the same way I did on Thursday. I just felt like everything took so much energy, more than normal. I was hoping once we got there and got started that it would get better. But unfortunately it didn't. This Zumbathon was only 2 hours, last weekend was 3 hours. And I felt like this one lasted for ever. It also seemed like the instructors kept things at a pretty high pace. My left foot hurt the entire time. But thankfully near the end I did get into it and it was a lot better. It was interesting because when we started there were about 20 other women (and 1 guy) doing it and at the end the only ones left were Lisa and I, 3 other people and the instructors. I just don't understand why they would even bother coming if they are not going to stay. After Zumba Lisa and I stopped at Subway and had lunch. I got my regular buffalo chicken salad. It never gets old. When I got home I instantly got aggravated. Sitting on the counter are cookies, poptarts and candy. I just do not understand why my parents feel like they need to let the kids eat all of that junk when they are over. I understand spoiling them but that just seems to be to much to me. It also makes it so hard for me to be good. I pretty much stayed in my room the rest of the day to avoid eating a bunch of that crap. I am not able to resist things like that all of the time. After relaxing for a few hours it was time to get ready to head to Molly's. She invited us girls over to her place for a girls night of pajamas and pancakes. So I threw on some comfy sweats and headed out. On the way over I stopped at Kroger to get stuff to make smoothies. I wanted to make sure to have a healthy option so I offered to make smoothies. Boy is that stuff expensive, but it is worth it. Lisa also won a raffle at Zumba and it was a smoothie mix so we tried that out also. Girls nights are always such a good time. We just sat around talking while we ate and then put in a movie. We watched Last Vegas, it was really good.

Molly made some yummy blueberry topping

Strawberry blueberry smoothie

The rest of the weekend was kind of boring. I had to work overtime on Sunday night and had to get laundry done so I didn't get to do anything fun. I did run to the store and got stuff to make lunch. I thought it would be fun for the kids to make their own pizzas. I just got the sandwich thins and toasted them. Then I let the kids put the sauce and toppings on them. They really liked it. I was really sore all day so I must have gotten a good work out in at Zumba. On my way to work I stopped and got Penn Station, chicken teriyaki. It wasn't the healthiest but I counted the calories. It actually wasn't as good as I thought it would be so I probably won't get it again anytime soon. I resisted the fries. I don't usually care for fries but I do like them from there. When Judy came in to relieve me she mentioned how proud of me she was and that she could really see a difference already. She just kept going on and on about how proud of me she was. We talked for a good 20 minutes about how my diet has been going. She said that I need to decide on a little goal, and once I get there she is going to buy me an outfit! I told her no way, that would be to much money but it about made me cry. Sometimes people I don't think even know or really care what I am doing make me feel so good about my efforts. I didn't expect it at all from her. It made my night :)

Also, Sunday 2/23 is the anniversary of my uncle Dean passing. He passed away in 2003 from esophageal cancer. I miss him like crazy. He always had a smile on his face and I miss seeing it!! <3

Uncle Dean

                                        

I weighed in on Monday morning and I was so happy to see the weight loss. But for some reason all I wanted to do the rest of the day was eat, and that is pretty much what I did. I don't know what it was but I just ate non stop. And although I ate like a pig all day, I still didn't eat as badly as I normally would on a day to day basis when I wasn't on a diet, which is sad. By the time I was ready for bed I realized I had been uncomfortable all day and it started turning into a stomach ache. By the time I got in my PJs and turned off the lights my stomach was absolutely killing me. I was miserable. I am sure it was from all of the junk I had eaten. I have to remember how bad I felt next time I want to eat like that. I had trouble falling asleep, it hurt so bad. I luckily did eventually fall asleep and slept through the night. Well today I got right back on track and have I crossfit tonight so hopefully this coming week is as successful as last week.

Adelynn cuddling with me Sunday morning

Some more cuddles.
She couldn't be any cuter!

 

A great example of the junk I saw siting out for the kids
There is even more crap behind the pop tarts.
(Next to my bananas lol)