Life, especially summer

Summer is always such a boring time for me. Nothing interesting happens. I don't get to see my friends. There's little for me to actually accomplish. I think I even forgot to make a summer list this year. Usually the first day off from school every year I make a list of things I want to do over the summer. I think now, this year my summer goal, to finish before school starts in Aug, is to drop below 200 pounds. There's roughly 2 months left in my summer and I'm currently weighing around 216. So, sounds like a perfect goal! Plus, if I lose more than that, it will just be icing on the cake!

Despite hovering instead of losing the last couple of days, I feel really good. I've really noticed a change in my eating habits since starting these new life changes! I'm no longer scarfing down large meals. I make conscious decisions when we eat out to pick something healthy or with a smaller amount of calories. This has actually been something really hard to do! Have you ever looked at most chain restaurants' (what we have in abundance locally) menus? Most are terrible for information! Some places have a decal for meals with less than 500, 600, or 700 calories. But there are like only 6 meals that add up on the entire menu! A lot of my decisions come after looking up calorie counts on my phone. While I don't have a savvy smartphone, I'm still able to get useful info most of the time to make an informed decision. It's work, but it makes me feel good to know I'm making smart decisions!

Also, exercising is getting better! I can actually run! For short distances, but still! It's much more successful than my first few days of pushing myself to run and feeling out of breath every 50 ft. I'm running longer stretches and then can turn around and run another stretch just about as long! It's very exciting for something who always swore that she would never run anywhere! Hah!

M, C, and I are still doing the Richard Simmons tapes almost every night. I decided to take one night off a week, which was Sunday night. We've found our favourites are still the Sweatin' to the Oldies. Mine is still S2tO3. Though we just bought the dvds from Amazon and I'm exciting to try out S2tO4. It's always fun to dance around to something new!

Sorry for neglecting you again lately blog. I know if I sit down to type it will take some time to actually think and get across what I've been ruminating about. But it's good for me and I need to do it.

See ya tomorrow, okay? :)

Day 7

Goodness. Last night I had a lot to say in today's post and now I'm so tired I doubt any of it will get put down. Sorries.


Lunch - Special K cinnamon pecan, 1/2 cup greek yoghurt

Snack - Fiber One chocolatey snack bar (90 cal), 1/2 cup watermelon

Snack - Fudge Bar made from splenda (35 cals) I don't remember the brand right now, SK chocolate chip snack bar

Dinner - 6 oz salmon at Lonestar, 2 rolls with butter, 1 serving cooked spinach (not creamed) with additional butter (leftover from the rolls since the spinach was so bitter)

After dinner I felt sooo bad. I hadn't planned to eat any rolls. But then we had to wait for people to show up and dinner took forever and we were eating really late so I was hungry and impulsive and ate the food in front of my face, rolls with butter. Then I didn't want to eat all my salmon...and all of that disappeared. I ate all the spinach too. It was really divine with the sweet butter from the bread basket but I'm sure that wasn't good for me. I also had green beans with my meal but they weren't cooked or seasoned enough. Blehk. I'd like my veggies with a little flavour po-lease.

I know I shouldn't feel guilty about eating a big meal. I mean it was just fish and veggies. But I ate a lot all at one time and with changing my eating habits I'm trying to eat smaller meals. Tonight was not a small meal. I tried to come home and look up Lonestar's nutrition facts on their website. They don't even put the nutrition facts on their website! I was astounded!

Okay so just done some googling. I feel less bad about the salmon but REALLY bad about the rolls. YIKES! Not eating those again. I just got to stick to my guns some more.

I had to run early today since we were having a late dinner and wouldn't be home before dark. I ended up running at 6pm. Gosh that was terrible! It was soo hot and hot out. My mouth was dry the entire time and all I could think was how much I wanted some water. I didn't run near as much as I have been and it was pitiful. Meh day for running.

Whoops. I got distracted and didn't finish my post until after mignight. I think I'll just stop here and write more tomorrow.

Loves,
Bob