Beginning Date: April 2, 2007
Ending Date: June 23, 2007
Day 26 -
Since it is grocery weekend, I sat down and figured out my daily meals/snacks and how to re-portion them and how to do this better. I decided that I would change up the actual food I've been eating during the day, but only cut my portions on breakfast and dinner. Here is my anticipated daily menu:
8:30 - 3 egg whites, 1 yolk, peppers & onions (no cheese), oatmeal, water
11:00 - LF cottage Cheese, salsa, apple, water
1:30 - Tuna (I'm going to teach myself to like this, right now I'm not a fan), yogurt, carrots, water
4:00 - shake
6:30 - EFL dinner - appropriate portion size, water
9:00 - bar, water
I also made a list of the recipes that I think I can use from the EFL cookbook and indicated which ones I could use for when the boys come for dinner (about twice a week). I came up with 13 total recipes, 7 of them for when the boys come. I took out my menu planning calendar and wrote in dinners from now until the end of the year! The 7 meals for the nights we have the boys over are rotated and have been planned for two each week - which means we'll only repeat one of those meals 1x per month. We will be having hamburgers every Friday night and chicken fajitas/leftovers every Thursday night (the night Dave plans for appointments) and then I took the other 4 meals and rotated those on Tuesday nights. This may not make a whole lot of sense written out this way, but I'm very excited to have that done. The couple of days before grocery weekend was such a pain - doing the menu plan and then the grocery list and then finally the grocery shopping was always something I dreaded. Now I have the menu planning taken care of for the rest of the year and I should be able to get a list of the items needed for each meal and make a standard grocery list and just check off the stuff that I need - all kinds of fun organizational work ahead of me!
Did my HIIT (high intensity interval training - I'm learning all kinds of new things from those bfl websites) today. Rode the bike 5.30 miles! Thats a huge improvement! And it sucked - it was hard and I really, really pushed myself. As much as I don't want to be as obssessed and crazy as some of those BFL'ers on the websites, I think I'm going to need to continue to at least read those forums and look at the progress pictures for motivation - on the plan and on my workouts especially. My last two workouts have really been kicked up a notch since finding that tracker website, so thats good. I think I might have a hard time keeping that up, though, without the reminders that this is how I'm supposed to be doing it - its easy to become complacent.
Today is my weigh in measurement day. I was very nervous to get on the scale. I had already braced myself for what I might see, but I still didn't want to see 138, which is what I suspected it would say - or even worse, 140. I was pleasantly surprised:)
Stats: (I will measure myself twice a month and weigh myself twice a month to record progress)*Weight (on 3/30/07): 135.4
4/13/07: 136.6 (yes, I'm going with THAT one)
4/27/07: 135.4
*Waist (right at belly button, sucked in):
4/2/07: 32"
4/13/07: 31 1/4"
4/27/07: 31"
*Bum (mid bum, where leg meets torso):
4/2/07: 37 3/4"
4/13/07: 37 1/2"
4/27/07: 37 1/2"
*Hips (right below bum):
4/2/07: 39 1/2"
4/13/07: 39 1/2"
4/27/07: 39 1/4"
*Thigh (mid thigh - 2' below mole):
4/2/07: 23"
4/13/07: 22 1/2"
4/27/07: 22 1/4"
*Calf (mid calf):
4/2/07: 15"
4/13/07: 15"
4/27/07: 15"
*Arm (mid bicep):
4/2/07: 12 3/4"
4/13/07: 12 5/8"
4/27/07: 12 1/2"
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