Yuck. I didn’t really EAT that much at my Superbowl party (sorry, by the way, for forgetting to post my party tips, which included low-fat and low-carb options) BUT I forgot to compute SALT into my Superbowl Snack Equation and now I am paying the price.

I feel YUCK-EEEEEE.

The good news: My new employer has a workout facility within the building and tonight (weather permitting) I am going to take advantage of it. My aim is to work out every day (or, at least, a minimum of three days) weekly.

I need a workout routine in the WORST way.

Today is the first day of my new good habit.

Anybody remember how many consecutive days it takes to form a habit (good OR bad)?

Get what your son had – only 10 times worse.  I’ve been very sick for about the last 36 hours.  I thought I was getting better so I got up and got ready for work today – nope, didn’t make it out the door.  Ugh.  The scale says 150.  Awesome, right?  wrong.

Here’s what I learned…..when you get sick and end up losing that weight your body gets rid of the lean muscle first.  Not the fat.  The lean muscle.  So just when I think I got a little blessing and jump start to get myself below 150 by the end of this, I realize that this is really killing my lean muscle and not getting rid of the fat I need to get rid of.  Ho hum.

Guess I’m just going to revel in the fact that the scale said 150 today.

yeah, you all know it. I’ve been missing for about 2 weeks, which means I haven’t been sticking with my plan very well. I have still been doing well with the exercise–at least 5 days a week for 45 min., but not so good with the food. Today, I started with a plan–I was going to have my slimfast and banana for breakfast, egg salad for lunch, and lasagna for supper. Hmmmm.. then hubby get’s home from work at 7 am and decides he’s starving and makes biscuits and gravy. Soooo I have one biscuit and gravy for breakfast–not soo bad if I had still stuck to my plan and maybe cut out the bread with my egg salad sandwich. But then I remember I made birthday cake for my little guy who turned two on Friday and had a piece. By the end of the day I had eaten 3 pieces of cake! Didn’t get eggs boiled, so had chicken nuggets like the kids for lunch. Didn’t get lasagna made, so I had ring bologna and instant mashed potatoes! Yeah–i made every poor choice there could possibly be today. Plus–no exercise.
SOOOOO tomorrow–I am sticking with my plan that I had today. I will not budge from it. I CAN DO IT! This week is going to be my best week yet! And it’s going to turn into my best MONTH yet! I vow to be below 200 (AGAIN) by Mar.1st!

I’m ready for some therapeutic cleaning. Not only will it burn a few calories…but it will be a part of “getting my mind right,” as my dad says.

I can’t wait for spring and summer. Why? Beyond the normal reasons, because I believe I will be considerably thinner and back on the road to slim and fit as opposed to chunky and out-of-breath.

Today, I’m exhausted. Don’t know why, but I am going to force myself to do SOME EXERCISE when I get home…even if it is just 10 or 15 minutes.

I need to restart a DAILY exercise routine. My exercise has been pathetically sporadic for WAY too long.

Have a great Superbowl Sunday — but keep the eating in line and sneak in a workout — and be looking for a Superbowl Suggestions blog post from me either later today or tomorrow.

The 40 best beers. Leave it to Men’s Health to come up with this list. The first at 330 cal. might be shocking, but it gets better. Just wish the slideshow wasn’t so darn slow. I’m taking notes for a couple months from now. You can even sign up for “Eat This Not That” e-newsletter for when you do go to a chain for your grub. Not a bad idea for frequent travelers.

Have you ever said something that seemed to just turn around and bite you square in the bahooky?  Yeah, well on Saturday night I was bragging to a group of moms that my kids haven’t thrown up since they were infants – never been vomited on or had to go clean it up off a floor or bed – nada.  Ummm….yeah, well that changed last night.  We ate out (mainly because our dishwasher is broken and I don’t want to hand wash dishes) and I was just going to order a chicken breast but then somebody elses waffle fries looked so good that I ordered those with cajun seasoning.  (I shared!!)  But I was feeling pretty darn guilty afterwards.  Then about 12:30am a child gave me the “mom…..I just puked, can you clean it up?” call and the second I smelled it and the entire time it took to clean it up, I was racing to the bathroom to throw up.  I hate throwing up.  I guess that was my little punishment for both bragging about my kids needlessly and for order waffle fries instead of a chicken breast.  Ho hum.

Well, since I’m home with a kid who appears to be completly fine now, there is absolutely no excuse for me to not get on the treadmill for an hour.

My left heel has been KILLING me ever since the marathon in San Francisco. Um, YEAH, that’s been almost a year and a half ago.

And, you ask, have I been to the doctor to see what the problem was?

Ummmm. NO.

I self medicated.

I sat around and ate.

Did that, you ask, solve the problem?

Ummmmmm.

NO.

Well, some friends want to head to North Dakota in the spring and run a marathon as a relay, and I would really like to go. It would be FUN…and I would only have to run 6.55 miles.

I CAN DO THAT!!!!

CORRECTION: I can do that IF I get my blasted heel fixed.

SO, I will suck it up and go to the doctor. That, combined with exercise, combined with eating correctly and losing weight should be an EXCELLENT health-coctail fit to get me ready for a race in the spring.

Whaddya think?

OK, so I just completed my first full week back — officially — on the Weight Watchers program and I had to ask the woman weighing me in to reiterate to me if my loss was 3 pounds 0r .3 pounds, because I simply couldn’t believe I had lost that much.

Again, I shout: WAHOOOOO!

I am sure, however, that this big loss is just due to the fact that I was eating SOOOOOO BADLY for SOOOOOOO LONG that when I finally turned back to appropriate PORTIONS (for the most part) my body had no choice but to let go of some weight — water or otherwise. I don’t care which, just so long as it stays gone next week…and the week after…and so on and so forth.

Imagine that. Watching your portion sizes and making healthy choices CAN actually help support weight loss.

Who knew??? (insert sarcastic tone of voice here)

Running around like crazy, as usual. Today is a weigh-in day. I hope I’m down…but it definitely wasn’t a perfect week. I go to WW at noon, so I’ll post later on in the day on a break or after work.

I have been active, but am still working on a plan to fit consistent exercise into my day between the full-time workweek (I have been a spoiled part-timer for five years now.) and running kids around from 5 to 8 or 9 p.m. every day.

I think the answer is to haul my butt out of bed at 5 a.m.

Sigh.

I won’t lie. The thought of that just SUCKS.

The good news: If you can haul it out in the morning (which I used to do faithfully for the 12+ years I worked full time and had LITTLE kids that needed no hauling around at night) your workout job for the day is DONE. No need to feel guilty about skipping it because your evening is full.

Lord, give me strength to do that again.

But I got on the treadmill anyways.  That’s about all I’ve got.