Ready to Take on A New Week!

I am ready to take on a new week! How about ya'll?

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Are you scared?

I confess I'm sort of scared of certain foods. As if the food had the power, not me (which if I'm being honest - and why not... it still kind of does - but not for long). For me the two big food groups that are the most frightening are sweets and pasta. I know, I know, they're not technical food groups but in my twisted little world they are. There are not many sweets that I don't like. I love everything chocolate / caramel / coconut / peanut butter / cakey / and ooey gooey. So of course, being some of my favorite things to eat, I tend to overindulge a little. Pasta is the other biggie. I love Italian food, and love all the yummy sauces and cheeses that go with it.

So when planning our menu for the week, my darling husband says, "I'd really like to have some lasagna." Now, naturally we do a meat-less version, but that just usually means it's got way more cheese than it ought to have. I have a hard time denying my husband just about anything because he hardly ever asks for anything. So we had lasagna last night. And OH MAN was it good.

But again, I portion-ized it and felt good about that. Yay for portions and I will tell you, I enjoyed the hell out of every single bite that I had!

What foods are you scared of?

Bringing It Back

I won't kid ya'll, it's been a crappy week. Without giving too much information, my lady junk was rebelling and I had a couple of days with migraines. Have not been to the gym since a week ago today, but I did do a few days of yoga in the mornings in an attempt to get my body back in order. Not only did I not go to the gym all week, I also ate not-so-great (I know this because again, I did not journal it).

However, I went back to the gym this morning and completely ROCKED 25 minutes on the elliptical. I finally borrowed my husband's iPod and brought some music. I usually watch/listen to the news. But guess what? I worked MUCH harder with music (Thank you, "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" by Iron Maiden!)

It was a great workout and just what I needed to get back on track!

Bleh / Uggh!

I'd like to say that my momma told me there'd be days like this but the fact is my momma didn't tell me much of anything. Yesterday it was about 4pm before I even realized what I was doing. I had been eating ALL DAY. It was like I was an out of control freak. Then I realized why: My oldest daughter started Kindergarten yesterday and I was stress eating. So I had a salad wrap for dinner and some steamed vegetables and called it a night, eating-wise.

Seriously, though...I'm not rationalizing a damn thing here, but at least I RECOGNIZED and STOPPED it. Today I'm back on track. I'm not going to let one day derail me! One thing I know I didn't do yesterday was journal my food intake. I'm back to that today.

Thanks to all of you for the help and support. And here's my little sweety all ready for her first day!

Weekend round-up

I just want to bring up a point here, and hopefully by writing it down, my fool brain will accept it as truth. IF YOU EAT IT, IT COUNTS - EVEN IF NOBODY ELSE SEES YOU. For some reason in my head I take extra bites, eat an extra cookie, etc and feel like I'm "getting away" with something if nobody sees me. I know in my head this juvenile and childish. Seriously, deep down, I don't believe those calories don't count. But honestly I wish I knew why I did such things. It's embarrassing and frankly I'm disgusted by the habit.

I've been doing fairly good all week. However, once the weekend came, my water consumption went by the wayside. I ate a little more here and here than I should have. I baked cookies with my daughters yesterday (although, admittedly - they were re-vamped and were about 55 calories each) and ate about 4 or 5 too many of those.

Also my 2 year old is up this morning. She woke up as I as heading downstairs to leave for the gym. So I stayed here with her so Aron can do his yoga this morning - I'll head to the gym tomorrow. I usually go 3 mornings a week (M, W, F). This week I'll just go T, W, F. No big deal.

I'm going to have another good week if it kills me.

Please, just allow me to ramble

Yesterday I met my daughter's Kindergarten teacher. That may not seem like a monumental occasion, but it sort of hit me like a ton of bricks. For the past several weeks (just ask my husband), I've been sort of weepy over the thought of sending our daughter to Kindergarten, mostly because she's really very rarely been away from me all day....ever. Sending her to PreK last year was bad enough but now it's really real that it's the whole day I'm sending her to school.

But yesterday it hit me - it's the whole day I'm sending her to school FOR THE REST OF HER SCHOOL CAREER. It's like t his giant milestone that jumped up from the middle of the road and rammed into the side of my head. I'm not dealing well with it - but I know she is going to love it and her teacher is so wonderful that I think it's going to be a fantastic year. I'll have to do more adjusting than she will.

On a weight-loss note, Lilly picked Pizza Hut to eat at yesterday for lunch. Aron and I both had the day off and the four of us spent the whole day together to celebrate Lil's last day of summer vacation. So. I started off the meal with a HUGE salad. Yum, and I felt good about that. Then I moved on to 1 1/2 breadsticks and two SMALL pieces of pizza. Double yum and I felt good about that, too. It was the buffet that we had and I decided to have some dessert...I got ONE cinnamon breadstick (well technically two - but they were the full sized ones cut in half). And you know what? I believe I sort of proved to myself that I can handle a buffet. For crap's sake, IT'S ONLY FOOD! But yeah, I keep telling myself that but honestly I'm not quite "there" mentally.

Anyway. Overall it was a good day. Went to the gym later than normal (which was nice not to have to be there at 5:30am). At the beginning of the week I fell in love with the elliptical machine but could only do 10 minutes, remember? Well yesterday I did 20 and felt AWESOME! So honestly, I couldn't be more pleased :-)

Bite me, Wednesday

You know, for some reason I'm just not pleased with yesterday. I don't know why. I didn't have a horrible eating day. I could have done better in spots, but it wasn't horrible and it wasn't like the "old" Colleen. But for some reason Wednesday just isn't settling right with me. I guess I'll just have to kick Thursday's ass to teach Wednesday a lesson.

I have the day off work so I'm heading to the gym a little later than usual. But that also means (since Aron, too, has the day off) that I'll be able to work out just a bit longer than I normally would be able to. Looking forward to meeting my oldest daughter's Kindergarten teacher today....not looking forward to sending her to full-day school on Monday.