Weekly Check-up

What I’m eating today:

Breakfast: Carrot, apple, spinach, orange juice

Snack: Plain soy yogurt with blueberries

Lunch: Salad w/ balsamic vin (I have a salad bar at work. Generally I do a spinach salad w/ tomatoes, black or garbanzo beans, mushrooms, carrots, tomatoes, egg whites and sunflower seeds.  No cheese, no meat.)

Snack: Veggie dip (Basically fat free cottage cheese w/ lemon pepper) w/ carrots and snow peas (well, at least that was the plan until I realized raw snow peas taste like dirt)

Snack 2: Almonds

Dinner: Cobb salad w/ turkey bacon

Weight Lost this week: 1 lb

Inches Lost this week: 4.5

Total Weight Lost: 8 lbs (2 more and I can get that scale!  Woop Woop!)

Total Inches lost: 8.5

 

Full disclosure: I haven’t been exercising twice a day every day and I ate two mini Toblerones.   

In my defense, I was trying to work out at lunch time at the gym at work but got kicked out of a yoga class because I’m not a fitness member.  I guess that’s understandable.  “How do you think we pay the instructors?  We gotta pay the instructors!”  I should be able to use it legally by next week.  I have done some workouts in my boss’ office (obviously while he’s not in there) but that was super awkward.  It felt weird to go in and then just come out panting and sweaty.   Plus, it’s a corner office made of windows.  I have been working out at least once every day.  There were even a couple nights I felt like a blob on the couch so I got up and did some jumping jacks.  So, there ya go.  

As far as the Toblerones, my boss brought me back a Halloween-sized variety pack from Turkey.  I immediately put them out to share and tried to give away as many as possible but there were so many it sat in front of my desk for almost a full week!  So two mini Tobes in a week…not so bad.   Of course I had a mental battle over it several times a day. 

Anyhoo, I’m pretty pleased with my overall progress.  Granted most of the weight loss was from the juice fast but I lost another whole pound after the fast which is a pretty big deal.  Plus, I lost a lot of inches which is where it really counts.  What’s annoying is that I’m losing the most in my waist which is the last place I want to lose.  I don’t mean that figuratively.   It’s literally the last place because everywhere else is bigger and needs to get smaller first. 

I’ve really been sticking to my menu and it really, really helps!  I highly recommend taking the few hours to plan your whole month. I know exactly what to pack for work every day.  I get home and start cooking a healthy meal right away.  It’s been so nice.  And I feel satisfied.  I’m not too fond of salads for lunch every day but, what can you do?  I consider myself lucky that I have a salad bar at work and can at least have a little variety.  

 I’ve already encountered some hatas who want to tell me that “one cupcake won’t ruin your diet.” But guess what? It will! So shut your pie whole whore!  Othere than that, so far it’s been smooth sailin’.