6:41 amBeing the first saturday of the month, we weighed in this morning first thing after our morning trip to the bathroom. I have lost 8.5 lbs in the last 4 weeks, v. v. good, things are working. I immediately started my calculations on how much Iwould weigh at the next weigh in if I lost 1lb/week, 2 lb/week, etc until I finally cut myself off and vowed to move the scale back downstairs as soon as my brother in law wakes up. I am not safe with the scale around. I liked seeing some results though, so for all my "my health is what is really important" speeches, I am not ready to chuck it out the window yet.
Review of Week 4:This week I challenged myself to try nutritional carbs in place of non-nutritional carbs. We tried whole wheat buns with our gardenburgers, light brown garlic bread with our pasta, and brown rice with our beans and a more nutrtious cereal instead of my normal sweetened flakes. I am sorry to say that I didn't like most of the substitutions, the whole wheat buns were keepers, even though they require us to go to a different grocery store, and the cereal was good except that the serving size is 1 cup or 2 oz and 2 oz is more like .5 cup. But the brown rice with beans and brown light bread didn't work for us. We will keep the brown rice to go with other dishes (it goes really well with bbq tofu) but we won't be buying the brown light bread again. (I think our dislike for it was because it was light bread, not because it was brown bread.)
Goals for Week 5: - Keep track of points
- Exercise 3 times for 30 minutes
This week I am back to the exercise goal. My stomach isn't completely healed yet, but I will keep an eye on it before and after exercise. I am actually going to try out jazzercise this morning at 9 and it is supposed to be a nice weekend so hopefully it will include a walk outside!
Thursday of this week is the 10th of the month and as I have mentioned before, we always go out for a special date on the 10th of the month. This month is even more special because it marks 9 years of dating so we are taking the day off together and hopefully spending it walking around georgetown, catching a movie, getting japanese food (the weather says snow that day so we have to change it to a different indoor location.)
2:13 p.m.Actually went to jazzercise and liked it. I felt like an uncoordinated doof, but I was surrounded by other uncoordinated doofs so it was ok. The leader was an older lady (early 50s) and very curvy and in very good shape. There were a few licra clad skinny model types in the class, but there was a wide range of fitness/ability/licra. I liked it. I am going to try at least one or two more classes before signing up for a month, but all systems looking good. And it was a good workout. Who knew marching in place for 40 minutes could kick my butt, but my butt stands corrected. Also the strength/toning exercises they did afterwards kicked my everything. Hopefully I would be able to go to two evening classes during the week (6 pm) then one or two on the weekend. Of course, I don't want to give up walking as exercise, want to continue that at least once a week to do something with Mike and the kid.
After jazzercise and shower, I ran out to whole foods, my second grocery store stop over the weekend. I have got to find a way to consolidate our food into less trips to the grocery (maybe buying different brands at whole foods?) because having to go to 4 grocery stores over the weekend is just setting myself up for failure. I think I am going to make the risoto tonight.
# posted by amy @ 6:41 AM
