DC = Walking

Well all you DCers, we will be doing lots of walking so if we eat right, this could be a win-win for us or should I say lose-lose. No excuses next week.
A Good Week - we have no food in the house so I'm having to be creative. Last night I had a tomato sandwich. It was pretty good. Tonight I found a Lean Cuisine, made a tomato salad and will probably have a cheese stick before bed. Tomorrow, I'm going out - probably Cheddars and have my usual Lemon Chicken plate. That's the plan and I'm sticking to it!

Exercise - ugh, it has been so hot outside. I'm trying to walk later at night but then it gets to dark to put any time in. Whitney, I'm so glad Paisley was found. She was my wogging partner last night. We wore each other out. Did about 2 1/2 miles wogging and walking.

Leah, thanks for sharing the recipe. Have you tried it? Sounds interesting. Sweet Bacon- hmm?

Lee - stay with it. I know how personal crisis can take your focus away from the diet goals. I let about a week go with the biopsy stuff; it was real easy to change focus. I'm so glad to be back on the right trail again.

Mom - don't hurt yourself working out before DC- save your energy for "Walking the Mall"

September 2nd

Hello ladies,
School, work, and working out. The juggling act that makes me feel like a true worker bee. Just moving along the daily routine like all the other bees in the hive. Luckily we started this last year so I had an idea of what I was getting myself into but now that I've started it all up again I'm remembering just how difficult it all was. No wonder I only made it to spring break.
Food has actually been the fun part of it all. (Expensive too) I've been making all kinds of delicious low cal recipes and Krista has been enjoying all of it so far (except for some asparagus thing I made that neither of us could finish haha) Anyways the Jillian diet makes me feel healthier and lighter before the work outs even begin. However we did do the first work out yesterday after our usual run and dear lord I am so sore now. I'd forgotten how much work we put into it and it was truly miserable. After the 2nd circuit I was ready to quit. We still haven't done day 2 just yet. Funny how we managed to both want to put it off so late. However I haven't forgotten and we will finish our day 2 work out!
Mom- How is it going? I haven't heard from you about your progress lately. With this trip to Washington coming up we're going to need to be fully aware of the restaurants we eat out at and the foods we eat while we're there. I'm bringing my workout binder I made. You'd be so proud. I made a binder with tabs and everything. Food tracking, Activities, Motivation, Recipes, and Information. It's my handwritten version of Spark people I guess you could say. When we're on the trip I want to be able to keep up with that so in all of your planning plan healthy food options.
Whitney- Glad you found Paisley today! I was bummed you weren't able to join me on my run. You were missed. We'll have to catch you next time.
Grandma- So glad you're going to Washington with us! It's going to be so great :-) Speaking of I thought of another T-Shirt/Sign..."American Woman....Obama let me be!" (Get it? Like the song American Woman) Anyways I was thinking all the walking we'll be doing can be counted as activity points :-)
Lee- You can always walk the 5k's. I 'wog' most of the time we do those things and the age groups are always pretty mixed so you'll be ready for it I'm sure.
This is random but I was watching the food channel last night and this gay guy cooked the most delicious looking apple cinomon baked crisount with sugar and honey coated baccon that looked SO delicious that I went and decided to make my own Low-Cal recipe. Here it is if yall want to try it out:
Ingredients:
Lean turkey baccon
Splenda
1 table spoon of cooking oil ( I used Extra virgin olive oil)
1 large apple (I used a granny smith)
Ground Cinomon
Low-Fat cool whip
I can't believe it's not butter spray
Reduced or Low fat bisquits (the one's I used were 160 calories each)
1/4 a cup of skim milk
Directions:
Peel and cut your apple into small pieces (baby cubes)
Poor your oil and milk into the skillet (on Medium heat)
Add the apples, splenda, and cinomon and stir
(Spray some I can't believe it's not butter spray)
Put two pieces of baccon on a tray and spray them with the I can't believe it's not butter and then sprinkle both sides with splenda. Let them baked for 10 min. or until they're crispy.
Bake the bisquits till golden brown
After the apples are grilled well with the cinamon and all that jazz push a little hole into the top of each bisquit and fill it with the apples top it off with a table spoon of cool whip and slice off a piece of crispy baccon to top it off. DELICIOUS!
Total calories= 335

I'm off to go work out and make some delicious dinner! :-)
-Mopeah

Small steps

Hi all. Last week was ok. We've been dealing with some emotional and heartbreaking decisions for all of us and I know I didn't pay attention to my food as much as I should have. I gained 4/10 of a pound. Not much but not the loss I want. However, good news.....since I started Jenny Craig on July 5th, I've averaged a loss of 1.9 pounds per week. And, drumroll, I've lost over 7 1/2" overall! So, while my weight isn't near as staggering as Laura's, it's a start and I'm happy. I never thought I would EVER look forward to getting up at 5 am to walk before work.

Laura....congratulations on 55 lbs!!!! What is your overall weight loss goal?

Whitney....hope you and Leah have a GREAT time looking for wedding and bridesmaid dresses! You're gonna have a blast!

So, is the event in December a "run" only or is there walking too?! I'd like to try to work up to that. I'm still at 2.5 miles per day but we're off the track and walking around the neighborhood with all the hills, etc. If I have the time each morning, I'd like to increase the daily walking but that means getting up that much earlier. Not too hot of a prospect.

Keep up the good work, ladies!!!!

Lee