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It’s a good week.

jenna — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:15:58 +0000

I have to say I am pretty proud of myself this week. We’ll see if it pays out in the end. Monday, I didn’t go to the gym, but I made a homemade chile recipe from WW. Delicious! Tuesday, I did go to the gym and it felt great! 50 minutes on the revolving stairs followed by arm and ab work. Wednesay, I went out to dinner with one of my girlfriends, and while it was bad Mexican food, I only ate half of the portion and gave the rest to Trevin. Thursday, I did have McDonald’s for dinner (shame shame shame). Then, as I was gearing up for my “Grey’s/Lost” night. (I was going to my friend Maria’s house to watch it) I was thinking to myself, I need a good snack for the night. But there was nothing in my house. So then I though, I think I will make some cookies. I had a small spoonful of dough and one baked cookie. Now, I know what you are thinking, that doesn’t sound like something I should be proud of. But wait. So then it was time to leave and I was about to throw the cookies in a bag, get in my car, and drive the half mile it takes to get to Maria’s house, but instead, I threw on my Nike’s and ran over there. And after my show, ran home. Today I didn’t eat breakfast. Bad. Ate a few cookies. Bad. Had a WW meal for lunch. Good. And when my friend at work suggested we get icecream for our afternoon snack, I said no and asked her to please take the rest of my cookies away so I was not tempted. AND, I am not anywhere near going over my weekly points. I think I still have like 26! Wahoo!!!

Too bad I’ve been sick the last couple days. Wednesday I had a fairly decent sore throat. Then, Wednesday night, I woke up sweating a cold with a bad fever. Of course I could NOT sleep. So Thursday, I felt horrible. Sore throat, headache, muscle aches, weak. It was like all the symptoms of strep throat, just dialed down. (For those of you who don’t know me, I have chronic strep throat. I get it like 2 or 3 times a year!) But I took a nice dose of Nyquil and a few advil and slept very nicely last night. Feeling much better today!

Hope all of your weeks are going as well as mine!

Bad gym week

jenna — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:04:34 +0000

Well, as proud of myself as I was for my gym attendance record last week, I should be highly disappointed in myself for this week. Monday: We were supposed to go have dinner with friends so I didn’t bring my gym clothes to work with me. They ended up canceling so I just went to my little sister’s game after work. Tuesday: Went to the gym but only did 30 minutes on the stair master as we were meeting friends for dinner at 7:30. Wednesday, helped my sister moved. We moved her entire apartment in an hour so that was definitely a workout. Today, I am going out to dinner with a friend I haven’t seen in like a year, so I know I won’t be making it to the gym tonight and then tomorrow night, I am picking my niece up after work and she is spending the night. The daycare at the gym is open late so I could just take her with me, but she is really sketchy with people she doesn’t know and I don’t want to freak her out. Plus, it costs money to leave her there. And, I haven’t seen her in like two weeks. Saturday I will have Chloe in the morning and I have to go to this one bridal shop in Mac then we are having a bunch of friends over for dinner and game night. Then Sunday, I am going to my Grandma’s in Salem early to work on Jack and Alice’s wedding clothes. Ahhhhh!!!

Tuesday

jenna — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:48:21 +0000

I am so proud of myself. I made it to the gym 4 times last week. I did hard core workouts each day. 50 minutes on the stair stepper (that’s 8 activity points right there!) about 8 arm activities on the ball at 30 reps each, and two ab machines. I did all of those each time. Plus, we helped some friends move to their 2nd story apartment all day Sunday, and that for sure counts as a workout!

Also, I have been doing really well at getting all my water in. I can’t even remember the last day where I was short. My eating is where I am still falling short. I do okay, but there is always something bad I have to eat during the course of the day. Some days it’s only a snack, but other days is a whole bad meal.

Still, I have been doing better than usual and expected some drastic change on the scale monday morning. My scale did not produce the number I wanted. However, I must keep in mind my body has got to be slowly transforming fat into muscle. At least that is the story I am sticking to!

Camping on a diet just doesn’t work!

jenna — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:43:38 +0000

Well, camping wasn’t as horrible as I thought it might be (diet wise) but it definitely wasn’t good. Not even sort of good. I don’t know about the rest of you, but camping to me means relaxing, eating lots of junk food, etc. Someone forgot to remind my brain that I am on a diet! I didn’t do too much snacking which is good. That is what I usually do. I stuck to mainly meals. There was one day when I munched down on a bag of puff cheetos. Nice. I had a nice cheeseburger for lunch one day, but then I didn’t eat dinner. And I only had half of a smore so that was pretty good. No exercise although we did walk all over town one day and down on the beach. Not at any fast pace but I guess anything is better than nothing at all.

Monday was not good, a lot of snacking on things I didn’t need and I didn’t make it to the gym. Tuesday I think I did pretty well. Oatmeal for breakfast, 100 cal snack pack for a snack. Sub sandwich for lunch. No afternoon snack. Salad and a sandwich for dinner. But then I splurged on dirt and worms for dessert. So I did go over my points for the day. (The sandwich wasn’t too good either, a Turkey Club) but I hit the gym. 50 minutes on the stair stepper for 8 activity points. Could be more than that though because the only option on WW.com is 36 steps per minute and I was doing 46 most of the time. So I was pretty excited about that. I had an epiphony about the gym. You see, I was running home after work, changing my clothes, and then going to the gym. But yesterday I brought my gym clothes to work so I could change there. I got to the gym way quicker so I was done quicker, and I had no excuse. I couldn’t get home and relaxed and not want to go. I am so brilliant!!! (Who would have thought it was take all these months to figure that one out!)

Breakfast: Oatmeal (2)

Snack: Reduced Fat Cheez-Its (3) Lunch: The other half of my Sub Sandwich (8) I’m sorry, can’t live w/o my cheese! Snack: 100-Cal Snack Pack (2) Dinner: Japanese Stir Fry (8) TOTAL……………………………..23 pts

That is just the plan. I’m sure I will find a way to throw in some extra points somewhere!

Yesterday Sucked!!!

jenna — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:10:37 +0000

Yesterday was probably the worst dieting day EVER! What was I thinking! It all started out when I didn’t eat breakfast. I bought a pack of that “weight control” oatmeal to keep at work. It is gross and barely better for you than the regular stuff. I just couldn’t eat one more pack of it. I had 2 100 cal packs for a morning snack. For lunch, I brought some leftover halibet so I was quite proud of myself there. Except I had to run home at lunch and grab some stuff and for some reason, I thought I should also grab a honkin’ piece of cheesecake to devour later at work. (Which I did) And then, my friend at work’s husband surprised us with a big bowl of icecream so I went ahead and devoured that too! For dinner I had a margarita, tortilla chips, and a chicken flauta. NICE. OH, and I didn’t log anything in to WW.com Yes, I was on quite a roll yesterday. I didn’t even finish all of my water. I think I probably did about 40 oz which is better than nothing, but still awful.

Today is destined to be a better day. I had oatmeal for breakfast and 1 100 cal snack pack for a morning snack. Today after work marks the start of our camping trip. Wish me luck that I do well over the weekend!

Just a quick note…

jenna — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:11:14 +0000

So far so good today. Oatmeal for breakfast. A 100-cal snack pack for a morning snack. A whopping 4 points so far. Wahoo!! My cold seems to be at it’s all time low which means I feel like crap. To top it off, my period started this morning. I have come to the conclusion that I will not be making it to the gym this week. Between me not feeling well, and the fact that we are leaving Friday after work to go camping, there is just too much to do. So that is kind of depressing.

Allison and I have a new pact. We are going to call each other everyday at the end of the day to report back. I think it might help as she is pretty mean!!

Anyways, better get back to work. Oh, I just had to share a picture of my adorable niece! This is Chloe, 8 months on her first Easter last Sunday. Isn’t she a doll?!

Dieting is depressing

jenna — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:56:55 +0000

I hate dieting! I’m not good at it. I have no will power. I am tired. I am sick. I am sore from the stupid gym and guess who is coming to town this week! Of course! I don’t know why getting a bad cold and periods seem to hand in hand in my body.

I feel like I am getting nowhere with my dieting. Which, technically, I am not. I feel like I am eating better than I have in the past, still not the best, but better than normal and I haven’t lost any weight. August 22nd is not that far away. I wake up every day thinking “Today is a brand new day! I am going to be great today! I am going to do this for real!” And by noon, I am off track.

And now I am depressed! Dieting Sucks!!

I didn’t eat good all weekend. And I have not eaten well today. I had all these people over for Easter and made desserts. A pie and a cheesecake and then nobody stuck around long enough to eat dessert so now it is sitting in my refrigerator. Great.

Hello Everyone!

jenna — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:58:07 +0000

I was just logging in my daily log in on WW.com when it hit me! My blog!! I haven’t blogged in…hmmm….I can’t even remember the last time I blogged. Do I even remember the site URL to log in to? Wow, this is bad! My WW peeps are going to hate me!!

So anyways, sorry for my little blog vacation. I seriously don’t know what happend. Just completely forgot about it I guess. Nothing new to report really. I was down 2 pounds this week from last week. Before you get too excited, I was up before that from my original weight. I’ve been doing pretty good this week though I think. A little screw up here and there but nothing too major! I’m hoping I will be down again next week but as TOM will be coming to town, I highly doubt that.

Found a new gym hobby. A trainer there suggested that I try this stair stepper. It’s not a regular stair stepper. It’ s more like a mini escalator that you climb. The trainer said it is their best weight loss machine at the gym. Anyways, besides a trainer, a friend also suggested it. She is up to an hour at level 8. She told me not to get frustruated if I can only do 5 minutes at a low level to begin with because that was how she started. (and coming from this teeny tiny woman sounded good) Well, I actually ended up doing 20 minutes at level 4 which I was pretty excited about. BEST WORKOUT EVER!! It was really hard but it felt so good when I was done. And it felt even better when I logged in to WW.com and it was 4 activity points for 20 minutes of exercise. I am going to try to do 20 minutes on level 4 for a week and gradually bump up the amount of time before I bump up the level. Pretty excited about that!

Nothing else to report really. Oh, I do have a question for anyone who might know the answer. “The Pill”. I have heard from numerous sources that it makes you gain weight when you go on it, and/or it makes it harder to lose weight. True? False?

Back from my hellacious week

jenna — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:48:35 +0000

Time to get back on track. Last week was just crazy. I had to come home straight from work, and work on my scrap stuff for the show. Went to bed around 11 or 12 every night last week, which is beyond late for me. Thursday night I had to drive to the Convention Center right after work to help set up. Got home about 11:30 that night. Then, I went back right after work on Friday to work the crop. We went out to dinner after that. (Water and a little pasta) Got home around 11:45ish. Then went back in the morning at 8:00 and was on my feet until 5:00 when the show ended. (2 chipotle chicken tacos & a diet pepsi for lunch.) We quickly got our booth taken down and loaded in two hours. I don’t know how that heck we did that. From there, I went straight to a retirement party in Tualatin. (1 glass of red wine, chicken, veggies, a salad, & 1/2 a dinner roll) Got home about 11:15 that night. Was in bed by 12 midnight, but couldn’t sleep. I probably fell asleep finally around 1 but didnt sleep well. Got up the next morning, Sunday, Trevin and I went and had breakfast at Elmer’s (bad choice, I had eggs, hashbrowns, coffee, toast, bacon-a total okie breakfast) From there I went to my grandma’s in Salem for her birthday. We had lasagna and Salad. After that, went down to Corvallis for my precious Alice’s 3rd birthday where I had a small slice of cheese pizza, salad, and a glass of red.

WHEW! That was the busiest week of my life. Notice how I didn’t mention the gym anywhere in there. And, for dinner last week, we just kept grabbing something quicky with no room to cook.

Luckily that week is over and I can get back on track. I had toast for breakfast today. We can some japanese stir fry for lunch (not the greatest diet wise, but it was loaded with veggies) and two big bottles of water (at 24oz each) and to the gym tonight for sure!!

This week sucks!!!

jenna — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:46:55 +0000

Sorry it has been a while. (And sorry that I often begin my posts with that exact sentence). This week is just a really busy, weird week. First of all, I was starting to notice a bit of a difference in my body. Clothes fitting slightly nicer, lost a few inches. And guess what time of the month rolled around! That started Tuesday. But Saturday, I started experiencing some all to familiar symptoms. By Sunday, I woke up with this stabbing pain in my back on the left. I went to the Dr. Monday with both sides of my back hurting. The UTI was back, and now in my kidneys! I don’t get it. I have never had a bladder infection in my entire life, and now I have had two in one month. (Or maybe just a continuation of the first one, not really sure) Also, I promised my friend Tricia that I would help her out with the Scrapbooking convention that she is doing a booth at and she gave me this big project to do. It needed to be done by Wednesday night and I only got the stuff on Friday night. Plus, Saturday, I had to run all over the place to get supplies for it. I literally had to spend every minute from the time I got home from work, to the time I went to bed this week working on it. I have to set up tonight, and work Friday night, and all day Saturday. Then, a retirement party Sat night and my grandmother’s birthday on Sunday. I have not gone to the gym once this week. And I haven’t been eating very well either. UGH!!