from FLAB to FAB!

I don’t feel AS guilty about the turkey flatbread I had becauseeeee I worked out again today (:

30 minutes of laps at the pool…felt sooo good, except I’m paying for it now…I inhaled a little bit of water, LOL, so my nose and throat still burn from the chlorine.

It was worth it, though…phewwww I LOVE swimming!  Back again for more tomorrow!  According to LoseIt, 214 calories burned.  I can’t wait for tomorrow!!!

UGGGH.  being back at work obviously is cutting into my “blog what I eat and do to workout” time.  siiiigh.  it does feel good to be back, though.  I love catching credit card fraud (;

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Breakfast: Two slices of Arnold’s Healthy Nut 10 grain, whole wheat bread with Sugar Free Raspberry Preserves and Philadelphia cream cheese

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Lunch: …a turkey raspberry flatbread from a local restaurant here.  AGH it was soooo good but probably sooo bad for me.  Along with a dill pickle spear and some kettle cooked chips.

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Dinner: …the rest of my delicious flatbread.  My boyfriend treated me to lunch before I went to work and I didn’t finish it, so I took the other half to dinner.  And I enjoyed every single bit of it.  :9

The flatbread, and chips, and pickle…was probably like 800 calories.  Sooo between all three meals I was just under my calorie limit for the day.

I’ve been tracking my meals on my iPhone by using LoseIt and to reach my weight goal at losing 2 lbs. a week, have been set with a daily calorie limit of 1,211.  The past few days, I’ve realized that I keep only taking in around 700 calories a day.  The reason this worries me is because to be honest with everyone here, my eating habits haven’t really changed.  I’ve always eaten pretty healthy stuff, it’s the fact that I don’t work out that was causing me to gain, I think.

So, I’m really conflicted here - even though I’m trying to eat healthier, do I eat MORE to meet the 1,211 calories, or since this has brought light to the fact that I’ve kind of always eaten JUST 700 or so calories a day, do I stick to my usual eating patterns?  The only thing I’ve really done is exchanged regular meat for lean and white bread for whole grain.  I’ve basically just changed all regular stuff for “light” stuff.  700 calories sounds like malnourishment to me though, or something.  :P

Then again, I’m really bad at calories - I honestly don’t even really like to count them because it makes me feel obsessed - but I’ve been keeping track of my food lately to see WHAT I am doing wrong and how to change it…and honestly, there’s very little difference.  The addition of fitness is the biggest change to my lifestyle.

Started C25K today!  Workout one - 5 minute warmup, 20 minutes alternating of 60 seconds running and 90 seconds walking, 5 minute cooldown.  I DID end up going outside…lol.  I dragged my poor pup Tucker along again, he didn’t enjoy it as much as last time which was a leisurely walk.

I went food shopping yesterday and made some health conscious decisions for once…PHEW, shopping healthier and organic is a LOT more expensive than just…shopping!  :/  I spent $60 on the amount of stuff I’d probably get for $25 if I wasn’t caring about calorie contents, sugar contents, carbs, fat, etc.  Oh well…I suppose if I must be willing to make a change that I need to dig a little deeper into my pockets and get the plastic out!  :P  Good thing yesterday was payday, so I felt a little less guilty…lol.

Breakfast: 3/4 cup Nature’s Path Organic Pumpkin Flax Plus Granola w/ 1/2 cup 1% milk…OMG this stuff was AWESOME!  I nabbed it in the cereal aisle.  It does have 300 calories per serving (3/4 cup) and 11g of sugar, which worried me, but it IS high in fiber (which I need more of), is whole grain, and has 0g trans fats…plus, it tastes awesome, AND has pumpkin seeds in it (which I loooove!) I think in moderation this will be a good cereal to have around.

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Lunch: No picture, but I popped a chicken breast in my new George Foreman grill and paired it with a 4oz side of Musselman’s Applesauce.  I don’t know about anyone else…but I can eat any kind of chicken…grilled, fried, baked…without seasoning.  I LOVE the taste of chicken just by itself!  I didn’t add anything to the chicken breast…lol.

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Dinner: Another Healthy Choice (: lol

I wasn’t sure if I should even participate in this week’s WIW due to my eating healthier and getting active is so new…but decided to anyways, LOL.

Alrighty then…my first weigh in…this is only day four of my new routine and plan to get fit and healthy, so I wasn’t really expecting anything…

Starting Weight: 180 lbs.

Current Weight: 175 lbs.

Weight Lost: -5 lbs.

Total Weight Lost: -5 lbs.

I’m totally not jumping around and screaming hooray though, yet.  I’m due to get my “visitor” ANY day now and I’ve been SUPER bloated, so when I originally weighed myself most of it was probably water weight and me being bloated…I know that there’s just absolutely no way or explanation for having lost 5 lbs. in barely four days, so I’m not going to believe it.  I’m well aware that with my body, any weight loss routine takes about two weeks to start showing TRUE results.

Now what the TRUE accomplishment would be is to keep it off…so for next week’s WIW, if I’m still -5 lbs., THEN I will be jumping around and screaming hooray…so long as my back allows me to…lol.  (;

Hope everyone has a great WIW!

Today, I went swimming for 45 minutes to see how it would feel on my back.  My back was fine at first, but it started to ache pretty badly after about the sixth or seventh lap, so I freestyled the rest of the way and used a boogie board to finish my laps.

According to LoseIt, the style of swimming that I was doing at the speed I was doing it for 45 minutes burned 321 calories.  Woohoo!  (:  Plus it was a LOT of fun.  I loooove swimming.  I can’t go again today, but I definitely plan on using swimming as my primary workout the rest of the week.

a day late…oh well.  I was super busy yesterday, what, with it being my first day back to work in 18 days and all.  :P

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Breakfast: None :/ I know, I know…I need to eat breakfast.

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Lunch: I didn’t take a picture, but I made a smoothie with:  1% milk, 1 cup Whey Protein, ice cubes, frozen strawberries, blueberries, and blackberries, and…sigh…Blue Bunny vanilla ice cream.  Which probably made it horrendous as far as calories counts go.  It was good - which is a sure sign that it was probably really bad for me…LOL.

Dinner: I didn’t take a picture of my actual dinner, but uploaded a snippet from the parent company’s website.  It was a Healthy Choice Fresh Mixer in Creamy Tomato Basil flavor…sooo delicious!  (:  Since I work 3:30-midnight Tuesday-Saturdays I’ll probably be eating a lot more of these, lol.

I have to disagree.  I don’t care about body charts, fat charts, none of them.  I know MY body well enough to know that when I was 130 lbs, I was SO comfortable.  I felt just right.  To be honest, I’d have been scared if I could see my hip bones any more.  130 is a comfortable weight for me and that’s what I want to be.  That is my goal.  Not what the “charts” say I should be for my height.  If 130 is large, or “pushing it,” or even obese for 5’1”, then that’s sad.  130 is healthy, in my opinion.

Sorry for the rant, but it’s annoying.

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