What I ate on Tuesday

I am trying to take pictures of what I ate. The day started out being artsy and quickly went downhill.

At 7:30 I gave my banana and vitamin and since I M trying to push out my real breakfast from 9:00 to 9:30 I am adding in a cheddar cheese stick for protein. No Weight Wafchers or light, but actual full fat cheese.

At 9:30 I have 1 cup of Greek yogurt - combination of plain and vanilla (mainly plain), blueberries and a dozen or so almonds (change from granola)

Lunch should be at 12:30 but was later today. Last week when I had leftover chicken I was more full longer but yesterday I had a chicken salad wrap and was starving. I decided to have the chicken salad (chicken, celery, red grapes, light mayo, curry powder) not in the wrap so I could see how much food I was eating. I put some in the wrap. Didn’t finish all the carrots.

With a slightly later lunch and a crazy afternoon I didn’t get in a snack. I had to hurry to eat between 6:30 and 7:30 before an 8:00 pm field hockey game. I wasn’t responsible for feeding anyone else. So I made a taco bowl of sorts. 1 cup leftover pasta, 3 Oz cold chicken, 3/4 cup black beans, queso freso, light sour cream, bit of guacamole, salsa and lettuce. Yummy!

Back to....everything

I've been thinking about posting since I last posted about my bike ride at the end of July. But life got away from me.

School started for the kids almost 2 weeks ago, but with the extreme heat (which led to 1/2 days) and a 4 day weekend for the holiday, it's been a whirlwind.

But the good thing is that as of September 1st I've finally started running again. Very slowly and doing a 5 minute run/ 1 minute walk method (though have been trying do some singular miles running the whole thing).
I've got a 10K on November 3rd, so I figured starting with 3 miles on September 1st, adding 1/2 mile per week I could get up to 6.5 miles. I also ran 2x last week with friends at 5 am :(
Sunday I couldn't get my 3.5 miles done at 6:30 am, but I didn't make myself go at 5:00 pm to stay on my training plan. It was no humid and almost chilly. Wonderful running weather. Too bad it won't last. But hopefully we will have some sort of fall this year, unlike last fall.



August was a long month - I spent most of it being pretty miserable with my weight. Here I am on August 7th before we went to The Melting Pot to celebrate 4 family birthdays.



We were on vacation the 3rd week of August - here is celebrating my birthday with lobster in Maine. Yum!



I am not a huge beach person, so one day we drove up to the mountains at Sunday River resort. See me pulling the "hide behind my family" tactic :(














Tuesday September 4th I decided to go see a nutritionist to get another perspective (I'll write a whole post about her advice (and not) and what changes I've been making).

I think she had me at 232.6 (and that was taking 2 lbs off for clothes). This morning I was 228.8. Mini-goal is 227. Below that is the lowest weight I will have seen in over a year.

Cross my fingers I can make some positive changes this fall. I've got 2 vacations, 1 in a couple of month, and one at the end of June, that I want to feel GOOD about!