Oh Monday!

Since being on maternity leave I like Mondays even less! I miss my hubby when he goes back to work, we have so much fun on the weekend and it just doesn't feel like there is ever enough time! So the teething seems to be getting better, today Grace slept until 6:10 and it was great! I crawled into bed yesterday at about 9:15 - I even fell asleep before hubby could get upstairs about 5 minutes behind me....I got a really good walk in yesterday but I did over eat a little at dinner, we had roast, mashed potatoes and yorkshire puddings (so yummy).

The weather is better today so I am going to get a nice walk up to the mall in and then I will try and do my Turbo Jam dvd in the afternoon. I also want to work on decorating my tree - hubby put it up for me yesterday but I didn't have anytime to decorate it. I love the look of a Christmas tree!

I am so looking forward to going to a WW meeting tonight and learning about the new plan, I am going to the website now to start reading!

Best Laid Plans.....

Thank you for your comments lately - you guys really help to keep me going!

Well I am definitely going to stick with them this time. I think I may have figured out my gain as well, I have been eating too many points. I get  got 10 extra points because I am nursing. I found in the beginning I was losing too quickly so I kept eating them even when we started giving Grace solid food. It says I should not be losing more than about 1.5 pounds per week to not hurt my milk supply. I found that I was losing too quickly so I kept eating them. Well we have been giving her more food so I should really have been cutting that down to 5 extra points per day. I am really excited to go to the meeting tomorrow and learn the new plan. I am going to use my weight from yesterdays WI as my "starting" weight.

I spent alot of time thinking about what i want and how I am going to get there. I had a goal to be out of the 170's by Christmas...well that isn't going to happen. I am going to change that to January 8th. That is just over 8 pounds in 6 weeks, this I can do. I need to work hard over Christmas and pick up the slack when my SS class stops for the holidays (Dec.14). My plan is to track and get a minimum of 30 minutes activity everyday. I will have no days off. I need to make sure I keep moving and not let this get the better of me. I need this, it is amazing how 2 seconds on the scale made me feel. I know happiness isn't a number on the scale but at this point it is a big part of it for me. I just don't feel like myself in this body - time to change.

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

All of this tuned up at WI today. I am not too sure how this happened but I gained 2.2! This puts me right back where I started and I am not impressed. I in no way ate where I should have gained...I had one off day, not a week, just a day. Well there is nothing I can do about this at this point, I just need to pick myself off the ground, dust myself off and really get back to it. Obviously I have not been doing as good as I thought I was so I need to start paying more attention. I thought they were going to explain the new program to us today at WI but they are waiting until next week! It is online Monday morning so my mom and I are going to go to a meeting Monday night and get all the new materials and hopefully the new calculator too. I need this change to spark me again....Well hubby and I are sitting down to watch Eclipse!

Epic Fail

That was my day yesterday....Grace is teething and it is not fun. She cut her first tooth earlier this week and it seems to have started to bother her. She was up at 5:50 and did not nap for more than 2 hours total all day long! Needless to say I couldn't go to SS and I couldn't get my dvd done either. Trying to get her a bit of a nap before bed we went to the mall for dinner and some baby ora gel. I did not make any good choices yesterday so I am not going to list my food for the day...I am too ashamed that I let this get in the way of my eating right. She is going to have alot more days like yesterday and even if I can't get my workout in it is no reason to let it derail my eating. Today will be a better day - she was up at 5:25 and was asleep again by 7:25 and is still napping (7:52) - compared to yesterday this is a record! We are going to be spending the day out with my mom so I will push for either subway or tim hortons for a good lunch option. My mom said she will hang out later so I can get my soup made - back to my planning!

Turbo Jam!

I love it! After reading about Laura over at lauragetsfit I just had to have these dvd's. I found them on Ebay for $12.99 and I couldn't resist. I am so happy that I didn't. I just did the Learn and Burn yesterday and I could tell this is going to be good. It's fun and you get a great workout! I didn't feel like I was going to die or any part of my body was going to give out, I just felt like I had a great workout. I am going to try the 20 minute version tomorrow. Today I have my SS class and weather permitting we will hopefully be outside to enjoy some fresh air!

So I did not let my bad planning at lunch yesterday ruin my whole day. I wasn't perfect but I was pretty good - here is what I ate:

My regular PB toast and milk
Fiber 1 bar and pineapple
Spicy Italian Flatbread (20 points!)
Granola bar
3 egg whites with cheese and a bagel with a bit of butter and pineapple
Chips
1 coke zero and 2 glasses diet coke (with lunch)
5 16oz. glasses of water

So I really didn't want to include my chips or my granola bar....then I realized the only person I was hiding from was myself. So here it all is. You will notice I have them ever night - it is my snack after Grace goes to bed, my treat when my day is "over". I know I could find better things but the air popped popcorn is too loud and I just don't want fruit....

Being Prepared

So I had my lunch and the talk went great! I didn't get too involved but I did get most of my point across. I did not know where we were going and I thought I had made a good choice....not so! I got home and figured out my points - 20 points for a flat bread! It was good but not that good. I think next time it will be a salad and half the flat bread......

I haven't had a chance to get to the video - stay tuned for tomorrow.

Lunch

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So I had a great day yesterday and to top it off I got my new dvd! I am going to try it this afternoon when I get home from lunch. I am going to lunch with my boss today about how things are going to run when I come back in April. I am a little nervous about this because we are going to be talking about making some changes and I really want to be honest with her...the problem with that is what really needs to change are her son and daughter in law. Her son is so lazy and just doesn't pull his weight and her DIL (not married to this son) is so busy talking about nothing all day long that she does not get any work done. She is fiercely protective of them and can never see that they do anything wrong....I am going to have to use kid gloves. I am going to see if they have a soup and salad or something equally as light. My tummy is getting upset just thinking about it.....

Oh well - I did pretty good eating yesterday and got more fruit and veggies. Still not perfect but better:

Toast and milk
Fiber 1 bar and pineapple
grilled cheese, carrott and chips
granola bar
steak, tortolini and cesar salad
Chips
2 coke zero and 5 16 oz glasses of water

I really need to get away from the toast, it's too many points but I am enjoying it. I think I will switch with the new points. I also got 1 hour of activity at SS and felt great. I used 7 of my weekly points. I have again planned dinner and I am really looking forward to that and relaxing on the couch and watching the hockey game!