Oh, the cravings!!

Wow, tonight has been VERY hard not to snack! I've been wanting my ketchup chips that have been sitting in the kitchen (UNOPENED) for the last week or so. Instead I had some watermelon. Not at all the same thing, but maybe it's satisfied my tummy for a bit. I find that the more tired I am, the more I want to snack.

Went to the big city fair today...did a lot of walking and tried to eat mostly healthy. I had Extreme Pita for lunch (grilled chicken), but had some cotton candy and some Coke, so I could have been better, but I suppose I could have been much worse.

Tomorrow, when I go to the gym, I will be weighing myself...it will have been a week since I last did that, so HOPEFULLY it will be a loss. I've worked really hard this week. Went to the gym and ate mostly healthy. We'll see what happens.

Found a very cool ticker to keep track of my weight-loss!



Thank god tomorrow is a holiday! I think the only thing planned is laundry and the gym. Ok, enough of this nonsense...time to go rest my tired self on the couch.

Ribfest! Mmmmmm!

It was a busy day here! Woke up early (before 9 a.m.)...thanks to the cat, the kitten, and the dog. They do NOT like to sleep in, but they will NAP all damn day long! Little bastards. Anyway, got up and had some breakfast and then headed out to get groceries and such. Came home, had some lunch, then SOMEONE (my better half) laid down for a nap.

I went to the gym! Had a really good workout. Didn't really want to go, but that's usually when I end up having the best workout. Weird. I even tried a couple of new exercises. I've been doing the same old routine for a long time, so I'm trying to incorporate something new every once and awhile. Found a really cool site that shows various exercises (www.physicalfitnet.com).

After the gym we went down to the lake, where they were having Ribfest! It was our first time going and it was pretty tasty! We shared a fresh sqeezed lemonade, a rib, brisket, and chopped pork plate, with cole slaw and beans. Good time was had by all! There were a gazillion people there, wow. Apparently it's the biggest Ribfest around.

Here's a yummy breakdown of my eats today:

• All-Bran Strawberry Bites w/ milk
• tomato sandwich w/ Miracle Whip
• bbq chopped pork (had a few tastes of the brisket and ribs, but the pork is more my thing!); cole slaw and beans

Now it's time for showers and then we're going to lay on the couch and watch the Reno 911 movie. We enjoy the show, so hopefully the movie will be good.

Almost the Weekend!

It's Thursday, which means it's almost Friday, which means it's almost the September long weekend! YAY!! So excited...nothing big planned, but after getting up early a few times this week, I'm very much looking forward to sleep!

May go to the drive-in on the weekend. It's an all-nighter, with 3 movies, so we'll see. Otherwise, just going to sleep, play, read, workout, etc.

Went to the gym this morning. I was the only one there for the first half hour. I love small gyms.

Food for the day:

• oatmeal
• watermelon
• chicken fried rice
• grapes
• egg salad sandwich

Pretty good day. I think blogging is helping me stay away from snacking in the evenings. I'm so busy doing this and entering my food and excercise for the day into The Daily Plate website, I don't have TIME to snack! LOL!

Ok, off to the couch I go. Need to lay down before I pass out!

Twice? In ONE Day??

Yes, I managed to go to the gym not once, but TWICE in one day! YAY! I was too sleepy to get my lazy butt out of bed yesterday morning, but got up today to go. Then, after supper, I went again with my woman. I just did a light workout, but it was nice. :-) I was very annoyed with myself yesterday for not going to the gym, so I'm very proud of myself for going this morning and then again this evening.

I had a very yummy lunch today. Wheatberry salad and a Campbell's Healthy Request soup bowl. Very good and pretty healthy. Then, for supper we had Subway. I love Subway. So good! I've been eating strawberries this week for my mid-morning snack and then grapes for my mid-afternoon snack. Tonight I cut up a watermelon, so that will be my mid-morning snack for the rest of the week. Mmmmmmmmmmm!

I know this is a short entry today, but I'm freakin' sleepy! Sometimes the early mornings kick my ass. Anyway, going to lay on the couch to watch/listen to my girl play guitar hero.

Holy Tiredness Batman

Wow, I'm sleeeeeeeeeeepy today. I don't enjoy Mondays when I wake up at a normal time, but when I wake up at 4:45 a.m., I enjoy Mondays even less. Yes, I DID make it to the gym this morning...yay me!!! It was tough, but I did it, so I'm proud of myself. It was kinda iffy for a minute when the stupid/cute cat sat on my chest and started purring. She never does that, so I was all, awww, how cute! I can't possibly leave while she's being cute (and not her usual devilish self). My woman was snoring and tossing and turning, however, so luckily, that cancelled out the cute cat nonsense. :-)

I was somewhat disappointed when I weighed myself this morning. I was 172.2 lbs. Now, this COULD have something to do with the Arby's that I had last night, so who knows. All I'm sayin' is that I'd BETTER be less than 172.2 lbs next Monday. Damn scale. Oh, did I mention that this morning I checked to see how many calories I had consumed at Arby's last night? I had been all proud of myself too, cause I didn't have as many fries or onion petals as I normally do. Ready? Almost 1000 calories. Umm, yeah. Wish I would have calculated the side items BEFORE I ate them. Oh well. Live and learn.

Gonna be an early night tonight. I'm going to go to the gym in the morning again and then take Wednesday off. That way I get at least a bit of sleep during the week. Makes for a long week if I workout all 5 days of the work week. I'm not sure how I used to do that. Getting older sure messes with a girl!

Scary Movie!!

Well...went to the gym again today, yay!!! Two days in a row! Can I go for three?? We'll see tomorrow...hope so!

When I weighed myself yesterday, by the time I got home, I couldn't remember if the scale said 173.8 or 172.8, so I just took the higher number...I'll never know which one it was, but what I DO know is that today I was 171.0!!! I'm thinking that I was just retaining water, but hey, I'll take what I can get! I usually don't weigh myself so often, but since I wasn't sure about yesterday, I thought I'd go ahead. Mondays are my usual weigh days, so I'll post my weight tomorrow too. Then it will go back to once a week.

I realized that I forgot to put down what I ate on here yesterday, so I'll do that now, as well as what I had today.

Saturday

• All-Bran Strawberry Bites w/ milk
• big salad from grocery store salad bar
• beef noodle soup and piece of garlic bread from restaurant

Sunday

• All-Bran Strawberry Bites w/ milk
• big salad that I made at home
• apple
• Arby's roast beef sandwich, some fries, and some onion petals

Not too bad. Went to the gym both days, so that was good. I didn't have any chips, which has been my big weakness lately. I'll just get in chip moods and go crazy on them...eat until my tongue hurts from the salt. Once I've been working out for a few weeks again and continue to eat healthy, I know that I won't be craving the bad stuff as much. Thank god.

Ohhhh, saw the movie "Mirrors" tonight at the theatre. Pretty good! Made us jump! Didn't know what to expect with this one, so it was a pleasant surprise.

I'd better go off to bed...4:45 a.m. comes EARLY! Keep your fingers crossed that I can drag my lazy ass out of bed!

My First Blog!

Big day today! Created my first blog and it's also the first day of getting back into losing weight. I HOPE I will be able to keep up with BOTH of those things.

Ok, a bit about me...much easier to put this into a post than into the "about me" section. I'm old...very old...32. Yes, I know...old. You don't have to tell me, my girlfriend tells me all the time. :-) I'm a lesbian, gaymo, queer (whatever suits your fancy) who just proposed to her almost 5 year girlfriend (now FIANCE!) on her 28th birthday a little over a week ago. The big day will be Dec.22, 2008. We can't wait! I thought it would be a good idea to get hitched on our 5 year anniversary...we're always forgetting the actual date, so if we get married on that day and have the date engraved in our rings, problem solved!

So many reasons to get back on the weight-loss wagon...feel better about myself, increase my confidence, look better, lessen the aches and pains of "old age", look cute again, feel cute again, look purdy for our wedding...many many reasons. So hard to get my tired and lazy ass out of bed in the mornings to get to the gym though. The gym is less than 5 minutes away from home, but the best time (for my schedule) is to go in the morning...the EARLY morning...BEFORE the butt crack of dawn. I try to get up at 4:40 a.m., get to the gym just after 5:00 a.m., and be done working out by just after 6:00 a.m. This allows me to go home, get ready for work, catch the train into the city, and be at my desk just before 8:00 a.m. I was very diligent for a good portion of last year, but then, of course, sh*t happens. It's been a rough year so far here...both my mom and my fiance's mom passed away earlier this year. Hard to get out of that "just don't care how much weight I'm gaining" kinda funk. At least with the upcoming nuptuals, we both have new motivation in our weight-loss goals.

So, my starting weight (today) is 173.8 lbs and my goal weight (where I was about 5 years ago - coincidence, I think not!!) is 130 lbs. Yes, I used to be 130 lbs before the love of my life and I got together...they say the more weight you gain when you are with someone, the happier you are. I must be freakin ecstatic!!! My heaviest (I think) was around 190 lbs. I've been up and down my whole life, but being 5'3", 190 lbs was a bit much for me. I knew I needed to lose weight, so we joined a gym last year and I did really well, losing about 20 lbs. Now, I've started to gain a couple of pounds back and have been trying to make it to the gym for weeks now, with no success. I think I've gone maybe once a week in the last month. Anyway, my current short to mid-term goal is to lose 15 to 20 lbs by Dec.22, 2008. I have 4 months to do this, so I know it's doable. I just have to focus and keep at it.

Today, we both went to the gym, yay!!! We plan to go tomorrow as well. This blog will help me to keep track of when I go, what I do while I'm there, and also what I eat during the day. I've been pretty good about keeping a spreadsheet of what I've been eating and the calories that I've consumed, so I'll be listing that kind of thing as well.

I hope you enjoy this blog...feel free to post some comments, thoughts, and/or words of encouragement along the way. I need all the help I can get!!