Here we go again!

Okay guys, I have not written in a WHILE! It's because I'm a jerk. I have been doing NOTHING worth blogging about.... or so I thought! Last week, I didn't swim and I ate at a buffet and stuffed myself so full, my pants didn't fit for 3 days; but guess what happened? I lost another 1.5 pounds that week! I guess I'm doing better than I thought. :) I still have about 6 weeks until doomsday, (Alaska!) and I really seriously hope to be 15 pounds lighter in that time. So! Yet again... after taking a not so much needed break, I am climbing right back up on that wagon and buckling down! Smaller portions, less carbs, NO DAIRY! I've been eating the occasional cheese now and then, but I haven't had any cows milk, sour cream, yogurt or other forms of dairy for about a month! Maybe that's why I'm still losing weight...? In any case, I haven't given up yet, folks! I am on the radar again! Thanks to those of you who show support... 11 followers! Gettin up there! :)

Day 48: Can I get a HELL YEAH!!!!

Okay, so ummmm.... weigh day? YES! I was SOOO suprised! Cause I weighed myself at like, 4pm after I had eaten lunch AND cheated on my 'snack' of two mini bags of mini eggs....(girl scout cookies, mini eggs... it never ends, does it?!) I'm down 2.4 Ibs since THURSDAY!!! Can I get a HELL YEAH?! Woot!!! I'm so excited! And now I feel super duper bad for not swimming today. :( I actually only had the temporary pass to the YMCA and it expired on Saturday. They want a down payment plus first months, but I'm sort of addicted to saving my money lately, and I can't bring myself to pull the funds from my savings account, so I'll just have to wait until I get paid on Friday. Until then, I'll do walking and more Wii. Speaking of which, I did AWESOME at the Wii today. If anyone can beat my 866 spins on SuperHulaHoop, please let me know. I'll think you're lying, but we can most def have a hula hoop play off sometime. For shizzle. Eating wise I did supa dupa. Matthew and I did some paper mache masks today, and that was a lot of fun, but we had to go to the grocery store for some balloons, and (of course), it's easter season! And there are mini eggs EVERYWHERE!!! Gahh!!! Last year, I bought like, 4 monster bags, hoping that would last me until they were gone from all the stores, and I ended up eating them all in a week. THAT'S RIGHT. NO JOKE, and NO bueno, either. :( But this year, I was trying to avoid them altogether....until the balloons were in the same aisle. (EEeek!) So, the ginormous bags were on sale for like, $4 each along with the Robins Eggs, so I grabbed both bags, hardly thinking at all. It was totally like a reflex. Then, I saw the medium bags of mini eggs on sale for 2 for $6 along with the reeces eggs, which I ADORE as well, so I put down the ginormous bags and just picked out two of the mediums. Then, feeling SOOO bad about it, but knowing I just couldn't pass them by, I turn to find these teensy tiny single serving bags of mini eggs for just 2 for $1. Thank the Lord! He is kind, and he has mercy on me. :) I did grab 6 bags, but I put them all away (out of sight, out of mind, right?) And I'm so happy about the tiny bags because I'm less likely to tear open all six bags at once and eat them all; the bigger bags just make it so much easier to eat lots of them. :( So I gave in and ate two bags, but that's not so bad, I guess. Hopefull I can just AVOID them until after Easter. Anyway, breakfast was a bowl of the Bear Naked Banana Nut cereal and almond milk. For lunch I ate a delicious sandwich made of herb infused turkey, cheese and avocado. I also had apple slices dipped in pb. Dinner was just a pb & chocolate shake, but suprisingly, here it is 9pm and I'm still not hungry. YAY. I think it's the adrenaline of knowing I lost 2.4 Ibs this weekend. I'm so skinny. :)

Day 47

PAM!!! Thanks for your comment! It was so sweet, I read it like, 12 times before I wrote todays blog! Comments like yours are what keep me committed to my blog. I love you and your support....and you can tell BOB that he is TOTALLY missing out! :)

Weigh day today! WOOT!!! I'll post my 'success' (premature thinking is ALWAYS a good idea...) tomorrow. I did awesome yesterday. Started with a banana and water for breakfast. NOT ideal, but better than nothing, and I was running out the door... why, you ask? I'll tell you why! I went to church! GO ME! Hahaha... for the first time in almost a year, I went to CHURCH! It was actually awesome. The sermon was all about abortion and politics. A new church, with a pastor named Odor. Pastor Odor. Baha! But he didn't stink! He was great! I went to IHOP for lunch after, and I was SUCH a good girl this time, ordering a mushroom and spinach omelet (I didn't even eat the whole thing... it was HUGE) and a side plate of fruit. Half way through my fruit, my 3 yr old date started helping himself, so we shared it. Hahah!! It was cute tho, cause he kept saying, "Hey look! Another gwape!" And ate all my 'gwapes'. Then I teased him that he must not like watermelon, and of course, he then tackled all of those too. Hee hee....kids. I didn't eat dinner until like, 10 o'clock at night...(bad me...) but it was SOOOO good when I did! 2 oz of roasted pork tenderloin with roasted small potatoes and steamed broccoli. You know me... meat and potatoes are ALWAYS a treat! I didn't swim, cause the pool is closed Sundays and no park either...I'm a bad dog mommy. :( We're going on Wednesday no matter WHAT the weather is. I feel so bad!

Day 46

Eeeeghads! I had SUCH a good day today! For starters, TITO: I swam an extra FIVE laps. :) 35 laps in the pool today! WOOT! But I may have been a little lax on some of those laps, since it took me 50 minutes to do all 35. :( BAD, cause the pool is closed tomorrow. I should have swam 70 laps. Or 100! I got this new Bear Naked cereal/granola stuff with dried banana slices...SO GOOD! I had 2 bowls with soy milk, which only added to about 400 calories; and today I took a little trip to the local grocery store to get some magazines...(I've been doing some artwork lately...mainly collages for McKenna in the form of enormous envelopes)...and I happened upon the diet book section. There was a book swearing up and down that you can eat whatever you want (donuts, ice cream, pancakes, steak, BREAD), WHATEVER! As long as you eat it before 9am. It's called the 'BIG BREAKFAST DIET'. I'm all about eating tons of food, so I thought that might be the diet for me. But then I saw this book called 'Eat This, Not That: the Restaurant Guide' and it showed a really yummy looking burger that was 1100 calories, and then Red Robins Guacamole burger for only 600 cals! And it said to eat it! So? I was all.... 'Okay, sure!' :) But I didn't. I resisted...for then. I had it for dinner instead. Baha! But wait, I'm getting ahead of myself. I ended up going home and having 'the usual', but this time I had it on a whole wheat tortilla; OM-FREAKIN-G. For reals, It was sooooo good, guys. I almost cried. I LOVE sandwiches! Does anyone NOT love sandwiches?! So... I went on a date. This guy took me to dinner tonight, and I said, 'why not go to Red Robin?' ....I'm so bad. So we go to Red Robin. And I looked phenomenal!!! :) So Louis (our waiter) comes to take our order and I look over at my date, (remember: this is a FIRST date), and I say, 'I'm totally getting a burger. Is that breaking rules? The girls supposed to get a salad on the first date, right?' He started laughing and said, 'No, I think that's HOT!' Hahahaha!!! Thank God, cause I REALLY wanted that guacamole burger! Hee hee hee....

Day 45

I broke the chain!!!! I didn't go swimming yesterday. :( My cousin called me while I was on my way and she was all, 'we never hang out anymore!!!' and I was all, 'you're right' and she was all, 'come over! let's do stuff!' and I did. Spent the day with my cousin. It was really fun tho. But I started the day so well with a vanilla protein shake and all. Then we went to Sonic for lunch and I just LOVE the chicken toaster sandwich. And I got it. :( Okay FINE I also got an ice cream. But I skipped dinner. Somehow I wasn't hungry at the end of the day. :( Can you believe how short this blog is? It's like I'm jipping you.

COMBO!!! Days 43 & 44

Okay, so I usually post the day after, but since it's 11:10 at night, I haven't posted for yesterday yet and I'm not eating anything else, you get both days rolled into one. :) So.... I finally got my bagel with cream cheese. It's true. I've been eating WAY too many bagels lately, but who can help it? I mean, really? They're delish! I also had two strips of bacon. THEN... I swam 30 laps. In 40 minutes. PROGRESS!!! That's 10 minutes away from my goal! I'm such a rockstar. Totally gonna be skinny like, TOMORROW. Lunch was possibly the awesomest I've had in forever, but I bought enough ingredients so that I'm going to be eating it for about the next week, so when I say 'I had the usual for lunch today', you'll know it was this: a sandwich. But the greatest sandwich on Gods green earth. Okay: 2 slices 45 calorie SaraLee whole wheat bread, 2T mayo, 1T mustard, 1 vine ripe tomato, 1/2 avocado (ABOCATHO!), 1 slice colby jack cheese, 2 oz lean turkey breast and kale. I steam the kale VERY slightly...just until it's that beautiful bright green color....(YUM).... I'm telling you people, Subway ain't got shit on me. THIS is a sandwich. Steamed asparagus and a glass of soy or almond milk and this is one very ROUND meal. And by round, I mean my tummy hurts when I'm done packing it all in, but I'm okay with that. :) Seriously tho. I usually spell 'EAT ME' with the mustard. Just a little joke....
So dinner was....what was dinner? Oh yeah. It was pizza. 3 pieces. How could I forget?! I was so mad at myself! AND 2 cookies! Crapola. Whatever. I did extra Wii.
Okay, but TODAY was... better? Yes, better. Because I did the Wii in the morning (again) and guess what?! I've lost another 1Ibs! This means the swimming really is paying off! Imagine what would happen if I actually ate right..... scary. Anyway! It still says I'm 'obese', so screw the Wii. I had to be to work earlier today AND the girls took FOREVER this morning and were late for school which left me with only 30 mins to swim. I tried my best, but only did 20 laps. Bummer. I'll have to make up the other 10 tomorrow. No biggie. I'm so excited tho, cause I did freestyle the whole time with absolutely no breaks. NONE. Not a one. Just a straight 20 laps right in a row. I mean, can YOU do that?! Seriously, I want someone to come swimming with me so I can show you how much better I am at it. Come on, I'm a fat girl. I need this. Volunteers? I always think of funny things to put in my blog while I'm in the water, and I never remember them when I'm at my computer. Lame.
Food wise, I did REALLY well... until Dawn brought me cookies. You guessed it; GIRLSCOUT cookies. I mean, I don't think I've ever seen more gs cookies in my entire life! For reals? Why are they suddenly popping up everywhere?! I ate a whole box of peanut butter patties. Yes, a whole box. For bfast: 1 lowfat pancake with 2T sugar free syrup.....hahaha! Do they even make lowfat pancakes? I lied. I made these from scratch and - trust me - they were NOT lowfat. And ever since I lived in Colorado with my dear Aunt Noma/Betty Crocker, I have made my own syrup...and I make it with nothing BUT sugar. But I did only have 1 cake and 2T of syrup. :) Lunch was 'the Usual' :) But I only had 5 minutes to eat it, so I HOOVERED my whole plate. Not good. My stomach was SO full! Oh, and SO good.... And I skipped dinner today.... Apparently, making up for it with that box of cookies. Rrrr... Oh yes, I also ate a bag of popcorn. But it was a healthy pop single serving bag, which is only 1 weight watcher point for the whole bag. Yay.

Day 42: CHEATER!!!

Love Ben. Who knows that I love Ben, raise of hands? *sigh...
Ok, so I usually measure myself around 2pm everyday. But today I measured myself at 7am.... I needed a boost of good juju. (Fyi, if you measure yourself in the mornings, you're bound to be just a little lighter than the afternoon, due to a solid 8 hours of no eating, just digesting....which is why you should actually always weigh in in the mornings - after you poop.) So! My confidence is boosted, cause I weighed in 1.3 Ibs lighter than yesterday! Woot! Okay, swimming here I come! Hee hee... but let me tell you about yesterday, day 42.
I started off bad, but not so much. I made pancakes for the girls, and obviously made myself some too. (I heart pancakes.) But I put butter on them that tasted freezer burnt, so I only had a few bites. No, really. Like - 3 bites total. I swam my 30 laps only this time it was easier. It took me about 45 mins this time, so I'm 15 minutes away from my goal. Harder, faster. I can do it. I know I'm getting better, cause I can actually breath the whole time now. It was hard for me to breath correctly when I first started, and I found myself keeping my head out of the water most of the time, but yesterday I did the whole shebang, breathing and all. No problems. :) For lunch I did HORRIBLY cause I usually eat with Matthew, but when I got to work I found he had already eaten, so I was forced to stop by somewhere on our way to the Natural History museum and pick something up - McD's. Oh, my old friend. I will not lie. I had my old favorite: 2 Hot n Spicey McChickens with tomato and a large fry. Okay, that's not all. My cousin, Anya, came with me, and she ordered chicken strips and didn't eat them all. Damn her. I had two of them. The were tasty. I'm SUCH an EATER! Gah! But anyway....Dinner was the only really sensible meal I had: Italian sausage with grilled peppers and onions. Mmmmm. It was delicious. Oh yes, and somewhere in the day I also had one of those 100 calorie packs; chocolate covered pretzels. YUM.

Oh, and this just in: I may have a stalker. His name is Ryan Facebook. Okay, 'Facebook' isn't his real last name, but again: changing names to protect the handsome. I kind of 'hope' he's stalking, anyway. Let's be on the look out, shall we? Mmmm....

Day 41: The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, so help me....HAMBURGER

Okay, soooo.... Day 41 was NOT so good. I diluted myself into thinking I could do a liquid only diet, since I had done so horribly bad over the weekend. Ummm... by 5pm, I was so hungry/munchy, I could have eaten a cow (especially dipped in chocolate... gross). But really, I'd had soy milk with protien in it for bfast, and a pb and banana shake for lunch, and lots of water. By dinner, I wanted FOOD. And not just any food. I knew I had that 'fat-girl-eat-now' look in my eye as I raided the fridge for something that looked tasty and was healthy all at the same time. There was some ground turkey, lettuce and avocado, so you know what I was thinking? HAMBURGER SALAD!!! You remember this, right? From my first week? Absolutely delicious salad with all the fixin's of a hamburger, sans the bun? Well, about half way through cooking the turkey meat, I happened to look at the expiration date of the package, and it said 2-18-10. Bummer. I'd already chopped all the other ingredients, so I ate the salad sans meat as well; it was NOT satisfying. So I ate pizza. Two slices. I should have stopped there, but two hours later, sitting in front of my tv watching my fav show, I was munchy. I wanted that bagel with cream cheese that I never got, but pb sounded better yet again. Bad enough? Not even. Dawn came home with her kids with a sack from Burger King, reaking of the ever-pleasant 'whopper' aroma. I caved. Again. It was a whopper jr, but honestly, what's the point of a whopper jr? All the calories at half the size? Uuuugggghhh!!!! All of this was SUCH a disapointment, ESPECIALLY considering the fact that I swam 30 laps yesterday. 30 LAPS!!! It's a 25 yard pool, so that's 1500 yards, my friends. Yep. I was feeling pretty good with myself until I weighed in 1.5 Ibs heavier than Thursday. So what did I do? I went on to eat like crap. Crap. What a waste. Why am I not sticky?!

Day 40

Here is where I need to keep my mind in the game. You see, for some reason, even when I'm losing weight like crazy, I just don't want to stick to things. Ever. My siblings can attest to this. I'm not very sticky. :/ I wanted a bagel and cream cheese for breakfast, but I had no cream cheese so I settled for a bagel and peanut butter; which, it turns out, is better for me anyway, since I'm trying to swear off dairy. And the bagel was whole wheat. Lunch was a vanilla shake and dinner.... oh, dinner.... I had this enormous craving for huge, soft and still crunchy, restaurant style french fries. And a pineapple burger. From Red Robin. Alas, I gave in. A burger and a basket of fries. You see? Here I am, losing A POUND A DAY and I decide I don't want to anymore. What is WRONG with me?! On the up side, I did bring along my Rick Warren biography to read, and I actually got in to it. I'd never heard of Rick Warren before I picked his bio from a stack of books at the library. Anyway, I went home and ate two huge homemade chocolate chip cookies. AND ON TOP OF EVERYTHING, I DIDN'T EXERCISE. The pool was closed AND it rained all day, so I didn't take Pheobes out or anything. Pah. I guess it was my lazy day. That's what we'll call it. I've decided to do a cleansing day for day 41. It's gonna be nothing but liquids. We'll see how I do.... until then!

Day 39: PIZZA....

It's amazing how much pizza I'll eat when it's available. Honestly. There it was in my fridge: a whole pizza. Perfectly perfect in every way. I ate two slices for lunch and two slices for dinner. (Along with 4 chocolate chip cookies that Dawn made. Brat.) I had Total with soy milk for breakfast, so that wasn't all bad. And a glass of soy milk with lunch and dinner. Pfff. Anyway, I can't feel super bad about it. I just can't! You know why? Because I swam 25 laps on day 39. Yes, you read it right. No mistake. Here, I'll write it again: I swam TWENTY FIVE LAPS. I just couldn't stop myself! I wanted to do extra because of the cookie catastrophe yesterday, so I just kept swimming! 25! I'm amazing, I have to say. It's kind of disgusting just how much I love to swim. Except I'm a little nervous about Sunday. I read somewhere in the Bible that the Devil owns the water. Especially on Sundays. So I think it might be blasphemous to swim on Sundays. Oh! I think the YMCA is closed Sundays. Maybe. Hopefully. Cause then that will make my decision for me. But in any case, I don't work on Sunday, so I'm going to take Pheobes to the park again. But I'll walk the whole time this time. That'll be my exercise. I had a little chit chat with my buddy Ryan last night. (Ryan is this insanely adorable and totally great looking guy I met in Colorado. He's completely in love with me and has therefore sworn off women. Poor guy.) He tells me he used to be a fat kid, but I think he's lying. I mean, where's the proof? Like this girl I work with; she's like, 120Ibs soaking wet, and today she tells me that she's had every surgery there is to look like that. At age 18 she weighed 275 and was wearing a size 24. So she had her stomach stapled....and re-stapled....and tucked....and re-tucked....and so surgical skinniness ensued. It's all true, I've seen her scars. I didn't believe it til I saw them. But Ryan? He's such a cutie. Never had a fat day in his life. For shizzle. :)

Oi vie... I just realized that I've got to do 26 laps tomorrow.... Yeah. Extra laps? NOT my best idea. :(

Day 38: The Ugly Truth...about GS Cookies

AAAAhhhhh!!!! There I was, being soooo gooood! FEELING so good!!! Grrr.... okay, OKAY! Let's just take this one step at a time. So, for breakfast I caved and had two crepes fillied with pb&j and topped with powdered sugar. But it's okay, cause I swam an extra lap (I'm up to 16 now! Woot!). Then I took my dog to the dog park and stopped to get a small frozen yogurt...(pistachio: it kind of tasted like tanning lotion, but in a good way.... weird). Pheobes was sooo good today! She was running and PLAYING with the puppies! It was so cute- she NEVER plays. So I was happy. Lunch was ALMOST as amazing as the hamburger salad, which I haven't had in a while, and I think it's high time I had another. 'Portabello mushroom burger=YUM' Okay, but for reals. I didn't even miss the meat. I sauteed the mushroom in 2T of olive oil and put it on a SaraLee thin bun with lettuce and tomatoe and green godess dressing. It was SO GOOD! I mean, I could have eaten 12 of them. But I didn't. Just one and a nutri-grain bar. Good, right? Well, wait for it. :( So... there I was, minding my own business... I was going to the grocery store to post flyers of my friends lost dog... (it's a good deed! Don't people usually get rewarded for good deeds?!)... when I saw them. Just outside the grocery store... so innocent and tempting ALL AT THE SAME TIME: GIRLSCOUTS. AND THEIR MOTHERS. AND THEIR COOKIES. THOSE DAMN COOKIES!!! In my heart, I prayed the price of GS cookies per box had gone up. That somehow, they would be more than the $10 cash I had in my pocket. You know, charity, for a good cause, extra super expensive cookies or something?! No. $3.50 a box. I bought two boxes. And I ate half a box before I got home. AAAAHAHHHHH!!!!! :( I hate girlscouts. On the bright side, I went on a date last night. This guy, Dave, (names have been changed to protect the gorgeous) admitted to me that he'd eaten a whole box of lemonades today. That made me feel better. He says the cookies are like crack. Whenever he buys a box, he feels like saying, "Hey man, you got my shit? I need that shit!" while he's slipping them the money all sly and on the DL. Bahahaha!!! It's so true! Hee hee hee.... Anyway, we both felt like salad would be a good option, so we went to Rubios, but he ended up with a burrito and I had a 'wrapsalada'. A salad in a tortilla. Cause I needed the calories. Sigh. On a good note, we saw the Crazies. And even tho I've deemed Day 38 a flop, at least I'm not a poisoned water consuming head case bent on driving a pitch fork through people or locking them in a closet in a house that I then set on fire. I mean, all in all? I guess I can't be too put out. :P

PS... I just read all the comments on Day 37! I LOVE you people! Okay, thanks to my skeester for putting the word, 'regular' in a mexican accent in my head. (I can't stop saying it now!) It sounds like this: rrre-goo-lahrrr. Hahaha!!! FUNNY! And Benjamin, I have NO idea what you're talking about, but somehow I can imagine you looking at those lights in a daze and saying how pretty they are. ESPECIALLY in a turtle suit! Think Franklin meets Bill & Ted. Hahaha!!! McKenna Rae, I love you more than LIFE ITSELF!!! And I love that you can hear my voice when I write. I try my best to put myself into my blog, and I'm happy when I know I've pulled it off. :P AND PAM!!! Thanks for the compliment! Who knows? Maybe one day I'll make it BIG and I'll give a huge speech and say things like, 'It's all thanks to my fans on trythediet.blogspot.com!' Sigh... one can only hope! Thanks you guys! Love you all!

Day 37

Why is it that when I am eating right I have no inclination to exercise what so ever (seriously... even the word is painful!) but when I'm exercising I just want to eat healthy? It's like, my body is feeling good from the exercise and my brain is telling me not to ruin it! Meh, it works for me! Yesterday started off easy with a vanilla protein shake before swimming my 13 laps. I'm getting up there! I had a Nutrigrain bar for snack around 1030 and then I was bad and had Arby's for lunch. I endulged in home-style fries and a roasted chicken sandwich. It was on whole grain bread and I only ordered a medium.... AND it came with a diet coke. Diet coke is the only thing that makes me even more excited than avocados....and we all know I'm crazy about avocados! :) And can I just say how AWFUL those girl scout cookies are again? (Tito, you're a fool if you think $40 dollars worth of cookies will really last you that long. A FOOL! :]) Grrr.... I had 4... FOUR!!! Of those delicious peanut butter ones... the ones covered in chocolate? Yeah. I ate 4. Better than 6, tho. Progress! Hahaha... I did some extra Wii exercises to make up for being bad. I think it worked. :/ But dinner was AWESOME!!! Mmmmm... chicken fajitas minus the tortilla. Just chicken, sauteed onions and red bell peppers with sliced avocado. AVOCADO! Why do I feel like yelling 'AVOCADO' in a mexican accent? I topped it off with a strawberry soy shake for dessert. It was delish. I'm feeling good about day 37. Didn't get to weigh myself, but I'm hoping my pattern of 1Ibs a day was sustained. We'll see on day 38! Bah! :)

Day 36

I've started writing my meals down every day, cause I can never remember just what I ate and it's always a PAIN!!! So yesterday was an AWESOME day, except for that I forgot to eat dinner and I had a movie date, so my tummy was growling all night. :( But is was a good movie! Shutter Island, baby. There's an unexpected ending. LOVED it! Leo DiCaprio is one of the awesomest actors, seriously. Okay, so I thought I'd be all cook-y and make myself an omelette. Eggs, onions, peppers and ham. It was good, but I topped it with salsa that I think must have been a little 'off', cause it tasted pretty funny. I ended up scraping it off and then only eating half of it, cause my tast buds couldn't take anymore. :( I didn't have any snacks; I was hungry enough for one, but I didn't have the time. I did my laps in the pool and then got ready and it was time to work! I had a ham and cheese wrap with mixed greens and avocado for lunch (mmm... my old friend, avocado....) and also a strawberry banana shake (I 86ed the protein... just strawbanana, milk and ice. Delish!) But then Katie (my boss) stocked up on girl scout cookies and I couldn't resist! Grrr.... I had 6 of the caramel delights. SIX! That's too many. But they were so super delicious.... I guess I got my comuppance tho, since I skipped dinner. I got home late and I was tired, so I just went to bed without any supper. Like poor kids. Or bad kids. :(

Day 35

Progress yet again! Woot! So, I've been doing the Wii fit for the last couple of days and I think it's a lot of fun and really helpful! It charts my wieght, my BMI and all my activities and weight loss goals. Plus I have my very own personal trainer who always loves me and is free whenever I want her to be. Anyway, everyday I've measured .09 Ibs less than the day before! That's almost a pound a day! Unhealthy, you might ask? Not at all! I'm only doing what my body asks, and in turn, it's doing as I ask! Or something. I don't know, I just sprouted out what my head was thinking to justify a pound a day. I mean, obviously I'm happy and not actually concerned about whether it's healthy or not. I haven't really been paying much attention to WHAT I eat so much as HOW MUCH of it I eat. My 'trainer' told me to be sure and eat slowly so that when my stomach catches up with my head (it takes about 20 minutes), I will know that I'm full and I can stop eating so I don't overdo it. This is something I've always known, but never put into action. :) Also, I've really been drinking a lot of shakes. At least 2 protein shakes a day and then a variety of non-protein shakes when I get the munchies. (ex: 1 banana, 2tbs pb and 1/2 c ice 1/2 c milk=VERY delicous shake.)
So on the food front: I had a bowl of Fiber One flakes with Soy milk. I can't usually tell the difference between reg and soy milk, but I think that's because it's always mixed in the shake. But I could taste it in the cereal! It tasted sweet and vanilla-y. Well, it was vanilla flavored soy milk, but I still wasn't expecting it. :) Meh. I also downed a protein shot before going swimming. 12 laps! YAY! I'm sooo a swimmer. You should have seen me. Goggles and swim cap. I'm so hot. Oh, not to mention I wear a sports bra with my swimsuit. No, really. 'The girls' are just CRAZY without a bra, so I have to! At least they're both black so it doesn't look THAT bad. Tee hee... Okay, so! (I'm supposed to be leaving for a date in like, 5 secs, so I hope you don't mind if I run through this...) For lunch I had a turkey sandwich on my fav saralee 45 calorie bread, an apple and LOTS of water. (this is the secret key to feeling full. Until you have to pee 12 times in 1 hour, then you're hungry again. Go figure.) For dinner I had mashed potatoes and fried chicken. Ok, soooo not good for me, but sooo good for me! :) I suck. But I don't! Cause the Wii told me I was 20 years old. Double woot! Oh, I also ran around the local park for two hours with Matthew chasing a styrofoam airplane and turtles. Ha. Oh, I love my life. Such great weather we're having! I wore a tank top today! Yay! :)

Day 34: I'm a CANCER!

So, I've discovered my excersize secret. I love swimming. Like, not just love it, but LOVE it. And not just playing in water... real life, goggles, laps and all... swimming. I LOVE IT!!! Yesterday was day 34. I walked for 15 mins on the treadmill in the morning...(3 miles an hour. Ryan, you're a complete phsyco. No one 'walks' at 5 miles an hour). Then I swam at the local YMCA. I told myself I would do 5 laps, since I haven't been to swim in a while. When I got to 5 I didn't want to stop. I did 10 laps! And I could have done more! I just didn't have the time. I was so excited because after showering and dressing all I could think about was getting back there and doing it again! I could feel all the muscles in my body working and I was SUPER duper sore right after, but I sat in the hot tub and stretched and I didn't feel sore AT ALL this morning! Yay. When I shared this with my friend, McKenna, she was all, 'well of course. You're a cancer.' The cancers sign is the crab and our element is water. Huh. Maybe that's it. :) Then, at work I played on the Wii fit and it said that I burned a total of 112 calories, so that's good. I was so active today! Yay me! And food wise I did EXCELLENT. Well, except for a box of whoppers late at night. Fff... there HAS to be room for error, okay? Anyway, I had a protein shake for bfast and lunch, but I supplemented it with an apple in the am and half a turkey sandwich with lunch. And by the way, you can really open your eyes to good eating when you look at the nutrition labels of the food your consuming. I had a choice between whole grain bread slices or those new diet buns that are supposed to be so good for you; but when I examined the nutrition labels, I found that good old SaraLee whole grain, low calorie bread has fewer calories, sodium and carbs, with more dietary fiber to boot! Ha. Take that, diet fads. :) Around 3pm I got really munchy so I had some roast beef and brocolli. Dinner was a whole chicken breast with brown rice (only 1/4 a cup. Still trying to keep my carbs low, but I just CAN'T cut them out completely!) and some yummy steamed carrots. :) I topped it all off with a delicous glass of Autumn Leaf Pino Noir and headed to bed feeling MIGHTY proud of myself..... that is, until I couldn't sleep so I watched a movie and ate a box of Whoppers. Jeesh. Whatever.....

HAYLIE!!!!

Haylie is evil. Every time I spoke to her after making our weight loss diet pact, she said things like, "I ate ice cream all weekend". So I had NO idea that she was actually eating weight watcher ice cream AND staying in her points range! Low and behold, I've gained 3 pounds, and she's lost 20! Jerk. Deceitful little.... FINE! She wants to play 'weight loss freak'? I'll show her. I can loose crazy amounts of weight too! I'll do it. This time, I'm for reals. I went to Tooele this weekend and spent some much needed time with some awesome friends. I can do this. I have to do this! I'm NOT going to Alaska all fat and lumpy while Haylz is all skinny and beautiful. Brat. I'm totally doing this. GO MICHELE! I had a nice breakfast of Fiber one cereal with soy milk yesterday morning. Then lunch time was chicken and peas. I didn't eat dinner, since I was driving home from Utah, and that took FOREVER now that I drive the speed limit. Pfff. Oh well. Okay, GO ME!!! Let's DO THIS!!! :)