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!!! :)