8 days later....

wow...didnt realize even though you all reminded me...that its been a week!  wow!  had my sleep study last night...they woke me up 3 times to readjust my mouthpiece...hopefully its were it should be now.  My O2 sats went into the 80's and after adjustments was in the 90's.  Sounds good to me!  Think I may adjust a bit more for good luck!  :)  Came home and slept 3 more hours and now am feeling like a real person.  Staying home today.  Going to pay some bills, sew and yes, exercise.  I'm going to try me we a bit, and then, energy permitting may spin the cycle just a bit.  Sounds a bit lofty...but I'm going to try anyway!  Am eating my lunch while I'm writing.  Barb Snyder gave me a tip..1/2 cup real oatmeal, cooked, and mixed with yogurt.  A bit of nuts, or fruit to make the consistency more interesting.  I added a small bit of grapenuts to give it crunch.  Comes to 250 cals, fiber, and is very filling.  I've finished 1/2 and am pretty full already but I will finish so that I stay full.

Onward!

whatever day it is!?!?!?!

Ok...pretty much have finished a week.  Time to re-assess....not that I havent been doing that all week.

Things didnt go exactly as planned...but overall, I'm still satisfied.  Forgot to weigh today... will have to do that for SURE in the morning.  Havent changed my work hours yet...had too many things to catch up on...and a couple times have wasted my time with video games.  Need to force a stop to that!  The other negative is that I havent really done much in terms of exercise.  I did the Wii one day and was happy with that...but must do more...will set a goal of at least 3 times this week.  Realized that Tuesdays are near to impossible, with Becky here in the morning...and Thursday mornings, with JMV home is not likely either...so my plan must be for Mon Wed and Fri mornings, prior to work.  Will set my alarm for 7 on those days and spend at least 30 mins doing something.


I found a GREAT free calorie counter app for my phone.  I LOVE IT!  It tracks your food daily, weekly, as well as your weight, exercise.  It also has a bar code reader for your ready made foods and a food search for restaurants, regular foods, and grocery store brands!  Theres nothing missing!  Have started using that on Wed and have been quite faithful with entering my foods.  I try to pick "generous" calorie listings so that I'm not
cheating on anything.  I even calculated what I had at the restaurant last night WHILE we were there...and barcode scanned my beer bottle!  My daily intake has been averaging in the 1400-1500 calorie range and I've had little to no in between snacking.  That in itself is a major change for me!

Overall, I'm quite pleased with my week.
Plans for next week:  
Exercise, Less Work hours
Onward!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Day 4!!!!

I've made it this far..and feel quite successful!  I've not snacked on anything between meals all this week...downfall being at home at 6:00pm.  Rest of days have been fine.  Had cheese soup and chopped salad for dinner last night and a tall beer.  Probably could have made better choices, but overall....day went well.  Today I found a cool app on my phone where I can calculate/tabulate my daily calories!  Its really cool...I can even scan in bar codes to something I've eaten!  Today, for lunch I had special K cereal, skim milk and Yogurt for lunch!  The cereal and yogurt both scanned in!  So cool!  6pm, was still in office, so I had 2 pieces of beef jerky and am still quite satisfied now..at 7:30.  Headed to the grocery store for rotisserie chkn and salad fixin's.

I weight in today...am down 4 pounds.  YIPPEE!

DAY 1 REVIEW; DAY TO HERE WE COME!

I need to review my day yesterday.  I had a ton of work to be done for Income tax which I did finish in the morning.  Ended up staying late at work, and then went home to cook dinner.

BAD STUFF:  No exercise, overwhelming hunger at 7pm and no dinner on the horizon.  Dinner wasnt until 9pm.  Need to fix that issue.  Think I'll work in a 6-7pm snack if possible.

GOOD STUFF--
Had milkshake for breakfast...turned into a smoothie when I added the frozen fruit.
Had cereal for lunch.
Only snack was a tootsie op and I looked up the calories for that...only 60.
Dinner..Had lamb cubes, broiled and orzo/rice one spoon full.  In all, I calculated about 1800 cals...that's not too far from my goal, but I did have no snacks until 7pm and then I had 2 handfuls of the damn crunchers on the kitchen counter.  Thankfully, I didnt feel I went overboard.

ONWARD..............
Was too lazy to do the milkshake this morning, but I DID!  and I'm happy I did.  It filled me up for the morning and I was just the "right" hungry for lunch...not famished.  Had another bowl of surgery today...1/2 less calories than yesterdays.  So far, calorie count is 350!  That makes me happy.  Becky is cleaning today, so I dont want to go home.  Will try to complete my work by 2:30 and then maybe go shopping!  That'll be fun!      WILL TRY TO DO THE BIKE TONITE!  Will see what I can talk myself into!

Later------------

GO!

Woke up with a great GO attitude!  Hope it stays with me the rest of the day.  Its 2;45pm and I'm beginning to fade.  Had a great smoothie/shake for breakfast...took it to work with me.  Didnt work the short hours I had planned...because I needed to finish my taxes before I did any work!  I'm just getting ready for work now.  Oh well...cant win them all.  Tomorrow will for sure be a better day for that!  Stayed for lunch.  Had 300 calories of cereal and milk for lunch.  Just finished a tootsie pop of 60 cals.  So ..  so far, not too bad.  I think this blog is surely going to help me out. I think it'll be a great way to keep myself in line.!  Gotta get going..work to be done.

Get Ready, Get Set!

Ok...makin' a commitment to Makin' the Life Change.

Decided to change my lifestyle...and that means makin' changes to eating as well.  Plan is to work from 8a-1p.  This should force me to be more efficient at my job, as well as well as to have some free time in the day for me.  That could mean to sew, to shop, to knit, AND...to exercise!  Will make a major attempt to do a bit each day and to increase as I can tolerate each week. Realizing that no one can do this for me but me...I'm going to try to stick to a calorie count beween 1500-1700 per day.

Hopefully keeping this blog will help me stay in line...and see progress (or defeats :( ) as they happen.

Wish me luck!