Have you ever had days where you think... na, I'm not going to do it... it won't make a difference? That was me today. I knew today was day 1 of my 30 day exercise challenge. I kept pushing it off thinking, oh, I'll do it later, it's only x o'clock. I have plenty of time! I went and bought a ton of groceries, and still... I can do it later. Had lunch, had dinner, yet still, I kept pushing it off. Na, not feeling it now, I'd rather watch The Pretender than exercise. But in the back of my head the nagging thought would not go away, "It's day 1, gotta get off your butt and exercise" yet my lazy/devil side kept saying "Oh, you have plenty of time, you can do it later." 7:30 rolled around and I realized it was time to get the kids into bed. Bed time means a good 30 minute story to the kids, baths, etc. yet I kept pushing. Kids finally in bed and I still kept pushing it off. Finally, I decided, enough, and pulled out my Wii Fit Plus game. I wasn't sure what I wanted to work on tonight, so I decided to just do my favorites. I did 6 minutes of the Hulu Hoop Plus... killer ab workout. Then I did 20 minutes of free stepping, hit over 2000 steps. GO ME! Next was the free run for 10 minutes. Other than a few seconds where I was trying to get stuff off my feet I ran in place the whole time. Finally I ended with some yoga and balance games. I'm highly impressed with myself tonight. I did 48 minutes worth of exercise for a total calorie burn of 308. When I logged it into my Weight Watcher's Tracker, it said I did 5 activity points. Not a bad start at all for my 1st day! Tomorrow I plan to add in some strength training exercises.
My food for today, well, it wasn't as good as it normally is. I had ran out of pretty much all my breakfast stuff, so I decided to go grocery shopping before I ate breakfast. Yeah, not so great of an idea. I bought way too much stuff, but I am pretty well stocked for the month on most things. :) Due to my shopping trip then subsequent need to put the groceries away I completely missed breakfast and was STARVING by the time I did eat. But I tried to be good. I had 1 cup low fat cottage cheese and 1 dole individual cup of peaches, then had a grilled cheese sandwich. That did pretty good to fill me up and used up 12 points. (Cottage cheese is a high point item. :( ) For a snack I had 1/12 of a piece of pie for less than 10 points (I can't cut things into odd numbers so I cut it into 12 pieces into 10 and yes, I understand that 10 and 12 are both even numbers. LOL.) so that left me with a total of 14 points for the rest of the day, which I happily used them for a VERY yummy dinner of flat enchiladas, where I measured everything precisely... I'm so impressed with myself I can hardly stand it! LOL. I had 2 enchiladas with 2 oz of 96% fat free ground beef, and .13g of finely shredded fiesta cheese from walmart. Topped that with 1/8 cup of sauce, and lettuce and tomato. did that 1 more time. then I made me a pretty good sized side salad with the left over tomatoes and lettuce... my plate was heaping full!!! The kids raved about how yummy the food was. I'd say it was a success. I used up all my points and finished up the day with gosh, 4-5 24oz cups of water. no wonder I feel so waterlogged... Time to hit the hay for my 8 hours of beauty sleep.. (haha I wish) because tomorrow is my weigh in day for my biggest loser challenge... wish me luck!
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