Tuesday exercise

I forgot to post my workout for the day! This may sound funny to some of you but often I will walk around the room or standing in place the whole time Dr. Oz is on. That is what I did today and I got in 2 miles! Can you believe that? LOL! Also I did 3 sets, 15 reps each of "counter top push ups". I can't do regular push ups so I usually do them by placing my hands on the edge of the kitchen counter, arms length away and doing push ups.Not as hard as the others but still a challenge! Wall push ups are another way to do these as well as using your stairs...be careful! Then I did 3 sets of 15 reps of what I call "recliner leg pushes". Now, now, hear me out! When I sit on our recliner sofa I push the foot rest down with my legs, not letting it latch at the bottom or the top, my own body weight gives resistance or weight and recently I have started doing this using one leg at a time to make it harder! Anyone who says this is not an exercise can come here and try it! LOL! So that was my one hour workout today! walking and a couple strength building exercises!

The last Tuesday of January 2010

Hello again! Can you believe this is the LAST Tuesday of January 2010 already? WOW! And that also means David will have to take another pic of me this weekend for the blog! Today was kinda snowy and cloudy and just blah here. A few flakes are falling now but it is sporadic! It is Biggest Loser night again too! I must talk about why I don't buy some food items anymore--or not often anyways. Sunday I got low fat ice cream (half gallon) and today I looked and it was half gone already! And I confess--it was ALL ME! I was piecing at it little by little until it was half gone! And most of that was gone from TODAY! So to make it harder for me to get at--I put it in the deep freezer we have downstairs. This way at least I have to walk all the way down there and all the way back up to get any. SO far I have not touched it again since noon. As far as ice creams go it wasn't that bad but it is the point that I allowed myself to go overboard with it like I did. Potato chips is another weakness of mine that we do not buy anymore. If I get a huge craving for some I may go out and buy a small snack size bag and eat it. I will eat the whole bag no matter what the size is so a snack bag is all I need! I still struggle with emotional eating some days and I was mad about something. I need to confront that next time instead of eating.
So here is where I stand tonight on food:
1 banana
2 eggs
2 slices low sodium bacon
1 homemade whole wheat Eng. Muffin
1 pear
1 C. homemade onion soup
1 oz. cheese
low fat ice cream, ice cream, ice cream LOL! (1/2 cup is 130 calories)
1.5 cup homemade chicken noodle soup (whole wheat noodles homemade too)
6 soda crackers
Total calories for day approx. 1400-1600 Hard to say since I did not enter the recipe into Spark Recipes calculator yet on my soups. So I am still in range for the day BUT fat content is up

Gloomy Monday

Hello people!
Today was a gloomy and sometimes a little snowy Monday here in Central Ohio. I was getting used to somewhat warmer weather and here the cold and snow is back! I didn't really expect it to last anyways, still being January! We have gotten blizzards in April before! LOL! So why should this year be different? Maybe I need one of those light boxes? But I am actually in a pretty good mood today! Yesterday when I got on the scales I had lost weight! YAY! Maybe the plateau of the last several months is finally at an end! This Friday is my birthday...my 50th birthday! Because of taking care of myself the last year as I have been, I feel better then I have in years. So 50 is going to be a GREAT age to be! I can see the light at the far end of the tunnel the past 4 years have been! God is soooo good! Ok, now for the journals!

Exercise:
10 minute warm-up on bike
3 sets of the following:
15 reps wall squats with ball and a 5 lb weight
20 reps standing rows with resistance band
15 reps ball crunches with 5 lb weight
7 minutes on Gazelle
3 sets of each of the following:
15 reps chest press with 10 lb weights
20 reps of Bridges
15 reps standing bicept curls 8 lb weights
15 minutes on bike and cool down.
Stretches

Food:
cooked multi-grain cereal
walnuts
2 TBS low fat plain yogurt
2 c. red leaf lettuce
1 medium carrot
4 oz chicken breast (no skin)
7 tortilla chips
8 olives
1 TBS Ranch dressing
1/4 C. salsa
1 TBS low fat cheese
1/2 C. low fat chocolate ice cream
3 oz. Haddock
1 TBS seasoned bread crumbs
Medium carrot
Small baked potato
Olivio spray
Total for the day: 1323