Marines and Monday

Today was a busy day. It was very much a Monday, but not all that bad. I woke up to a son who wasn't feeling well and was very tired myself. I didn't prepare well for my day when it came to food. I grabbed a banana and an apple and headed out the door. I have some lunch items in my desk for days like this and figured I'd use one. When lunch time came around one of the guys suggested Subway. I ordered a turkey and ham sub. It was very good and the calories weren't bad at all. Now, the chocolate chip cookie that I didn't order had almost as many calories as the sandwich though! 


After work we had a recruiter from the Marines stop by to talk to my son. They gave him a test and he did really well on it for someone that wasn't feeling all that well. Actually, she seemed shocked that he did so well. We'll have to wait and see how he does on the full battery test. 


I joined him for some stick fighting again tonight and that was it. I'm exhausted and heading to bed as soon as this is posted. Hopefully, tomorrow will be a much better day than today.  

Sunday, Birthday Party and Stick Fighting

My son actually got up early this morning. He went to stick fighting (Modern Arnis) for 10am. For him, that's an early morning. I got up to meet a friend and give her a turkey for Thanksgiving. Now all that we have for turkeys in the fridge is the 39 pounder for our dinner. Breakfast was a banana and a fiber one bar. I wasn't being very creative today. 

We went to my sister-in-law's house today to visit my lovable niece and celebrate my brother-in-law's birthday. That could have been a horrible thing for the diet. We ordered from Papa Gino's and I had two slices of cheese pizza for lunch and a small piece of cake for dessert. That still left me enough for the steam fresh vegetables for dinner. 

Exercise today was different. I did Wii Fit but I also decided to agree to my son's request to do some stick fighting practice. It's starting to come back. I didn't realize I had gotten so rusty, but then again, I didn't do it for very long. It definitely is still fun though. 

Tomorrow was going to be Zumba, but my son scheduled for a recruiter to come to the house for 6:30. UGH! I guess that puts it off for another week. Let's see how this week goes with Thanksgiving on Thursday. It should be interesting, especially with an over 39 pound turkey! 

Turkeys and Shopping

Today was a busy day at our house as we had 9 turkeys to take to the processor. A few of them were really big so they were interesting to load up as I was the one picking them up. Thankfully I remembered to use my legs to lift and didn't hurt my back like my husband did after picking up one smaller bird. It turns out that our thanksgiving bird weighs in at over 39 pounds! The Christmas bird will be 37 pounds.

This means that both of those birds that I picked up this morning weighed abou 50 pounds! Most of the others weren't much smaller either. So the main exercise for today was chasing two of those turkeys around for 10 minutes or so and lifting a whole lot of weight. I did a lot of walking via shopping today too. So this is the first day in 2 weeks that I'm not getting on the wii fit. It does keep telling me to take a day off so today is it.

I had a banana this morning for breakfast. I probably should have had something a bit more filling but turkey loading had to be done. Lunch was Taco Bell with the low fat version of a fiesta burrito which my husband tried as well. Those are always yummy and the calories aren't that bad. Dinner was at Fresh City as we were out searching for a pan to fit the bird. With all the running around today I'm going to call it a night. Let's see how many calories are in birthday cake tomorrow as it's my brother-in-law's birthday.

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Good News and Movies

Today started off great. I had an e-mail that made my day. Then, since I was in such a great mood I decided to see if the Wii Fit was right last night when it said that I had lost a few pounds. I got on the scale and it confirmed that I had lost SIX pounds! Wow! Even finding my son hadn't gotten up in time for school didn't kill that mood. 

For lunch today we ran over to Hannaford and picked up some sushi. The avocado shrimp was awesome. Note that I just recently started having sushi, but it has definitely grown on me. Well, most of them, not the salmon though. 

When I got home I went straight to the Wii Fit so I wouldn't have to worry about it later since I was hoping we were going to the movies. The phone rang while I was working out and my son's friend asked if we wanted to go to the new theater in town to see New Moon. Sweet! That's exactly what I had planned. My husband got home and we packed up for the movies. Today was a run, hoola hoop (I'm getting really good at that) and step dancing on the Wii.

Dinner was at the Chinese restaurant by the theater. I didn't do bad on the calories there but my stomach was bothering me the whole night. The movie was great. It followed the book very well. 

Hair Cut, New Freezer and Results

Today started off poorly as those on Facebook and Twitter probably know, but once I got out of the house and to work things went well. I've had quite a few comments in the last couple days asking me if I've lost weight. WooHoo! That's a definite sign that I'm heading in the right direction. When I got home tonight I did finally allow myself to look at my progress graph on the Wii Fit and it shows a steady decline in my BMI and weight! That is definitely encouraging to me as usually I get stuck in a rut after a couple pounds and then give up. 

Today's breakfast went back to Kix, I haven't had those in a few days. And today I tried Christi's idea of cottage cheese with my celery instead of the peanut butter I would normally use. It was perfect! I love cottage cheese and I had just the right amount left in the container to take to work to use with the celery when I got the munchies. Thanks to those I definitely didn't have the munchies much at all today.
 
We suddenly realized a couple days ago that we had a slight, well, not so slight problem that was going to happen this coming Saturday. We raise turkeys and they will be going in on Saturday and we'll need to store them in our freezer. Well, with all the vegetables and other stuff that we've added to the current freezer we're already at max capacity with no possible way to clean it out in time for the turkeys' arrival. Since we've been talking about replacing the freezer anyway as it's over 14 years old we decided to just buy a new one. Hubby and son picked it up tonight and just as I got about half way through this post it made it into the house. It's bigger than the old one and has compartments so our stuff won't get thrown in there and lost forever.

I am under calories again today. I'll probably grab a fudgesicle for dessert. They make a great low calorie treat! I didn't get much time on the Wii today but did workout. I'll be trying for longer tomorrow. 

The best part of my day was the two hours I spent at the hair dresser. I got a lot done. Between that and my weight loss I'm feeling really great. 

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Board Meeting Night and Snacks

Tonight was another late night for me. I had a school board meeting after work but didn't have time to make myself dinner before the meeting. That was why I was hungry when Michelle asked if I wanted some Apple Crisp. I love it so I immediately checked the number of calories and said yes. It was very good. For lunch thy guys wanted to order from Papa Jays (a local pizza place). I ordered a salad with tuna rather than my usual steak and cheese sub. I need to remember to order no onions as I just pick them off and they stink up my office. That's all I smelled for most of the afternoon. YUCK! I got home from the meeting and hopped on the wii fit and did a four mile bike ride (I got lost on the island). So that's it for today.

Hopefully, tomorrow's blog will be back on the computer rather than my phone.

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Late Night and Day 2 of Week 2

It has been a long day today. I had a case of the munchies again today but still made it through without going over my calories for the day. I did make sure to eat supper before leaving the office so I didn't have a case of the hungry horrors after class. It worked well as I wasn't hungry when I got home at after 9. I skipped dessert tonight due to the late hour but still did some time on the Wii Fit with some hulla hoop, a 2.5 mile bike ride and a step routine. That was enough to have me ready to hit the sack. So, on that note I will catch you all tomorrow.

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