February 25th, 2008 by Cynthia
There are days when I wish I could swap out weigh-ins, I'll tell ya!
Yesterday morning, I hit 226.2 a new low, but today, I am at 226.6.
It's still a .8 pound loss over last weeks 227.4 and considering two meals out, one meal skipped and one Nordic Track workout skipped, I'm good with it. Some days I hit nifty new lows... and other days I'm going "Uh OH!". I've added a new graph to my weigh in page to show my daily weigh-in amusement park ride. It's embedded flash and seemed to be working! Let me know if you have problems with it.
Plans for this week... well, as hubby's birthday comes near Valentine's and he was sick for his birthday, we may venture out to Raphael's again, before he gets hit with midnight shifts. Have to talk that over with him. We'd sure like more of that wonderful crab while it is being offered!
The eating went pretty well over the past week. I used no more than my allotted three 10% meals, one of which was a skipped meal. Sunday was a day where I was not up for more than 12 hours, so I only got 4 meals in. I pretty much did the same thing yesterday. I missed on drinking my gallon of water/green tea only one day and not by much!
Off to water aerobics!
February 25th, 2008 by Cynthia
Now, having eaten out on Wednesday AND Friday, I figured I better stay VERY clean the rest of the weekend and I have. I wasn't sure if I would be able to Nordic Track on Saturday, because frankly, my ankles were killing me by Friday afternoon. I did water aerobics, but we did a new dorsi-flexion exercise and I think it may have set my bad ankles off. They hurt like I'd sprained them, only I hadn't. I figured I'd just wait and see how they were.
Saturday morning, they didn't feel so great. I was in pain while fixing breakfast, but that was so good, that I shortly forgot about my ankles, LOL!
I used a non-stick pan, a teaspoon of butter and a spritz of olive oil and sautéed up some onion and mushrooms and pecans, then added a big mess o' collard greens and a couple cloves of fresh garlic, minced. Stir fried until starting to wilt, then hit it with two teaspoons of balsamic vinegar and a tiny bit of powdered Splenda. At the same time, I had spice rubbed chicken breasts grilling on the contact grill. Fast, easy... and really, really good! Hubby was impressed!
But yeah, my ankles were hurting after cooking, so I plunked myself down at the computer for a while. But by afternoon, my ankles felt better, so I decided I could at least try to Nordic Track and if it was bad, I'd stop. Actually, all was fine, and I did 25 minutes at a 4.5 mph clip which is good for me. No repercussions from the ankles later either.
I elected to keep carbs a little lower than usual over the weekend, below 100g. Calories at 1740 Saturday, closer to 1400 today, primarily because I slept late and have only been awake for 12 hours, so I only ate four meals instead of my usual five. I won't worry over the cals being so low... tomorrow is water aerobics, so I'll be eating more.
Off to bed and hoping for a good weigh-in tomorrow. Today's weight looked promising!
