I am 25.6 pounds down as of today, March 19th, 2011. I am 25% into accomplishing my goal of losing 100 pounds in 26 weeks.
I love it when a plan comes together!
I don’t know if it was a high from seeing the scale or if my body was just ready, but this morning at Bally’s I pushed it on the treadmill. I jogged a mile nonstop at 4.6 mph, walked at 5% incline at 3.3 mph until the 20 minute mark then jogged another 9 minutes straight, then walked my last minute to cool down. I know that is not much, but right now that is huge! I broke through the mental/physical barrier that has prevented me from jogging longer than a few minutes at a time. I now can see I will be getting to 1.5 miles straight before I know it. I need to focus on upping my endurance so I can do more distance but I also need to up my speed so I can do my distance faster.
Being today was Saturday I enjoyed cooking my breakfast fresh. I decided on 2 eggs scrambled,turkey sausage crumbles, a slice of cheese, and some part skim ricotta cheese all mixed together. I also had an apple and 1 slice of double protein bread toast with a small amount of peanut butter and jelly on it. This was a whopping 670 calories. Bigger than it should be, but for today it did work out ok.
Today was a day including 3 hours of house work helping family clean out some old stuff for a renovation. There were times of lifting and moving heavy furniture, times of standing around, and also trips out to the dumpster with items no longer needed. This burned some calories for sure, but I do not know how many. During all the action we missed lunch, but I did have a special K fruit crisps bar and a banana (221 calories). Once dinner rolled around we all went out to eat at my favorite middle eastern place. I had a Chicken kabob, rice, chick peas, some bread and also some chicken haleem. I also drank a bottle of ruby red grapefruit juice. I did not finish my meal and brought food home for tomorrow. I used my daily plate at livestrong.com to calculate my calories for the meal. I totaled 1,392 calories for the meal. I did not eat the full servings of my meal and guessed to the amounts of measurements and rounded up. My total meal was less than this but since I was not sure I figured go larger to be on the safe side. Later in the evening I had a serving of rainbow sherbert.
Even with the huge dinner my total calories for the day were 2415 calories. Not bad. If I skipped the juice I would have been 260 calories lower, but I really wanted the juice and figured today was the day to drink something other than water for one meal.
