Accomplishments and frustrations

[make_your_move]

Sunny and cold ... but spring is on the way


I made up to exercise again this morning. Did "Total Sculpt + Abs" from The Firm and I actually made it through the entire workout (yea me!). The cardio portion was moderately challenging - the weight lifting is good and the abs portion showed me how much work I need to do ... but I made it through the tape, which is up from where I was on Monday.



So, I'm really happy that I've managed to commit to getting up every morning this week. And yet, every morning I as I wake shortly before 6am, I keep trying to talk myself out of it. Right now its just the thought "I can do what I've always done ... *or* I can do something different" if what I'm aiming for is a different result. So far, I do feel a little different, but honestly, I'm immediate gratification girl. I want to wake up slimmer, toned and healthier just because I actually started exercising. Yeah, yeah, it tooks me months/years to gain the weight, it will probably take me equally as long to work it off, but the slow plog up the hill is going to be frustrating for awhile I think. See, I'm whining, it hasn't been a week yet. *wot-evah*



This week has been pretty good food wise. I haven't been completely carb-free (as I had intended), but I have been extremely concious of the refined carbs I have let myself have. Last night at M's birthday dinner I allowed myself 1 forkful of my favorite potatoes ... and in celebration of her birthday, lapsedagnostic and I shared a bread pudding for dessert. I had 5 not-full-bites and put the fork down. Most mornings this week I've had egg beaters - yesterday I scrambled them with one oz of smoked salmon and a half oz of low fat cream cheese and scallions. Lunch was leftover Indian Chicken (recipe from the SBQE cookbook) Tonight I'm making turkey cutlet parmesan. The recipe asks for low sugar pasta sauce -- *dude* .. do you know tha most of the pasta sauces have sugar or corn syrup listed in the first 3 to 5 ingredients?! Including Newman's All Natural? *feh* Finally found a generic Giant brand, which made me happy. Lunch today will be a spinach salad of some sort.


So, I stepped on the scale last night, just out of curiousity - it's says I'm down 5lbs, which I highly doubt, but it is going down so there you go. Oh, and the smoking? Cravings are less, the cranky is less, but I still want one.

Comments

[bittibuddha.livejournal.com]

*DOOD*

Rock ON!
::triumphant fist pumping::

[sunnidae]

Yay! And you can keep whining as long as you're actually *doing* -- once it's ingrained you'll be as zealous as Ani. ;)

[bridgeoutahead.livejournal.com]

I'm very proud of you. I love seeing my friends do well :)

Keep up the effort and it will pay off :)

[radiant-one.livejournal.com]

*dude* .. do you know tha most of the pasta sauces have sugar or corn syrup listed in the first 3 to 5 ingredients

Yup! Tomatoes are usually too acidy and need some sugar to help them along.

When I make my tomato sauce from scratch (I'll admit it is hideously time consuming and I do it only 1-2 times a year) I need to add about a tablespoon of sugar. But a tablespoon to a huge pot of sauce is not bad compared to the quantities used in commercial products.

A neat sugar free pasta sauce alternative is stewed tomatoes. I can't recall which brand is sugar free but they also come in a variety of flavors.

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

What's your expectations on the cravings?

[totient]

Classico is good for low sugar pasta sauce. About half their flavors qualify.

[liatha.livejournal.com]

I haven't read the labels yet, but Safeway has a new brand called "O" which is supposed to be organic. I haven't tried thier spaghetti sauce yet but thier preserves are awesome, and unlike most organic brands, this one doesn't cost 3 times as much as regular stuff.

Congrats on ALL your successes :)

[kmorris1177.livejournal.com]

You have got to try the chicken pesto. It's amazingly good. I also made a cabbage lasagna the other night for dinner which rocked. (It's basically lasagna (homemade meat sauce) with cabbage leaves (steamed) instead of noodles. You have to try these things!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_o_pixiedust_o_/]

Congrats Mym!!

You are doing fabulous, I can't even manage to get up early every morning. You are inspirational!!

*hugss* keep up the good work!

Go, Girl, Go

[sierra-victor.livejournal.com]

Yea you!

Your long-distance cheer-leader.

S_V

[angldst.livejournal.com]

You rock. :>

-d

[kfitzwarin.livejournal.com]

Way to go! Rah rah rah!!!

Your pork recipe is *divine*....