Well not completly to the T

There are issues going on at home that have my brain pre occupied. I've been feeling a bit down and those feelings normally tend to make me over eat. I look towards food for comfort. Oh eating some creamy pasta sure comforts me.

I didn't go that over board, the only thing I ate off the menu was mango with chili powder - 1/2 pound to be exact. BUT the problem is that I did want to throw the eating plan out the window and was so waiting to hear the Elote Man. Thank God, the Elote Man didn't pass by my block, or I think I would of bought two. I'm worried that I may stray off the plan and it would take a while to get back on it. I can feel that I am just about at that spot where I can start sabotaging myself again.

Food Plan

The trainer I have been seeing on Saturday mornings has me (and the rest of the group) on a eating plan. We are going on the third week and I am just about sick of it. BUT this week I will follow it to a T*. I didn't follow it for dinner, and the scale showed a one pound gain.

Here's the Menu
Need to eat every 2 1/2 - 3 hours

Breakfast
Regular Oat meal cooked with water
add: raisins, blue berries, strawberries or black berries
1 egg egg (cooked anyway you want)

Snack
Fat Free Yogurt (Yoplait is the bets)
1 medium fruit

Lunch
Option 1
Green Salad
Lettuce and all the veggies you want
Cooked chicken breast no skin (size deck of cards)
No creamy dressings

Option 2
Subway
6" Turkey on Wheat
No cheese/No Mayo

Snack
Option 1
1 slice whole wheat bread
1 tablespoon peanut butter
1/2 banana
1 glass of milk (soy or fat free)

Option 2
Small bowl of fruit salad of
grape fruit
orange
cantaloupe

Dinner
Grilled chicken or salmon (size of a deck of card)
1 cup veggies
1 small salad

*Well sort of to the T. I eat a whole banana for the 2nd snack, drink the milk with dinner and I either have chicken or subway for dinner.

two piece

The first picture was taken May 2008, the second July 2009.
I so want to see a difference, but maybe it's just my imagination. I've been working my butt off this past month, and hopefully when I take a new picture in a couple of weeks we can see the difference.

No Camera / No Pictures

There were days that taking a daily picture felt like a burden and took the fun out of the site and now that I want to take daily pictures again, I don't have a camera. My daughter took the camera on her European vacation, she will be returning shortly and then I will be able to post pictures.

There so much that I'm excited about in my weight loss journey that I believe pictures would tell a better story.

I'm out of the 200 (finally!) forever.
Signed up at a gym.
Seeing a personal trainer on Saturdays

Hiking

My first hiking adventure. A few times I thought my heart was going to explode at how loud I could hear it pounding in my ears. A lot of times I wanted to turn around and go back down, okay maybe 3 times I seriously thought about it. If it wasn't that I went with a friend, I would have done it.

Go Team Violet

Officially in the mid thirties

Well I was supposed to be half way to my weight loss goal by my 35th but obviously it hasn't happened. I've actually gained the 10 pounds I lost :(