139-142 - Amber

I haven't been blogging like I should...I'm not gonna blame it on the blog being DEAD. hehe It's probably because Ive been forgetting. Luckily, I'm still counting thr calories and working out!

Day 139 (Monday) - Monday I did not exercising and ate 1963. I thought I was being good, but then I made this recipe thats didn't say the calories on it, and I didn't calculate until after I ate it. BAD IDea.

Day140 (Tuesday) - A bettter day. Did my cardio in the morning. And Body Pump and ate about 1950 calories. Glad I worked out, sucked it up in calories, again!!!! DANG it!!

Day 141 (Wednesday) Cardio'ed it up in the morning and ate 1821. We went to North by Northwest and I got my favorite dish, salmon with mango-caper relish and seasonal veggies with a substituted garden salad. And asked the waitress how the salmon and veggies were cooked (all with butter of course) so we nixed that. I'm so proud of myself for asking!! Still more calories than I bargained for.

Day142 (Thursday) - Cardio in the morning. And leg machines afterward. Woo tired!!! This was the worst day ever. I took 3 high school girls to Chilli's. Split cheese fries, and 2 Molten chocolate cakes with them. OMGosh!!!!! Gotta work on being more disciplined and at the same time not feeling so dang guilty when I eat the less nutritious stuff. I mean, splurging is OK, occasionally, right? But, it's the fact that it's just overall NOT GOOD to feed my body those things that makes me feel so guilty. Needless to say, I was rewarded with a massive headache by the time i got home. Wow. Calories landed at 2690. Please, no. :-(

Found out my resting metabolic calories expenditure is 1407. And my exercise moderately (3-5 times a week) calories expenditure in 2181.

My quest to take in 1700 daily is being severely dashed. WTHeck!! I'm so UNdisciplined. I'm trying to problem solve through that issue, cause it ain't working well right now. ARG!!!! I feel like i can't get it under control.

I'm getting the exercising down. (I mean cardio 5 or 6 times and weights 3 times currently is doing pretty good I think!! Especially considering I was swimming 3 times a week for 20 minutes to begin with to start low key. This week I was able to run for 15 minutes straight on the treadmill during my 35 minutes total!! HECK YAH!!) Now, if I can just get those calories in check!! AHHH!!!! In a lot of ways I am really unmotivated because certain food taste so good, and because being this hard core...well...not many others are this way. Because I'm not just trying to keep my calories at 1700, I'm trying to drink more than 8 glasses of water, eat 2+ fruits and 5+ veggies a day, only eat whole grains, and steer clear of most sweets. It's a tall order.