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I have not been doing that great today. I need to stop snacking on food. I tend to get hungry and sometimes snack when I am cooking. It is funny, but I didn't do that at all when I was on my trip. I need to get my eating under control. I think I will cook up some stuff that I can have in the fridge and maybe have some veggies ready as well. I just need to make time to do that.

E: 1 hr. x-biking
1 B: 1/4 c. oatmeal with 1/2 banana
2B: green smoothie
L: leftover thai veggie burger, 2 rice cakes with soy cheese, 1/2 peice of rice bread
S: apple, rice cake
D: black beans with rice over salad
S: 1/2 c. pumpkin pie oatmeal

Not much going on today, just the same old thing, of school and co-op classes. It was fun in co-op class though they had a martial art instructor that is also a homeschool mom that came and taught Tae Kwon do. It was way fun. I think next week I may do some of those kicks and blocks as well.

E: 45 min. heavy lifting- shoulder/back, 30 min. treadmill or bike
B: 1/2 c. pumpkin pie oatmeal
L: black beans and rice over salad
S: green smoothie, 2 rice cakes
D: mexican bean dip over rice
S: 1/4 c. oatmeal with 1/2 banana

Fairly good day today. I am in love with the salad I had tonight for dinner.

E: 45 min. heavy lifting- legs, 35 min. interval stationary bike
B: 1/2 c. pumpkin pie oatmeal
L: went out to costa vida- had vegetarian salad
S: banana freeze
D: strawberry mango spring mix salad, hashbrowns
S: oatmeal or hot cocoa- homemade

We had a nice family night tonight. We went out to dinner and came home and watched " Blue Bloods" together and the kids had some soy ice cream and I had some banana ice cream. It was a nice night. Last night we watched " Julie and Julia" I like that movie, it reminded me of how much I like to cook( although my version is a lot lot healthier). I also like watching the marriage of Julia and her husband and how close they were. It made me want to love on my husband more. I remember watching Julia Child when I was young. The only thing I don't like is watching all that unhealthy food and just picturing all the clogged arteries.

E: 50 min. treadmill- intervals, 10 min abs
B: 3/4 c. pumpkin pie oatmeal ( I was starving for some reason)
L: leftover hashbrowns, strawberry mango spring mix salad with pumpkin spice garbanzo beans on top
D: went out to eat- steamed rice, veggie sushi, edamame
S: banana ice cream

I had a nice day at church today. I am having a really hard time being down about losing this last 10 lbs. I guess there is a part of me that says that I want to have a few things that I don't want to have to live the rest of my life without, like tofu every now and then and a little peanut butter and almond butter. I don't eat a lot of that stuff, but I don't know if that is what is holding me back or not. I know I need to tweak things. This week I am going to start with my veggies and salad before I eat anything else. I know that worked good for me. I get on Vegan Muscle and Fitness and that is what she said to do as well. So that is my new goal for this week.
So I will be posting in the order of the food eaten, so I can keep track if I am starting off eating my meal with veggies. I talked with a lady today at church, one of the ladies that came to my class, She said that she has lost 10lbs. She says she drinks 3 green smoothies a week and eats her veggies before she eats a meal. I was so happy that my class helped her learn some new things to help her out.

B: 1/2 oatmeal with 1/2 banana
L: salad, veggie soup, hashbrowns, 1 blueberry muffin ( homemade)
S: 1 rice cake with a little pb, green smoothie
D: oatmeal with a few raisins and cinnamon

I seriously don't know what my problem is. I feel hungry all the time latley. I will be full for a little while, then I am starving again. I hate it. I don't know what is going on. I need to pick up some sweet potatoes to snack on as well. I like those and they make good snacks. I am trying to work on eating my veggies first.

E: 45 min. heavy lifting- chest, 30 min. elliptical- interval
B: 3/4 c. oatmeal with 1 banana
S: 2 rice cakes( 1 one with a little pb)
L: salad, veggie soup
S: green smoothie
D: out to eat for son' b-day- veggie sushi, steamed rice
S: grapefruit

Today has gone well so far. Last night I overate on the rice, although it was so good. I loved steamed sticky rice. It was funny that my almost 11 yr. old son chose to go to dinner to a Japanese restaraunt for his birthday. It is one of my favorite places to eat, so I was okay with that. I can't believe he will be 11 tomorrow.

E: 45min. heavy lifting- bicep, tricep, 40 min. stationary bike- interval
B: 1/4 c. oatmeal with 1/2 banana, 1/2 piece of gluten free bread
2 B: green smoothie
L: leftover veggie soup, hashbrowns
S: apple crisp( homemade)
D: veggie stiry fry- 2 slices of tofu

I have gained 2 lbs. recently and thought it was from weight lifting,but I checked my percentage of body fat and I went from 23% up to 24 %. So it is obvious that I have been eating too much. I had a wakeup call this morning and realized how I am not really tracking food all that great. So I am going to start tracking food for a while and see how I do with that. I am also cutting out pb for a while and cut make sure I have my veggies first. I realized this morning that when I made my pumpkin pie oatmeal I always put a few raisins in there. I have never counted the raisins before and I always thought I was eating about 20 cal. worth, well come to find out I was probably eating close to 130 cal. worth. No wonder I gained weight. So I counted out 13 raisins and that is about 20 cal. It is not very many, but a few for my chewy factor. I am sure there are other things that I am guessing at and guessing wrong. No more guessing.

E: 1 hr. x-biking
1B: 1/4 c. pumpkin pie oatmeal with 13 raisins
2B: green smoothie
L: salad, brown rice with stirfry and 3 slices of tofu
S: grapefruit, 1 rice cake with 1 tsp. pb
D: hashbrowns, 1 slice of gluten free bread
S: 1/4 c. pumpkin pie oatmeal

I did okay yesterday. I went a little over my calories, but not too bad. Today I feel like I have been eating all day, but it hasn't been that bad. It is hard when you get up at 4:30am to go workout. My daughter needed to borrow the car, so my husband had to drive her to work this morning.So that meant we had to workout early.
Today's class for co-op was fun. The kids did tae kwon do. They had a blast and she really worked them out hard, which is good for them. I am considering teaching a class in co-op within the next couple of weeks as they need an instuctor for nutrtion and fitness, which is right up my alley, but I don't know how to go about teaching it to kids, especially since it is a p.e. class.

E: 45 min. heavy weights- back and shoulders, 30 min. treadmill
1 B: 1/4 c. pumpkin pie oatmeal with 13 raisins
2B: green smoothie, 1 rice cake, 1 slice gluten free bread
L: big salad with garbanzo beans, veggie soup
S: gluten free pretzles, apple
D: hashbrowns or baked potato, veggie
S: banana ice cream or 1/4 c. oatmeal
B:

Had a great day yesterday. For some reason I had a ton of energy, even though I got up at 4:30 am. I even went to a kickboxing class with my daughter last night. I am having my son's birthday party tonight. We are attempting to make a cake for him. My daughter and I have taked a cake decorating class before, so it should be fun. He has to have gluten free and egg free so we always have to make a cake. The frosting will not be healthy but I won't have any. I think I am going to try a dessert I saw online that is roasted pears with banana ice cream over the top. It sounded really good.

E: 45 min. heavy lifting-legs, abs, 40 min. stationary bike- intervals
B: 1/4 c. pumpkin pie oatmeal with 13 raisins
2 B: green smoothie, 1/2 slice of gluten free bread
L: veggie soup, mac and " cheeze"
S: apple
D: salad, veggie dog or I may have sweet potatoes
S: roasted pears with banana ice cream

Not much to post. I did okay yesterday, except for 2 tbsp. of vegan choc. chips. I don't know why, but I have been craving chocolate latley.

B: 3/4 c. pumpkin pie oatmeal with 13 raisins
L: broccoli soup, salad with garbanzo beans
D: salad, baked potato withbbq sauce, 1 rice cake with pb
S: oatmeal with 1 banana
snacked on 1 homemade waffle as well

I get so hungry sometimes, I don't know if it is because I am burning a lot of calories or not. I am really keeping track of my calories and am going to work and not eating empty food. I told my daughter that the other day when she typed in curly fries on the calorie counter and it came out at 400 cal. I told her I could have a big bowl of oatmeal for about half of the calories and be full. I need to live by this as well. A lot of times I will eat rice cakes because they are easy to grab. The fact is that I need to have foods that are easy for me to grab. I love sweet potatoes, I think I need to buy some and make some so that I can just grab them to eat and they are filling.

I was so excited today because on the bench press I lifted the 45lb. bar and on top of that I added 50 lbs. I only did 4, but I was very happy about that.

E: 45 min. heavy lifting- chest, abs, 40 min. stationary bike- interval
1 B: 1/4 c. pumpkin pie oatmeal with 13 raisins
2B: green smoothie, 1 rice cake with a little pb
L: salad, broccoli soup
S: apple
D: either out to eat or refried beans over hashbrowns, veggies
S: if hungry oatmeal

My husband and I went out last night instead of tonight, which is fine with me. I don't like big crowds. We went to sizzler where I got a plain baked potato and a salad with beans, a little avacado, salsa, veggies and red wine vinegar. It was so yummy. Then my husband took me to Barnes and Noble, where he bought me two books, " Jane Eyre " ( mine was falling apart) and a book called " Reshaping it all" by Candace Cameron( she used to star on Full House). It looks really good and is a Chrisitan based book about getting over food addictions. It looks great and I can't wait to read it. It was a fun night.

E: 40 min. heavy lifting- bicep, tricep, 40 min. treadmill( interval)
B: 1/4 c. pumpkin pie oatmeal with 13 raisins, green smoothie
S: 3 mini carrots, 1/4 potato
L: gluten free spahetti with black bean meatballs, salad
S: banana ice cream
D: leftover broccoli soup
S: 1 homemade choc. covered strawberry, 2 small black bean brownies, pumpkin pie oatmeal

I did not sleep well last night. I don't know why except to say the little sugar I had last night. I got about 2 hrs. sleep and haven't had time to take a nap at all today. It has been a crazy day. That book by Candace Cameron has really been good so far.

E: 30 min. elliptical-interval, 30 min. stationary bike-interval
B: 1/2 c. pumpkin pie oatmeal, 1 black bean brownie(I need to put out of site)
L: leftover broccoli soup, a few rice crackers, salad
S: green smoothie, 1 black bean brownie
D: leftover broccoli soup(not much left), 1 baked potato, 1 slice of gluten free bread
S: oatmeal with 1/2 banana

The past couple of days have been crazy. I feel like I have been running all the time. I have not eaten rice cakes in 4 days now. I think it is helping not having them around, because I used to snack on them way too much. We had a lady come over today to do a physical on us for life insurance. It went good. My blood pressure was 99/68 and my heart rate was 56. She said that was very good. I have heard that a lower heart rate is good and shows you are physically fit. I asked the lady and she said it was great. Now I will just wait and see how the labs turned out.

E: 45 min. heavy lifting- legs, abs, 35 min. stationary bike-interval
B: 3/4 c. pumpkin pie oatmeal with 15 raisins
L: veggie sushi, steamed rice( went out with a friend)
S: green smoothie, 1 slice of bread
D: sweet potatoes with refried beans and salsa, salad
S: vegan hot cocoa