Friday's Eats!

It hasn't been a spectactular day, but it is my only day off. I am excited to hang aound the house in my pj's and just get some things done. Here's what I've been munching on today:

Breakfast:Bear Naked's Fruit and Nut Bar

I ate that in my local Sentry while doing a tad bit of grocery shopping. I bought a few fruits (apples, oranges, pomegranates, and grapefruits), some veggies for soup, chobani (honey flavored), and a few deli items. My fridge was starting to look extremely empty. I had a snack of two walnut halves and 2 Hershey's kisses. (Sorry....no picture)

It's pretty darn cold here in the dairy state. So I decided to make soup. The only soup that I can make lol, The infamous Weight Watchers Garden Vegetable soup

Lunch was...

Tuna Salad on Arnold's sandwich thins, a bowl of the garden soup, and nice navel orange

I snacked later on.....another bowl of soup and a chobani honey yogurt. Dinner was a delicious, but once again not pictured Jimmy John's #5 Vito Sub and BBQ Kettle Chips. I'm pretty full and finished. No more food for me!

Calorie total: 1,683
Fruit/Vegetable Servings: 7
Water Intake: 125 oz.
Feeling: tired

like a little bee.......

I've been so busy busy busy!!! I've been working out religiously with my trainer (whom I love) might I add. I haven't been attending my weight watcher meeting (yeah I know bad bad princess!), but I have been following plan and am proud to say I'm on plan everyday, but I chose to rescue myself from the scale. I was too addicted to the numbers now I'm focusing on my generally overall health. I have so many things going on right now I'm surprised I get to the gym five days a week! My 10 year class reunion is in three weeks (which I'm so excited about), my photo shoot has been pushed back to August first ( I wanna give myself a chance to make the most beautiful pictures possible), and I'm just focusing on creating the most beautiful princess possible INSIDE and OUT.

OMG!!!! I went to Whole Foods Market Sunday and....I'm officially in love. The best place ever I say! I will be spending every Sunday there from here on out. So mad my phone was on it's last bar and I didn't take pics. Had the best piece of pizza there ever: Wild mushroom and gorgonzola cheese YUM!! Monday I stumbled upon (by mistake) the infamous Trader Joe's sweet Lawd Geezus I was in healthy food heaven. It's ashame that I have to drive 45 minutes to get to either, but oh well it's so worth it to me now.

Oh I'm now newly addicted to greek yogurt! Yes I'm addicted and don't care what kind it is : Fage, Oikos, or Chobani this sister is now addicted to the greek and forever will be...Thanks Jaime!

So yesterday me and the ex hit up an old college fave of mine: Jimmy John's. I was craving with a passion some....alfalfa sprouts. Yes alfalfa sprout wtf!? So I ordered the Californian (i Think it's called) with turkey, mayo, sprouts, avocado, tomatoes, and lettuce on this amazingly yummy and chewy 7-grain bread! It was heaven.....I also realized that is was also 790 calories...WTF??? Dangit I must start checking websites BEFORE I head to these places. I could have made that SAME sandwich at home for a third of that *pouting* what a waste of money and daily calories!

Anywho just wanted to do a long awaited recap. Since I'm not focusing on my weight so much...per'se I'm thinking of doing a weekly/monthly photo check in. Tell me what u think. Stay happy, healthy, and beautiful. *smooches*

Revamping...a lil more!

Okay things have been a little haywire in my life recently and I must admit that I haven't necessarily been on my game. For a few days I contemplated leaving my beloved weight watchers and last week due to a crazy schedule didn't make it to my meeting. Here me out on this one....I recently hired a personal trainer and he emails me meal plans each day, so I figured why do BOTH? It only took a few days to realize that his meal plans were far harder to stick with than my dear old friends at WW, so I guess I will incorporate his exercise aspects into my life and let weight watchers guide my eating. I must say I have gained a new fondness for the gym. I'm happy to say that I enjoy conquering my 30 minutes on the elliptical (who ever would have thought), I loathe the idea of upper body strength training, but embrace the delayed onset of pain thereafter (I know call me a masochist). I'm sure when I go to my meeting today I will discover some sort of gain...and I'm okay with that. I'm just getting back into the game of working on me. However this is a journey and a fun one. I love how people at work ask me questions about food and exercise....even though I'm the heaviest girl on staff. I really enjoyed the day I made my ex a green monster...and now he talks about them all the time!!! This is a lifestyle change and I'm prepared to embrace it for life.

on the up and up literally

I'm a tad sleepy so I'm going to bang this post out quickly so I can take my nap. I have my appetite back. YEAH!!!!! (kinda) Now I just wanna eat every freakin' thing in sight and I'm uber scared that I'll have a gain at weight in tomorrow night. Jeez that would piss me off. I guess I'm moreso just happy to be back at my old self. I had a great workout today. My work schedule has been everything but normal lately so it seems like my meeting dates keep changing but hopefully Thursday will be my new and solid meeting date. Wish me luck for tomorrow night.

A not so victorious victory

Well we all know that I had a crappy week...and without delving too deep into the royal life that is princess valecia's let's just say it got FAR crappier after I wrote my last post, but this morning I did experience ONE high point. I had a 4.6 pound loss at WI this morning, but I'm not happy about it. It came about from stress and complete lack of appetite and that's just NOT the proper way to do it. I'd prefer the good old rule of hard work and calorie cutting. I guess I can't complain a loss is a loss especially a major loss like that. Hopefully next week will be better...WAY better!

Here goes nothing......

So if any of you actually pay my posts any attention I spent most if not all of April focusing on my eating habits and I must recap and say so far so pretty freaking good. (oh btw) I did have a one pound deficit this week at weigh in yeahhhh me (I'll take any and all deficits no matter how small:)So now that Happy May is here I will be focusing my efforts on activity and workouts. So tonight I put my head on the pillow with my cute pink nano sitting close by my kicks and workout clothes. I will be heading to the gym in the AM. Honestly I'm kinda scared. I remember there was a time when I lived and breathed the elliptical. Now....I will be starting all over, and I hate the feeling of being the fat girl that breaks into a sweat immediately and can't last on the machine long. I do like however that I have a better understanding of the weight equipment than most men...LOL (Gosh its great to have big brothers!) Wish me luck..this should be grueling, excruciating and well worth it!

Weigh-In

Well the weather was fantastic this weekend and I have been doing so much and going so many places that a) I haven't tracked since Friday (oops) and i forgot to tell you about the scale war at WI...I lost 3 pounds...yes 3 of those pounds are gone and I will make all the effort in the world to make sure they stay gone. That's all I have to say for now!

The adventures of 269!!!!!

I decided that Weight watchers helps me so much with food accountability so I decided to rejoin! I got on the scale and as you guessed it yeah I was 269!!!! OMG I was pissed. But a different kinda pissed...pissed enough to do something about it. I feel like I'm flying by the seat of my pants sometimes. Not quite sure of my portions not quite sure of my calories. But this helps my certainty. It will get better I will get smaller I will lose this weight and I will be healthier. I am committed to myself.