food log SFS

B: slim fast & banana, I was all jittery in the morning so I didn't really drink it all...
L: turkey sandwich with cucumber and tomato on wheat bread, grapes
D: fiber one bar, banana, gogurt, celery & peanut butter
no snacks, busy day
no exercise though :(

food log SFS

Calorie Manager: Wherever you are, we'd love to have you joining us again! :)

Sunday:
B: Slim Fast & banana (you knew I was going to say that, right?)
L: nectarine, pbj on wheat
D: Quesadilla and oranges
S: graham crackers and cream cheese

E: none

Friday and Saturday: Who knows what I ate. It wasn't great, it wasn't terrible, I just don't really remember. I did do some walking, but that's about it.

MJMs Food Log

Yesterday I ate:
several cinnamon rolls
2 cupcakes
Huckleberry ice cream sundae
1 peach

Seriously, that is truly what I ate. That is embarrassing! I was too busy and too sick with a miserable cold to care. I just ate what was handy.

Food Log SFS

Why is it that yesterday can seem so long ago?
I, too ate too much yesterday...
B: slim fast and banana
L: Turkey sandwich with cucumber and tomato
D: hamburger
Some cookies, a few more cookies, some peanut butter... and I don't remember what else.
E: I walked two miles while pulling the kiddos in the wagon.

MJMs Food Log

Yikes!

I just keep eating and eating AND EATING!

I can't remember what I ate Wednesday but I know it included several Macaroons (Yum - I love coconut!) and a gingersnap raspberry sandwich cookie.

Today I ate:

2 bowls of cold cereal (peanut butter Cap'N Crunch, no less)
rolls, salads, desserts at a Jazzercise class luncheon
fat-free turkey sandwich with pepperjack cheese, lettuce, and tomato
small Heath bar hot fudge shake from Iceberg (Kevin's fault - he bought it for me. I was hot. It was cold. I ate.)

Not good!

Help! Must get back on track!

food logs SFS

Tuesday:
fiber one cereal
turkey wrap on wheat tortilla with cucumber, tomato, and light mozzarella
chili and rice with mozzarella
nature valley dark chocolate granola thins and one marshmallow

Wednesday:
too much food yesterday!
slim fast and banana
turkey sandwich with tomato and cucumber
orange
whole wheat spaghetti
nature valley dark chocolate granola thins (3) oops, they're yummy
marshmallows
peanut butter
yogurt
handful of Cheerios

I've done some light walking. Trying to let my foot heal and not swimming hasn't worked out well.... Still trying to figure out what to do about exercise....maybe I'll try the morning cycle class.

MJMs Food Log

Yesterday was not a good eating day for me! I was hungry all day and too tired to care what I put into my mouth.

B: 2 C light chocolate soy milk with 2 C strawberries and 1 banana
snack: 1 apple
L: 2 C wild rice and 1/2 Wunderbar
snack: 1 cookie
snack: 1 C peanut butter trifle
D: fat-free turkey sandwich on light wheat bread with tomato and lettuce
snack: 1 cookie

Notice all the snacks? Yikes! I drank 1/2 gallon of water but got no exercise.

food log SFS

Monday:
B: slim fast and banana
L: southwest salad with grilled chicken from McDonald's
D: leftover pot pie, only ate a little of the breading
S: 2 fruit snacks (had two lows), Yoplait light, banana

E: Well, I was really excited about hitting the pool on Monday morning after a week off. I walked into the gym and my one month membership was "about to expire" and I asked about renewing. The front-desk lady told me I could wait a few days. I walked out to the pool and it was drained. CRAP! They're refinishing it and it won't be open until OCTOBER FIRST!!! Double CRAP!
I'm not sure WHAT I'm going to do for exercise. My husband has an incredibly packed schedule and exercising with a five year old and two year old in tow can prove to be disastrous (Did I tell you about Friday's "work out"? No, well, it was a DISASTER!)
I also have the dang planar fascists so I can't do any kind of out of the water exercise without suffering a ton of pain and further injuring my feet. Triple CRAP!
Anyhow.... I ended up pulling the kids in the wagon for a mile. Something is better than nothing I suppose.

MJMs Food Log

Monday I ate the following:

2 C broccoli salad with grapes, onions, and celery
1 C peanut butter trifle

I did 1 hour of Jazzercise. (We were holding a special fast for our Stake President so I didn't eat much.)

MJMs Food Log

Sunday I ate the following:

2 C light chocolate soy milk with 2 C strawberries and 1 banana
3/4 cheese quesadilla
3 oz chicken breast
tossed salad
1 C wild rice
1 1/2 C peanut butter trifle

Yikes! The trifle was incredibly yummy!!!! I drank only about 7 C of water and got no exercise.

food log SFS

Saturday:
B: power bar, apple, banana
L: 2 slices of pizza (again with the pizza, no more I say) 1 piece of cake, 1 scoop of vanilla ice cream
D: fiber one cereal with strawberries
S: .5 c crackers

E: 30 minutes Krank, 60 minutes water aerobics

Husband is back in town and I can resume my morning swim. One week till the boy starts school. Hoping to keep up the swimming while adding in the new routine of school.

MJMs Food Log and Weigh In

Saturday I ate the following:

1/3 C Malt-O-Meal cereal sweetened with brown sugar
1 Fiber One bar
1 small Heath bar shake (from Iceberg - YUM!)
1 peach
lots of grapes
2 bowls of cold cereal with milk
1 chocolate cookie


I didn't eat especially well. I did drink at least 1/2 gallon of water. I also hiked Catherine pass. I hiked quite a bit and then ran the entire way down (about 3 miles) so I got in some good exercise.

I am very excited! I lost everything I gained in Yellowstone!!!! I am back to the exact weight I was at 2 weeks ago. Now I can work on getting my weight actually going down and not just keep re-losing that which I previously lost and then gained.

food log SFS

Friday:
B: french toast
L: slim fast and banana
D: home made chicken pot pie
S: 3 mini twix, yogurt, hand full of fiber cereal

E: 60 minute walk
4 hours of cleaning

Weigh in:
took me 4 weeks to loose 3.5 pounds
took me 1 week to gain 4 pounds
overall: I'm up .5
awesome


I'm not giving up. This is hard. Harder than I thought. When I'm not working full-time I just GAIN WEIGHT. It is frustrating but I'm learning how to stay at home and not eat all day long. Now I just have to learn to make better food choices. I'm not at all proud of my daily food logs. I know that I've eaten too much, but I'm plugging along. Will keep at it.

MJMs Food Log

Today I ate:

2 C light chocolate soy milk with 2 C strawberries and 1 banana
fat-free turkey, pepperjack cheese sandwich on light wheat bread with tomato and lettuce
1 apple
1 stalk celery with peanut butter
1/3 C Malt-O-Meal cereal with brown sugar
2 bites of a Wunderbar
dough of 1 chocolate cookie

I drank 1/2 gallon of water, did 1 hour of Jazzercise, and walked quite a bit around the BYU campus throughout the day.

I am encouraged because the weight I put on in Yellowstone is coming off.

MJMs Food Log

Thursday I ate:

2 C light chocolate soy milk with 2 C strawberries and 1 banana
1 apple
fat-free turkey sandwich with light wheat bread, reduced fat pepper jack cheese, tomato, and lettuce
1 piece chocolate/caramel swirl fudge
2 oz fat free turkey
9 grapes
dried apples
1 Biscoff cookie
1/3 C Zoom sweetened with brown sugar
3 oz milk chocolate

I Jazzercised for 1 hour and did quite a bit of walking around the BYU campus but only drank 56 oz of water. (had way too many treats today!)

food log SFS

Is it Thursday already?

B: fiber one cereal and strawberries
L: peach and pbj
D: pizza
S: crackers, string cheese, yogurt

E: chasing kids

weighing in tomorrow..... I fear I've gained, we'll see...

MJMs Food Log

Wednesday's Food Intake:

2 C light chocolate soy milk with 2 C strawberries and 1 banana
1 apple
1 piece of Mars Bar fudge
1 fat-free turkey sandwich with light wheat bread, reduced fat pepperjack cheese, tomato, and lettuce
1 slice light wheat bread
1 C nonfat yogurt with tropical fruit mixed in (pineapple, mango, and strawberries)
1 fudge bar

I've only gotten 1/2 gallon of water each day of Education Week (and still I have to go to the bathroom in between EVERY class) but I am getting lots of extra walking and stairs while tromping around the BYU campus.

In addition, I did 45 minutes of Jazzercise this morning and played kickball and dodgeball with the YM/YW tonight. Trying to keep up with those youth shoulc count for something (or at least burn a few extra calories!)

food log SFS

B: slimfast and banana
L: turkey wrap
D: pizza
S: celery & peanut butter, pretzels

E: none :(

food log SFS

Tuesday I ate... too much! :)
B: fiber one cereal
L: turkey sandwich and an apple, two pretzels
D:1.5 corn dogs, wheat crackers and peanut butter
S: fruit snacks, red velvet cheese cake (yikes, it was delicious though)

I didn't get my lazy butt out of bed for swimming and that's not a good thing because Monday and Tuesday were my only swimming days this week due to a change in my husband's schedule. However, I'm planning on walking on Friday which I haven't been able to do due to some plantar fascitis, which is awful! I'm also signed up for Krank and Water Aerobics on Saturday!

MJMs Food Log

Monday's menu:

2 C light chocolate soy milk with 2 C strawberries and 1 banana
1 apple
1 Fiber One bar
3 oz fat-free smoked turkey breast
1 piece peanut butter fudge
dried apple slices


Tuesday's menu:

2 C light chocolate soy milk with 2 C strawberries and 1 banana
1 apple
fat-free turkey sandwich on light wheat bread with lettuce and tomato
1 piece german chocolate fudge
2 oz fat-free smoked turkey breast
1 slice light wheat bread
dried apple slices


I gained over 6 pounds on my trip last week. Ugh! Could my weight go up and down any more? I've gotten back on track and lost over 3 pounds of it (probably mostly water weight).

Not much variety in my menu this week since I am running back and forth to BYU Education Week but at least it's healthier than what I ate last week.

Jen - Congratulations on the weight loss! Great job!

food log SFS

Sunday:
I don't really remember much of what I ate.... it wasn't anything particularly tasty, or much... because I have a meeting in the MIDDLE OF THE DAY for three hours. So I never eat lunch, and I didn't fix dinner. Breakfast was pancakes and bacon!

Monday:
B: 1/3 c. fiber one cereal, banana, slim fast
L: light chicken noodle soup
D: peanut butter and apricot jelly sandwich
S: cheese cake (oops!)

E: 30 minutes swimming

Starting to get the feeling like I'm the only one posting...........

food log SFS

Saturday:
B: nature valley bar, small bagel with cream cheese
L: turkey sandwich and apple
D: fried rice, some sort of chicken dishes from Panda
S: wheat crackers, yogurt

E: 30 minutes Krank
60 minutes water aerobics

food log SFS

Friday:

B: yoplait smoothie
L: hot dog & a few chips
D: bbq ribs, broccoli salad
S: oat meal cookie, yogurt, chocolate chip cookie, peanut butter & honey on wheat bread

E: 30 minutes swimming

Weigh In SFS

I weighed in on Friday morning and I was down 3.5 pounds!!!! I was so excited and gave myself a congratulatory speech in the shower. :)

What did I do differently?

I'm not sure, but here's a few things that I've been trying that I think may have contributed.
1. I didn't give up. I've kept up the "diet" or at least counting my calories. I've kept swimming and doing other exercises. Thank Marvelle for creating this website where I can keep going on the blogging.
2. I told myself I could do it. I watched something on TV that inspired me to use a little positive self-talk. I figured if I kept telling myself that I'd never lost any weight, I wouldn't. So, I switched it up and told myself a few times per day that I could do it, that I could loose weight.
3. I took my best friend's advice and I stayed off the scale. We normally keep a scale in our bathroom and my sister-in-law had moved it to weigh her luggage. I left it out of the bathroom until the end of the week. This morning I brought it up and weighed in and was ecstatic about the results.
4. I saw something on Oprah (I know...) and tried to only eat when I was hungry, and slow down and eat in a calm place. Sometimes I eat while I'm fixing lunch for the kids, or in front of the TV, or while on the computer, etc.

It's been 4 weeks since I started swimming so that is ALMOST a pound a week.
Anyway, I'm excited and I hope that I'll be able to loose at least 20 more pounds.

food log SFS

Thursday:
slim fast and banana
fiber one cereal
yoplait smoothy
oatmeal cookies
apple
celery
peanutbutter
wheat bread
honey

no exercise

food log SFS

Wednesday:
B: slim fast & banana
L: chicken quesadilla
D: chicken and pasta
S: peanut butter M&Ms, angel food cake, oatmeal rasin cookies

food log SFS

Tuesday:
B: fiber one cereal
L: turkey sandwich, apple
D: chili & rice
S: nature valley bar
angel food cake with berries and vanilla pudding

30 minutes swimming

food log

Monday:
B: pancakes and bacon
L: protien burger
D: chicken with chips & salsa
S: fiber one, nature valley, peanutbutter, a few jelly candies, and some sugar free cheese cake

Exercise: 40 minutes of swim

food log

Sunday:
B: slim fast
banana
L: granola bar
D: hamburger on wheat bread
S: celery with peanut butter and a yogurt
no exercise

MJMs weigh-in

Yea!

I climbed on the scales this morning for one last weigh-in before my week-long campout in Yellowstone.

I lost the girls' camp weight (must have been water weight gain) plus 0.4 of a pound.

Yea!

It's been very slow but I've lost a few pounds since starting this blog.

Here's the rundown (again the numbers are the last two digits of my weight):
start 7/14 - 6.6
7/21 - 4.6
7/28 - 4.4
8/2 - 3.6
today - 3.2

Now if I can just not gain on the Yellowstone trip. I won't have internet access for a while so I won't be posting.

MJMs Food Log

Today I ate the following:

Breakfast:
chocolate soy milk smoothee with strawberries and bananas and wheat germ

Snack:
1 oz dark chocolate

Lunch:
fat-free turkey sandwich
peach

Snack:
handful of trail mix
caramel popcorn (made it to go camping and just couldn't seem to help popping some in my mouth)

Dinner:
fat-free turkey sandwich

I ran and drank lots of water.

same old

I know I haven't been very good at posting my logs and such this week. I haven't been keeping track of my calories on my app either. I'm eating the same old foods, doing the same old exercises. Still haven't lost an ounce.

This week I was busy with projects at home. Very busy. I had plans to do one big project and unexpectedly my husband motivated me to get another one crossed off my list before fall comes, in fact, before Saturday came. These particular projects kept me doing physical activity and now I'm sore! :) I love being sore though, it helps me know that I've been moving my body and that is my goal, keep moving!

I have a friend who does a fitness blog. It's cool. Check it out here. I even did a guest post on there once. I'll have to tell you about that sometime.

MJMs Food Log

Yesterday I ate:

Breakfast:
smoothie made with 2 C chocolate soy milk, 1 banana, 2 C strawberries, and wheat gern

Snack:
1 oz dark chocolate

Lunch:
fat-free turkey sandwich with light wheat bread, lettuce, pepper jack cheese, and tomato

Snack:
1 apple

Dinner:
same sandwich as lunch
1 cucumber
1 beef stick

I drank a gallon of water and did an hour of Jazzercise. Very good day.

MJMs Food Log

This morning was the moment of truth when I stepped on the scale after being at girls' camp. I gain 2.4 pounds. It is hard to believe I could gain 0.8 pounds per day. Now I have a couple of days to eat well before I spend a week camping in Yellowstone (I already know I don't eat well when I'm camping).

Yesterday I ate the following:
1 slice ham
1 English muffn (plain)
watermelon and cantaloupe
1 orange
2 C cinnamon Chex (dry)
lots of black licorice
1/3 C Malt-O-Meal cereal with brown sugar
1 chocolate bar
1/3 C Zoom with brown sugar

No exercise. Little water. No veggies.

MJMs Food Log

This morning was the moment of truth...climbing on the scale after girls' camp. I was up 2.4 pounds. It seems almost unbelievable that I could possibly gain 0.8 pounds per day. I have a couple of days to get back on track before I leave for a week of camping in Yellowstone (I already know that I don't eat well when I'm camping).

Here's my food for yesterday:
1 slice ham
1 english muffin (plain)
cantaloupe and watermelon
1 orange
2 C cinnamon Chex
lots of black licorice
1/3 C Malt-O-Meal cereal with brown sugar
1/3 C Zoom with brown sugar


No exercise. Little water. No veggies.

MJM - Girls' Camp

Aaacck!

Just got back from girls' camp where I ate horribly. We tried foods such as roasted Twinkies (really yummy) and gourmet s'mores made with Reese's and Mounds and Milky Ways and so on. Ate so much. Ate so much sugar. No exercise. I intended to go running this morning until I stayed up until 3 am.

Not wanting to step on the scale tomorrow.

Back on Track

As of today Wednesday, I know I am back on track when I am willing to run in the heat and high humidity for 40 minutes. I am in Minneaplois and it is hot and humid. Lets see my last post had me eating 3 Chocolate Chip cookies yum but baaaaaaad. I didn't finish the day with cookies though my main meal for Monday was a footlong turkey breast and ham sandwich with pepperjack cheese and all the vegetables available at Subway. It hit the spot nicely and I didn't feel stuffed when I finished.


Tuesday:
B: Egg and cheese omelete, 1 sausage patty, 3 strips of bacon, 2 cinnamon rolls, 1c cranberry juice, 1c orange Juice, Banana
L: Assorted Fruit, bowl of cheerios w/ 2% Milk, 4 oz Yogart, Water
D: Pasta Salad w/Chicken, Bread Sticks, assorted Fruit, Brownie
Sn: Brownie and 2 bags Popcorn, peanuts, 3 Reese Peanut Butter Cups, Sun Chips
50 oz of water


Wed:
B: 2 cinnomon rolls, 1 Bagel, 2 eggs, 1 sausage patty, yogart, 1c cranberry juice, 1c orange juice
L: PBJ Sandwich, Banana, water
D: 1 Chicken Wrap, Fruit, Corsaint Roll
Sn: 1/2 Chicken Wrap

Thurs:
B: Muffin, Cheerios, 2% Milk, Grapes and Banana
L: Bag of Popcorn

food log sugarfreesweety

I didn't log what I ate yesterday, so I'll do my best to remember.

slimfast shake
banana
southwest salad with grilled chicken
5 pot stickers
fiber one bar
apple
ritz crackers
gogurt

Didn't exercise.

MJMs Weigh In

I'll be out of town again for the next few days so I weighed this morning.

I am down 0.8 pounds. Yea! It's not a lot but it's down and I'll take my victories where I can get them.

I got a new digital scale a few weeks ago. My weight is still too embarrassing to report but I'll divulge the last digits.

2 weeks ago - 4.6
1 week ago - 4.4
today - 3.6

Slow, but it IS a downward trend.

(oops, pushed save not post on Tuesday)

MJMs Food Log

Today I ate:

lots of cherries
3 oz fat-free turkey breast
1 tomato
1 chocolate cupcake
too many licks of banana bar and peanut butter bar batter
1 cheese quesadilla

Not a heavy eating day (running around TOO much) but not the healthiest of food choices. In addition, I did fairly good on water. I also ran 2 miles and did a Jazzercise class.

Gaining Weight and not caring (help)

Lost interest. Sometimes it just seems to hard. When I dont pack food for work I have to eat out and so I eat nice fattening things that I like so it is a difficult battle. Unfortuately I dont like salads I like fat greasy foods so I have been eating those and the scales show it I gained 5 lbs. Don't look to me as a good example, but the great thing about telling the truth is it simply embarrasses you. hehehe. Today all I have eaten so far is 3 chocloate chip cookies. I need to find a Subway or something. Maybe exercise would help. huh! I will have to ponder that one.

MJMs Food Log

Well, yesterday was Fast Sunday so not too much food eaten.

4 oz Tillapia
1/2 C broccoli slaw
1/2 C chicken poppyseed pasta salad
broccoli, carrots, snow peas, tomatoes
chips and salsa (probably too much of this but the salsa was FRESH!)
blueberry and peach tart

I didn't drink much water and no exercise.

MJMs Food Log

Friday's Food
Breakfast:
1 C whole wheat with a little brown sugar

Lunch: (it was a PTA potluck luncheon and I had a little of everything)
tossed salad
pineapple, watermelon, cantaloupe
bread with dip
tomato salad
chicken poppyseed pasta salad
tomato/basil pizza

Dinner:
salad from McDonalds (it was free!)
2 cookies worth of cookie dough

I got quite a bit of water, lots of veggies, and did a Jazzercise class. Not a bad day.

Saturday's Eating
1 1/2 C whole wheat sweetened with brown sugar
salad from McDonalds (I had another coupon for a free one)
1 cookie
1 hamburger (from Five Guys Burgers and Fries)
some fries
1/4 of a Bundtlet cake

Drank quite a bit of water, got my veggies, and ran 4 miles and did Jazzercise. Please, scale, move down for me this week!