peace + love + cupcakes
Oh yeah, I also am trying to lose weight with Weight Watchers & hope to one day be able to call myself a runner.
And the late night munchies made this happen. Frak! I should’ve gone to bed a while ago. I was doing so good & now I feel craptacular.
Fifth day tracking & I promise I will only post the WW & MFT numbers until Sunday. I’ll keep tracking but won’t bore you all with the details daily :D
First time this week that I eat out & I pre-planned my meal at Panera. For 610 calories (16 PP+) it is so worth it. I think this is my go to meal at Panera: broccoli cheese soup, 1/2 BBQ chicken salad & chips.
My left knee is bothering me so I only walked 2.11 miles in 36 minutes. Tomorrow I’ll be walking 4 miles & Sunday 6 miles.
I weighed myself this morning & I was beyond pleased with the number on the scale. Official weigh in is on Monday so I better continue to do well over the weekend.
Flashback Friday: Beach Bum edition
This was taken in the early 80’s. I want that confidence & sass back.
Soon…
Fourth day tracking all my food. Today was a rest day. For breakfast I tried the chocolate chia pudding I linked last night. I made two different ones. One of them worked & the other one didn’t.
I made one with water & it was too runny. It was more like hot chocolate than pudding. I found another recipe & that one worked out so much better. It tasted like chocolate tapioca & it was very filling.
Recipe :
2 tbsp of chia seeds
2 tbsp of Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa powder
1.5 cups of unsweetened almond milk
2 packets of Splenda
Mix everything & refrigerate overnight
Total calories 220 & 7 PP+
After I finished my workout last night, I was in my car tracking it on my Runkeeper app & I realized that I use a lot of tools to help me stay on track. I decided to share them with you. I will provide a link to my profile in case you want to add me.
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Runkeeper - I use this app to track all of my walks on my iPhone. When I first started working out, I downloaded the Nike+ app on my iPhone but I could never get it to calibrate correctly. I decided to try Runkeeper & I’ve been happy ever since. It can track your walks as long as it has a GPS signal & I can also do a manual entry for my treadmill workouts. It also tracks other activities such as cycling, skiing & snowboarding.
DailyMile - oh how I wish that I could sync up my Runkeeper stats to DailyMile automatically. I like the interface for DailyMile a lot better than Runkeeper so I am tracking on both. DailyMile does sync up to Nike+ & Garmin devices. I also like that I can keep track of any upcoming races on it.
Fitbit - I got mine as a Christmas gift & I am so happy with it. It tracks my daily steps, miles traveled, calories burned & even my sleep habits. Pretty cool!
Fitocracy - I got an invite to this a while back but haven’t explored it too much. For every workout you do, you get a certain number of points & achievements. It’s basically a game to improve your fitness. Right now it’s invite only so if you want a invite, let me know.
MyFitnesspal - I’ve been using it to track my workouts and meals. You can build a profile & based on what results you want it will tell you how many calories you should consume daily.
Earndit - I don’t know how I heard about this rewards site but it’s pretty cool. I have my Runkeeper, Foursquare & Fitbit tied to it. For every activity I do, I get points. Those points get me rewards such as gift cards for energy bars, discounts at TheClymb, vitamins, shoes, apparel & basically things fitness related. It’s free to join & they have weekly challenges as well.
I’m also on Twitter which I don’t use for tracking per se but I can talk to a people who have the same interest as me. And yes, I am also on Facebook. I have a love/hate relationship to this site.
Seems like a lot but it doesn’t take a lot of time & I find it useful to see how far I’ve come from when I first started losing weight & working out.
By Wednesday, share five specific goals with each other that will be reachable by the end of week FIVE. 12 days.
Christy (noquithouse) is my buddy for this week’s (and I think next week as well) Do Life Challenge. She’s lost 76 pounds so far. How awesome is that! Definitely check her blog & cheer her on.
Here are my five specific goals from today through the end of week 5.
- Track my food every day both on WW & MFP.
- Work out 8 days out of the 11 days remaining.
- Organize my house. It’s chaotic right now.
- Perform one random act of kindness.
- Drink at least 64 oz of water a day.
W9D2 done. I thought that it was my fastest 5K but it wasn’t. My fastest was 49:18 so it’s still really close. I felt great during my workout & really pushed myself. Third day tracking all my food on WW & MFP. I am getting into a routine so it isn’t as tedious as I thought it would be. Today I almost ate all of my points but still have about 300 calories left for the day without counting what I burned at the gym.
Walking:
- 0:49:22 || 3.1 mi || 15:55.5 min/mi (+145 pts)
I found a recipe for chocolate chia pudding which I am going to make tonight & have tomorrow for breakfast. I hope it tastes good.
If you want to be healthy, you need to take care of yourself!
As I say, it is all about the small choices we make every day.
Every day, every meal, every minute is about making the decision to be a healthier you.
The most important thing in your diet, aside for your adherence to it, is whether it’s easy or not to follow. Keep it simple and stick to it to see good results.
asmallloss replied to your photo: Tracked all my food for the day. According to…
that is really interesting! i always thought about weight watchers but the points system never really clicked with me … while i understand why they wanted to make some foods 0 points, i can’t see not “counting” anything i eat/drink that isn’t water
What I hope that I can get out of this experiment is the ability to be able to control my portions. Binging is a BIG issue for me even if it is on fruits & veggies. Even with 0 point food, you are supposed to eat until you are satisfied & not full. I haven’t been able to get a handle on that.