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That's what life should be all about...

Oh yeah, I also am trying to lose weight with Weight Watchers & hope to one day be able to call myself a runner.

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Hard Work & Dedication

Yup, I am being cheesy & quoting Dolvett from the Biggest Loser. Last Monday I said that I would track every nibble & bite both on MyFitnessPal & Weight Watchers. I struggle portion control and I had hoped that tracking my food intake this way it would help me stay on track.

It was tedious at times but I am so worth the effort. I found that by tracking calories as well as points, I was making healthier choices. This tracking technique paid off as I lost 3.4 pounds this week which makes for a 81.2 pound loss in the past 16 months. While I did make healthier choices, I never felt deprived during the week. I also worked out 5 days this week.

My plan for this week: repeat what I did last week. I have my first 10K race on Superbowl Sunday & I am nervous about it because my left foot has been bothering me a bit. But I got some gel insoles which I used yesterday for the first time & they seemed to have helped.

Here’s hoping for another great week!

7th day tracking my food. Tomorrow morning will be the test as to whether this tracking technique & making good choices paid off when I weigh in.

I finally made it to the gym today but was only able to do 5K.

0:51:20 || 3.1 mi || 16:36 min/mi (+138 pts)

I added chia seeds & blood oranges to water & it made for a very refreshing drink. Looks hella weird but it’s really good.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Fun times in the city

Today the weather was fantastic so I spent the day in SF with my mom & her best friend. We walked around the Embarcadero to AT&T Park (Giants Stadium) and we shared lots of laughs & yummy food.

If you ever come to SF & are a coffee fan, you must try Blue Bottle coffee & Pepple’s Donuts if you want a delicious vegan donut. It was my first time trying it and I am hooked. I had the salted caramel & it was perfect. We also stopped at a frozen yogurt place where they were shaving chocolate. Can you imagine how many calories are in that huge bar? For dinner, I had a brussels sprouts salad with caramelized onion, bacon, hard cooked egg and grilled chicken.

I tracked every single thing I ate and I did pretty well. I didn’t get a hard workout but we did walk a lot as my trusty Fitbit tells me. Overall it was a great day.

Tomorrow I am getting up early for a 6 mile walk. I got some gel insoles and I hope that they will help with the annoying pain I’ve been getting on my left foot.

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+

Tracked all my food for the day. According to WW, I can still eat an additional 10 points today however I only have 3 calories left from MFP. Very interesting…