Some Good healthy Options

So I've found some good healthy options for us in our trek to have smaller butts.

To ease the taco bell urge I found these low fat frozen burritos. To be honest they are pretty freaking good. I've only tried the low fat beans,cheese & rice burrito but I have the chicken one that I will try in the next few days. You can find these in the frozen food section of the healthy food. They are yum.

http://www.cedarlanefoods.com/goodfood.htm

If you need a dessert you can always have angelfood cake. It is fat free and yummy. Get some frozen berries, and fat free cool whip to go on top and it's freaking fabu!

Good luck kids!

Update

Well it's been a few but I've been doing really well. So far I'm down 9 pounds. 9 pounds have been left on the floor at the gym. I've been eating right and exercising 2-3 times a week for an hour each time. I know I could be working out more than that but for now that's all good. No need to get all crazy. :) So 9 pounds in 22 days. So I'm losing about a half a pound a day. That's not bad. I've decided that I'm not going to buy clothes until my birthday, that will by my present to myself and hopefully a smaller present. So it's 45 days until my birthday if I keep this up that will be another 20 pounds. Now being a reasonable person I realize that 20 pounds is a lot and at some point I will plateau so I'm not going to be disappointed if I don't make that goal. I will however be disappointed if I don't make 15 pounds by then. So here's to hoping I'm smoking hot for my birthday!!

NO I did not forget.... I have just been super busy.....
I have been doing very good at making myself eat 4-6 times a day. I feel full all of the time.
I have also been pretty good about not eating out at work and I have done great with no fast food.
Today I had scrambled eggs for breakfast with a couple small pieces of bacon (just because I have to get it out of my house), toast and orange-pineapple juice.

an orange

Lunch/Dinner;
Lean Cuisine lemon pecan chicken and lima beans

Day 6 Friday

I ordered a new scale, it's one of those body fat percentage scales and it came yesterday. Well it's probably a good thing I went to the gym yesterday and today. That made me feel even worse about myself let me tell you. It's one thing to know you are fat, but it's another thing to see it right there in front of your face in blinking numbers how much of your body is actually made up of fat. Soooooo I need to fix this. I need to keep off my arse as much as possible.

Breakfast

carnation breakfast essentials 220 calories/5 calories from fat. Tried the vanilla one today. I can't tell whether or not I like it. It's like a weird version of a mcdonalds shake only not frozen. I guess I could go all out and mix it with the ice but that's just too much drama that early in the morning.

Lunch
Ham sandwich
ham 105 calories/30 calories from fat
bread 200 calories/20 calories from fat
mustard 20 calories/0 calories from fat

3 slices of ham 105 calories/30 calories from fat


Snack
Kashi bar 120 calories/30 calories from fat.

Dinner
baked chicken Lean cuisine 240 calories 45 calories from fat

Went crazy and had a mountain dew...that's what stress will do for me...get me a pop and I'm fine. I need to stop the pop but hey 2 in 5 days is not bad. 110 calories/0 calories from fat.

Total for today is 1120 calories and 160 calories from fat. I feel as though I need to work out again tomorrow morning stupid scale.

Hey everyone, just checkin' in.



I haven't been doing very well with keeping track of what I am eating. I am trying to incorporate more fruits and veggies in my diet. What I really wanted to do was up my activity level, because now it is hovering near non existant. I really want to start walking on the treadmill at work, but six months ago I effed up my foot and it still hurts to walk on it. I did go to my doctor today, but ran into a little (major) insurance snafu. Once I get that settled, I can get my foot feeling better and plan to hit the ground running so to speak.

Day 5 Thursday.

Well I went to the gym we'll see how my knee feels later, I'm betting not so great but that's ok. I don't really want to go to the doctor just yet because he's going to tell me that hey you are fat that's why your knees suck so bad. So I want to try and lose some weight and see if that helps and if not then I'll go to the doctor, by then they should be nice and screwed up. :) Well today I did 23 minutes on the elliptical. I went for 1.51 miles. 20 minutes was straight up workout and 3 minutes of cool down period. Just from a personal note I hate that cool down period, I signed up for 20 minutes of working out not 25. Stupid machine trying to get me more fit than I want to be so my own personal hmmph to the machine was getting off after 3 minutes of cool down. :) After the elliptical I worked on the machines for 30-35 minutes. I better be smokin' hot when this is all over.


Breakfast
Carnation instant breakfast 220 calories and 10 calories from fat


Lunch
roasted chicken breast sub from subway 650 calories 80 calories from fat.

snack

Kashi bar 120 calories/30 calories from fat

Dinner

Lean cuisine swedish meatballs 310 calories and 70 calories from fat

I did break down and have a coke at one point I was stressin a bit. 240 calories/0 calories from fat

Well this seems to be my biggest calorie day so far at 1540 and 190 calories from fat. Good thing I worked out and that I'm going to work out tomorrow as well. Tomorrow no subway sticking to my failsafe ham sandwich.

Day 4

This is yesterdays info.

breakfast
carnation instant breakfast 220c/10 calories from fat

lunch
kashi bar 120 calories/30 calories from fat
turkey sandwich
turkey 90 calories/30 calories from fat
honey mustard 20 calories and 0 calories from fat
bread 200 calories and 20 calories from fat

grapple 80 calories/0 calories from fat

dinner
lean cuisine cheese ravioli 250 calories/54 calories from fat
special k bar 90 calories/15 calories from fat

snack
2 cups of special k cereal w/skim milk 320 calories/0 calories from fat

total for yesterday is 1390 calories and 129 calories from fat.

and then dinner
1 can of chef boyardee ravioli
480 calories and 140 calories from fat.
water, water and more water.

Lunch

Lunch at Red Lobster
1 cheddar bay biscuit
1 garden salad with no croutons very little balsamic vinegarette
Lunch grilled Tilapia
Rice Pilaf
Broccolli
Iced Tea with no sugar
Total calories 688//Total calories from fat 199


SNACK
1 Orange 85 calories and 2 calories from fat

Not too bad and I was full!!!!!

Not Good

Well I think I overdid it with the work out yesterday because now my knee is all swollen up and it hurts to walk. Looks like I'll be having to go back to the surgeon sometime soon. Crap, crap, crap.

Breakfast a medium banana. 105 calories and 4 calories from fat.

Dinner revioli and water

Day 3 (it's gonna be the death of me)

So I went and worked out this morning with Andrea. I did 1.1 miles on the elliptical in 15 minutes. Not great but for the first time in 2 years 15 minutes is pretty darn good on the elliptical machine. Then we did arms and I did inner and outer thigh whatever that may be called. I call the machines the yes no machine. I don't know their technical terms but I know that I'm in some pain right about now. haaaaaa. So we worked out for 45 minutes or so total.

Breakfast
carnation instant breakfast 220 calories/10 calories from fat

Water at the gym

Lunch
kiwi 46 calories and 0 calories from fat
Ham sandwich
ham 140 calories/40 calories from fat
bread 200 calories/20 calories from fat
mustard 20 calories/0 calories from fat

snacks at work
raspberry peaches 240 calories/0 calories from fat
2 cups of veggies 50 calories/0 calories from fat

Dinner
New England Crab Soup 80 calories/5 calories from fat

So far my totals for the day are 946 calories and 75 calories from fat.

That leaves me with 809 calories & 276 calories from fat left to go. Looks like I might be able to go to b-dubs and have some naked tenders after all. :)

Well no work out is planned for tomorrow we are going to work out on Thursday and Friday then get ourselves on a M,W,F plan.

For lunch a huge orange

More interesting reading

On trying to find something that I could drink tonight that wouldn't push me over the edge I ran across this information. It seems that alcohol doesn't make you fatter what it does is stop your body from using stored fat as energy and uses the burned alcohol (acetate) as energy instead. So when you drink it stops your body from using the energy supplies you have on hand and instead uses the acetate as energy. This is a problem because I want to burn my fat and not the acetate. So now I need to decide what is more important getting rid of my fat ass or going out for a drink with the girls to b-dubs tonight. Why can't obese be in? I'd be totally cool right now.

Here is one of the websites that you can read that information on.

http://www.thefactsaboutfitness.com/research/alcohol.htm