Day 4 of Week 8 It's Crunch Time

Weight today: lost 2 pounds

Total Lost: 14 pounds in 7 1/2 weeks

1/2 cup of oatmeal: 150
2 tsp of sugar:30
1/3 cup of skim milk: 30
1 tbl of powder creamer for coffee:30
with sweet-n-low:0
total: 240

41/2 oz banana:112
vanilla protein powder:110
1/4 graham cracker:15
total:237
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running total:477

2 large eggs:140
1 lefse:30
1/2 cup of fat free cottage cheese:80
3 oz of blueberries:45
1 tsp of sugar:15
1 tbl of powder coffee creamer:30
with sweet-n-low:0
total: 340
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running total: 817

4oz banana: 100
vanilla protein powder:110
total: 210
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running total: 1,027

2 cups of chex:200
1cup of Honey nut cheerios:110
1/2 cup of skim milk:45
total:355
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running total: 1,382

Today's challenge: Staying hydrated, focused on sticking to calories

Planned fitness: 60 minute back and tricep work-out, 2 to 3 mile run, abdominals twice a day.

Note on picture: Honey Graham crackers are not exactly your friend when you're on a diet, but they are so tempting when I'm also feeding these to my kids. As long as you can keep control and write down what you eat...1/2 sheets as shown stacked here are 35 calories a piece.

It's Crunch Time

In case you hadn't noticed people, it's crunch time for me.

I'm about 2 1/2 weeks away from being on this diet for 10 weeks. I finally dropped a few more pounds and I'm at a 14 pound drop, so that means I need to lose six pounds in 2 1/2 weeks.

And, according to my calculations, I'm a little behind. To keep on schedule I wanted to see that 14th pound drop three days ago and then the 16th pound drop by this coming Monday.

But, hey, my cheap scale could be partly to blame since it may have been a little off when I started. But no excuses here. I'm the one that bought the cheap scale. So, we'll just have to figure out a way to scale these last six pounds.

One thing I decided to add to my routine today...to kind of spice things up is to add doing my sit-up routine twice a day instead of once a day. Remember when I said that's what I did lose 2 inches off my waist when getting ready for my wedding?

Well, if (big IF here) I'm going to post pictures to this blog...of before and after pictures...it would be really nice to bring in my abs and waist as tightly as humanly possible. Ha, Ha...that just sounded funny.

I didn't taken any measurements before I started, so why don't I start today? I'll meaure my waist today and then again in 10 days, and 2 1/2 weeks from now...we'll see how many inches I've trimmed off.

What do you say?

And what's with 10 days? Labor day, my friends. I've got a party to get skinny for.

Yep. It's definitely crunch time.