We're Halfway Through January

16 1/2 weeks of 20 weeks

weight today: gained one pound

total lost: 8 pounds in 16 1/2 weeks

1/2 cup of oatmeal: 150

1 1/2 tsp of sugar: 22

1 tbl of powder creamer in tea:30

2 tsp of sugar in tea:30

total: 232

pre-work-out:

about 4 oz banana:100

post work-out:

about 4 oz banana:100

running total:432

3 1/2 oz chicken breast:122

1 moderate slice of Asiago bread:90

2 tsp of Smart Balance light butter:30

1/2 tsp of sugar:8

total: 250

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running total: 682

1 Jimmy John's turkey sub with no mayo but with mustard:422

1 tbl of powder creamer in tea:30

2 tsp of sugar in tea:30

bites of son's corn dog and fries: 100

total: 582

running total:1,264

a few glasses of wine: 250

running total: 1,514

sugar free jello:10

with 2 tbl of whipped cream:15

total:25

running total: 1,539

Today's victory: For some reason, the weekends are easier for me to keep on track with my calories than the days called Monday through Friday. Not sure why that is...except that the schedule is different with my husband being around more. Maybe I feel less pressure because of that reason and so eat less.

Hmm....which makes me wonder if I'm snacking out of stress. No. not that.

Actual fitness: Completed a fifth day of weight lifting this week which included four supersets that worked my back, biceps, triceps and chest muscles. Did my abdominals and ran about 3 miles.

Note on photo: No. I did not partake of these doughnuts. I just took the picture because...well, I thought it might look nice. Actually, my husband brought these home from work and we gave them to the kids as a treat.

We're Halfway Through January

In this post I'm not really talking about a whole lot. It was a nice Saturday. I walked the kids to the gym to get my work-out in.

My husband and I actually slept in Friday morning and did not get up at 5:00 a.m. and work out. I was the one who actually suggested to him that he go back to sleep. He's been doing some overtime this week and I felt that he needed his sleep.

Besides, this fifth day at the gym is not totally necessary yet. However, we would like to begin doing it. Also, I knew I perhaps could get it in on Saturday.

So, we actually had to do our push-ups work-out separately.

What's funny is that one of my blogger friends, Lindsey, actually said in one of her comments that I should make sure that I don't suggest he go back to sleep. But in this case...especially at 5:00 in the morning, it seemed perfectly logical that he needed his sleep...Ha, Ha...isn't that funny?

Of course it would seem logical at that hour.

I did want to say to you all that I am grateful for all of your kind comments, and your encouraging words.

When my dad came over the other night we figured out that he was not doing a "full push-up" which was going all the way down. He tried going down all the way and it got much harder, real fast...

Since he has heart problems...I said, "nope. Don't do them that way dad. Just make sure you don't do that."

I know it's hard to not work-out a certain way because of an injury when you want to. It actually makes me more aware of doing exercises with the proper form and not increasing my weights too quickly so as to avoid an injury.

With this whole getting up at 5:00 a.m. thing, my husband says that all we need to do is to "scrape and claw" our way to February. By then, it will be a habit and much easier to do.

What's interesting is that it doesn't feel quite like scraping and clawing. Maybe that's because we're doing it together. Ahh...I love my husband.

Hope you are all having a great weekend!!