June 13th Wednesday recap

June 14, 2007

I am so excited at my weight loss and energy. This is amazing to me. 2 days ago, I added an extra exercise session to my daily routine. In the morning I took at power walk around my neighborhood, in a different area than usually. I took my baby with me.

Lessons I’ve learned are:
You can’t be perfect, you just have to get out there and move. For example, I don’t worry about matching, looking cute or even wearing exercise clothes. I just make sure I’m wearing something that is comfortable to move in. I also don’t even worry about my hair being too cute. If I didn’t let go of looking cute, I’d never find the time to exercise with 3 kids, a dog, a husband, a business and volunteer work. I believe that once my exercise routines are a habit, I’ll be able to work into my routine looking cute while exercising, but for now, it is best for me to make sure I exercise at all costs.

Another thing, I feel so good when I exercise. My mind is clearer, I’m more focused, and I feel excited about accomplishing tasks. I also feel very thankful towards God when I exercise because I get to marvel in the beauty of all of the trees and flowers and animals that he has created. I also get to be thankful that I live in a nice neighborhood and that it is a safe area to walk around.

Yesterday, I had a busy day, so I didn’t get to eat much: Here is my day:
8am Worked in my home office
During this time, I fed my baby a mini bagel from Trader Joes with small amount of cream cheese and real fruit spread; I was too busy to stop to eat. I did grab a banana to bring with me as well as broccoli in a little zip lock, an orange and a couple of bottles of water to take with me on the field trip. I certainly didn’t want to end up at Taco Bell starving. Plus, I only packed $10 for me and my 2 kids to eat. (I knew the field trip was going to be to Taco Bell and I was very anxious to see what I could do to make healthy choices while surrounded by high calorie, low nutrition foods. I assumed I would eat a bean burrito. And try very hard to limit myself to just one. My eldest is about to graduate 6th grade in a few weeks and my middle child is going to have several end of the year celebrations, so I will be at several school functions with foods like pizza, ice cream, etc.)

9am at my kids’ school by name to chaperone a walking field trip-this was my morning walk.

10am shared a banana with my 2 year ld. I ate most of it.

11am Taco Bell
I ate the broccoli first, before I ordered my food.
I also drank ice water from Taco Bell
I looked up bean burrito calories on the Taco Bell guide and was shocked: it was around 340 calories for 1 burrito. So, I ordered pintos and cheese and a taco. I think each item had around 150. But an amazing thing happened, when I was halfway done with the beans, I felt full. I ate them very slowly and drank lots of water with it. But I couldn’t believe it. To make sure I didn’t eat my son’s burrito-since he has a tendency not to finish food, and I have a tendency to take bites of their foods, I ordered it with onions, I hate Taco Bells onions. And I gave away my taco to one of the kids. I figured, if I’m not hungry, I shouldn’t eat it.

Worked in home office
1:15pm I finished the beans
Worked in home office
2pm I did feel kind of tired/hungry, so I had some green tea with honey
5:45pm I ate a whole orange-man, it tasted good. Food tastes better when you eat to live, rather than living to eat.
Went on bike ride with my 3 kids and my friends’ child. I wanted to see if we could bike to my new favorite fresh food grocery store-Trader Joes, and we could. I also looked to make sure that they had bike racks. The ride there and back was probably at least an hour worth of exercise time.
I have been trying to find ways to incorporate exercise into things I need to do.
8pm Dinner
HM Burritos
HM crock pot pinto beans
carne asada-I only used a small portion of meat, about ½ to 1/3 lbs so there was less meat than beans. I put the meat in the crock pot about halfway through the cooking time. The meat was from Trader Jo’s.
Green Salsa from Trader Jo’s-about ½ bottle in the crock pot
Into the crock pot, I also added:
-A few cloves of garlic,
-1 whole onion
-1 whole bell pepper
Whole wheat tortillas-from Trader Jo’s
I encouraged everyone in the family to add their choice of veggies to their burrito. I used an iceberg romaine salad mixture. It comes prepackaged and is called “Greener selection. My daughter used dark green salad which we also buy prepackaged.
When I was halfway finished with my burrito, I felt full. It was mentally hard not to finish it, because, well I don’t know why. I think because it is a habit to finish food and stuff myself and it tasted good. But I gave the rest to my middle son, who loves to eat and was probably going to get seconds anyway.