Thursday June 14th

I want to blog, but I need to get to work, so I'm going to try to be quick. I woke up this morning and my weight is down to 175.something.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so excited.

I know that yesterday, I skipped breakfast and ate a piece of fruit instead. So today, I haven't eaten breakfast, but have had water with squeezed lemon.

My son and I took a walk for about 35 minutes. I have been incorporating a 3 20 second sessions of cardio everytime I excercize since last week, so I did incorporate running/jogging for about 20 seconds 3 times. I was surprised that it was only 35 minutes long, but figure, that is fine for maintenance.

Today's Food/Excercize log:

In bed, I did some leg lifts. approx 4-5 sets of 15 reps per leg.

Breakfast:
dk green lettuce with egg whites and garlic powder (sounds gross, but the lettuce tastes like spinach. My toddler loves it) I cook this in the microwave with a lid so the veggies can steam.

water with lemon

I Power-walked for 35 mins with my baby in stroller.
-I walk so fast I sweat. I added arm movements today. I also had 3 20 second cardio intervals.

Lunch:
1/2 burrito (see yesterday's recipe)
dk green lettuce

30mins bicycle riding with 2 sons (1 on baby carrier and 1 on his own bike next to me)

Dinner:
I have to admit, I ate too much. I can feel the food in my stomach. Darn. It was the change in routine. I usually cannot eat until late, but it was so hot and I was so busy today that we pushed dinner up earlier, and it was hard for me to quit eating.

I didn't have time to cook dinner and still eat at a reasonable manner. Plus, with the higher cost of fresh produce and food with less preservatives, I have to use things up, so I used leftovers and made a smorgasbord/buffet salad, we had:

leftover enchilada and taco meat, which I mixed,
corn tortillas in olive oil-1 per family member except myself.

Beef Barley vegetable soup

I set out a big bowl of dk green salad
I set out little bowls of:
egg whites
egg yolks
diced salmon
salad mix: it has bacos, soy nuts, sunflower seeds, and some other stuff
pitcher of lemon water

My 2 youngest children made their own
yogurt from organic plain yogurt, berries and honey.

All of my kids ate salad and a taco, except my youngest didn't get a taco, cause my husband ate 2. My daughter ate some of the barley soup.

I ate Approx 3/4 - 1 cup beef barley vegetable soup
2 servings dk green lettuce with egg whites
lemon water

1 cup Green tea with honey

My goal is to get out there and exercise one more time tonight for 30mins to an hour. It is 7:30 now and still quite warm outside. It was misery riding today in the 99 degree sun. Oh well, that's just a part of exercise. You can't let the weather stop you.