April 12: Check-in

You may have noticed my weekly check-ins are not quite weekly.  Maybe I should call them weekly-ish check-ins.  Or whenever I feel like it check ins.  Anyhow, here is a check-in.

Last check-in, April 1: 187 pounds
Today, April 12: 186 pounds

Not earth-shattering but the scale is going in the right direction - that is the key.

I had some medical stuff going on this week so my eats were a bit off.  Here are my averages for the past 7 days. (Keep in mind there was Easter and a birthday in there too!)

Calories: 1514
Carbs:  154 g
Fats:  58g
Protein: 98g

Really not too bad.  The only tweaking I'm working on this week is lowering the fat and raising the protein.

Tonight I'm making a healthy homemade lean beef stroganoff with lots of mushrooms over whole wheat noodles.  Mmmmm.....Comfort food!

I've only missed 3 days of walking in the past two weeks.  I've been regularly hiking and walking and it's really helping my energy level and my state of mind.  Hiking with the girls has been great - we are planning to go again this weekend also, as long as we have good weather.  I love it!

Slow progress but still progress!

Mar. 21: Weekly Check-in

Yes, I know, I said I wasn't writing today, but here I sit with the keyboard on my lap - so, what's a girl to do?

Weigh In:

Today's weigh-in has me down 1 pound. I now weigh 188, down from my starting point of 210. I'm not 100% delighted with that, and with all of the water I've been retaining, I wonder how accurate it is. I was really hoping for 2-3 since I didn't do an official weigh-in last week. However, 1 pound down is better than one pound up!

This Week's Workouts:

2 strength workouts
3 walk/runs
6 walks

This is way more activity than I've done before, so I am very happy with it! It just gets better from here. Because I am sick today, I'm not walking any further than the fridge to get another bottle of water. I'm just taking it completely easy.

Weekly Food Tally:

Calories: 1384
Carbs: 150
Fat: 40
Protein: 110

I'm pretty happy with this. My focus this week was boosting protein over 100g a day. Check. Next week, I am going to work on dropping the carbs a little and raising the intake of healthy fats. Not by much - this seems to be a very satisfying ratio. I don't crave anything at all, I'm not hungry, and I feel energetic. My calories were supposed to be going up a little but I have to say, I feel very comfortable at this caloric intake. I'm probably going to stay in this area.

Okay, I'm really going to rest now. Hopefully I feel better tomorrow - I wanted to do legs tomorrow so that I had a rest after running. However, if I'm still feeling rotten, the most I'm going to do is walk. (How incredibly rational of me!) The kids go back to school and life gets back to normal tomorrow.

Now back to your regularly scheduled program.....