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Goals for February

Well, I survived January. I’m on my way home now.

Tomorrow I will weigh in and take my bikini progress photo. I’m expecting to not see much of a change as I haven’t been doing a ton of fitness since getting to Florida.

But now I’m headed home and I’m refocusing for February!

Goals for the Month:

• Gym 3-4 times a week
• Run outsideat least2x per week (it’s really not that cold out)
• Lose 5 pounds
• Reduce Body Fat % by 1.5%
• Increase # of knee push ups
• Get my driver’s license
• Renew my passport
• Completely refine and photograph 8 recipes for the cookbook

I’m sure I’ll have more daily goals and things I think of later, but for right now this is what I want to have accomplished by the time I leave for SXSW on March 7th.

Does anyone else have similar goals for Feb?

Update

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve been in Florida taking care of my mom and dealing with some serious stress in the process.

I’ve worn a bikini on the beach twice since I’ve been here and felt pretty confident, even though I’m still around 200 pounds.

I’ve been eating pretty healthy but haven’t done too much exercise except for walking as my mom needs almost constant care. Now that she can walk it’s been better.

So if I haven’t lost any weight this month I’ll be ok with it, but I know i didn’t gain!

I have some fitness goals for February 2-March 7 which is when I leave for SXSW but I’ll post those when I return as well as an updated bikini photo!

Eating Eating Eating

So far today I’ve eaten:

• A BLT with Tempeh Bacon, Romaine and Tomatoes with Hummus on Sprouted Wheat Toast
• 2 100 calorie mini-clif bars
• Medium greek salad with chick peas, fat free feta, olives, tomatoes and Goddess dressing
• cottage cheese
• cream cheese muffin (oops, was hungry at coffee shop)
• Moroccan coffee (my new favorite thing)

I’ve been constantly eating and I’m so hungry! All these mini-meals are really helping my dyspepsia but I’m not really getting full.

For dinner I’m planning on making this awesome brown rice pilaf I found at the Health Food Store and some stir fried tofu with veggies.

I haven’t started exercising yet, I’m hoping to start tomorrow.

Still Living as Healthy as I can!

I’ve been in Florida for the last week.

It’s been fun, but also a little stressful when it comes to eating.

Florida has almost no vegetarian food and just tons of gross fast food. I barely ate anything for a few days except protein bars, some yogurt and french fries. Boo.

Now that I’m at my Mom’s I can cook so I drove to a health food grocery store about 20 minutes away and immediately felt MUCH BETTER!

I bought some essentials and I’ll definitely be back!

Today I got to eat very healthy.

Breakfast was a Breakfast fajita: Sauteed peppers, onions and mushrooms, black beans, an egg and some cheese in a flour tortilla. If it was up to me it would’ve been a wheat tortilla but that’s what was around.

Mid day snack was Ezekial Toast, Hummus, Raw Pepper Slices and Romaine Lettuce. Yum.

After I leave the Laundromat I’m going to stop at the regular grocery to get some veggies for tonight. Then if I can manage, I’m going to go to the Farmer’s Market tomorrow and stock up for a few days.

The weather is great here so I can’t wait to start exercising outside!

A truly healthy diet

summergirl88:

• doesn’t exclude foods
• is made up of foods, not numbers
• is varied and flexible
• is not restrictive
• allows you to trust your body
• is not obsessive
• doesn’t use food as a reward or punishment
• doesn’t have to be “perfect”
• allows you to live your life, but it is not your life
• does not exclude any food group
• consists of foods that make you feel energized and healthy

(via changing-for-good)

I took a walk today….TO THE GYM.

Hell yes.

Goals for Today 1/11/12

I’m leaving for Florida on Friday!

I’ll be gone for almost 3 weeks! Aaaahhh!

Tomorrow I have an appointment with my PCP at 10:30 in the city and then a dentist appointment at 3:30 out in the suburbs. So basically I’ll be at the Dr’s all day.

So today is realistically the last day before I’m gone for three weeks and I have lots to do!

Here are my goals for today:

• Pack!
• Get all supplies organized for cat sitter
• Do another load of laundry
• Cook what I can in the fridge, throw away what I can’t (full clean out tomorrow)
• Sweep, dust
• Water plants
• Go for a walk (since I don’t think I’ll make the gym today…SAD)

I’m not going to post what I’m eating today because it’s up in the air. I’m basically making things out of the produce in the fridge. I’m sure there will be two salads though!

Here’s how I did yesterday:

• Drink 8 cups of water
• Eat two salads (one at lunch and one at dinner)
• Finish taking down xmas decorations (UGH- still in progress. I have nowhere to put anything right now. :( )
• Buy tickets for Disney and Universal studios!!!We decided to wait until we get there because it’s actually cheaper. Weird.
  
• Two chores off of Chore List  I did ALL the dishes and a load of laundry. Not bad.
• Go to the GYM  I did 60 minutes on the treadmill, but no running :( I can’t really run one day after another, and I know that. Oh well. I also did 45 minutes of stretching/abs and arms.
• Gym goal: Increase running to at least 1.5 miles without stopping See above.

And here are my meals:

Breakfast: Same as usual; PB English muffin, pear and a nonfat mocha

Lunch: Salad (not sure what kind yet) Vegetarian Cesar with Chickpeas

Dinner: Also salad plus a flatbread sandwich with curried tofu with stirfry veggies over brown rice

Snacks: Apple, Yogurt Popcorn and a few M&M’s

In other exciting news, my landlord got me a new oven! Hooray! It’s actually two ovens which is frickin awesome! I hope it works ok, it’s used. Now I can roast veggies and bake healthy muffin to my heart’s content!