I'm eight pounds down since I started this time but have maintained my same weight for about a week now. Hoping to kick into overdrive and work these pounds off too. I'm ten pounds away from my first mini-goal.
I am a big proponent of menu planning and that is what I did today.
Tonight: Chicken tacos
Monday: Clean-out-the-pantry chili (veggie) with grilled cheese on wheat flatbreads
Tuesday: Turkey breast/veggie meatloaf
Wednesday: Leftovers
Thursday: Leftovers
Friday: Big fancy party at work
Off to create tonight's dinner!
04 December 2011
22 November 2011
Shiny new diets.
Remember when you were a kid and you got a shiny new toy and it was the most amazing toy in the world and all you wanted to do was play with it forever and sleep with it and someday carry it down the aisle when you married Joey McIntyre and show it to all your friends and love it forever and ever and ever?
For a friggin' week, then you got sick of it?
That's how I feel about diets.
I get so stoked for a few days. I'm going to make this massive change in my life and it will be wonderful and make me wonderful. And then the itch starts. The soft voice in my head that tells me to eat, even when my stomach tells me I'm not hungry and my brain tells me for the hundredth time that I'm just bored and STOP eating, for trans fat's sake.
This is about the time where that would usually happen. Yesterday was a little difficult. As in life, my downfall is sometimes budgeting. I ate too many of my calories for breakfast and lunch and by dinnertime, I was stressed and ravenous for comfort food but not enough calories left over for carbs. So I pulled the dietary equivalent of a credit card--got my booty to the gym, hit the recumbent bike and rode 'til I had enough calories for a carb cushion. I still managed to stay under my calorie requirement but that's not ideal on a day to day. Gotta make like I'm stuffing funds into a piggy bank for a sweet new toy and save save save.
So my plan? Pay more attention to the entirety of my day. Try and plan out my meals better. I'm usually pretty good at this. Three nights a week at my house is crockpot night. I can plan that way. The days before a holiday are going out to eat to avoid food in the house time. Not the best dieting strategy, but so far I'm staying at the same weight.
Time to break out the polish and make sure this shiny new diet stays shiny.
For a friggin' week, then you got sick of it?
That's how I feel about diets.
I get so stoked for a few days. I'm going to make this massive change in my life and it will be wonderful and make me wonderful. And then the itch starts. The soft voice in my head that tells me to eat, even when my stomach tells me I'm not hungry and my brain tells me for the hundredth time that I'm just bored and STOP eating, for trans fat's sake.
This is about the time where that would usually happen. Yesterday was a little difficult. As in life, my downfall is sometimes budgeting. I ate too many of my calories for breakfast and lunch and by dinnertime, I was stressed and ravenous for comfort food but not enough calories left over for carbs. So I pulled the dietary equivalent of a credit card--got my booty to the gym, hit the recumbent bike and rode 'til I had enough calories for a carb cushion. I still managed to stay under my calorie requirement but that's not ideal on a day to day. Gotta make like I'm stuffing funds into a piggy bank for a sweet new toy and save save save.
So my plan? Pay more attention to the entirety of my day. Try and plan out my meals better. I'm usually pretty good at this. Three nights a week at my house is crockpot night. I can plan that way. The days before a holiday are going out to eat to avoid food in the house time. Not the best dieting strategy, but so far I'm staying at the same weight.
Time to break out the polish and make sure this shiny new diet stays shiny.
20 November 2011
Horseradish-Peach Pork Tenderloin
I have always adored "Taste of Home" magazine. I used to sit and read through them while eating breakfast at my parents' house. (Reading cookbooks for pleasure? Suuuuuure, that's not a fat-girl trait!) But their food, while delicious looking, also looks like it would course through your veins with all the speed of snail gravy.
So imagine my joy at discovering "Everyday Light Meals," their light version of a cookbook that actually boasts light recipes. Heck yes.
I took one of them on a test run tonight. Results? Delicious. The recipe actually calls for pineapple preserves but I couldn't find them, so I went with peach. It tasted insanely good. I took some pictures along the way but the dinner tasted so good, I forgot to take pictures of the finished product. So..try it yourself and take your own pictures, eh?
Glazed Pork Tenderloin
Ingredients:
1/4 teaspoon salt; 1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 lb. pork tenderloin
2 sprigs fresh rosemary
1/2 cup peach preserves
1 tablespoon horseradish
Combine salt and pepper; rub over pork. Place in 13x9x2in baking pan. Place one sprig of rosemary under the pork and one on top. Bake uncovered at 425 degrees for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, in saucepan, heat preserves and horseradish until preserves are melted; stir until blended. Remove top rosemary sprig. Brush pork with 1/4 cup peach sauce. Bake 10-20 minutes longer or until meat thermometer reads 160 degrees. Let stand for 5 minutes before slicing. Serve with the remaining sauce.
Yield: 4 servings
242 calories, 4 g fat, 67 mg cholesterol, 226 mg sodium, 29 mg carbs, 24 g protein
Recipe credit: "Everyday Light Meals," Taste of Home
So imagine my joy at discovering "Everyday Light Meals," their light version of a cookbook that actually boasts light recipes. Heck yes.
I took one of them on a test run tonight. Results? Delicious. The recipe actually calls for pineapple preserves but I couldn't find them, so I went with peach. It tasted insanely good. I took some pictures along the way but the dinner tasted so good, I forgot to take pictures of the finished product. So..try it yourself and take your own pictures, eh?
Glazed Pork Tenderloin
Ingredients:
1/4 teaspoon salt; 1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 lb. pork tenderloin
2 sprigs fresh rosemary
1/2 cup peach preserves
1 tablespoon horseradish
Combine salt and pepper; rub over pork. Place in 13x9x2in baking pan. Place one sprig of rosemary under the pork and one on top. Bake uncovered at 425 degrees for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, in saucepan, heat preserves and horseradish until preserves are melted; stir until blended. Remove top rosemary sprig. Brush pork with 1/4 cup peach sauce. Bake 10-20 minutes longer or until meat thermometer reads 160 degrees. Let stand for 5 minutes before slicing. Serve with the remaining sauce.
Yield: 4 servings
242 calories, 4 g fat, 67 mg cholesterol, 226 mg sodium, 29 mg carbs, 24 g protein
Recipe credit: "Everyday Light Meals," Taste of Home
"So what's yer plan, Wheels?"
I am seriously grooving on MyFitnessPal.com. So much that you'll assume this is a paid advertisement for them and, while I wish it was, it sho'nuff isn't.
For a week now, I've been tracking everything I put in my mouth. Literally, everything but my toothbrush and toothpaste.
So far, I'm learning:
I eat too much protein.
Man, that sodium can add up. Even if you don't eat a lot of salty foods or add it to your dishes.
In a week of tracking, I'm down 8 pounds. I'm not so confident to assume I will keep losing at that same pace, but what a great charge of inspiration at the onset.
For a week now, I've been tracking everything I put in my mouth. Literally, everything but my toothbrush and toothpaste.
So far, I'm learning:
I eat too much protein.
Man, that sodium can add up. Even if you don't eat a lot of salty foods or add it to your dishes.
In a week of tracking, I'm down 8 pounds. I'm not so confident to assume I will keep losing at that same pace, but what a great charge of inspiration at the onset.
19 November 2011
Workin' (toward) it.
Hi. Welcome to the web's 3,000,000th weight loss blog.
Just another fat girl with something to get off her sizable chest, right?
Wrong.
I'm not a fat girl who's afraid of who I am.
I'm a fat girl who's afraid of never becoming who I am.
I'm full of unwritten novels, trashy moves across the dance floor, cartwheels, being carried around the house by my insanely hot husband, bikinis and surfing in the ocean with such unrestrained joy, I radiate through the waves. That's who I AM.
But right now, that girl is buried--in self-shame, doubt, anger, embarrassment and, more often than not, hunger.
So I'm digging to find her. Here I come, girl. I know you'll be as amazing as I imagine.
Just another fat girl with something to get off her sizable chest, right?
Wrong.
I'm not a fat girl who's afraid of who I am.
I'm a fat girl who's afraid of never becoming who I am.
I'm full of unwritten novels, trashy moves across the dance floor, cartwheels, being carried around the house by my insanely hot husband, bikinis and surfing in the ocean with such unrestrained joy, I radiate through the waves. That's who I AM.
But right now, that girl is buried--in self-shame, doubt, anger, embarrassment and, more often than not, hunger.
So I'm digging to find her. Here I come, girl. I know you'll be as amazing as I imagine.
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