Week 2, Day 8 #BigGirlsDoItRunning

Day 8 of #BigGirlsDoItRunning

If you missed the previous week, check out the label "Wilder Way" at the bottom of the post and it will get you to all the previous posts!

Quick recap of the evening of Day 5 and of Days 6 & 7 since I don't usually blog on the weekends.

Friday lunch (Day 5) I had my salad, some left over green beans and strawberries.  Amazing.  Filling and happy camper.  I felt energized.  In the afternoon, I had a Nature Valley bar.  When I got home, I went for a walk, 4.02 Miles and cut my time by 4 mins from Thursday!  Dinner was tacos, homemade.  I had a large taco salad but did make 2 hard shell tacos afterward.  I was a little upset with myself for the tacos but they tasted amazing so I tried not to harp on it.

Saturday (Day 6) I woke up to weighing 243.2.  Insane.  There is no way someone can lose 3 lbs in less than a day.  I figured something was wrong with the scale.  Breakfast was eggs, bacon, and strawberries.  It was amazing.  No walk Saturday because I spent the entire day detailing and cleaning out my car.  Say what you want but that was a workout in itself.  Lunch was a hamburger with some sauted jalapenos and onions along with some grapes on the side. That evening we cooked out with the neighbors.  I took bbq chicken breasts and wings and asparagus.  The asparagus was amazing!  Everyone was raving over it which made me feel great.  I did it on the grill, but tossed it in olive oil, salt, pepper and garlic powder.  My downfall on Saturday night was having 3 Mango-ritas, 2 smores and chips and ranch from a local Mexican restaurant.  Bad, bad me.

Sunday (Day 7) I slept in until 10.  Unheard of normally!  I weighed in at 246, more normal in my opinion from the day before.  I had a cold chicken breast from the day before and some grapes for breakfast.  Then I went for my walk/run.  Holy crap it was hot outside and the sun was crazy hot!  I did cut my time to being under an hour so I'm proud of that.  When I got back I packed up the kids and took them to a local horse show.  That was fun.  They begged to get ice cream afterward.  It's actually frozen yogurt so I said sure.  I had a small bowl.  Normally I'd have eaten off the kids but they both wanted cotton candy flavor.  Yuck.  Right next door to the froyo shop is Buffalo Wild Wings.  Sue me, I was tired and didn't want to cook so I got take out.  I had the chicken tender salad.  As I was eating it, I kept telling myself to only eat half, but since I didn't have lunch I ate it all.  My downfall and totally my fault was me ordering a side of Mac and Cheese.  Even though it tasted good, I was disgusted with myself afterward.

Water and I have become best friends.  I'm drinking it like I'm dying in the desert though so that's strange that I'm constantly thirsty.  Is that even right?  I don't know.  I didn't have any diet coke though, only those mango-ritas on Saturday.  So woo hoo in that department.

That brings us up to date and onto day 8, the beginning of week 2.

Week 2:  The Challenge:
Part 1: Eating

Cut out all sugar during the day until dinnertime.  She gives some suggestions for lunches and things to snack on while you are on this journey.    I still packed my Nature Valley bar, but I'm hoping I won't grab it.  That's my goal since that's really the only thing I have during the day that consists of non natural sugars.

Breakfast was the usual, eggs with green peppers and onions.  Super food to start the day.

Part 2: Movement

She suggests you start moving 3 times this week for 30 minutes.  This I don't have a problem with since I'm already doing this and more.  So I'm good to go with this part.

She assigns "homework" this week.  Daily is to document your weight (which I'm already doing).  Weekly is to take pictures.  She also asks to take waist measurements.  I can't find my tape measure.  I never can when I need it so I've already lost a week.  Boo.

Week 2 start stats:
Weight: 248 (WTH) This I am NOT happy with but trying to ignore it.

Here's my first week picture and this week picture.  Week 1 is on the left, week 2 on the right.

My hubby and friend can see a difference.  I see a sunburn and an ill fitting bra.  LOL.  Anyways, onward and upward.  

Week 1, Day 5 #BigGirlsDoItRunning

Day 5 of #BigGirlsDoItRunning

If you missed my last couple days, you can click the tag "WilderWay" at the bottom of this post to link you to all the posts for the challenges.

Here's my recap of Day 4 and breakfast of Day 5.

Lunch was great!  A salad again with red grapes and fresh strawberries.  The fruit's so sweet it tastes like pure sugar.  I love it!  I had a Nature Valley Peanut bar shortly after lunch and then because I had a late meeting at work I had another one around 4:45.  Thank goodness I did because my meeting brought in McDonalds...  I was drooling it smelled so good.  

I couldn't do a walk because of my late meeting.  I knew I wasn't going to be able to get one in and I was bummed but it was nice to give my body a day of rest.  Even God had one of those.  LOL.  

Dinner was great!  Hubby cooked what I had prepared the day before.  We had chicken that was marinaded in Allegro Hot & Spicy Marinade.  If you've never had it before, you must find it!  It's made in Paris, TN and is to die for.  Actually anything that they make is amazing!

We also had green beans!  Again, me eating green beans is a huge feat!  Even a year ago you wouldn't catch vegetables on my plate.  The recipe was super easy from skinnytaste.  If you haven't heard of that site, you don't know what you're missing seriously!

I was craving some sort of starch, but didn't have anything on hand that I could throw together.  It could have been the MCD fries that had me in that mood.  I don't know.  I did have a diet coke with dinner.  

Dessert we had some sugar free vanilla pudding by Jello.  My night snack was some more strawberries.  

Weigh in this morning:

247.2

(I know this will fluctuate throughout the week, but I snuck a look at the weeks ahead and Jasinda said to weigh every day and make a note. I'm just implementing it earlier.)

Reminder of the weekly challenge:

No sugar at breakfast.  Focus on protein-rich foods.  Completely cut out all sugar before noon.  

Again for breakfast hubby made eggs with peppers and green onions.  I had my water for a drink. 

I packed my lunch and am already looking forward to the fruit!  

Tomorrow will be interesting since I'll be home all day with the temptations.  I'm going to try to still do just as good.  I'll also be able to get my walks in so that's a plus too.  

Off to start my day!  Make it a healthy one.  

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Week 1, Day 4 #BigGirlsDoItRunning

Day 4 of #BigGirlsDoItRunning

If you missed my last couple days, you can click the tag "WilderWay" at the bottom of this post to link you to all the posts for the challenges.

Here's my recap of Day 3 and breakfast of Day 4.

Lunch was a temptation for me.  One of my coworkers was having a birthday and didn't want to do our usual salads.  She chose Panera.  Boy was I craving the Baked Potato Soup since they have it on Wednesdays.  I didn't get my usual 1/2 sandwich and soup with that yummy, yummy bread...  I ate my salad as usual, but had her get me a children's mac and cheese.  I know, that's not the best option, but it sounded good.  Sue me.  

One thing about lunch is it filled me up and I didn't grab an afternoon snack like I usually do.  So that's a positive.  

Wednesdays are my early days at work so I usually try to jam in a quick grocery stop before picking up the oldest from school.  Take a quick look at my cart!  I'm super proud of myself.  (The potatoes were for my mom so those aren't mine.  There is also chicken and bacon under the eggs.)

This is the healthiest carts I've had in...  well probably ever.  

When I got home, I cut up the watermelon, holy cow it's sweet! I prepped the chicken for tomorrow since I work late and hubby will have to cook it.  I also started dinner for hubs and I.  Pepper Steak with a little brown rice.  Yummy!

Before I cooked dinner, hubby went out to cut grass and I went for my walk!  I killed it.  I'm so proud of myself.  Everyday I try to push myself a little bit more whether it be to jog parts or add another side street.  

Dinner was amazing!  I added more peppers and onions than I usually do so we could grab a little more per serving.  One thing I did differently was I didn't make as much rice as I normally would.  I didn't use as much and hubby didn't seem to notice that there was less rice for us so that means he ate better too!

 At night we snacked on the watermelon and grapes that I had bought.  It was a great treat and healthier than the usual stuff we'd grab.

Again, I did have 1 diet coke but the rest was all water.  I drank a lot of it too.  It seemed as though I couldn't get enough.  Not sure why that is, but it's better than grabbing the soda.

Start of Day 4:

I have a late meeting at work today and won't get to do my walk today.  I wanted to get up early and walk before my shower, but I got up at 4:45 and it was super dark outside.  (You're probably thinking, duh it's morning, but I was hoping there was at least that early morning glow.  No such luck.)  Since I don't have the correct clothing to walk when it's pitch black, I decided it was my sign to go back to bed.  Do I feel guilty? Yes, but I think it was the best choice.

Weigh in this morning:

248 

(I know this will fluctuate throughout the week, but I snuck a look at the weeks ahead and Jasinda said to weigh every day and make a note. I'm just implementing it earlier.)

Reminder of the weekly challenge:

No sugar at breakfast.  Focus on protein-rich foods.  Completely cut out all sugar before noon.  

Again for breakfast hubby made eggs with peppers and green onions.  I had my water for a drink. I didn't want to grab any donuts or rice krispies.  I did want to sneak some of my grapes and strawberries I cleaned for lunch, and I could have, but I wanted to save them for lunch since it's going to be a long day today.  

I'm at work now.  I'm not tired.  I wasn't even tired on the way to work which is a complete turn around because I'm usually fighting to stay awake.  It's been scary sometimes.  I don't know why I want to fall asleep like that in the car but the last few days nothing!  So, if anything, that's a huge plus for me!

I'm not looking forward to staying late today and missing my walk, but maybe it will be good to give my body a day of rest?  Who knows.  We'll see tomorrow when I weigh in!  

Just in case you didn't get the book yet that all this is based off of....

(Please note, the price shown is for the hardback, the ebook is $5.99.  Don't panic!)

Oh and just because I should self promote, grab my books while you're on Amazon:

(These prices are showing the paperbacks.  They are available in Kindle versions for 99 cents!)