Losing the battle

Apparently I am gaining all 4LBs back that I lost. Ironically I am taking walks but it is not helping. Unfortunately, I am eating all the unhealthy crap that is high calories like pizza and lasagna.  I have step daughters who are here this month and its like of hard to get them eat anything. We have something healthy one day like salmon, lean steak, and then hit these days like pizza and lasagna.

I figure stuff like that would not hurt considering i do not even eat much for breakfast for lunch.

Breakfast consist of cereal and two cups of coffee.
Lunch consist of a turkey ham sandwich, with little salad dressing and a little bit of mustard.
All the bigger meals or full meals is at dinner time.

Frustrated!

Uh Oh, did a boo boo

I am going the wrong direction. I am about 2LB up the wrong direction.
Probably my birthday from last weekend.

I did take my walks this week probably not near enough to cover my birthday mess.

I guess I am going to have to try real hard next week.

I am not happy with my progress right now.

2lbs gone

Since I have started I was at 274. My today weigh in has me sitting at 270. I lost really 2 lbs this week. I didn't post last week weigh in when I gain back a pound.  It sort of depressed me last week but this week I lost 2 lbs. I have a total of 4 lbs lost. "awesome"

I had walked a mile twice this week. It greatly helps if I exercise. Food was a little off this week but manage to survive it. I say a little off because I was not planning to have that much noodles in my diet. I do not like to have to much refine carbs. Something about them makes me gain weight and feel weak if I eat to much refine carbs.

Today is my Birthday. Lets see how much I will survive today. :o)

I just wish it did not start out getting up this morning with rain. :o(

buh hum bug I know we need it.

Another pound down

I was certainly happy with myself this morning when I weighed myself. I lost one whole pound. I weigh myself every Friday and it has been three weeks now.
I started at 274.0
Dropped to 272.8
this week is 271.8
A total of 2.2lbs off of me.

I am already feeling little difference.

For a while I thought I blew it this week. I only walked this week. I did not work with the weight set. I thought I may have put to much potato casserole on my plate last night.  I had made a cake for my husband and have cut a small slice for me and I am proud it was a small slice. It was just enough to have a social dessert with my husband and just enough sweet satisfaction.  Working with portion control here.

stretching the budget

We over spent on novelties this month.  We came up short buying decent food. You see I think that is unfair. If you have walked through a grocery store and things like Fruits is $5 a bag or 80 cents a pound.  onions running around  at $3.58 for a bag of onions, $2 and something for Romaine lettuce, $3 of tomatoes.

I was suppose to start a garden this year but that is not starting out to well either. The ground needs to be worked with to get nutrients back into it and we are short on money for that right now. Hopefully by next year I have the ground ready to grow , Tomato's, onions, green bell peppers "OMG have you seen the price on green bell peppers at the store?"  By the time you get some extra ingredients like that your budget is pretty much chewed for the rest of the groceries. Right now we budget on about $200 for two and it needs to buy grocery for a month. We usually run short for a week but this month it is going to be different we are running short for two weeks but like I said we over spent on novelties and it cut into the food budget by $50 bucks.

It looks like it may be pinto beans, some kind of meat and corn bread for the rest of the month.

I really need to get a job soon and I have sent dozen of applications out and all I get back in rejection letters. I had wasted a year of my life going to Medical Assisting school just to have 25 of my application rejected and about 2 people giving me their opinion that they would not take anyone that came from the school that I was taught at.
Yea a real "Debbie downer for me" I have gave up this search and decided to start putting my applications in clerical or inventory clerk at warehousing.
This is the only thing that is depressing me is I am not working and my husband is and we are struggling.

I did not do any of my exercises over the weekend. I am going to try to get back on track by late afternoon, after I am done job searching and figuring out dinner.

Weight has melted

I went from 274 to 272.8.. Swwwweeeet!

If I can keep this up I am doing great.

However! I have these ugly hot dogs around I have to be careful with. Good gawd they are high calories. One hot dog 350 calories.

Shopping isn't fair when you need to stretch the budget and this is how these hot dogs got into the basket. ugh.... 

Hump Day.

So far I have done pretty good I think. Monday I took a 1/2 mile walk, yesterday I worked with the weight machine for 25 minutes, today I will be taking a walk using my noom on my smart phone to measure my distance and calories burn. I wish noom would let me post my results to my blog instead of my facebook. Oh well.

Yesterday I had a bowl of cereal. This is getting boring but it is what I have right now until we can go buy some eggs. I kind of miss having eggs for breakfast.

I had a lean pocket for lunch. I did not want anything to big and something fast to cook. I had to keep going.

At super time my husband grilled up some chicken and we decided to have a grilled chicken salad for dinner. Lots of lettuce, romaine lettuce, shredded carrots, cheese in moderation and salad dressing in moderation. It was yummy.

My husband wanted to have his dessert a root beer float. I made his same size glass as usual but for me I took out a smaller glass and could only fit two scoops of ice cream against his 4 or 5 scoops he eat. I am cutting it back.

I am weaning myself off the soda's pretty good. It is just my water with my MiO water enhancers.

I feel pretty good with the choices so far. Hopefully by Friday I have lost "Something"

time for me to go on my walk.

Fingers cross!!!