Day 14 of 14!

Ok, so last day with this Food Challenge thing. I think it definitely helped me be more conscious of what all I was eating when I knew I was going to have to take a picture of it and post it for you all to see. I will still occasionally post what I'm eating, but probably not so much with the pictures. But we will see.

Breakfast was a little different this morning. It is Saturday and I'm at my parent's house. All healthy things are out the window. I had an oatmeal raisin cookie, cup of coffee, and piece of that strawberry cake for breakfast.

Shocking. I know.

Went to see my grandmother for a few hours, then met mom at the Secret Garden when she got off work and bought a few plants. Again, forgot to take pictures, but will post later.

Next for lunch, I had a turkey and roast beef sandwich, which I forgot to take a picture of.because I inhaled it.

Then the rains and hail came. And it rained, and rained, and rained......

Then we were all hungry again. Either we had to go to the grocery store or go somewhere to eat. So we decided it would be a grand idea to load up and drive to Philadelphia to go to the Silver Star and eat the seafood buffet! Crab Legs! This picture looks ridiculous because we had finished eating already. But the bad thing is that the table had already been cleaned off once! But crab legs take up a lot of space. This is my brother Josh.

Josh, say "hello!"

Calories for the Day - unknown.
Deliciousness for the Day - way too much to count! 

Day 13 of 14 Day food Challenge! + Dad's Birthday

Guess what is for breakfast! 6:00 am..........................cereal! and vitamins....337

NOTE: Hamstrings, glutes, hips are a little sore and a little tight from yesterday, right in the spots that need to be tightened! The new turbo round that we did has a lot of back kicks and high knees, plus the squats and curtsy lunges we did in Bootcamp probably added to it.

9:00 - about a half serving of almonds -  100
11:00 - lean cuisine BBQ chicken pizza. - 340

1:18 - leaving work for the weekend - whoo hoo! Heading to Dick's to get my dad and mom birthday presents (Dad's bday today, June 18th, and Mom's bday is July 10th.) I'm getting these chairs.

After Dick's, going to get my hair cut and colored at Lacey's Salon. Went kinda blond with layers.

Then we are headed to Mashulaville. We had a gin and tonic when we got there. :)

Stella LOVES hanging out at my parents house. This is her chilling at the top of the stairs in between the kitchen and the bar.

Since it is Dad's birthday, my mom has filets for all of us! And baked potatos, and a yummy salad. Who knows on the calories because I loaded the baked potato with cheese and sour cream. Sour dough roll, and I put feta and all kinds of good stuff on the salad. It was so good!

Next, we had cake. Strawberry cake with cream cheese icing. A lady my mom knows makes them and she is one of the best. We had it with muscadine ice cream that my brother got from Mississippi State. Somehow, I forgot to take a picture of the ice cream, but here is the cake.

Breakfast - 337
Almonds - 100
BBQ Pizza - 340
Dinner - ????
Gym - No
Total for the Day - we'll never know. :) But I don't usually count weekends, so it's all good.

Day 12 of 14 Day Food Challenge

6:00 - Started with cereal and vitamins, as usual.

8:00 - Big glass of water. Still no coffee for me.

11:00 - Left over pizza from the Shack.....yummy......but probably about 1000.

2:00 - about a serving of almonds - around 170 calories

3:00 - Pure Protein Bar - 200

5:00 - Head to gym for TurboKick! First time teaching! Hope I don't screw it up! After, will probably stay and go to bootcamp and steal some more ideas from Erin before she moves off to school. :)

I got to the gym a little early and got on the treadmill to warm up for about 20 minutes. Class went pretty good. I definitely need to work on my cueing, but I hope that will get better with time. It's not easy kicking butt and talking at the same time. After Turbo, I taught half of the bootcamp class with Erin. Yay! Total calories burned at gym.....1710!

7:30 - get home from the gym, and have the last piece of left-over pizza. It was a little jacked up and looking sad. Somebody put it in the box folded over. But still tasted gooooooood! About 500 calories probably.

Breakfast - 337
Lunch - 1000 (boo!) but could be more. who knows
Snack - 170
Pure Protein - 200
Gym - (-1710)
Dinner - 500 - could be more....but it really was a small piece. Just a lot of cheese.

Calories Consumed: 2,207
Calories Burned: 1710
Calories Remaining for the Day.......................497. 

Day 11 of 14 Day Food Challenge

6:00 am - Cereal! And a new picture!

8:00 - large glass of water. yummmmmm..........feeling slightly dehydrated from yesterday.

11:00 - another BBQ chicken pizza from lean cuisine. I eat this a lot. Not necessarily because it is delicious, but it is pretty good and easy for work. And I think one of the better ones they have.

12:30 - Still hungry, so had my free Special K Protein Meal Bar. (meal bar, my ass......) No way could this ever be an entire meal for me.  It's just an addition to. However, pretty dang tasty, and not as chalky tasting as my regular Pure Protein bars.

But I'm not going to buy these because:
a)this one only has 180 calories;
b)it only has 10 grams of protein; and
c) it has 15 grams of sugar (must be why it tastes better).

Sticking with my other ones because:
a)200 calories (and I need the extra calories);
b)20 grams of protein; and
c) only 2 grams of sugar. (Great for the low-sugar diet)
So not only do I get more fuel, more protein, but also less sugar to break through. I like it. :)

Song of the Day: Emergency by Faithless. 7:44 long, but it stays interesting. If you have never heard it - check it out! Yes, it is one of my weirdo spinning songs, but it's great! Every spinner should have this on their iPod.

3:00 - have 5 strawberries for a pre-workout snack, about 40 calories.

Head to gym at 4:00 and teach about 55 minutes in my Spin class. We did another strength ride, and it was a different group of people. So that is 3 this week for me so far. But that was all I did today. Calories burned at the gym - 763

When I got home, Jonas and I decided to go to the Pizza Shack to celebrate his birthday again. Love this place....

We got our favorite pizza - Chicken Curry Delight with Pineapple. I know....sounds weird, but give it a try. So good! And we split a pitcher of Budweiser, because if you buy a large pizza on Thursdays, a pitcher is only $2! I have no idea how many calories are in 2 slices of that pizza. I'll guesstimate 1,000. But I did get another fruit in with the pineapple. Plus the beer, around 350, maybe?

Breakfast - 337
Lunch - 340
Protein Bar - 180
Snack - 40
Gym - (-763)
Dinner - 1,350 - blew it....

Calories Consumed (approximate) - 2247
Calories Burned at Gym - 763
Remaining Calories for the Day.......................1,484

This is OK because I will definitely be making up for it tomorrow....

Day 10 of 14 Day Food Challenge

Had cereal again this morning at 6:00 am. Had intentions of taking a new picture, but I wasn't quite thinking about it this morning. I was hungry. 337 calories. So here is another recycled picture:

 

11:30 - Lunch: some almonds (forgot to take picture) about 100 calories. And a Lean Cuisine Bacon Alfredo Pizza at 320 calories.

At 12:00 or so, the rain starts. By 1:45, the power went out at work. Nobody could do anything except sit by the windows to see. So, we sat around reading magazines for awhile. I had my Protein Bar around 2:00 (200 calories).

At 2:45, I took a quick trip to the grocery store to pick up a few things, ate a slice of turkey with a slice of cheese (85 calories), dropped my stuff off at the house, and came back to work.

Power still out. They decide to let us leave work at 3:30! Only 30 minutes before I would leave anyway. So I head on over to the gym for my 4:30 Spin class, which only 4 people showed up for. I'm blaming the fact that most of the power was out for the afternoon and traffic was crazy. Did the same class profile from Monday. Heavy Climbing.

Came home from the gym, and practiced TurboKick outside with my ipod and portable speakers because the power went out at my house about as soon as I got there at 5:45. Total calories burned on my counter: 1,356.

Since today is Jonas' birthday, and I already gave him his birthday present back in May, I got him a big bag of teriyaki beef jerky. And I had a couple bites myself, probably 2 servings worth, around 150 calories.

Also got him a bag of the most awesome chips ever - Zapp's Voodoo Gumbo! But I didn't eat a single one. WILL POWER!

Made me a sandwich for dinner since Jonas was in class. turkey on whole wheat with American cheese slice, romain lettuce, and horseradish sauce. 225 calories

Later, I finished up what was left of the peanut butter, not even a teaspoon, barely 45 calories.

Tally for the Day:
Breakfast - 337
Lunch - 420
Protein Bar - 200
Pre-workout snack - 85 
Gym Cals - (1,356)
Beef Jerky - 150
Dinner - 270

Total Calories Eaten - 1462
Total Calories Burned - 1356
Remaining for the day.................106!!!

Day 9 of 14 Day Food Challenge

Happy Monday morning! Yeah right....Weekend is over. Time to get my food under control.

Breakfast at 6:00 am, back to my cereal + vitamins. 337 Calories

No coffee this morning. Just water.

Lean Cuisine BBQ Chicken Pizza for lunch - 340 calories

Snack, 2:00 - Yoplait Light Key Lime Pie, 100 Calories

4:00 - headed to the gym....Vinyasa Yoga, then my Spin class..be back for cals burned...

Oh yeah! - Song of the day (been slacking here) is Rods and Cones by the Blue Man Group. GREAT cardio song!! Playing this in my "Dub Climbing" Spin class tonight, because we are climbing!

Vinyasa yoga was fantastic. Vinyasa means flows, so we were constanty moving. Burned a few calories, and got some great stretches. Then moved on to my spin class where we did lots of climbs in the saddle. I have found that when you are in the saddle, you have to work more because you don't have your body weight. As long as you are not afraid of the resistence, this is a major calorie burner.
After my class, I came home and practiced TurboKick for Thursday. Checked the HR monitor, and 1,184 calories burned for the day.

Dinner - salad with turkey meat, 250 calories + 1.5 tablespoons of peanut butter, 285 calories.

Recycled picture, but same salad. :)

Breakfast - 337
Lunch - 340
Snack - 100 Calories
Gym - (-1184)
Dinner - 535

Tally for the day -  128 calories for the day. Back on track! Gotta keep it that way for the rest of the week, because I know this upcoming weekend will be a bust.

Day 8 of 14 Day Food Challenge + Jonas' Birthday Celebration

Starting week 2! Can't believe it's Sunday already. Where did Saturday go? Guess I was just busy then tired all day.

Well, changed up breakfast! Jonas cooked eggs with leftover grilled chicken. We added cheese and salsa and made a burrito. Here is mine before I wrapped it up.

2 eggs, 70 calories; chicken, 120 calories; 2 tablespoons of salsa, 10 calories; 1/4 cup of cheddar cheese, 110 calories; 1 burrito, 150 calories. Glass of skim milk - 80 calories

Total: 610

I then decided I needed more hostas in my new gardening area, so went to Lowe's and got 4 more small ones and planted them in the blazing 12:30 pm heat. Then came in and had a Lean Cuisine Margherita Chicken Pizza. 340 Calories. Probably burned about 185 calories while gardening (according to Myplate.com)

While I was outside working in the yard, my neighbor came by and insisted I cool off in her pool when I was finished, and I certainly took her up on that offer! According to myplate.com, that was about 200 calories.

Jonas' birthday is on June 15th, and since that is a Tuesday this year and he will be in class until 9:30 or so, we had a family birthday shrimp boil! I forgot to take a picture of the before, but here is a picture of the leftovers....

 I probably had close to 3/4 of a pound of shrimp (about 336 calories), 1 ear of corn (about 115 calories), 1 red potato with butter (200 calories), and a piece of this delicious cookie cake (about 580 calories)!

 

Oh yeah, and I had 3 Budweisers in a can, @ 145 calories EACH....435 in beer. 

Total for Shrimp boil - 1,666.

Here is Jonas and one of his new grilling tools!

Breakfast - 610

Lunch -155

Swim - (-200)

Shrimp Boil - 1,666

Tally for the day - 2,231

A lot higher than I would like, however, if I weren't counting calories, I probably would have had more cookie cake and another beer or two. Granted, I did not come home feeling like a beached whale so all is good!

Day 7 of Food Challenge, and Spin Cure for Cancer!

It's Saturday, but I got up at 6:30, had my cereal (337 calories) and vitamins, and headed over to the Madison 51 Courthouse for the Spin Cure for Cancer.

I got there at 7:40 am, and hopped on a bike. While taking just a few breaks off the bikes, I stayed with it until 11:00 am! What a long morning! But it really was fun. I probably had 6 Poweraids, at 60 calories each (360 calories). Around 9:30, I had a protein bar (200 calories). At the end of the ride, my HR monitor said 2500 even, and was constantly going up as I was just walking around.

And yes, I did come home with an awesome tan line!

Came home, had a tablespoon of peanut butter. 95 calories, then a Lean Cuisine BBQ Chicken Pizza, 340 calories.

Jonas has frozen wings in the sink, so looks like we'll have wings tonight! In the meantime, I have another tablespoon of peanut butter (95 Cals), then a slice of turkey (25 cals), a slice of cheese (60 cals), and a 1/4 cup of pecans (200 Calories).

Around 5:00, I was falling asleep and Jonas was bored, so we decided to go to Buffalo Wild Wings and play buzztime. I have two Blue Moons - 680 calories - yikes! And we split a grilled chicken quesadila, 400 calories.

We finally get to cooking the chicken wings. He did 3 different sauces, hot honey mustard, blazin', and jalapeno lime. I think I only had 4, one of each and another honey mustartd. Not really hungry after the BWW trip. 180 Calories + 20 calories from the sauce.

Cereal - 337
Spin Cure for Cancer - (-1940)
Lunch - 435
Snack -  375
BWW - 1080
Dinner - 200

Tally for the day - 487.....oh yeah!

Day 6 of the 14 Day Food Challenge

Same thing as always, cereal at 6:45 (slept in a little) - 337 + multivitamin (I take this every day, just usually forget to post it.)

No Coffee this morning - just water.

Went home for lunch, had another salad. This time with no cheese, with chicken. 247 Calories
1 tablespoon of peanut butter - 95 calories

I had some Simply Raspberry Lemonade, left over from Memorial Day weekend, decided to pour a very small glass, and as I was drinking it, it has 120 Calories for 8 oz! Sometimes I would drink a whole thing in a weekend. Not good. So I probably had about 4 ounces. About 60 calories

Jonas is finally coming home today. I have to pick him up at the train station at 5:20. We go straight to Keifers. I have no idea how many calories were in this, but we split a pitcher of Amber Bock, I had a gyro with melted feta, and we split a cottage fry. I don't know how many calories are in this, but I don't care! One of my most favorite meals ever!

Cereal - 337
Lunch - 402
Dinner - unknown
Gym - didn't go, Fridays are my day off!
Total - who know!

Tomorrow, I'm back on track!

Day 5 of the 14 Day Food Challenge

6:15 - Start to make cereal. Put everything in the bowl. Go to open a new jug of milk that was in the back of the fridge, and it's frozen. Great. Drink some chocolate milk (not in cereal).Eventually, it sits out long enough for me to jab a knife into it and get some milk flowing, and I get to eat breakfast around 6:45.
337 + 90 =  427 calories for breakfast.

8:00 - 1 coffee at work - 10 cals

11:15 - Same exact salad for lunch as yesterday. 244 Calories

Ipod time....song right now: New Moon Rising (YACHT Remix) by Wolfmother. LOVE this beat. Search for it on http://www.rcrdlbl.com./ . It's a totally free, totally legal site where you can download music. Usually weird or remixes, but every now and then, you can get great finds.

1:30 - Banana - 100 Calories

3:00 - Protein Bar - 200

4:00 - headed to the gym to teach my Spin class, then abs, and my first ever Bootcamp class all by myself! I'm pretty pumped about it. Doing a big arm/chest/core circuit, and a big leg circuit. I hope I can keep up enough to teach it!

Class went fantastic, even though I had low numbers. Calories burned....1588!

Had a message to go meet my mother-in-law, her hubby, sis-in-law and nephew at Cozumel's, so I did. Had 2-for-1 margaritas on the rocks, about 500 calories; a basket of chips and salsa, about 400 calories;
 and a chicken fajita salad....about 560 calories (totally guessing). Total, a whopping 1460.

Tally for the Day:
Breakfast - 427
Coffee - 10
Salad - 244
Banana - 100
Protein Bar - 200
Gym - (-1588)
Mexican Dinner - 1460
Tally for the day..................853. I'll take that! :)