Weight Loss Journey

We were pretty busy today running errands and grocery shopping (trying to get odds and ends done before school at the community college starts back up tomorrow), but I still managed to keep everyone’s eating under control by packing snacks for the hours we spent away from home.   Here’s what I ate:

Breakfast: blueberry smoothie and nibbles of the snacks I was packing

Lunch: Kashi mushroom and spinach pizza with raw tomato on top (so good!) and a piece of whole wheat bread with avocado and tomato (avocados are my favorite–I could eat them every day)

Dinner: baked tilapia (Breanna almost made this all by herself and it was delicious! We did follow a recipe from allrecipes.com.)

Snacks: almond/sunflower kernal/chocolate chip mix

Drinks: water except for my breakfast smoothie

I’m not looking forward to the grind of school starting again, but it’s for the best!

I had planned on doing a post on the food changes that we’ve been making in our diet, and I will probably still do that, but I thought that it might be more fun to log my daily meals here for a week so that you can see what a typical week’s meals now looks like for me.

Today’s meals:

Breakfast: baked sweet potato with a tiny bit of honey (I usually have a fruit smoothie for breakfast, but I didn’t want to wake everyone this morning with the blender.  I had to leave the house before everyone was awake for a web design class.)

Lunch: spinach salad (this consisted of tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli, and spinach leaves with some lemon) and celery sticks with natural peanut butter

Dinner: Annie’s organic mac-n-cheese and homemade refried beans with a little cheese and natural blue corn chips

Snacks: nut/berry mix (raw almonds, sunflower kernals, and goji berries dusted with cacao powder) and an organic lollipop

Drinks: water and two cups of green tea (I used to be a regular tea drinker then switched to coffee. I have just almost completely given up coffee (except for rare occasions) and I don’t plan on taking up tea again to replace the coffee.  Why?  Because I always feel the need to add sugar to my tea.  I only had tea today in order to help stay awake in class.  I was the only student in this particular class (CSS aka Cascading Style Sheets), and my head still almost hit the table. So glad it didn’t! It’s hard to hide from the teacher when you’re the only one!)

Tomorrow’s meals will have a little more variety because I don’t have class, and I’ll be home to make meals. 🙂

Drum roll please…..for week 1 on my weight loss journey, I lost 5 pounds! I started on Monday at 228.5 lbs., and my weight on Sunday morning was 223.5 lbs.  This is the most weight I’ve lost in a week in a very, very long time.  It usually takes me about 5-6 weeks of fluctuating up and down to lose even a few pounds.  I can attribute this weight loss to the current changes we’ve made in our diet.  We are eating a lot more fruits, vegetables, nuts, smoothies, and natural juices.

I was bad in that I barely exercised last week except for a Saturday morning swim class.  I need to get back at my workout video this week. Next week, I will have no excuses because I’ll have to exercise at the fitness center at school for at least 3 hours a week.  I’m looking forward to it because it means I will HAVE to do it.

I’m going to post more specific changes that we’ve made in our diet later this week!  For now, I’m excited that I’ve lost all the “holiday weight” I had gained.