Monday, July 13, 2009

Lost Track of Time...

Wow.....It's Monday night. Were did the whole weekend go? My sister, son and I drove to Myrtle Beach on Sunday morning. Spent the day with family when we got here. No time to post a blog. I will say that we ate well. Stayed within my calories, but sadly.....did NOT get in my workout. Too easy to let it slip. I have to be careful.

Monday morning, I got up, strapped Hayden in to his stroller and headed out for a walk around the Golf Course my parents live on. We walked for a full hour, getting in our 3 mile minimum. I feel really good about that. :O) Then we went to the pool and swam some laps, did some water aerobics.....etc. I may be on vacation....but I'm not giving up!!! Hope you're not either. :O)

Tomorrow, the plan is to get up and walk again and then go watch my neice as she takes her very first surf lessons!! It will be Hayden's first trip to a beach. Looking forward to the day. That's part of that "living" I was talking about doing. Participating in the events and not sleep walking through them. That's my goal for tomorrow and the rest of my tomorrows. 'Night.

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THE WEIGHT LOSS PLAN

Here is the plan if you would like to follow along:
1. figure out how many calories a day you should be consuming
in order to lose weight. (7 calories x your current weight)
This is the net amount per day you should be eating.
Net amount = calories eaten minus calories burned
through excercise.

Example: 2200 calories eaten minus 450 calories burned on
treadmill= 1750 net calories.

2. Try to eliminate or drastically reduce the "white foods" you
eat. White bread, rice, pasta, flour, sugar or anything made
with these ingrediants.

3. Work out 1 hour a day, 7 days a week. No excuses.
(This does NOT have to be done all at one time.)

4. Keep Track of your calorie intake and your exercise and
weigh in only once a week.

That's it. It's just that simple and just that hard all at the same time!! Good luck to us all.

Also- if you would like a template of the Excel spreadsheet calorie and food log that I use, Just send me an email at WeighLessLiveMore@yahoo.com and I will be happy to send that to you.

Coupon Kitchen

A Tasty treat made with this weeks coupon finds:

This week I had a dollar off of Duncan Hines Cake Mix. Last week I had a dollar off of Cool Whip. I bought both.

The cake was on sales for 1.66, so I paid .66
The Cool Whip was on sale for 1.25, so I paid .25

I purchased the Duncan Hines Spice cake mix (It had fewer calories) and instead of making a cake, I made cupcakes. The box said it made 12 servings (based on the cake) at 270 calories per serving, so I did the math. 270 x the 12 servings per box = 3240 for the whole cake. I made 24 cupcakes. 3240 /24= 135 calories per cupcake.

When we're ready to have one I "ice" the top with the cool whip for a cool 10 extra calories. I get a great tasting cupcake treat for only 145 calories! I think kids would love these and not really miss the heavier icing version. :O)