Day 2

food: coffee with creamer, yogurt, and granola bar
Lunch: chicken burrito with, rice and beans, and chips
dinner, grilled cheese, top ramen. I know wonderful dinner

stress level: stress was higher today than I wanted it to be.

exercise: none so far but still 2 and a half hours to go in the day

Tomorrow Goals:
food:
coffee, yogurt and granola for breakfast

Lunch: smart one

Snack raisins

dinner: maybe I'll actually have broccoli with turkey bolognese sauce, maybe green beans.

exercise:
goal tomorrow: 13 minutes on the elliptical

Day 1

food: coffee with creamer (i'm 100% sure I will never drop the creamer, black coffee just sounds gross)
with a sausage mc muffin (no egg but with cheese)
Al Pastor nachos, with salsa, gauc, cheese, and sour cream. (okay I should have gone to subway). with diet pepsi
dinner, baked potato with onion, bacon, and a couple of ounces of steak. with a glass of white wine.

stress level: much less then last week so not that high. Until the end of the day at work when I'm told I'm running the staff meeting tomorrow. what the heck?

exercise: 10 minutes on the elliptical

Tomorrow Goals:
food:
coffee, yogurt and granola for breakfast

Lunch: this is a hard one as its all staff lunch day, so I really have no clue. but a diet soda

Snack raisins

dinner: broccoli with turkey bolognese sauce, maybe green beans.

exercise:
goal tomorrow: 13 minutes on the elliptical

weight loss

All of my life I have struggled with my weight. Who hasn't?

I'm at my heaviest weight ever... 247 pounds. THAT'S RIGHT 247 POUNDS, PEOPLE!!!
This evening I got on the elliptical when I moved back from England in 2004 (weighing 150) I would work out on an elliptical for an hour a day plus go jogging. This evening I did 10 minutes and broke a sweat ever 2 minutes. What has happened to me?

Well I've been asking myself that. I could go into the neaty gritty but I don't want to bore you. My life has been a roller coaster ride, it always has been. From stress, to long hours at work, to horrible commutes all at different times made it impossible for me to work out. I'm done with it, I'm done being 247pounds. I'm large then some of the female contestants on the biggest loser. (And yes I have thought more than once about auditioning for it. )

What am I going to do about it? I want to ask for help for friends to help motivate me to live healthy, but them alone won't do help me. I've signed up to see a nutritionist at Kaiser to help me with my eating habits. And I need to work out 5 times a week for an hour.

My goal should I reach it is to loss 10 pounds a month or by 2011 be 190.

Today is day 1 at 247, today is also my last day at 247 pounds. I will weigh myself monthly and see where this journey takes me.

Autumn is here

I have a list of things I would like to do over the next two months. Autumn is my favorite season I wish it lasted longer.

I want to go camping at Yosemite. (anyone want to go?)
I want to head down to Disneyland for a weekend. (anyone?)
I'd like to go to Tahoe for a weekend. (anyone?)
and of course throughout all of these mini trips take photo's

the right color

Wrong color?

So thats the kitchen total wrong color, I think I need to go a green to tie in the floor.

This is the Living room, and I like that color.

DYI

This weekend the DYI bug hit me. I finally painted the wall I had been wanting to, but now I think I might want to paint two other and the kitchen. Then my old coffee table that was given to me I finally started to sand it down to refinish it. I'm now thinking about building my own side table (as tv stands only work for so long), as well as one of those tables that line up against the back of a couch.

So next weekend I think I'll paint the kitchen and stain the coffee table. I also need to start sewing a few things for this holiday season. I predict my fall will be a hands on productive one.