Weekend Eats

I am taking so many food photos but I'm not posting them, so I figured I would do a quick 'best of' for the weekend...

We had 'breakfast' at Starbucks on Saturday morning

I had a Rice Krispies Square...



And an Orange-Mango-Banana blend Vivanno - I looooove these Vivannos :) I wish I could have them every morning like I used to when I worked on my previous project...



We had a late lunch - we BBQed some turkey burgers with sun dried tomatoes... I usually add ketchup or something on my burgers, but this was tasty enough as is - I used meat from the blue menu (president's choice)



We had snacks for dinner, some ice cream - yup! oh well...



This morning I opened up my new bag of frozen spinach - they are all packaged up as little cubes - I didn't know that - very cool! :) I made some scrambled egg with the spinach in it, and also had a whole wheat croissant, with a nice glass of skim milk...






S had a special request this weekend - an old friend of his mentioned Little Caesars pizza in an email, and how they used to eat it in high school, and that made S crave it like there's no tomorrow... He asked if we could get some this weekend and of course I said yes :)

Here he is at the restaurant, waiting for the yummy treat...


And here's the pizza I had, vegetarian, with no onions... I had a third of a medium sized pizza - yup I gave up counting at this point... and I had the same for dinner - ah la la la...


Felt like snacking on something fruity, so I ended this weekend's eats with a bowl of strawberries and a cranberry juice!



Now this week I need to get serious on counting and tracking - it's not even funny anymore! I may or may not make some food now for my week's lunches, I plan to make some brown rice/tofu/veggies stir fry...

I've been thinking about why it is that I can't seem to cross the 150s line... maybe I'll share in another post...

Hope you had a great weekend! :)

I graduated from week 4!

I started my day with the last workout session of week 4 from the C25k program - moving on to week 5 next week - Yay!!! :)

I found it more difficult this time, I had to constantly push myself to not give up, my brain was not into it at all... Although once Robert said I had finished my last run I decided to push it even further - I played my 'power song' and kept running for an extra 2 minutes!! Yup! I really like this feature with the Nike+ - I change it after every workout session, so it's always a surprise - it works for me :)

About the stats, I'm puzzled... I know I should calibrate my running, and I plan to do it soon, but for now I'm looking at the stats from the Nike+ and from my treadmill and nothing makes sense (well, mostly the treadmill itself...)

Nike+ says I ran 5,03km, ok...


The treadmill, by default, is set to miles, but I changed it so it would display in kilometers. But I have a feeling that somewhat threw it off. The manual says that 1 lap = a quarter mile (I did 20 laps so that would mean I did 5 miles...) If I assume that the treadmill does actually convert quater miles to quarter kilometers, that would make sense and it would match the 5k from the Nike+, BUT! the distance calculator on the treadmill says 4! Um, 4 what?



If I try to figure out the math behind the speed (which is the only place where the display confirms that the machine is indeed set to kilometers) I walk at 5,5 kph and run at 8,5 kph, so in 15.5 minutes of walking and 18 minutes of running, I would have travelled about 4km. Which would match the distance data on the treadmill...

So I guess the most likely distance is indeed 4km... still not too bad!!

I wish I knew how the Nike+ calculates that distance...

anyways... here's the graph:)




I have a soccer game tomorrow, hopefully we win again! :)

Tackle it... um... NOW! :)

The front yard needed a lot of work - it's nice out, and Mel's post gave me a little extra motivation to get this done:

Before - You can barely see the actual 'plants' in there, the weeds have completely taken over the whole flower bed. Can you spot the 2 little lights? :)



After - much better :)



So, what did you tackle this weekend?

I did it again!

I was on the treadmill this MORNING!! yup! I chose exercise over sleep - yup! It was a nice and sunny morning...
The only drawback - the music in the C25K week 4 podcast - and how it's in my head now...

eeeeeeeew! :)

It's time for bed...

and I am so hungry!! But I brushed my teeth and I'm not going to eat any more!! uh huh!

Look at the giant truck I got to drive!! :)



I had Starbucks for lunch - Thai Tuna Wrap and an Orange-Mango Vivanno



and some yummy indian food for dinner!!



I'm going to miss the month of May;)



I'm too tired for more blogging... Good night! :)

151.4 - Déjà vu... Monday recap

That's a 0.8 loss since last weigh in, but it's still pretty high compared to the progress I had made just a few shot weeks ago... I guess it's still 'progress' right? I'm focused and I'm ready for this new week. Time to make better choices starting - NOW! :)

I had some corn bran for breakfast, then for lunch I had an 'ok' meal - some President's Choice Chicken meatballs (from the Blue Menu) a litle bit of ketchup, some steamed veggies from Green Giant et some Low Calories Ocean Spray Juice...



We had a nice and relaxing day. I really needed this first 3 day weekend of the year! (Yes, it was my first one...) At the end of the day we had our first soccer game for the spring season. Went pretty well - S got to play for the very first time since his surgery - he was looking forward to it soooooo much!! :) We won 4-3. In the second half I went for a block and ended up with the ball in my face - with my hand in between, you know, knuckles and all... ouch! And it was a pretty powerful kick from a guy standing about 3 feet in front of me... I'm a bit swollen and have a few bruises this morning... I look tough LOL

After all this 'stress' I ended up eating dinner pretty quick - forgot to take a photo of it... It was a Southwest Taco salad from Wendy's (no sauce)... My HRM says I burned 358 calories - so that's not too bad...

In other news, I tried to calibrate my iPod/Nike+ - I did the 'walking' calibration by walking 400m and, it was accurate! I was very surprised... Then I tried running the same distance to see if it would give me the same result, but the session 'failed' and it wouldn't let me use it to calibrate... oh well, I have to try that again tonight...

Alright - I better get to work now - I have to leave slightly early today as I am picking up my grandmother's dining table - long story short, my 'Mamie' just moved to a retirement home and had no space for it. She lives 1000km away from here - hard to pick it up... My one aunt who works for a bus company offered to put it on a bus that was scheduled to travel to TO for a tour, which is VERY nice of her - the only catch is I have to pick up the table at a hotel downtown at 6pm. So I rented a pick up truck - I am so scared of driving it downtown by myself!! oh well, it's much better then to have to rent a pick up truck to travel 2000km and drive all weekend!! :)

Have a great day! :)

Wheeeee!! :)

On the right foot...

Today was a good day - Starting with some dried peaches and corn bran in the car (See the Toronto CN Tower in the background?:)







After a bad week, I decided yesterday to commit to make this week a good one. Yesterday, I took out my Eat-Clean Diet Cookbook
and picked a couple recipes to make right away. Talking about it with S, he was inspired and suggested I make the Brown rice pilaf and he would prep some fish to go with it.
Inspired by other recipes, I made my own wild rice recipe. Basically throwing together some veggies (zucchini, spinach, red peppers, tomatoes, celery and mushrooms) and some wild rice! I will probably have that for lunch for the rest of the week ... It's yummy!!! I did it - put some ingredients together without a recipe and it turned out good!! My first time!! :)

with some water at work...



Looked better in the pot when I was preparing it yesterday :)



I also had some kashi crackers as a snack...



For dinner we had some tilapia that S promised to prepare, and the brown rice pilaf. This was so nice and filling!!! Made me feel like I did something good for my body - gave it healthy fuel... and it wasn't that much work...




and I had some dried peaches and frozen yogurt for dessert :)




I can do this - I need to eat 'clean' this week and 'detox' from the bad food and out of control portions I've had all last week. My belly will thank me :)

Eating Bender's Giveaway

I'm entering this giveaway - I can never have too many cookbooks!! You? :)

Inspiration...

I need to remember this.

Week 16 - 150.4lbs Final BLBE II weight

wow I only lost 0,6lbs in 16 weeks...
I think it's time for me to start changing what I'm doing - I've been maintaining, not losing!

I know I say I've been off track and now I'm going back on track a lot, and I could say it again now, but it wouldn't be true. I need to figure out how to make it be 'true'... Find my motivation again... What makes me do it some days and what makes me not do it other days... ugh...

My sister was visiting from Montreal all last week (2 weekends) It was sooo nice to have her here for that much time - usually we see each other for a weekend once or twice a year - it always goes so fast. This time we got to spend some quality time together and I really appreciate that.

We went wedding dress shopping together! That was... um... difficult... Man is this a sport or what?!!! It was so good that she was there to help me, it would have been quite depressing to have to do it on my own... I didn't find one though, so I guess I will have to shop on my own again, but at least now I know what to expect... Anyways... I have to lose some weight to fit in the kind of dresses I like - wait NO! I need to lose some weight to be healthy!! Why do I sit on my bum so much? I don't know...

I feel like there isn't enough time in my days these days, to do what I used to do... I guess comes to think of it - I used to have at least one more hour in my day when I worked on my previous contract... that would be a start... With the wedding coming and some renovations we want to do I can't quit or find something else right now... I guess I'm going to have to make it work...

This was the final BLBE II week... I hope there will be a season III. I'll keep you posted if I hear about it! :)