Weigh In 2/29 + Leap Day Plans

Last week was a good week. I was healthy and sickness free. Fingers crossed this stays this way! My food intake was on point, and I exercised 3 times.

A great NSV from yesterday: I was able to wear size 15 jeans. I started the beginning of this year wearing 18 women's/19 junior's. So I'm down 2 jean sizes! Pretty stoked about that.

It makes sense though because my legs and butt are the first things to go when I lose weight. I so wish I were a pear shape, but alas, I'm not. My boobs have hardly gone down, and my arms need serious work. I wish there was a gym close to me, so that I could do some strength training. I may just have to resort to YouTube videos or something.

Moving on...I lost 1.2 pounds this week for a total of 26 pounds total lost! Happy for a loss after last week.

I worked out twice on my bike last week (Tuesday/Wednesday) and walked yesterday at the Nature Trail. It was my first time back since the day before Valentine's Day. And I FINALLY got to use my Garmin 10! Unfortunately, I didn't realize it was still "getting location" for almost 8 minutes after I started walking. So I can't really compare it to the Fitbit (it picked up the whole walk).

I also went grocery shopping yesterday at Walmart and Sam's and got in a lot of steps. I got my largest daily step count yet in.

Awesome Step Count!

For Leap Day, Katie at Runs for Cookies has mentioned she is doing a 4 mile run. Well, I am not running, but I want to go to the Nature Trail today and get in a four mile walk. I would like to do it faster than 18:30, which is my current record there. I've mentioned before that it is uphill for 2000 feet and then you come back down. It is still a struggle for me going uphill, especially the last winding hill. If I can ever get my speed up going uphill, my pace will be much better. I would love to work on improving my speed today.

I'll report how the walk goes tomorrow!

 

Foodie Friday

Last week I was sick, and barely ate anything, but this week, I've been enjoying real food again! I've been sticking to my plan for the most part, but there has been maybe a bit too much sugar. I went to Sam's on Tuesday, and instead of getting my usual 2 pounds of plain pecans (they last for at least 2 months!), I decided to buy these:

Because they are so small, and taste sooo good, I usually eat two servings at a time for snack. It's only once a day, but I should limit it to one serving.

That's about all I've been snacking on this week.

For breakfast twice this week, I've had my strawberry banana smoothie. It's very simple, four ingredients. Frozen strawberries, a small banana, tablespoon of turbinado sugar, and unsweetened vanilla almond milk. And lots of ice of course. It's a great way to get in some fruit in the morning.

My lunches have consisted of salads. I also bought a 2 pound bag of Romaine lettuce at Sam's to be used up by March the 6th and some DELICIOUS grape tomatoes. So I've been making Caesar salads for lunch with the Jack Daniels chicken strips, lettuce, Parmesan, and tomatoes.

Between the salad and smoothie, I hit my 5 fruit/veggie servings daily goal every day!

My dinners have varied this week. Monday night's dinner was Jack Daniels steak strips, tri color peppers, baby bella mushrooms, sour cream, and white corn and black bean salsa.

My guacamole expired, so that was left off :(

Last night, my husband grilled pork chops on the George Foreman grill. I used Mrs. Dash Lemon Pepper to season mine. It was my first time using it, and it was really good. The rest of the family had mashed potatoes, but I paired my pork chop with broccoli and cheese and grape tomatoes. Yum!

Just a sampling of what I've been eating this week as I'm feeling better!