monday, 3-8

hi -
monday was a medium day. missed my water goal (didnt drink enough!) AND my protein goal (didnt have enough!)... made some good choices, but also realized at the end of the day that i should really have eaten many more calories but had already met my carbs goal... so, i should really have balanced my day more. i had some peanuts as a snack, which fit in perfectly. however, i went to bed having 300 less calories than i should have for the day, which wasnt a good idea, but whatever.
what i should do is find a day where i did really well and just re-eat that day... i think ill try that today.
tomorrow we are travelling again, and then AGAIN on the weekend. eating the right way isnt hard anymore, but tracking it here has been hard when im away... this time ill try my new idea and see what i can do.
i let myself have a day off of my workout, and yesterday was the day off. so i "met" my workout goal... today i have my regular workout goal AND some lifting to do... not too bad.
heres my day:



you can see last week how i couldnt post friday, saturday or sunday - i had to depend on myself to just eat the right way. last week i met all my TOTAL goals at 71%, which isnt wonderful. ill try to meet all those extra goals this week. (that means lifting at the gym! erg and ugh)
tuesday will be better! yum and yay!

tuesday 3-2

interesting day...
first of all, im totally sick. yuck, no energy, sneezy and runny nose.
went to the gym ANYWAY, and burned 750 calories! it was super hard, but i just DID it and got it overwith. thought i would go back for more later but realized its okay to be right on track instead of getting ahead of the game, especially since im sick.
so the other weirdness is ive only had 1150 calories, have had ALL of my fruits and veggies, have had VERY little fat... however, i have gone over my carbs again today! only by again, about 10-20g of carbs, which in reality is NOTHING, but since i have these goals, and everything is computerized, then it counts against me entirely. sheesh. you know what really put me over? TOMATO SOUP. i had a whole can (who doesnt?!), and it was a TON of my carbs for the day. interesting, i never thought of tomato soup that way, AND sometimes i have TWO CANS! i am seriously learning so much, liking this a lot!
also, i havent had enough calories today! at all. i cant have that few, ill be super tired tomorrow, and its just not healthy. so i dont know what to do! im having a bowl of awesome strawberries, ill have a light snack later (just realized i havent had dinner... im totally sick and its throwing me off!)... and since im already over on my carbs and can spare a ton of fat, ill try to have something filling, fatty(ish) and low-carb. what is that? peanuts. avocado. butter (kidding)...
whatev. annoyed that i went over on my carbs, cant let it get to me.
lesson learned! ...again. and thats okay, thats what this is for!
ill post my day wrap-up either later tonight or tomorrow morning.
bye!
[ab]

3-1 update

hi - fell asleep last night before i could post my final update...
i did GREAT yesterday, but went over my daily allowance of carbs. not by much, by about 10%, but oh well. brought some extra crackers to class last night because i needed to fill in some more calories for the day, and somehow that overdid it on carbs. could have made a better choice for a snack. this is what im learning!!
yay.
heres my score from yesterday:

100% of my workout (that one was HARD! went to the gym TWICE!), had 89% of my calories for the day, and that average for the day was something like 95%... but since i had too many carbs (seriously, like probably 10g too many or something! but still... a goal is a goal...) i only made 71% of my entire goal for the day. oh, and i didnt do an errand i should have done. shoot. anyway... today should be good too.

thanks for your love!

[ab]

ps - i weighed myself yesterday, and even though this isnt about losing pounds, it looks like ive lost four! i actually can definitely tell that things look different, especially my upper body... anyway, the point of the challenge is body fat, so i hope most of that was fat! this is the final countdown, only have until april 1! sounds far away but will come SO FAST!