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One comment that was made at my last check up visit was the limited amount of exercise. Some of the lack of exercise was because I started breaking out with the water aerobics (long story). But aside from that, I really just do not care to do “physical” activity. I have never been one to just like playing a game of ball or run a mile or what not. I am not motivated to work out. Does anyone have suggestions on what might create some motivation for someone who hates doing physical activity?

Well - today was the check up. I weighed in at 243. That is 5 pounds since my mini check last week, 10 pounds for the month, and a total of 29 pounds gone, which, for the record is officially 10% of my starting weight :-). On a side note with that, I have lost a total of 4 inches in my chest and waist, 5.5 inches in my hips, 1.75 inches in my right arm arm, 1 inch in my left arm, and 1.75 inches in both legs since I started in May. My mini goal was for 240, which I chose because it was a nice rounded number… I am going to leave that be for now, but when I hit that goal, I will change my subsequent goals to 10% of my current body weight starting with 243. SO, my next real mini goal is to loose 25 pounds or hit 218.

Well, tomorrow is my two month check up since starting this program, keep your fingers crossed. At my one month check up I was at 253, last weight check at the gym was 248… so we shall see.

While I have been away handling the family stuff, I have found some fairly decent websites. The website listed below has a wide variety of recipes that are supposed to be low calorie, but heart healthy. It organizes it through prep time. I have not had a chance to try them, but as I do, I will let you all know.

http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2005/healthieryou/html/recipes.html

We have had an interesting week. My husband’s aunt died on Wednesday, so we have been dealing with that and those arraignments most of this week and weekend. I have watched my calories, but I have not been able to work on my other goals - exercising 3 times in the week and cooking three new dishes. Oh well - I will set those goals for next week. I have done some more research while I have been away. I am shifting through the information. As I finish my shifting, I will post useful info.

I was doing some research and found this on WebMD. They provide some easy methods for watching portions and sizing the portions up. Also, they have a full size and wallet size print out so you can put one on the refridge and one in your wallet.

http://www.webmd.com/diet/healthtool-portion-size-plate

Sorry it has been a few days since I last posted, I was on vacation with my hubby for our 5 year anniversary. I over ate and went over my calorie count both Friday and Saturday, but it was my anniversary so it was worth it! I got a new cook book “Hungry Girl” the first addition. I look forward to trying the recipes. I let you all know if any are good.

I posted this in the challenge forum, but I know some of you all do not look at the forums so I thought I would post these two recipes here. I really liked them and they are not hard at all. The chicken recipe is excellent if you are looking for quick meals.

So I have reached one of my goals this week - I tried two recipes. One was a Grilled Orange Glazed chicken and one was a Frozen peach yogurt. The chicken recipe is 174 calories a serving (about 4 ounces) and can be found through this link (I left out the oil):
Grilled Orange Chicken Fingers - Eating Well

The second recipe was for frozen berry yogurt from Healthy Recipes, Healthy Eating, Healthy Cooking - Eating Well, but my husband does not eat raspberries so I substituted with peaches. Also, I substituted regular yogurt with greek yogurt and reduced the sugar from 1/3 cup to 1/4 cup. Because of the changes, I ran the recipe through a recipe analyzer on nutritiondata.com. The link below is for that recipe:
Nutrition Facts and Analysis for Frozen Peach Yogurt

Well today I was supposed to go to the amusement park, but it was raining so we pushed our adventure off until Wednesday. Instead, I made it to the water aerobics class (and go my butt kicked!). I did a mini weigh in, and only lost 1 pound. Considering how much I over did it last week, the one pound is good.

I stayed within my calorie count today and yesterday, so 2 days down, 5 to go of achieving one of my weekly goals. Also, I worked out today, so I just need to include two more workouts this week to meet one of my other goals.  I have found some low calorie recipes (including desserts). I am going to try them over the other next couple of days.

Knowing that I was going to the amusement park, I wanted to know about how far one walks at this park. In my quest for information I found an interesting feature from Google:

http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/

Through this feature, you can map out where you walk. While it is not 100% accurate, it provides a close reference. I was able to pull the satelite image of the park and map out the areas I usually visit with “stright lines” and it calculated the miles.

Yesterday I came to a realization, I was not as “in control” of this lifestyle change as I thought. The last week, while I have not blown my calorie count (I Have not eaten more then 1700 calories), I have not stayed at my 1400 mark on 6 of the seven days. One common thread - I was eating at restaurants that did not offer nutritional information. My thought process - “I can indulge this once” and that one time ends up being four or five times in the week. Last night, as I sat looking at my calorie count, I actually had to stop myself from putting down exercise that I know does not count (like walking five minutes around a store). I need to limit my “indulgences” to once or at most twice a week.

One good thing, I did keep my goal from last week. I only went to Yum-Yum’s once this week. This week’s goal is to actuall exercise three times this week AND stay at or below my calorie count. Tomorrow I am going to the amusement park which is about 1.5 miles long so I know I will stay within my count because I do not typically eat any food there so that is one activity down … two more to go.