Forgot to publish this yesterday. Oopsie.

What I ate yesterday:

1. Apple and peanut butter wrap, 348 calories. Any time I can incorporate peanut butter into my day, I do.
2. Belly Buster smoothie with peanut butter and Chia seeds, 366 calories.
3. Dinner at Panera: half of a Fuji Apple Chicken salad, half of a Tuna sandwich on Honey Wheat, and a French Baguette, 670 calories. I love that Panera puts calorie amounts on their menu... and I love that they have healthy salad and sandwich choices I actually like. I would get that meal again, but eliminate 150-180 calories next time by giving my baguette to someone else.

Total: 1,384 calories eaten.

What I ate today:

1. Breakfast smoothie (with strawberries) plus Chia seeds, 596 calories. Almost half of my calories were consumed for breakfast, but I went a solid 5 hours before I even thought about food. And it would have been longer if I had been active... but today I felt crummy so I mostly laid around.
2. Tuna and cheese wrap, 232 calories.
3. Belly buster smoothie (with peanut butter) plus Chia seeds, 276 calories. I'm beginning to like this smoothie, which is good, because I know Greek Yogurt is really good for me, I just can't stand it by itself or even with fruit. But blended in with the other ingredients in this smoothie seems to make it work for me.
4. SlimFast Meal Bar, 200 calories.

Total: 1,304 calories eaten.


Nutritional Goals
Met (today): Fiber, sodium, fat, carbs, calories, and protein!
Not met (today): Water (I have to get better at drinking more water)


What I did today:

• Day 2 Bootcamp video: Lower Body Blast, 10 minutes, 38 calories burned.
• Day 3 Bootcamp video: Arm Shaper, 7 minutes, 25 calories burned. I didn't do anything yesterday, so I had to do both days 2 and 3 today, but it wasn't so bad considering they focused on different areas of the body.
• Qi Gong Routine, 15 minutes, 30 calories burned.

Total: 93 calories burned, 32 minutes of exercise.


1,211 calories consumed today.

Black Friday, bleh!

What I ate today:

1. Breakfast, 478 calories. I had a Braeburn apple, part of it made into a little apple and cheese wrap and about a tablespoon and a half of peanut butter. I should've cut out the PB, but it helps me feel full (despite it being kind of high in calorie. :/). I also put Chia seeds into the wrap, which adds 60 calories.
2. Buncha Crunch, 540 calories. Eesh. I didn't even want to list the calories out. We went to a movie, I had Buncha Crunch which clearly I thought was slightly lower in calorie than that. 
3. Leftover Thanksgiving turkey, 210 calories.
4. Belly Buster Smoothie, 246 calories. It's much better with peanut butter; gives it more flavor than when I put Flaxseed oil in. 

Total: 1,483 calories

Nutritional Goals

Met: Calories, protein, carbs, sodium

Not met: Fat (over), fiber (under)

What I did today:

• Day 1 of SparkPeople's 28-day Bootcamp Workout, 117 calories burned, 10 minutes
• Lower body strength workout (via SparkPeople), 42 calories burned, 15 minutes
• Day 1 video a second time, 117 calories burned, 10 minutes
• Qi Gong Routine, 30 calories burned, 15 minutes. I wanted to do Yoga Fusion, but there's no way that's a beginning yoga routine (though it says it is). It was way too complicated. So I switched it up after I started watching it.

Total: 316 calories burned, 50 minutes of exercise

Calories consumed: 1,164 

Happy Thanksgiving!

What I ate yesterday:

1. Gluten-free cinnamon sugar donut, 180 calories.
2. Belly Buster smoothie, 410 calories. (I put 2 tablespoons of Chia Seeds in there.)
3. 1/4 of a dark chocolate bar, 105 calories.
4. Dinner @ parents, no idea! But it was healthy. Chicken, corn, and a tiny piece of lemon poppyseed bread.
5. Apple with a tiny bit of peanut butter, 150 calories.

What I ate today:

1. Banana, 109 calories.
2. Thanksgiving foods, no idea! But I didn't splurge. I didn't cheat myself out of any Thanksgiving food, either. I had mashed potatoes. I had apple pie. But I didn't put mounds of it on my plate. Plus, if you count the calories I burned doing strength, I only ate like 37 calories.

What I did today:

• Upper body strength training, 20 minutes. I confess, I was going to do Jillian Michaels' DVD for 40 minutes and burn 200 more calories than I burned this morning. But ultimately, I needed more rest. Thanks to the SparkPeople Workout Generator, I found a 20 minute, 4 move upper body strength workout I could do with my dumbbells called the Arm-Toning Wedding Dress Workout. They named it that, not me. 

I will edit this post if I do more strength training tonight once I get home. I'd like to, to burn more calories since I have to burn 594 more calories by Saturday if I want to make my 1,000 calories burned per week goal. That's 319 calories aside from the Six Week Six Pack I'm scheduled to do on Saturday. I would like to burn 100 more calories tonight somehow.

Down 2 pounds already! Yay!

What I ate today:

1. Gluten-free cinnamon sugar donut and a banana, 289 calories. I wish these donuts weren't so small! But I ate light this morning for a change. I don't know the proper microwave/toaster oven combination though.
2. Pre-workout smoothie with skim milk, 164 calories. I hate Greek Yogurt by itself (and plain yogurt, for that matter), but this smoothie is alright. It's small, both in calories and in size, so if it helps my workouts, so be it!
3. Post-workout smoothie with Almond Milk, 299 calories.
4. Newman's Own Organic Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups, 180 calories. Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were my prior weakness. Nutritionally, oddly, they aren't that different: 30 less calories, 7g less sugar, and the biggest difference is 140mg less sodium. Sodium is a killer, and I'll take every calorie I can get. I actually found these really, really delicious. Better than Reese's, even - they're less "greasy". So when I stop at Health Hut for more Chia Seeds, I'll be getting some of these as well. Sweet tooth satisfied with organic chocolate. 
5. Tuna and cheese wrap with chia seeds, 368 calories. I'm beginning to really like these. It's just too bad my tortillas are so small. Dumb Piggly Wiggly for being out of like, all of the medium sized ones with 110 calories! So I'm forced to eat a lot of the tuna plain, and only put a small amount of the tuna into the actual wrap. Tuna is starting to grow on me, particularly because of its super high protein content. Will be looking for creative tuna recipes.

Total: 1,419 calories

Nutritional Goals:
Met: Calories, carbs, protein, fat, sodium, and fiber!
Not met: Water

What I did today:

• Jillian Michaels' Killer Buns & Thighs, 250 calories burned. Today I did Level 1 for the second time... but it was over the summer so I consider myself starting over. It was a killer!! I could do all of the moves, but I stopped 1 or 2 short of when she stopped. Those planks are killer though... I need to strengthen my upper body bigtime.
• Bedtime Yoga, 15 calories burned. It wasn't for burning calories, it's to hopefully help me sleep! My mom linked me to this from Pinterest. 

Feeling so blah today!! :(

What I ate today:

1. Breakfast smoothie (with strawberries), 476 calories.
2. Bowl of popcorn, 140 calories.
3. Organic Chocolate Mint Honey patties, 110 calories. I have a sweet tooth, and if I can satisfy it with healthier, more natural chocolate, then so be it. Picked one of these up at the health food store near me. I also picked up organic peanut butter cups and a dark chocolate bar ... will be reporting back once I try those/fit them into my day.
4. Peanut butter wraps, 476 calories. This is my own concoction because I LOVE peanut butter. Don't ask. I read about it in the book "The Descendents" (a character in the book loved them) so I gave them a try and I'm sort of hooked.

Total: 1,308 calories

Nutritional Goals:
Met: Calories, fat, carbs, fiber, sodium
Not met: Protein and water

Thank you, Canada!

What I ate today:

1. Breakfast smoothie (with mango), 561 calories.
2. Tuna and cheese wrap, 369 calories. I made this up because I wanted to eat something natural yet high in protein (aka not just a scoop of protein powder in some milk). I used Laughing Cow cheese, an 80 calorie tortilla, and 5 ounces of tuna. I put a tablespoon of Chia seeds on top of the tuna as well. It wasn't bad; I'll make another wrap with the other can of tuna I had in the pantry eventually. I'm not a huge tuna fan though.
3. Sleep Inducer Smoothie, 284 calories.
4. York Pieces, 170 calories. I need to stop eating these. I didn't splurge or anything, but I could eat a lot of things for 170 calories that have nutritional value. 

Total: 1,353 calories

Nutrition Goals:

Met: Calories, Fat, Carbs, Protein, Sodium, Fiber (which I have NEVER done before, by the way)

Not met: Water (-5 cups)

Nutritional Ranges c/o SparkPeople

Exercise I did today:

via the Exercise Finder

Focus: Outer thighs

Exercises: Saddlebag Buster, The Small Dog, Weight Pass-Around, Unbalanced Chair

Time: 5 and a half minutes (10 reps a piece for each)

Focus: Lower back

Exercises: Leg Raise, Superwoman, Diagonal Extensions

Time: 3 and a half minutes 

This is my new favorite website in the world. It's a Canadian fitness site. I am going to use it every day and focus on a different body part each day. I still wish I had a gym membership, but this plus running on decent weather days will have to do. The way the exercise finder works is you click a body part you want to work on, and it gives you pages of simple exercises to do!

Albums I listened to today:

1. OneDirection - Take Me Home (Yearbook Edition)
2. Stevie Wonder - Number 1's
3. Justin Bieber - Believe

Too much going on.

What I ate today:

1. Breakfast Smoothie, 480 calories. This smoothie is so damn delicious. Like, I don't mind making one of these every morning. I will probably throw chia seeds in there once I buy them today. The more I read about them the more amazing they seem.
2. Popcorn, 240 calories
3. Weight Loss Smoothie, 300 calories. I went to a store called Health Hut and got Chia Seeds, which was one of the ingredients in this smoothie. You can only find them in health food stores. They don't have a flavor but they're super nutritious. This smoothie isn't AS good as the breakfast one, but it's not too bad. It calls for Chia seeds, half of a banana, a scoop of protein powder, a cup of frozen berries, and milk. 
4. York Pieces, 200 calories. I grab a few here and there, which by the end of the day equal a serving.

Total: 1,265 calories (I added 45 calories for the other half of the banana from my Weight Loss smoothie)

I weighed myself this morning. Didn't like the number. But I'm also on my period, which I know causes me to gain several pounds unfairly. I do need to incorporate working out into my routine to really drop the pounds, but I'm trying to work on decluttering my life first.

I also decided once I run out of ingredients for the smoothies I shopped for the other day, I'm going to do the Dr. Oz 3 Day Detox Cleanse. My mom told me about it, and I think it would be a good thing to do right after Thanksgiving (because I won't be having smoothies on Thanksgiving). 

For the first time in awhile, I had an anxiety attack as I tried to go to sleep about my dad. I guess it was because we were talking about my brother having one when he got back up to school. I started remembering the images that cause me to have anxiety attacks: seeing him scared before he was wheeled into the OR, seeing him all hooked up in ICU after the surgery, etc. He is a living miracle and I am overwhelmed with gratitude for God giving my dad a second life. But I still get anxiety thinking about Hell Week. Despite it all being over.

Albums I listened to today:

    

In case the images are broken:

1. Justin Bieber - Believe
2. Mumford & Sons - Babel
3. Stevie Wonder - Number Ones
4. Muse - The 2nd Law