My beautiful daughters words

Last night as Lauren was waiting to go to the dance, looking so beautiful, she looked at me with amazement in her eyes and said "mom you look thinner". If I can borrow an expression from a friend .....that's what's up!

Gym mirrors

So I made it to the hotel in time for my workout that's the good news. It was a great workout. But...let me tell you I've never been surrounded by so many mirrors in my life. I was feeling good about 23 pounds until I was surround by these evil mirrors. Looking forward to an am workout but not the mirrors.

Weekend

The Weekend is upon us.  Will be out of town and that always presents challenges.  I need to lose 2 pounds this weekend.  I really want to get on the scale Monday and see that I've reached the 25 pound mark.  So I guess I need to go to the market tonight and get some fruit to bring with me.  I have to make sure I use the gym at the hotel.  Smart choices need to be made for dining out.  I guess I feel if I write it on the blog I'll actually do it so here's hoping the weekend goes as planned.  Hope everyone has a great weekend. Will be back win or lose on Monday.

Chocolate

Friday night I was at Mohegan Sun for a concert.  Stuck to my plan of what I was going to eat for dinner but it's traditional for us to go to Godiva for a piece of chocolate.  If you have a golden Godiva rewards card you can get one piece of chocolate for free each month.  I decided to get my chocolate.  It was good. It was also good that I really didn't feel like I wanted another. One piece did the trick. 

Last night at work there was a big bowl of Dark Chocolate Kisses.  I love dark chocolate.  I was tempted. I could have just had one and I think I would have been ok. I wasn't sure though. I wasn't sure I could stop at one last night. Lucky for me I had brought a fruit cup with me.  That is what I had, fruit instead of chocolate.  

Of course I had to wonder...there was 70 calories in the fruit cup, how many calories in one hershey kiss.  Weighing the two options, I'm glad I chose the fruit over the candy.  It proves to me that your mind really can be retrained to make better decisions.

Little bits at a time

Another pound gone. Yes!  We are at 23 gone, which means I'm going for two more over the weekend.  Suddenly this task doesn't seem so overwhelming as I'm breaking it out into small goals. Once I reach that 25 pound mark that means I'm 1/4 of the way to my goal.  Each pound gone is an amazing accomplishement.  I would love to be at the 30 pound mark for my birthday. That could be aiming a bit high as I only have 12 days to go. But I say let's go for it.  I'll do my best.  We are away this weekend for dance competition so I must plan carefully.  There is a gym at the hotel and I plan to use it. I'm finding with a little bit of planning I can overcome so many of the diet pitfalls.

Breakfast Bananna Split

I've definately been eating more fruit, which is why I think I haven't been craving sweets, because I'm getting the sweetness from the fruit.  A while back I found a recipe in The Biggest Loser Cookbook for a breakfast bananna split. I changed the yogurt to cool whip because I really hate yogurt but basically it's

1 bananna
sliced strawberries
granola
a dollop of cool whip
a drizzle of caramel syrup

(I also like to add blueberries and raspberries to this)

It's so delicious, the kids love it too.

Random Thoughts

I almost enjoy breaking out in a good sweat while working out...makes me look forward to a nice relaxing shower after.

Fat free candy like twizzlers and swedish fish are still high in calories. 10 Swedish Fish is 1 serving over 200 calories and 4 Twizzlers are over 200 calories.  (Can't believe I'm starting to read labels now). Not sounding too worth it to me.

The case of Poland Spring water I bought tastes like chlorine (maybe it's just in my head and I need to start adding some crystal light to it)

These are the things that go through my head while I'm working out.