TOM is here!!!! Yay!!!! I love kids and want to have a couple of my own someday but I need next year to finish college!

I gained 2 lbs ARRRRGGGHHH!! well I've been eating like a pig lately so I'm not suprized. I ate half a tray of brownies (non-fat! ha!) yesterday!! I'm not ready to say die to the diet yet, I'll get through this!

Here I sit impatietly waiting for my TOM. Grrr.. I hate being late! It puts me in such a panic! I couldn't possibly be PG, I'd be gaining weight then, right? Well I'll just chalk it up to tax time stress and forget about it for a couple of days. (Just not now, please, I have college to go to next year!)

I finally got a workout in yesterday!! I almost took a whole week off with this silly knee injury. I did not feel flexible at all during my work out but I felt so much better afterwards. It's true that once you get used to exercising everyday you really feel the difference when you miss a few days. Eating was good. I stayed within my ranges. I forgot to mention that I'm finally down to the weight I was before I quit smoking! Another milestone for me will be when I get down to 213 lbs. That's the weight I was when I gave up on WW 2 years ago. How come it always seems like weight loss is 2 steps forward 3 steps back? And of course, as all you 200 lb plus ladies know, 199 is definately a magic number! Here's to 199 before Labour Day!!!

Hello! It's been too long! My knee is better so I'm ready to exercise again. Food was not great during my injured knee period but I think I needed a small break. Good news is I still lost weight. Go figure! I watch what I eat and exercise everyday and lose like 1 lb a week. But I take a few days off and eat pizza, chicken wings and a CHOCOLATE bar (a whole one!) and I lose 2 lbs. Does guilt cause you to burn more cals?

Right now I've been scrambling to get my tax stuff together. Next year I'm going to make sure everyone has my current address.

Ya know how I was saying it was hot here last Wed.? It was 82F and today it is snowing! Can you believe it? I actually prefer the colder weather for exercising.

Today is a new day!

Our server was down yesterday. Pooh! I didn't get in any excercise yesterday because my hamstrings were sore after all that walking on Tuesday. Today I couldn't even go to school because this morning my cat bit me and I smashed my knee into the wall when I jumped. Now I have a goose egg one the side of my left knee and I can't even walk without it hurting still. Anyone want a cat?

Yesterday was a great diet day for me! I did my loooong Simmons video w all those crunches. I'm really starting to feel like I'm coming down with a cold though. Bah! The weather here is unreal. Just a few weeks ago it was snowing and today it's going up to 28C. (Don't ask me what that is in imperial 'cause I dunno.) Anyway perhaps I'll go outside this evening and enjoy it. Here's what I ate yesterday:

Breakfast: cereal, 1% milk, banana, coffee

Lunch: Healthy choice frozen dinner

Dinner: Tuna helper, salad, low fat dressing

Snack: granola bar, pear, veggie juice

Cals 1117, 22.5 g of fat, 18.1 cals coming from fat Yay me!

The weekend is over! Thank God! I did really well on my excercise. But I always do! When did I become such a exercise nut? I was really munchie all weekend though. Well, Michelle does weekend challenges, I do weekday challenges! This week I'm going to only eat cereals for breakfast. Low fat, high fibre, and with milk and a serving of fruit; the perfect breakfast food! I will drink 16 oz of water with each meal and 16oz during and after exercising, I will only eat fruits or veggies for snacks and not eat before bed time. I really, really want to lose another 10 lbs before my Grandma's birthday. She's one of those people who judges women by their dress size. I was running a bit of a fever yesterday and today my chest feels a little stuffy. I hope I'm not coming down with anything. I'll try to sweat this bug out this afternoon!

Yesterday we went down to Mark's mother's place for his older brother's birthday. Joe ann didn't cook this time (Thank Goodness!) But we ordered in pizza, Gahh! If greasy pizza isn't bad enough, the pizzaria we ordered from uses egg dough for the crust. I don't even want to think about how high in cholesteral it was! Today is the day fro recommitment for me! Got to make up for that pizza!

Yesterdy was a strange eating day for me. I had my usual weekday breakfast then for lunch I had a breafast burrito, and for dinner we went to Denny's and I chose their Slim Slam breakfast. Notice the trend? Well, they say breakfast is the most important meal of the day!

Breakfast: Engilsh muffin with lite cheese spread

Breakfast II: Breakfast burrito (my own not fast food)

Snack: popcorn

Breakfast III: Denny's Slim Slam

Snack: a pear and veggie juice

1362 cals, 30.2 g of fat, 20.2 cals coming from fat

I did Sweat and Shout for excercise and only drank 32 oz of water. Must get in more veggies, fruit and water today! Today is kitchen cleaning and laundry day. I'm going to go soak some pots and pans while putting on the wash then go excercise. Time management, ya know!

Check it out! 3!!! lbs gone this week! I missed my workout yesterday. Crap. I was so tired after my midterm but I could not settle down for a nap until 6:30 and then got up to fix dinner and watch Survivor and by then it was just too late! I must try to get more sleep at night.

Breakfast: English muffin w PB, coffee

Snack: pear

Lunch: Chicken burger, diet pepsi

Snack: banana strawberry smoothie, diet pepsi

Dinner: chilli and cornbread casserole, green beans, lite jello, diet pepsi.

Snack: lite hot chocolate

1442 cals, fat 34.2 g, cals from fat 21.3%

that makes 30 lbs gone since I started, I guess that means I get a new charm for my bracelet! I think I'm going to order a little running shoe charm but I'll have to take a look at a catalogue before I decide. I got my mark back from my mid term already. 83%, I was hoping for a mark in the high 80's but what can you do?

Things are much better than yesterday! I just finished writting my midterm exam. I think I did pretty well. I chatted with my guidance counseller about college in the fall and graduation in the summer. I want to get below 200 lbs before graduation. That's in 11 weeks. Wish me luck!

Breakfast: English muffin w cheese whiz, grapefruit

Lunch: Tuna wrap

Snack: lite jello 7, 0

Dinner: clam chowder (campbell's healthy request - so good! but high in sodium) salad w lite dressing, low fat pudding

Snack: flat bread

Cals 1125, fat 32.1 g, 25.7% from fat.

Good on cals. I like to see the fat below 25% though. I had a great workout yesterday. I just know my weigh in is going to be a good one!