Day Six

Journal Entry #6

For the Date Of: March 15/08

Food Eaten:

Not a horrible day, but not great either. Started taking vitamins yesterday, also green tea extract and hoodia capsules. The vitamins changed my pee to this neon yellow color, it was crazy! Going to work on taking this every day. Didn't have much to eat in the morning- wasn't hungry, but I really should have had SOMETHING- but I also slept in late (until nearly ten) and had to get some housework done (and my workout) before heading out for a birthday party. So I drank a cup of chocolate Silk, puttered about. For lunch I had a six-inch sweet onion chicken teriyaki sub on wheat and honey, and then (because it was a birthday party) a TINY piece of ice cream cake. About three or four small bites. For dinner, I had a steak, a SMALL serving of mashed potatoes, and four or five asparagus spears. We were out at my sister in law's house though and I accepted two bottles of Bacardi Breezer- Grapefruit flavored. Now, after searching online for quite a while, I can't seem to find any nutritional information on this product (the hell?) but other Breezers seem to be in the 200 calorie per bottle range. YUCK! I also had a McDonald's cinnamon melt after some pressure from my husband (ugh, I shouldn't blame him it's my own fault...) and that's another 460 right there. So yesterday I ate 860 from pure junk!!!! I feel like a total failure. I've also learned an important lesson about just how easy it is to get off-track.

Workouts:

As soon as I woke up, I did my pilates workout. Decided to give my arms a rest (my elbow joints were sort of bothering me) and so worked on the abs and buns and thighs. Then i went to the birthday party which was at the local swimming pool. I spent 10 minutes in the sauna, and 70 minutes or so in the pool swimming, walking around, lifting my son in and out of the pool, etc. Not very high-intensity, but I was moving the entire time. I am considering this 'workout time' as it was physical exercise I otherwise wouldn't have received.

Total workout time: 100 minutes

Additional Comments:

So, I weighed myself today, only to find that I haven't lost any weight at all this week. Maybe a pound, tops. I feel so sad and discouraged! I've tried hard all week!

Given though, I HAVE fallen off the 'wagon' a couple of times, for the most time my eating was healthy and I've been working out a lot.

I have to keep reminding myself that this is a gradual process, Rome wasn't built in a day, and I have to just keep on trucking. I think my stomach looks flatter, but I'm not sure weather or not that's wishful thinking.