the skinny on holly

Ate like a pig all weekend. Didn’t get up to do the exercise bike this morning, but will make myself do it tonight.
Plus, I need to fit into a business suit for Wednesday.
My mother is supposed to take me shopping to get work clothes. It was my birthday present (which happened 5 weeks ago) but I keep putting her off because I really think it will be depressing to go shopping for size 16s with my Petite 4 mother.

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Yesterday, I played tennis with my boss for 1 ½ hours before work. Then I had this wonderful cereal from Costco with fiber flakes, cranberries and macadamia nuts. For lunch, chicken sausage (apple & gouda) and a salad with my new favorite dressing (Marie’s Blue Cheese Vinagrette) and ice water.
Things were looking good until I had a diet coke and two sloppy joes for dinner followed up by 3 Corona Lights.
Needless to say, I got on the scale this morning and weigh no less than I did 3 weeks ago.

Tonight the life insurance policy nurse comes to take my blood. Maybe I should take this as a time to seize the moment and work a little harder at this getting healthy crap.

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I have been horrendous about the diet.
Notice the gigantic void between the last entry and this one!

In the meantime, I have purchased an exercise bike from Wal-Mart (I always have a moral dilemma when I walk into Wal-Mart, but it was all I bought and it was the only place I could find an exercise bike for $88) and I have played tennis in the mornings before work with my boss (twice last week and probably tomorrow).
The tennis is tough because I used to be a Division I college player 10 years ago when I weighed 50 lbs less. The quality of tennis last week was horrific. I definitely need to work on it.

So, I am still trying to get healthier and hopefully the tennis is sparking something.
Thursday night is when the nurse comes over to take my blood and stuff for the life insurance policy that Lois is upping on me. That’s a little reality check that I am not going to live forever.

I just had a tomato from our garden (no salt!) and 2 links of apple-gouda chicken sausage from Costco for breakfast. That's not too bad, right?

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Pre-Breakfast: travel mug coffee (French vanilla, 1.5 Splendas & whole milk)

Breakfast: 1 bowl Honey Nut Cheerios with whole milk, a plum and a nectarine

Mid-Morning Snack: Vitamin Water

Lunch: ½ container (?? Ounces) Stew Leonard’s Low-Fat Chicken Chili and ½ grape Vitamin Water (formula 50), some french fries

Afternoon Snack: 12 oz HGT

Dinner: Chicken Marsala, steamed veggies, salad with Italian dressing, Diet Coke

Dessert: 2 Coronas (yes, only two)

EXERCISE: none :-(

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Pre-Breakfast: travel mug coffee (French vanilla, 1.5 Splendas & whole milk)

Breakfast: 1 bowl Honey Nut Cheerios with whole milk and a large, juicy, messy plum which I ate at my desk

Mid-Morning Snack: 12 oz. HGT, 1 bagel with scallion cream cheese & a plate of fruit (our summer intern’s going away party!)

Lunch: ½ container (?? Ounces) Stew Leonard’s Low-Fat Chicken Chili and ½ grape Vitamin Water (formula 50)…okay, okay, I did put a little sour cream in the chili, but I didn’t eat tortilla chips!!!

Afternoon Snack: Vitamin Water

Dinner: 2 pieces stuffed filet of sole and 2 potatoes au gratin (both courtesy of Omaha Steaks), a glass skim milk

Dessert: 15 tortilla chips

EXERCISE: none

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Weigh-in: 187 lbs

(I’ve decided that Wed. will be weigh-in day. I can’t believe I am putting my weight on the internet)

Pre-Breakfast: travel mug coffee (French vanilla, 1.5 Splendas & whole milk)

Breakfast: 1 bowl Honey Nut Cheerios with whole milk (the skim milk in the office fridge smelled funny)

Mid-Morning Snack: 12 oz. HGT

Lunch: ½ chicken salad wrap and leftover salad from last night plus ½ bottle grape-flavored Vitamin Water

Afternoon Snack: Diet Coke w/ Lime (12 oz. can) – ok, I know I gotta give those up.

Dinner: sausage, peppers, roasted potatoes, squash and zucchini (from hot bar at Stew Leonard’s) and a salad (same as last night). I finished 12 oz. of HGT and the other ½ bottle of grape Vitamin Water.

EXERCISE: Lifecycle, 20 minutes, 7.5 miles, Random program, Level 3

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Pre-Breakfast: travel mug coffee (French vanilla, 1.5 Splendas & skim milk)

Breakfast: 1 large cranberry muffin, toasted w/ butter (I know this is not good)

Lunch: leftover meatloaf and mashed potatoes (w/ butter)

Afternoon Snack: Diet Coke w/ Lime (12 oz. can), and an ice cream sandwich from Carvel (hey, our title insurance rep brought them in for everyone, I couldn’t say no!)

Dinner: 2 pork ribs, 3 pieces steamed zucchini (a la Stew Leonards), 20 tortilla chips with melted chedder and full fat sour cream (Lois made them and I couldn’t say no) and a salad w/ Marie’s Blue Cheese Vinagrette (w/ peas, tomatoes, green peppers, cucumbers, broccoli, red onions and romaine lettuce)

EXERCISE: none

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the purpose of this blog is to motivate me to lose weight.
i will document my food intake and exercise, beginning on August 1, 2006 and hopefully make my goal of losing 40-45 lbs.

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