Changing of Seasons

If you don't know fall is my favorite time of year. The air is a little crisper requiring a blanket or jacket, football, marching band, colors changing, it's ok to wear darker colors. I just love it. With fall also comes "Comfort" food. I am determined this year to make healthier comfort foods.

I am also finding it hard to get my proper water intake. It gets cold thus harder to drink water. Ugh I hope that I can figure it out because I don't want that to hinder my wgt loss.

Good news is I'm only 4.1 lbs away from being out of the 300's! I'm hoping to get out of it prior to going on vacation in 2 weeks.

Marathon Week (not in a good way)

Let me run it down for you:

Monday: Mother in Laws Birthday at Cracker Barrel (Low carb menu :) )
Tuesday: Double Jazzercise classes (Didn't get in enough calories)
Wednesday: Rock Festival (Crap food but stayed within cals)
Thursday: Habitat for Humanity project (Crap food but stayed within cals)
Friday: Rehersal Dinner (For a wedding Duanes in)
Saturday: Lunch with aunts at Cheesecake factory and then the Wedding
Sunday: Nephews Birthday Party

How much more stuff can Sammie pack into her week? Ummmm I don't know and honestly I don't want to find out. So even though I'm keeping with in my calories I've not made the most sodium friendly choices this week. If tomorrow mornings weigh in is that I am the same weight and not more.... I'll be happy!

Is that what I think those are??? Wrist bones!!!

If you haven't figured out I do my weigh ins officially on Saturday mornings now. Mostly because I find if I weigh the morning after a work out I tend to have some retention probably due to muscle repair. So since I generally don't work out friday nights this works out. I weigh myself before I get ready for my work out that morning. but I digress... back to the topic at hand (pun intended)

This week I have noticed that my hands have more definition. When I type I can see muscles and ligaments moving. Kinda sweet!... The other thing I noticed today was as I was shaving my arm hair (I do this so I don't have gross black thick hairs on my arms) that I almost knicked a wrist bone.... where the heck did those come from!!!

So it appears with my weight loss that the most dramatic changes might be from the limbs on in... because my ankles are looking uber skinny too and I'm starting to see some definition in my calves.

Super motivating!

Queen, Princess, Popper

So if you don't know what I mean this is the run down:

Eat like a Queen for breakfast
Eat like a Princess for lunch
Eat like a Popper for dinner

I try to keep that in mind when I plan out my meal selections for the day. Eat your heavy carbs earlier in the day then you have all day to burn them off, enough carbs at Lunch to fuel the rest of the day and light carbs at dinner to finish off your day.

Ofcourse with my blood sugar levels needing to stay level I eat 6 times a day. I make sure that my snack are never larger then a meal... I try to get in the larger meal calories at breakfast or lunch. I try to keep dinner as light as possible when I eat dinner after a evening work out. If it's earlier in the day I try to balance out all three major meals.

So far that has helped me lose 22 lbs in 2 months time. We'll see if it continues to go this way, but I'm seeing more difference in my body and the way I feel then in the scale.

can you say NOTICABLE? sure I knew you could

Yeah, I can tell there's more light coming through on places... and lifting everywhere... I feel good!