Kari 1/31

Fried egg/toast
mac and cheese nuggets
apples with peanut butter/nutella
kettle chips
tuna bagel sandwich
dark chocolate m&m's

exercise: I broke down and did 30 minute walk aerobic video. It was hard to breathe and had me coughing but it was worth the stress relief. I thought I would be fine but was surprised at how tight my lungs still are. Guess I won't be going full force for awhile like I wanted.

goal: I stretched for 10 minutes after exercising.

katrina 1/30

cereal
apple cider
carrots
veggie ziti
banana
graham crackers and milk
salad with apple chunks
pasta with pesto
smoothie

3 miles on eliptical and stretching

Kari

Toast
carrots with ranch
chips and salsa
granola
a few crackers
quesadilla
cake
dark chocolate m&m's

this just gets more and more embarrassing. Obviously I have some work to do with my diet. But I finally went grocery shopping so we have a bit more fresh produce in the house.

exercise: :(

goal: I haven't stretched yet but I plan to

Becky 1/30

cereal
diet wrap, handful trailmix, carrots
hamburger, fruit, homemade milkshake made with 1% milk - very healthy
M&M's
Can't seem to get off the chocolate.

30 minutes run
2 minutes stretching

Katrina 1/29

honey nut cheerios
a half cup of captain crunch without milk
california roll
edamame
bag of jalepenio chips
veggie ziti
ice cream

exercise: abs, arms, and stretching for half hour

Kari 1/29

Ugh. Longest day ever. And my diet is very telling of that.

Granola
chips and salsa
a few bites of cake
granola
chicken wrap, french fries
ice cream

exercise: It's getting really old not being able to.

goal: stretched for 20 minutes. felt wonderful again.

Becky 1/28

Bad, bad eating day
Cereal
2 mini sausage sandwiches, banana
PB popcorn stuff/M&Ms (so we have tons of leftovers from game night and now I have to eat it all day long)
Pasta with peas, mixed vegetables
More PB popcorn stuff
cheesecake (neighbor invited us over for dessert)

30 minutes weights, 20 minutes elliptical

Katrina 1/28

honey nut cheerios with a few walnuts
bag of carrots with dressing
two pieces of bread
two small rice crispy treats
half an apple
baked veggie ziti
salad with dressing
big bowl of ice cream :)

exercise: 4 miles and almost three pullups

Kari

Special K
Left over homemade BBQ pork sandwich
homemade granola
broccoli, baked potato bar
dark chocolate m&m's

exercise: danget I wish I could

goal: I stretched for about 20 minutes and it felt SOO good.

I'm Back, And So Is A New Goal!

Hey everyone, while I still can't really exercise, I'm back to posting on the blog what I eat since I'm doing much better. I hope that with our busy schedules we can all keep up with keeping healthy.

With that in mind, check out the goal. It's one that everyone can do even if you are busy (or especially if you are) and if you can't exercise (like me).

Katrina 1/25 and 26

I honestly cannot remember much about Friday and Saturday's meals other than that Friday we used a gift card and shared a steak dinner at Outback, and on Saturday we visited Grandma and Grandpa and ate some delicious homemade raspberry and blackberry icecream. SO good. And we ate lots of soup.

Exercise: Friday four mile run, Saturday three mile run and three pullups both days

And I definitely ate after 8 both days, oh well! It's such a good goal, our schedules are just crazy right now so it becomes really hard. But I want to be better at this in general.

becky 1/25

protein drink
lean cuisine spinach pizza, orange, trail mix
scrambled eggs, 1 biscuit, squash
coffee cake -

20 min weights, 30 minutes elliptical

Katrina 1/24

life cereal
then later some more honey nut cheerios
spaghetti
carrots and red pepper with dressing
4 or 5 of those little shortbread cookies
mashed potatoes and mixed veggies and a roll
two saltines
smoothie

I failed at not eating after eight cause I don't get home until after 8:30 on Thursdays, so when we got back from our run at nearly 10 we were hungry and I made a smoothie

4 mile run and three pullups

Becky 1/24

I don't even remember what date it is.  I was working all day the past two days so I didn't post or exercise.  I am going to have to figure out how to exercise when I don't really have time during tax season.  I did take a short walk today because that was all the energy I had.

Breakfast  protein drink
lunch lean cuisine pizza, juice
choc bar
Dinner tomato soup, grilled cheese sand, orange
hot chocolate

Kari

I believe I'm out for this week.

Dr. says exercising has been exacerbating my sickness and I'm not to exercise anymore until I can get my cough under control :(

But my cough is a full body work out at this point so I wonder how many calories it's burning, especially when it makes me throw up. Too much info, I know.

Eating: A lot of the time that's the only time I'm not coughing so I tend to snack a lot so I can have time cough free so I've had a lot of popcorn, etc, that I can slowly snack on.

So lots of eating and no exercise. Don't ever get bronchitis. It's awful.

Katrina 1/23

cinnamon life/wheat bran
hot cocoa
apple pastry from my co-worker - shouldn't have had it but it was good
carrots and red peper with dip
peanut butter sandwich
yogurt
homemade chicken parmesan with a few noodles
cooked veggies
I also had some oreos, but I can't remember how many

But I did NOT eat after 8 - yay! it's harder than I thought.

exercise: half hour yoga and pushups and bicyles  

Katrina 1/22

oatmeal squares
leftover smoothie
carrots and celery with dressing
100 calorie bagel with cream cheese (learned my lesson, it didn't fill me up)
Orange
four PB oreos
breakfast for dinner: eggs, hash-browns, piece of toast and cooked mixed veggies
1 almond roca

exercise: 1 mile run, 2 miles elliptical, bicycles
goal: haven't eaten after 8pm (yet... I guess it's not the end of the day quite). This goal is a good one, but some days I might not make it cause Kyle doesn't get home until late so I wait and we eat together. But it's good for nights like tonight!

Kari 1/22

mini bagels with peanut butter and cinnamon and sugar
cottage cheese, saltines
100 calorie greek yogurt with graham crackers
corn
homemade crunchwrap supreme, yep it's as amazing as it sounds for all you taco bell lovers

exercise: 30 minutes of wii active

goal: didn't eat after dinner tonight.

Becky 1/22

cereal
orange, 2 slices bread, melted cheese, yougart
choc bar
beef and broccoli on brown rice, cottage cheese

30 minutes weights plus 20 min elliptical

I am dying for sugar.

1/21 Ryan

Breakfast: 4 Pancakes
Lunch: sandwich ham turkey pickles mustard manaysse and cheese bread fruit snacks
Snack: bottlecaps popcorn
Dinner:bacon an apple two orange slices hashbrowns
Desert: nothing
Exersize walking at 3.5 miles an hour too 4 and then running at 8-10 miles an hour
total time of 15 to 20 minutes

katrina 1/21

oatmeal squares (my favorite cereal ever)
half a turkey/artichoke sandwich
some chips
brownie
smoothie with spinach
cobbler and ice cream

not a great day for eating, but it was our 18 months anniversary so we decided not to care :)

excercise: 3 miles and 3 pullups and bicycles
 

Fat man

breakfast > 2 pancakes
lunch > green salad, 2 taquitos, super burrito, 4 chips, 1 sweet and salty bar
dinner > 2 blt sandwiches, hash browns,  2 orange slices

Becky 1/20

1 pancake
casadilla -
BLT, hashbrowns, slice of orange
No treats today, yeah I made it!

45 minutes run/brisk walk

Kari 1/21

Special K
2 graham crackers
nachos with black beans, cheese, salsa, and tons of shredded lettuce
chocolate
2 waffles with fresh strawberry sauce and peanut butter

obviously I have some work to do with the sugar and carbs, but today is a holiday right? :)

Exercise: zippo. I'm trying to take it easy to see if I can get rid of this blasted sickness.

Goal: I ate nothing after dinner at six pm so I'm doing good day one.

Week 3 Goal

Where did everybody go? We've lost a bunch of people so lets check on our friends and family to see if they  need any encouragement or help.

As for this new week, sorry I should have gotten the new goal up earlier, but it's there now so check out the goal page.

Becky 1/19 and 1/20

Sat
2 pancakes, turkey burger, apple
Burrito, green salad
Snickers
30 min weights, 20 min elliptical

Sun
Cereal, granola bar, graham cracker
Spaghetti, green beans, 1 piece bread
Graham crackers 2

Katrina 1/19

two pieces of toast with butter
raisin bran for lunch
smoothie
homemade mini pizzas
celery and red peppers with italian dressing

ice cream and like 4 peanut butter oreos (the best invention ever that they don't ever make anymore! they're missing out on a lot of business...)

exercise: 4 miles and two pullups

Kari 1/18

Cereal
healthy choice frozen meal of fettucine alfredo and broccoli, mint m&m's
two saltines
macaroni and cheese, peas
dark chocolate covered plums
ice cream

good news, most of the junk food is now gone!

Exercise: ran 3 miles, did twenty minutes of weights

Katrina 1/18

wheat bran/honey nut cheerios
cookie
indian food buffet... so much, and so good
spinach/apple salad
half a turkey/ham sandwich
two sticks of a kit-kat

ran 1 mile and then did weights and abs

Becky 1/18

I had a bad day but the positive thing is all my Christmas candy is now gone.
cereal
burrito, apple salad
turkey burger, homemade fries, apple salad
2 candy bars, trail mix

brisk walk 45 minutes

Katrina 1/17

wheat bran/chex
spinach/apple salad
frosted flakes
cheese and crackers with avacado
peppermint hot cocoa
butternut squash bisque and a roll
two sticks of a kit-kat

no excercise today, it's my crazy day. BUT as long as i get it in Friday and Saturday I've got five!

Brigham

I didn't exercise today

oatmeal w/ skim milk and water
hot chocolate
6oz of grapefruit juice

4 taquitos
corn
10oz 2% milk

5 open-face mini bagel pizzas
green beans
water

Kari

Toaster Strudel
3 left over chicken spinach taquitos, mint chocolate m&m's
3 mini pizza bagels, green beans
more mint chocolate m&m's

I played almost an hour of Just Dance 4. So fun! Not that hard of a work out though so I will go for intensity tomorrow if I'm not too sore from yesterday.

Becky

1/17
cream of wheat
left over teriyaki noodles, 4 pieces of chocolate
2 tacos, corn, apple salad
graham crackers

ran 3 miles.  I was still so sore from previous days I was happy to finish the 3 miles.

Katrina 1/16

wheat bran/chex
spinach/apple salad
saltines
1/2 cup peach yogurt
mashed potatoes
nachos with avacado, salsa, sour cream, pinto beans
2 sticks of a kit-kat

exercise: ran 4 miles and did 2 pullups

Brigham

I am not going to catch up but rather just try to do better and move forward.

Egg-white omlet with peppers and onions
Bacon, toast, potato hash (all of this was a very small portion because it was my co-worker's left-overs. Otherwise I would have had juice and oatmeal like I have been).
Orange juice

Orange Soda - I haven't been drinking soda lately. Orange soda just looked really good today

lemon-chicken-spinach pasta leftovers
peas
two glasses of milk

one homemade taquito with salsa (omgsh they are delish!) and corn
Water

one Almond Roca and three mint M&Ms

I exercised for about 20 minutes today by playing just dance.

Kari

Special K
left over zita pasta bake
needed some extra protein according to my weights class teacher so I had a couple spoonfuls of peanut butter
homemade chicken/spinach/cheese taquitos, corn

tried to tone the chocolate down while still getting rid of it so I had a couple pieces of chocolate and some mint m&m's

exercise: 1 hour weight class. She KILLED us today. I was so worn out I wanted to die and I'm going to not want to move tomorrow. I loved it :)

Becky 1/16
Man am I sore from that workout yesterday.  It is so much pain to move! Despite that I made myself do 20 minutes of weights and 30 minutes of elliptical.

cereal
macaroni and cheese, peas
teriyaki noodles with vege/chicken, cottage cheese
few small chocolates, nuts

I'm starving today and trying to resist but had to have chocolate.

Kari

granola cereal
spinach, carrot, broccoli, peanuts, crouton, Asian dressing salad
few bites of left over birthday cake
Ziti pasta bake, garlic bread, peas

I ate a lot of chocolate today but I can't stand thinking about it all day every day trying to resist so I decided to eat it all real fast to get rid of it. I just don't have the self control to throw it away. Some day I will be that good. For now I will gorge for a couple days and remove the temptation. Almost there.

Exercise: Wii active for 30 minutes, did some squats, bicycles, lunges, leg raises, push-ups, and plank while waiting for the timer while cooking dinner and kids baths for probably another ten minutes worth of working out.

Katrina 1/15

wheat bran/chex
orange
PB sandwich
3 saltines
carrots and celery with poppy seed dressing
honey nut cheerios
pretzels
and a pepermint hot cocoa with a bite sized snickers

exercise: two yoga episodes (the first was really low-key), bicycles, pushups, lunges= ~50min

AND I am getting hungry so I might have some mashed potatoes (for some reason that just sounds so good right now)

Becky 1/15
cereal
peas, turkey, mashed potatoes
lasagna soup, bread
1/2 of symphony bar

I resisted a donut all day long!!!! (see comments on my post yesterday for why I even have a donut in the house) I walked past it a million times and resisted.  I thought of Katrina's self-control and thought maybe I can resist too.

Exercise -  40 minutes of Xtreme fitness on Xbox -  a killer workout today.

Kyle 14/1/2013

Salmon and steak dinner with roasted potatoes, caesar salad, and a balsalmic vinegar artichoke vegetable dish.

It was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo good.

That is all.

Kari

Breakfast: started the day out right with a dark chocolate caramel girideli's square that Brigham gave me yesterday. Ok, maybe not right, but it sure felt that way. I also had a bowl of instant oatmeal.
Lunch: Left over pesto bread, cottage cheese, banana
dessert: left over cake and ice cream
Dinner: homemade pizza pocket sandwich and cucumbers and carrots dipped in ranch
Also a few pieces of chocolate here and there. I'm trying to get rid of it so I am not snacking on it anymore.

Exercise: An hour of zumba class. I'm really out of shape from not exercising all last weekend. Bummer.

Katrina 1/14

Raisin bran
saltine crackers
cookie
apple
honey nut cheerios
salad
smoothie
kit kat bar

exercise: 3 mile run,  3 pull-ups, abs, 30 pushups = ~35min

Becky 1/14
breakfast -  kashi cereal
lunch - banana, corn bread, two bits of turkey
dinner-  macaroni and cheese, 2 helpings of peas, 1 slice apple
Graham cracker

Exercise - 20 minutes of weights, 20 minutes elliptical

I didn't post Sat and Sun because I was pretty busy and ate badly.  No exercise on Sat.

Katrina 1/12

raisin bran
chips and salsa
carrots
yogurt and banana
way too much at Olive Garden. but so worth it.

sweet: Ammon's yummy birthday cake!

no exercise today

Enjoy Your Day Off?

I hope everyone enjoyed their day off today and are looking forward to the next six days. If you had a bad week last week, here's a chance to start new again. Check out the goal tab to read all about the new goal for this week! Great job everyone this first week, hopefully we've got it down and we can work really hard on the goals and eating better and exercise. Support each other and keep up the good work!

Kari

We had a crazy day!
Breakfast: Two pancakes
Lunch: missed due to car-buying events
snack:a handful of chips
Dinner: Olive Garden
Dessert: Birthday cake for Ammon

exercise: None

Ryan 9/11 9/12 9/13

I have not posted i forgot and mom and dad were gone so I couldn't go online when I remembered!
 Friday breakfast Pop tart woke up when I needed to go!
lunch 4 taquitos banana and chips nutra-grain
dinner Chicken patty fries and asparagus
Dessert I forgot but i had some I think it was big oops
x-size PE run and walk for ten minutes then play flash ball for 20 minutes and finally volley ball for 40 minutes

I did really bad on desserts the next two days
Saturday breakfast 4 pancakes with assortment of stuff
Lunch Pepperoni hot pocket with banana and Doritos and nutra-grain
Dinner 3 burrito things and an apple
Dessert Lots and lots of candy including m and ms chocolate covered pretzels a twix some symphony bar

x-size none.

Sunday
Breakfast four french toast
Lunch a taquito and burrito with cheese and banana nutra-grain
Dinner turkey mash potatoes stuffing gravy and a muffin glazed with coconut frosting green beans
Dessert even more candy including chocolate covered pretzels junior mints Reeses pieces peanut m and ms symphony bar and two twix bars
x-size none

I gave in too the giant bag of candy I mixed all the chocolate stuff together and just ate it :(
I can't stand it If I have it I have to eat it

Nils

yesterday
banana
2 breakfast bars
8 wraps
broccoli
chicken
sweet potato baked
mashed potato
gravy
fruit dessert
apple cidar
3 egg rolls
berries

today
4 wraps
turkey
mashed potato and gravy
2 servings stuffing
green beans
orange

Katrina 1/11

wheat bran/chex cereal
smoothie with spinach
green salad
last black bean burger and a couple sweet potato fries

sweet: had crepes for date night. I had a little nutella with bananas, and lemon with whipped cream. so yummy.

excercise: 3 mile run, 3 pull-ups, abs

Sadie- Question?

Does anyone know how many calories I should be eating a day where I could still lose weight?

Kari

Breakfast: Raisins and Rice
Lunch: Turkey and spinach sandwich, mixed nuts
Dinner: Pepper Bellies and corn
Popcorn at the car dealership again and then chocolate for my treat

Exercise: Does watching four kids three and under all day count? Because that left me worn out and I didn't get a work out in.

Nils

yesterday > sorry, i don't get on my computer everyday.
i ate taco salad without the chips and a burrito and a piece of corn bread with honey for lunch
dinner > 2 chicken patty sandwiches, asparagus and fries
the night before i stayed up late and ate ice cream and chips

exercise > 50 minutes at the gym, 30 minutes of elypitical and 20 weights
i have lost 1.5 lbs and yes i know it could be more and i will get there.

my goal has been to go to bed by ten 6 of 7 nights and not eat after 6. i am doing that well except for the one night. yes i ate the ice cream but that has been my only dessert and one cream puff. my other goal is to lose 8 to 10 lbs per month.

i am not feeling hungry which is key for me and i am chewing gum after 6 pm to take away the desire to eat. thanks for the blog. it helps me to remember to think about what i am eating and how much.

Becky 1/11
breakfast -  kashi cereal
snack - granola bar
lunch -  burrito with lots of lettuce, corn bread (bad I know)
dinner -  chicken patty sandwich, garlic fries, asparagus
dessert -  3 pieces of chocolate bar

Exercise -  ran 3 miles and didn't get very winded - only my hips started hurting.  I felt encouraged because I had plenty of stamina, maybe the weight training is helping.  Dang hips.  Also enjoyed running in 33 degrees because I didn't sweat or get hot.
If I could just control my eating!

Sadie 1-10

Food Consumed:
            Breakfast: Dried Fruit
                            Lunch: Half a chicken sandwich, frozen yogurt
                                       Dinner: Beef Jerky
Exercise:
Insanity- Super hard, if you want killer this will do the trick

Treats:
I kind splurged today :/ Reese Candy bar

Good news! I went from 126 to now 121 :D

Kari 1/10

Boy did I have a bad day. I was really sick so I gave into all my comfort foods. I guess everyone deserves a sick day now and again.

Breakfast: brown sugar poptarts
Lunch: 3 Almond Rocca, funsize peanut butter m&m's, 3 reisen candies, cheese quesadilla
Snack: much more chocolate
Dinner: a tiny left over slice of my kid's frozen pizza I made them for dinner. I was feeling sick from the candy overload.
Dessert: popcorn at the car dealership

Exercise: I tried to do some light cardio by playing Just Dance 4 but I only made it twenty minutes before my throat was on fire and I was hacking up a lung and I felt light-headed. So I stopped.

Goal: Boy did I fail. It just goes to show how I turn to food to make myself feel better and while it did at first, when I kept eating it, it didn't. I bet if I had eaten fruit/veggies I would have felt better and would have gotten more vitamins to get rid of my sickness. Something to remember next time. So after my shame is here for everyone to see, back on track tomorrow!

Katrina 1/10

bran flakes + corn chex mixed
crackers + cheese
soup
carrots
black bean burger
sweet potato fries
clementine

sweet: I had two cookies, and then gave in and had a square of dark chocolate at the end of the day cause thursdays are long (but in a good way)... ops! better tomorrow :)

exercise: 3 mi run, 3 pull-ups, ab stuff

Becky 1/10
Breakfast -  2 frozen waffles with only peanut butter on them
Lunch -  lean cuisine, juice, graham cracker
snack- granola bar
Dinner-  taco salad, corn bread, corn
Dessert -  3 pieces of sees candy -  only 3 left!  sad by happy

Exercise - 30 minutes of weights, 30 minutes of elliptical
I upped the weight and lower repititions trying to build more muscle -  cut 10 minutes off normal weight routine -  I bet I'm sore tomorrow.
I can't decide if I like that torture or the less weight and it takes longer.

Ryan 1/10

All this candy in my room is driving me insane i can't stop thinking about it only one small desert a day that is like child abuse.

Breakfast:
an omelet with ham and cheese one piece of strawberry toast
Lunch:
 Lunch-able which is ham cheese and crackers and i grabbed a big box of raiser
They came with two cookies which I like more than oreos but I gave them away
Snack:
Beef jerky the only thing I got for Christmas that isn't a desert
Dinner:
 taco salad which is Doritos salad and beans and meat topped off with cheese corn on the side and some delicious corn bread
Desert Half a symphony bar

X-size:
I have a basketball game at seven our time I don't know how much I will play but I always get really sweaty. From the insanity test yesterday I am having back and leg problems they are really sore and I can't bend over.

Nils

last two days not so good. have had back problems and was more stressed about Sayid's mission call coming so i ate more.

today
cream puff
2 potatoes hashed
1 fat salami sandwich with cheese
1 large cup of frosted flakes
2 sweet and salty bars
walked 2 miles yesterday - one mile for each of the last two days.
taco salad
1 piece of corn bread with butter and honey

i can say in my defence i have avoided ice cream and not eaten after 6 pm
i will be back on track tomorrow. i got my back put back together

Caitlin 1/9 and 1/10

Yesterday eating:
Breakfast: Lucky Charms
Lunch: A fruit cup, a pudding, and a sandwich
Dinner: Grilled cheese sandwich
Snack: Granola bar.

Today so far I've eaten a muffin. BUT I finally was able to work out. I did an easy 25 min work out on Wii active. I feel accomplished just doing that.

Sadie 1-9

Food Consumed:
                    Breakfast: Dried Fruit
                               Lunch: Half a chicken sandwich, fries
                                            Dinner: Arby's sandwich, curly fries
(Kinda a rough day)

Exercise:
2 mile walk

Becky- Wed 1/9

Breakfast -  frosted mini wheats
Lunch -  left over haystacks, grapes, graham crackers
Snack -  3 pieces Sees candy
Dinner -  scrambled eggs, 1 piece of toast, 1/2 banana, fruit leather
Celebration snack -  1/2 hershey's candy bar

Exercise -  2 mile walk

I did bad today but at least I got out and walked.  Super busy and skipped they gym when I shouldn't have.

Kari 1/9

Breakfast: Frosted mini wheats
Lunch: left over veggie stir fry and 100 calorie greek yoplait yogurt eaten with graham crackers to tolerate the texture (hard for me to get down otherwise)
Dinner: Due to Sadie's mission call messing up schedules we were bad and had Arby's. I had a regular roast beef sandwich and a value fries.

Exercise: I did a new hour long class at the gym called weight works. I really want to get more toned and this class will be really good for that I think. It was some good weight training. We'll see how sore I am tomorrow. I wanted to get some cardio in later on that day, but with Sadie's mission call that didn't happen either.

Goal: I had half of medium peppermint shake from Arby's for my dessert. It sure felt good on my sore throat. I saved the other half for Brigham.

Katrina 1/9

raisin bran
half a smoothie
clementine
PB and honey sandwich
baby carrots
black bean burgers - one with bun and one without (really easy and delish)
sweet potato fries
treat: small handful of chocolate covered sunflower seeds

work was cruel today - they had cinnamon rolls at a morning meeting, and cookies at an afternoon one. but I resisted and just had a clementine instead. HA! :)

about to do some yoga if I can, if not it's my rest day

Ryan Nelson 1/9

Breakfast: Squished pop tart
Lunch: Pretzels fruit leather Pb and honey sandwich
Dinner: an omelet with ham and cheese two pieces of toast
Snack: fruit leather again so good
Dessert two cookies
X-size: PE started with running and walking for ten minutes then an insanity work out test that makes you sick it is so hard 20 min then volley ball for like 40 minutes

Katrina 1/8

breakfast: raisin bran
lunch: veggie-cheese-pesto sandwich & orange
dinner: Italian vegetable soup & 1 peice of bread & crackers
sweet: two oatmeal-chocolate chip cookies

exercise: 3 mile run and 5 pullups

 

Brigham 1/8 and 1/7

Food:
Breakfast - Banana, two packets of oatmeal prepared with 2% milk, cup of hot chocolate with a shot of hazelnut creamer and some milk to cool it down
Lunch - Ziti Parmesean, yogurt, peas.
Dinner - Veggie Stir fry with Rice
Snacks - nuts, chocolate, M&Ms a peppermint hug several cups of water and one cup of grapefruit juice

Workout - ~30 minutes walk/run - a little over 2 miles

Yesterday
Food
Let's see what I remember - A blueberry bagel with nothing on it, a bowl of oatmeal like the one described above, an apple, a Cup-of-Soup with a Lipton Spring Veggie Mix soup packet mixed in, nuts, M&Ms chocolate, two egg breakfast burritos with spinach and cheese, peas two cups of grapefruit juice (~12oz each)

Exercise - 15 minute walk - .5 mile

Kari 1/8

Breakfast: blueberry bagel with butter on it
Lunch: Chicken, spinach, ranch, whole wheat tortilla wrap
Snack: Dried plums. They're almost gone and I'm going to be in big trouble when they are because then help me stay away from the bad stuff.
Dinner: Vegetable stir fry with brown rice

Exercise: I did a Jillian Michaels ripped in 30 work out on level three today. It felt good and was hard! Then because that is only 25 minutes, later that day I played Just Dance 4 for forty minutes.

Goal progress: I had a rough night so my treat was a little bigger but I did only have one thing. I had my Peanut Butter Twix from Christmas, both bars of it. And it.was.so.good. I really struggled staying away from sugar snacks today and craved it all day long. Lots of mental persuasion to be good. I think that's partly what made it taste so good tonight.

Ryan nelson 1/8

Today I did Okay

Breakfast: A bowl of frosted flakes and chocolate mini wheat's
Lunch:A BBQ meat sandwich fruit leather and an apple
Dinner: Large haystack with rice and two pieces of broccoli and a roll
Dessert: some m and m's"

x-size: Mom says that walking to the bus stop and back walking around the school and too my friends house doesn't count so I did 22 hard core sports preparation and jumping rope kinect game on extreme and regular.

Becky

Tuesday 1/8
Breakfast - Kashi cereal (tried it for the first time, pretty good)
Lunch -  banana smoothie, leftover pasta
snack -  3 sees candies
Dinner-  haystack, one muffin, broccoli

Exercise -  45 minutes elliptical, burned 500 calories - so I could eat the sees

Nils

bad day today with headache and back issues so exercise was a bust except for my stretch exercises i do in the AM
food:
breakfast > burrito
lunch > 2 dinner rolls, salami, cheese, green salad
diiner > 3 muffins, 1 serving of cooked broccoli and one serving of haystack with rice.

Sadie 1-8

Food Consumed:
                     Breakfast: Dried Fruit, hot chocolate (I have a bad sore throat)
                                 Lunch: Fries (with fry sauce), half a caesar wrap, water
                                          Dinner: Water, vitamins
Exercise:

• half hour ab routine
• hour cardio

I am freaking out about lunch but all the cafeteria has is food like that!

Monday and Tuesday

Well go figure I've already slacked.

Yesterday I didn't do too shabby. I don't have much of an appetite right now so eating too much isn't a problem. And if I try to do much exercise, I hack up a lung. So yesterday I just concentrated on slowly cleaning my house.

Today is much the same. No appetite so food isn't an issue, but one thing I am going to work on is getting my water intake in for the day. I always struggle with that, so that is my focus. At least until I feel up to more.

Hopefully before the end of the week I am able to do some light exercise. 

Katrina 1/7

Sorry guys I didn't know it started yesterday, so I don't remember everything I ate... but I think this is it:

Cereal for breakfast (always). Oh, and a muffin at a work meeting - woops :)
Vegetable soup, a banana, a piece of bread, and two cookies for lunch (made too many on Sunday...)
A little bit of plain rice with butter for dinner (wasn't hungry)
Smoothie for dessert

But I did do elyptical 25+ minutes, 3.5 miles. Wish I could have run but I got a couple stitches in my leg (I'm not hurt don't worry) so I didn't want to risk ripping them the first day... today I'll try!

Ryan 1/7

breakfast > one pop tart
lunch > animal crackers package, bbq port sandwich, orange
dinner > pasta chicken, roll, green beans
snack > banana

exercise > 120 pacers

Nils 1/7

food for the day. 
Breakfast> nutribar
lunch > mcchicken and mcdouble
dinner > green beans, cauliflower, cooked carrots, dinner roll, bbq pork, 2 servings pasta chicken dish.

exercise - 35 minutes on the elypitical, 3.5 miles 666 calories burned.

question: is a tub of ice cream considered a snack?

Becky 1/7

Here is today's exercise and eating for me. I did 30 minutes cardio boxing and 15 minutes weights at the gym. I tried out a New Wii game gold gym cardio and it was too easy and pretty much all boxing aerobics. 
Breakfast - custard
Lunch - BBQ meat and carrots - I skipped the bun
Snack - granola bar
Dinner pasta dish with chicken, green beams, cooked carrots
4 pieces of sees candy ( I've got to eat it fast so it is gone)

Tomorrow I need to exercise harder. It was way to hard to do weights.

Sadie 1-7

Food Consumed:
           Breakfast: half a bag of dried apples, vitamin gummy
                      Lunch: half a salad, half a brownie
                                 Dinner: vitamin gummy
Exercise:

• Walked 1/2 mile
• 50 calf raises
• Cardio workout DVD

Kari- Monday Jan 7

Today for breakfast I ate a bowl of Honey Oat Blenders
For lunch I had a chicken spinach salad.
For a snack I had some dried plums.
For dinner I had spinach-mushroom-egg breakfast burritos with a side of peas.

For my exercise I did an hour of Zumba class.

And for the goal this week, I had a package of fun size M&M's for dessert after Zumba, and that's it! So good for day one. Though it was hard when I gave the kids their Christmas candy for a snack after naps. I wanted to share with them so bad! But I didn't. Wohoo!

Weekly Goals

As we begin this week posting our food and exercise, don't forget to post on your goal progress. I have just updated the goal for this week. To find out what the goal is, click on the goal tab up above and I will have it updated every week. This tab will explain the goal, benefits of accomplishing the goal, and suggestions for success.

Also, if you look to the ride sidebar you can find the weekly goal stated so that you can remember what we are working on. I'm excited to get going and if you ever have a goal that you think would be good, leave a comment on the suggestions page for me.

And it Begins

Many of us are striving to lose weight, eat better, or just live healthier more well-rounded lives. And a key to staying on track is accountability. So after discussing with family, I've decided to undertake a blog where we are accountable to each other for how we take care of our bodies. Sometimes just writing down what we are doing helps us realize the mistakes we are making and enables us to take steps to correct them. And sometimes just knowing that others see what we are doing keeps us from eating that extra dessert or push to fit that workout in.

So...everyday we are going to post here what we've eaten for the day and what we've done for exercise. Just simple reporting. No need to report calories or measure your food, just a simple: I ate some cap'n crunch and a banana for breakfast followed by twelve cookies. I also did fifteen minutes of walk aerobics and took a walk in the afternoon. Then we can all leave comments suggesting you abandon the cookies next time but praise you for your exercise. Get the point?

Another way to increase success is setting attainable goals. So prepare yourself for some healthy living goals that we will also work towards each week and report on. For example, if the goal was to eat three full meals a day you could report after your food and exercise: I only ate one meal because it consisted of twelve cookies and so I didn't eat the rest of the day because I felt sick. I'll try better tomorrow. 

I think this will be really good for everybody. We can cheer each other on, hold  ourselves accountable, and strive to accomplish beneficial goals. This is for everyone in their different levels of fitness and each of us will improve in our own way. The point is to do it together and to provide support for each other. 

This blog will be private for just close family and friends, so don't worry the whole world won't be able to see that you just ate twelve cookies. Also, Monday morning is the day that it will all begin so get ready to welcome this new year by finding our fit and fabulous :)