Checking in

Today has been a pretty good day in terms of what I've eaten.

Breakfast:

100 calorie pack cereal, dry (100 calories)
small orange pineapple banana juice (100 calories)
Total: 200 calories

Lunch:

SmartOnes meat lasagna (300 calories)
SmartOnes chocolate chip cookie dough sundae (170 calories)
Total: 470 calories

Not too shabby if you ask me. That's only 670 calories for the day so far.....I tend to like to keep breakfast and lunch minimal, because dinner is kind of a free for all -- not that I overdo it, but sometimes it's things like fish sticks or chicken nuggets for dinner, so I try to just eat sensible portions and not worry about the actual calories as far as dinner goes.

I've also stopped having any snacks after dinner. This is hard for me because I do like snacks at night, but I've been trying to avoid it by going to bed at a decent time, and making sure I get up early enough in the morning to make it to work on time as well.

Friday I started working out again. I'm doing the Walk Away the Pounds DVDs again. I really enjoyed them for the most part, and since I did so well losing the weight in 2006 (and pretty much kept it off!), I figured I'd do that again. I've got the 1 mile, 2 mile and 3 mile workouts. I figured 3 would be too much - and I felt like 1 just wouldn't be enough -- so I went straight for the 2. It wasn't too bad. I did need to put the hand weights down part way through that part, but I finished the entire 'walk' regardless.

I hope to get in at least 3 days of 'walking' a week. More if I can, but I'm not going to beat myself up about it. I refuse to get bent out of shape over it, because I'll get irritated, burnt out and so frustrated that I'll give up and the weight loss will stop.