Sunday July 14th

Goal: 1200
Food: 2055
Exercise: -868
Net: 1187

Breakfast:
Special K Waffles (150)
Crunchy Peanut Butter (95)
Small Banana (90)

Snack:
Grapes (62)

Lunch:
Apple Blue Pecan Salad (230)
Hard Boiled Egg (60)
Baby Carrots (35)

Snack:
Pepper Jack Sandwich Crackers (190)
Jelly Bellies (520)

Dinner:
Ground Beef Hamburger Patty (380)
Sweet Potato with Light Butter and Brown Sugar (243)

Exercise:
Gym- Stationary Bike (-720)
Malibooty Workout (-148)

Positive: I really did not want to track everything that I ate today, but knew that is not the point of doing this. I had a weak moment and instead of ignoring it, I owned it and am proud of ending the day under my calorie goal.

Thoughts:
* I was very excited to see a loss on the scale this morning. Of course weighing in means that I failed on my monthly weigh in, but I am hoping that the more conscious I am about what that number means (or doesn't mean) then the better mentally I can handle this.

* I picked up the apartment today and had some help from my step daughter Leah. She picked up the kids bedroom while I tackled our bedroom, the living room, the patio and I started the laundry.

* Which reminds me that I need to change over the loads and make a dent in the piles sitting in the hallway.

* To keep the laundry theme going, it amazes me how much laundry can pile up in a week. Especially when there are five of us here instead of the normal three.

* Tomorrow is the start to my training for my new position and the day that my promotion goes through (including pay increase). I'm excited to learn the position, but I know that it's going to be A LOT of information condensed into a small amount of time. That's a little nerve wracking because sometimes it takes me a little longer to pick up on things. But I bought a notebook and I plan on writing everything down so that I can look back and do things right the first time. I am so grateful for this opportunity.

* I went to the gym tonight and rode the stationary bike for a little over an hour (65 minutes). I ended up burning just over 700 calories and the most exciting part... I went for 18.05 miles! I have really been into keeping track of distances and certain milestones. To date, this was my longest bike ride.

* I bought sweet potatoes at the grocery store yesterday and Patrick was nice enough to stick one in the oven while he made hamburgers for dinner. It was amazing and they will be a permanent staple on my grocery list from now on. A little butter and brown sugar. Delicious and really healthy for you (maybe not so much the butter and brown sugar, but it needs some flavor)...

* I am in love with my patio. I wish it was bigger, but I could sit outside forever and just enjoy the flowers and plants. I sometimes I wish I had more extra time to just sit out there with a glass of wine and a good book. Mmmmm... wine.

* I sent Patrick and Kaleb out to hit a bucket of golf balls tonight so that the girls could have movie night. We picked a kid friendly movie- A Cinderella Story. I only wish I had saved the calories for some popcorn.

* Isabel starts swim lessons tomorrow. I am a little concerned about how that's going to pan out. She is afraid of drowning, so at five years old she still wears floaties and screams when we try to get her to swim by herself. She panics and that's the worst thing she can do. This is her 5th time in this lesson group. All of the kids in her class are younger than her and all of the other kids in the prior 4 classes have graduated to the next set of classes. I know that at some point this swimming thing will just click, so I'm trying not to be too concerned, but it is a little worrisome.