Surviving Fast Food

Sometimes you don't have time in the morning to pack a nutritious lunch! You get up late, you are rushing and you have to get out the door!!

What do I do on those days?!?!?

Chick-Fil-A for one!! See exhibit A:


What do we have here?
4 count nugget kids meal with fruit cup and large diet coke plus a side salad
4 ct nugget - 130 calories
Small fruit cup - 50 calories
Side salad - 70 calories
I use about 1/4 of a chick- Fil-a sauce pkg (35 calories) and a very small amount of ranch dressing (35 calories)

What I do with the salad is put a small amount of dressing and then put the lid on and shake vigorously!!! If I eat at a restaurant I get dressing on the side and dip my fork in dressing, shake most off the fork and then add a bite of salad to the fork. This really helps save me from high fat calories. At the same time I am not depriving myself of the flavor I love! Same with the CFA sauce. I barely put any on my chicken, but just that little bit really adds flavor.

So that whole meal is only 320 calories. BUT if you over do the dressing or sauce that alone could add up to 320 calories!! It's those little things that really add up!!

Now - I do confess that although I gave up diet coke for about a month in January - I have been drinking it lately :( I know it isn't good for you but it really seems to help me feel full! So I will keep that crutch for now!!

Check back for future fast food healthier choice options!!

FYI - down 6 pounds last week and 2 this week! Which just puts me back at 101 pounds lost - but at least heading in the right direction again!!!


Andrea

Getting my Curves on

I started my weight loss journey May 12th 2012. I have lost right at 100 pounds but the loss had really been slowing. So in January I joined Curves.

I had been walking before that, about 2.5 miles at least 3 times per week but really felt I needed to add some resistance training as well!! It has been great but my weight has still not been coming off thanks to too much food intake - I traveled a lot this month plus Spring Break. I know these are excuses - and I am not proud of that - but those are the facts.

Starting this past Monday at our local Curves we started a Biggest Loser contest! I am super competitive so I am hopeful this going to give me some additional incentive to go hard core and stay on track with both calorie intake (only 1200-1400 calories per day) and physical activity!!

The weather is beautiful but I have been having a hard time squeezing in walks due to my son's sports schedule - another excuse!! Starting next week I blocked off time on my work calendar for my Curves workout on Mon/Wed/Fri!! No more excuse to miss there!!

Stay tuned for some before and current pictures as well as some great recipes I have used over the last 10 months to help me lose 100 pounds!!


Andrea

Vitamix

So - at SAMs club yesterday we came across this infomercial style presentation for the Vitamix. My hubby is a sucker for a salesman and thus we went home with one of these beauties.

This is a Mac daddy blender! It can make an awesome smoothie! We had a strawberry banana one at the store that they had added squash and carrots to and it was relish.

It can also make and heat soup. When something is mixed for a long time (5 plus minutes) the friction heats it. So we had Tortilla Soup at SAMs as well (not me because I dont like that but you get the point).


On our way home we HAD to pick up the ingredients to make fresh salsa and guacamole!!! We ran home, opened the box and whipped up this fresh stuff:



Yum!!! Welcome to the family Vitamix!!

Check it out here:
http://www.vitamix.com/

Andrea

Getting back on the bandwagon . . .

So - since May 12 2011 I had lost 100 pounds!! Over the last few weeks I had really lost my motivation!! I gained about 5 pounds!! Now, I am getting back on the band wagon!! Back to logging on myfitness pal, back to curves, back to walking, back to cooking healthy every night, back to meal planning for the week ( if you don't plan for success you usually fail), back to FAT loss!! I am also going to add blogging to my list! Hopefully this will add a level of accountability for me and inspire others!! I want to lose at least another 80 pounds. So, join me on this journey!!  Andrea