Week 4 Journal Entry

A day in the life of Kristi and Jay's weight loss journey:

Starting with breakfast, we (and by we, I mean I, Kristi) prepare breakfast and lunch. I record our food in a log as I prepare it on a journal that stays on the kitchen counter until we enter it in the body bugg system. Jay typically has an egg mcmuffin type sandwich with 2 egg whites, fat free cheese and whole wheat english muffin. I have different things every morning, from cereal to wheat eggos but typically I have oatmeal, milk and splenda.

Jay usually eats a wrap with turkey and dijon mustard (NO MAYO!), light yogurt, light string cheese, and fruit. I have a sandwhich on Arnold Sandwhich thins (VERY tasty and good for hamburgers, too) or a frozen low fat burrito. I like to snack so I have a variety of things like 100 calorie popcorn, fruit, light lays potato chips and weight watchers chocolate. :)

We work and then usually meet at the gym around 5 pm and work out for 1.5 hours. We go home and eat dinner. We enjoy a variety of foods like tilapia and veggies, spagetti (very carefully measured!), salmon, quesadillas, grilled cheese and tomato soup. We only eat out about 1 time a week and it usually is Chipotle or Subway since these are the only really heathy choices available for a cheap budget.

We plug in our buggs for an hour to give our arms a break and upload our calories burned. We see where we are in our calories, fats, carbs and proteins and what we need to change for the next day in our diet and/or exercise to meet our goals.

To drink we usually have water with a Crystal Light mix in like pink lemonade or tea, but we have also discovered Welch's grape juice mix in and we really enjoy it.

We sleep with our body buggs on and start all over the next day.

THIS WEEK

We went to DC to see the cherry blossoms on Saturday. We walked from a parking lot far far away to the Jefferson memorial then to the Lincoln memorial. We walked at a good pace for about 2.5 hours. I told Jay I was sure we had walked for 3-6 miles since we usually do a 20 min. mile easily walking. We were tired especially from the drive, but we decided to do our normal workout for 30 minutes when we got home. We felt surprisingly refreshed after our workout since we had been in the car for about 6 hours that day.

Moral of this story: WALK! It does a body good.