Incremental goals

Happy Monday! (said no one, ever. lol) I hope you had a good weekend. We had a super nice trip down to the beach to visit friends & family.

Friday I weighed 175.8, this morning I was 176.6. My jeans are too big. I remember on my trip to San Francisco a million years ago I had 2 pair of jeans that I packed - I weighed right around 175 on that trip (I think). My plan is to find those jeans and try them on as soon as I dip below 175 - so there's a nice motivation. And 172 represents 50 pounds gone - another tremendous milestone! So weight-wise, a couple of notable milestones hitting soon.

For my kettlebell workouts, I've reached a point where my workout is equal work to rest (it's been that way for quite some time), with my longest work period being 20 swings - 30 seconds. This week I am bumping up my workout to include a set of 5 intervals which are 40 swings for 60 seconds - so a longer period of continuous work, even though the duration of the workout and number of swings remains the same. So that's another milestone.

Today and tomorrow are teacher workdays and T is off - which is good since he is still feeling under the weather. It's a break for me as well - I am generally in charge of breakfast and lunch and he takes dinner since he gets home first. This morning I only had to fend for myself.

I used my extra time to weigh & measure all my food! After that exercise last week, I decided to try tweaking my caloric intake down some.

AM: 2 cups coffee with half n half and 1 prune: 100 calories
Breakfast: Boiled egg (70 cal), plain Greek yogurt with 1 T each PB2 and cocoa powder, and a stevia packet - 135 calories toppings 1 T each raw oats, muesli, and chopped walnuts (100 calories)
AM snack: cheese stick, 1 mandarin orange (120)
Lunch: homemade chicken pot pie soup (300), salad with homemade ranch (100)
Afternoon snack: 12 almonds & mandarin orange (110)
Dinner: ground beef stroganoff with regular and zucchini noodles, broccoli ??
evening snack: ??

I'll figure the rest out later, but I'm aiming for no more than 400 calories for dinner and 100 calories after - which would put me at 1600 calories for the day. I'll figure it out and see where I land.

Have a good day!