Day 84: Off to Alabama

Yesterday was a good day, in part for finding out about the scale – yay! I went out to lunch for a friend’s birthday, and while I had too much bread/butter – I did eat healthy with salmon and a plain baked potato. YUM! It was super filling too so I didn’t eat much more than a lean cuisine – but I DID eat a lot of M&Ms on my way to Alabama!! Me, my mom and my sister all rode down together – fun! The boys (our husbands) and the puppers are coming later tonight. It was great to get back home but I was EXHAUSTED. It’s hard to get out of Atlanta for the holidays and it took us a while to get out of town. I wasn’t able to gym it yesterday, but I did take a good bit of time planning my meals for my visit, shopping and measuring/packing everything. I’m definitely letting Thanksgiving lunch be open but for all of the other meals I planned ahead – yay! And today, me and my sister went to the gym and walked 3 miles (mixed it up with lots of incline) and did a short upper body circuit for shoulders, biceps, triceps and chest. Good stuff! At the end of yesterday I was at 1,548 calories, 177 carbs and 55 fat grams – not bad! Here’s what I ate.

On another note – my mom told me she’s worried my face is getting too thin – like it’s starting to look a little “hollowed” and I was beginning to get shadows around my cheeks. I couldn’t tell at all – but appreciated her telling me. She suggested I get to my goal weight, since I’m only a few pounds away (today I weighed 118), but to definitely not lose any more. Which is fine – because I’m really ready to start toning up more anyway with more strength training and mixing it up with stuff like spin class!! Anyway, I was glad she told me because I definitely want to look (and be) healthy. I might look into upping my calories soon and doing less cardio??? I don't know - help!

Anyway – I’m off to go make citrus soy salmon with the family (they’re all going to try it, too!). Happy Thanksgiving – talk to you tomorrow!!