May 1

Day one of my month-long habit building challenge. Started the day doing the 30 Day Shred w/ManDork. Muscles feel like jelly now. I added two bracelets to my bracelet habit system, a white one to represent my daily session with Jillian Michaels, and a purple one to represent that I’ve taken my vitamins {as well as having given Lucy her vit D}. I’m really proud of myself for doing the Shred even though I’m fighting off a cold. It’s been hard to motivate myself to care about fitness and healthy eating lately. But, despite having my ass kicked by that workout, I feel really good. I feel good about myself for having done it. I feel confident that I can ditch all this baby weight. And I feel more awake.

Breakfast {388 calories}:

• 2 glasses water
• 2 pieces whole wheat French toast topped with
• 1/2 cup strawberries and
• 1/2 cup banana
• vitamins

Lunch {394 calories}:

• 1 cup homemade sweet potato fries
• 1 glass water
• 1/2 cup strawberries
• 1 leftover piece of French toast, plain

Snack {382 calories}”

• 25 chocolate teddy grahams shared w/Lucy
• 1 banana
• 1 more piece of plain French toast

Dinner {419 calories}:

• 1/2 quesadilla made with low-fat cheese, chicken, and mushrooms
• 1 glass water
• 1 cup raw red pepper strips
• 1 square dark chocolate

Snack {182 calories}:

• Special K w/skim milk
• 3 strawberries

Total Calories Count: 1765 {within acceptable range of 1500-1800}

 

The 2010 MS Walk

It’s almost time.

I try to participate in the MS Walk every year, in honor of my mother. It’s a cause that matters greatly to me. And I would love your help.

This year I’m hoping to raise at least $1,000. If all 328 of my Blogger followers gave just $4 that would be more than enough. See? Even small donations can make a big difference! So, if you’re able, please consider sponsoring me. Not able to donate? That’s OK. You can still help me out by blogging, tweeting, and sharing on Facebook. Any help at all will mean a lot to me, and to the MS Society.

I’m sure you’ll be hearing from me about the MS Walk a few more times between now and the date of my local walk. Consider this a “kick-off” post.

And, just FYI, I will make a blog signature for anyone who donates $10 dollars or more and provides a valid e-mail address in their online donation form. You’ll have to select the “name and amount” option to receive your free signature. Or, if you donate $15 dollars or more you can choose between a free signature or one month of advertising space on Domestic Dork {provide an e-mail address and select “name and amount”}. And everyone who donates {again, you’ll need to provide an e-mail address in the form”} has the option of being added to an “Honor Blog Roll.” The blog roll will be left in my sidebar on Domestic Dork for 3 months and then left indefinitely on the blog page {see the “blogs” button in my menu on the left side of my Domestic Dork blog}.

Thanks for reading this, and thanks in advance and from the bottom of my heart for any donations and/or help spreading the word.

Getting Back On The Wagon

Time to get back on the wagon because, well, obviously, I fell off. I haven’t been journaling my food. I haven’t been counting calories. I haven’t been exercising {which I need to do even when I don’t get comments on the blog}. And I may, or may not, have been unable to resist sampling my homework for my cake decorating class. Seeing as I’m tired of being disappointed with myself, and it’s about to be the start of a brand new month this seemed like a good time to recommit.

My goal of drinking three glasses of water a day for 30 days was a big success. I used some of the Habitwise bracelets I won in a giveaway. There website doesn’t seem to be working this morning. But basically it’s a bunch of simple, different colored bracelets that you move from one wrist to the other to indicated having had a serving from that food group {or in my case, having had water}. You can use bracelets to track all sorts of things really…which side you last nursed your baby on, if you’ve exercised yet that day, whatever you can think of really. I don’t recommend buying the Habitwise bracelets. One of mine broke. And you can use any style bracelets you like, even different colored pony tail holders if you’d like. But I do recommend the concept. There’s no way, with my ADD, that I would have been able to keep track of my water habit without them. I couldn’t rely on writing them down because, honestly, I could {and would} get distracted on my way to the calendar to mark my tally. The bracelets were always with me no matter where I was getting my water. And after 30 days of building the habit it’s still going. I’ve gotten used to *not* being dehydrated so I want to drink my water.

Since the 30 day habit challenge seemed to work so well I think it’s time to do it again, but step it up a notch. So, for the next 30 days {in addition to continuing to drink water regularly} here’s what I’m going to do:

• count calories
• do The 30 Day Shred

Gaaaaaah…the 30 Day Shred {30DS} kicked my ass last time I did it. But, as hard as it was, and as much as I hated it at times, it was a great thing to have done. It whipped me into much better shape than I had been in for quite some time. And it wasn’t too long after doing it that I ran my first mile since high school. Seeing as I still want to someday run that marathon I need to get back on track to building a running habit. I could do a couch to 5k program, but the 30DS worked well for me, and is easy to keep track of {simple 20 minutes a day, every day, for 30 days}. After it’s done I’ll figure out the running schedule {not that I’m ruling out running during the month of may…we did just buy a new-to-us jogging stroller after all}.

And, as for counting calories. It was a little bit of work, but it worked…until I stopped. So, back on the wagon I climb. *fingers crossed*

Tuesday Food Journal

Breakfast:

• 1 bagel w/low-fat cream cheese
• 1 glass water
• a few segments from a Clementine

Snack:

• some ruined cake {I will stab you with a spatula if you ask me to explain how the cake got ruined}
• skim milk

Late, late dinner:

• 2 glasses water
• 3 scrambled eggs

Monday Food Journal

Breakfast:

• 1 1/2 bowls Special K RB w/skim milk

Snack:

• Cheerios {thanks, Lucy}
• 1 WW lemon cake
• 1 glass water

Lunch:

• leftover spaghetti w/asparagus, mushroom, onion, and sausage
• 1 glass water

Snack:

• 1/2 bagel with cream cheese

Dinner:

• oven roasted potatoes/carrots/onions with evoo and seasoning

Snack:

• cake top {shared w/Adam}

Thursday Food Journal

Breakfast:

• 1 glass water
• 1 bagel w/homemade sausage, cheese, and scrambled egg

Lunch:

• 1 bowl Special K RB w/skim milk

Snack:

• 1 banana shared w/Lucy
• 1 WW lemon cake

Dinner:

• 2 small leftover tacos
• 2 glasses water

Snack:

• 1 banana
• 1 apple pastry
• some of my “failed” test cake

Wednesday

Breakfast:

• Special K w/skim milk and sliced banana

Lunch:

• 1 glass water
• vitamins
• 1 “Slimfast” w/skim milk

Snack:

• some leftover Easter ham
• 1 bowl Special K Red Berries w/skim milk
• 1 piece whole wheat bread share w/Lucy
• 1 chocolate covered cherry

Dinner:

• 1 glass water
• 2 small lentil tacos w/homemade salsa {with beans, veggies, etc.}, cheese, and lettuce

Snack:

• 1 WW lemon cake
• 1 1/2 glasses water