Fitness Fridays Health Club #5: drink your Water!

[Rachel]

today i'm making a salad. Romaine Lettuce, Carrots, tomatos, and more with italian dressing.

Since salads are a mainstay of my diet, I was wondering *What's in your salad?*

Mine have baby spinach or Romaine lettuce, sliced baby carrots, chopped red onion, sliced mushrooms, and pieces of Italian tomatos. Sometimes I will add a few chopped almonds.

My other favorite is Romaine lettuce with fresh pears.

I love my salads, but I would like to add some variations now and then.

[christa]

Since salads are a mainstay of my diet, I was wondering *What's in your salad?*

Good question! I'd like to hear some new ideas too!

My salad is usually the same - Baby Spinach, broccoli, cucumbers, grape tomatoes, bell peppers & onions (for hubby, I usually pick them out), carrot pieces, egg & feta cheese.

I like the idea of almond pieces! That sounds good!

[beeniesmom]

Whooohoooo guys, do I feel good today.
My pants are getting loose!

I did sit-ups yesterday and took two with Frankie.
I changed my mind about the belly dance lessons. I think I will get my bike in the garage fixed and go biking early in the morning or later in the evenings.

I had yogurt, a boiled egg and some oatmeal for breakfast.
Today for lunch will be Minestrone soup with some vinegar carrots on the side.
Dinner will be pasta.... yes, just a little with a light sauce and lots of zucchini. I never made the zucchini last night. Just tuna steak and salad.

Keep it up guys!

[Rachel]

I was watching Imus In The Morning and Billy Jo Shaver was on today. The last song he did was *If At First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try, Again* I thought of us!

[beeniesmom]

We should take "before" pictures so we can post the before and after in a couple of months.

[Almita]

Since salads are a mainstay of my diet, I was wondering *What's in your salad?*

Mine have baby spinach or Romaine lettuce, sliced baby carrots, chopped red onion, sliced mushrooms, and pieces of Italian tomatos. Sometimes I will add a few chopped almonds.

My other favorite is Romaine lettuce with fresh pears.

I love my salads, but I would like to add some variations now and then.

I have Romaine Lettuce, Spinach, Carrots, tomatos, red onions, grilled chicken, cucumbers, and parmesan cheese, and for the dressing i put italian dressing.

[buckner]

Since salads are a mainstay of my diet, I was wondering *What's in your salad?*

My salads will vary, depending on what I have in the fridge or in the baskets. My favourite salad consists of Romaine lettuce, baby spinch, sliced carrots, chopped tomatoes, bell peppers, broccoli, red onion, cucumbers, celery, and fat free italian dressing. We never buy mushrooms, for some reason, but when I'm out, I LOVE mushrooms, black olives, and garbonzo beans. MMMM.

We should take "before" pictures so we can post the before and after in a couple of months.

Yes, definitely take before photos! Even if you don't post them, you'll really appreciate them once you take "after" photos and you can really see the change. For me, I didn't really see myself changing because I saw myself everyday. But, when I looked at pictures, I was SO excited that my body was changing.


Last week, my dad asked me to go to the store and get something sweet. He said he wanted something of the icecream variety AND something of the pastry variety. Well, my sweet tooth got the best of me at the store and I went nuts. Thus, me not doing good that day. BUT! This is a new week, and I've already gone down. It proves the statement that one bad day won't kill you.

I had a bowl of puffed wheat cereal and a little vanilla soymilk for breakfast. And then pickles. Yes, odd, but I was STARVING when I woke up this morning and pickles sounded so good. So I gave it a little time, and then ate a few pickle spears. For lunch, we went to Dooleys. It's a Bagel and Deli shop. It's delicious! But I had a vegetarian deli sandwich on a spinach bagel. Not the most ideal lunch, but it was healthy. The spinch bagel was topped with vegetable cream cheese (that'll come back to haunt me), lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, and green peppers. It was SOOO good, and I'm no longer starving. I went to bed really hungry cos I was up so late, so when I woke up, I was wanting to eat everything. Instead, I paced myself with my meals. Not sure what I'm having for dinner.

Oh, and what I really like are sugar free popsicles, especially of the Kroger brand variety. They're only 15 calories each, and SO good. I love the banana pops, but all of them are good! Satisfy my dessert craving after meals.

I definitely need to start drinking more water. I was doing so good while I was working - I was constantly drinking on the job. But now, I'm just not drinking a lot of it. I'll try to step that up.

Two weeks until vacation, four weeks until school. We'll see how long it takes me to whip my butt into shape.