I <3 Oatmeal

I have truly rediscovered my love for oatmeal. Last year, I was making this oatmeal that involved butter, apples, brown sugar and cinnamon; I think my new version is a little healthier. It is also a near carbon copy of Kath's oatmeal on KERF, but hey, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?

With my normal habit of getting stuck on a recipe, I made the taco turkey stew with quinoa again last night. It was so easy to chop everything up, stick on the stove and shower after kickboxing while it simmered away. Note: I wouldn't recommend doing this unless you have a nice roommate who is willing to give it a stir once or twice while you run off to the shower.

We had leftover pizza in the fridge but I have managed to avoid gorging myself on it. I did eat far too many Girl Scout trefoils last night but hopefully still managed to preserve my calorie deficit.

Today's meals:
Breakfast: old-fashioned oatmeal prepared with skim milk, water, cinnamon and a diced pear; topped with almond butter and honey
Lunch: leftover quinoa stew, half a VERY large apple
afternoon snack: the rest of the apple
Dinner: undecided

Thinking about ditching the crutch

When I first lost 30 pounds, I didn't use Weight Watchers. I used a free calorie counter online. And I'm frankly thinking that I shouldn't be spending all this money each month for something that I only use to log points. I could easily switch over to putting all my food on here, or maybe on PeerTrainer again.

What do you think, Internet? Or do you think I'll go crazy without WW?

Like my mom says, sometimes you have to get rid of something before you find out that you really need it. I just cancelled it. We'll see how things go...

Only two more hours until I'm off to kickboxing class. There's a Wednesday night bootcamp class I'm tempted to try, but I think that 3 days in a row of such high intensity stuff might be too much for me.

Fidel steps down, and so does my scale

It's a weird day all around, everyone. My daily weigh-in was 151.0 lbs (I should go to bed feeling slightly hungry more often). I'm pretty sure this is an outlier.

I'm getting a free lunch today; to offset the calories, I'm going to pick whatever vegan option is offered. I also brought healthy snacks to keep points low, all of which should be core foods. I think that we're going to try and get to the gym a little before kickboxing tonight so that we can do some weights. Since I'll be wearing a swimsuit soon, it seems like the right thing to do.

Daily goalsetting has been lacking of late, so here goes:
1. Go to kickboxing
2. Focus on core foods
3. Drink lots of water

Breakfast: simple harvest oatmeal
Snacks: apple, cup of grapefruit slices, FiberOne bar
Lunch: free lunch, apparently will be sandwiches
Dinner: taco turkey stew w/quinoa (recipe from GreenLiteBites)

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Evening update:
Things went really well today, I think. I treated myself to a Wyder's pear cider with dinner, and I LOVED the recipe from GreenLiteBites. Fortunately, I had leftover squash before it finished cooking or I might have inhaled half of the entire pot. I have plenty of leftovers for lunch.

Kickboxing was SO HARD tonight. She did so many high intensity intervals in a row that I thought my heart was going to shoot out my chest. If she does it again, I'm going to have to say something. Everyone in the class was half-heartedly doing stuff and she kept saying, "Come on, ladies!" (I might have glared at her a little, but COME ON. If my super-fit friend is sucking air, we need a second in between squat-jumps and mountain climbers to let our heartrates slow.)

The death of a dry-fit shirt

In high school, my gym teacher required that we wear cotton socks and cotton shirts to work out in.

Yeah, that wasn't so great! A girl like me sweats a lot when she works out (I try to push myself pretty hard in almost every workout) and I prefer the wicking capabilities of higher tech fabrics than cotton.

Sadly, it became apparent last night at kickboxing that one of my older shirts, a much beloved running shirt from Adidas, is no longer wicking. How apparent: Sweat Patches! Ugh. Fortunately, I believe in rewarding myself. Fortunately, I am trying to reward myself with everything but food. Therefore, I will be rewarding myself with a new workout tee when I reached 152 lbs, which is the weight I was before my weight jumped six pounds in a month.

This morning's weigh-in: 154.0. (it was 153.4, but that was on the carpeted floor. I was so excited that I had to doublecheck on the bathroom floor, and OF COURSE it was wrong. Oh well.)

I might be switching up my plan for this week. Kickboxing yesterday focused on our butts, and since I was already sore from my lower body workout the day before it was torturous! Also, my normal winter sinus problems *might* be morphing into a winter cold. My new plan for tonight is to drink decaf tea and stay warm. If I feel better this afternoon I will do something light, like a slower-than-usual walk or some yoga.

Happy weight loss to everyone!