Week Three - Monday - Mariah

Katie, I think you're beautiful in your before pictures! I'm so proud of you for going to the gym!! I'll be doing more "gym" type stuff at home :)

So last night I did a 1 mile "walk" with my DVD. It was just what I needed because my body was a little sore from the tahitian cardio workout that I did.

Started out the morning with a small bowl of raisin bran. Kai stole most of my raisins. And this is so bad but I snuck in a Reeses peanut butter cup. Tsk tsk.

For lunch I had a lean cuisine carbonara pasta. It was ok. I took a bite of the kids' mac-n-cheese too.

I had a really yummy apple for snack and some swigs of Kefir.

Dinner was brown rice with chili. I had a small portion because the fat content of the chili was pretty high.

Treat: some dark chocolate bunny and then... *sigh* I snuck in another dang peanut butter cup. At least there's no more in the house! NO WILL POWER!

And now it's 10pm and I was hungry again. I ate a tortilla with peanut butter and honey on it. I think it would have been a better choice if I had whole grain bread. I think I need to get some whole grain tortillas. Add that to the list!

I also ordered the Zumba DVD's so I can do them at home when the babies are sleeping. And I have a Jillian Michael's "Shred" DVD coming on Netflix so I can try it out. My cousin swears by that one. She started at 247 and she's 198 now.

On a more personal note, I am trying to convince Peter to go back to school to get his RN. We just really need the money to plan for our future and the kids' future. Did you know he's an LVN? He just hasn't worked as a nurse since 2002. So I'm hoping that I can convince him - wish me luck!

Tuesday is technically my "cheat" day, but since I was so bad on Easter I think I'll eat healthy on Tuesday this week. While the kids are in school, Peter and I are going to try to put together some of the new swing set!!

I'm off to do some pushups - hopefully I can do 30 today. I started out being able to do FIVE.