Snack Food!!

From the Eat This, Not That website. :)

Snacking is good. Thank God!!

50 Best Snack Foods

~ M

E-Food Journal

I've linked this website before, but now that I'm making a very conscious effort to post food and exercise every day, I'm going to relink it to you all.

My friends Maria and Lisa are my support on this site which has been fabulous. I haven't posted my weight gain and loss because I fluctuate 5lbs up or down every week. It's too disheartening to post! LoL.

Lose It

I hate saying that I'm disgusted with the way I look, but I really am getting to that point. But I must not hate myself TOO much because I still can't drag myself to the gym. I just wish I had a private indoor pool to swim in every day. Oh how wonderful that would be!

Anyhow, now that I'm back from multiple conferences and travel, my eating schedule can go somewhat back to normal. As such, I want to share a Meg Recipe with you for my own Pepperoni Panini! It's a great, fast lunch food that keeps me fairly full!

Pepperoni Panini
Calories: 290

Ingredients:
- Nature's Promise 90 Calorie multi-grain flatbread
- 5 small slices of pepperoni (lean or turkey)
- 2 slices low-fat provolone or mozzarella cheese
- 1tsp of marinara or pasta sauce (I use Prego 5 cheese or garden)

Make sammy out of ingredients and place in microwave for 30-45 seconds.
That's it! :) Enjoy!

~M

Lazy Blogger... Lazy Exerciser

All of it is falling by the wayside it seems... and not the pounds. LoL. The semester is in the final stretch and as such so am I. I haven't posted on any of my blogs much lately, so for that I am sorry. I did come across a very cool website for sneaky ways to burn calories!

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/8-sneaky-ways-to-burn-calories-without-sweating-2468566/

I have been taking stairs more frequently (but still not all the time). My eating habits are MUCH better minus my three lattes (with skim mind you) a week. And I've been doing crunches and yoga stretches most mornings to wake up...

But I'm not getting any smaller.

Actually I'm seeing MORE fat rolls and stretch marks! ICK! It's bad enough that I only see my boyfriend once every few months and I'm just getting wider and wider with each trip... but I'm also going to be part of two weddings this summer. TWO. I need to look good in TWO sets of photos by July. Plus a trip to the islands in early August to top it off (which is awesome but that means a bathing suit needs to be purchased).

Maybe I've reached the point of no return? The women in my family (minus my beautiful sister) are all on the thick side. Though I was naturally rail thin up to my sophomore year of college, I am not losing any weight or toning up at all. And sadly I come up with as many excuses as possible to avoid the gym. My first qualm is that I'm so busy that when I have downtime I want to REST, not work out. The next is that I tend to see already skinny, fit people at the gym. That's not good incentive for showing up and having my flab bounce around on a treadmill in front of the beautiful people. And finally, it's exhausting. I do suppose if I stuck to it I would be less exhausted, but I don't enjoy it. Some people love to work out. I'm not one of them. I used to love sports and swimming, but sitting on a stationary bike or panting on an elliptical has never been enticing to me.

I'm my own lazy, chubby worst enemy! :(

~ M