Monday & Tuesday

Well, this week was really hard for me so far. Not in the food area, but more with Diggity. When I left to go to work on Monday and had to put him in his crate he gave me such a sad look! It was like he was saying, “What did I do?! Why can’t I come with you!?” Poor pup! I cried all the way to work, and worried all day, trying to shake the need  to go home and check on him. He needs to get used to being alone for 6 hours. I hope I only have to crate him for a few weeks until he gets the routine down.

When I FINALLY got home, he was SO excited to see me! It was almost like, “YOU CAME BACK! YOU CAME BACK! YAYYYYYYYYY!!!” Hahaha, he even gave a little excited pee on the floor in the house. I took him out for a nice hour-long walk to the pharmacy to pick-up a few prescriptions, and when we got back we played for about another half-hour. He quickly passed out after that! I’m glad he was okay and didn’t hate me for leaving him!

Here’s what Monday looked like food-wise:

Breakfast– Protein Shake; coffee (240 calories)
Lunch– Turkey club from Finagle (unknown– but I’m going to shoot for 550)
Snack– Baked Lays & Diet Coke (140 calories)
Dinner — Chicken Jambalaya; 3 Coors Light (555 calories)
Total: 1385 calories

Tuesday, Diggity did much better with getting into his crate. He sat down and looked at me as I put my coat on after I got him in. He got in a lot easier too. I got A LOT of work done at work today, as well,  and that was a plus. I wasn’t worried too much about him like I was yesterday. I also got to go over and visit mom in the hospital over lunch. Fortunately she was being discharged, so she’s home now. One less thing to stress over!

Tuesday:
Breakfast– Protein Shake; 16 oz coffee with coffeemate (165 calories)
Lunch– Small salad with FF dressing; Salsa Chicken; Egg roll; Diet Coke (645 calories)
Dinner– 2 slices pizza (500 calories)
Total:  1310 calories

So, seems like I’m staying between 1300 to 1400 calories per day. Not too bad, but I need to get it down to 1200/day max. Though, as far as activity is concerned, I’ve taken an hour long walk with Diggity on both Monday & Tuesday nights. It’s pretty much the only exercise I can do right now. I’m hoping tomorrow to get over to Healthworks to signup. I’m switching from Boston Sports Club over to Healthworks because I think the women’s only thing is better for me. For someone who’s very self-conscious, I think I can get more out of my workout without worrying why someone is looking at me, and constantly thinking that they’re all looking at me, saying, “What’s the fat girl doing?” Ugh. Hate that. I know it’s my imagination, but I think if I change my environment, I’ll feel better about going in there. I’m pretty excited about it too, because my friend Ali talks WONDERS about this class called “Body Pump” that they have. I’m actually really looking forward to it. I want to work it into my schedule so that I can go on my lunchbreak four times a week. If I can do that, along with walking Diggity every night for an hour, I think I’ll have my exercise down. I really hope to start dropping weight a lot more.

I also think Diggity is allergic to cigarette smoke. For those that don’t know, I am a smoker. It’s something I hate, but I’m really not in the position in life to quit right now. With graduate school finishing up next semester, trying to drop weight for Mexico and weddings this summer, and work, I don’t think I can add the stress of quitting smoking. It would be setting myself up for failure– either life-wise (that Tobin bridge does look great!) or failing quitting and/or school. Neither of which I can mentally take right now.

I will do it. I just have to make sure I’m outside when I smoke, and away from Diggity. Though, I’m sure the vet will be better when it comes to this! Maybe his breathing like that isn’t due to my smoking. Maybe it’s just how he breathes? Wishful thinking, I think. I don’t wanna hurt  my little buddy though. He means the world to me. :-\ Decisions, decisions.

Meet Diggity!

Hi friends,

Well, he is here and he is absolutely the most adorable doggie I have ever met! This is Diggity!

Isn’t he just the most precious thing you’ve ever seen!! This is the right when I got him home, after he traveled roughly 20 hours from Georgia! I had to drive up to Windham, NH (about 40 minutes from Boston) to pick him up from the transport. He was rescued through Starbright Animal Rescue Network, which is based down in Georgia. This network of volunteers rescue dogs out of the high-kill shelters down south, and find them homes up in New England. The people I had the opportunity to interact with at true heros, and I couldn’t thank them enough for giving me the gift of Diggity!

We had a GREAT weekend! He came in on Saturday, and my brother and his fiance met me to meet him. They have two rescued pitbulls who are the sweetest pups ever, and I really wanted them there with thier experience with dogs. However, I really didn’t need it! Diggity is the most mellow, loving, quiet, snuggly dog I’ve ever met. He’s not bothered by anything or anyone (other dogs included!). He’s just a big old snuggle puppy! We had a nice evening at home, where he slept most of the night. Paul came over and met him, but he was way too tired to play. That drive must have really gotten to him!

On Sunday, we went to meet my sister, Nicole, and my other brother, Jack. They LOVED him! He is so good with new people, and loves his belly rubs! Then we went to Petco to get him a few things, and he could have cared less about the other doggies there. Then last night, we went over and met Paul’s family. They love him too! One look at that face, and how can you not love him!

Diggity is pretty house trained. He lets me know when he needs to go to the bathroom (and did this from the get-go!). And when he’s not rolling around looking for belly rubs, or trying to find somewhere to squirrel away a treat for later (he digs, it’s adorable!), he’s snoring in his fleece hoodie!

This morning, however, when I had to go to work, I had to put him in his crate. His foster mom said he had an incident when no one was home that caused him to have to go into the crate when alone. He was SO SAD when I put him in there. I was getting ready to go to work, and he thought we were going out. So he jumps down and starts wagging his tail at me, and following me around. When I put him in his crate, though, he just looked at me with these big sad eyes as if to say, “What did I do? Where are you going?” It was absolutely heartbreaking! I cried on the way to work, and I’m super sad about leaving him. I want to go check on him during my lunch break, but I don’t want him to get used to me being home at noon, because I won’t be able to do that every day. I’m hoping only a few weeks of crating him during the day will get him into the routine, but I’m going to ask his  foster mom if he had any “accidents” in the house. From what i can recall, his incident was pulling the dustruffle of the bed– which, perhaps, was from him trying to get to the cats. I’m hoping so. I don’t have a dustruffle and there’s really nothing he can get into. I hope he’s okay.

In other news, I started my crockpot blog. That will be able healthy recipes for the crockpot, meant for people who work crazy hours and are crazy busy, but are trying to keep an eye on eating healthy. That pretty much defines my life. It’s called “Crock ‘n Roll,” and you can find it at crocknroll.wordpress.com.

This weekend was a little hairy for eating healthy. Let’s start with Saturday:

Saturday:
Breakfast– Coffee with cream/sugar (120 calories)
Lunch– small fries from McDonald’s; 2 chicken nuggets; sm. diet coke (323 calories)
Dinner– Salsa Chicken! (this was DELICIOUS!) (325 calories)
Snack– Coors Light (105 calories)
Total intake: 873

Sunday:
Breakfast– Coffee with cream & sugar (120 calories)
Lunch– BK Whopper JR; 1/2 med. fries; med. diet coke (593.5 calories)
Snack– 1/2 c. corn chips (140 calories)
Dinner– Salsa Chicken (325 calories)
Dessert — Small piece of cake (425 calories)
Total calories: 1603.5 (Not a good day, obviously!)

Though my food intake this weekend wasn’t the best, I did get more exercise than I normally do. Diggity requires walks a few times a day– well, three– morning, evening, before bed. So, I’ll definitely be able to keep up with that. I did probably walk a total of a mile this weekend– not really exercise, but I guess it’s better than sitting on my duff! I really want to start planning longer evening walks. I don’t have time in the morning, but hopefully in the evening when I get home we can make a habit of this. I am also hoping that my foot pain starts going away. I’ve been wearing better sneakers for the past few days and haven’t have any twinges or flairs. Hopefully this works out, and I can get on that elliptical by the end of the week over lunch!

Have a great day!

Yay for Saturday!

I just got confirmation tonight that my LOVELY doxie will be here on Saturday night!!! I can’t even explain how excited I am! He’s probably the bestest doxie I’ve ever heard of… house-trained, crate-trained and everything. His homecoming is going to be great!

My biggest concern, however, is because he’s from Georgia, he’s never seen snow. I’m curious to his reaction, but hoping for the  best here.

In other news, I cooked a DELICIOUS dinner that was ready when I got home! Chicken Jambalaya! Totally yummy, and 245 calories per serving (19 grams per serving, and 19 grams of protein!!!). It’s pretty great! I got 6 servings out   it, and I’m really excited to eat it. Had it for dinner tonight, but will probably have it another three times this week! YAY!!!

No breakfast today. I just wasn’t hungry. I need to fix that, and make myself eat/drink a protein shake if I’m not hungry. I really need to work on breakfast and water patterns. Basically, for breakfast, I had a vanilla-mocha coffee with cream and sugar. Probably enough calories to equate a breakfast, but not in the good way. Also had a diet coke with lunch. I REALLY need more water.

Lunch was a grilled turkey and cheddar with lettuce, tomato and honey mustard, on five-grain bread, and a diet coke (20 oz.). Not good, and I know it.

Dinner was Chicken Jambalaya.. which smelled AMAZING when I got home! 1 serving, (1 cup), which equates 245 calories.

For snack I had those really bad chips I shouldn’t have, that makes you not poop…. 75 calories, total for the bag. Shouldn’t have done it, but I was craving salt so bad. I LOVE salty foods recently. Don’t really know why.

After I  got home, and eating dinner,  I probably had about 4 rum and diet cokes. That is really bad. I also should cut alcohol out of my diet. Need to start doing that ASAP! I probably hit 1600 calories tonight because of that, which is not good. I need to get that under control. That is probably number one on my list of things I need to start controlling.

On Saturday, I’m going to be receiving a doggie! I’m SO excited to come home to someone who depends on me! I think he’s the bestest ever, and I can’t wait to become his  doggie mommy!!! We’re going to be so great together, and I really think he’s going to help my inadequacies as far as drinking is concerned. I don’t think/know I’ll drink much when I know there is someone depending on me to be who I am. He’ll be there to remind me I need to be responsible, and I’m so looking forward to being the correct dog mom for him!!! I love him already!!!!

Starting tomorrow, I’m going to start photo documenting my intake, so that I can be accountable for what I take in. I’m nervous about this, but know it’s going to be good for my nutritionist in adjusting my diet, and for myself. I know if I need to take a picture of it, and post it to all of you, I’ll think twice aboutt eating that cookie! I really hope to be able to help myself in this process. My whole goal is to not only help myself (mentally), but to inspire myself mentally to change. That’s the primary goal of this blog– to keep myself accountable and to learn to love myself. I’m going through a lot of changes this year, but my primary goal is to learn how to love who I am. I want to do this, and I feel like this will be the venue in which I can do that. I’m very inspired by a fellow foodblogger, whom I went to high school with, and I hope that one day I will join her in the success that she has achieved.

Thank you for reading, and if you feel so inclined, any kind of feedback is more than appreciated! I’m a work-in-progress right now, and any kind of direction would be great!

A New Year, A New Me!

I’m very excited for 2010! I’m putting myself first for once in my life. My goal this year is to be all about self-care. I plan on losing weight, quitting smoking, and learning to live healthy, along with finishing my masters degree. Things are going to get sticky, but I know I can keep myself accountable for it. You all are invited to join the ride!

I also found out today that I will be adopting the cutest little dashchund in the world, named Diggity!!! He’ll be here this weekend, and I can’t WAIT to see him and snuggle him!!!

This is Diggity! He’s a little dachshund mix, and I’m SUPER excited to give him his forever home! I can’t wait to meet him!!! He’ll be coming up for Georgia this weekend, and I’m totally ready to greet him and give him his forever home!

Diggity is going to be great for my new lifestyle. He needs exercise, and so do I! He’ll be my little bundle of motivation, and my snuggle buddy when we get back home!

I’m back to the nutritionist on Thursday. Hopefully I’m down. We’ll see. I’m not hopeful. But I do have the slow cooker, that could help me with talking to her about nutrition. I need to get down on that… especially eating breakfast. I’m so bad at that. I suppose a minor resolution should be eating breakfast every day. I think that’s a good one.

Be back tomorrow, and let you know how I ate.  As a food blogger, I want to start documenting my eating to keep myself accountable for my food. It’s a new year, and a new me!

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