Sorry I didn’t get to post yesterday, it was a busy-busy day at work.  I was having a bit of a down day due to frustrations with the scale and how it refuses to budge no matter what I seem to do.  I did what any smart stubborn idiotic woman does and had a pint of Ben & Jerry’s for dinner as a big EFF YOU to the scale.  That was productive, wasn’t it?  Once I finished the pint, and felt horribly disgusting, I read THIS post by Bella and it prompted me to head straight to the grocery store and get my meals ready for the week.  My fridge now looks like this (camera phone picture):

Breakfasts, snacks and lunches all prepared and ready to go.  I just need to take one of each and I’m ready for the day.  Dinners require more creativity, but 75% of my day is already!

Healthy You Challenge Update-Over all I did well with food this week, with the exception of yesterday.  Because of the work trip last week I did a lot of guestimating on food items.  I did the best I could those days and it was by far the healthiest business trip to date.  I worked out most of the days that I was out there, which I am proud of.  This past weekend was in the 50’s each day and it was sunny so I got in a couple of really nice long walks which felt amazing!

Some updates:

28,000 Calories in 28 Days:  Even with one day of not tracking (counted 0 calories towards goal that day) and one day of ice-cream for dinner, I still wound up with a 29,306 calorie deficit for the month of February.  This in theory equates to what should have been an 8.37 pound loss.  Not so much.  I did the right things, so I’m going to try to not focus on what the scale says.

3,000,000 Steps in 2011: 2/22-2/28/2011 I got in 74,629 steps (8 steps more than last week…hello consistency!)  Still way ahead of my goal of 8,000 steps per day.  This week was just sort of blah with steps.  Some days were super high, and then there were a couple of low ones. I had two 15,000 plus days and then one day that I didn’t even hit 6,500.

• Steps this week: 74,629
• Average per day: 10,661
• Highest Day this week: 15,382 (2/25)
• Lowest Day this week: 6,473 (Monday 2/28-my Debbie Downer Day)
• Steps so far this year: 580,394
• Steps to goal: 2,419,977
• Days left in 2011: 305

#7daychip : Technically I did finish my quest for my second #7daychip but I wouldn’t call it pretty.  There was a lot of estimating during those 7 days due to eating in restaurants that I couldn’t find nutritional information on.

Now that two of my personal challenges are done, what’s next? It’s sort of a two-fer since they go hand in hand.

#30daychip: I’m joining in to try to earn my first #30daychip (which is an extension of the #7daychip).  For the next 30 days, I’m going to, regardless of what I eat, track my food AND average a 1,000 calorie deficit per day.  Since it’s a 31 day month and it’s only a #30daychip, my goal is to hit the 31,000 calorie deficit by the 30^th of the month!  After having done so well in February, I know I can do it.  Eventually the scale will catch up right?

It’s not too late to enter my 500^th Post Giveaway!!!

If you haven’t already read it, Bella has a great post that verbalizes exactly how I was feeling yesterday, you should check it out!