My pool league that is!!! I can't wait. It just gets so long and drawn out at the end of the year.
So yesterday was pretty good. Had an english muffin with swiss cheese for breakfast with some juice and coffee. Then for lunch it was the good old cold cut sandwich and some 99% FF clam chowder soup. I was hungry when I got home so I had a bowl of salad and some string cheese, worth 100 calories total. Then I knew I wouldn't be able to resist the pizza at pool so I stopped there. I had only eaten a little over 1000 calories before pool so I really don't feel too bad about the 3 pieces of sheet pizza I ate. Especially being they were only half covered with cheese.
I'm really hungry today though for some reason. Hopefully it's because I'm pregnant again, but we'll see. TOM is supposed to be here tomorrow.
Sorry I haven't been posting on anyone's blogs, my heads kind of been in a fog lately and I can't really concentrate on much. I hope you're all having a wonderful week!
I didn't eat bad or anything, but it just wasn't a good day.
I had a wonderful breakfast. Whole-wheat English muffin with 1oz of swiss cheese and a grapefruit with splenda (umm I love grapefruit). Then the salad and sandwich for lunch. But around 2:30 my water started giving me the worst indigestion and then I got a head ache and by the time I got home I was exhausted feeling and a little shaky, not cold, just weak feeling. So I started to work on dinner. Dh knew i didn't feel good so he came out and took over, but it made me cry for some stupid reason. In the end we had Curried Cauliflower soup and Veggie stuffed mac and cheese. The soup would have been better without the shredded zuchinni, I'm not a big one for mushy feeling things. And the Mac n Cheese had tomatoes and spinich in it. I think next time I'll put broccoli instead of spinich, again the texture, don't really like slimy. Althought there was no squash in the mac n cheese it may be good in there. I'm going to play with it a little.
I woke up this morning not feeling great so we'll see how much I eat today. Hope everyone else is feeling better. I'm not in much of an encouraging mood so I'll wait til lunch to check on everyone else.
So yesterday was my first day on with my new food plan, and it was great! For the most part. I really wasn't hungry between meals until I was making dinner, but that's cause I ate at noon and didn't start dinner til 6. But like my book suggested I had a bag of grapes handi so I didn't eat the foods I was cooking. I had cereal, a banana and a plum for breakfast (and of course coffee). For lunch I had a cold-cut combo sandwich - absolutely wonderful, kinda like an italian sub, and a huge salad, I was so full I forgot I was allowed to have manderine oranges too. Then dinner was Chicken Merlot with brown rice and a weird salad. Didn't like the salad at all and hated throwing it away, but yuck. It had raddichio in it and it's just too bitter. Then for dessert I had Balsamic Berries (strawberries with sugar and balsamic vinegar). It sounded bad, but it was really good.
It all added up to about 1351 calories. I never thought I could eat that few calories and feel full! it's amazing. I can't wait to try tonight Mac and Cheese recipe.
So it's been forever it seems since I've posted, but I'm still alive and doing ok. Today I started my new life (I'm not dieting anymore). And it's been pretty good. Basically its adding veggies and fruit to the things you already eat so that when you eat the same amount you are getting less calories. I think I'll be fine and actually enjoy the meals, but I'm afraid DH isn't going to like most of the veggies. He only eats the common veggies. No squash or zuchinni or cucumbers sort of thing. I told him he'll just have to deal with it.
The book I was looking for. I finally went to Borders yesterday and looked at the "nutrition" books. What I found extremely amazing is that not a one of them had the word nutrition in the title. But most of them say something like diet or plan. But I guess now that nutrition is associated with being on a diet that's what you're going to get. Anyway, I got "The Volumetrics Eating Plan" It teaches you how to eat foods that make you fuller with less calories. Basically more fruits and veggies. And it teaches you how to modify recipes you already have to fill you up more with less calories and a whole lot of different recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and desserts. I'm excited to finish reading it so I can start making meal plans and getting things ready. I've decided that now that I have my new cookware out of the boxes I'm going to start making things I can freeze and re-heat later. And of course I'm going to try and ease into this I think. I don't want myself to get burned out.
On the exercise front, I was doing great, but faultered badly. I haven't exercised in a week and it bothers me, but I don't think I'm going to get in a good work out tonight either. Dh has an appointment right after work and then we have to go get stuff for dinner. I'm hoping I might get a 20 minute work out in while he makes dinner.
On to other news. . . Due to an arguement while both of drinking, we have decided that we are going to quit, it does nothing but cause trouble. This will not be a problem for me as I don't drink that often anyway, Maybe once a month. I'm just worried that DH won't really do it.
We also went and looked at a house we are thinking about buying. I'm not sure though. It needs a lot of work, but it's cheap and we can do the work ourselves, not to mention we don't need a down payment. There are a few things we need to look into first though before we even think about it. Like it needs a new septic tank and there isn't a lot of land so if it's going to cost almost as much as the house to get the septic redone we aren't even going to bother.
Well lots to do today. Hope yall are having a good one!
Oh where, Oh where has it gone? I just don't know. In my head I think man I want to lose this weight I'm going to do this and do that, but I just can't get myself motivated to do it. I guess part of it is because I don't know where I want to go from here. All of my attempts have pretty much failed and I'm afraid if another fails I'm going to just give up. I need a life style change and I don't know where to begin.
I think the first thing I'm going to do is go to borders this weekend and get a book on nutrition. Not a diet book and not a cookbook, but just a book about nutrition. I would love to order it from amazon, but I want to be able to read it first and see if it has everything I want. Then I'm going to tell DH that he needs to get his junk food out of the house! If he wants it he can hide it somewhere and only eat it when I'm not around. I also know that I need to start watching my serving sizes. I know that right there will probably help right away. Maybe I'll start with that tonight.
Does anyone know of a good food journal. One that tells you if you are eating the right amounts of protein and fruits and veggies and stuff?
I know I've been missing for a while, but I'm trying to figure things out. For a while I was really down and just in a bad place. Of course it didn't help that I felt like I was starving myself during the day so when dinner time came around I ate a ton and never lost any weight.
Now I'm still looking for that perfect healty living "diet". I need to learn how much of what things I need to eat. Why don't they teach you this stuff in school. I think nutrition should be a required class for all teens. Just like history or english. If we could show kids what the fast food does to their bodies they might think twice and not have the problems that we do as adults. Ok so my rant is over.
I'm still open to suggestions for a new life style. Oh and did I mention that we don't have a health food store or farmer's market within 20 minutes of where I live. Lots of restaurants though, go figure! Oh and that reminds me, why aren't most diets realistic and think that you are at home in your kitchen for every meal?
Hope you all have a wonderful day, I have lots of catching up to do!
Well ladies, I'm sick of dieting!!! Before you lecture me about not giving up, that's not what this is about. . .
I want to change my life and my habbits. I want to train my mind to automatically pick out healthy foods when we go out to eat and I want to train my mouth to like it.
The thing is I don't know where to begin. I know it isn't easy, but I need to learn some things before I can start this process. Things that I can't believe I dont' already know like what foods have protein the right vitamins and stuff like that and how much to eat of what. I don't want to just have some list I pick off of every day, but at the same time I don't want to have to be making meals for hours every night. I get up around 5 am to get ready for work and I normally don't get home until around 6 if I go to the gym. If not I get home at 4 but work out until 5:30 or 6 anyway. Did I mention I like to be in bed by 10 or I get cranky.
Oh yeah and I have to tell you about my amazing work out yesterday. I strength trained my arms for 25 minutes, 50 reps @ 30lbs for each my biceps, triceps and shoulder presses. Then get this, I ended up doing 68 minutes on the elliptical for 5.53 miles and 736 calories. It felt great. I would have been done after 45 min. but my sister was my ride and she hadn't gotten on yet (they were full) so I just kept going until she was done.
So ladies if you know of books that have helped you learn about eating right please let me know. Oh and if they are "diets" that can be followed during pregnancy that would even be better!
So last week I started my diet on Monday and was 180.5, I got down to 178, but then the Super Bowl happened and at my official WI yesterday I was 180. Now today I'm right back to where I started at 180.5. I just hate it, but weighing myself everyday seems to keep me in check better.
Then there is the fact that there is a possibility that I am pregnant again. Yes I know I just lost the baby in January, but this was completely un-intentional. I'm having some of the symptoms again. I'm just scared that if I am I might not be eating enough calories and it may be dangerous. At the same time I don't want to "stop dieting" every time there is a chance I'm pregnant. That's like dieting for two week and then not and then back to the diet.
What I need to do is officially change the way I eat. Does any one have suggestions for healthy meals that don't take forever to cook, oh and that some one who is a beginner can do. (DH does most of the cooking these days and I end up having to explain everything to him).
Well my boss is here WAY too early for my liking so I'm going to check on you all quickly and then get to work. Have a good Tuesday!
Oh yeah and because I'm so proud of myself:
I haven't had a cigarette in 4 Months, 1 Day, 11 hours and 29 minutes. I have saved $186.71 and 2 Days, 14 hours and 10 minutes of my life!
was the demise of my entire week. I was doing great this weekend, I splurged a little on Saturday, but it was the only time I ate all day and I went and did the elliptical for 45 minutes later in the day and we walked around the mall for an hour. When I weighed myself yesterday morning I was at 178, this morning (My official WI) I was at 180, only .5 down. I think it will come of quickly though because I ate a lot of chili yesterday and that has a lot of beans and veggies in it. The down fall was the garlic bread and brownies.
I'm still proud of myself for working out for at least 20 minutes 6 days this week. I have to admit on Friday I only did 20 minutes of my Turbo Jam cardio party, and it was weak, but I felt off balance and weak, hey it's better than nothing and still the 6th day. I can't wait to get back to the gym again today!
The food thing has been hard today. I woke up with indigestion and I've felt hungry all day, just can't seem to get enough. I've had a bowl of Kellogg's fuit and yogurt, a bowl of Kellogg's Chocolate Delight, a Sugar free jello pudding snack, and broccoli and carrots with FF veggie dip, and I'm still hungry. I'm trying to choke down some water to fill the void, but with the indigestion it isn't working too well.
