I came home with 3 doughnuts today after Bible Study and not a one of them for me! =D I'm enjoying my black coffee and starting day 2 of my calorie tracking. I didn't exercise yesterday, but I did track my calories and stayed right around 1200. First day down.
Mom and I were talking about my need for comfort food and where it stems from. When I get too busy or get stressed, I eat. So.... I need to look carefully at what I'm putting on my plate (both literally and schedule-wise!) for the fall. I need to decide what is important and what is not. I'm not sure that will be a pleasant process, especially if it means pulling out of some activities and telling people "no," but it is an important one.
In the meantime, I am going to take baby steps toward where I should be.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
1 lb gained
That's the result after my little trip to TX. Not exactly what I was hoping for. But today I'm back to tracking my food, drinking water, and hopefully exercising. My mom is here for 2 weeks, so that will (hopefully) help me keep myself on track. =D
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Weekly Plan Sheet =D
It's not really my weekly plan sheet (though I need to get back to doing those - I've gotten horribly far away!), but it is my plan for the week. =D
Tonight - I'd like to go for a walk. I can't do anything about my day of eating now, but I can choose not to snack and just to drink water instead of pop if I want anything.
Sunday - Dinner: Crock Pot Roast Beef - Exercise: Walk to and from Church, Wii
Monday - Dinner: Spinach Pasta with Tomato Creme Sauce - Exercise: Hike with Ellie (though not with her in the pack! Maybe in the stroller...)
Tuesday - Flying to Dallas!! I'll eat dinner with my family somewhere (probably Whataburger or some other fast food place, but I'll try to pick a healthy option!) - Exercise: I'm calling all the walking around lugging my carry on, Ellie's carry on, my purse, Ellie, Ellie's stroller, and a car seat my exercise for this day. My downfall will be yummy frozen coffee drinks, so I'll need to do my best to order black coffee if I'm tempted.
Wednesday - SEMINAR! Dinner: I really have no control over dinner this week, other than to make wise decisions when they're in front of me! - Exercise: at the hotel
Thursday - SEMINAR! See above
Friday - SEMINAR! See above
Saturday - SEMINAR! I'll have dinner with my brother this night, because he's going to pick me up from the spa. =D I should opt for something healthy, though we usually head to Sonic. This will be another hard one, since I'm deprived of Sonics up here and they are just so darn tempting!
So... that's my game plan for this week. Once I'm at my parents' house in Texas, we'll see what exercise looks like. I might be swimming laps in the pool if it's too hot to walk! Mom said it's been 106 most days, and 102 in the shade. There's not much shade where we would walk! So... it might have to be laps. Maybe I'll get mom to TiVo some aerobics for me. =D
Tonight - I'd like to go for a walk. I can't do anything about my day of eating now, but I can choose not to snack and just to drink water instead of pop if I want anything.
Sunday - Dinner: Crock Pot Roast Beef - Exercise: Walk to and from Church, Wii
Monday - Dinner: Spinach Pasta with Tomato Creme Sauce - Exercise: Hike with Ellie (though not with her in the pack! Maybe in the stroller...)
Tuesday - Flying to Dallas!! I'll eat dinner with my family somewhere (probably Whataburger or some other fast food place, but I'll try to pick a healthy option!) - Exercise: I'm calling all the walking around lugging my carry on, Ellie's carry on, my purse, Ellie, Ellie's stroller, and a car seat my exercise for this day. My downfall will be yummy frozen coffee drinks, so I'll need to do my best to order black coffee if I'm tempted.
Wednesday - SEMINAR! Dinner: I really have no control over dinner this week, other than to make wise decisions when they're in front of me! - Exercise: at the hotel
Thursday - SEMINAR! See above
Friday - SEMINAR! See above
Saturday - SEMINAR! I'll have dinner with my brother this night, because he's going to pick me up from the spa. =D I should opt for something healthy, though we usually head to Sonic. This will be another hard one, since I'm deprived of Sonics up here and they are just so darn tempting!
So... that's my game plan for this week. Once I'm at my parents' house in Texas, we'll see what exercise looks like. I might be swimming laps in the pool if it's too hot to walk! Mom said it's been 106 most days, and 102 in the shade. There's not much shade where we would walk! So... it might have to be laps. Maybe I'll get mom to TiVo some aerobics for me. =D
Game On!
Okay, SBB... The GAME IS ON! =D Here's my goal...
LOSE: 30 lbs.
BY: November 1, 2009
That gives me just over 3 months. That's 10 lbs a month (approximately). For 2 of those weeks, I'll be in Texas.
I just ate a boatload of kettle corn from the Farmer's Market, and I'm sitting here drinking a Pepsi. That's got to change. I haven't exercised in... how long? That's got to change.
LOTS of things have to change.
So... math again... (I know you probably think I'm crazy with all the math, but it really does help me think through whether my goal is feasible and what I need to do to get there.)
30 lbs = 105,000 calories (sheesh!)
16 weeks to lose 105,000 calories = 6,570 calories per week (approximately)
6,570 weekly calories = 940 daily calories
So... I could keep eating the way that I do and dance for 3 hours a day (Hey! That sounds like fun!) or run at 6.5 mph for 2 hours a day (That sounds HARD...) or walk at 5 mph for 4 hours (That sounds like a couple of movies a day worth of walking) or I could strap Ellie to my back and hike to Lava Lake every day.
OR
I suppose I could reign in what I'm eating and make some better choices there. Quit with the Pepsi (or two) a day habit that's formed since I asked Leif to get me a soda at Costco and he came out with a case of sodas. I meant the $0.55 soda from the food court... I could stop eating the cupcakes I make for Eliana's birthday parties, or at least leave it at one cupcake. I could go back to drinking black coffee and quit with the yummy sugar coffee drink that I love so much, or at least save it for a special occasion.
Okay... back to the math.
My BMT is 1375.
If we assume that I'm eating 2,000 calories a day (well, just for math's sake, let's change that to 1,800), then I can easily drop that to, say 1500, just by keeping track. That saves me 300 calories in eating. At that rate I only need to drop 640 calories a day. Dropping to 1200 calories (my bare minimum amount, but what I always seem to go back to and can easily do) takes me to 440 calories a day.
I can burn 440 calories on the Wii with not too much trouble. That's doable.
So... can I do it every day? That's the question. How do I keep from getting burned out?
30 min. step aerobics would get me almost halfway there.
Hiking with a 10 lb load for an hour would get me there.
2 hours of housework would get me there.
Jogging for 30 minutes would almost get me there.
Jumping rope for 30 minutes would get me close.
Walking 3.5 mph for 45 minutes would get me about halfway there.
SO... I need to make a game plan, I guess. Plan to do something each day, but not necessarily the same thing. =D
Whew! 30 lbs is going to be a stretch.
If I take up running again, and run MWF, that basically takes care of 3 days. If we make a point to hike one day each weekend and I take a pack full of water and other things, that would take care of a day. If I Wii a couple days, and then do aerobics plus walking one day, that could get me through a week.
I just need to do it.
So... here we go, SBB. I'm game.
BRING IT ON.
LOSE: 30 lbs.
BY: November 1, 2009
That gives me just over 3 months. That's 10 lbs a month (approximately). For 2 of those weeks, I'll be in Texas.
I just ate a boatload of kettle corn from the Farmer's Market, and I'm sitting here drinking a Pepsi. That's got to change. I haven't exercised in... how long? That's got to change.
LOTS of things have to change.
So... math again... (I know you probably think I'm crazy with all the math, but it really does help me think through whether my goal is feasible and what I need to do to get there.)
30 lbs = 105,000 calories (sheesh!)
16 weeks to lose 105,000 calories = 6,570 calories per week (approximately)
6,570 weekly calories = 940 daily calories
So... I could keep eating the way that I do and dance for 3 hours a day (Hey! That sounds like fun!) or run at 6.5 mph for 2 hours a day (That sounds HARD...) or walk at 5 mph for 4 hours (That sounds like a couple of movies a day worth of walking) or I could strap Ellie to my back and hike to Lava Lake every day.
OR
I suppose I could reign in what I'm eating and make some better choices there. Quit with the Pepsi (or two) a day habit that's formed since I asked Leif to get me a soda at Costco and he came out with a case of sodas. I meant the $0.55 soda from the food court... I could stop eating the cupcakes I make for Eliana's birthday parties, or at least leave it at one cupcake. I could go back to drinking black coffee and quit with the yummy sugar coffee drink that I love so much, or at least save it for a special occasion.
Okay... back to the math.
My BMT is 1375.
If we assume that I'm eating 2,000 calories a day (well, just for math's sake, let's change that to 1,800), then I can easily drop that to, say 1500, just by keeping track. That saves me 300 calories in eating. At that rate I only need to drop 640 calories a day. Dropping to 1200 calories (my bare minimum amount, but what I always seem to go back to and can easily do) takes me to 440 calories a day.
I can burn 440 calories on the Wii with not too much trouble. That's doable.
So... can I do it every day? That's the question. How do I keep from getting burned out?
30 min. step aerobics would get me almost halfway there.
Hiking with a 10 lb load for an hour would get me there.
2 hours of housework would get me there.
Jogging for 30 minutes would almost get me there.
Jumping rope for 30 minutes would get me close.
Walking 3.5 mph for 45 minutes would get me about halfway there.
SO... I need to make a game plan, I guess. Plan to do something each day, but not necessarily the same thing. =D
Whew! 30 lbs is going to be a stretch.
If I take up running again, and run MWF, that basically takes care of 3 days. If we make a point to hike one day each weekend and I take a pack full of water and other things, that would take care of a day. If I Wii a couple days, and then do aerobics plus walking one day, that could get me through a week.
I just need to do it.
So... here we go, SBB. I'm game.
BRING IT ON.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
My sinful indulgence
... just became a little less sinful! =D Here I thought I'd been consuming aspartame in my yummy sugar free jello cups, and I just found out that they are sweetened with Splenda. Hooray!
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Still going...
I didn't need my 2nd snack yesterday (and actually, ended up eating the almonds with dinner instead of as an afternoon snack) and I stuck with the diet all day! Whew! I have to admit that I do feel a TON better physically when I am on this diet. It's sort of odd. Really, it makes sense given my blood sugar issues, but I've struggled with them for so long that it's weird to change my diet and have them pretty much just GO AWAY. Anyway...
Today I've had...
Breakfast:
2 eggs
coffee with sugar free creamer
Lunch:
chicken salad wrap
Snack:
2 squares dark chocolate
Dinner:
Tonight is Protocol, so I'll have a fairly regular dinner, but it's Salad, Chicken Cordon Bleu, Carrots, Potatoes, and Cheesecake. The carrots and potatoes are definitely on the no-no list, as is the breading on the chicken, but I will probably eat them anyway for the event. Maybe not all of them, but I'm hoping the fat and protein in the chicken will help balance them out in my bloodstream. We'll see.
Today I've had...
Breakfast:
2 eggs
coffee with sugar free creamer
Lunch:
chicken salad wrap
Snack:
2 squares dark chocolate
Dinner:
Tonight is Protocol, so I'll have a fairly regular dinner, but it's Salad, Chicken Cordon Bleu, Carrots, Potatoes, and Cheesecake. The carrots and potatoes are definitely on the no-no list, as is the breading on the chicken, but I will probably eat them anyway for the event. Maybe not all of them, but I'm hoping the fat and protein in the chicken will help balance them out in my bloodstream. We'll see.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Struggling with sugar...
I am really struggling with what I can only describe as an addiction to sugar. Cutting out sugar and carbs is hard! I can live without the bread, but it appears that I cannot live without the sweets. I did fine for a week, and then I fell off the wagon for 2 days. And not just a little. So in attempt to hold myself accountable, I am going to record what I eat. At least today. Hopefully tomorrow and the days after that, but one day at a time. =D
I made lunch and dinner ahead today, and I've planned out my snacks, so I'm hoping that will help keep me on track. Afternoon seems to be my worst time. So today...
Breakfast:
*Coffee with sugar free creamer
*2 scrambled eggs
Snack:
*String cheese (1)
*a few bites of chicken salad
Lunch:
*Tomato
*Lettuce (2 Romaine leaves)
*Chicken salad
*8 green olives
*Peas
Afternoon Snack:
*15 almonds
*String cheese (1) - if I need a second snack to tide me until dinner
Dinner:
*Chicken Tortilla Soup (minus the tortilla chips for me)
Dessert:
*?
Maybe I'll have time to make a little more sugar free jello. If not, I can have a couple squares of dark chocolate, and maybe Leif will make coffee to go with it. =D
I made lunch and dinner ahead today, and I've planned out my snacks, so I'm hoping that will help keep me on track. Afternoon seems to be my worst time. So today...
Breakfast:
*Coffee with sugar free creamer
*2 scrambled eggs
Snack:
*String cheese (1)
*a few bites of chicken salad
Lunch:
*Tomato
*Lettuce (2 Romaine leaves)
*Chicken salad
*8 green olives
*Peas
Afternoon Snack:
*15 almonds
*String cheese (1) - if I need a second snack to tide me until dinner
Dinner:
*Chicken Tortilla Soup (minus the tortilla chips for me)
Dessert:
*?
Maybe I'll have time to make a little more sugar free jello. If not, I can have a couple squares of dark chocolate, and maybe Leif will make coffee to go with it. =D
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