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Krystin
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Posted: 27 October 2005 05:04 pm |
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Thank you Zoonbaby!
I was ble to finish almost all of my reading for yesterday and this morning is dedicated to completeing the assignment. I want to get that done before anything else in case somthing comes up that I have to attend to. I'd hate to think that I have until later this afternoon to finish it and at the last minute have an employer call and say that they need to see me right away.
I had an apple with a small handfull of peanuts for a snack. Although I knew that yesterday was pizza day, I forgot that I would not be able to say no to pizza! Silly me! So I made my huge salad I promised myself I would make: mixed greens, red onion, orange and grenn bell peppers, black olives, feta cheese and greek dressing (light of course!). I then ate one small slice of pizza. It didn't taste very good either. I would have been better off making a pizza bagel from sratch here at home. But you can't beat $5! About 3 hours later I was hungry again and had another salad with most of the same stuff, except I added cauliflower and vegan bacon bits and left off the black olives. YUMM!
Newton's 1st law of motion says that things in motion tend to stay in motion and things at rest tend to stay at rest. I will be a thing in motion!
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Krystin
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Posted: 27 October 2005 05:14 pm |
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I set my alarm for 6:05 this morning and finally got out of bed at around 6:20. I did my Yoga for Weight Loss video with Susanne Deason for 1 hour and then I did 20 minutes on the elliptical machine. Good for me!!
Breakfast was oatmeal with rasins and Splenda and soy milk. According to the ediets.com meal plan I set up I'm supposed to have tofu and bean soup for lunch with a salad and piece of fruit. However, I have an interview with a potential client's mother at noon and its right next to the Pizza Hut I have another client working at that also needs to be seen, so I'm just gonna do that. I'll stick to a large salad from the salad bar and 1-2 slices of a medium thin crust pizza with either just plain cheese or with veggies depending on what they have on the buffet. Dinner will be the tofu and bean soup before going to class tonight.
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zoonbaby
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Posted: 27 October 2005 08:06 pm |
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| Mmmm, your salads sound so good! Your meal plan sounds very reasonable. I can never eat just one piece of pizza!
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Krystin
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Posted: 28 October 2005 04:51 pm |
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I can't eat something if it doesn't taste phenomenal. I'll just end up eating the healthy stuff first and satidfying my flavor tooth with a heaping helpiing of the "good" stuff. That was a big problem when I switched to a veggie diet, it took forever to learn how to make the stuff taste good!
I did have salad and pizza for lunch. They only had handtossed crust and not thin crust so I had 2 small slices of that topped with veggies. While I was there 4 kids (teenagers really) were sitting near me. Each had ordered a large pan crust pizza for themselves. Who can eat a whole large greasy pizza by themselves? My guy got up early and decided to treat to Stings~N~Rings, a super yum sandwich shop close by that tops everything with thin cut onion rings and french fries, for dinner. I had a Sunshine salad without the string~n~rings: mixed greens, slivered almonds, sliced strawberries, grapes, rasins, and a poppyseed dressing that I only used half of. I brought a large apple, 94% fat free 100 cal bag of popcorn , and some walnuts to class to snack on during breaks, since "dinner" was at 3:45 pm and I had to be up an active 'til 10.
Class went well. I had to do 2 presentations to the class the first night, but it wasn't too bad. We have to work in a learning team for at least 5 hours per week outside of class. The team I picked is a great mix. There are 5 of us total, each with a different backround in all sences of the word, so diversity won't be a problem. Plus they all appear to be very dedicated to the program, which is a bonus. My instructor has a doctorate degree in nutrition and is part of the World Health Organization, so she will be a good source of info in that regard. She also teaches at 2 other colleges and seems to really love her job.
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Krystin
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Posted: 28 October 2005 04:56 pm |
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My daughter is a sick puppy today :(. She woke up early this morning with a temp of 102.2 and a head ache. Poor girl is so upset that she won't get to do Friday Fun Day with everyone at school. She's missing out on show and tell, pizza for lunch, and tonight they are having a Fall Festival (the one we tried to have last Saturday, but got cancelled due to Hurricane Wilma). I asked her school to make up a goddie bag with some treats so she can have them tomorrow instead, provided she'd feeling better.
Breakfast was more otmeal, rasins, and soy milk. I have no clue what the rest of today will be, hopefully good stuff though!
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Peter
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Posted: 28 October 2005 07:18 pm |
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With two daughters and six granddaughters I hate to hear about sick kids. Adults? Stop whining! Haha. But the little ones look so helpless.
Peter
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Krystin
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Posted: 29 October 2005 03:53 pm |
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It deffinately pulls at my heart strings!
Yesterday's lunch was a veggie sandwich with fat free miracle whip, mozz. and swiss cheeses, various peppers, and lettuce. I had a large salad with the usual goodies (broc., cali., peppers, feta, etc.), too. I had major munchies yesterday and didn't try to holdmyself back either! I ate a Philly Swril popcicle, 2 servings of Sun Chips, and a tootsie pop. Dinner was my guys fat laden green bean casserole: breen peans, pinto beans, garlic cream of mushroom soup, cheese and fried onion topping mixed in, as well as the extras on top. I was full but wanted some flavor. I went to my daughter's school to pick up her goodie bag and ended up stopping at the store for a dessert. My intention was to get her a Hallooween cupcake, but the store only had 18 count packs so I passed. I almost bought a few other things, but the packages were too large. I ended up with cream cheese frosted brownies. I bought a 3 pack and ate only one. I took off most of the frosting, but still felt sick after eating it because it was so rich. Yuck and stuff! !
No exercise yesterday. I was really sore from the yoga. I know, I know, "Sore from yoga?" Yup! It uses alot of muscles you forgot you had, especially the workouts designed for weight loss. I did give a back rub if that counts for anything!:)Last edited on 29 October 2005 07:46 pm by Krystin
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Krystin
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Posted: 29 October 2005 07:54 pm |
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Breakfast today was an everything bagel (onion, poppyseed. etc.) topped with light chive cream cheese and soy milk to drink. I had 3 cups of coffee with 2 creams each while meeting with my learning team (oops!) and lunch was Gardenburger ribblets and a salad with the usual. I have no idea what dinner will be just yet.
My daughter is feeling a little better. She still has a temp of 100.5 so she can't go out and do much, but at the same time she is going stir crazy from spending the entire day yesterday in the house. I'll have to find a way to entertain her indoors today since we've both had our fill of cartoons.
I really enjoyed my learning team meeting this morning. We spent the entire meeting establishing ground rules for next 4 weeks. I have a ton of work to do: 2 team projects, a ton of reading, and a paper due by Thursday night. Its very doable though!
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Krystin
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Posted: 30 October 2005 05:28 pm |
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I wasn't hungry all day yesterday after lunch. At around 8 or 9 I had a large handful of walnuts. At 10 I had a pita pocket and spicy 3 pepper hummus. Standard weekend grown-up beverages, as well. I'm gonna check the calculator and see if it has an estimate for calories burned while shooting pool. I spend at leat an hour every Sat and Sun night shooting with my guy. Its gotta count for something, right?
Breakfast today was suppposed to be whole wheat pancakes with all fruit spread, but my guy made egg biscuits with asiago cheese. At first I said, "No thanks, I'll just m,ake oatmeal or something." But then they smelled so good! I had 2 biscuits for a total of 220 calories, a bit of light butter on each, half an egg on each, and a 2" x2" slice of cheese on each. Plus a large glass of light soy milk and a banana.
I ordered a vegetarian starter guide that was advertised on a site promoted by the vegetarian group I meet with once a month. It was free and was supposed to have alot of recipes, etc. I read it this morning after breakfast and it was full of horror stories about factory farming and the treatment of the animals. Chickens are catagorized as "layers" if they can produce eggs and "broilers" if they are raised for meat. "Layer" chickens are a differnt bread than "broiler" chickens and the males of the layers are estenially useless so they end up "gassed, crushed, discarded in trash bags to suffocate, or are simply piled on top of oneabother, to doe from asphyxiation" as reported in the Compasion Over Killing Vegetarian Starter guide. I know that the stories were intended to sound sensational in order to recruit more veg heads, but it worked! I was going to quote some of the info, but decided that if anyone was interested in reading it they could just go to cok.net.
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Krystin
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Posted: 31 October 2005 01:39 pm |
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Lunch yesterday was 2 more biscuits, but plain this time. For a lte afternoon snack I had some nuts, a sugar free chocolate pudding, an orange, and something else I think. Dinner was more nuts (almonds) and 1% cottage cheese with pinapple chunks. After having a couple night caps I ate a couple handfulls of grapes. Not too shabby when all is said and done.
I went to my first harvet at Sweetwater Community Farm. It is a non-profit farm classisfied as a CSA- Community Supported Agriculture. A membership costs $500 for a year, but I split that cost with a friend I met at the veggie group. They only harvest 8 months out of the year because they have to restore the soil the other 4 months. The total cost is about $10 per week for 8 months, which is pretty cheap when you consider the quantity and quality of the food you get (all organic, etc.) I got kale, romaine, 2 other lettuces, Kai Choy (similar to Bok Choy, but different), green papaya, and some other stuff. This was the smallest of the harvests because it was their first for the season. From what I'm told future harvests will be 2-3 times this size.
We carved a pumpkin yesterday. I cheated and used one of those cut outs that you transfer to the pumpkin and then just carved along the dotted line, but it turned out great!! Its a witch holding a jack-o-lantern and I hink it looks fantastic! I was so busy yesterday. I spent a long time doing homework (and barely put a dent in it!), cleaned the entire house from top to bottom, had some serious parent child conversations (I cannot tolerate snotty, ungratefull, spolied kids and I will not let my daughter become one of them!), and I think thats all. I was in bed by 9:30!
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Krystin
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Posted: 31 October 2005 01:39 pm |
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Happy Holloween!
Breakfast today has been light soy milk, Nature's Harvest high fiber low cal wheat bread with peanut butter, and a banana with some more peanut butter. Last edited on 31 October 2005 01:42 pm by Krystin
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Krystin
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Posted: 1 November 2005 03:05 pm |
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I had a side salad with low fat raspberry vinegrette and a medium coffee with 2 creams for a mid morning snack. I also wanted a fruit bowl, but the one I bought tasted rotten, so I ended up eating the crutons and sunflower seeds that came with my side salad. BAD CHOICE! That alone totaled another 180 calories of garbage! I went home for lunch and had pinapple chuncks with cottage cheese and 12 Triscuits. I wanted to eat a snck before dinner and dinner before Trick-Or-Treating so I wouldn't be tempted to eat my daughter's goodies. I had a bag of popcorn (94% fat free, 100 cal bag). Dinner was not the refired beans and brown rice I had planned, but instead was peanut butter and jelly on Nature's Own high fiber low cal bread with a banana and more peanut butter, again. I ate some Halloween candy, too. All mini sizes: Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, Twizzler, Bubble Yum gum, Sugar Babies, a popcicle, and probably something else, too. I wonder when I'll get to the point where I actually make the meals I've intended to make and follow through with the plans I pay so much for (ediets, weight watchers). I buy all of the ingrediants at the store and end up spending $100 per week on groceries, but the food ends up going to waste 'cause I'm not eating it, but instead eating #%@&!. I couldn't tell you how many times I've thrown out entire bags of lettuce or bins of tofu. I recognize that this is just self pitty talking, but I don't know if I'm going to ever get out of the 160's. Or if I'll ever wear a size 10 again, much less a size 8. Or when I'll make my exercise and fitness goals. I'm having a hard time getting the motivation to work out even 2 days per week, much less 5. UGH! I know what I have to do, I'm just having a h#ll of a time actually doing it. If I stop trying I end up with wieght gain and high blood pressure and everything else that the rest of my family deals with. All of my immidiate family is obese, excluding my 2 brothers. And most of my extended family is also. They have heart disease, high blood pressure, kideny disroders, diabetes, gall bladder disease, high cholesteral. You name it they have it! If I keep trying I stay where I'm at: 168, out of shape and 10 pounds heavier than I was this time last year. So the only other solution is to try harder. I wish I had Corina's dedication and willpower! I wish I could muster up the devotion to follow through with my commitment to not end up like the rest of my family.
Good thing is that today is a new day. So far I have had oatmeal made with soy milk, I threw in some chopped walnuts and rasins with a touch of Splenda. Water and a vitamin on the side.
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braincake
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Posted: 1 November 2005 07:08 pm |
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Don't get discouraged, Krystin! Halloween is a horrible time of year to be making an effort to change the way we eat!! I'm sure today will be better.
I find it hard to use my health as a motivation, even though I know it is so important. When I need motivation to exercise, I focus on a really gross image I have in my head of me at my heaviest.. and that keeps me going. I know I don't want to look like that ever again!
At any rate, don't give up on yourself... in my opinion, everyone should plan their official "rest" day on Halloween! LOL:D
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braincake
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Posted: 1 November 2005 07:09 pm |
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| triple posted. acck. so sorry! :) Last edited on 1 November 2005 09:45 pm by braincake
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braincake
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Posted: 1 November 2005 07:11 pm |
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| sorry again! Last edited on 1 November 2005 09:44 pm by braincake
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Krystin
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Posted: 1 November 2005 09:52 pm |
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Thank you Braincake. The problem is that most days end up as "rest" days lately and I'm having a hard time doing anything about it.
My daughter's school was closed today because they had a power outage that covered their entire neighborhood. That meant I had to take my daughter with me to work or take the day off. I chose to do a combo. We went to story time at Barnes & Noble and made a craft afterwards. Then we went to see a client of mine at Pizza Hut. After lunch we went to my credit union and opened up a savings account for my daughter with her change she has saved over the last few months. (A finicial expert told us that kids should earn an allowance equal to their age. He also said that kids should be required to save half of the allowance. He mentioned that an allowance should not be tied to chores or behavior because those things are expected and are not choice driven.) She deposited $14 total. Afterwards we walked over to the McDonald's next to the credit union for dessert.
Lunch was a salad with lettuce, cucumber, cottage cheese, brocolli, pinnapple chunks and a little bit of French dressing. I also had 3 slices of a medium thin crust veggie pizza. I ate an ice cream cone at McDonald's. That amounts to around 1100 cal total. Add in breakfast and I'm over my limit for the day. Dinner is 3 1/2 hours away!
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Krystin
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Posted: 1 November 2005 09:58 pm |
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OMG! I just failed my first assessment at school! It was a basic English assessment that asked the simplest questions about capitalization, comma usage, collon usage, semi-collon usage, verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, etc. The stuff we learned in 3 rd grade!! I'm not a stupid person and cannot figure out how I only got 13 out of 20 questions right! I needed to get 14 right to pass. I'm not sure how the assessments are used, but I'm terrified that I'll have to enter a remedial English class to compensate for it. I wish I could just turn today off and start over at the begining. Last edited on 1 November 2005 10:00 pm by Krystin
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Peter
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Posted: 2 November 2005 03:32 am |
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Ouch
Sorry... hope you do better.
Peter
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Krystin
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Posted: 2 November 2005 02:25 pm |
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Thanks Peter... I hope I do, too.
I engaged in some emotional eating yesterday. After the Pizza Hut and McDonald's I came home and ate 130 cal worth of cinnamon/sugar grahm crackers. I had a mini Kit Kat bar from my daughter's stash. I ate a bowl of lentil soup (360 cal total 'cause I ate both servings that came in the can). I almost had a late night snack, but was feeling pretty sh!tty about myuself as it was and didn't want to feel worse.
Breakfast has been brocolli with a marinade I found in the fridge: rosemary, mustard, pinapple. Its pretty yum and low in cals. Today is packed full with things to accomplish. I still have 6 chapters of reading to finish, plus a 1200 word paper (that will be easy, though). I have a guy who just lost his job. Another who is looking for supplemental employment. Another that dosn't want supplemental employment, but needs it. One wants to get out of the hotel business and get involved in warhouse work. One that needs her glasses to work and lost her last pair, but her group home staff won't take care of it. One who's father is chronically sick but refuses to let me help his son get to and from work. And then there's the paperwork, funding issues, etc. I don't know why I'm b!tching. I love the work that I do and I am happy that I'm finally getting my degree. I guess I just feel overwhelmed right now. I suppose an attitude adjustment would come in handy right about now :D!
I hope you guys have a great day!Last edited on 2 November 2005 02:27 pm by Krystin
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Krystin
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Posted: 2 November 2005 09:35 pm |
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| I worked really hard this morning so that I could get home early to finish up some school work. I will work lond lays on Friday and Saturday to compensate for the hours. I came home for lunch and looked up my meal plan on ediets.com. I went in the fridge to look for the ingrediants and founs a cream cheese brownie on top of the stuff I needed. Rather than throw the brownie out I ate it! I skipped the cream cheese frosting part and stuck to the good old fashioned chocolate! I was really yummy, although I did NOT need it, nor did I want it until I saw it staring at me. I made homemade refried beans and brown rice with apple slices on the side and water to drink. (That is called a run-on sentence. See... I'm not dumb!:)) The rice turned out cr#ppy. I tried to make it in the microwave and that was a BIG mistake. Its old fashioned stove cooking for this girl. I have always had a hard time cooking anythin in the microwave, except for popcorn! I had a chocolate Jello sugar free pudding cup and one caramel for my second dessert. Tonight's dinner is supposed to be Huungry Howies pizza. I plan on having fruit and a salad before the pizza so hopefully I will only eat 0-1 slices! It would amaze me if I could skip the pizza.
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Krystin
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Posted: 3 November 2005 08:06 pm |
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I did have fruit and a salad before dinner last night and that definatley helped. I ate 1 1/2 slices of cheese pizza. I had so much work to do and ended up eating out of my daughter's candy stash that was sitting next to me in the office. I'm not sure how much I ate, but at least 4 pieces. I was tired really early yesterday. I'm sure that was a side effect of the candy. I was alseep by 9 p.m.
I woke up this morning at 4 a.m. and was done sleepting. I layed in bed watching a documetary on PBS about health crisses in 3rd world countries. I wish I could save the world! I got out of bed at 4:45, made breakfast and began finishing my paper. Do you know how long it has been since I've had to write a paper in APA format? I spent 3 hours last night just researching the format! I have finally finished my paper and all of my assgnments, except for my reading. That is great, the only issue is that it came at the expense of my job. I make my own schedule so there is not a set time to start or end work, which is nice, but then it leaves room for procrastination and all sorts of horrible things. I have class tonight and I will plan my days in Outlook as soon as I get back. I can print out the plan and then use it as a reference to keep me on track. I think its the best way to incorporate school, work, family, and myself.
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Krystin
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Posted: 3 November 2005 08:18 pm |
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| Breakfast today was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with water. I had cottage cheese 2 hours later. Two hours after that I ate 6 Triscuits. 2 hours after that I had homemade (fat free) refried beans and sliced strawberries topped with Splenda. I ate 5 pieces of my daughter's candy, but that was before I finished my paper, which was on personal learning styles and how to use your individual intelligences (based on Howard Gardner's Mulitple Intelligences theory), personality types, and time management to be a more effective student (and mother, and career woman, and up and coming health fanatic ;), etc.) Now that I feel like this is manageable and I have the skills I need, as well as a plan to utilize the skills I have no desire to eat junk. Stress management kicks all sorts of derrier!
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Krystin
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Posted: 4 November 2005 10:10 pm |
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Class last night went really well. I learned that the assessments that we will be taking are ment for our own knowledge. They are intended to let us know whether or not we need to take a tutorial before completing proficency exams. So now I know that I could use a refresher course in English before I try and test out of the English class. That is GREAT news! The rest of class went really well and I'm sure that I will make it through this excellerated degree program.
I woke up at 7:30 this a.m., 1 1/2 hours later that I'd planned, but thats no biggie. I jumped out of bed as soon as my eyes opened and started my day. It felt good to get strong start to my day. I had an icredible morning! I accomplished alot and felt that I offered superb services to my consumers. As the day wears on I keep getting little slaps in the face (like a client getting laid off, etc.), but I feel like I can accomplish any goal now that I've made it throgh the last 2 weeks of school.
I'm not even going to bother mentioning food today because I'm having such a good day that I don't want to ruin it by talking about the french fries I had with my veggie burger, or the Mcy D's ice cream cone :D.
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Krystin
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Posted: 5 November 2005 02:21 pm |
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Well, as you know if you've read this diary over the last 3 days, I have had a major junk tooth. I weitghed in at 166 though. Somehow I got back to where I was 2 weeks ago. I'm not sure what happened, but I will NOT complain!
Breakfast today was Lucky Charms. I haven't had a sugary cereal in months and one bowl never hurt anyone. Besides, I used low cal soy milk so at least there was some protien and fiber in that. I have a learning team meeting this morning and will be served coffee and muffins. My goal is to eat one muffin and drink the coffee w/o cream and only use Splenda for some sweetness. Thats about it. Have a great day!
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Krystin
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Posted: 6 November 2005 11:24 pm |
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I had one cup of coffee with one tablepsoon of cream and one Splenda. I ate a walnut sticky bun and one slice of banana nut bread (a really thin slice that was about 3 bites total). I was given leftover Halloween treats (animal crackers) to give to my daughter. Becasue of all of the sugar I was really hungry and ate 120 worth on my way home from the learning team (which went well, by the way:)). I had a couple pieces of candy, but nothing detrimental. Dinner was veggie chili and it was really HOT! My guy made it a bit spicy and by the time it finished cooking it just got hotter! I had one bowl with like 4 glasses of water and 2 slices of garlic bread. We had our usual Saturday night grown up drinks and I had 2 handfulls of low salt nuts before bed.
Breakfast today was Mimi's Cafe. I had the veggie Mediterainian omlette made with egg whites (ate about half), one cup of coffee with 2 tbsp cream and Splenda, small o.j., 1/2 of a pumpkin muffin, and a few bites of their breakfast potatoes. I had one piece of salt water taffy before going to the mall for lunch. I had some California rolls (with fish 'cause I'm adding some fish back in to my diet), some tuna/salmon spicy sushi, miso soup, some of my guy's tempura veggies (I took the fried stuff off, but it was still a little greasy), a couple bites of fried rice, and water to drink. I had another piece of taffy when we came home.
We were going to go to a movie, but skipped it 'cause our daughter was not on her best behavior and I wasn't about to reward her for poor choices, so at least I skipped the movie garbage food. We rented a few things from Blockbuster and I'll just have my 94% fat free popcorn with that. I got all of my veggies this week from the CSA, too. And I found an awesome recipe for green papaya that I'm going to make tomorrow. Tonight's dinner will be homemade marrinera (I can't spell!) and pasta with tofu (recipe curtisy of ediets.com)
My womanly cycle started this morning (my 2 year anniversary with my guy... thats poopy!) and I don't have nearly the appettite I've had for the past few days, which is a blessing! I think this week is going to be a good one!
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Krystin
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Posted: 7 November 2005 04:45 pm |
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I made a homemade, low fat pasta dish for dinner, recipe curtisy of ediets.com. It was really good and filling. I ate 3/4 of it and trashed the rest. I had a few drinks with my guy, as usual. Before bed (9 p.m.) he made his dinner (I had eaten at like 5:00). I grabbed a handful of peanuts and several Triscuts to munch on before bed. Stupid b@sta@rd says, "You're eating again?!". I usually would have turned it into a joke and I know my hurt feelings were due in part to PMS and mood swings, but it still hurt never-the-less. This morning he put clean clothes from the dryer on top of dirty clothes that were in a hamper. There were two hampers there with dirty clothes and each was about 1/2 full. Why couldn't he combine the dirty ones to make room for the clean? He was trying to help, but he messed with my flow. This is only bothering me 'cause I woke up in an aweful mood, but I wanted to get it out anyway.
Breakfast was oatmeal, walnuts, rasins, Spenda, and soy milk. Water to drink. Lunch will be Subway and dinner is eggplant parm, I think. I'm off to conquer my day... UGH...
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Krystin
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Posted: 8 November 2005 09:42 pm |
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| I met with a client yesterday right at lunch time. He was hungry and wanted Chick-Fil-A and there was a Taco Bell next door, so that was my lunch: A 1/2 lb. bean burrito especial "Fresco" style for a total of 510 calories and only $1.06 with tax! That was at 11 a.m. By 4 p.m. I was hungry again and had a 4:30 meeting. The only thing close and affordable was, again, Taco Bell. I had another 1/2 lb. burrito especial "Frescon" style. I was absolutley stuffed! Once home (7 p.m.) my guy made Pad Thai with tofu... YUMMY. Although, I didn't really need it because I was still pretty full. I think my total calories was like 1750 for the day, which is great!
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Krystin
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Posted: 8 November 2005 10:03 pm |
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I woke up in another #%@&! mood today. I was wasn't mad, just easily irritated. I snapped at my daughter twice. I aplogized, but I still feel bad about it. I'll give ger an extra big hug when I pick her up tonight. I have a test at the post office tonight. I'd really like to do domething different than what I'm doing. We'll see how it goes. I also have 6 chapters of reading, a team log, 2 online tests and 2 worksheets to finish before class on Thursday. I will do reading and the team log tonight, as a minimum.
Breakfast was an egg white omlette with red bell pepper, red onion, and garlic. Soy milk to drink. My mid-morning meal a Berry Fullfilling smoothie from Jamba Juice with a protien booster (just over 300 cal with the booster for 24 oz.) My mid-afternoon meal was another Fresco style 1/2 lb burrito from Taco Bell. (I think this might turn into an obssession!) I have no idea what dinner will be, but I'll try and keep it light. I've had around 1200 calories. If I try and stay between 1500-1800 cal per day then I am doing great!
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Krystin
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Posted: 9 November 2005 05:24 pm |
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| I wasn't hungry at dinner time, but I knew that if I didn't eat before the test I might not be able to eat until 8 or 9, plus I didn't want to be hungry while I was trying to think. I had popcorn (100 cal), a handful of walnuts (150 cal), and an apple (110 cal). I had 4 mini lollipops throughout the day (I'm talking Dum-Dum size). After I got back from the test and sat around for an hour I was in the mood for a snack. I could have drank alot of water to curb the feeling, but I knew that I had work to stay up and do tonight so I ended up eating a yogert with dried apples (180 cal), 1/4 of a loaf of pita bread (35 cal), hummus (50 cal) and a bite of blue cheese (20 cal). All in all I was around 1900 cal. My BMR calculated a need for 1904-2381 cal/day and my RMR said 1894-2367 cal/day so 1900 is perfect, especially since I am quite busy.
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Krystin
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Posted: 9 November 2005 05:50 pm |
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| I was up at 4:30 this a.m. to do some school work. Breakfast was Diet DP with a peanut butter sandwich on high fiber low cal bread. My mid-morning meal was a 1/2 serving og angel hair pasta with marinera and an apple. I also had a "tall" coffee from Starbucks this a.m. while taking a client to an interview (only added 2 oz skim milk and Spelnda). Total cal so far = 728. That leaves about another 1200 for the day.
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Krystin
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Posted: 10 November 2005 04:17 am |
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| Lunch was Amy's vegetable lasagna with baby carrots, grapes, and soy milk. Dinner was 3 slices of Hungry Howies pizza and an orange. I was under 2000, which is good! I was tracking my calories burned, but I had to close the window half way through the day. When I tried to reopen it all of my calculations had disappeared. I'm not sure why because there have been other times when I have closed the window and logged back in later and all of my info is still there. I know I burned more than I consumed, so thats a good thing!
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Peter
Founder, caloriesperhour.com
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Posted: 10 November 2005 06:00 am |
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Sounds like you're eating everyone elses food!
I would think that if you closed a window you would lose everything. It would be saved, on the other hand, if you only minimized the window and/or placed your PC in Stand-by or Hibernate mode.
Peter
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Oh, unless you just mean just the total number of calories burned/eaten. That is saved in a cookie until you use the Clear button.
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Krystin
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Posted: 10 November 2005 12:40 pm |
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Isn't hwat "they're" having always better than what "you're" having? Yep, I meant the calories burned. It saved some of my food from earlier in the day, but not all of it. I also lost some of my "Personal Items" in the food nutrition calculator, but that no matter since I buy a different bread every week alniong with 10 other different foods.
Breakfast today is oatmeal with rasins and walnuts, only I ate the walnuts yesterday so now its just plain old rasins and oats.
Mornings are not my firend! Who enjoys being up before the Sun? Today is carzy busy with school, work, and responsibilities at my daughter's day care. Let the Force be with me...
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Peter
Founder, caloriesperhour.com
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Posted: 10 November 2005 06:46 pm |
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Personal Items are saved in a cookie. (See Calcalulator Problems Help for an explanation.) If you delete your cookies, you would lose the data.
Peter
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Krystin
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Posted: 10 November 2005 09:51 pm |
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| Gotcha!
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Krystin
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Posted: 11 November 2005 07:17 pm |
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I burned over 2600 cal. yesterday and ate 1800 for a loss of 800 cal. Breakfast was oats and rasins with soy milk; lunch: veggie lasagna curtosy of Amy's kitchen; snacks: orange, grapes, string cheese, baby carrots; dinner: Amy's cheese enchiladas; school food: 100 cal bag popcorn and 210 cal of chex mix.
I forgot today was Veteran's Day (shame on me :(). I'm glad I get to stay home with my daughter! I always look forward to days like these since they can be few and far between, aside from the weekends that are filled with errands and such.
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Krystin
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Posted: 12 November 2005 06:02 am |
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Today was a great day! I ate well, got in some activity (playing baseball with my girly and cleaning), and enjoyed myself. Total burned was 2560, total eaten was 1840, and total loss was 720.
Breakfast was a Pillsbury crossiant as I walked out to do grocery shopping this am. Brunch was a grilled cheese with tomato slices (at a great restaurant called The Brunchery, of course :)) and a side salad with walnut raspberry vinegrette and diet coke. I had Moroccan Tofu Salad curtosy of the recipes on ediets.com for lunch (just 280 calories and so much food I couldn't even eat it all!). I had a mini Milky Way and mini Whoppers for a treat. Sugar free chocolate pudding (Jello brand), string cheese, 100 cal bag of popcorn, and 170 cal of mixed nuts for snacks. Dinner was a bowl of Kashi Go Lean cereal (not the "Crunch" kind) and Silk Light soy milk. I drank lots of water, but still couldn't satisfy my thirst. Probably 'cause I ate alot of salt. Overall it was a good day. 
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Krystin
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Posted: 13 November 2005 03:26 pm |
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| Yesterdays' food is hard to remember. Breakfast was Mimi's Cafe (egg white omlette with spoinach and feta and tomatoes, a few bites of red potatoes, and couple bites of the pumpkin spice muffin, coffee with cream, water). My mid-morning meal was custard filled chocolate frowsted donut at my learning team meeting. The lady who host the meeting is really kind and always wants to make people feel welcome. She was taught that to do that she needs to feed everyone. I need to learnto say, "NO!!" (In a nice way, of course.) I also had another cup of coffee with cream. Lunch was some almonds, a bowl of Kashi Go Lean with light soy milk, and a chocolate pudding. Dinner was a few drinks of ruma nd diet coke. My late night meal was Amy's enchilada something or 'nother and a 100 cal bag of popcorn. I have no idea what my total counts were so I'm gonna go figure that our now.
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Krystin
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Posted: 13 November 2005 03:43 pm |
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| 354 gained yesterday. I wasn't very active and I ate some high fat foods. 45% of my food intake was fat, but at least it was yummy!
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Krystin
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Posted: 14 November 2005 03:52 pm |
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Sunday would have been a great day food wise had it not been for the night caps:). Breakfast was my guy's eggs with onions and peppers, high fiber low cal bread, coffe with fat free hot chocolate mix for flavor (only 50 cal, not fat and 30% of my calcium intake for the day). Lunch was a protien smoothie, a couple bites of artichoke & spinach wheat crusted pizza, and another bite of broccoli soufle from a local health food store. Dinner was a Morning Star Farms veggie dog on a white bun with ketchup and 3 pepper mustard. I also made red potato salad with fat free miracle whip, 3 pepper mustard, celery, green onions, and a couple hard boiled eggs. I had a 1/2 cup of that along with some onions and squash that were marinated in olive oil and balsamic vinegar and then grilled. My evening snackes were walnuts, Triscuits, and a 100 cal bag of popcorn. That came to 1962 cal and I burned 2463, a loss of 501 cal. But then I had 3 beers while grilling and 2 strong rum and diet DP whichj added up to over 900 cal. I gained a total of 444 calories, but I'm ok with that 'cause like I've said before I don't intend to stop having a few drinks on the weekend. I have burned 722 cal since the 10th of Nov. In order to loose a pound by the 17th I ned to shed 2778 cal in the next few days. Thats a loss of about 695 cal per day and I think that is very doable!
We did alot of shopping yesterday. A lunch style and thus cheaper version of P.F. Chang's (I can't remember the name since Florida doesn't have any, oh wait... it's called Pai Wai or something like that) serves this great tofu that is firm and meaty. My guy googled it and its a dehydrated tofu that is only sold at Asian speciality stores. We spent 2 hours looking for some yesterday, but came home empty handed. We might end up trying to buy some online.
Overall great weekend!Last edited on 14 November 2005 04:02 pm by Krystin
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Krystin
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Posted: 15 November 2005 02:08 pm |
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Yesterday's count were decent. I ate 1894 calories and burned 2546 for a deficit of 652 calories. Breakfast was Kashi cereal with soy milk, coffee with fat free hot cocoa mix, vitamins. Lunch was Pizza hut: 2 1/2 slices of a medium handtossed veggie lovers, 1 slice of apple dessert pizza, a salad with greens, cottage cheese, brocolli, pinnapple, cucumber and a drizzle of French dressing (maybe a tbsp), with Diet Coke to drink. I had crunchy granola bars for a snack (130 cal). I had a Lean Cuisene (I know I can't spell, you don't have to tell me ;)) spinach and mushroom deep dish pizza for dinner. Grapes for an evening snack.
One of these days I'll have enough time to scribble out some thoughts other than what I ate (that is important to my success). But, as it stands it is not my priority right now. Good luck everyone!
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Krystin
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Posted: 16 November 2005 11:06 pm |
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Tuesday's counts were impossible to do. For some reason the calculator wasn't working right for me and when I went to the "Help" page the only solution I could find was to clear out my cookies. Now They won't hold anything so everytime I left and my guy would close out a window (any window), or I would accidently close one I would loose all of my counts. And since I don't have time to reenter my counts every few hours I gave up on yesterday. My food choices were ok: kashi with soy milk; coffee with fat free swiss hot cocoa mix; a bag of trail mix from work; a chocolate pudding snack (sugar free); Chipotle vegetarian burrito bowl (a burrito without the tortilla) with fajita veggies, rice, black and pinto beans, cheese, lettuce, tomato and green tomatillo salsas; lentil soup, and I think thats all.
Wednesday's food (today) has been kashi cereal with soy milk; coffee with soy milk and fat free cocoa mix; Perkin's egg white omlette with celery, onion, and bell pepper & topped with Swiss cheese, fruit (instead of hasbrown or breakfast 'tators), and their pumpkin muffin (I took off some of the cream cheese frosting:D); a 100 cal bag of popcorn and a handful of raw walnuts. Dinner will be Hungry Howies (just one slice) and a salad.
I did my re-pap today to make sure my insides aren't rotting away :P. I spoke with the nutritionist who said to eat more protien, eat more good fats, eat less processed stuff, quite counting calories and fat grams, and now I'm totally confused. I hate trying to be healthy. The more I work at being in shape the more out of shape I get. I feel like I'm loosing muscle and gaining fat. My weight is staying the same, but I have more rolls than I have ever seen on my body before and my clothes aren't fitting. I just want to be toned, wear a size 10 again (its been forever!!!), not get cancer, and be satisfied when I eat. I want to feel more than full: satisfied.
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Peter
Founder, caloriesperhour.com
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Posted: 16 November 2005 11:32 pm |
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If you have more problems with the calculators please e-mail me the specifics so I can see what needs to be done!
Thanks,
Peter
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mommydoo
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Posted: 16 November 2005 11:34 pm |
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| Just keep going Krystin..it sounds like you want to give up. C'mon girl get the willpower back!!! You can do it;)
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BlushRose
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Posted: 17 November 2005 04:09 pm |
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Hang in there, Krystin.....you've made so much progress, maybe your body just needs a little time to adjust. You've got so much going on right now....don't be too hard on yourself. And I'm sure upping both your protein and good fats will help you feel more satisfied, as well as help with the weight loss.
Take pride in your achievements......'cause we're proud of you, too!!
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Krystin
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Posted: 17 November 2005 06:16 pm |
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Thank you guys!! I needed some support. I feel much better today. I think you're right Blushrose, getting more protien and eating high quality fats will help with the satisfaction factor, as well as the weight.
I don't intend to quite, I just get frustrated sometimes. I spent 2 years losing 50 pounds, a year gaining back 10-15, and this last year trying to lose the final 25 or so. That amounts to 4 years of work !! I get to 166 and stay there for 2 weeks, then I get frustrated and binge for a few days and my weight goes back up to 168 or so. So I remotivate myself to get back on track and get down to 166, but then I get stuck and the cycle starts all over again. I WILL break 166!!!
After my popcorn and walnuts yesterday I added in a banana slathered with peanut butter and a big cup of soy milk. I shouldn't have eaten 'cause I wasn't hungry, but aI'm glad that I didn't go out and buy a chocolate peanut butter slice of cheesecake or anything. Last night my guy wanted something yummier than our $5 pizza from Hungry Howies so we went to the Laughing Cat. I was all set to order just a salad, but then remembered that I was going to try and get more protien so I settled on a side salad and crab cakes from the appetizer menu (I'm starting to add fish to my diet, but I think I already mentioned that not too long ago). They weren't able to make the cakes for some reason and the other fish entres were $25 each. I ordered the salad with eggplant parm becaus eit was much more reasonably priced. I ate maybe 5 bites and was full so we boxed up the rest and my guy ate it for breakfast this morning. I had 2 glasses of Pinot Grigio and 2 large rum and diet dr. peppers when we got home (I persuaded my guy to take the night off so we could hang out... I miss him!). I know I over did it, but I don't feel any regret or remorse.
It was really nice to have a mid-week "date". I only get to see him for a couple hours in the evening (8-10 p.m.) unless he wakes up early, but then he is tired at work, which isn't fair to him. I see him for about 30 minutes in the morning, but its while I'm getting ready for work. We have the weekends together, which is good. I still miss him though :)!
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Krystin
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Posted: 17 November 2005 06:31 pm |
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| Breakfast today was alot of water (I always go to bed withouit drinking enough water on days I endulge in spirits), Ka |
