ok, so I am starting over! I think I have little more understanding thanks to tatara and other helping me . At this ppoint I will begin tommarow to wiegh myself and measure myself. I will record it as well as my daily evercises,which I am a little shocked to find out just how much I need to doin oreder to burn 500 extra calories!
So it's one hour of brisk walking and 30 minutes of pilates! I better get up early! The brisk walking won't be so much of a problem because I can bring the baby in the stroller. But Pilates I have to do when baby's asleep.
So breakfast will be a protien shake with fiber like flax seed and fruit--smoothie and a piece of whole grain toast -no fat. 400calories
snack of 1/2 cup cottage cheese and carrot stix or radishes.110calories
lunch will be chickenbresat in lemon griiling sauce and salad 400calories
snack of whole grain flax toast and 1tsp of peanut butter120calories
supper of soy/whey protien smoothie with flax oil 350calories
which leaves room for a100 calorie snack before bed.
I think this will work. now let's see if I can do it!
Last edited on 27 July 2008 12:15 am by 50lbs2lose
Thanks for popping in to my diary. I started lifting soup cans when I was in the wheelchair, so October. Then small weights 2.5 lbs, then 5. I bought a book (not sure if I can name it) It has pictures and descriptions of every excercise you can do using your own body weight and dumbells. It was a book written for men. Not that I am biased but I wasn't looking for fluffy. I'll look through my diary and try to find the pages. I didn't realize it has gotten to be a book....what a journey it has been.
I counted calories in a spreadsheet. Now I can keep a running daily total in my head. While you are making the change keep track. Little things add up fast.
Eating clean is a simple concept, but oh so complicated :-)
Eat as close to nature as you can, with low fat, no sugar. So whole wheat everything. Fruits, vegies and meats get your carbs form vegies, oatmeal and beans not pasta and bread. That helps eliminate the foods that are high cal like pizza, fast food, processed junk. Then combine your food so each meal has a protein. Egg white for breakfast. Nuts for snack. Low fat cottage cheese or yogurt, tuna and lots of chicken. To build muscle while dieting you have to eat lots of protein, otherwise your body burns up your muscle too. Muscle burns fat 24 hours seven days a week. I hate cardio so for me lifting works as I'm essentially lazy :-)
Now the tough part...eat 6 meals a day...each one with protein! this means you are never without food for more then three hours. You always feel full. This kicks your metabolism into high gear. These meals are all small.
I feel like I'm hijacking your diary...sorry. Ask away any questions I will help. Suenos is also a iron lover.
NOno you are not hijacking my diary. Oh contrar! Your response has helped me so much! Hoofprints I admire your advise because your wisdom has shown up in your progress. That is why you have the gray,because you are a wise woman! And I will listen to what you have to say because you walk your talk. I do like to walk though and will stick to it as part of my exercise program. But lifting the wieghts has always been something I have wanted to try but not had the confidence because of the concept of being a weight lifter. I don't know, I am pretty old fashioned in my concepts butttt.......... if it helps me to get the fat off I want to try it. And yes if you don't mind finding ou the name of the book I might like to use my own body wieght. God knows I've got enough of it. I might as well us it for something ! So Tommarow I will begin MY journey. And hope it leads me to the road of no return (of the fat that is) Thanks again and I do hope you look at my diary from time to time to get this reponse. Or I could just respond on your diary
hoofprints wrote: I bought a book (not sure if I can name it)
Books can be named, of course! You can even put a link to the page on (say, Amazon) where there are details and reviews of the book. However, if you have one of those affiliate links that make you money when somebody clicks through it to buy the book, that would not be allowed. That's only fair, wouldn't you say?
Thanks for responding about the boof thing, and yes, of course thats fair! I am thankful for this sigh, s it doesn't seek to make money off of peoples weakness, but seeks to help those who need it.
Well, I am off to a good start today, this week! Got up while baby was still sl ee pi ng and went for a 4 mile walk! First 4 mile walk in 2 years. I have gone on 2 and recently3 mile walks but now I am up to 4 again! yea! I know I will feel it later, but for noe I'm lovin it! Nursing baby and off to make breakfast for family! This is the hard part; keeping my apitight under control!
Breakfast;blueberry(real ones) protien shake with soy milk and flax/borage oil=320
1 small slice whole spelt natural leavened toast with habanaro sauce=50
Snack;1/2c. cottage cheese(low fat)=90
Lunch:2thin small slices sunflax nL spelt toast w/2tbs feta cheese,and tomatoe slices+atsp olive oil and habanaro sauce. along with a few (10) potatoe chips So how does this add up so far?=300cals.
snack:protien mocha shake=187
supper: 1chicken breast with lemon pepper seasoning/salsa+1ear of corn=303
2/5oz glassesog cabernet s.=246
with a grand total of.1496calories
If my calculations are wrong someone please correct me. The cabernet is in affect and I might have miss calculated
Last edited on 28 July 2008 02:08 am by 50lbs2lose
thanks hiedi! I was just telling my husband how nice it is to have encouragement from total strangers. I know I am not alone in this struggle and there are those who are doing it. It is refreshing!
awesome job on the walk...isn't taking those first steps empowering? I will get the name of the book and author for you. Another great resource is two magazines by Robert Kennedy, "Oxygen" and "clean eating" they may be harder to find. Each I believe also has websites, check those out.
I will take a picture this morning for you...if I can find the camera. I took it out of a suitcase and gave it to my husband He's installing a sprinkler system in my garden for me!
One word of caution...lifting weights is addicting....it transforms your body like nothing else can.
I hope so, I surely do need a transformation. After having 7 children and breast feeding all of them for 2 years each, for the past 22 years......need I say more? Looking forward to seeing the now new you!
well I wore my pedometer all day and put my calorie burning goal as 1000, even though I know I only need to burn an extra 500 I wanted to see how muchI burned on a typical day with all my activities. In any case,when I took it off tonight It said 100%! So what does that mean? That I burned 1000 calories and ate only 1500. But that doesn't include the calories I burned for just being alive right? I am not understanding everything yet, But I know I'll get it eventualy. So night night for my first day
Well, after I made my entry last night I did a quick add up of my activities and calorie amount. After I subtracted my 1500c for food I was left with a deficit of 3665calories burned! So though I normaly would not wiegh myself 2 days in a row I did to see if I had indeed lost 1 pound. No I lost 2 pounds! . Now this seems a bit fast for me because I do not want to damage my metabolism any more than I have. But this morning I was up and out for my hour brisk walk with the baby in stroller. I couldn't take my usual straight walk as it is not stroller friendly, so I was up and down many hills. I know I burned more calories on this walk than the simple straight one yesterday but how do I calculate that?
In any case eating was crazy today because of many dynamics! Breakfast was 1egg on whole spelt rye bread with1 tsp olive oil and Habanaro sauce.=300
Lunch was 12"turkey (n0 mayo, lots of veggies on whole wheat) sub and diet coke (I can't believe I drank that!).=700
Supper was a large green salad with 1 cup lowfat cottage cheese and 2 tbs balsalmic vinergerett.=400 Total=1400calories
Well, no walk yet this morning. I had to make bread run for the bussiness this morning and etccc...
So far I have had my protien smoothie with 1 frozen banana=80c
protien powder=60c
1cup sooy milk=90
1/4 cup orange juic=26c
spirulina/barley powder=12c
flax/borage oil=130
breakfast total=400 oh +a coffee
i had early this morning=90?=490caloris
I am getting ready to have my first days snack of 1 cup lowfat cottage cheese with 3
radishes. So I'll just add that in hear as well. =150 totaling 640 calories for the day so far.
uh....There were o radishes left! so i had some bell pepper. In any case........
lunch..............................................2 fried eggs(in ni fat olive oil spray=160
2slices whole wheat 4 seed bread=130
jalepeno mustard and 1tsp light cream cheese=25
supper was a turkey/tomatoe sandwich=550 cal
evening snack;2 slices turkey on 2 slice 4 seed brea and jalepeno
mustard=140 totaling 1440.
I did my 4 mile walk up to the milk farm where we have started sellimg our bread. and took another walk later with the children to a park 1/2 mile away. So I walked atleast 5 miles today. I was thinking that pushing astroller up hill for atleast 1/2 of a 4 mile brisk walk must burn more cal. than me simply moving my arms back and forth as I go along!
Pedometer reads20379 steps for the day! It seems like I am able to stay in a close rang of my eating. I just hopeit continues to show up on the scale!
Nir, if you are peeking in at all , how can I add words to my diary title other than just "cindy's journal"?It is late so I am off to bed before baby wakes up to nurse
Last edited on 30 July 2008 04:45 am by 50lbs2lose
Can someone explain the zig zagging methode to me? i am wondering if I should encorperate this into my eating or should I jjust stick to my 1500 with exercising 500 off?
I'm not sure what your RMR is, but zig zagging is basically doing two or three low days-say, 1200 calories, followed by a maintenance day..not sure what your maintenance level is, maybe 2200 calories. Keeps the body guessing, and by having that high day, your body won't go into starvation mode.
my RMR is 1513. I am moderatley to very activeso I willstick with a factor of 1.55. Therefore RMR is 2345 calories for the day? Is that my maintanance calorie? Th 2345? That is alot, especialy since I am sticking with 1500 and burning anextra 500 during exercise! Are you saying, if I stick with the 1500, say 3 days and then jump to the 2345 for one day and back to the 1500 for three? That's zig zagging?
Last edited on 29 July 2008 10:16 pm by 50lbs2lose
If you're going to eat to maintenance on the fourth day, you can go lower than 1500 if you want....say 1200, 1500, 1200, 2300. You just have to experiment with it and see what works for you.
It is good to keep your body guessing and your metabolism revved up. you can zig zag or once a week have a carb up day. This day you still eat all your meals however pick one or two where you eat something "off diet" Some people use it as a cheat day and go nuts. I don't think that's emotionally a healthy thing to do. That's a day you may be going out for dinner and so can't be sure of the calorie content. It doesn't mean have deep fryed foods or dessert, but order a nice balanced meal and don't worry that it might be a few hundred calories more than your limit.
It's a great cycle to get into and as long as you don't turn it into a cheat day instead of two meals, or extend it over the weekend it does make the strictness of the rest of the week easier.
Well, I thought I should get this in before the day ends! It has been another crazry day with the bakery delivery etc.. I wont go all out into details because it's so late as is.
But gave the zig zagging some thought and maybe today was a zag! I did well all say even given the circumstances of delivering bread all morning with the 2 little ones. Kept it under 500 all morning and then had only 1/2 turkey/mustard sand.=135. So I was doing well and going to try a ZIG day- low cal...................then husband, who is delivering in Boston calls and says " guess were we are having lunch? (Him and 12 year old son). I don't know. I mean I'm trying not to think about food right now, ya know? "Well" says he. I will save you 1/2 of an order only 3 of them.....................
Oh no your not! I can't believe it1 He is having lunch at The Border and they havre the most awesome jalapeno poppers I have EVER had!!! "Jalapenos are good for you" Reason I. And the chicken and Tiny bit of cheese it is stuffed with IS protein after all! BUT i wonder how much all that fried batter on top cost in calories? UGH!!! Could call him back and tell him to give them to some needy person on the street on the way home. BUT I haven't had those in at least 6 months! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO................I guess I'll make it a ZAG day, high calorie.
In any case I did eat them when he came home at 9o'clock. And yes I do feel uh...like I want to see what happens tomorrow .
On the up side, even after driving most of the day I took every opportunity to load and unload the racks of bread so as to strengthen my arms etc.. and then I even took my 8 year old for a walk to the park which is 1 mile away. While he did some hoops I walked up a very steep hill and around the park and then back home with boy for 3 intense miles. How does one calculate an intense uphill walk as opposed to a straight shot?
And how many calories was in each of those poppers anyway????????????
50lbs2lose wrote: On the up side, even after driving most of the day I took every opportunity to load and unload the racks of bread so as to strengthen my arms etc.. and then I even took my 8 year old for a walk to the park which is 1 mile away. While he did some hoops I walked up a very steep hill and around the park and then back home with boy for 3 intense miles.
hey that sounds like great exercise
...forget about the poppers and start again tomorrow...you probably don't want to know how many cals were in them anyway!!!...LOL...j/k
Thanks alot Hiedi! I tried to post an entry earlier but got interupted and then lost it. Soooooooooo... I'll try again! Today was another intense day ( it seems that is all I have lately)! anyway I, we had a small bakery seminar hear at our little bakery today and so I prepareing food all day! I realy wanted to do the 1200 calorie thing today but I don't think I stayed that low. I will know when I check on the calculator. But I was up and down the stairs preparing food ALL morning and finally finished at 3 when I took the boys and baby for a swim.Ahhhhhhhhhh It felt so good to just float in the cool water! Then When I got home I told everyone they were having left overs for supper and I whent for my 4 mile brisk walk. I absolutely love sweeting and feeling the way I do at the end of a good hard walk. But I am sad to say I will probably need to find another avenue (apart from any fancy machines or gym, because no money for that)to get a good workout. My feet are getting soo bad that they start to fall asleep at the 3qrter mark and now my toes are all pushingover to the left on my left foot. I have had bunions one both of my feet for several years and the past years with the extra wieght it is taking its toll. Every time after I come home from a walk you would think I was a different person , hobbling around on my crippled feet. Wheras just moments before I was booking it down the busy highway 9 pushing my stroller withmp3 player blaring Dabbie Rocker walking workout! So Hoofer, if you find the name to that book ,or if anyone else has any advice for me It would be muchly appreciated! Well gottago, baby is being demanding
Nir, thanks for all the computer help! DId you say you could change that loose to lose for me? Thank you if you could. That sounds Terrible!
In any case If anyone has advice for me of another exercise I could do that is burning the same amount of caloreis for 1 hour a day 4mph walk, I would realy apreciate it. Its about 431 calorue for my size.
On another note: I know I am loosing something because my close are fitting " looser" and my face is thinnig out. I always lose in my face first so I don't realy go by the mirror head up anymore, but I know my clothes are getting looser as well! I jusr want to wait until Sunday to check so it will kep me in line oover the week-end. For some reason If I look at the scale and it says some wieght gone I usualy give myself liberty to eat more. But this time I don't think I will because of the tremendous work I've had to put out this week. Maybe I am trying too hard and going too fast. We shall see. I just know I have to do something for my feet before I become a criple!
Last night our family whent to a gathering at the farm we are going to be moving to in September. It is a community of believers in the bible according to the book af Acts. We lived in this community for 20 years and left 2 years ago to focus on some issues we had with our older children. Since then we have made a decision to return with the bakery and support what is there. We had a realy nice meal of grilled mackeral, rice, veggies and the most delicious breaded challah bread! I have to say I over did it on the bread. But I did no tdrink any of the sweetened tea hor have dessert.
This morning I got up early and whent to the market up the road to bring more bread to sell. Then the baby and I whent over to the farmers market near town to get a cup of Joe and walk around a bit. I thought I would be tempted by all the goodies there but I wasn't! But when I came home I got involved with all the other children getting up etc... so I have'nt eaten yet. I realy wanted to post before my day whent on too much.
So since yesterday was a little high calorie wise and I did not walk because I was so busy with laundry etc.. (but I did total 20 miles last week) I think I'll try to stay more towards 1200 or so. Well It is almost 11 and all I have had was a cup of coffee -not a good start!
We wanted to take the children for a bike ride on the walk path in Haddly today so I packed a lunch and we got everything in the car,children included and we were on our way..................Getting closer we noticed how dark the sky was getting and changed our minds and went the magic wings instead. It was the first time ( and last) we have gone. It is somewhat pricey for the 6 of us but something to do on a rainy day. Just got bavk and decided to see what the damage was on my calorie counts. 11:00--protien shake w/flax oil=330
lunch---opened faced turkey sand=210
28 potato chips(madhousemunchies)=150
iced coffeefrom mcedees(med)=150
No exercise today(yet). Mabe if the rain lets up hubby will watch all the munchkins and I can go for a walk?
Thank you for the name of the book, hoofer.I will try to find it soon because I need to do something more than walking to save my feet. I think, though, once I get some of the wieght off than I can amp my walking up again. I LOVE walking soooooooooooo much!
Ok, well withought being preachy or anything.........Living as the book of Acts is, If you look in the 2nd book chapter 41-47 It speaks about many people comming into the faith of Messiah. It then goes on to say how they actualy began living together as a community of believers. Chapter44 says"ANd all who shared the faith owned everything in common; they sold thier goods and possesions and distributed the proceeds among themselves according to what each one needed." This is how these people have lived for about 40 years now. As I said before we had lived there for 20 years but needed to focus on some things with our older children apart from the community and we are now feeling ready to return. I have no problem answering any questions you want to ask me abiut this to the best I can.
Ok, Now on to the rest of my food journaling.... At supper we had a nice big salad with cottage cheese and other goodies. I skipped the regular cheese and olives. I put mostly lettuce, sprouts, peppers, tomatoes some sessame stix and a little bit of cottage cheese. I had a good low cal dressing . So that was good . Buttttttttttttttttwhere I failed was the 8 grain sourgh dough bread. I am becomming a brad lover again! And then, because we had some out of town guests come for supper < I had made fresh blueberry pie in a grahm cracker crust and we all had a slice with a tad of whipped cream.
Why I can't I just say " no thank you, I'm fine" all the time? Well, I guess if it were that easy than I wouldn't be in this place, now would I?
And No, I did not go for my walk. Tommarow is wiegh in morning and I am so nervous about it I just want to go eat another piece ( or the whole rest of the PIE).!
I guess I'll just drink loads of water and go to bed.
lucky we are to have a chance at every single meal and snack to make a choice. One meal did not get you were you are and one meal will not undo your good intentions. Put the "bad" meal behind you and move on. Every meal we have a choice and 90% of them you are doing well. Remember habits take 21 days....can you count and control calories for only 21 days? I know you can.
Yes, lucky are we. And It did not seem to hinder my progress any. I checked the scale, as it is one week today, and honestly thought the 2 lbs I initialy lost after day 2 would be all that I dropped. But I was pleasantly surprised when the scale read 186! I haven't checked my measurements yet I will do that after my shower. But more good news ...I found my orthodics in an old pair of merrils and thought I would give them a try. Well I probably should of wore them yesterday to get use to them again as they about killed my shins the first 3 miles! But my toes did not fall asleep at all and they did not hurt when I finished my 4 miles I was so happy!
I realized why my shins hurt was because the ortho's put my feet in line and this stresses my shins out until I'm use to them again. But I took the last mile easier and came home feeling great!
I was wondering if someone knows about pushing a stroller while brisk walking? Because I always feel like I get more of a work out when I do the brisk walking with the stroller than by myself but the calculator read as if one is only "strolling" for an hour. I would apreciate any feed back on this. Thanks tons.
Thanks trat. I have already tried that but unfortunately, it gives you claculations that are 1/2 the amount as for simply brisk walking. But I know I am definately sweating more . In any case I will continue to use tha 4mph calculations.
my calculations for the day are as follows; 1458 calories in;3816 calories out; deficit of 2358 calories or something in that ballpark. I realized that this morning was not the morning to wiegh in as I realy started last monday. So I will wiegh and measure tommarow morning.
Well hubby got me up at 6:30 this morning because I told him I wanted to get up early to do xrses. But I havn't gone for my walk yet. Been busy taking my official wieght and measurments. So the damage for the week is...........................Wieght 185. and I lost 1 inch in the bust and 2inches in my waist. As my children would say YAHOO! So this seems to be working for me. I know it won't drop as speadily from now on and do not want to get discouraged when next week says only 1 pound gone. But realy I will be happy to get to 170 as I seem to keep dropping 5 on all the crazy fad diets out there but did not go any lower. I feel confident in the way I am eating that It isn't alot of water but actual fat. Because in the past months everything I tried ( diet pills, protien diets, alkalyzing etc) would rickoshe on me if I messed up even once and this hasn't happened with this, even after I ate the 4 jalepeno popper ( yes I confess I ate 4 of them!). But I also do not want to give into excuses to go ahead and eat the garbage or high fat foods on a regular basis. Maybe once a month have a treat meal with my family or something. I just know my reasoning, in the area of food is great and that is why I fall so easily.
So I now need to adjust my calculators to 185. I am not at 140 yet. I still have 45 lbs2lose. So don't get heady, cindy, just keep going, stay on track. Get the baby up and go for your walk!
So today was a good exercise day! I still need to find out how many more calories I burn pushing that stroller with a 20lb baby in it! Especialy when I am going up hill 80%! WHEW! that one was tough today. But oh did it feel soooogood after! So I got the 4 miles in ( including the incline uo crosby hill, thank you!). I also did the wiegth lifting with free form wieghts ( only 5 lbs) that cportwine suggested ti nick on his sight. They seemed realy easy. But instead of getting heaviere wieghts I was going to tru more reps next time. Any suggestions on that one?
In any case, meals were doing excelent untill I came home after bringing children swimming. All the way home I knew I had to fix something quick for supper because it is a bake day and slicing and bagging take a long time! So I'm thinking "wraps". We get the whole wheat ones, but still they are a whopping 350 calories per wrap! Probably because the'yre the big ones. anyway> I was going to make ceaser wraps but we were low on certain ing. So I found 3 rolls of roast beef (w/o fat type) and some cheese, tomatoe and lettuce. I was going to just have a protien shake and keep my calories at 1300 for the day BUT.....................my daughter "wasn't hungry" So I had extra roast beef and one slice extra swiis cheese and besides the wrap was already out of the package,and do you know how frustrating it is to get those buggers back in once they're out? Sooooo well I just went ahead and made myself a wrap with extra veggies and a little light mayo. That was a whopping 572 wowow more than I wanted. But I am not discouraged I did alot of exercising and I srubed the carpets from the car on my hands and knees. So hear it is...............4013 out 1903 in leaving a deficit of 2110. Not too bad.
Now I would think my calculations were off if it were not for the fact that I am constantly running hear and there and washing, folding putting away laundry etc..for a large family. I think the walking 4 miles a day and watching what i eat is what is kicking things into action. If I wern't aware that potatoe chips are 150c for 28 of them I could easily eat 450 calories worth along with the roast beef wrap. And I know I would have used more cheese and more mayo(regular mayo at that!). That could have been a meal worth 1200 calories on it's own!
So for now good night and hope to do better tommarow..................nite nite
so it is almost noon and I havn't done very good today so far! Took the husbands baking apprentice home thihs morning as they did not get done till 2:30 am so he sleep in the extra room. I took him home ( 30 minutes away) to let hubby sleep and needed a coffee on the way home, first mistake. I stopped off at this store that is known for thier FRESH apple cider doughnuts, which were permeating the morning air along with the smell of Green mountain roasters Iknow those little doughnuts are full of fat from the fryolator..so I did not buy any. Instead I got a large coffee and blueberry muffin. Still bad. White sugar, white flour and coffee with whole milk uhgggggggg! And boy was I feeling it a couple of hours later! The carb and sugar load completely whipped me! But now it is lunch time and time to make wiser choices.
Last edited on 6 August 2008 02:21 pm by 50lbs2lose
well,today ended better than I thought it would I actualy got 4.25 miles of walking in when I did not know if I would get any! my calories ended up at 1700 and I had a deficit of 2105. So I am still in the active stages. Getting anxious about wieghing in again, but realy want to wait until next monday so I won't get discouraged at all. I am going to bed early tonight
Hiya Cindy, reading your post about the blueberry muffins reminded me of the time I emailed for nutrition info to the company which provides the muffins served in our company's cafeteria. The shock was, for all the muffins and scones, they ran from 450 to 600+ calories per item. Even their flax which I though would be healthier. You are right to watch out for the muffins!
I am no expert on lifting, but I have learned a few things.
If you have a weaker side, start your reps there, that way if you can't complete you know how much to do on the other without overbuilding the strong side....does that make sense?
Start with those 2.5 or five pound weights...when you can do three sets of ten and aren't dying at number 8 of the last...move up! Move up in 2.5 or five pound increments. Those old "little" weights are a perfect warm up set. Do two sets of ten of any exercise to warm up. Then move into your workout.
I warm up on my exercise bike for ten minutes or on my step for 7...then move into my "real" workout.
Invest in a workout ball....it substitutes for a weight bench, and uses all your stabilizer muscles.
You could try a whole body workout for a few weeks and really practice perfect form. Then my body got "used" to it. Now I do a split....(arms and chest one day...back and legs the next...then abs..) after about five weeks I change excercises, or number of reps, or go to a different "style" That way my muscles are always trying to catch up
As soon as I can complete a set of three of most excercises without dying to do it I move up 5 pounds at a time...At first I have to push VERY hard to complete and sometimes I can only get 7 of the ten, but before you know it I can do the new weight.
Well I finaly was able to get my ticker on! Slow and steady wins the race! Thanks for the advice hoof and molly,WOW about those muffins! But why do they have to taste soooooooooo good! ?
Ok, so I got up at 7:15 to go for a walk w/o baby, as hubby was still sleeping, welllllllllllll It was pouring out! and I did not want to get on the sight yet because I spent soo much time on yesterday reading journal entry"s I haven't read( WOW how inspirering you all are!) But the sight itself can become quite a distraction! So instead of exercising I swepy and mopped the bakery. I should have read hoofers advice first It probably would have given me what I needed to do the wieghts. But the bakery is clean and the children are now fed and husband is on his way with the bread. Oh what a poet I am!
Brekfast: 2 slices whole spelt raisin cinnammon toast with 1tbs rasberry jam and esspresso with 1% milk=285 (well atleast it was wholesome!)
Last edited on 6 August 2008 03:04 pm by 50lbs2lose
well this is 3rd time I kave tried making an entry in the past 24 hours. Let's see if I can accomplish it this time!
So Yesterday I managed a full 50 min of aerobics and 3 sets 0f 10 doing 7 upper body exersises! I thought Iwould get some rest and se how I felt in the a.m. Well it just so happened I had one of those pocorn nights with the baby. She did not want to stay asleep! So I woke up sore and tired!
Well today has been raining all day and I was too sore toexercise so I didn't. My food was realy good until I made this realy good chili and ate toomuch. It had no meat and was black beans and had 2% cheese and cottage cheese...So It wasn't like a1000 calories like it probably could have been but Iwas going to try to stay at 1200 todat since no exercise but got back up there to 1600 instead. Well given the fact that all week I have been burning a goo 500-600 calories extra a day and keeping my calories at around1500-16-- I think I should loose atleast ilb this week. I would be happy with that since I lost 5 last week!
I can definately feel the difference and my husband told me today that my clothes looked like they were growing on me. As busy as he is and he takes time to notice AND express it!
Well it was another bread run morning, but htis time I went prepared! Brought a slimfast bar and some special k cerial. Only ate 1/2 the bar, and oh some chicken jerkey (70) caloreis for the little packet. I ate the cerial plain because I couldn't find skim milk in a 8oz size!. So it was 270 for breakfast, OH I forgot the coffee=another 80(only because again no skim milk and 3 sugars! So 310.
Lunch was a wholesome turkey,lettuce, tomatoe, Jalepeno mustard and little honey mustard on 4 seed whole spelt= 380 and water.
Going to the farm tonight for a celebration supper probably grilled mamckeral and a yummy salad. I need to watch how much bread I eat though~Alwasy soooooooooo good, fresh like that. NO dessert and no sweet tea. I should do ok even if I end up having 600 calories at the meal I will still be just over 1200. It is just the eating so late that I regret. We will get there at 6:00 and usualy end up eating around 8:00. Oh well I am off to lok at others entries and clean refrigerators and finish laundry and clean laundry room etc.................. Hope I can fit my exercises in as it is stormy again so no brisk walk.
So far today no,so I'm going to write this and go for a walk before eveyone else gets up!
Whent to the farm last night for supper and celebration. Super was grilled mackeral anddddd...............Eggplant parmesean. Ilove eggplant parmesean! It was a lower cal versian with cottage cheese instead of ricotta and BAKED eggplant instead of fried. But I should have just stuck to the portion I was served, insteads I fell into a bad habbit of mine, that is I tend to eat the left overs of my children. MY children are little eaters and if thier given a larger portion than they can eat I have been asking for a smaller one so I won't be tempted. But last night I let my youngest sons portion of EPP go because I knew I would get it. OK there is my confession for the day! So yes, I ate my fish (which was 1/2 a med size mackeral) and my EPP as we as 1 of my 8 year oldsOn the up side, the garlic bread came late so I did not touch it and I had a large salad of greens little tomatoes and cucumbers,also no dessert or tea.
MY husband wants me to help him loose some wieght as he is seeing results with me. He gave me TWO nice compliments last night. One was when we were leaving he said he loved what I was wearing and how it made me look. Ihave worn the VERY SAME outfit a few times before and he never said anything. And then after we came home I was sitting at the PC reading about JUDDD when he took a picture of me for his blackberry and he said "Yep, skin and bones." I said "yah right! not quite yet!"
SO far havn't eaten anyhting I will get dressed and go for a little walk
Just got back from the hadley trail with hubby and children. The boys and hub did the rent -a- bike thing and my daughter and I took the baby for a 4 mile walk. It wasn't a brisk brisk walk like when I get all sweaty, but it wasn't a stroll either. We got exercise and my poor husband ,boy did he get exercise! Those 2 little boys gave him a run for his money! 9 miles of it up and down hills. He is quite sore.
In any case, had friut for breakfast,apple and bannana,and a soy protien with h20 instead of dairy. So this morning and afternoon amounted to 400-500 with the coffee.Then we had a late lunch of snacky type foods from Wholefoods .All very high in fat! So I am not eating any supper. I figure I have still kept my calories under or around 1500 If the noodle salad, hummus, pita chips and savory scone (1/4 of it) ended up being 1000 of those calories. Luckily I did the 4 mile walk after we ate the late lunch!
So tommarow I was going to either start a zig zag or the JUDDD for a few weeks. My next weigh in day is on Monday and I am anxious to see if I have lost any more. I am not one to wiegh every day because I can't stand the up and down. It makes me too anxious and frustrated.
Can't wait to get up and do my morning walk! It is the one morning I go by myself because hubby stays in bed with baby. This morning I just went for a stroll.
So off now to read the little ones a story and get everyone to bed early. Maybe I'll get some crunches in on the stablelizing ball before bed!
Well started off the day very well! I had to make up for a late night splurge with hubby. He wanted to spend some time together after the children went to sleep so he got a large bottle of merlot and we had some cheese and crackers with it. I almost said no I am doing so good today. But I figured it was better to go with what was in his heart, because he know how much I am trying and he would not sabotage my efforts purposely. So I made up for it this morning and today. I went for a 4.63 mile brisk walk up hills and down valleys until I came home all sweaty and ready for the day!
So far today calories in=541
calories out(exercise wise)=611
Tomorrow is weigh in
For supper I had 1chicken breast with buffalo sauce (low cal type) and roasted zuchinni and corn====450
so a total of only 991 calories in for the day.
I did 80 crunches on the resistance ball tonight ? I do not know how many calories that is. Have to look it up
But I think I am doing good for zig day. Tomorrow I will bring the calories up a few so as not o binge on the Zag day.
Last edited on 11 August 2008 04:44 am by 50lbs2lose
I don't get it! I know I feel differen, I even look different .but the scale was up to 188! Why? One thing I noticed last night was my ankles had puffyness around them like I would get at the end of a day when pregnant. I am not sure why I would be retaining water like this because I drink about 6 quarts of water a day and do not eat pre-packaged food with white salt hardley at all! I make about everything we eat and we use celtic sea salt. ONe thing I was wondering is if coffee makes you rewtain water? I always heard it dehydrates you so drink more h2o if you have some.
In any case I realy wanted to get depressed about it because I only allow myself 1 weigh in day a week. Maybe I should weigh in every other day? Well, this morning I officialy switched back to mate (pronounced mah tay) this mornong still with sugar (not as much 1 tsp instead on2) and milk Less than with coffee.
But I have no motivation to go kil myself on an ever increasing hike of a brisk walk if this is what i get for it! I did read the "french women don't get fat" book once and wondered if there is any rhyme to the reson of tak e it slow because going faster is only stressful to your system and your body hangs on to everything in times of stress? I think that was the jist of the book.
I would be completely depressed today if I was not able to put on and wear comfortably a shirt and tunic I haven't been able to wear since before the last pregnancy.! GO FIGURE!
Well I think I figured out what is wrong. It is almost ttotm! I am so not use to this becaus of nursinffg and A dui I I had removed recently. So now that I am on track and I got a different scale (one I can see) I think I can do this. Although in my moment of despair I decided to only eat oatmeal and a protien drink this morning and then whent on an errand for my husband with the children. By time we got the errand done it was getting close to lunch. He and his baker apprentice were needing to eat so hubby asked me to pick up 2 large pizza! I was stawved at this point. So when we came home I gave in instead of making myself a salad with protein. Oh well. That was it for the day!
I then decided Idid not care if it was still raining I was going for my 4 mile brisk walk. So I did. And i am happy again.
All in, calories added to1500
calories burned with exercise =500
But I still don't know how to see what my deficit is
Ok I wanted to weigh on the new scale but I was so sore and tired that I ended up oversleeping.I was suppose to be up at 5:30 to get the rtead to 2 markets and slept in 1/2 an hour.I didn't even hear my daughter calling me, but hubby who hadn't gone to bed until 2:30 did. Shot oout of bed, threw my clothes on and got the apprentice and was out the door!I did remember to grab my water though.
Got home at 8:30 and baby was awake and wanting to be nursed. Husband was finishing up with the UPS bread and I ran to Walmart to get bins to start packing for move to the farm at the end of the month. So that is what I did most of the day. I did not even take the children for one walk! What a bad mom I am! But we all pulled together to go through, organise and pack a good bit. Going to have a large yard sale,( family event) on Sunday either this week or the next. So with all that and preparing meals and finishing laundry I did not do any exercise except 3 sets of Hundreds (pilate crunches). I wanted to do the weights ( and might still after this entry) but baby was giving me a hard time going to sleep. She just fell out!
So food today was alot but within range;
Brk; omlete with 2 eggwhites and 1 whole egg 1/4 cup 2% chedder and veggies and salsa=226
a lowfat capacinno=75 totaling 301 for breakfast
snack; was 1 piece of 4 seed bread with honey mustard and 2 slices turkey meat=125
1/4 cup nonfat cottage cheese=35
Lunch; 4oz chicken breast on sesame spelt roll w/ 1tbs light mayo large salad w/ low cal dressing & 1 small cucumber=479 (This was my big meal)
dinner; rest of chicken breast, 1tbs low cal bbq sauce ,10 wheat crackers=120
night snack; a slim bar protien=200
agrand total of 1260 calories. Not bad for how content I was with my choices. Also I am on my last qrt of water making it 6 total!
Now oif I can just get the weights done before any catastrophy hits or the baby wakes up to nurse again
to find out just how much I need to doin oreder to burn 500 extra calories!
no you are not hijacking my diary. Oh contrar! Your response has helped me so much! Hoofprints I admire your advise because your wisdom has shown up in your progress. That is why you have the gray,because you are a wise woman! And I will listen to what you have to say because you walk your talk. I do like to walk though and will stick to it as part of my exercise 
. And hope it leads me to the road of no return (of the fat that is
) Thanks again and I do hope you look at my diary from time to time to get this reponse. Or I could just respond on your diary
So how does this add up so far?=300cals.
! Today was another intense day ( it seems that is all I have lately
to say I will probably need to find another avenue (apart from any fancy machines or gym, because no money for that
11:00--protien shake w/flax oil=330 
.
I was so happy
with whole milk uhgggggggg! And boy was I feeling it a couple of hours later! The carb and sugar load completely whipped me! But now it is lunch time and time
to make wiser choices. 
picture of me for his blackberry and he said "Yep, skin and bones." I said "yah right! not quite yet!"
. So this morning and afternoon amounted to 400-500 with the coffee.Then we had a late lunch of snacky type foods from Wholefoods
.All very high in fat! 
water though
