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Nir
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Posted: 22 January 2007 02:14 am |
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clarinetgurl wrote: Wow, a triple post. Nice 
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[duplicates deleted.] After 3 posts it still looked like I was going to lose my contribution (which can get annoying - after I've gone to the trouble of formatting it)
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Nir
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Posted: 22 January 2007 10:43 am |
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| I was over-eating, and though "oh what the #@!" and kept on going and going. Luckily I then woke up and it was only a dream. Perhaps it is anxiety about the party I'm going to on February 10th where I won't have much control?
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ObsessedwithFitness
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Posted: 22 January 2007 05:48 pm |
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At least yours was a dream!!!!!  I have felt like that for the past 2 weeks or so. UGH! Wish I could wake up!!
Maybe on February 10th, you can:
- "save up" your calories for the party and indulge the way you want to
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2. eat a big meal before you go and then you'll be too full to eat at the party
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3. SKIP the party??? (Is that an option at all??)
(I don't know, I am just thinking of ways to help you, cause I know what anxiety about a party without any control feels like. But... I wouldn't take my advice, it's taken me like 5 years to start eating vegetables and drinking water and I STILL haven't reached MY GOAL weight because I still overeat sometimes.)
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Nir
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Posted: 22 January 2007 06:11 pm |
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Thanks OWF for the ideas.
I'm looking forward to the social aspect of the party, so I won't be missing it (#3). In fact, more than the party, the challenge is that I am essentially moving into my sister's house for the duration - leaving Milton Keynes on Saturday afternoon and only getting back on Monday afternoon.
I'm currently thinking of having a very vegetable-and-protein-heavy day on Saturday in preparation for the party (so that takes care of methods #1 and #2 - I should be full and have plenty of spare calories) and then hopefully remaining focused on my health / leanness goals, partaking in drink but pretending I'm "not interested in food". After all, am I there for the food or for the social ocassion? [well that's the theory anyhow]
Then going completely back 'on plan' on Sunday, even though I'm not home.
I cannot count on any healthy food actually being present there, so I'll have to pack really well - food for 3 days.
I had a long chat to the gym manager. It started with just checking it was OK to have a re-program (as it has been 2.5 months since my last one) but we soon moved on to what kind of re-program would be appropriate [his take is that there are only so many variations of exercises - the main merit of a rejig is to keep my interest up]. He was discussing the possibility of completely changing the way I work out to, say, intense one-off actions like clean-and-press. Then we touched upon the possibility that the reason my current program isn't getting me appreciatable muscle-building results is that (surprise, surprise) I am restricting calories to below maintenance.
So if my short-term goal is actually not muscle-building but getting leaner, what program should I have? Should I do more cardio and less weights? What is more important to me at this time? (getting leaner or muscle building). It is really hard for me to get to grips as I'm being pulled in these opposite directions.
I've come up with a way of increasing calories. Instead of the 1600/2000 zig-zag scheme I'm following at present (3 low days, 1 high day) I can transition to 2000-on-workout-days, 1600-on-rest-days. This will be a shift towards more calories. No change for today, which is a workout day (just did Chest,Triceps,Abs) and was a planned high day.
Who knows, the promise of 400 more calories might make me more enthusiastic about my workout days  . Most important of all is to monitor to see if this gets results. Will I have more energy? Will I increase my weights? Will my body composition adjust? If it doesn't work I can always go back.
I'll have to admit that after enjoying a 2000 calorie day it is always challenging to go back to a 1600 calorie day. Even with the 'plenty' world that vegetables provide.
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Nir
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Posted: 23 January 2007 03:17 am |
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Monday
I replaced the CR2032 battery in my heart-rate monitor chest strap and now it is reliable again, showing my actual heart rate instead of dividing it by 3 or 4 (or staying completely OFF, as was the case on Saturday when I wanted to use it for aerobics). Workout was Chest/Triceps/Abs.
My brother is arriving tomorrow afternoon from Paris. He mentioned something about restaurant dining so I'll have to be on guard. I bet he won't like me weighing anything in public so I wonder how that could work.
The windchill effect made 0 celsius feel like -5 and my feet were freezing on the cycle ride bike. Decided not to bother with salsa as I'd rather stay indoors.
Was delighted to find my packet of sunflower seeds which I presumed "lost or finished" for a good few months. Am I blind? How could I not spot it?
I keep leaving the sweet potatos in the micowave for too long. Let me confess: I want them to lose more weight (so I can chart them as having less calories - I'm going by the 84-calories-per-100g figure). Technically this is probably cheating but that's what I do anyhow. They keep getting burnt though! Already had to throw 3 sweet potatos since I've been playing with them (since Saturday). Serves me right.
Food report:
ANIMALS: salmon(50),pig kidney(50)=100
RUBBISH: soup-from-powder(84),sf 'jello'(25)=109
Totals: 2000 calories, 103.8g protein.
Forecast is windchill -7 for tomorrow, so I'm staying around town and not cycling to the gym.Last edited on 23 January 2007 03:41 am by Nir
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Nir
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Posted: 24 January 2007 05:33 am |
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Tuesday
As planned, skipped gym and stayed at home all day (and this meant a 1600-calorie-day).
Overeaters Anonymous make use of the 'Alcholoics Anonymous Big Book' (ht tp://anonpress.org/bb/) so I decided to read that book online. Also listened to the hypnosis CD, which I haven't done for a few months.
Brother arrived from Paris in the afternoon and stopped over at mine for a couple of hours (mum being too busy to pick him up as she was doing a class at her gym).
He wouldn't accept any fruit/veg - but I got around that by doing him my 'spicy potato wedeges', complete with home-made dip. He also accepted some chicken, so I guess he falls into the "meat and potatos" category. He was clearly intersted more in 'taste' than nutrition, so I offered some calorie-dense choices (including my home-made peanut butter, shreddies and popcorn).
I have the heating quite high in my flat. My brother decided to change to a lighter shirt and I could see that he isn't winning the battle with the flab. However, if I had anything even less healthy at home I'm sure he would have happily accepted. (when I asked if he wanted fruit, he asked if I had any dried fruit)
He was showing absolutely no interest in various things I was cooking myself at the same time, including TVP, garden peas. He hijacked the laptop and was playing various comedy clips from the internet - leaving me with the overall impression that I made the correct choice, 3 years ago, to give up TV.
Mum phoned from the market to point out beetroot was at a good price - so I got her to buy me some. She then came around for a "brother for beetroot" exchange. (I don't know why but later on I asked mum to at some point give me a slice of a cake she recently baked, that I missed out on but which was served to my brother this afternoon. I guess jealousy? Also I've asked for some home-made Falafel. So those will be future challenges. Gulp.)
Didn't emerge for supermarket shopping, and skipped the salsa - opting for a nap [that'll be why I'm up right now, at 2.30am]
Food: RUBBISH = jelly(25), ANIMALS = chicken thigh(50). 23.4g (almost 1/4) of my daily protein target came from TVP today. Only ate the chicken because it was coming up to 48 hours since I defrosted it [silly really - should have given it to my brother. instead he got a portion from the freezer and only 'discovered' the defrosted chicken later on]
Wednesday is still forecast to be cold. I shall be wearing double-socks and still expect to freeze a little - but there's more to do (gym, theory class, salsa) so hopefully it'll be worth suffering. And if I'm active, I'm treating myself to 2000 calories.
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Nir
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Posted: 24 January 2007 12:10 pm |
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Nir wrote: Wednesday is still forecast to be cold. I shall be wearing double-socks and still expect to freeze a little - but there's more to do (gym, theory class, salsa) so hopefully it'll be worth suffering. And if I'm active, I'm treating myself to 2000 calories.
It is all white outside. It has been snowing here (first time in over a year?) and forecast to continue throughout the day [couldn't they have told me this yesterday?]. Temperatures are now not too bad, but I don't fancy what it is like to cycle into college through snow and later ice.
 On Monday I decided that, instead of following the 3-days low, 1-day high zig-zag scheme, I'll do 'high' days on workout days and 'low' days on rest days. Monday was originally going to be a 'high' day and I was working out anyhow, so I did 2000 calories (no change there). The Tuesday was cold and I stayed in, so it was a low day - same as it would have been under the previous scheme. Now Wednesday we've unexpectedly got snow, so again it looks like I'm staying in (and having another low day). So 3 days of my 'new' scheme so far are exactly the same as my previous scheme 
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ObsessedwithFitness
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Posted: 24 January 2007 06:22 pm |
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Nir,
I like your "new" scheme!! I chuckled when I read that cause I can relate! You TRY to do something different but then due to circumstances you cannot control,your efforts get aborted!
And I TOTALLY know what you mean about your brother!!!! It doesnt surprise me that he wasnt interested in your healthier way of living!! You said so yourself, he has lost the battle of the bulge! I have one brother, 2 half brothers and a half sister. I am the "baby". ANyway, I dont know my half sister or half brothers well at all. But my brother and I are communicating again over the last few years. BOY are we different!!!!!!!! he eats GARBAGE ALL DAY AND NIGHT!! He drinks EVERYDAY, and doesnt stop till he is drunk, and he doesnt belong to a gym, own a bicycle or do anything active really except pick up the remote and the beer. I TRIED everything. HE is the one who motivated ME when I was 15 to start working out! He was young and played football and had a lot of girlfriends and was in GREAT shape, so it motivated me to try out and make the cheerleading squad and workout and I started dieting back then. So, what happened to him? I bought him a GYM membership a few years ago-he didnt go ONCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UGH. I always offer him nutritious foods when we hang out instead of fried chicken, fries and pizzas and he refuses. I am worried about his health cause he is my brother, but you know what? There is nothing I can do but change MY unhealthy habits. I had to learn that the hard way! He thinks I am crazy for running and working out as much as I do, but we are just different. I love him, but its a good thing I am SO busy with work and stuff cause I have a feeling I would fall off the wagon if I hung out with him all the time.
ARGH. On with the battle!
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Nir
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Posted: 24 January 2007 08:24 pm |
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ObsessedwithFitness wrote: I like your "new" scheme!!
You've made me want to analyse the habits of my entire family now:
mum: she was into veggies before I even discovered them, active gym member
dad: unhealthy eater by default but will eat mum's healthy cooking, active gym member, keeps his weight top secret
little brother: inactive, currently overweight and eating for pleasure. He does know how to diet though - so I'm waiting for him to flip that switch.
little sister 1: active-ish, she scares me with her unhealthy home-cooking (lots of oil), not overweight
little sister 2: active-ish, not overweight but slightly more curvy.
[and then there's me: skinny, gym member, healthy eater and a compulsive over-eater]
Wednesday
I've decided to brave the weather after all (this town obviously employs some people to clear snow from the roads, so things weren't looking too bad in the afternoon). There are 400 extra calories at stake, after all  .
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trimB
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Posted: 24 January 2007 09:42 pm |
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| Really like your family analysis!! I always find it interesting to learn about other peoples' little quirks... like the fact that your dad's weight is top secret. Too funny! I may steal your idea some time for my own diary, if you don't mind. Or you could start a general forum topic?!? Oh perhaps I am the only one who finds this interesting??
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ObsessedwithFitness
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Posted: 25 January 2007 03:15 am |
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| Nope. You arent the only one who finds this interesting! I am very interested in human behavior and what makes us tick. I liked Nir's analysis. I think I will chart my own in my diary too!
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Chocoholic
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Posted: 25 January 2007 07:19 am |
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Agreed. I think a lot of our eating habits/problems can probably be traced in one way or another to things our families do, and I think it's fascinating.
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Hisgal
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Posted: 25 January 2007 07:46 am |
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Nir,
I remembered the question I had..........first of all, are you a scale junkie (have to weigh all the time or at least once a day)??
I am, and my weight was up this morning, after my high calorie day. So, here's my question: I'm wondering if that is normal? I am nervous about eating maintenance every fourth day. I seem to be so carb sensitive, and have such a hard time losing weight, and I can't believe that this zig-zag tool is really going to melt the fat off me. I guess I will just have to be patient and see what happens.
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Nir
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Posted: 25 January 2007 12:54 pm |
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Hi people, looking forward to seeing your family analysis.
Hi Hisgal,
I am a scales junky (er I went into it in some detail this week but I forget whose diary I was invading at the time). I only weigh myself in the morning. I do so on 3 different scales. I wet my feet (otherwise one of the body fat scales refuses to work). Perhaps the most 'disturbing' thing is that I tend to wait about an hour between waking up and weighing - to give myself a chance to visit the bathroom multiple times. Only once my weight is recorded do I start eating/drinking. So I'm such a scales junky that it actually affects my morning eating.
I guess my fluctuations are mainly to do with bowel movements, fibre, fluctuations in sodium intake and glycogen levels and therefore water retention. I often get unexpected results (like weighing less the day after I've been naughty). The key thing is just to recognise that flactuations are inevitable. Here are some of my readings, to illustrate the point. Readings are in KILOS (0.5 kilo is approx 1 lb). They're in REVERSE ORDER i.e. first one is Thursday:
58.0, 57.0, 56.0, 57.0, 56.0, 57.5, 57.5, 57.5, 56.5, 56.5, 55.5, 56.0, 56.5, 56.5, 57.0, 56.5, 56.0, 56.0, 57.0, 57.5, 58.0, 58.5, 58.5, 58.5, 58.5, 57.0, 57.5, 57.5, 57.0, 57.0 (Christmas Day)
As you can see, I am "steady" - though the scale is anything but! You can go mad allowing the scale to influence how you feel! I am expecting to lose a kilo roughly every 4-5 weeks (slow and steady wins the race). On the other hand my over-eating around Christmas and the new year should easily have had me gain a kilo.
(and zig-zagging does work - just give it a fair chance)
Wednesday continued
Foods listed in order they were first consumed (each food only mentioned once even if I had multiple servings throughout the day). That's a bit like some film cast lists - in order of appearance. Questionable choices are highlighted
celery, cabage, soup(84), broccoli, garden peas, jelly(25), orange, country-vegetables-mix, pulped-sesame-seeds, powdered-artificial-sweetner, sunflower-seeds, homemade-peanut-butter, pear, dry-roasted-peanuts, TVP, mango, apple, red-lentils, mung-beans, salad, clementine, salmon(50), beetroot, runner-beans, sweet-potato, pig-kidney(50) [totals: 2000 calories, 103.7g protein]
Workout was Back and Wrist.
This was the last revision week before the 5 people who failed Fitness Knowledge get to retake it (next Wednesday). The teacher called in sick so the team leader substituted herself. We've had her covering a couple of times before - she was also an Aerobics assesor on the 13th and she teaches Aerobics (I've once been to her class maybe in October or November). The surprising thing was image. Because she's the 'teacher' I assumed she'd be older than me. She was chatting to the girls in my group about the terifying prospect of her upcoming 30th birthday. (and being single and childless at this point.) [I'm coming up to my 34th.]
We skipped the break and instead wrapped up at 8pm. Got an earlier train than usual and was at Wolverton at 8.40pm. Bagged some bargains at Tesco (a couple of mangos, a Thai 'curry kit', runner beans and a perpackaged salad - all for 50p) and had some sit-down time before Salsa. Needed the time to thaw my feet, which were freezing at this point despite the double socks.
Salsa was about an hour and was pleasant enough. I felt tired - as though I'll be disappointing anyone who is really good. Got to dance with almost everyone there though. Got home - still had 662 calories to eat at that point. Started listening to to Dr Fuhrman's radio program (this week it is about getting your kids to eat healthy). Nash called halfway through so I let him listen via the phone. In bed by 1.20am.Last edited on 25 January 2007 01:00 pm by Nir
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Hisgal
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Posted: 25 January 2007 07:37 pm |
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I am a scales junky (er I went into it in some detail this week but I forget whose diary I was invading at the time). I only weigh myself in the morning. I do so on 3 different scales. I wet my feet (otherwise one of the body fat scales refuses to work). Perhaps the most 'disturbing' thing is that I tend to wait about an hour between waking up and weighing - to give myself a chance to visit the bathroom multiple times. Only once my weight is recorded do I start eating/drinking. So I'm such a scales junky that it actually affects my morning eating.
Nir, that is me exactly! I wonder if alot of us are like that???? Probably. I was up again this morning....such a scary feeling I will give the zig-zagging a chance....and I (impatient as I am) have decided to do it at less than the 15-20% reduction that I started at.
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Nir
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Posted: 26 January 2007 03:01 am |
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Thursday
Food list, in  colour!
passata, courgettes, cabbage, orange, runner-beans, mango, broccoli, pineapple, TVP, popcorn, shreddies, M&M(5), cheese(72), olive(6), IKEA-ice-cream-cone(166), mum-falafel(76), garden-veg(asparagus,carrot), mum-chocolate-pear-cake(180), cocoa-powder, red-lentils, mung-beans, peanut-butter, beetroot, spicy-potato-wedges, garlic, marrowfat-peas
Biceps and Legs workout finished by 2pm. The longest journey home (got home 6.20pm) remarkable because it was bitterly cold (again). Went through an asian shop and then past Poundland, Farmfoods, Sainsbury's, LIDL, Tesco, IKEA and ASDA (that's 8 shops). Had samples at Sainsbury's and ASDA (M&M, cheese, olive). Resisted a very tempting offer (2 x 1 litre tubs of premium Walls ice-cream for £1 - that's about 1000 calories per tub) and instead treated myself to an  ice-cream cone at IKEA (35p, 166 calories). Mum's chocolate cake with pears  arrived. As promised it was a very small slice - but it still weighed 45 grams. The ice-cream represented 'better value'. The Falafel (deep-fried), on the other hand were more 'worth it' than ice-cream. RUBBISH and ANIMALS: 5+72+166+76+180=499 calories (25% - so I flunk the 10% rule).
Practically ran out of cooked legumes, so soaked marrowfat peas in the morning and cooked them late at night so I was able to have some (and 12 servings went in the freezer) [actually are peas legumes? I see 'peas' is listed in the breakdown for 'solid green vegetables - nutrient density 97' in a certain book]. Soaked some green lentils so will aim to cook them tomorrow. Fridge situation is dire again [celery, passata, orange, mango, beetroot, potato, onion, garlic].
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Posted: 26 January 2007 04:15 pm |
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Just reading and enjoying. I always learn a lot from your diary, Nir.
Every time you mention Milton Keynes I have a flashback. We live in Ohio now but my husband is US Air Force. We were once stationed at Upper Heyford RAFB for 3 years. Everyone kept saying that we just had to go to Milton Keynes to shop because it was "so much like the US." We finally did, and it was, but the main thing I remember is an Italian restaurant at the Mall, where we had delicious chocolate cake and the only really good cup of coffee I ever had in England.
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ObsessedwithFitness
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Posted: 26 January 2007 05:16 pm |
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Nir,
I think you have had an influence on the grocery stores around here!!
All of a sudden, when visiting 2 separate grocery stores in the past week, there have been MANY demonstrators with FREE SAMPLES of stuff!! We never used to have ANY and I counted 4 in one store the other day!!!! Plus the bakery was giving away FREE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES-the BIG ONES, not scraps!!! I said to myself "Nir would love to be here right now" I mean, there was a demonstrator at every isle!! One had meatballs and the others had salsa and chips and crackers and cheeses from the deli. Anyway, just wanted to share that with you. Maybe the markets are changing their ways over here?! Good thing the closest IKEA (one of my favorite stores-I always have a weakness for those raspberry cookie wafers) is 3 hours south! One time in Los Angeles while furniture shopping with a friend, (and STARVING) I bought a package of those raspberry cookie wafers and ate the whole thing!!! Bad news. Good thing there isn't an IKEA closer to me!
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Nir
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Posted: 28 January 2007 04:01 pm |
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Hi Sylphide and OWF.
As a 'new' town (it is about 40 years old now, though), Milton Keynes was designed US-style, with a grid-road system not found in most other UK towns. Ideal for motorists - less ideal for cyclists.
My mum is quite sure that 'samples' and 'demonstrators' were originally a US concept brought over here.
Incidentally, it is said that UK obesity figures are geenrally trailing those of the US by 7 years. So however many % obese you have over there, we'll be having over here in no time at all.
Friday
chickenVegPacketSoup(84) cabbage brussel-sprouts passata TVP celery salmon(50) red-lentils mung-beans marrowfat-peas jelly(25) swede weight-watchers-mature-cheddar-cheese(50) beetroot orange spicy-potato-wedges mango Cookie:HobNob(17) Bissli(53) Bamba(33) mum-vegetable-curry apple mum-humous mum-spinach-soup mum-orange-juice-chicken(33) green-lentils peanut-butter
The brussel sprouts I had at the beginning of the day were part of my freezer-emptying project, but later on in the day mum called to say they were selling 3lb of brussel sprouts for £1 at the market, so I bought some through her. I opened the Passata on Tuesday and made a dip from it when I was hosting my brother - now it is a race to use it all up before it goes off - I'm being less creative and just drinking it, though.
I anticipated poor weather and allowed myself a lay-in (skipping the gym), so it should have been a 'low' day - so I'm not sure why I had the packet soup (as the very first thing, as well!). When coming out of counselling though, the original plan to hurry back home just flipped itself and I decided to go to the gym instead. I guess the weather wasn't too bad and I just felt more 'useful'. The counsellor's "theory" is that I must always have some sort of 'project' going on, can never sit still. Perhaps there's something in it. I didn't pack much food as I wasn't expecting to be out for long.
Got to the gym at 12.35pm - and on a Friday the gym is block-booked by 1pm so I figured I'd only be able to do half my Shoulders workout before getting interrupted for 2 hours. That was enough motivation to speed through my workout with minimal rests. It turned out that the next class was delayed by 10 minutes and I managed to do it all without a break. Afterwards had a chat with Anthony and booked a 'nutritional consultation' with him (for Monday). That should be interesting. Unfortunately he's not into numbers and formulas so it might end up not what I want/need.
I had about 2.5 hours at home before setting off for OA, in which to catch up on my eating. It seemed I was running out of time so in a short space of time I had 119 calories of mango and 197 calories of oranges - I still find that fruit are a very 'effective' way of quickly consuming calories. If I only have so-many-calories to use, fruit may use them up too quickly [and other things such as legumes and grains might be equally useful].
I'm not in a position to 'observe the 7th tradition' ($$$) to any great extent, and I didn't feel like volunteering for a service position either, but I wanted to at least turn up 15 minutes before the OA meeting to help set things up and ensure the meeting can start on time (and fill in if somebody else was missing). I rushed and actually got there 1/2 an hour before the meeting. I arranged the little table and chairs around it and went to the kitchen to get the electric kettle. I then helped myself to a cookie fragment from a jar [I don't think the cookie jar is anything to do with OA...] oops. I ate it secretely before anybody else showed up. The OA meeting was another large turn-out (11 is a lot for us).
On the way home, popped over to mum's to see her and my brother. Earlier in the week he asked me to buy him some pre-packaged snacks (that go by the names 'Bamba' and 'Bissli'. We're talking about corn and wheat based deep-fried chips, calories are 492 and 548 per 100g respectively). I knew that upon delivery my brother would open the packets and offer me some. So that's the over-eater part of me (plotting to have this snack) and the over-eater part of him (which absolutely _had_ to finish both packets, with no question of leaving anything for later).
Helped mum with something computer-related. She treated me to some of her healthy-cooking. There was a low-calorie vegetable curry which essentially was not much more than the actual vegetables; home-made humous; spinach-soup (with milk and flour); chicken-in-orange-and-lemon-juice. I was also tempted by an apple as I currently haven't got any at home. I currently appear to have mum "trained-up" to go along with the way I eat: she will offer food, and tell me what the 'worst' ingredients in it are, so I can make an informed decision about whether I want to eat it - and serve it to me in a small plastic pot (that used to have cottage cheese in it) which is lightweight enough that I can use it with my scales. [obviously I then have to come up with some approximations for calories.]
My parting gifts from mum were some red onions (she currently has plenty), a tin of chick-peas with an expired 'best before' date, and a very interesting spice-mix (the one she uses for home-made Falafel). I currently have 3 different spice-mixes from her - the other two are a 'Mexican' and a 'Morocan'. When I got home I was eager to use the new spice-mix to do my 'spicy-potato-wedges'. Despite the various snacking opportunities I still had almost 600 calories to eat when I got home. I had Green Lentils soaking earlier so those had to get cooked. At 11.45pm I decided I had to have an early night so I quickly consumed 136 calories from mango and 98 calories from home-made peanut-butter.
Totals 2000 calories, 103.7g protein. RUBBISH 84+25+17+53+33=212; ANIMAL 50+50+33=133; 345 is 17.3% of 2000.
Saturday
orange mung-beans red-lentils marrowfat-peas green-lentils courgettes brussel-sprouts beetroot passata popcorn sunflower-seeds dime-chocolate(23) biscotti-two(64) hot-chocolate-drink-topped-with-cream(150) mini-cheddar-crackers(20) peanut-butter spicy-potato-wedges yellow-split-peas
Started the day with a home-made soup: a bunch of vegetables and legumes, with some of the liquid that the green lentils had been cooked in (which I had reserved in a bottle and placed in the fridge).
It was the turn of Claire and Marcella to be practically assessed in the aerobics course. Once more Nash turned up to volunteer. 3 weeks ago Claire was the girl who could not do a 'quad stretch' because she did not know which stretch stretched which muscle. 1 week ago she was still a good prospect for failing because her music selection for the warm-up component was not specifically designed for Aerobics and was not arranged in 32-beat-phrases. 3 weeks ago she was adviced to not even bother taking the exam and instead sign up and do the course again in the next Semester. With a small amount of help and encouragement from me, and evidently A LOT of work and practice in those 3 weeks, she has turned things around! In the last week alone she evidently found some more suitable music and also simplified her warm-up choreography to be more doable. It was a pleasure to do her workout and she came across very professional. After 3 weeks of exams and 7 people assessed, Claire now joines Vicky and myself amongst those who have passed.
Marcella was not so lucky. If nothing else, she has a problem working with music. This is a critical and non-negotiable fail for this qualification (which is called 'Exercise To Music', after all). It seems that the musically-challenged individuals are just not grasping how important it is to get this one right. If they did they might spend more time listening and getting to know their music. Surely everyone, with enough listening time, can identify the structure of a pop song? Music is arranged 8 beats to a bar and (in music-for-aerobics) in very definite 32-beats-per-phrase.
So far, of the 4 fails, 3 suffered from being unable to work to the music. The other fail (Mandy) was on a technicality and I'm sure she'll pass her re-take next week.
After aerobics I went for lunch (eating what I packed - vegetables and legumes - and supplying Nash with some clementines). Nash went home and I had my workout (Chest,Triceps) and headed home - but not before booking a reprogram for Monday. [so now Monday will be a Reprogram and a Nutritional Consultation].
As soon as I was home, Nash turned up, followed by my brother. I fed them (they had calorie-dense options with no measurement - I had a mixture of foods, all measured). I even got rid of some of my animal protein portions (chicken, salmon and cheese) with their assistance. We then set off for the pub, with my brother being replaced by Rob. On the way to the pub I picked a small Dime wrapped chocolate from a recruitment fair (the IKEA stand, I believe). My brother didn't like our choice of pub, threw a temper tantrum and left. We then turned up at the pub of choice and discovered it was actually a building site and not currently open for business - so we went to another one. My brother's loss. To be honet pubs aren't exactly my favourite hangouts, whichever the pub. Boredom got me to consume a Hot Chocolate. This time I took a more educated guess that the calories are closer to 150 (previosly I've estimated these at 100 calories). I also had some Biscotti and a couple of mini-Cheddar crackers from a pack Nash bought.
We called it a VERY early night around 7.40pm. I fell asleep for a much-needed nap at 9pm but was up again by midnight and stayed up till 2am - mostly cooking some Yellow Split-Peas I had previously soaked and consuming the rest of my calories. The last 120 were from popcorn.
Total 2000 calories, 103.8g protein. RUBBISH 23+64+150+20=257; 257 is 12.9% of 2000.
Sunday
I'm feeling lazy and I've worked out for the last 4 days so a rest-day is OK. So that's my first 'low' day since Tuesday. I guess it might be a shock to the system!
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Sunday
home-made-peanut-butter lemon-sf-jelly(25) chick-peas cauliflower beetroot TVP wheat-bran cocoa-powder celery frozen-mixed-vegetables(sweetcorn+green-bean+carrot+garden-pea) stringless-beans orange courgette clementine red-onion tin-garden-peas home-made-sesame-halva red-lentils mung-beans marrowfat-peas popcorn grapes
Today I was forever balancing my protein. At 1.10pm, 3.30pm and 0.45am I took the easy way out - by supplementing with TVP. And this despite having a fair few other servings of legumes and protein-rich vegetables. What a difference having 400 less calories makes.
I tried making a new recipe: TVP, water, artificial-sweetner, cocoa powder, wheat bran. The new bit was adding wheat-bran in the hope of padding it out. Verdict? well it tastes better as a TVP-only creation, but the bran definitely pads it out. Perhaps I need to have different TVP:bran ratios.
I opened that tin of chick-peas and divided into 6 x 50-calorie servings, once I sorted out numbers: chick-peas are 121 calories per 100g, so why does it say 76 calories on the tin? It turns out that this figure applied to the watered-down product (250g of chick peas in 150g of brine, so if chick-peas are just 62.5% of the can, the calories are also scaled down). With that mathematical mystery resolved, I was ready to try Dr Fuhrman's recipe for home-made humous, first step being to process the chick-peas with liquid reserved from the can. Except that I used just 1/3 of the chick-peas from the tin with all of the brine. Result? No, not humous, but I've made my first ever smoothie . You would never have guessed that smooth liquid still had all of the fibre and goodness of chick peas!
Later on in the day I got bored with my celery sticks, but food-processing them still left them in bits. But then, I didn't add any liquids - perhaps if I did I would have had a smoothie. I also repeated the chick-pea thing, with just a bit of lemon-juice and got something better-resembling humous.
My stock of cooked beetroot is apparently 'best before 28-1-07' so I've been eating them throughout the day and they're almost finished. It was a day of 'finishing things' in general - the home-made peanut butter is now gone, and so is the home-made sesame 'halva'. On the nuts-and-seeds front I now only have sunflower seeds and flax seeds. Less temptation. [oh, and I finished catching up with  . I let it slide and then it takes me a couple of days! always embarassing to see an item with my name in the title that is a few days old. People: please use PM to get directly in touch, or post in my diary, which I will definitely notice]
I re-arranged the foods in my 5-drawer freezer into logical order. The 'starchy' drawer contains all my cooked swede and the wholemeal bread. There's a half-drawer containing my entire stock of frozen-fruit-portions and frozen-animal-portions. There are two more drawers: one is high-protein vegetables, the other is medium-protein vegetables and cooked-legume-portions. That makes 3.5 almost-full drawers, and 1.5 empty drawers. My previously-full freezer is therefore 30% empty. [The fridge is emptier still!]
Totals: 1600 calories, 103g protein. Rubbish = 25 calories (i.e. 1.6%). Not bad.
I started soaking haricot beans but they take 2 hours to cook [time to boil, 10 minutes of boiling, 90 minutes of simmering] and I don't think I'll be up this long, so hopefully I can do this when I wake up tomorrow.
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Posted: 29 January 2007 04:29 pm |
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| Breaking news: my bicycle was stolen. Significant follow-on changes expected. Watch this space.
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Posted: 29 January 2007 05:55 pm |
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OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!NIR!!!!!!!!
WHEN? WHERE? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHO DID IT???
I AM SORRY. THAT IS YOUR PRIMARY FORM OF TRANSPORTATION AND EXERCISE, OMG! I AM SORRY. YOU MUST BE SO UPSET RIGHT NOW. I HOPE SOMEONE RETURNS IT TO YOU ASAP!!
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Nir
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Posted: 29 January 2007 08:15 pm |
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OWF, I was annoyed about the bike, but I took it in my stride. More upsetting things have happened to me before. I have decided to use this negative event as a catalyst to make positive changes to my life.
I got downstairs by 12.15pm (running a bit late) with the intention of riding down the 4.4 miles to my 'gym re-programme' followed by a break and then a 'nutritional consultation'. But that was not to be, because the bike, which I definitely last saw on Saturday evening around 8pm (passing it on my way back from the pub) was no longer then. I think I saw it on Sunday morning when I looked out through the window. I didn't leave the flat on Sunday though. It was probably stolen on Sunday day or evening.
I called the gym to cancel my appointments. I then decided to go and join a gym which is 12 minutes walk from my flat. I have been thinking about doing so for some time. It is a tricky financial decision [the college gym is £15 a month - my new gym is £44 a month. That's 3 times more expensive, and I am not employed]. However, it means that I can work out every day regardless of the weather, and there will be classes. Yes, I'll be doing Body Jam tonight - my first BTS class in 4 months! (the gym also has a sauna and a steam room - again haven't had access to these in 4 months)
I still need a bicycle. For example I'd like to go to counselling and Overeaters Anonymous this coming Friday. On Saturday I want to go and support the people re-taking their Aerobics exam. I need to get around! There is talk of going to an auction on Wednesday to see if any are available.
The party I was going to attend on February 10th has been cancelled but I may still travel to Wolverhampton to see my sister, as I've already paid for travel.
There are some food supply issues as well. I have two fridges - a small one and a large one. All my refrigerated produce now fits in the small fridge so I have turned the large fridge off. This is not good. Just before the New Year both fridges were full to capacity and I had extra produce that would not fit in the fridge [some of which I gave to my sister]. Now the days are numbered before I have to purchase produce at full price or go without. I'm currently mostly eating stuff from the freezer (which is already 30% empty).
So, I have an abs class at 5.30pm, body jam at 6pm and (depending on cancellations - it is that sort of busy gym) maybe a body step class at 7pm. (Then if I feel up to it, salsa at 9.30pm)
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Posted: 29 January 2007 11:57 pm |
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Nir
I am glad you are turning a negative event into a positive!! Way to go on an awesome attitude!! I hope you find something at that auction on wednesday. I am sorry you are in such a pickle, I would offer to give you a ride....but I'm thinkin its a LITTLE out of my way... I hope you like BodyJam. I miss teaching it because it's SO MUCH fun!!!!Since you are a dancer, I am sure you will love it!!
Well, off to the gym myself. I am going through a smiliar (not quite the same) situation (a dilemma really) regarding MY own form of transportation. I NEED to have a car (its WAY too cold here and there is nowhere to walk or bike without getting killed by a mack truck) and my car (A nissan altima) is now 10 years old!! I bought it in 97 and it only has 101,000 miles on it! Can you believe that? Its such a great car but its old and I think its TIME for a new one. (I have never had a NEW car) Watching hubby drive around in his brand new jeep grand cherokee with heated seats and power EVERYTHING makes me a little jealous. He has had 4 new cars since I have been with him (9 years) and I have only had this same Nissan. I don't WANT someone to steal it, but it WOULD FORCE me to buy a new one, right?!!? Just kidding. But...not really.
I hope you get your bike back or a better bike. Remember what goes around comes back around again.
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Posted: 30 January 2007 01:16 am |
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Aww, that's pitiful. That is really low. I hope you find something fabulous at the auction!
Question--Would it be cheaper to buy a new bike than join the new expensive gym? Although it sounds like the new one is way better. Now that you've actually been...was it?
clar
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Posted: 30 January 2007 02:22 am |
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Nir,
So sorry to hear about the bike! I live about 12-14 miles from town, and I'd be really #%@&! if someone stole my car It's my mode of transportation! Glad you are taking it so well.
Nir wrote:
It turns out that this figure applied to the watered-down product (250g of chick peas in 150g of brine, so if chick-peas are just 62.5% of the can, the calories are also scaled down).
I had always wondered about this. I never gave it a thought until one day recently, when I was rinsing off my black beans or chick peas. Well, I figured if it made a big difference in calories, at least I was erring in the right direction It would be worse to assume less calories and actually eat more
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Posted: 30 January 2007 06:31 am |
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Very sorry to hear about your bike!  That's horrible!!!  I do wonder though (like Clarinetgurl) how many months of the price difference between the old and new gym would actually pay for a new bike. Of course if you need an excuse to join the new gym, that is a different matter entirely... Hopefully you can find one for a good price at the auction, or better yet maybe yours will be found. I hope so! It sounds like you have a really good attitude about it anyway.  This may be kind of a nosy question, but are you planning to look for work as an aerobics instructor, or was that just for fun? It sounds like something you would enjoy, but whatever your plans I hope you can find a job you like soon! Good luck with everything!
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Nir
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Posted: 30 January 2007 09:46 am |
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OWF, perhaps being 10 years old makes your car less likely to be stolen? Which is probably an advantage, generally speaking. I'm assuming you and hubby's finances are separated, otherwise you are paying for his 4 new cars, which would be unfair...
Hisgal, I guess if I was going to use the higher figure (121 kcal/100g) I was always only going to apply it to the drained chick-peas. The only danger was that I was going to drain them and then use the lower figure (76 kcal) - just to 'get more chick-peas for my money' . But now I know I can't.
Incidentally I had a hot chocolate this morning from a free sample that was mailed to me (in response to a free internet offer I filled in some months ago, which finally arrived). The good news is that it was delicous and only 70 kcal, so I guess 150 kcal estimate for the pub hot chocolate the other day might have been an over-estimate.
ClarinetGurl - thanks for the sympathy. I think a new bike can be had from £60-£70 (but I'll probably hunt for a 2nd hand one, even if it means being bikeless for a few weeks while looking). The membership cost difference is about £1 a day so buying a new bike would mean saving money (break-even point is around 2 months). [and yes the new gym is fantastic. it seems like I spent most of my day there: 1-2pm doing a weights workout, 2-3pm getting signed up (then ran home to have some lunch - I can do that now) 4-4.30pm gym re-program part#1, 4.30-5.30pm on the internet (they have a bank of terminals!), 5.30-8pm: 3 classes, 8-8.30pm sauna and then luxuary showers.]
Of course if you need an excuse to join the new gym, that is a different matter entirely...
chocoholic, I've been looking for an excuse to join this gym for a while! (this came up in conversation last week whenever anybody was asking me "now you've got your qualification, what will you do next?") It is actually better than the first gym I used to belong to (for example it has Body Jam and Body Step classes, which the other one cannot afford to offer) and then of course it is better than the student gym in so many ways.
are you planning to look for work as an aerobics instructor, or was that just for fun? It sounds like something you would enjoy
I took up the aerobics instructor qualification because I was really into class participation (I'm definitely aiming to participate in at least one class a day...) - so it was a bit of slow torture to be absent from that environment for those last 4 months. Of course, doing some classes has shown me what true pros the current crop of instructors are. I'm not that slick. I may do a follow-on course and then be 'available for cover work', at some point. There's no rush. For now I am just relieved that I finally took the plunge and joined a 'normal' gym again. Of couse I wouldn't mind getting my break and being an instructor, but I don't want to delude myself that I'll cut it in this somewhat competitive arena, and I'll be just fine even if I don't use this new skill.
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Posted: 30 January 2007 11:32 am |
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Meal structure analysis:
#1 8:35am-8:50, 127 kcal, 8.1g protein (25.5%)
#2 10:00am-11:30, 413 kcal, 19.4g protein (18.8%)
#3 3:25pm-3:35, 300 kcal, 20.3g protein (27.1%)
#4 8:47pm-9:30, 224 kcal, 17.4g protein (31.1%)
#5 11:57pm-1:00, 936 kcal, 38.8g protein (16.6%)
Totals: 2000 calories, 104g protein.
Notes:
A) I sometimes have long meals - it takes time to eat
B) leaving 936 calories (46.8% of my daily allowance) till the last meal? surely a no-no
C) more than 5 hours between meals #3 and #4
D) meal #5 was a very low-protein, high-carb meal (as a ratio). apparently not advisable as your last meal (BFFM)
E) eating more than 30g protein in one meal? body may not be able to make use of this much protein at once so possibliy a waste
F) last meal only 5 minutes before bedtime
DouweEggberts-CafeSwitch-WhiteInnocense-HotChocolate(70) courgettes beetroot brussel-sprouts orange haricot-beans spicy-potato-wedges yellow-split-peas marrowfat-peas green-lentils swede stringless-beans stir-fry cauliflower sunflower-seeds ground-flax-seeds shreddies chicken-veg-soup(84)
Cooking the Haricot Beans was less daunting than I expected. Yes, it takes ages, but you can do other things so not too bad.
It was scary and disappointing to realise that I have so few things that I can turn the large fridge off. First time I've done that (I've had 2 fridges for over 2.5 years). Mum called from ASDA to say she discovered frozen Broccoli is 74p for 2lb so I asked her to get me some (and frozen peas and carrots too).
After discovering I had no bike, I called the gym to cancel my appointments and then decided to join a local gym (the one I was originally trialling in August when I was still at the first gym). I called it twice whilst I was making up my mind - and then walked over. The guy was busy with someone else (but still wanted his comission) so he suggested I go and do my workout first - and sign up afterwards. That worked out just fine.
There was just enough time between doing the sign-up paperwork and my induction/reprogram to nip back home for a snack. Then, once I did all the classes, showered and got dressed for salsa there were 45 spare minutes, so I stayed in the area and ate all the food I was carrying with me. (lots of veg - total just 224 calories though.)
The 'core' class involved a stability ball for half the exercises; body jam (which I haven't done for about 2 years) has evolved through the years - it used to have different choreography for every track but now it seems to teach a routine and then come back and repeat it later on (more like a traditional streetdance class); body step was harder than I remembered - my heart rate got to 85% at one point (and I'm using kravonen) so I'd say my cardio was more effective than outdoor cycling.
Salsa was great. I then got home just before midnight and after totalling my food I realised there was lots of calories to eat! I didn't want it to weigh too much so after starting with oranges and legumes I moved on to the lightest things I could find. This involved finishing my stocks of seeds (sunflower and flax) and then hitting the 'shreddies'. At one point I decided to have one of those packet soups I'm trying to get rid off as well - then back to shreddies. 450 calories from shreddies, in all. Afterwards I reflected that another calorie-dense food I forgot to utilise was wholemeal bread.
No animals. Rubbish = 70+84 = 154 calories, 7.7%.
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clarinetgurl
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Posted: 31 January 2007 04:34 am |
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Glad your new gym is as wonderful as you thought it would be. Sounds great
clar
(Brain said gym, fingers said job...it is now edited correctly )
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Nir
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Posted: 31 January 2007 12:01 pm |
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ClarinetGurl: you mean gym (I don't work there, though I'll probably spend long enough there for it to feel like home) - but yes, it is very enjoyable
Tuesday
Started the day with clementines and oranges and completely depleted my stock of fresh fruit throughout the day. Got to the gym in time for Body Pump at 9.30am, my first in 4 months. I would have thought that my 4-day split would have kept up my Muscular Endurance, but evidently this was not the case (!) and my Pumpt weights were a little down from what they used to be. Still higher than any participant present  . [incidentally at the gym I was at in 2006/7 you'd be lucky if 5 people turned up for a mid-morning class. We had about 20 participants. I'm going to like this gym!].
Mum gave me a lift to the dental-surgical-specialist (a rotten tooth will need extracting - I already knew that) and while waiting for me she went shopping at nearby NETTO. I asked to get me cajun-flavoured chicken breasts. Interestingly this breaks my stated policy on animal products [I was aiming to generally deplete my stock, and only buy more animal products if prices were exceptionally low. This product is not exactly a rock-bottom bargain (25p/100g). I guess I don't have a coherent policy on animal products.]
Both me and mum thought I'd be having some actual treatment, but the surgen just had a look and asked me about medical history and allergies. I'll be contacted when a surgery date is known. Mum did snap up a bargain on red peppers whilst at NETTO and was kind enough to give me one as a present.
At home, had the red pepper and tried a cajun chicken breast fillet, which was nice. The one legume I do eat but have so far never cooked is chick peas. Mum delivered a large bag - probably half the quantity she cooked yesterday, so I divided into 50-calorie portions to freeze (but also had a bit).
Felt a bit tired and went for a nap (and decided to skip the 5.15pm class I was originally aiming to do).
Celery is the only remaining green vegetable I have fresh, so I thought I'd better have some - but I wasn't really in the mood so I tried making a smoothie. Figuring that the problem last time was lack of liquid, I added 200ml of water into the food processor (probably too much). I didn't like the flavour of the slush too much so I added artificial sweetner and some cocoa-poweder to make it a celery-chocolate drink.
Balanced the extra protein from the chicken with shreddies, eventually getting to the end of the packet. Not sure what the obsession with finishing that cereal pack is about (treating it as a 'danger food' to be got rid of?). At that point in the afternoon I thought I probably wouldn't have any more cold cereals for a while; Wanted to eat some fruit as well. All out of fresh fruit so took out portions of grapes, pineapple, pear and orange from the freezer and proceeded to make a fruit sorbet/slush in the food processor, which was lovely. The trick is to have patience and let the food processor do its bit - it takes time; Had plenty of calories and felt cocky enough to use another one of those poor-nutrition packet soups (hydrogenated cr*p) I'm trying to get rid off.
I was finally off to the gym. Passed Sainsbury's to check for bargains and had 6 different samples. The class was a Core workout with a ball. I found the class sufficiently challenging (it wasn't just situps - e.g. we had 'jumping lunges') to wonder whether I've been kidding myself about maintaing my fitness level. Perhaps my almost-daily 9 mile cycle ride just wasn't effective enough because it wasn't at a sufficient intensity?. Things are going to change and I'm sure the new gym will have my cardio fitness back to peak.
Popped back to Sainsbury's to see if the vegetable reductions were done (they weren't before). I missed them all. Went to cereals isle and bought their version of Wheatabix. This was an impulse decision based on the sugar content (=less than shreddies). Got back to the gym and ate one wheatbix biscuit (66 calories). It wasn't particularly tasty and it didn't feel like 'value-for-calories'. Got annoyed with myself - wasn't the point of finishing the shreddies that I wanted to stick with popcorn, oats and bread as my main grains? Anyhow, I'll probably go back to shreddies the next time I get cold cereals as their small unit size makes them easier to handle than wheatabix. But really - there is no rush!
Cereal is cheaper than fruits and vegetables though, that's for sure. Had a brief survey of fresh produce, and I'll clearly need to spend more time in that department figuring out what vegetables I can afford to buy at full price, when my freezer stocks finally go. I've put a (*) star next to the frozen stuff so you can see I'm relying on the freezer quite heavily at present.
Legumes are attractive, because they are healthy (nutrient density 48), relatively cheap, a good source of protein. For the last few days I've been cooking legumes, recreating fresh stock of legume portions in the freezer. When coming back from the gym I cooked a batch of mung beans [these are the beans that are sprouted to create 'beansprouts' common in chineese stir-fry dishes: but they are small and green in bean form]. Tomorrow (Wednesday) it will be red lentils and then I'll have the full complement in stock {green lentils, red lentils, marrowfat peas, chick peas, yellow split-peas, mung beans, haricot beans}. I should check out the shops in due course to see if there is any other type of legumes I have overlooked - and I'll need to restock those I've used up.
Unexpectedly low on protein at the end of the day - so 150 calories from legumes and then last 14 calories from TVP just to get the numbers right.
clementine orange *broccoli shreddies *haricot-beans *marrowfat-peas *garden-peas mum:red-pepper *cajun-chicken-breast(83) spicy-potato-wedges *chick-peas celery cocoa-powder *mixed-vegetables(carrot,garden-pea,green-bean,sweetcorn) red-onion *red-grape *pineapple *pear *swede chicken-veg-packet-soup(84) sample:cheddar(25) sample:brie(22) sample:olive sample:gruyere(25) sample:duck-pate(10) sample:cookie(48) wheatabix *mung-beans *green-lentils *yellow-split-peas TVP
Total: 2000 calories, 103.9g protein. ANIMAL 83+25+22+25+10=165. RUBBISH 84+48=132. 297 calories is 14.9%Last edited on 31 January 2007 01:58 pm by Nir
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Posted: 31 January 2007 11:29 pm |
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 Hi I am very new to all this and hope this is where I should be but I only had 2 cups of coffee and tiny bay of animal cookies (100 cal) and a diet coke and now its lunch and I want to run out to taco bell-probably not a good idea but I started using figure 8 a couple of weeks ago and it does work-not too fast (not fast enough) but I do see a difference in cravings and not as often so I hope to shed the 40 pounds by the end of the year (hopefully sooner) and go back to a size 8.
Wish me luck!
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Hey Nir, I have a question for you regarding measuring Peanut Butter. Okay, here is what I've devised. I like doing the 50 calorie portions of whatever I want, somewhat similar to how you portion things in 25 calorie incraments? Or used to? Anyway...tell me if you agree with my calculations...
If a full serving of Peanut Butter is 190 calories at 2tbsp, then 1 tbsp is 95 calories, and half of a tbsp is one and a half teaspoons, so 95 calories in half is 47.5 calories. So basically my 2 tbsp of peanut butter divided in 4ths is measured by a teaspoon and a half, at 47.5 calories.
I hope this wasn't too confusing. I just want to have my dang peanut butter measured correctly in a 50 (ish) calorie portion! Thank you for your help, I know youre a whiz with calculations and portions.
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Nir
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Posted: 1 February 2007 08:20 pm |
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paperdoll, I agree that you're aiming roughly for 1.5 (flat!) teaspoons.
However this would be very frustrating for me - I use a digital scale. If peanut butter is 600 calories per 100g (depends on the brand - or in my case which kind of peanuts I use to make it) then 50 calories is 8.33 grams. I have three types of digital scales in the kitchen: 1g, 0.1g and 0.01g. (1g scales are quite common these days - the other precision ones are actually designed for weighing things like jewlery). So what I do is place a small plastic container and a teaspoon on the scale, press the 'Zero' button (scale now shows 0.00) then I pick up the teaspoon, dip it into the peanut-butter jar, and then place the teaspoon (with the peanut butter in it) back on the scale to see how close I got. With a 1g-accuracy scale, the margin for error is up to 6 calories (or 3 calories, if you assume it is at worst 0.5g out). That's why I use the 0.01g scale for peanut butter!
Wednesday
Running late in the morning so this was my excuse to quickly consume protein by heating up a cajun chicken breast fillet. Body Step class and 2nd part of my induction (biceps and back). There is a pub on my way home - it makes sense to go through it (I can walk around it but it is cold outside) I was recognised by Tony who I haven't seen for 4 months since I left "the first gym". I ended up spending an hour with him and his friend (who was an interesting character in his own right). Tony reminded me that I was well known and respected by some members in that gym [and people wanted to know what happened to me when I suddenly disappeared without warning]. Eventually left the pub and did a survey of legume prices at Sainsbury's (picking a couple of samples on the way), finally getting home for some food and rest.
In my absence mum delivered some 'first-aid' potatos from the allotment and also a gift of butternut-squash which she's been handing on to for a while. Once more I found that the best thing to do with my frozen fruit portions is to food-process them into a fruit sorbet. The second time I added water (too much, in the end). Phil called to say there were no bikes to purchase at the auction, so I executed plan B: go to the gym to enjoy some classes. A 'bosu' is a half-ball. I did the 'Bosu' class which I (and everyone else) found to be challenging. Then a treat for me: my first 'Body Combat' in 4 months. In this club all the participants know their combat choreography, there's no messing. By that point I decided to skip the 3rd class and go home!
Cooked those red lentils. Tried sorting some of the potatos (it is 2/3 potatos to 1/3 dirt - a lot of work!). Finished my last calories with bread (defrosted/toasted in the George Foreman) and some rolled oats in sugar-free blackcurrant cordial.
jelly(25) spicy-potato-wedges red-cabbage cajun-chicken-breast-fillet(115) sample:cheddar(22) sample:quiche(17) courgettes butternut-squash pineapple pear orange haricot-beans chick-peas marrowfat-peas popcorn red-lentils wholewheat-bread rolled-oats
Total: 2000 calories, 105.5g protein. Animals 115+22=137. Rubbish 25+17=42. 179 is 9.0%
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Posted: 1 February 2007 09:36 pm |
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Thank you Nir, that is really helpful. I have a question though, about scales. I have a digital food scale and a manual one ( i guess thats what it is called). The other day I measured 3oz of carrots on the digital scale and it came up to about 20 or so of those baby carrots. Then I measured 3oz on the manual scale and it was more like 7 baby carrots. Thats a huge difference! How do I know which is accurate?
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Nir
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Posted: 2 February 2007 01:13 am |
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(3 oz is approximately 85g. just had to look that one up. does your digital scale have a 'gram' mode too? is US food sold in packets marked in Oz or in grams? In the UK it is almost always "this packet contains 240g" or whatever)
You need a 'caliberation weight' i.e. something which you already know the weight of. You can then see which scale is right and which is wrong. This is not easy because (in the UK at least) a "100g packet of something" usually talks about the weight of the food, not the wrapper. If the wrapper is just a plastic bag it is probably around 5-10g.
I don't know what you can use as a caliberation weight. Maybe a small packet of nuts? of sliced meat? or anything you that was sold to you by weight at a deli?
(I don't have a caliberation weight, but my favourite container weighs 18.62g, 18.6 and 18g on the various scales, so I know they're all equally wrong - or hopefully equally right )
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Nir
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Posted: 2 February 2007 02:45 am |
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Thursday
Body Pump in the morning.
On way home picked up pears and cucumbers at the market (but again, no bicycles for sale).
Later mum took me shopping. We spotted a sale on some freezer items so I filled up my freezer with cauliflower and brussel sprouts. Stocked up on some dried marrowfat peas and yellow split-peas at the best prices in town. [oops - got shreddies again]. Other purchases included a "rye crispbread cracker" (about 40 calories each) and also dry-roasted nuts (I maintain these are not 'high protein' - UNLESS you are comparing them to other very calorie dense foods like dry cereals). Nuts are so calorie-dense that they can represent a good £-per-calorie ratio for a reasonable-nutrient-density food. Spent more than my weekly food budget - but then I don't expect to be eating through this in just one week.
Returned to the gym but my induction got rescheduled for next week (staffing problems). Stayed around to do a short (half-hour) version of Body Step and another class that toned your legs (it hurt in places but overall wasn't fun/effective enough). At this point I was in the gym for 2.5 hours and decided I've had enough.
Post-gym I cooked some pasta (to remind myself of where it fits in amongst the various grains - yes, I revisted pasta partly because it is very cheap!)
brussel-sprout pear pineapple orange mixed-veg(garden-peas,carrots,broccoli,cauliflower) swede broccoli wheatabix garden-peas cucumber salmon(50) yellow-split-peas marrowfat-peas dry-roasted-nuts wholewheat-rye-crispbread cajun-chicken-breast-fillet(111) hamburger-relish wholewheat-pasta rolled-oats
Totals: 2000 calories, 104.1g protein. Animals 50+111=161. 161 is 8.1%.
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Nir
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Posted: 3 February 2007 06:08 am |
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Friday
I cooked marrowfat peas in the morning but probably should have let them simmer more. That's my problem with yellow split-peas as well, I'm too eager to finish cooking and end up with a result that I wish was softer when I finally get around to eating it.
Early on mum drove me to the campus where I did some printing (a bill from a mobile phone contract that's about to end, and vouchers for the chequeback scheme of the new contract I took this week to replace it). Mum was ok about driving me to campus so I can make my counselling session - but I was on my own as far as making the OA meeting, which therefore I did not [it would be at least an hour's walk each way]. Mum got me back into town in time to do a short Core class in the gym. Had some samples at Waitrose on the walk home.
At Sainsbury's, normally wouldn't have considered these bargains - but I haven't seen anything else for days: 8 small apples (about 110g each) for 45p, 300g of stir-fry (with things like mini-corn-cob) for 30p.
Had a nap in the afternoon, popped to the Post Office to send the cashback claim Recorded Signed-For and go on to bargain-shop (for that stirfry). Ended up in the gym but just used the Sauna and internet, wasn't in the mood for a workout - so unexepctedly this was my first rest day (after 4 workout days) and coming home I realised I only had 319 calories to make my revised target of 1600 (and I used animals to stay on track).
Marrowfat peas were all from today's cooking; apples, pears and stir-fry veg were all fresh. I didn't use any vegetables from the freezer. I love fresh fruit and today had 696 calories (43.5%) from apples and pears!
Ran out of calories at 9.30pm and had an early night (about an hour later).
pear dry-roasted-peanut cocoa-powder *chick-peas *haricot-beans marrowfat-peas apple sample:cracker(9) sample:chicken-pate(12) sample:wensleydale-cheese(33) sample:hot-cross-bun(42) *cajun-chicken-breast-fillet(202) stir-fry-veg TVP
Total 1600 calories, 103g protein. Animal 12+33+202=247 (15.4%). Rubbish 9+42=51 (3.2%). 298 (18.6%) is a bit high.
Saturday
Will have to miss gym's classes as I'm supporting the aerobics students on their retakes in Bletchley today (I'm taking the train there).
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Nir
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Posted: 4 February 2007 08:56 am |
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Saturday
Woke up at 2.30am and decided to get up. Half an hour later a drunk Rob (still living his version of Friday) called to ask if he could come around. I probably wouldn't have heard the phone if I was asleep. He tried introduing me to bands like 'The Like' via my internet connection. He stayed till 4.30am and then called a cab. I was eating from 4.15am. Napped from 6 till 7.20 and then got going again.
Did aerobics at Bletchley - two workouts. Mandy passed her retake but Marcella failed again. The final count: PASS = Vicky, Nir, Clare, Mandy. FAIL = Laura, Katherine, Marcella. The First Aid course is on Thursday. I chatted to Anthony (he who would have given me a nutritional consultation if plans had not de-railed). We argued about protein. He suggested calories for building at 20 x my body weight in pounds, and 40% of those calories from protein.
Which is another way of suggesting 2g per pound or 4.4g per kilo! Recall that there is research that suggests that there's no benefit for body-builders to consume any more than 1.8g protein per kilo (0.82g per pound).
I also don't know what to make of the suggestion to consume 18..20 times my weight in pounds. That works out as a factor of 1.59..1.77 of my unadjusted RMR. So it is somewhat over my maintenance level (which it should be - for building). {ps Tom Venuto says starting point is 18..19 times weight in pounds, but has other more accurate ways of estimating.}
Incidentally Anthony was working from a September 2005 printout of a web article [ht tp://www.gain-weight-muscle-fast.com/diet-to-gain-weight.html] I compared the paper text to the online text, which has since been updated to recommend more 'familiar' baseline diets like 25-55-20 and 30-50-20, the old paper copy did indeed recommend 40-40-20. 25% and 30% of calories from protein at 20 calories per pound of body weight works out at 1.25g - 1.5g per pound, or 2.75g - 3.3g per kilo. At 18 calories per pound of body weight it works out as 1.13g-1.35g per pound (2.48g - 2.97g per kilo). At 16 calories per pound of body weight it works out as 1g - 1.2g per pound (2.2g - 2.64g per kilo).
My name isn't Joel Fuhrman and I'm not advocating 0.8g protein per kilo (0.36g per pound), but even the more modern recommendations seem like unhealthy amounts of protein.
Walked back from the train station into town. Bought some leeks for £1. (mum bought me 6 heads of romaine for £1 - and a present of a few more red onions) Got a couple of free organic apples (a promotion). Used the Sauna in the gym for a bit.
I could now make a salad with celery, cucumber, romaine and leek - but those 3kg of pears from Thursday are now all gone (did I mention I love fruit?).
Some maths: Tesco Value peanuts are 21p for 200g and are 25.5g protein and 600 calories per 100g, so 1g of protein costs 0.412p; Sainsbury's TVP is 52p for 200g and is 47.2g protein and 328 calories per 100g, so 1g of protein costs 0.551p; So peanut protein is 25% cheaper (the cheapest I can currently think of)- but peanuts derive 17.0% of their calories from protein whilst TVP derives 57.6% of its calories from protein, so far "leaner". (animal protein products always work out more expensive per gram of protein, incidentally).
I cooked some more yellow-split-peas (even though I still have portions in the freezer - the motivation was to see if simmering for longer will make them softer and hence tastier). Therefore, here's another one. 500g of (dried) yellow split-peas from LIDL are 36p. This yields about 1200g cooked - at 104 calories and 8.3g protein per 100g. So 1g of protein costs 0.361p (12% less than those peanuts). 31.9% of calories are from protein, so leaner than peanuts too. We have a (current) winner. [also, as a 'vegetable' it works out 30p per kilo, easily a record.] There may be another legume that beats it - I'll do more maths in due course.
Spent some time going through some Tom Venuto articles listed here (tp://www.gain-weight-muscle-fast.com/tom-venuto.html). Actually I'm not finished yet.
mung-beans yellow-split-peas dry-roast-peanuts hamburger-relish spicy-potato-wedges cucmber carrot pear apple cajun-chicken-breast(197) sample:sugared-nuts(54) sample:yakult(31) scavange:chocolate-covered-mini-donut(25) sample:white-chocolate-chip-cookie(23) green-lentils sf-jello(25)
Totals: 2000 calories, 108.8g protein. Animals 197+31=228 (11.4%). Rubbish 54+25+23+25=127 (6.4%). 355 is 17.8%.
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Nir
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Posted: 5 February 2007 11:56 am |
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Sunday
I didn't freeze the yellow split-peas I cooked the night before, seeing how much of them I can fit into the day. The final total was 773 calories (providing 61.8g protein at a cost of about 24p - excluding costs associated with cooking them).
10am to 1pm: was going to the car-boot-sale to look for a bike. Mum drove and little sister was visiting and came along. Mum had a scheme of trying to sneak in without paying by getting in from the side. We were caught and told to go via the main gate. In the next twist though we walked through the main gate and no-one asked for money . Mum & sis had multiple interests and I was mainly there for a bike (with side interests in telephones, misc kitchen appliances and cost-efficient protein sources) so we split up. There was a bike for £25 with no effective brakes, a nice bike for £35 which I thought was overpriced. I stopped at a stall that had a bike for £25 and noticed the front wheel wasn't freewheeling. The guy started working on that (he could actually fix bikes - it was a bike stall). Suddenly mum turned up and talked me out of this bike (pointing out that it was a girl's bike). Together we did a very quick circuit of the entire market, scouring for any bikes (we discovered that the previous 2 bikes had already been sold at this point). We came back and mum negotiated the girl's bike down to £20 and I rode it home (leaving mum and sis in the market), getting home around 1pm. Food: liqorish all-sorts sweet (sample) 40 calories, sister bought a packet of 'Nugat' squares and offered me one - 50 calories.
Had a quick nap then went down to the market to buy a bike-lock (a heavy one for £5), also popped into Waitrose to use some coupons (got chick peas and sunflower seeds), Sainsbury's to check for bargains (eating some beef samples - two kinds) and then walking back through a wedding fair that I also walked through yesterday, but this time being cheeky and picking up a piece of Crunchie chocolate (from a stand I have no interest in).
My next project was a large salad: 163g romaine, 63g celery, 101g red onion, 252g cucmber, 104g leek, 18g lemon juice. Salad totals: 708g, 120 calories (17 calories per 100g), 6.8g protein. There was a lot of salad so I put it into plastic containers and ate it whilst walking to the gym. Had fantastic Body Step and Body Pump classes (each is shortened to 45 minutes and they're back-to-back). Was due to go for a drink with brother and sister but this was cancelled as sister was too tired, so finally tried the gym's Jacuzi instead.
Night cooking project was to cook some marrowfat peas but really simmer them to see if they come out nicer and softer. Simultaneously also made spicy potato wedges - twice (after chopping and spicing the wedges they then take 20 minutes in the microwave) and also wanted to eat a carrot - didn't want to cook it but also didn't want to bite into it so compromised on food-processing the raw carrot until it was a fine juicy pulp.
For the final 120 calories I could have had grain (e.g. popcorn, shreddies) but I wasn't in the mood so I had more marrowfat peas, which is why I've gone well over my 103.5g protein target. But as that's just a "minimum target", no harm is done.
yellow-split-peas sf-jello(50) carboot-sample:liqorish(40) sister:nugat(50) oat-cookie-dough shreddies cooked-oatmeal Sainsbury's-sample:beef(30) wedding-fair-stand:mini-crunchie-chocolate(47) sunflower-seeds romaine celery red-onion cucmber leek lemon-juice spicy-potato-wedges carrot marrowfat-peas
Totals: 2000 calories, 110.5g protein. Animals: 30 (1.5%). Rubbish: 50+40+50+47=187 (9.4%). 217 is 10.9%
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Nir
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Posted: 6 February 2007 12:04 pm |
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Monday
Quick breakfast to avoid lateness for gym class was another excuse to dig into those packet-soups that I wish I never bought.
Got to Body Jam. Some of the crowd are quite friendly, started talking to me. It was Jackie's Body Jam class and I was grateful to have done the same choreography with Shey last week, as Shey has a better knack of introducing the choreogrpahy to beginners. Otherwise I think I would have been lost. For Abs we had Angela. Here I had the opposite opinion - I've done several of those classes that week and this one was the best-taught yet, as far as Technique goes (and she has a good sense of humour).
Now that I'm based in town rather than going to Bletchley, an afternoon nap is becoming the norm.
I'm getting a lot of my protein from vegetables and legumes. What about eating complete sources of protein? This is another one of those ocassions where Tom Venuto and Dr Fuhrman don't see eye to eye. Fuhrman is of the opinion that, so long as you eat a variety of foods throughout the day, protein completion will take care of itself. Venuto thinks that without taking care of protein-completion yourself, it won't happen - that a complete source of protein needs to be consumed every 2.5-3 hours or else your body will go catabolic (break muscle in order to retrieve all the required essential amino acids) and conculdes that whilst you can be a vegeterian body-builder (eating protein from eggs and dairy sources, including Whey), there are 0% of body builders are vegan. At the moment I am 'blindly' going along with Dr Fuhrman, and simultaneously not caring about completion (e.g. eating peas and beans but not matching them with grain, as I probably should) but I guess that's something to worry about later on.
I've been in this gym since the previous Monday and I've only done a 'proper' weights workout on the first day. I'm such a class addict that there has been no time to fit them in. I have my induction/reprogram, part III, on Tuesday.
Used the food processor to mash-up some raw carrots (to eat some calories without boosting my protein intake - I'm out of fruit). Also made another large salad, to make use of the variety of green things I have in the fridge - 691 grams and 106 calories - however this time around used the food processor to make it into a green slush (in the hope it would take less time to eat it).
Cooked some yellow split peas again. This time simmered them for so long, afraid they'll be too hard, that they ended up the consistency of slush! This made them harder to handle. I think I need to find the middle ground. Packed with me 300 calories of yellow split peas for the mid-evening meal.
Bosu, Body Step: both are killer classes. Bosu is 45 minutes and mostly muscular strength/endurance. It draws a 'hardcore' audience. Incidentally I find myself competitive in classes. Can't remember which diary I read it in but someone said "everyone on a treadmill was in a competition against me, whether they knew it or not" - the same applies to me vs the rest of a class, but even more so if they're female. Trouble is the lazy me often goes for the easy option. Gos (male) had 2kg dumbells for the Bosu class so I was tempted to go for those too. Then I spotted that Sam (female) had the 3kg dumbells, so I forced myself to get those too. In Pump (on Sunday) I forced myself to do the entire chest track with a 20kg bar (which killed me) just because of her. (This was my old weight anyhow, but my endurance has collapsed after 4 months of absence from Pump - earlier in the week I was giving up in the middle of Chest and swapping to a 15kg bar). As long as I don't hurt myself this is exactly the kind of motivation to work harder that is absent when I'm working out on my own.
There is a 15-minute gap between the Bosu and Body Step classes, and there is a Body Jam class in the next studio (this gym has 2 regular studios and one spin studio - what an improvement on my first gym, which has just 1 studio for all purposes. that means that at peak times this gym can run 3 classes - the old gym could only run one class, and often it wouldn't even get good numbers for that class. a world of difference). Anyhow, I popped in to join Jam for 5 minutes (the choreography was fresh in my mind from this morning). Fashion seemed a world away from the morning though - the evening crowd are a lot more fashion-concious, dressing up for the gym. I guess that's people coming from work, as compared with housewives.
Had my snack of yellow split peas. Also tried one of the reduced-price bananas I got just before making the gym (5 for 30p). These are not binge-worthy at present as they're too green. You know that a banana is too green when you find it difficult to peel it - the peel splits so that after peeling you still have a thin layer of peel coating the banana. I'll need some patience with the remaining 4 bananas. Part of me was wondering whether I'll get indigesting from eating the unripe banana. It certainly was the worst-tasting banana I've had in my life. Had a few minutes to kill before Salsa, so used the gym computers (to avoid going home - salsa is right next to the gym).
Paid £3 for a fun night of salsa. Nash was just back from his 3-night salasa event in Blackpool - dancing with 2000 others, which obviously was very enjoyable for him. It is just not in my budget - the weekend cost him £250 (including ticket, hotel and travel). That's over £80 per night. I find it difficult to believe that each of those nights were '25 times better than normal salsa'. In fact, even if I was employed again I'm not sure if I could find myself spending this sort of money for a weekend - the money will go a lot longer spent on local salsa parties (like the £7.50 party I'll be going to this Friday. I shall be bringing my scales to ensure i don't over-eat at the adjoining Fruit Buffet!)
As I no longer go to Bletchley every day I asked Nash to pick up some peanuts for me (see discussion about inexpensive protein sources on a previous day). Later on it occured to me that there will be difficulty paying for it. These particular nuts are 97p for a kilo pack. I know that Nash leaves his 1p and 2p coins at home, taking any he gets as change out of his wallet and giving them to his mum at every opportunity [he doesn't know what she does with them - spend them? collect them?]. In my opinion his aversion to small change represents an aversion to mental arithmetic. You need to keep some small change in order to avoid receiving more small change. Paying a normal person 97p involves paying them £1 and them giving you 3p back. With him I realised I'll have to ask him to bring 3p along. He replies "are you really that bothered about getting 3p back?". I said "this really isn't a problem, I can pay you 97p in small change if you prefer". Suddenly bringing along 3p wasn't a problem anymore, because he was very keen to avoid the small change, "at all costs".
The peanuts themselves were a disappointment. Why are they 617 calories per 100g, instead of 600 calories (like the other supermarket brand)?. The answer is in the ingredients - 4% of the product (by weight) is vegetable oil. Annoying! Next time I'm going to insist on Tesco (rather than ASDA) brand peanuts.
soup(84) marrowfat-peas sf-jello(25) yellow-split-peas carrot red-onion leek celery cucumber romaine sunflower-seeds wheatabix rye-crispbread unripe-banana peanuts
Totals 2000 calories, 111.3g protein. Rubbish = 84+25=109. 109 is 5.5%.
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trimB
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Posted: 6 February 2007 11:26 pm |
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You don't seem much like the type to follow a recipe, but I will offer my two-cents (two-pence??) anyway. My favorite way to cook split peas is to do them indian-style. Any dhal recipe from the internet would be a great guide. The spices really complement the earthiness of the lentils. The recipes usually involve oil or ghee/butter, but you can probably reduce or maybe even cut out altogether.
Love reading about your adventures, as always!
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Nir
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Posted: 7 February 2007 11:59 am |
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trimblebe, that'll have to be a future project. For now I'll probably stick to the simplicity of mixing my lentils and peas with a spice mix (or artificial sweetner). For now, I'm grateful that the gym is providing me with more interest than food!
Making changes
Jaunary 22nd was the day I decided to abandon my (1600x3,2000) zig-zag in favour of eating 2000 on every workout day (which is practically every day), for fear that I'm not getting enough calories to build mass or even to lose effectively. January 29nd was the day I joined a gym with classes which meant I stepped up the intensity and volume of my cardio. Legumes have made their mark during this period. Nuts and seeds have also made their mark in recent days - perhaps they are 'moderating' my carb levels and therefore my glocogen levels are reduced. Let's look at morning weigh-ins from Jaunuary 22nd:
57, 56, 57, 58, 57.5, 58.5, 58, 57.5, 58.5, 58, 58, 57, 58, 56, 56.5, 55.5, 55.5
Something is definitely happening. But what? Is it just fluctuations or is it statistically significant? and which of those factor(s) are responsible? Scientists will tell me that I should only be changing one thing at a time if I want to know the answer.
Tuesday
Got to the gym and my padlock was gone. For the last 8 days I left it (on an empty locker) to avoid carrying it to-and-from the gym, as it is heavy. Evidently the gym does have a don't-leave-things-in-gym-overnight policy and a padlock-breaking device (bolt-cutter?) so they've destroyed my padlock and for the sake of convenience I bought a gym-branded padlock there and then at a cost of £5. I know I could have made much more of the inconvenience and cost, same as I could have when my bike was stolen. I think that, through the process of 'osmosis', the AA/OA concept of not letting resentment build up in you is getting to me. Living in peace with yourself (as a tool to avoid over-eating). The bike will stay stolen and my padlock will stay gone regardless of what fuss I make over it, so I might as well do what's best for me and not get worked up about it.
Had the 3rd part of gym induction/reprogram, so I guess that amounted to a 25-minute weights routine (I did one set of every exercise), but when will I do my first 'proper' weights workout at this gym? It already seems like I /live/ in this gym, and that's just on the strength of my class attendance. Yesterday this included 'Body Pump' in the morning, 'Core' and 'Kettlebells' in the evening. Kettlebells is scary! within 5-10 minutes of arriving I realised it was a challenge class and I wanted to leave. Of course I wouldn't let myself - I'll push myself to do the entire 45 minute class. I love the way that my ego and competitive nature can work for me in these situations. You're supposed to primarily use your glute muscles, not your hip or your arms, to swing this heavy 'kettlebell' (I had a 12kg, replaced with a 16g towards the end) forward. I was in pain but still felt like a wuss, because Sam was allocated a 20kg weight throughout.
Popped home after the induction, picking a couple of supermarket samples on the way and passing the market: got 10 grapfruits for £1 and plenty of pears for a £1 at the market. I'll probably mostly chose fruit over grain or potatos, so long as I have them. (Higher nutrient density, and yummier). Took it easy in the afternoon and skipped the Circuits class (2nd week in a row).
Salsa was free. Carrying a large racksack, wearing a wooly hat and wrapped in an anorack I so don't look the part that the bar manager asks me what I'm there for (until some people who know me vouch for me). I then unpeel the outer layers (and change from trainers to dance shoes with 1.5" cuban heels), help out for 5 minutes in an improver-level class and have a few dances (and also chat with friend Phil who is there - he also did the expensive salsa weekend). It wasn't the best ever salsa night, but it was worth coming out (and free, and just 10 minutes walk from home - though they are going to wind this particular venue up in a few weeks).
No cooking projects worth mentioning. Didn't feel like salad, so took an entire head of romaine (337g, 54 calories) and used the food processor to chop it into a fine slush which I then mixed with curry powder.
Calories from peanuts throughout the day 72+60+85+71+109+417=814 (40.7%). (That 417 calorie serving was the last thing I ate.) OMG - I didn't think it would be that high. I wonder how this affects my carb/fat breakdown (which I am not monitoring - I only count protein). Peanuts and legumes easily fit into the "I don't have time to eat - this will do" category.
peanuts sf-jello(25) marrowfat-peas rye-crispbread yellow-split-peas Sainsbury's-sample:cheddar(24) Waitrose-sample:cured-pork-loin(13) grapefruit pear romaine
Totals: 2000 calories, 103.6g protein. Animals 24+13=37 (1.9%). Rubbish 25 (1.3%). 62 is 3.1%.Last edited on 7 February 2007 12:07 pm by Nir
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Nir
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Posted: 8 February 2007 01:46 am |
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Wednesday
Morning: multi-tasked by cooking marrowfat peas whilst online and getting ready. Breakfast involved solving equations to find the percise amount of marrowfat peas to balance the jello, pear and grapefruit and bring protein up to where it should be. I actually ate it whilst briskly walking to my Body Step class.
Mum was stressed so I helped with a few things (changing billing details for an online account, overseeing a cashback-redemption-claim, diagnosing a fault with dad's cellphone, visiting the shop that sold it and eventually calling the service provider to ask for a replacement SIM card). It took over 2 hours.
On the way to the gym in the afternoon picked up a Quorn product for 25p (vegan meat substitute). I don't consider it rubbish. Did 'Bosu' and 'Body Combat'. The most noise in Body Combat is coming from myself and 2 other girls who are all defectors from my first gym. Participants in this gym appear relatively quiet as far as Body Combat is concerned.
Listened to Dr Fuhrman's weekly radio show while unwinding and eating my last meal (700 calories in 75 minutes). Originally I was going to have two meals: one before salsa and one very late meal, but I decided I didn't have energy to cycle to salsa. I want to be fresh for Thursday (a one-day First Aid course) and snow is forecast so I may chose not to cycle. -7 celsius was predicted for tonight so I didn't really want to cycle to salsa either.
Today just feels like a non-event.
sf-jello(25) pear grapefruit marrowfat-peas Waitrose:cheese(50) Waitrose:cracker(15) peanuts cucumber Quorn-Tandoori-Pieces yellow-split-peas shreddies
Totals: 2000 calories, 106.1g protein. Animals: 50 (2.5%) Rubbish: 25+15=40 (2%). 90 is 4.5%.
Last edited on 8 February 2007 02:01 am by Nir
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Nir
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Posted: 9 February 2007 02:01 pm |
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Thursday
It snowed - as forecast. Dad was giving me a lift to college (to do my First Aid course), under tricky driving conditions. I finally got through on the phone - college was closed. Dad grudingly turned the car around and dropped me near the town centre (and I walked towards the gym, unexpectedly catching a Body Pump class). Afterwards walked home and stayed in all day. I was planning to skip the 3 classes I gym classes I booked for the afternoon - and then the gym called and told me that they were cancelled.
I found some interesting articles and video clips from a new BBC program, 'The Truth About Food'. As a rule I don't watch TV, but I let myself off, as this was via the internet.
ht tp://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/humanbody/truthaboutfood/
ht tp://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/humanbody/truthaboutfood/flashapp/flash/index.shtml
ht tp://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/humanbody/truthaboutfood/flashapp/nonflash.shtml
Foodwise I decided I was embarassed by the green vegetation I have in the fridge which is going largely untouched, so I attacked the lettuce, leek and cabbage. The green bananas are now ripe - had one and then divided the rest into 50-calorie portions for freezing (had a frozen portion at the end of the day - so much nicer than a normal banana. It is just like ice-cream)
banana yellow-split-peas marrowfat-peas pear romaine Sainsbury's-sample:salami(25) leek grapefruit peanuts cabbage spicy-potato-wedges
Totals: 2000 calories, 104g protein. Animals: 25 calories. 25 is 1.3%.
Friday
College is closed again, so counselling is cancelled. I may go to a salsa party with a fruit buffet (assuming it isn't cancelled due to snow, and assuming my friend has sufficiently recovered from his cold and wants to go). I need to pack and prepare for my weekend trip to visit my sister in Wolverhampton (leaving on Saturday). May also go to the gym (even though I'm not particularly excited about any classes).
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Nir
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Posted: 10 February 2007 04:54 am |
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Friday continued
Didn't make the gym. Mum came over and again I had to be the one calling customer services to get dad's cellphone working (mum made this stressful).
Why did I have a chicken breast fillet? I needed protein after having plenty of fruit (and I guess I just wanted some meat?). This reminds me, I ought to take myself off a certain vegeterian/vegan mailing list. They keep talking about actions and campaigns. They're vegeterian/vegan for ethical reasons. I am largely vegeterian/vegan - and just for health reasons.
Nash kept saying he was too ill to make the salsa party but (like he always does) changed his mind at the last minute. There was a Bachata class and a Salsa class. The food came out after an hour's freestyle dancing. I had:
206.6g plums
191.8g strawberries
138.5g apple
86.7g banana
64.5g galia melon
10.6g chocolate-covered biscuit fingers
9.3g green olives
8.6g cheddar cheese
3.8g sesame-seed-covered breadsticks
Buffet totals: 720.4g, 407 calories (average = 57 calories per 100g), 6.9g protein.
At 1am I was tired and Nash wasn't feeling too well, so we decided to leave 'early'.
When I got home I had 47 calories and needed 9.5g protein, so weight-watchers-cheddar-cheese was the best fit.
romaine leek grapefruit cabbage yellow-split-peas pear banana chick-peas peanuts cajun-chicken-breast(93) spicy-potato-wedges swede TVP party:strawberries party:cheddar(35) party:plum party:olives party:chocolate-biscuit-fingers(53) party:breadstick(19) party:apple party:galia-melon weight-watchers-mature-cheddar-cheese(50)
Total: 2003 calories, 103.6g protein. Animals 93+35+50=178 (8.9%). Rubbish 53+19=72 (3.6%). 250 is 12.5%.
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Nir
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Posted: 11 February 2007 07:42 pm |
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Saturday
An enjoyable Body Combat class (3rd time I'm doing this choreography. I'm still not quite sure what I'm doing) followed by a Body Pump class. The abdominals track has a plank at the end. Instructor Angela says something like 'Nir don't point your bum in the air'. This is disturbing on a couple of levels: first, why am I doing an exercise with bad posture and not realising it. Second, is it good or bad news that the instructor has decided to memorise my name, despite not having introduced myself [and quite how did she find out my name!]
Some panic-packing followed (I tend to leave packing to the last minute) before cycling to the train station (first journey on the bike since that first journey to get it home from the car boot sale where I purchased it). Napped on the train. Wolverhampton was colder than Milton Keynes and I was too lazy to dig into my bag for gloves. So my hands were frozen when I arrived at my sister's at 6pm. She has an important project at work so she only just came home from work (she wouldn't normally work on a Saturday).
Penny (my sister's dog) was very excited. The evening comprised chatting, food shopping, cooking, watching a TV program and eating. The TV program followed a couple who wanted to pay off their mortgage in 2 years - but were easily distracted and did not want to economise, so they only achieved about 1/3 of their goal. I wished that the evening wouldn't centre around a TV program (and a low quality one at that) but didn't want to create a fuss and didn't have a better suggestion.
My sister cooked a vegeterian version of "shepherd's pie", with a 400g tin of red kidney beans, 400g tin of chopped tomatos, some garden peas, one grated carrot, two "handfuls" of TVP, untold amounts of gravy granules (!), and a 120g packet of instant mashed potato powder (the recipe also called for chopped onion but she only remembered once the mashed potato had been painstakingly applied on top of the other ingredients, so we omitted it). This recipe is usually made for two so to avoid depriving them of food she also prepared garlic bread pieces (mixing garlic and oregano with margarine and liberally applying to bagette slices). We put both items in the oven and started watching the TV program. It is difficult to come up with estimates for the shepherd's pie as there are no quantities for the TVP and the gravy granules, which are both calorie-dense items. Probably 400-700 calories though per serving. 28.8g of garlic bread is probably just 72 calories.
At 7.30pm we were at the local ASDA-Walmart, food shopping. Cooking was around 8pm. Eating was perhaps 9.30pm (and then we came back to the paused TV program). At 11pm they both fell asleep whilst I was having some popcorn and garden peas (I was somehow not satisfied with the dinner and wanted more 'wholesome' food.)
Other food I "don't have at home" (all comes under the rubbish heading):
one indian Samosa (72.8g - probably 182 calories).
Cadbury's Roses chocolates 9.3g + 9.4g + 11.0g = 29.7g (150 calories)
Coffee flavoured Halva 29.7g (probably 150 calories. freakishly the same weight as those chocolates)
72+400+182+150+150=954 (954 .. 1254)
This was all in addition to eating my own foods over there: peanuts(30), popcorn(105), red kidney beans(100), pig-kidney(50), garden peas(138), salmon(50), weight-watchers-cheese(50). Own food total = 523.
cabbage romaine yellow-split-peas peanuts Waitrose-sample:hot-cross-bun(15) Waitrose-sample:beef-topside(39) Salsa-party-buffet-leftover:chocolate-biscuit-finger(26) sf-jello(25) pear red-kidney-beans popcorn vegetable-samosa-deep-fried(182) Roses-chocolates(150) pig-kidney(50) shepherd's-pie(garden-peas,tomatos,carrot,potato,red-kidney-beans,TVP,gravy)(400-700) garlic-bread(72) coffee-flavour-halva(150) salmon(50) weight-watchers-cheese(50) garden-peas
Total calories before arrival was 867. So daily total was 2344 .. 2644. Oops. Percentages are calculated based on 2500. Protein is 97.5g plus the protein in the shepherd's pie (TVP, red kidney beans etc) so it probably hit the target. I'm assuming the Gravy was 100 calories. Animals 39+50+50+50=189 (7.6%). Rubbish 15+26+25+182+150+?100?+72+150=720 (28.8%). 909 is 36.4%.
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Nir
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Posted: 15 February 2007 05:15 am |
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Er, I got a little behind!
Sunday
chocolate-mint-thin(47) roses(48+67+48) special-K-yoguhrty(93) broccoli skimmed-milk(28) garden-peas chcolate-sea-shell(64) yellow-split-peas highlight-chocolate-drink(25) red-kidney-beans apple TVP mixed-vegetables(garden-peas,carrot,green-beans,sweetcorn) mixed-vegetables(garden-peas,carrot,broccoli,cauliflower) dates potato-fries processed-cheese-slice(49) white-bread-roll(290) french-mustard mint-sauce ketchup vegeterian-hotdog quorn-sausage gherkin cabbage sf-jello(17) toffee-ice-cream(182)
Totals: 2072 calories, 98.6g protein. Animals 28+49=77 (3.7%). Rubbish 47+48+67+48+93+64+25+290+17+182=881 (42.5%). 958 is 46.3%.
Woke up (at sister's house) and was in the kitchen, preparing a breakfast of vegetables - but also had some of her sugary cereal and plenty of pieces of chocolate. Using her saucepan I cooked a packet of yellow-split-peas. Cocoa-powder, a staple ingredient in my home is prized posession in her house so I had to use Cadbury's Highlight for a chocolate drink. I was allowed to taste the savoury-flavour TVP she gets at a local shop and I was hooked and later on in the afternoon bought some over there (it is only 23p per 100g - you buy it by weight). Also got dates at 15p/100g, another bargain. Sister had to work on Sunday - her boyfriend took me to said shop and then I accessed internet from Wolverhampton University campus (cycling back at 6pm).
Dinner was 'burgers and chips' with burger 'meat' being two types of veggie sausages. The two bread rolls where white (what is it about this household - shunning wholewheat bread/rolls because they have 'too much taste' ??). For chips they used a packet of frozen 'straight cut potato chips' with ingredients listed as potatos and vegetable oil (3%). I figured mine would be healthier if I microwaved them rather that had them in the deep-fat-frier. Problem: they remained the same consistency every time I examined them (repeatedly microwaving them for 5 minues, about 4-5 times). I then lost patience and microwaved them for 8 minutes. What happened? Oh dear, they caught fire! (the vegetable oil must have ignited) browning the top of a white microwave oven they've only had been using for one week [big oops].
Those fries were discarded and the next batch were oven-baked for me. Dessert was jello-and-ice-cream
The most unpleasant part of the day was when they ganged up on me in conversation, accusing me of having always had a compulsive personality, whatever it is that I'm into, and suggesting I should have had this 'seen to' years ago. Hmmm. That was one very long evening.
[no workout]
Monday
mixed-veg(garden-peas,carrot,green-beans,sweetcorn) mixed-veg(garden-peas,carrot,broccoli,cauliflower) toffee-ice-cream(100) special-K-yoghurty(50) pig-kidney(50) dates popcorn salmon(50) grapefruit pear tuna(49+27+20+7=103) Millie-sample:cookie(26) yellow-split-peas spring-greens peanuts banana
Totals: 2000 calories, 104g protein. Animals 50+50+103=203 (10.2%). Rubbish 100+50+26=176 (8.8%). 379 is 19.0%
Got up and did my best to have a mostly healthy breakfast (finishing the 3.5kg stock of vegetables I brought with me). Avoided chocolate but just 'had' to have more ice-cream (which was yesterday's dessert - but limited myself to 100 calories). They both left for work just before 8am leaving me to my own devices. I left the house at 10 to 9am and immediately cycled upon a 2" screw, causing a fast puncture to the back wheel. Arghh.
Walked the bike into the centre of town and got onto a computer for an hour before my train was due. In Milton Keynes had to walk my bike into town and only got home at 2pm. Not only was I exhausted, but had to be fetched to mum's house to do computer-help, meaning I missed one of my gym classes. Did make the 'Body Step' class but decided to skip Salsa and have an early night as I was due to have a very early start - mum has arranged a day trip to London for me the next day.
Tuesday
popcorn spring-greens tuna(11) spicy-potato-wedges yellow-split-peas weight-watchers-cheese(50+50) cabbage tiramisu(81) orange apple vegeterian-Thai-buffet(?1500-2500?) burger-king-cookies-and-cream-ice-cream(?200?)
Totals: Calories 966+Buffet=??? (perhaps 2466..3466). Protein: 51g + ???buffet??? (remember though, body probably can't absorb more than 30g protein at a time). Animals 11+50+50+200=311. Rubbish=81+??? (some refined grain and oil in the buffet)|
Got up at 2.30am and decided to stay up as I had to pack for the day-trip to London. Packed plenty of food (including cooked cabbage and spring greens, cheese peanuts popcorn etc). Also had a meal around 4pm. Got picked up at 6.55am (and then the coach to london was late). Road works delayed our arrival till almost 10am!. The boring paperwork-type part of the morning was over with around 12.30pm. Mum went her way and my brother (who was with me) directed us to the West End for a browse at shops, theatres and cinemas. We dined at a restaurant of my choice [basically I said I'd be happy for him to pay for any restaurant of his choice, but if I was paying for my food it was going to be my choice]. I haven't been there for a year and a half and it was still as good as I remembered it. A Thai buffet lunch for £5, with a twist - it is all vegeterian, all the meat and seafood is made from shaped Soya. It was mostly healthy food, and I had plenty of salad. However I'm sure some oil was used in some of the cooking, and there would have been some refined flour too (in the dim sum, pancakes, noodles and rice, no doubt).
It was a setting for over-eating though. I could tell I was eating too much because I was feeling fuller and fuller. I didn't weigh or measure anything so I was eating quickly. Had to actually give up on finishing that 5th plate. When we left, 90 minutes after arriving I was in pain - whether we were walking or resting (but walking was more painful).
About 1.5 hours later still we were hanging aorund the Leicester Square burger kind, waiting for the World Premiere of a film called 'hot fuzz' [tagline 'Big Cops. Small Town. Moderate Violence'] we were told it would be at 5pm but clearly no stars had arrived by 5.30pm so it was later]. My brother wanted to catch a film but the only ones available at that point were to finish after 8pm [the time our coach was leaving from Victoria]. We shared a burger king 'cookies&cream' ice-cream before giving up on the Premiere and heading to Victoria.
Earlier my brother mentioned he saw a "2 for £5" offer on Hargen-Dazz. I was feeling 'round' at the stomach but still very much under the over-eating spell. My brother had lost interest in ice-cream by then, concerned that he didn't want to hold onto a tub of frozen ice-cream in that weather (I guess it was chilli outside). I would have paid £2.50 for one tub but not the single price. (you could tell that I was over-eating - a few weeks ago I passed up on a 59p ice-cream tub and now I would have happily spent 250p).
We got to Victoria at 6.14pm and I was trying to catch the 6.30pm coach. Brother was acting like a baby and refusing to walk fast (funny that, 2.5 hours later I was in pain after leaving the restaurant and he didn't want to slow down, but he was motivated to catch a film. Now that I was recovered, he was suddenly slowing us down). At one point decided to split from him, but he caught me up. The coach was full though so we had to wait. Didn't have to wait for the 8pm coach though as there was room on a 7.30pm coach which officially doesn't drop people at Milton Keynes but does stop there [to collect on its way to York].
Home by 9.15pm. Again too exhausted to contemplate Salsa and in bed before 10pm. Only food I had after the Burger King ice-cream (which was around 5pm) was a 50 calorie serving of weight-watchers cheese (for protein). [no workout]
Wednesday
weight-watchers-cheese(100) yellow-split-peas orange apple cocoa-powder skimmed-milk-powder gym-Valentine-freebie:heart-shaped-candies(175) cajun-chicken-breast-fillet(89) spicy-potato-wedges peanuts
I started the day like a few fellow diarists on this site, severely restricting my calories after yesterday's binge. Only consumed 100 calories consumed by 3.30pm! The morning 'Body Step' class was therefore practically 'fasted cardio'.
Caught up with some internet websites I'm following in the afternoon (but failed to get onto a website that promised hotel rooms for £1). Patiently waited to see if I would feel hungry but that feeling never came. I was still feeling stuffed from yesterday's buffet during the morning!
Had a bit more food before the afternoon classes (Bosu and Body Combat) and continued eating in the evening, reahing a slightly more respectable total (my unadjusted RMR) by the end of the day (2am)
Dr Fuhrman's radio program was about auto-immune diseases. I was thinking about fellow diarist Dondi. I bet she wants to _reverse_ her MS (and lose some weight) - but does she want this enough to actually follow the 'Eat To Live' eating plan?
Totals: 1476 calories, 107.9g protein. Animals 100+89=189 (12.8%). Rubbish 175 (11.9%). 364 is 24.7%.
[colouring this entry took 25 minutes. I hope someone appreciates the formatting ]
Last edited on 15 February 2007 05:40 am by Nir
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Nir
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Posted: 17 February 2007 02:38 am |
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Thursday
Body Pump class with cover teacher Hannah. Whilst leaving class waived goodbye to Hannah and wasn't looking where I was going, bumping into incoming teacher Angela, oops.
Visited a new branch of a national chain that sells dried fruit and nuts. I now know where to buy raw cashew nuts and peanuts etc. It isn't cheap though. Also checked out the times and prices in the two competing cinemas.
Brother showed up and we watched the new comedy Hot Fuzz, which we both enjoyed. Afterwards briefly to my place before deciding to dine at Weatherspoon pub (on account of it being inexpensive). We started with a drink (I got a hot chocolate with a complimentary biscotti). Then we did the 2-meals-for-£6.49 offer - he went for Sausage/Chips/Beans, I went for Chilli-con-carne, asking them to swap the yellow rice for some vegetables (which they did), finally we shared a 'chocolte-bomb' dessert (ice-cream covered by chocolate shell).
The Chilli con carne was labelled on the menu as "less than 5% fat" so I used this as opportunity to illustrate what this meant to my brother. In this case it meant 40% of the calories came from fat!
hot chocolate(100)
8.4g biscotti(42)
233.2g chilli con-carne(247, 21.9g)
34.0g sour cream(68, 1.0g)
28.6g tortilla chips(143, 2.0g)
66.5g carrots(16, 0.4g)
36.5g broccoli(9, 1.1g)
64.9g ice-cream(105, 2.1g)
12.5g chocolate-covering(63, 0.6g)
Pub outing totals: 793 calories, 29.1g protein.
Post-pub I was short on protein but had enough calories to get back on track.
sf-jello(25) hamburger-relish spring-greens cabbage spicy-potato-wedges yellow-split-peas grapes cajun-chicken-breast<89> popcorn hot-chocolate(100) biscotti(42) chilli-con-carne<247> sour-cream<68> tortilla-chips(143) carrot broccoli ice-cream(105) chcolate-covering(63) Sainsbury-sample:mini-dognut(24) cocoa-powder TVP swede peanuts
Totals: 2000 calories, 105.5g protein. Animals 89+247+68=404 (20.2%). Rubbish 25+100+42+143+105+63+24=502 (25.1%). 906 is 45.3%
Friday
Morning was a hospital visit. My medications have been changed yet again. This is my 3rd visit and the third consultant - there doesn't seem to be much continuity. I hope they know what they're doing. Got a lift to the hospital in the morning but a lift back wasn't due for a while so I walked to ASDA (35 minutes) to do a relatively large shop. Major items included sugar-free squash, legumes, frozen vegetables, nuts, seeds and dried fruit. I think I've been behaving in a grown-up fashion with the peanuts recently, so I've allowed myself the 'danger' of having 1.5kg of peanuts at home (about 9000) calories and re-introduced raisins (my old nemesis).
Mum arrived (having shipped Brother back to Paris) and we popped over to IKEA, joining a scheme that allows us to have unlimited free teas/coffees/hot-chocolates any time Monday-Friday [so from now on never will I drink an 'immoral' drink :-)] and we also each had their salad. Mine was a 'fish salad', mostly herring, smoked salmon and egg whites with just a hint of vegetation. Even though my protein totals for the day will look above-average, this is not good news: most of the protein would have been consumed at IKEA, and probably not enough in later meals. Also, the salad (and samples at IKEA and ASDA) totalled 941 calories - rather a lot for just one 'meal'.
Overall my outing was 6 hours and I was exhausted, electing to skip a possible afternoon visit to the gym [=no workout].
Nash was in town and came to see me for an hour. He announced he had lost some weight and sure enough my 3 scales agreed with him. He's lost over 1/2 a stone - from 11 and a half stones down to 10 stone 11. He clearly doesn't weigh himself every day, or every week for that matter - I recall that last measurement was from late December. We're not sure quite how this loss happened, wheather it relates to cutting some excesses or perhaps to a recent period of illness. Either way he's crossed the 'overweight' line, with a BMI of 24.7 he's now 'normal', though with body fat% of over 24% he still wants to lose a bit more. We'll have to wait and see whether his rough approach continues to generate results or whether he'll have to monitor his intake more closely later on.
Had a nap but still felt tired and decided to skip the salsa party (partly also didn't want to face the inclusive buffet. people are still talking about my over-eating in the previous party in December (!) so I also didn't want to deal with that).
cocoa-powder spicy-potato-wedges swede cabbage marrowfat-peas sf-jello(25) yellow-split-peas ASDA-sample:stir-fry-with-sauce(19) ASDA-sample:pizza(70) IKEA-sample:potato-chips(18) IKEA-sample:dime-chocolate(20+69) IKEA-sample:cookie(54) IKEA-free:hot-chocolate(100) tomato onion herring<431> smoked-salmon<140> egg-white<20> IKEA-scavange:meatball<26> frozen-grapes asparagus broccoli zuccini carrot lemon raisins peanuts
Totals: 2000 calories, 124.4g protein. Animals 431+140+20+26=617 (30.9%). Rubbish 25+19+70+18+20+69+54+100=375 (18.8%). 992 is 49.6%. That's a high number! Most of my 'sins' involve eating out (and samples etc.) and there has been a lot of that lately.
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Posted: 18 February 2007 03:12 am |
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Saturday
Body Combat; Body Pump; on way home got some food: brazil nuts and sunflower seeds were on special offer; celery and pear looked like reasonable quantities per £1-bowl (1.6kg celery, 2.8kg pear). Washed pears and put all in the freezer.
Bought a 'second-hand' Universal men's bike (never used, requires assembly) for £30 from friend's work-colleauge and spent hours trying to assemble (still not ready - brakes blokes are chaffing front wheel, which doesn't seem to be 'aligned'. what can I say, I'm not that gifted in this department).
grapes swede carrot yellow-split-peas marrowfat-peas pineapple orange pear brazil-nut celery sf-jello(25) peanuts spicy-potato-wedges TVP raisins
Totals: 2000 calories, 103.9g protein. Rubbish: 25 (1.3%). Much better.Last edited on 18 February 2007 03:15 am by Nir
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