Journey to Knowing

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Committing to no rootbeer or snickers this coming week. I don't overly enjoy snickers but they're a nearly perfectly balanced food fat to protein to carbs and I've been using one serving most days to up my calories. I'll figure out how to up calories with whole foods instead. And rootbeer ie my anxiety break. I'll figure that one out. I'm buying some hot teas Monday so I'll have other stuff to drink. Water gets boring. And I'll add eggs back into my plan. They obviously are a key food for me. As is avocado. This morning I had a piece of pan toasted sunflower seed bread, guacamole, and a fried egg. So damn good. Poison ivy rash is still healing and sore/itchy.
 
Avocado & eggs are among my favourite foods!
 
Unmotivated again today. I seem to forget how to deal with this until I'm out of it. Next time I'll make notes.

I don't understand how I can eat whole and meet my calorie minimum while keeping carbs in check. Fruit is nature's candy but also a great way to fill nutritional needs. Feel like a broken record. At any rate I had protein pancakes and a fried egg for lunch. I was able to flip the pancake but not the egg lol. Yesterday the egg landed on the stove top and not in the pan so I'll continue using a spatula.

Minor list of things to do. Have about 30lbs of litter to take to the compactor. 10 loads of laundry. Vacuum & steam the floors and cat beds. Change sheets after flipping the mattress. Clean kitchen and bathrooms. Yeah. Minor.

Weighed in at 265. Not at all happy but I'm completely responsible.
 
Eat more vegetables CF & stick to low GI fruit. Veg it up :) Doing that housework will be exercise. When I get down I get outside & go for a walk.
 
Long day tomorrow. I have planned for it. A healthy fast food breakfast, a large salad with pineapple, sweet potato, and seeds for lunch. I'll take an ounce of jerky along. No rootbeer. For supper I'll get something off the hotbar st the farmers market. Gotta be at work at 6 and leave at 230. Hoping to get a little grocery shopping in during lunch. Depending on availability I'll go pick up cat food and hit the farmers market. Cats will be starving but the mini fast will do them good.

I got a lot but not all of the house chores done. Also back to my calisthenics and got 20 minutes pedaling in. Going to sleep at ten so I'm on schedule.
 
So angry at myself. I forgot to postpone a bill payment that would be fine to pay later so I'm once again strapped bc it processed this morning. Dangit. My beautifully planned two week menu just got scrapped. Another two weeks of cabbage soup and alpaca burgers. Grateful for what I have! Just angry at my inability to manage normal life.

But I did get up and managed to get the foot brace on relatively well. Also remembered the compression socks. I'm 30 minutes from breakfast. So having sugar cravings but they're not overwhelming. When I stopped to gas my car, I could hear all the candy calling to me lol. I weighed everything for my lunch. Someone mentioned measuring with tsp & cups etc sometimes isn't exact enough for accurate calorie counts.

I also read up on glycemic loads. I learned about it a while ago but went back to refresh my memory. I do well with higher carbs. Even at my age, my metabolism is high. While I was googling the GI & GL, I found info on body types and how the different builds metabolize macros. Such interesting information.

My foot is throbbing so I took an NSAID. Already feeling like I'm floating.
 
I feel your pain when it comes to your menu. I live paycheck to paycheck. I love to cook and love healthy menu-planning. However I usually have to abandon menu plans I make because I can't afford to go out and buy the ingredients which really sucks.
 
Worked, found cat food, grocery shopped and stayed in my budget (I think). Other than lettucey stuff I've got everything for two weeks. May be eating oatmeal by Aug 12 but I'll deal. Hopefully the last payperiod like this. I've decided it is not fun.

My foot has done well. I'm having other issues with the nsaid. I forgot why I don't take tylenol. Gonna take off the brace and ice the foot for a while and then go to bed. No refined sugar today. Minor headache and I've been bitchy but otherwise I'm good.
 
Bp at doc's this morning? 180/100. So my gut was right. She said that specific drug causes issues for about 2% and I just got lucky. So she's prescribed a gel. Same med just not systemic.

I walked about 5 miles yesterday just at work and running errands. Today my foot is nearly pain free. And I just cooked turkey and corn and peas for dinner. I skipped lunch in lieu of a nap.

Still no sugar. Feeling better.
 
I finally had time to evaluate all the data I downloaded from myfitnesspal. Tuesdays and Saturdays are my stress eating days. Sunday's and Wednesdays I eat well under my goal...several times not making half of my daily intake goal. The weeks I lose the most are the weeks I stay close to my daily goal. Really interesting patterns....also with the macros. This will help me focus on what I can control. I emailed my insurance to see if dietitians are covered. If so I may go see one. Still at a loss on how to get about 300 more calories a day without blowing out the macros, especially the sugar and sodium. There has got to be a simple answer.

Gonna pedal later today. Heavy storms have waylaid my walking plans.
 
If unsalted nuts are within your budget they may be a good way to boost your calories. They add up quickly though. Almonds are excellent.
 
I eat seeds and nut butter every day but they max out my fat macro quickly. I'm slightly allergic to almonds and cashews (a legume). When I use up my current nut butter I'll get some sunbutter made from sunflower seeds. Never knew that existed. I just did my meals for tomorrow and fats are way out of skew high and proteins low because I have to buy more turkey. Added in eggs but that blows out cholesterol and adds to fats. So I tried adding canned tuna and my sodium is over and because I'll probably make a tuna salad, upped my fats again. I'll figure it out. A few months of paying this close attention and it'll be second nature...I hope :)

I have chick peas baking with taco seasoning right now. I thought it would be a good protein source but it's more carbs. I'll make turkey cabbage soup tomorrow.
 
This is about the time I quit whatever I'm trying. About 11 weeks in. I'm amazed I'm still at this and I still have a plan and I'm hanging in here even with several weeks of nearly no scale movement. I figured it would take 15 weeks to figure out the basics. And when I did a graph today plotting the weight, the size of the graph for the next 60 weeks put all this in perspective. And seeing the patterns per day, I know I need game plans specifically for Tuesdays and fridays.

Ran out and bought turkey and corrected the calories on the coconut milk I'm using and my macros are nearly balanced. Waiting for the turkey to cook then I'll head to bed.
 
Protein pancakes for breakfast. I made two eggs but could only eat one. Just had the best taco-fish salad with quac and roasted taco seasoned chickpeas and turkey. So very good. For supper I've got to cook cabbage soup so I'll start on that in about an hour. Great sleep this morning. And the complications from that NSAID are finally working themselves out.

Scale went down to 263.1. Almost back to the 262.2 from last week.
 
That show have been taco-ish not taco-fish.

Cabbage soup isn't as good as last month but that's okay. It's still really good. About to have my turmeric latte and go to sleep. I'm about 30 minutes late eating but that's okay.

Still no sugar this week. Missing the rootbeer majorly but the scale is proof even staying within the calorie limit, refined sugar slows things down.

Tomorrow work at 6 and the in the afternoon I'm going to a fashion museum ten to help a friend prepare for her first art show.
 
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