Lulu's diary

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lulu2cook

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I want to keep track of my calorie intake and my amount of exercise I do each day. My goal is to lose 10 pounds. Right now I am 5'4" and about 135 pounds. My goal is to lose 1-2 pounds a week. I have a horrible sweet tooth, and it doesn't help that I am in culinary school and begin baking and pastry class on October 4th! :eek: I also work as a pastry chef on Sundays from 7:30 am to 3:00 pm. I have a hard time not trying what I am making. Anyone have any tips? I am also training for a marathon, but have been having some knee and hip trouble, which seems to be getting better :) So here is my diary.

September 17
Breakfast
1/2 cup oats (dry), more when cooked - 150 cal
banana - 120 cal
milk - 30 cal
Snack
3 oatmeal cookies - 400 cal :(

workout -
30 minutes on recumbant bike
15 minutes stretching
30 minutes lifting arms - 3X lat pull (70), 3X row (30), 3X incline bench (55), 3X incline chest fly (10's), 2X shoulder press (12's), 2X shoulder shredder (5's)
50 minutes elliptical machine
Lunch
2/3 cup green beans - 25 cal
turkey sandwich - 150 cal
apple - 80 cal
Snack
bran flakes cereal with milk - 200 cal
Dinner
Salad - 50 cal
grilled chicken - 120 cal
toast w/ pb & jelly - 200 cal
angel food cake w/cream cheese frosting - 500 cal (made for class - ate a lot of frosting)
Total = 1825

Calorie count is okay, but I want to eat less sweets and added sugar and more healthy fruits, veggies, protein, and carbs
 
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Today my goal is to not eat any sweets, including peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!
September 18, 2004
Breakfast - 8:30 am
Banana - 120 cal
Bran flakes cereal w/ milk - 180 cal
Workout - 9:00 am
5 minute warmup on bike
1 hour Yoga class
Ran on treadmill - 4 min walking warmup (3.7 mph), ran 4 miles - 32 minutes (7.5 mph, 8 min mile), 5 min cool down (3.7 mph)
Lunch
apple - 80 cal
mixed veggies - 150 cal
turkey sandwich - 150 cal
 
HI Lulu,


welcome to the forum. Your plan looks good to me:).
I can understand, how you want to switch from sweets to healthy foods to get your calories. What helps me not to try to much, when baking is if I do it directly after a meal. When I'm full (satisfied) I have no interest in sweets or in trying stuff. Maybe it would help to have a good breakfast (turkey bacon and eggs) before you go to work on sundays. And then also bring some healthy snacks along...and think about how much of the fruit you can eat, before you get up to the same calories of one bite of cake:). Maybe this helps a little.
 
lulu welcome. good luck with all of your goals. start small, do one thing at a time and pretty soon with out you realizing it you will have exchanged on bad habit for one good one.
 
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