I went to Zumba tonight and when I got home I didn't have a snack/treat which I have gotten in the habit of. Three positives for today - started this blog again, no doughnut at work, didn't snack.
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I went to Zumba tonight and when I got home I didn't have a snack/treat which I have gotten in the habit of. Three positives for today - started this blog again, no doughnut at work, didn't snack.
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Day 2 of reinvigorated blogging efforts...
The large sharable doughnut still lurks outside my office door. I will be strong. I don't want to have to record that I fell to temptation on here.
B - 40g dry oatmeal, handful of blueberries, 1tbsp maple syrup, 3tbsp 2% milk, coffee with heavy cream and no sugar cubes
L - TBD, i forgot my lunch in the fridge at home. I think probably a JJ unwhich, JJ thinny chips and water.
Does anyone know, is it not possible to edit entries after a certain amount of time? I updated my zumba/dinner info last night via my phone, and couldn't locate the "edit" button.. but I was able to edit my post yesterday to include the doughnut temptation.. LOL
I have to drive after work today for a class I am taking for grad school, I failed to plan for dinner. Last week, I didn't eat and was starving, got home, inhaled a large amount of carbs right before bed. Big mistake! I want to do better today. I might order lunch very late in the day and then eat it on my way to class.. I know skipping a meal is not a great idea but.. sometimes you need to do it to avoid tragedy.
Oh! Also. I was going off my weight from a few weeks ago, when I last weighed myself. I have been making an effort to exercise for about two months now, and so 228 was my last weight. I weighed myself today and was 225. So I will be updating accordingly, but I didn't lose 3lbs overnight.
The large sharable doughnut still lurks outside my office door. I will be strong. I don't want to have to record that I fell to temptation on here.
B - 40g dry oatmeal, handful of blueberries, 1tbsp maple syrup, 3tbsp 2% milk, coffee with heavy cream and no sugar cubes
L - TBD, i forgot my lunch in the fridge at home. I think probably a JJ unwhich, JJ thinny chips and water.
Does anyone know, is it not possible to edit entries after a certain amount of time? I updated my zumba/dinner info last night via my phone, and couldn't locate the "edit" button.. but I was able to edit my post yesterday to include the doughnut temptation.. LOL
I have to drive after work today for a class I am taking for grad school, I failed to plan for dinner. Last week, I didn't eat and was starving, got home, inhaled a large amount of carbs right before bed. Big mistake! I want to do better today. I might order lunch very late in the day and then eat it on my way to class.. I know skipping a meal is not a great idea but.. sometimes you need to do it to avoid tragedy.
Oh! Also. I was going off my weight from a few weeks ago, when I last weighed myself. I have been making an effort to exercise for about two months now, and so 228 was my last weight. I weighed myself today and was 225. So I will be updating accordingly, but I didn't lose 3lbs overnight.
update -
L - JJ unwhich vegetarian with lite avocado spread and lite cheese. thinny chips, water (even tho I wanted a diet coke soo so bad)
D - TBD if I have time to get something before classes.
All morning I stood at my standing desk instead of lowering it and sitting in the chair. I have googled around and it doesn't seem to be a difference as far as calories go, but they say continuous sitting is so bad for your health, I figured standing must be better.
L - JJ unwhich vegetarian with lite avocado spread and lite cheese. thinny chips, water (even tho I wanted a diet coke soo so bad)
D - TBD if I have time to get something before classes.
All morning I stood at my standing desk instead of lowering it and sitting in the chair. I have googled around and it doesn't seem to be a difference as far as calories go, but they say continuous sitting is so bad for your health, I figured standing must be better.
Tonight was kind of a disaster, but kind of great?
MY CAR BROKE DOWN, spewing oil everywhere. I just had an oil change two days ago... I think it has been leaking ever since and I just never noticed. So I sat at a gas station for about 45 minutes, DIDN'T GO INSIDE AND EAT EVERY CARB I COULD FIND, got a ride to the shop, grabbed a loaner, missed my class that I had tonight for grad school, and came home. My husband had made dinner but already eaten with our son, and I got a bowl, weighed out rice on my sweet calorie scale, put some chicken and sauce on top, and ate only one portion.
Literally if I hadn't been accountable to this board, I would have on a stressful night like today, eaten three bowls of food, probably while reading my phone.
D - 200cal of rice, four two-bite size pieces of chicken, sauce made with bell peppers, mushrooms, seasoning, water, roux. Drank water with dinner
I did decide at one point that I wanted a vodka soda with lime as a reward for being *great*, I had like five sips, and trashed it. It just didn't taste worth it.
MY CAR BROKE DOWN, spewing oil everywhere. I just had an oil change two days ago... I think it has been leaking ever since and I just never noticed. So I sat at a gas station for about 45 minutes, DIDN'T GO INSIDE AND EAT EVERY CARB I COULD FIND, got a ride to the shop, grabbed a loaner, missed my class that I had tonight for grad school, and came home. My husband had made dinner but already eaten with our son, and I got a bowl, weighed out rice on my sweet calorie scale, put some chicken and sauce on top, and ate only one portion.
Literally if I hadn't been accountable to this board, I would have on a stressful night like today, eaten three bowls of food, probably while reading my phone.
D - 200cal of rice, four two-bite size pieces of chicken, sauce made with bell peppers, mushrooms, seasoning, water, roux. Drank water with dinner
I did decide at one point that I wanted a vodka soda with lime as a reward for being *great*, I had like five sips, and trashed it. It just didn't taste worth it.
Ok so this weekend was super busy, and I didn't have a chance to update, so here goes:
On Friday morning I weighed 222. It was kind of a terrible day health wise, because I literally did not have time to eat breakfast or lunch. I was late leaving for work because of logistical challenges, and then I had a lot of work to get done because I am out of the office next week, all week. So I skipped lunch.
Friday -
B - skipped
L - skipped
D- two slices of pizza, four boneless wings, two bone-in wings, water, two apple cinnamon muffins (normal tin size, not giant)
After dinner, my son, husband, and my parents, drove three hours up north because my husband and I were doing/did an Olympic-distance relay triathlon this weekend. I did the swim and the bike, he did the run. Oof. I knew that this weekend would be kind of a wash for food, but since there was a ton of activity involved I wasn't so worried about it. Good thing: we stopped at a gas station while driving and I only had water, no treats.
Saturday - restaurants for every meal :-/ But our airbnb was .8 miles from the city center and we walked everywhere which was nice. Walked to breakfast, walked to shops and farmers market, walked to lunch, walked to pickup our race packets, walked back to house, walked to dinner, walked back to house.
B - quiche with sausage, rosemary potatoes, English muffin with homemade blueberry jam. Coffee with creamer and sugar, water.
Snack - a chocolate croissant from a delicious bakery
L - appetizers shared - crackers with cheese, 1 large wing with sauce, poutine (drool), one small beer, one medium sized beer, water.
Snack - smoked lake trout on crackers, water, date & chocolate "energy squares"
D - Caesar salad, two black bean 'cakes' (like a fishcake but beans), water, chips and salsa
Sunday - more restaurants :-/ :-/
B - coffee with cream
swam 1500m as fast as I could, biked 40km as fast as I could. I ended up exercising for 2.5 hours continuously. It was a mistake to not eat breakfast.
L - two Gu packets (gross but necessary bc I felt bad after I finished my part of the race), 1 banana, water.
L#2 - After I started feeling better, I got a salad with whitefish cakes, and french fries with remoulade (so good), water
Then we drove 3 hours home
I convinced myself i wanted ice cream while driving, when we dropped my parents off I realized I had left my wallet on top of my car at the last gas station (50 miles away) and I panickedly drove back on my own (scrapping ice cream plan), where I got my wallet from a local sheriff's department after someone at the gas station turned it in (had an angel looking out for me). did not get ice cream - interesting silver lining.
D - a flatout wrap, ham, cheese, carrots, salad mix, mustard, mayonnaise, water, date & chocolate "energy square" for dessert
Monday - (holiday in US)
B - coffee with cream
L - flatout wrap, ham, cheese, carrots, salad mix, mustard, mayonnaise, water, leftover scalloped potatoes
D - TBD
WHEW. That's a lot of food. haha. The challenge now will be to get out of "vacation food" mindset and into "make good choices mindset" again. I am traveling for work this week and having to stay in a hotel, I hope that I can continue to make good choices. I think this blog will help me stay accountable. After doing the race, and not really doing a great job preparing, I feel motivated to do the same race again next year and try and improve our time (still as a relay, I hate running). My husband does too (he is very fit). I would like to harness this feeling of motivation to carry me into trying new exercise routines, with weight lifting, etc.
On Friday morning I weighed 222. It was kind of a terrible day health wise, because I literally did not have time to eat breakfast or lunch. I was late leaving for work because of logistical challenges, and then I had a lot of work to get done because I am out of the office next week, all week. So I skipped lunch.
Friday -
B - skipped
L - skipped
D- two slices of pizza, four boneless wings, two bone-in wings, water, two apple cinnamon muffins (normal tin size, not giant)
After dinner, my son, husband, and my parents, drove three hours up north because my husband and I were doing/did an Olympic-distance relay triathlon this weekend. I did the swim and the bike, he did the run. Oof. I knew that this weekend would be kind of a wash for food, but since there was a ton of activity involved I wasn't so worried about it. Good thing: we stopped at a gas station while driving and I only had water, no treats.
Saturday - restaurants for every meal :-/ But our airbnb was .8 miles from the city center and we walked everywhere which was nice. Walked to breakfast, walked to shops and farmers market, walked to lunch, walked to pickup our race packets, walked back to house, walked to dinner, walked back to house.
B - quiche with sausage, rosemary potatoes, English muffin with homemade blueberry jam. Coffee with creamer and sugar, water.
Snack - a chocolate croissant from a delicious bakery
L - appetizers shared - crackers with cheese, 1 large wing with sauce, poutine (drool), one small beer, one medium sized beer, water.
Snack - smoked lake trout on crackers, water, date & chocolate "energy squares"
D - Caesar salad, two black bean 'cakes' (like a fishcake but beans), water, chips and salsa
Sunday - more restaurants :-/ :-/
B - coffee with cream
swam 1500m as fast as I could, biked 40km as fast as I could. I ended up exercising for 2.5 hours continuously. It was a mistake to not eat breakfast.
L - two Gu packets (gross but necessary bc I felt bad after I finished my part of the race), 1 banana, water.
L#2 - After I started feeling better, I got a salad with whitefish cakes, and french fries with remoulade (so good), water
Then we drove 3 hours home
I convinced myself i wanted ice cream while driving, when we dropped my parents off I realized I had left my wallet on top of my car at the last gas station (50 miles away) and I panickedly drove back on my own (scrapping ice cream plan), where I got my wallet from a local sheriff's department after someone at the gas station turned it in (had an angel looking out for me). did not get ice cream - interesting silver lining.
D - a flatout wrap, ham, cheese, carrots, salad mix, mustard, mayonnaise, water, date & chocolate "energy square" for dessert
Monday - (holiday in US)
B - coffee with cream
L - flatout wrap, ham, cheese, carrots, salad mix, mustard, mayonnaise, water, leftover scalloped potatoes
D - TBD
WHEW. That's a lot of food. haha. The challenge now will be to get out of "vacation food" mindset and into "make good choices mindset" again. I am traveling for work this week and having to stay in a hotel, I hope that I can continue to make good choices. I think this blog will help me stay accountable. After doing the race, and not really doing a great job preparing, I feel motivated to do the same race again next year and try and improve our time (still as a relay, I hate running). My husband does too (he is very fit). I would like to harness this feeling of motivation to carry me into trying new exercise routines, with weight lifting, etc.
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Thanks Cate! I had my son in May of 2015, and I can't believe it is 2018. I have been completely inactive up until this summer, from halfway through my pregnancy, so January 2015, until now. I was in a dark, dark period of postpartum depression/sadness. I am happy to say that I finally feel like I am coming out of that fog. I am astounded how much it seeped into every part of my life, and how long it took to come through it. I don't think I am 100% out of it yet, but I think that I am lightyears beyond what I was in April of this year. I don't know what happened to bring me out of it, doctors seem to think it's something that your body is either fast or slow to adjusting to (the hormones after a pregnancy coming back to 'normal' whatever 'normal' is).Wow! You are so active. I am impressed! How good that your wallet got handed in?
I used to be extremely fit and active, so it is very hard for me to have reached this point. I am glad that things are turning around and I hope that I find myself where I was 5 years ago... competing in athletic competitions a lot, pushing myself to workout harder, getting my goal weights/measurements closer to what I feel happiest at.
Tonight's dinner -
1 bowl of "kitchen sink" soup, which was cubed potatoes, cubed ham, carrots, broth, couscous, fresh tomatoes, and leftover rice from another dish, whole grain seed crackers, water. I was happy because my son LOVED it...
Positives - my husband had to go and grab some quart sized bags because I am flying tomorrow (for liquids etc), and I was like "Oh you could get ice cream!" and it was like I was talking to another personality and I was like "No! No! No ice cream!" He didn't get ice cream, lol. I also have been fighting back the urge to have a bowl of cereal... I know I don't need it. I'm just going to have some water and do my homework for grad school...
I think I want to make a quick list of things I hope will change as I work towards losing weight to refer back to for motivation:
- more affordable, more stylish clothes are available to me. there's always so many cute clothes on the rack that I used to be able to wear, in size 8, 10, 12... the racks in the 18, 20 sizes are so sparse. And it's easier to shop sales at smaller sizes, too.
- I have developed little red bumps on my arms, that I had when I was younger and heavier. They went away when I lost weight in high school, and have only reappeared since I gained weight in the last four years. I hope they will go away.
- Facial hair.. I am currently getting laser treatments, but the dark facial hair that I have gotten more of (I'm already pretty hairy) is so embarrassing. It's expensive to get it lasered, and I hope that as I lose weight, the maintenance appointments for laser treatments will get fewer and far between.
- Physical pain. It feels like something on my body is always sore. Back, hips, knees, ankles, neck.. etc. My extra weight places so much stress on joints. I hope that as I lose lbs, it will be less and less.
- Comfort in the summer. I have dreaded summer since I had my son in 2015. I feel constantly sweaty, constantly uncomfortable, dreading special events where I need to dress up and be outside, usually in clothes I don't feel safe in.
- Finding shorts to wear in hot weather that I feel safe in.
- Having more energy.
- Having more motivation to do physically strenuous things as a family, like canoeing, hiking, paddleboarding, etc.
- Feeling "sexy"... you know, with the hubs. For four years my nude self confidence has been GONE. Even at zumba when the songs are "sexy" in nature and the dance moves are "sexy" I feel like a FOOL. I want to have a light-hearted attitude...
That's all for now, I'm sure I could write a novel..
- more affordable, more stylish clothes are available to me. there's always so many cute clothes on the rack that I used to be able to wear, in size 8, 10, 12... the racks in the 18, 20 sizes are so sparse. And it's easier to shop sales at smaller sizes, too.
- I have developed little red bumps on my arms, that I had when I was younger and heavier. They went away when I lost weight in high school, and have only reappeared since I gained weight in the last four years. I hope they will go away.
- Facial hair.. I am currently getting laser treatments, but the dark facial hair that I have gotten more of (I'm already pretty hairy) is so embarrassing. It's expensive to get it lasered, and I hope that as I lose weight, the maintenance appointments for laser treatments will get fewer and far between.
- Physical pain. It feels like something on my body is always sore. Back, hips, knees, ankles, neck.. etc. My extra weight places so much stress on joints. I hope that as I lose lbs, it will be less and less.
- Comfort in the summer. I have dreaded summer since I had my son in 2015. I feel constantly sweaty, constantly uncomfortable, dreading special events where I need to dress up and be outside, usually in clothes I don't feel safe in.
- Finding shorts to wear in hot weather that I feel safe in.
- Having more energy.
- Having more motivation to do physically strenuous things as a family, like canoeing, hiking, paddleboarding, etc.
- Feeling "sexy"... you know, with the hubs. For four years my nude self confidence has been GONE. Even at zumba when the songs are "sexy" in nature and the dance moves are "sexy" I feel like a FOOL. I want to have a light-hearted attitude...
That's all for now, I'm sure I could write a novel..
Cheer up CeeShill!
Your food looks good.
And don't worry, you're not the only to think you don't look sexy AT ALL in zumba or even dancing class! You should just try to feel good, and to have fun!
Thanks dubu! Yes I really credit the instructor of Zumba for making it feel ok to be not the more coordinated dancer lol. I don't feel too stupid when I'm doing it, more just foolish at the "sexier" moves haha
Yes it does help to give a boost to motivation especially when it is waning...
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