Archive for the 'Weigh-in' Category
June 2nd, 2008 by Cynthia
It's not been a stellar week. AGAIN.
I think I've been kind of depressed and well, SULKY about my feet. Which tends to make me stray on eating. I'm back to exercise TODAY. I kept putting it off, but well, no more excuses. The excess skin of my toe blister has come off, it's time to do something. I don't know that I can be as vigorous in water aerobics as usual, I've still got arch and heel pain going when I get on my feet, but I should be able to do SOMETHING. And that's got to be better than nothing!
Yesterday, I went out to get potting mix... also bought candy bars (multiple) and CHEETOS! It's been a bad eating weekend, but yesterday was the WORST. No regular meals, not much water drinking... instead, diet soda drinking and junk food. And pizza. Nothing much truly healthy except maybe the veggies on the pizza. OTOH... I did get some yard work done. Then fell asleep later on the sofa after icing my feet.
I can do better. I WILL do better!
I do NOT want to see 225.8 pounds on my scale again!
I know most of this is water weight... but some may be fat. If I want to be at or under 200 pounds come December 31... I can't slack off now! That's the long and short of it. Whatever it takes.
So, breakfast happened, as it should, BEFORE I turned on the computer. I've been slacking on that... and I need to buckle down and start my days right.
Meal 1 = Lean ground beef, onion, carrots, asparagus, mushrooms, baby bok choy. 1 TBSP green curry sauce. (340 calories)
Meal 2 = Smoothie - herbal blueberry tea, fat free cottage cheese, Metabolic Drive PP, serving of Omega 3 Chia seeds, half cup of frozen blueberries, Carlson lemon flavor fish oil. (350 calories)
Workout = Water aerobics 1 hour, water walking 15 minutes
PW Drink = 1.5 servings whey protein, 1 serving Greens Plus Wildberry Burst (170 calories)
Meal 3 = Steel cut oats, goji berries, blueberries, flax meal, Hood Calorie Countdown, serving of Metabolic Drive PP. (417 calories)
Meal 4 = Pure Catch Sesame Chili Tilapia, asparagus, fresh tomato/onion/cheese soup (Vita-Mix recipe), half cup cherries. (489 calories)
Meal 5 = Fat-free cottage cheese, Metabolic Drive PP (strawberry), cacao nibs, almonds and a glass of Greens Plus Wildberry Burst in water... didn't feel like chopping veg. (318 calories)
Total = 2089 calories + 22 cups of water/green tea/herbal tea
May 28th, 2008 by Cynthia
I must admit... I usually don't leave it this late to write my weigh-in post! Procrastination at work? Not really... I actually was dedicating some time to getting some actual house work and other tasks done. You probably noticed that I did not wait to change my ticker or pounds to go button!
Anyway, the verdict was 221.6. Confirming that last week's horrendous weigh-in was *mostly* a water gain. But not entirely water. So I have some work to do to get back to my previous low of 219.6.
Truthfully, my weight has been bouncing around quite a bit since Monday. I keep having sugar cravings and sadly, have given in to some of them. Though I drew a line at buying the tempting bag of high fructose corn syrup strawberry bon-bons at the store. Those stayed at the store! But I brought home and ate two Reese's Nutrageous candy bars and a large can of Wasabi fried peas and ate them all in an evening.
Even yesterday... after eating well all day, we went to a movie. Then had a late meal out. I had a salad... and with dressing on the side which I used in a fairly minimal fashion, i.e. fork dipping. Also had a bowl of soup... but the shame was in asking my husband to buy me a cookie on a stick. I love those! I did remember to order iced tea instead of a diet soda... I'm working to ditch the habit of automatically ordering diet soda at restaurants.
All I can say is thank goodness for goals! I have a goal to reach or be under 200 pounds by the end of the year and time is passing by. So I have to get back on the wagon NOW if I mean to reach it. That means better logging and more attention to preparing proper meals and back to exercise.
Yesterday I did some house cleaning... and I realize that I need to keep up on that better. It's so easy to procrastinate, because I have the perfect excuse... i.e. "My feet hurt." And they DO. Quite a bit last night after yesterday's efforts. But the housecleaning needs to get done too. I feel better when my house is clean. You know, I keep my kitchen clean, because it's essential for me to be able to go in there and fix a meal fast. And it feels good to have a clean kitchen. But that feeling gets diminished when the rest of the house is a constant hairball.
Well, today, I will do the living room. That's where I use my TRX trainer right now and also my fitness ball. I hate putting my equipment in there when the floors are fuzzy with cat fluff drifting about.
May 19th, 2008 by Cynthia
Well, stressful though getting ready for the trip was, I had fun! I wouldn't say the eating was utterly horrible, but I ate too many calories, I'm certain of that! I didn't track and I was too busy to log.
My weight is now almost 10 pounds higher today than it was last week at 229.0 pounds.
Sigh.
I'd say most of the problem eating was road trip food. I had meant to make some food at least for the drive to the Seattle area... but ran out of time and instead, swung by Albertson's and picked up some dozen or so PowerBars. I find those help when I get sleepy on the road and given at the time, I was running on 2.5 hours of sleep, getting tired was almost a certainty. Plus, I figured I wouldn't have time to stop much for actual meals. So though I did have a proper smoothie for breakfast on Friday, the other food was several PowerBar Performance - Peanut Butter bars during the drive and a Subway roasted chicken breast wrap with a cookie and water. And a cup of coffee and two cookies at the Indian John Hill rest area. (Coffee was BADLY NEEDED by then!)
Once at my hotel, I went down to Shari's restaurant and had grilled salmon with steamed veggies and a rice pilaf. And I'm afraid I splurged and had dessert, apple pie ala mode. Plus a cookie on a stick! And ate another couple PowerBars and some beef jerky back in my room.
Breakfast Saturday was the hotel's continental breakfast. I had a bowl of cheerios mixed with granola and milk. Plus a mini muffin and an orange and glass of apple juice. Lunch was a turkey sandwich box from Ingallina's, with fruit, bag o' chips and a frosted sugar cookie. The sugar was rather welcome by then, it was a long hot day. But I got to visit and have fun with friends and was on my feet a lot, so I'm sure I got plenty of walking exercise. Dinner was at Olive Garden, where I had the Venetian Chicken (chicken breasts in an apricot glaze with vegetables). Also had some bruschetta, tossed salad, a single breadstick and 2 strawberry daiquiris. No dessert!
My feet were pretty badly off by the time I retired for the night... I filled a couple gallon ZipLoc baggies with ice from the ice machine and did my best to ice them down. I still felt hungry, so ate another couple PowerBar Nut Naturals and some jerky. Thirst was a biggie, I kept trying to drink, but was chatting so much that I really didn't get anywhere near my normal liquids consumption in. So I was drinking a couple diet cokes a night from the hotel vending machine.
Breakfast at the hotel again... waffle with butter and syrup and bowl of cheerios. PowerBars as needed to keep me going. Two cookies and coffee again at Indian John Hill. Late lunch finally in Prosser at Taco Bell. And then, after some rest and unloading the car, the remaining three PowerBars and some beef jerky for dinner. Watched "The Tudors" and "Desperate Housewives" and crashed.
OK... most of the weight is going to be water weight. So it's not as bad as it looks right now, but it's still possible I gained a pound or two. I'm getting back on track TODAY!
One bit of bad news... came back with a big blister on one toe. So I had to skip water aerobics today. My feet are rather painful, so I am going to try and do what I can to calm them down again. Even my ankles are upset. And my back is a bit sore from being on my feet so much.
May 13th, 2008 by Cynthia
Shows what I know. I was thinking "Ate fast food salad Saturday night.", skipped some meals, didn't eat veggies with every meal, was getting a little lax with prompt food and exercise logging, didn't exercise as much and what do you know... maybe my body needed a little rest.
Yesterday's weigh-in at 219.6 was a pleasant surprise!
Today's weigh-in was even more pleasant, though I suspect that is simply a water issue. Pool workouts seem to suck me dry... and that's even with drinking 20 cups of water yesterday! The hydration percentage difference on my Tanita scale was telling. Yesterday, 35.9%... today 35.0%.
Still, it feels good to be tasting the 2-teens!
Here's the calorie per day breakdown for the curious:
Monday = 2141
Tuesday = 1825
Wednesday = 2243
Thursday = 1581
Friday = 2436
Saturday = 2358
Sunday = 1681
Total of 14,265 for the week.
What I aim for weekly is 14,700, i.e. 500 cal/day deficit. Probably explains why I was so hungry yesterday!
With a road trip coming up, my aim is to enjoy myself, but hopefully in a moderate fashion so I don't totally destroy my recent progress.
May 6th, 2008 by Cynthia
Only a very little bit. My muscles were still QUITE sore from Saturday's workout, so I'm surely retaining water. Which means that I'll probably see a nicer scale number in a day or two. (And given I started writing this yesterday... today I saw a new low of 221.2!)
Posting a gain bugged me a LOT when I started this blog. Back then, it just seemed like such a public failure. I've gotten over that feeling lately. It's feedback... and on any given single day, not necessarily correct feedback! The month to month trend is more significant to me. Keeping good habits is the important thing. Progress is about more than just numbers!
Progress is sometimes that "head held high" feeling I get after my exercise. Where you can take on the world with one hand tied behind your back. So, did I mind my little gain? Not really for once. It's one number on one day. I just kept thinking about being stronger and fitter. Hubby says I am building a new foundation. I think he's right!
I seem to be in my "happy place" lately... not worried, making my slow progress on various fronts, and not being tempted much at the grocery store. Came home today with a nice looking pineapple and BEETS of all things! I've never cooked a beet before, but I'm in the mood to try.
I had a fair few 10% meals. That's about the beyond tired feeling in the evenings, where I just grab a reduced fat string cheese stick, or some almonds, or a TBSP of peanut butter and have that as a meal with no veggies and no real lean protein source. It's not out of control eating, or unhealthy eating, it's just not compliant with the habits I try to follow. Something to continue working on.
Fasting cardio can't be every day. I wish, but my feet aren't liking it. So I'm going to add it in as I can. I need to be more conscious about icing my feet down in the evenings.
Now that spring weather is FINALLY starting to appear... I need to get out and do some yard work. I'm going to try and keep up exercise, but given my feet can only take so much, I may have to sacrifice a little traditional exercise for the sake of the yard. Looking at what is out there in the nature of trimming and pruning and digging and weeding... I'm not too worried that I won't get a workout!
April 30th, 2008 by Cynthia
I actually had a good weigh-in this past Monday... got the basic info up, but never had a chance to post until now. Doing the semi-fasted cardio in the mornings is eating into my online time!
Anyway, the new official low is 221.8 pounds, for 40+ pounds lost.
I can't say the eating/exercise was spot on for the week either. Several missed meals, a few not ideal meals where I didn't eat my veggies. But I was pretty good at keeping the calorie deficit I wanted, so I'm happy! It negates the gain last week, and adds to my losses.
Naturally I got tired yesterday and blew it first at Les Schwab's where I was getting new tires for the car and indulging in free popcorn and marginal coffee while I waited, followed by grabbing a half dozen potstickers at Safeway along with some veggie shopping and then followed by pizza, but today's spike is water weight, I'm not worried.
I'm taking a break from the fasted cardio today, my feet are feeling it. So a rest will be a good thing. I should be resuming tomorrow. It has gone fairly well so far, other than that I get sweaty and so had to fit a shower in before going off to water aerobics on Monday. So not entirely convenient on my pool days but do-able.
Here's my Joe's Goals screenshot for the past week:
April 21st, 2008 by Cynthia
Given my eating was all over the place the past week, I'm not surprised. But I sure hate to have to put my buttons and ticker in reverse!
Gain of 1.2 pounds.
Can't be happy about that, but I suppose it could have been worse. I'm on track now and this week should be better. My plan, since my body got plenty of calories last week, is to drop my cals a little to 1900 on cardio days, go to 2400 on my weight training days and stick with 1700 on my rest days. Rest days I'll also go a little lower on the carb scale than I usually do and do 20% carbs instead of 25%.
Here's my Joe's Goals screen...
10% meals are skipped meals, or meals eaten off plan that do not comply with the habits of Precision Nutrition. To stay at 90% compliance, I can have 4 of these per week... but they should not be gorge fests, but just things I might enjoy and want as a treat in moderation.
