February 23rd, 2010
this is getting boring, but i’m going to try to keep it up for 30 days so that I can get a decent overview and average.
brekkie: bagel & avocado – 441
morning snack : chocolate chip cookie – 95
lunch: 7-layer burrito from taco bell, small pepsi – 610
afternoon snack: chocolate chip cookie – 95
dinner: three bean chili and southern cornbread – 325
dessert: 2 chocolate chip cookies – 190
total: 1756 thanks to 4 chocolate chip cookies. worth it!
I did week 4, day 1 of c25k today and wanted to die. Pushups will be done before I go to bed.
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February 23rd, 2010
I’m up 1.25″ over my thighs, hips, and chest (welcome back, pms!) Waist is down though. Weight is up .8 and fat is down to 24.5%. I don’t know why I still bother to track my weight; I have about a 4 pound range that makes me happy, so as long as I keep it around my wedding weight I’m pretty pleased. Today I’m a couple of pounds under, but due to my hips/thigh issue I probably couldn’t fit into my wedding dress, ha! I am going to try it on once I finish C25K though, just to see if I can fit in it again.
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February 22nd, 2010
Breakfast: bagel & avocado – 441
Lunch: slice of leftover hawaiian pizza – 160
Dinner: spicy honey-brushed chicken thighs – 321
brown rice – 108
salad – 203
dessert: chocolate chip cookies (4 baked, approx 3-4 dough-equivalent; recipe entered at papayahead to calculate calories) – 760
1993!!! well… ‘93 was a good year, ha!!
In all honesty I have freaking raging pms right now, and around 7:45 I decided that I wanted cake but I don’t have any mixes on hand and the thought of baking one from scratch was just too much for me. First, I had to find a recipe that sounded good and for which I had all of the ingredients, and second, most of them required sifting and I was just not into that. Enter: chocolate chip cookies. I’ve made them so many times I can pretty much do it from memory and I had all of the ingredients. But man, I had no idea there were that many calories in them! Not that it would have stopped me. I can see myself easily downing 5 or 6 tomorrow knowing full well that they’re almost 100 calories each. Eh, that’s what the gym is for.
and i JUST realized that I didn’t do monday morning measurements (again!) so I get to do that tomorrow morning with 7-8 cookies stewing in my gut. Nice.
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February 22nd, 2010
It’s been a high-calorie weekend, so let’s sum up…
Saturday:
brekkie – 2 chicken selects w/ bbq and ranch – 370
lunch – wheat thins & peanut butter (I wasn’t very hungry) – 330
dinner – tandoori chicken sandwich with curried mayo in a pita, fries (it was at a pub so I’m going to google and guesstimate calories – 745
drinks – 2 pints of guinness – 340
Saturday total: 1785
Saturday was also my day off from structured exercise, so I basically burned nothing. I did run around with the kid and do a couple of loads of laundry and clean though..maybe that amounts to something.
Sunday:
brekkie – toast w/ yogurt spread stuff – 145
lunch – brown rice with soy sauce, sesame oil, kimchi – 371
dinner – 1/2 turkey club sandwich, 3 onion rings, coconut cream pie – 1200
Sunday total – 1716. The restaurant makes the pie from scratch, so it’s impossible to figure out accurate calories for that so I just used the calorie count from a Marie Callender’s slice: 647. Freaking yikes! 647 calories in one slice of pie. I believe it, though, because coconut is high in calories, and also… this pie was AMAZING. Totally worth it!
Even with the splurges I managed to keep it under 2000 calories both days. It makes me happy that I’m not even trying to reduce my calories or anything…this is actually what I would eat even if I wasn’t keeping track.
If you’re looking for a place to totally splurge on calories, I highly suggest Lucy’s Mom’s on Main in Aubrey. The turkey club was huge (we split it and I couldn’t even finish my whole half), the onion rings were light and tasty, and the pie was drool-worthy. Grossman had a piece of chocolate cake and it was fantastic, too. I’ll definitely be going back!
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February 20th, 2010
Brekkie – handful of Catie’s goldfish crackers on the way to ’school’: about 100 calories (a serving is 55 pieces and I know i didn’t have that many, so I’m guestimating
2nd brekkie – brown cow cherry vanilla yogurt: 180
lunch – falafel pitas: 303
dinner: McDonalds – 3piece chicken selects with about 1/2 of the ranch, all of the bbq, small fries, small coke: 930
dessert – 2 glasses of white wine: 206
total: 1719. Not bad, still kept it under 2000. A little too close to 2000 though. And today is going to be another high calorie day because I’m going to the pub with a bunch of friends tonight for a couple of beers and pub food. Worth it though!
I did Week 3, Day 3 of C25K also so that’ll help burn some of them off.
as a side note, unless i specify otherwise I always drink either water or tea which are zero calories.
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February 18th, 2010
breakfast: cascadian farms multigrain square things – 130
lunch: welsh rarebit – 346
snacks at costco: bites of about 10 different things – 300 (give or take)
dinner: falafel pitas – 303
dessert: 3 bite-sized mrs fields cookies – 170
daily total: 1249 (give or take due to the costco run)
For exercise I did Week 2, Day 2, level 2 of the 100 push-ups. I almost have visible triceps!
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February 17th, 2010
I read a magazine article this morning about how calorie reduction contributes to longevity. A study was done comparing people who consume on average 1400-2000 calories/day v. those who consume 2000-3000/day, and it turns out those who ate less lived longer and had all kinds of health benefits such as reductions in heart disease, diabetes, obesity, etc. I feel like I rarely stray into the 2000+ territory anyway, but now I’m on a tracking mission. I KNOW that last Saturday was easily in the 2000-3000 (if not more) range thanks to the plate of meat and litre and a half of beer. And then a week and a half ago I made that crazy gourmet meal for Grossman’s birthday and baked a cake and made chocolate ganache and ate cake every night for a few days there. And every Friday we pick Kitten up from ’school’ and go to McDonalds for dinner. You know that’s not health food. But those are all one offs. At least, that’s my train of thought; John seems to think that we’re farther towards 2000 than I think we are. Maybe HE is since he’ll eat the portion that I make for him and then eat whatever I don’t eat and then check if there’s any more to eat. Anyway, I’m determined to prove him wrong.
So, today’s calories according to the interwebs (thanks to papayahead and restaurant nutrition info):
Breakfast – Bagel and avocado: 441
Lunch at On The Border (10-15 chips w/salsa, combo of 2 chicken empenadas & cheese enchilada, black beans and rice): 1410
Dinner – salad of spinach, shallots, carrots, raisins, tuna, brown rice, balsamic vinaigrette: 219
Total for the day: 2070. Damn. Well, eating out will do that. Had I stayed home I would have had leftover thai noodle salad which would have been 336 calories. So freaking eye-opening when you do the math, dang.
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February 16th, 2010
Yesterday commenced week three of the “get your ass in shape” program, and I can definitely see and feel a difference. I have a lot more energy, no doubt about it. I’m seeing a difference too: I’ve lost an inch total over my thighs, waist, and chest in the last week. I’m comfortably wearing my ‘engagement jeans’ (yes, the ones I was wearing when he proposed) today, and there is no muffin-top to be found. I lost 1.4 pounds in the last week, but my body fat rose to 25.7%; that’s probably due to the fact that I’ve been eating everything in site lately.
I think I’ll get back into the habit of logging what I eat, maybe that will help keep the fat % down a bit. I do know that over the past couple of weeks there was a lot of cake consumed, and then saturday night I ate a huge plate of sausage and drank a stupid amount of beer; that stuff definitely adds up. It may be time to resurrect my poor neglected food blog.
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February 15th, 2010
Naturally it’s monday so of course I forgot about monday morning measurements. In my defense though, I slept in this morning while grossman got up with the kid, so I wasn’t fully functioning till around 10am after I’d already had coffee and brekkie. Oh well. That’s what tomorrow is for.
Today was also the first day of week 3 of C25K. I was surprised that it wasn’t as hard as I was expecting, seeing as how I wanted to die doing week 2. I also ran it outside where I nearly froze my ears off. Holy fuck it’s windy and cold out there! Since today is a ‘holiday’ all the treadmills at the gyms here were in use. And I knew that if I did the whole “oh well, I’ll just do it later this afternoon/tonight/tomorrow instead”, I’d never do it. And then I’d put it off another day and then another day and then all of a sudden it’d be March and I’d have to start all over again. So I decided to just gut it out and deal.
I had a fantastic Valentine’s Day thanks to my fabulous husband and a sneaky (but wonderful!) friend. The big plan was for grossman to order pizza for dinner on Friday night (I’m usually the one that does it) and watch Olympics, so he goes to his office to do that around 5ish and makes this big overture about asking what I wanted blahblah, and I’m all “*sigh* just get the one you want. I don’t care”. And I’m kind of tired and cranky so I make a comment to him about how he never “woos” me anymore (to which he of course responds by saying “woo! WOOO!!”). Anyway, so we’re in his office around 5:30 just hanging because he has the ‘good’ computer and Catie likes to watch Pocoyo on his wide screen monitor, when I notice a car pull up and stop. I figured it was the neighbor; driveways were kind of icy and maybe she didn’t want to take the chance of sliding into the house? But then a woman gets out with a couple of bags and starts walking to our house, and she was literally halfway up the driveway before I realized “…is that… Erin? What’s she doing here?” She walks in and I’m puzzled, and I’m all “what’s in the bags?” to which she replies “dinner!” so now I’m thinking “but we just ordered pizza? why would she have dinner if we have pizza on the way?” I seriously had no clue wtf was going on.
Turns out, Erin and Grossman had been making plans behind my back. She (and Trevor and Noah) were there to babysit while Grossman took me out for a proper date night. Awwww!!! And i felt like the biggest asshole ever because not an hour earlier I’d complained about how he never wooed me anymore. So, I hurriedly changed clothes and slapped on some makeup before she could change her mind, and we went out, yay! Catie was not quite as happy as I was though. There were some tears involved, but she was apparently fine after we left. She didn’t seem too scarred when she got up Saturday morning, ha.
And where did Herr Grossman take me for this fabulous date night? Why, none other than the romantic Bavarian Grill!! Oh my god, it was fantastic! Okay, not high on the “romance” meter, but we had a blast. There was live german oompah music complete with yodeling. The decor was, I assume, accurate. And the food was sooooo good! He had some kind of wild boar dish, and I had a plate of sausages. Literally. That was pretty much all that was on the plate was five different sausages along with homemade sauerkraut and warm potato salad. So good! And don’t even get me started on the beer, of which I had a litre and a half. Add in some quality couple time where we could just be our crazy selves, and it was one of the best Vday’s I’ve had in a while. Thank you John and Erin (and Trevor and Noah!)
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February 9th, 2010
So between 2/1 and 2/9 I gained 1.6 pounds, .25″, and reduced my body fat to 24.9%. I knew that my weight was going to increase this morning because I made a huge dinner last night for John’s birthday and we ate the hell out of it. I fully expect to lose about 2 pounds as soon as the coffee kicks in. I lost .25″ on my thighs and .25″ on my hips, but gained a total of .75″ over my calves, chest, and arms. I’d definitely rather have a large chest than large hips though, so I’m not going to lose sleep over that. I also started pushups again so I expect my arms to get a little bigger over the next few weeks before slimming down.
It’s only been a week, but so far I’m enthused about the whole “getting healthy” thing. It helps to have a goal. You know how some people get in shape and then run 5Ks for fun and stuff? Well, I kind of want to do that. Only instead of a 5K I want to do the Warrior Dash. How freaking badass is that!? Who’s with me?
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