I feel like this almost isn't even worth it. What's the point of a blog you know? I thought I might do this and get some support from random people but nobody knows about this blog cause I don't want to be a total weirdo and push my blog on random people. Oh well.
It's Day 11. I'm almost done with this Special K challenge. I must say, I'm going to hold all my crazy views till the end, but it's not looking so good for special K. More on that later.
I'm working on cleaning up my room. Picture the worst teenage room you've ever seen and multiply the clothes in that room by a hundred, then you have my room. It's geting better though. I'm sorting. And realizing that I don't need anything new for a very long time xD Except of course a bookcase and a set of drawers and a couch. But that's furniture. I dont have any furniture besides my bed and some nightstands (that are all crammed with books).
It's been like a day-long process so far. I skipped out on going shopping tonight to clean and I'm still working. Ughh. I just want it to be done! C "cleaned" my room once. It was terrible. I couldn't find anything! It was like she had just taken all of my stuff and shoved it somewhere! That's NOT cleaning. I'm cleaning!
I made German for dinner. I must say it's like my fav thing to eat. So nommy!
Lunch - SK protein bar
Snack - SK snack bar - chocolate pretzel one
Dinner - Red cabbage, green beans, roasted potatoes and vidalia onions, and 1 beer brat, and some grey poupon mustard, nommy!
Snack - Skinny Cow Mint Ice cream sandwich, strawberries and cream
That reminds me, last night I broke down and ate half a Ritter Sport bar, whoops. Though it was sooo delicious. Satisfied my cravings for cake too!
Goodnight dear readers.
P.S. I also didn't run today. Between cleaning and resting my leg, I figured a day off wouldn't be so bad. Remind me of this when I complain lots tomorrow =/
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Day 9 and 10
Wowzers. Yesterday totally got away from me. I'll just do a quick recap. I ended up going to family reunion type thing and ate too much food! I made sure to get home early enough that I could run though. My left leg hurt really bad last night so M and I agreed to go shoe shopping today for new running shoes, cause converses really aren't all that great for running in.
Breakfast - SK protein bar and banana
Lunch - chicken thigh and leg grilled with sauce, baked beans, some kind of shredded potatoes baked with sour cream and cheddar cheese pilled on top, noodle salad with cucumbers and tomatoes, slice of carrot cake, chocolate chocolate chip cookie, macadamia nut cookie, and two no-bake cookies
Snack - 3 roasted marshmellows
Wow I don't even remember if that's all what I ate yesterday. I know that's everything I ate at the cookout. It was soo good. And baked sweets! I felt kind of terrible about it but it's not like I do that every day!
Onto today!
We went shopping after lunch out and I picked up these awesome hot pink trainers at Nike. I tried Adidas but had no luck finding any shoes that fit me! I have wide feet and am usually between a 9 1/2 and 10. Even the 10s didn't fit me there! So we went to Nike and I got some shoes and was super happy about it!
It came time to run tonight and I had my new shoes all laced up and felt energized. My first sprint was awesome! I do a nice go and felt really good during the sprint. I walked and worked up to another run. And Another. I still had the run/walk home left and I did one run up the road towards the house, and my leg hurt SOO bad I couldn't run anymore. I tried to stretch a little in the road. Didn't help. I debated sitting in the grass and waiting till M realized I hadn't come back and gone looking for me. But I knew she would freak out. So I toughed through it and walked the rest of the way home in serious pain. I put ice on my leg and then tried some heat while limping to the microwave. I think all the running in poor shoes has damaged something so I'll have to cut back on the running for a few days until my legs start to feel better. It's frustrating that when I really want to run, my body tells me no!
So boo.
Snack - 1 cup pineapple
Lunch - Hibachi Place, 1 cup fried rice, 3 oz hibachi chicken, 1 oz mushrooms, 1/2 cup zucchini and onions, 1 cup salad with ginger dressing, 4 pieces philly roll sushi
Snack - Mint Chocolate marshmellows (50 cals worth), Fiber One CHocolate chewy bar (90 cals)
Snack - 3/4 pickle
I'm in a terrible mood right now. Idk what's up with me. More tomorrow I guess.
Ugh frustration!!!
Breakfast - SK protein bar and banana
Lunch - chicken thigh and leg grilled with sauce, baked beans, some kind of shredded potatoes baked with sour cream and cheddar cheese pilled on top, noodle salad with cucumbers and tomatoes, slice of carrot cake, chocolate chocolate chip cookie, macadamia nut cookie, and two no-bake cookies
Snack - 3 roasted marshmellows
Wow I don't even remember if that's all what I ate yesterday. I know that's everything I ate at the cookout. It was soo good. And baked sweets! I felt kind of terrible about it but it's not like I do that every day!
Onto today!
We went shopping after lunch out and I picked up these awesome hot pink trainers at Nike. I tried Adidas but had no luck finding any shoes that fit me! I have wide feet and am usually between a 9 1/2 and 10. Even the 10s didn't fit me there! So we went to Nike and I got some shoes and was super happy about it!
It came time to run tonight and I had my new shoes all laced up and felt energized. My first sprint was awesome! I do a nice go and felt really good during the sprint. I walked and worked up to another run. And Another. I still had the run/walk home left and I did one run up the road towards the house, and my leg hurt SOO bad I couldn't run anymore. I tried to stretch a little in the road. Didn't help. I debated sitting in the grass and waiting till M realized I hadn't come back and gone looking for me. But I knew she would freak out. So I toughed through it and walked the rest of the way home in serious pain. I put ice on my leg and then tried some heat while limping to the microwave. I think all the running in poor shoes has damaged something so I'll have to cut back on the running for a few days until my legs start to feel better. It's frustrating that when I really want to run, my body tells me no!
So boo.
Snack - 1 cup pineapple
Lunch - Hibachi Place, 1 cup fried rice, 3 oz hibachi chicken, 1 oz mushrooms, 1/2 cup zucchini and onions, 1 cup salad with ginger dressing, 4 pieces philly roll sushi
Snack - Mint Chocolate marshmellows (50 cals worth), Fiber One CHocolate chewy bar (90 cals)
Snack - 3/4 pickle
I'm in a terrible mood right now. Idk what's up with me. More tomorrow I guess.
Ugh frustration!!!
Friday, June 3, 2011
Day 8
Yikes, I'm feeling another shorter post today. I don't think my poor bandaged fingers can type very much. I went for my run today with C. We didn't really run together but we were outside at the same times. I ran with much more intensity and feel it was a good workout. I could have run a bit more, but it was still good. Right after running, D had me used a post driver to drive T-posts into the ground. The driver is super heavy but I was going along just fine. Until I got to post 15 and I felt my hands slide and crack. I stopped to look at my hands and I had several blisters that burst open. I didn't even notice the blisters until after they cracked open. It was icky. I could hardly drive any more posts cause my hands hurt so bad.
After that I went in the house and washed dishes FOREVER it seemed like. I had to use four bandaids and wear the rubber gloves to wash dishes. Even then, whenever I submerged my hands in the hot rinse water the blistery wounds would hurt. Yikes.
Lunch - SK red berries, 1/2 cup greek yoghurt, 1 small peach
Snack - Mint Truffle Bar, 1 cup watermelon, 1/4 pickle
Dinner - Baked chicken with mozerellla and breadcrumbs, red white and blue mashed potatoes (red mashed potatoes with blue cheese and bacon), and green beans
Snack - Skinny Cow Mint Ice Cream sandwich thing
Right now I'm really pooped! Tomorrow theres some family get together on M's side that I have to go to or something. Bleh, I'm not really excited about it. =/
After that I went in the house and washed dishes FOREVER it seemed like. I had to use four bandaids and wear the rubber gloves to wash dishes. Even then, whenever I submerged my hands in the hot rinse water the blistery wounds would hurt. Yikes.
Lunch - SK red berries, 1/2 cup greek yoghurt, 1 small peach
Snack - Mint Truffle Bar, 1 cup watermelon, 1/4 pickle
Dinner - Baked chicken with mozerellla and breadcrumbs, red white and blue mashed potatoes (red mashed potatoes with blue cheese and bacon), and green beans
Snack - Skinny Cow Mint Ice Cream sandwich thing
Right now I'm really pooped! Tomorrow theres some family get together on M's side that I have to go to or something. Bleh, I'm not really excited about it. =/
Day 7
Goodness. Last night I had a lot to say in today's post and now I'm so tired I doubt any of it will get put down. Sorries.
Lunch - Special K cinnamon pecan, 1/2 cup greek yoghurt
Snack - Fiber One chocolatey snack bar (90 cal), 1/2 cup watermelon
Snack - Fudge Bar made from splenda (35 cals) I don't remember the brand right now, SK chocolate chip snack bar
Dinner - 6 oz salmon at Lonestar, 2 rolls with butter, 1 serving cooked spinach (not creamed) with additional butter (leftover from the rolls since the spinach was so bitter)
After dinner I felt sooo bad. I hadn't planned to eat any rolls. But then we had to wait for people to show up and dinner took forever and we were eating really late so I was hungry and impulsive and ate the food in front of my face, rolls with butter. Then I didn't want to eat all my salmon...and all of that disappeared. I ate all the spinach too. It was really divine with the sweet butter from the bread basket but I'm sure that wasn't good for me. I also had green beans with my meal but they weren't cooked or seasoned enough. Blehk. I'd like my veggies with a little flavour po-lease.
I know I shouldn't feel guilty about eating a big meal. I mean it was just fish and veggies. But I ate a lot all at one time and with changing my eating habits I'm trying to eat smaller meals. Tonight was not a small meal. I tried to come home and look up Lonestar's nutrition facts on their website. They don't even put the nutrition facts on their website! I was astounded!
Okay so just done some googling. I feel less bad about the salmon but REALLY bad about the rolls. YIKES! Not eating those again. I just got to stick to my guns some more.
I had to run early today since we were having a late dinner and wouldn't be home before dark. I ended up running at 6pm. Gosh that was terrible! It was soo hot and hot out. My mouth was dry the entire time and all I could think was how much I wanted some water. I didn't run near as much as I have been and it was pitiful. Meh day for running.
Whoops. I got distracted and didn't finish my post until after mignight. I think I'll just stop here and write more tomorrow.
Loves,
Bob
Lunch - Special K cinnamon pecan, 1/2 cup greek yoghurt
Snack - Fiber One chocolatey snack bar (90 cal), 1/2 cup watermelon
Snack - Fudge Bar made from splenda (35 cals) I don't remember the brand right now, SK chocolate chip snack bar
Dinner - 6 oz salmon at Lonestar, 2 rolls with butter, 1 serving cooked spinach (not creamed) with additional butter (leftover from the rolls since the spinach was so bitter)
After dinner I felt sooo bad. I hadn't planned to eat any rolls. But then we had to wait for people to show up and dinner took forever and we were eating really late so I was hungry and impulsive and ate the food in front of my face, rolls with butter. Then I didn't want to eat all my salmon...and all of that disappeared. I ate all the spinach too. It was really divine with the sweet butter from the bread basket but I'm sure that wasn't good for me. I also had green beans with my meal but they weren't cooked or seasoned enough. Blehk. I'd like my veggies with a little flavour po-lease.
I know I shouldn't feel guilty about eating a big meal. I mean it was just fish and veggies. But I ate a lot all at one time and with changing my eating habits I'm trying to eat smaller meals. Tonight was not a small meal. I tried to come home and look up Lonestar's nutrition facts on their website. They don't even put the nutrition facts on their website! I was astounded!
Okay so just done some googling. I feel less bad about the salmon but REALLY bad about the rolls. YIKES! Not eating those again. I just got to stick to my guns some more.
I had to run early today since we were having a late dinner and wouldn't be home before dark. I ended up running at 6pm. Gosh that was terrible! It was soo hot and hot out. My mouth was dry the entire time and all I could think was how much I wanted some water. I didn't run near as much as I have been and it was pitiful. Meh day for running.
Whoops. I got distracted and didn't finish my post until after mignight. I think I'll just stop here and write more tomorrow.
Loves,
Bob
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Day 6
Can I just take a moment to say I weighed myself this morning and the scale said 220.4lbs! Seriously! I was elated I nearly jumped up and down. As long as I keep working hard and don't give up, I could never see 230 again! (234 being my heaviest recorded weight). What an exciting day!
Other than that I slept really late, whoops. I couldn't fall asleep last night and then when I almost did, I kept hearing this rustling noise. I turned on the light to see if it was a cat and it was a COCKROACH! Like a giant sized cockroach. I was so freaked out I climbed in bed with M and slept with her for the rest of the night. Ugh, gives me the heebiejeebies! I didn't get a chance to catch/kill the thing so now I'm afraid to do very much in my room for fear of finding the darn bug again.
Lunch - SK double chocolate protein meal bar, banana
Dinner - Homemade pot-stickers with cabbage, onions and carrots, asian salad (lettuce, cabbage and potsticker filling mixed with scratch asian sauce), and 3oz cooked chicken breast
Snack - Skinny Cow Mint Truffle Bar (omg these are still amazing!)
Snack - 1 cup watermelon
So I forgot to eat a snack between lunch and dinner, whoops! I got soo busy with helping change the sink faucet, making the watermelon rind pickles, trying to plan dinner, and trying to plan tonight's youth church activity/lesson. Busy busy day. By the time I was stuffing and sealing the pot-stickers for dinner I realized I was super hungry and it was because I hadn't eaten since lunch!
But I made my watermelon pickles and they came out so super fabulous. I'm sure they're not very good for me, but one every once in a while won't hurt. They're just too tasty! If you've never heard of watermelon pickles, you NEED to check them out. Find a recipe and make some! It requires a little bit of work but really pays off in the end.
I also made pot-stickers for the first time ever today! I had watched Alton Brown do it and thought, "Hey I can do that!" I sliced cabbage, onions, and carrots super thin and cooked them down with a dash of olive oil, rice vinegar, and soy sauce. Then I stuffed the pot-stickers and cooked them according to his directions. They turned out fab! I even made some dipping sauce for them. I also cooked chicken breast and made an easy Asian salad to go with dinner. I feel like it was a semi-healthy meal. Super tasty though! I think I ate too much, hee!
I have church on Wednesday nights so I ran kind of late tonight. The sun had already gone down so I was running in the dusky twilight-ness. It was a nice run. I ran for a good stretch before I ever had to take a walk break. After that though, I don't feel like my run was as productive. I ran about as much as yesterday, but I don't think I had the same level of intensity. Also, I would run for a short bit and then have to talk a walking break. I even yawned the entire way through the run. I'm surprised I didn't catch any bugs in my mouth as wide as it was open most of the time! I'm hopping tomorrow's run goes better.
Water! I gotta drink more of it! The last couple days I haven't been drinking as much water. This is not a good thing! I need to make sure I'm sipping throughout the day and drinking two glasses with meals.
So that makes two things to work on for tomorrow: running harder/longer durations of running and more water.
I bought a box of Cinnamon Pecan SK cereal. I'm very hopeful and excited about trying something. M has been on a cinnamon kick lately. She said if I didn't like it then she'd eat the rest. I'm kind of hoping it tastes awesome since the Chocolate was such a disappointment. Maybe I can do something with the cereal, like make cereal bars with them. I'll have to do some research into this and report back what I find!
Stay classy!
Bob
Other than that I slept really late, whoops. I couldn't fall asleep last night and then when I almost did, I kept hearing this rustling noise. I turned on the light to see if it was a cat and it was a COCKROACH! Like a giant sized cockroach. I was so freaked out I climbed in bed with M and slept with her for the rest of the night. Ugh, gives me the heebiejeebies! I didn't get a chance to catch/kill the thing so now I'm afraid to do very much in my room for fear of finding the darn bug again.
Lunch - SK double chocolate protein meal bar, banana
Dinner - Homemade pot-stickers with cabbage, onions and carrots, asian salad (lettuce, cabbage and potsticker filling mixed with scratch asian sauce), and 3oz cooked chicken breast
Snack - Skinny Cow Mint Truffle Bar (omg these are still amazing!)
Snack - 1 cup watermelon
So I forgot to eat a snack between lunch and dinner, whoops! I got soo busy with helping change the sink faucet, making the watermelon rind pickles, trying to plan dinner, and trying to plan tonight's youth church activity/lesson. Busy busy day. By the time I was stuffing and sealing the pot-stickers for dinner I realized I was super hungry and it was because I hadn't eaten since lunch!
But I made my watermelon pickles and they came out so super fabulous. I'm sure they're not very good for me, but one every once in a while won't hurt. They're just too tasty! If you've never heard of watermelon pickles, you NEED to check them out. Find a recipe and make some! It requires a little bit of work but really pays off in the end.
I also made pot-stickers for the first time ever today! I had watched Alton Brown do it and thought, "Hey I can do that!" I sliced cabbage, onions, and carrots super thin and cooked them down with a dash of olive oil, rice vinegar, and soy sauce. Then I stuffed the pot-stickers and cooked them according to his directions. They turned out fab! I even made some dipping sauce for them. I also cooked chicken breast and made an easy Asian salad to go with dinner. I feel like it was a semi-healthy meal. Super tasty though! I think I ate too much, hee!
I have church on Wednesday nights so I ran kind of late tonight. The sun had already gone down so I was running in the dusky twilight-ness. It was a nice run. I ran for a good stretch before I ever had to take a walk break. After that though, I don't feel like my run was as productive. I ran about as much as yesterday, but I don't think I had the same level of intensity. Also, I would run for a short bit and then have to talk a walking break. I even yawned the entire way through the run. I'm surprised I didn't catch any bugs in my mouth as wide as it was open most of the time! I'm hopping tomorrow's run goes better.
Water! I gotta drink more of it! The last couple days I haven't been drinking as much water. This is not a good thing! I need to make sure I'm sipping throughout the day and drinking two glasses with meals.
So that makes two things to work on for tomorrow: running harder/longer durations of running and more water.
I bought a box of Cinnamon Pecan SK cereal. I'm very hopeful and excited about trying something. M has been on a cinnamon kick lately. She said if I didn't like it then she'd eat the rest. I'm kind of hoping it tastes awesome since the Chocolate was such a disappointment. Maybe I can do something with the cereal, like make cereal bars with them. I'll have to do some research into this and report back what I find!
Stay classy!
Bob
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Day 5
Is it really even Day 5? I don't feel like I've been doing this forever anymore, lols. And I'm not hungry all the time! My stomach isn't alerting me 30 mins before ever scheduled eating. I swear all I thought about the other day was food, when and what I was eating, how to prepare it, how many calories was in it. And now it's more like natural and less emotional probably. I mean I know I'm an emotional eater. It started during Jr High and has just continued with me through life so far. Now that I'm thinking about what I eat and why I want to eat things, it's become so much more clear to me why I was so unhealthy and gained so much weight.
Breakfast/snack - SK chocolate peanut butter snack bar, banana
Lunch - Sweet Tomatoes, small serving of cold pasta with tomatoes, kidney beans, olives, and regular ranch dressing (such a splurge I know), small side of ceasar salad, small side of potato salad, a couple spoonfuls of Buffalo Chicken soup and Pinto Basil soup, 1/3 cup macaroni and cheese, 1 low-fat cornbread muffin, 1 pralin crunch muffin (omg this was sooo tasty, I could have eaten another one!)
Snack - Skinny Cow Peanut Butter Ice Cream Sannich (this was alright, I wish I would have bought the mint ones instead, M insisted on the peanut butter ones)
Dinner - SK Chocolate, 1/2 cup Greek Yoghurt, 1 peach
Snack - WATERMELON!
Lunch sounds like it was a lot but it was a lot of little bits of this and that. Normally at Sweet Tomatoes I tend to eat a lot of all my favorite things and leave the place feeling over-stuffed. Today I put things on my plate more sensible. Tried the soups and stopped eating them when I didn't particularly care for them. The mac'n'cheese was a splurge just because I love their's. Also, the praline crunch muffin apparently has 250 calories in it (I checked the website), it was sooo tasty but I'm not entirely sure if it was worth that much.
I'm trying to do the stop-when-you-feel-full and leave some left on the plate mentality. I've always been one to clean my plate whether or not I was full 10 bites ago. This isn't particularly healthy. I'm starting to realize that this is really bad and why I used to eat so much food. It's a whole mind change for eating, but I'm really trying to stick to it now! I read this earlier from a website and thought it fit perfectly:
"Do you stop when you're full?
Many people still have a "clean your plate" mentality. You will have much more energy and feel less tired if you only eat as much food as your body needs. Think of it this way--you don't continue to fill your car with gas when the tank is full, so why would you do it to your body?"
A note about dinner: SK Chocolate was terrible! I'm not one to like cornflake cereal (even though I love it with the strawberry twist), and that's what it was! With little pieces of pretend chocolate thrown in. I poured my bowl and saw all the little chocolate piece fall into my bowl looking all decadent. I'm still a fat kid at heart so I snatched one up to eat it and...it was like a little pad of subtlety chocolate flavoured crisco. Ugh! Well I still ate it with my greek yoghurt for dinner, although I doubt I will be eating it again. It might be better with milk, but I hate eating cereal with milk (I won't eat cereal once it loses its crisp factor). And since I'm trying to eat more slowly (and listen to my body when it says its full), I doubt I'll finish the box. Le sigh.
About the running: I expected it to be all kinds of hot and muggy outside like it was all day today (M, C and I went out shopping and I bought nail polish!). We're even under an air quality alert but I knew I had to go out running anyway. I went out and it wasn't bad at all; it had just started cooling off out. I ran slightly more than yesterday AND I covered more distance. I would have run more but my lower stomach/intestines area started hurting (not like a cramp but hurting nonetheless), so I just briskly walked the last half of the return trip.
I even saw interesting things during my run! I saw (1) walking lady; she was behind me when we started and I saw her again when we crossed on my return trip, (2) mallard ducks; okay these aren't all that interesting because they hang out in our yard all the time. My favourite thing to do is get in their space, they quack if you're within a 15 ft radius of them! (3) tractors in operation, and (1) red cardinal. Fun times! :D
I can't wait to cut into that watermelon! I'm also excited about making watermelon rind pickles! It's a southern classic! My grandmother (who passed away) used to make them and I LOVED eating them at her house. Now I'm going to make my own!
Bob
Breakfast/snack - SK chocolate peanut butter snack bar, banana
Lunch - Sweet Tomatoes, small serving of cold pasta with tomatoes, kidney beans, olives, and regular ranch dressing (such a splurge I know), small side of ceasar salad, small side of potato salad, a couple spoonfuls of Buffalo Chicken soup and Pinto Basil soup, 1/3 cup macaroni and cheese, 1 low-fat cornbread muffin, 1 pralin crunch muffin (omg this was sooo tasty, I could have eaten another one!)
Snack - Skinny Cow Peanut Butter Ice Cream Sannich (this was alright, I wish I would have bought the mint ones instead, M insisted on the peanut butter ones)
Dinner - SK Chocolate, 1/2 cup Greek Yoghurt, 1 peach
Snack - WATERMELON!
Lunch sounds like it was a lot but it was a lot of little bits of this and that. Normally at Sweet Tomatoes I tend to eat a lot of all my favorite things and leave the place feeling over-stuffed. Today I put things on my plate more sensible. Tried the soups and stopped eating them when I didn't particularly care for them. The mac'n'cheese was a splurge just because I love their's. Also, the praline crunch muffin apparently has 250 calories in it (I checked the website), it was sooo tasty but I'm not entirely sure if it was worth that much.
I'm trying to do the stop-when-you-feel-full and leave some left on the plate mentality. I've always been one to clean my plate whether or not I was full 10 bites ago. This isn't particularly healthy. I'm starting to realize that this is really bad and why I used to eat so much food. It's a whole mind change for eating, but I'm really trying to stick to it now! I read this earlier from a website and thought it fit perfectly:
"Do you stop when you're full?
Many people still have a "clean your plate" mentality. You will have much more energy and feel less tired if you only eat as much food as your body needs. Think of it this way--you don't continue to fill your car with gas when the tank is full, so why would you do it to your body?"
A note about dinner: SK Chocolate was terrible! I'm not one to like cornflake cereal (even though I love it with the strawberry twist), and that's what it was! With little pieces of pretend chocolate thrown in. I poured my bowl and saw all the little chocolate piece fall into my bowl looking all decadent. I'm still a fat kid at heart so I snatched one up to eat it and...it was like a little pad of subtlety chocolate flavoured crisco. Ugh! Well I still ate it with my greek yoghurt for dinner, although I doubt I will be eating it again. It might be better with milk, but I hate eating cereal with milk (I won't eat cereal once it loses its crisp factor). And since I'm trying to eat more slowly (and listen to my body when it says its full), I doubt I'll finish the box. Le sigh.
About the running: I expected it to be all kinds of hot and muggy outside like it was all day today (M, C and I went out shopping and I bought nail polish!). We're even under an air quality alert but I knew I had to go out running anyway. I went out and it wasn't bad at all; it had just started cooling off out. I ran slightly more than yesterday AND I covered more distance. I would have run more but my lower stomach/intestines area started hurting (not like a cramp but hurting nonetheless), so I just briskly walked the last half of the return trip.
I even saw interesting things during my run! I saw (1) walking lady; she was behind me when we started and I saw her again when we crossed on my return trip, (2) mallard ducks; okay these aren't all that interesting because they hang out in our yard all the time. My favourite thing to do is get in their space, they quack if you're within a 15 ft radius of them! (3) tractors in operation, and (1) red cardinal. Fun times! :D
I can't wait to cut into that watermelon! I'm also excited about making watermelon rind pickles! It's a southern classic! My grandmother (who passed away) used to make them and I LOVED eating them at her house. Now I'm going to make my own!
Bob
Monday, May 30, 2011
Day 4
Breakfast/Lunch - SK protein chocolate peanut butter meal bar, banana
Snack - SK chocolate pretzel bar, peach
Dinner - 5oz steak, 3/4 cup couscous, 1/3 cup low fat onion gravy, 3/4 cup low fat potato and leek soup
Snacks - 5 large roasted marshmellows, 1 skinny cow mint truffle bar
Day 4 and it's already becoming so much of a routine, eat small meal, have a snack a few hours later, drink LOTS of water. I'm getting used to it and not being super hungry all the time anymore. Gosh, Day 2 I was hungry all day long I swear! The extra skinny cow bar was a weak moment. I had planned to have the ice cream bar and then I ended up eating the marshmellows with the fire we had outside...and then I still wanted the ice cream bar. So I gave in and ate it anyway. No big deal.
I ran the same amount as yesterday today. I didn't think I'd get any running in today with all the family stuff going on but I did. Afterwards I thought dinner might come up, I think I either ate too much dinner or ran too soon after or both. =/ But a little bit later I felt good for having done my run, even if the girl down the road and her boyfriend drove by and gave my dirty awkward looks. I was wearing bike shorts under soffe shorts with a tank top. Oh well, yay for running! Us fat gals can run if we want to! :D
I've watched the scale go down a bit. Last night, right before bed I weighed for my lowest weight yet: 223! I was so elated! I can't wait to keep watch the scale go down down down. Yeah I'm impatient, but yay yay yay! Just have to remind myself of these super good moments when I'm feeling not so well or the scale doesn't budge for a day or two or three. I can do it! :D
That's all for tonight.
Bob
Snack - SK chocolate pretzel bar, peach
Dinner - 5oz steak, 3/4 cup couscous, 1/3 cup low fat onion gravy, 3/4 cup low fat potato and leek soup
Snacks - 5 large roasted marshmellows, 1 skinny cow mint truffle bar
Day 4 and it's already becoming so much of a routine, eat small meal, have a snack a few hours later, drink LOTS of water. I'm getting used to it and not being super hungry all the time anymore. Gosh, Day 2 I was hungry all day long I swear! The extra skinny cow bar was a weak moment. I had planned to have the ice cream bar and then I ended up eating the marshmellows with the fire we had outside...and then I still wanted the ice cream bar. So I gave in and ate it anyway. No big deal.
I ran the same amount as yesterday today. I didn't think I'd get any running in today with all the family stuff going on but I did. Afterwards I thought dinner might come up, I think I either ate too much dinner or ran too soon after or both. =/ But a little bit later I felt good for having done my run, even if the girl down the road and her boyfriend drove by and gave my dirty awkward looks. I was wearing bike shorts under soffe shorts with a tank top. Oh well, yay for running! Us fat gals can run if we want to! :D
I've watched the scale go down a bit. Last night, right before bed I weighed for my lowest weight yet: 223! I was so elated! I can't wait to keep watch the scale go down down down. Yeah I'm impatient, but yay yay yay! Just have to remind myself of these super good moments when I'm feeling not so well or the scale doesn't budge for a day or two or three. I can do it! :D
That's all for tonight.
Bob
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Day 3
I woke up this morning late again. So eating schedule again thrown completely off.
Waking up snack - Yoohoo, 1/2 pickle
Lunch - Outback, bread, salad with tomato dressing, alfredo pasta
Snack - Large peach, 1/3 cup Plain Greek Yoghurt
Dinner - SK red berries, 1/2 cup Plain Greek Yoghurt, Carrot and Daikon salad (7 baby carrots and 1/5th daikon sliced and tossed in rice vinegar)
Snack - 1 peach, 1 tablespoon whip cream
Let's have a little side-note ramble for my EPIC LOVE of Greek Yoghurt. It's soo tasty and not like normal yoghurt. It's not sweet and it's not overly liquidy. It has more of the consistency of sour cream and a delish and unique taste. I love the plain non-fat varierty with all kinds of things: a spoonful of strawberry jam, fresh peach, fresh strawberries, SK cereal apparently. I've also heard it's great to use in cooking in place of sour creme or cream cheese. I can't wait to try this out sometime. I've tried some of the flavoured varieties and none of them have really appealed to me, epscially NOT the vanilla flavoured ones! Those are a complete ruin to the taste greek-yoghurt-ness! Right, end rant about greek yoghurt.
I went for my run today. I ran probably like 30% more than the last two days. It was really good. I took my MP3 player with me and jammed out to some tunes. I felt really awesome afterwards. I then got the exercise ball out of the closet and did some short workouts, just something to get me moving. Really awesome day overall.
More tomorrow folks!
Bob
Waking up snack - Yoohoo, 1/2 pickle
Lunch - Outback, bread, salad with tomato dressing, alfredo pasta
Snack - Large peach, 1/3 cup Plain Greek Yoghurt
Dinner - SK red berries, 1/2 cup Plain Greek Yoghurt, Carrot and Daikon salad (7 baby carrots and 1/5th daikon sliced and tossed in rice vinegar)
Snack - 1 peach, 1 tablespoon whip cream
Let's have a little side-note ramble for my EPIC LOVE of Greek Yoghurt. It's soo tasty and not like normal yoghurt. It's not sweet and it's not overly liquidy. It has more of the consistency of sour cream and a delish and unique taste. I love the plain non-fat varierty with all kinds of things: a spoonful of strawberry jam, fresh peach, fresh strawberries, SK cereal apparently. I've also heard it's great to use in cooking in place of sour creme or cream cheese. I can't wait to try this out sometime. I've tried some of the flavoured varieties and none of them have really appealed to me, epscially NOT the vanilla flavoured ones! Those are a complete ruin to the taste greek-yoghurt-ness! Right, end rant about greek yoghurt.
I went for my run today. I ran probably like 30% more than the last two days. It was really good. I took my MP3 player with me and jammed out to some tunes. I felt really awesome afterwards. I then got the exercise ball out of the closet and did some short workouts, just something to get me moving. Really awesome day overall.
More tomorrow folks!
Bob
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Day 2
Breakfast - Chocolate Peanut Butter Meal Bar, Banana
Snack - 6 Rosemary and Herb Triscuts (omgz, these taste amazing btw!)
Lunch - Vegetarian Burrito (at local Mexican restaurant), large flour tortilla with tomatoes, onions, zuchini, and black beans, I decided to skip the chips, salsa, and sour cream to cut down on calories
Snack - SK Chocolately Pretzel bar (this was actually really delish, I liked the chocolate layer on the bottom and the crunchy pretzel on top)
Dinner - SK Cereal Red Berries, 1/2 cup Greek Yogurt, peach, 1/2 pickle
I knew today would be hard. Day 1 is always really easy because you're riding that wave of awesomeness from a new undertaking. I didn't wake up early enough to eat breakfast at a decent breakfast time, but I ate when I got up and moved my meal schedule down. My body should probably be used to it cause we've been eating dinner so late.Since M and I ate lunch out, it's another night where I won't cook because I'm having SK for dinner. She doesn't seem entirely pleased about this, but whatever.
I do go have my run today, like I said yesterday, I knew it would be hard. While at G and P's yesterday, C and I did some squats and lunges. These made my thighs ridiculously sore today. Running was not as successful. I ran about the same amount as yesterday, if not a little less.
This brings up an interesting and extremely relevant topic: patience. I have like zero patience for anything. I like instant gratification and now now now. It's really hard to work on something and not be able to immediately see results. Thus, I'm going to have to really put a lot of effort into being more patient, especially with losing any weight.
It's also really really hard to stick to Special K with yoghurt for dinner and then make an ice cream sundae for M and not eat any of it. Soo tempting. I just kept thinking: do this and get out of the kitchen, you don't need it, you're strong and won't do it. And I didn't.
Well...it's supposed to just get easier from here right? I really have no clue. But I'm all for sticking with it. I really do want to change. I want to lose this weight and eat differently.
Last night I weighed myself after blogging and I weighed 225.6. It was kind of cheerful to see. I swear every time I try to put effort into losing weight the scale always goes up up up. Speaking of that, I weighed tonight and it was 227. But things fluctuate around. I'm not worried, cause I can do this! :D
For tomorrow, I will get up early and eat breakfast. I will eat SK for lunch so that I can make a yummy dinner with all the fresh veggies we bought at the supermarket the other day. I will drink lots of water and go for my run, pushing myself a bit further. I'm going to put together a playlist tonight so I can run with some inspiring music.
Ta for now!
Bob
Snack - 6 Rosemary and Herb Triscuts (omgz, these taste amazing btw!)
Lunch - Vegetarian Burrito (at local Mexican restaurant), large flour tortilla with tomatoes, onions, zuchini, and black beans, I decided to skip the chips, salsa, and sour cream to cut down on calories
Snack - SK Chocolately Pretzel bar (this was actually really delish, I liked the chocolate layer on the bottom and the crunchy pretzel on top)
Dinner - SK Cereal Red Berries, 1/2 cup Greek Yogurt, peach, 1/2 pickle
I knew today would be hard. Day 1 is always really easy because you're riding that wave of awesomeness from a new undertaking. I didn't wake up early enough to eat breakfast at a decent breakfast time, but I ate when I got up and moved my meal schedule down. My body should probably be used to it cause we've been eating dinner so late.Since M and I ate lunch out, it's another night where I won't cook because I'm having SK for dinner. She doesn't seem entirely pleased about this, but whatever.
I do go have my run today, like I said yesterday, I knew it would be hard. While at G and P's yesterday, C and I did some squats and lunges. These made my thighs ridiculously sore today. Running was not as successful. I ran about the same amount as yesterday, if not a little less.
This brings up an interesting and extremely relevant topic: patience. I have like zero patience for anything. I like instant gratification and now now now. It's really hard to work on something and not be able to immediately see results. Thus, I'm going to have to really put a lot of effort into being more patient, especially with losing any weight.
It's also really really hard to stick to Special K with yoghurt for dinner and then make an ice cream sundae for M and not eat any of it. Soo tempting. I just kept thinking: do this and get out of the kitchen, you don't need it, you're strong and won't do it. And I didn't.
Well...it's supposed to just get easier from here right? I really have no clue. But I'm all for sticking with it. I really do want to change. I want to lose this weight and eat differently.
Last night I weighed myself after blogging and I weighed 225.6. It was kind of cheerful to see. I swear every time I try to put effort into losing weight the scale always goes up up up. Speaking of that, I weighed tonight and it was 227. But things fluctuate around. I'm not worried, cause I can do this! :D
For tomorrow, I will get up early and eat breakfast. I will eat SK for lunch so that I can make a yummy dinner with all the fresh veggies we bought at the supermarket the other day. I will drink lots of water and go for my run, pushing myself a bit further. I'm going to put together a playlist tonight so I can run with some inspiring music.
Ta for now!
Bob
Friday, May 27, 2011
Day 1
Breakfast - SK double chocolate protein meal bar, banana, peach
Snack - SK snack bar chocolate chip cookie
Lunch - Ruby Tuesday's biscuit, 1/2 hamburger, sliced tomatoes
Snack - 6 Rosemary and herb triscuts
Dinner - 1 cup SK Red Berries, 2/3 cup Greek yogurt, 1 cup skim milk, 1 peach
So I kind of bleh day overall. M got up early to go to G and P's to clean. She wanted C and me to go along and keep G company while she cleaned. I kind of hoped C wouldn't get up and go with us cause I wanted some time to talk to M about the diet and exercising stuff. But C got up and went with us anyway.
Kind of bleh. I chunked down breakfast before we left and packed my snacks to take with me. Breakfast made me feel sick, up till like 2 hours later when I finally had snack. I'm not one to usually eat breakfast especially right after waking up. I ate the snack bar at G's next to C. She looked at me and asked "What is that?" I showed her it was a SK snack bar and told her it was kind of like a Rice Crispy Treat. She wrinkled her nose up and goes "How much FAT is in that?" I shrugged and checked the label, 1.5 grams. Last night, I read a lot of reviews and stuff about the SK challenge. It's a low fat diet, of course the snack bars are going to be low-fat duh. It just bothers me how condescending C is sometimes.
That and I talked to M last night about today. She wanted to eat for lunch, so that meant breakfast and dinner I would have SK. And now M is all huffy because I'm not cooking dinner or wanting to go out to eat. No wonder it's so hard to stick to a diet, no support. And now I feel guilty cause Mum's going to have a sannich for dinner.
Took a break from blogging to go outside and talk to M. I still wanted to go for a run today. I talked to her last night. The bike is inaccessible for awhile so I'll have to stick to running everyday. M told me she would run or at least walk with me. She went on a short run with me. She had to stop before I did. I ran about 1/4 mile down the road and then walked back some and ran back some. The run itself was nice and tiring. I haven't run anywhere in a good while. I know it wasn't very far, but I've never been one to run before now. I came back in and had some more water. The plan is to run every day. In a few days I'll be able to run farther. I know tomorrow will be harder cause I won't want to run.
I did have a good inspirational think today. In the car I was thinking about running. I don't really like to run anywhere. But last night I was looking at some other weight-loss blogs and some girl's goal was to run a marathon. M had brought up awhile ago that K runs marathons all the time and she wanted to eventually run one with him. I kept thinking that if I start running, one day I could run a marathon with him or in general. And I would be fit then and everybody in my family would look at me and be proud of me. Not that they aren't proud of me now...they would just probably be more proud of me.
I did tell C about the SK challenge tonight. She actually seemed really positive about it. That was a really nice surprise! I'm hoping this continues, lots of positive response and encouragement.
Yay for keeping up with my goals! I haven't been really hungry today except for right at meal times, they were a bit skewed with traveling to G and P's but it was fine. Goals for tomorrow: run down the road at least as far as I did today, drink 2 nalgene bottles of water or more, eat special k for two meals, have two snacks, have one nicely portioned meal.
That's it for today folks.
Bob.
Snack - SK snack bar chocolate chip cookie
Lunch - Ruby Tuesday's biscuit, 1/2 hamburger, sliced tomatoes
Snack - 6 Rosemary and herb triscuts
Dinner - 1 cup SK Red Berries, 2/3 cup Greek yogurt, 1 cup skim milk, 1 peach
So I kind of bleh day overall. M got up early to go to G and P's to clean. She wanted C and me to go along and keep G company while she cleaned. I kind of hoped C wouldn't get up and go with us cause I wanted some time to talk to M about the diet and exercising stuff. But C got up and went with us anyway.
Kind of bleh. I chunked down breakfast before we left and packed my snacks to take with me. Breakfast made me feel sick, up till like 2 hours later when I finally had snack. I'm not one to usually eat breakfast especially right after waking up. I ate the snack bar at G's next to C. She looked at me and asked "What is that?" I showed her it was a SK snack bar and told her it was kind of like a Rice Crispy Treat. She wrinkled her nose up and goes "How much FAT is in that?" I shrugged and checked the label, 1.5 grams. Last night, I read a lot of reviews and stuff about the SK challenge. It's a low fat diet, of course the snack bars are going to be low-fat duh. It just bothers me how condescending C is sometimes.
That and I talked to M last night about today. She wanted to eat for lunch, so that meant breakfast and dinner I would have SK. And now M is all huffy because I'm not cooking dinner or wanting to go out to eat. No wonder it's so hard to stick to a diet, no support. And now I feel guilty cause Mum's going to have a sannich for dinner.
Took a break from blogging to go outside and talk to M. I still wanted to go for a run today. I talked to her last night. The bike is inaccessible for awhile so I'll have to stick to running everyday. M told me she would run or at least walk with me. She went on a short run with me. She had to stop before I did. I ran about 1/4 mile down the road and then walked back some and ran back some. The run itself was nice and tiring. I haven't run anywhere in a good while. I know it wasn't very far, but I've never been one to run before now. I came back in and had some more water. The plan is to run every day. In a few days I'll be able to run farther. I know tomorrow will be harder cause I won't want to run.
I did have a good inspirational think today. In the car I was thinking about running. I don't really like to run anywhere. But last night I was looking at some other weight-loss blogs and some girl's goal was to run a marathon. M had brought up awhile ago that K runs marathons all the time and she wanted to eventually run one with him. I kept thinking that if I start running, one day I could run a marathon with him or in general. And I would be fit then and everybody in my family would look at me and be proud of me. Not that they aren't proud of me now...they would just probably be more proud of me.
I did tell C about the SK challenge tonight. She actually seemed really positive about it. That was a really nice surprise! I'm hoping this continues, lots of positive response and encouragement.
Yay for keeping up with my goals! I haven't been really hungry today except for right at meal times, they were a bit skewed with traveling to G and P's but it was fine. Goals for tomorrow: run down the road at least as far as I did today, drink 2 nalgene bottles of water or more, eat special k for two meals, have two snacks, have one nicely portioned meal.
That's it for today folks.
Bob.
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