Someone decided to leave my a present on my walking path today. More about that in a minute.
I walked early today. The last few days it's rained during normal walking time (7:30-8:30). Around 4pm it was cloudy but nice so I decided to walk early and get my groove on before it rained. It was hot and I got really sweaty but I finished my full walk and felt awesome when I got home.
Though, like I said, someone decided to leave me a present. I walked along and almost got to the end of the road and smelt this abhorrent stench. It smelled like rotting potatoes. Since I walk next to a sweet potato field, I didn't know if someone had pulled up some potatoes and left them laying there to rot. However, on my way back by the smelly area of the road, I noticed something shiny in the grass in the ditch. It was a pile of stinking fish carcasses, heads attached and all. Someone dumped out a bucket of STINKY FISH GUTS right next to my walking path.
EWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!
The worst part? I walk by that spot in my normal route 3 times! Today I walked extra with M and I had to walk by it again. She also thought it was AWFUL.
Ugh.
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Friday, July 8, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Don't Bring Around A Cloud to Rain....
Oh dear. The summer rains have started.
I walked yesterday with mum. I got half a lap in and turned around for my second half lap with the thunder and stormy clouds above. M went back to the house. I told her I'd run home if it stared raining. Halfway through my half lap, some lightning struck too close for my comfort. I started running home and it started pouring. I was running towards the rain and had to hold my glasses and squint to make sure I didn't get hit by a car or anything. I got home and was soaked. It was kind of awful.
Today it rained even before I could set out on any walking. Though we did go grocery shopping today and I did a bit of walking there, lol.
Running in the rain, I think I overtaxed some joints in my knees and ankles. They're not feeling too good today. I'm hoping the rain lets up tomorrow and my joints feel better so I can at least get a good long walk in even if I can't run.
Sad clouds.
I walked yesterday with mum. I got half a lap in and turned around for my second half lap with the thunder and stormy clouds above. M went back to the house. I told her I'd run home if it stared raining. Halfway through my half lap, some lightning struck too close for my comfort. I started running home and it started pouring. I was running towards the rain and had to hold my glasses and squint to make sure I didn't get hit by a car or anything. I got home and was soaked. It was kind of awful.
Today it rained even before I could set out on any walking. Though we did go grocery shopping today and I did a bit of walking there, lol.
Running in the rain, I think I overtaxed some joints in my knees and ankles. They're not feeling too good today. I'm hoping the rain lets up tomorrow and my joints feel better so I can at least get a good long walk in even if I can't run.
Sad clouds.
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Happy thoughts
Have I mentioned I ran 1/4th of a mile straight today? I couldn't even do that in Jr high when we were forced to "run" a mile once a week. :)
Also, did I mention I was down to 213 this (Saturday) morning?
Heck yes.
In other notes, I found my old Three Hour Diet book for Teens from High School. It has a lot of really good visualization ideas that I wanted to look back at. I think talking the time once a day to sit down and really think about how your body is changing and how amazing you feel from exercising and then how awesome it will to be a healthy weight again, it's really good for you! Positive vibes!
Well in the book when I started that diet (for like 5 days) in HS, I weighed 194. I found this really exciting! I can't wait until I'm down below that point! I was a sophomore in HS and weighed that much. Now as a 3rd year college student, I'm going to weigh less than that soon!
I'm soo pumped about my life changes! I'm running/walking every other day now and walking the same distance on days I don't run/walk. I'm doing the Richard Simmons tape 6 days a week (though I didn't last night because I ran out of time with putting all the Ikea furniture together). And I have so much more energy and strength I didn't have before! I'm even more flexible! I can do the butterfly stretch and put my forearms on the ground next to my feet. It feels AMAZING.
And I just have to remind myself, even on the not so great days, when the scale doesn't budge and I eat half a Ritter Sport bar or decide I can't dance, I'm still amazing! I'm doing so much good for myself.
One last mention. My clothes are starting to be really loose. I can practically shank myself in my jeans nowadays where before there were days when it was a struggled to pull them up. Even my pj shorts are super loose. Amazing :D
Also, did I mention I was down to 213 this (Saturday) morning?
Heck yes.
In other notes, I found my old Three Hour Diet book for Teens from High School. It has a lot of really good visualization ideas that I wanted to look back at. I think talking the time once a day to sit down and really think about how your body is changing and how amazing you feel from exercising and then how awesome it will to be a healthy weight again, it's really good for you! Positive vibes!
Well in the book when I started that diet (for like 5 days) in HS, I weighed 194. I found this really exciting! I can't wait until I'm down below that point! I was a sophomore in HS and weighed that much. Now as a 3rd year college student, I'm going to weigh less than that soon!
I'm soo pumped about my life changes! I'm running/walking every other day now and walking the same distance on days I don't run/walk. I'm doing the Richard Simmons tape 6 days a week (though I didn't last night because I ran out of time with putting all the Ikea furniture together). And I have so much more energy and strength I didn't have before! I'm even more flexible! I can do the butterfly stretch and put my forearms on the ground next to my feet. It feels AMAZING.
And I just have to remind myself, even on the not so great days, when the scale doesn't budge and I eat half a Ritter Sport bar or decide I can't dance, I'm still amazing! I'm doing so much good for myself.
One last mention. My clothes are starting to be really loose. I can practically shank myself in my jeans nowadays where before there were days when it was a struggled to pull them up. Even my pj shorts are super loose. Amazing :D
Monday, June 20, 2011
Life, especially summer
Summer is always such a boring time for me. Nothing interesting happens. I don't get to see my friends. There's little for me to actually accomplish. I think I even forgot to make a summer list this year. Usually the first day off from school every year I make a list of things I want to do over the summer. I think now, this year my summer goal, to finish before school starts in Aug, is to drop below 200 pounds. There's roughly 2 months left in my summer and I'm currently weighing around 216. So, sounds like a perfect goal! Plus, if I lose more than that, it will just be icing on the cake!
Despite hovering instead of losing the last couple of days, I feel really good. I've really noticed a change in my eating habits since starting these new life changes! I'm no longer scarfing down large meals. I make conscious decisions when we eat out to pick something healthy or with a smaller amount of calories. This has actually been something really hard to do! Have you ever looked at most chain restaurants' (what we have in abundance locally) menus? Most are terrible for information! Some places have a decal for meals with less than 500, 600, or 700 calories. But there are like only 6 meals that add up on the entire menu! A lot of my decisions come after looking up calorie counts on my phone. While I don't have a savvy smartphone, I'm still able to get useful info most of the time to make an informed decision. It's work, but it makes me feel good to know I'm making smart decisions!
Also, exercising is getting better! I can actually run! For short distances, but still! It's much more successful than my first few days of pushing myself to run and feeling out of breath every 50 ft. I'm running longer stretches and then can turn around and run another stretch just about as long! It's very exciting for something who always swore that she would never run anywhere! Hah!
M, C, and I are still doing the Richard Simmons tapes almost every night. I decided to take one night off a week, which was Sunday night. We've found our favourites are still the Sweatin' to the Oldies. Mine is still S2tO3. Though we just bought the dvds from Amazon and I'm exciting to try out S2tO4. It's always fun to dance around to something new!
Sorry for neglecting you again lately blog. I know if I sit down to type it will take some time to actually think and get across what I've been ruminating about. But it's good for me and I need to do it.
See ya tomorrow, okay? :)
Despite hovering instead of losing the last couple of days, I feel really good. I've really noticed a change in my eating habits since starting these new life changes! I'm no longer scarfing down large meals. I make conscious decisions when we eat out to pick something healthy or with a smaller amount of calories. This has actually been something really hard to do! Have you ever looked at most chain restaurants' (what we have in abundance locally) menus? Most are terrible for information! Some places have a decal for meals with less than 500, 600, or 700 calories. But there are like only 6 meals that add up on the entire menu! A lot of my decisions come after looking up calorie counts on my phone. While I don't have a savvy smartphone, I'm still able to get useful info most of the time to make an informed decision. It's work, but it makes me feel good to know I'm making smart decisions!
Also, exercising is getting better! I can actually run! For short distances, but still! It's much more successful than my first few days of pushing myself to run and feeling out of breath every 50 ft. I'm running longer stretches and then can turn around and run another stretch just about as long! It's very exciting for something who always swore that she would never run anywhere! Hah!
M, C, and I are still doing the Richard Simmons tapes almost every night. I decided to take one night off a week, which was Sunday night. We've found our favourites are still the Sweatin' to the Oldies. Mine is still S2tO3. Though we just bought the dvds from Amazon and I'm exciting to try out S2tO4. It's always fun to dance around to something new!
Sorry for neglecting you again lately blog. I know if I sit down to type it will take some time to actually think and get across what I've been ruminating about. But it's good for me and I need to do it.
See ya tomorrow, okay? :)
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Dear Blog
Dear Blog,
I've been avoiding you lately. I've been flat-out avoiding the computer lately. I don't know what this is about, besides been crazy busy every single day.
The short of it: I lost roughly 8 lbs doing the Special K Challenge.
I'm not going to change my diet extravagantly far from the Special K Challenge for the future. Just replacing the cereal or bar meals with small, healthy meals with lots of fruit and veggies.
I haven't been running lately. I'm still trying to walk every day. I did today, plus some weight exercises for arms on the balance ball. And then C wanted to do a Richard Simmons tape, so I did that too! And then I sat on the balance ball and wiggled and bounced around forever. I just had the jitter bug today and needed to dance it out.
Speaking of that, today was a good day. I danced in the car. I walked with M and entertained her with my crazy awful dancing. I bought two new tops today and some lounge pants at Rue 21. I wore one of the new tops right after buying it and C told me I looked soo skinny. That comment just like reminded me of all the hard work I've been putting in recently.
And yeah, the scale read 218 tonight. That's seriously down 10 lbs from where I started (and down 16 lbs from my highest)! How exciting!
I can do this you guys! :D
I've been avoiding you lately. I've been flat-out avoiding the computer lately. I don't know what this is about, besides been crazy busy every single day.
The short of it: I lost roughly 8 lbs doing the Special K Challenge.
I'm not going to change my diet extravagantly far from the Special K Challenge for the future. Just replacing the cereal or bar meals with small, healthy meals with lots of fruit and veggies.
I haven't been running lately. I'm still trying to walk every day. I did today, plus some weight exercises for arms on the balance ball. And then C wanted to do a Richard Simmons tape, so I did that too! And then I sat on the balance ball and wiggled and bounced around forever. I just had the jitter bug today and needed to dance it out.
Speaking of that, today was a good day. I danced in the car. I walked with M and entertained her with my crazy awful dancing. I bought two new tops today and some lounge pants at Rue 21. I wore one of the new tops right after buying it and C told me I looked soo skinny. That comment just like reminded me of all the hard work I've been putting in recently.
And yeah, the scale read 218 tonight. That's seriously down 10 lbs from where I started (and down 16 lbs from my highest)! How exciting!
I can do this you guys! :D
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 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
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
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