brown rice with celery, ground turkey, and cheese cauliflower for dinner. not the most flavorful thing i've ever made, but filling at least. hopefully this will help keep me from munching at the party tonight.
December 2011 Archives
so, food. i'm bored. i find myself not wanting to eat the food i have so i wander back to the break room looking for donuts or leftover pizza. i think it's time to change things up.
currently:
breakfast: plain oatmeal. i make 1/2 c, i can finish about half of it before i give up and throw the rest away.
morning snack: microwave popcorn. 100 calorie pack.
lunch: boost shake (i know, i know)
afternoon snack: 1/4 c dried fruit (pineapple, mango, papaya) or nature valley granola bar
dinner: whatever we can drum up. some days chicken salad wraps, some days hamburger helper.
proposed:
breakfast: 1/2 c quinoa with 1/4 banana, 2 tbsp ground flax seed, pinch of cinnamon, 1 tbsp honey (haven't tried this. will adjust once i do)
morning snack: 1 apple with 6 oz fat free yogurt
lunch: boost shake (because i'm lazy and cheap)
afternoon snack: 2 oz cantaloupe and 1/2 c cottage cheese
dinner: 1/2 c brown rice, 2 egg or 4 oz ground turkey or 4 oz turkey breast, and a frozen veggie (broccoli, spinach, or cauliflower, probably).
notes:
water with basically every meal/snack. i need to work more veggies and fruit into my diet but after the last time, i'm a little afraid to. sure, i lost a lot of weight very quickly but i was sick every day for nearly a month straight. i also need a food scale. eyeballing it doesn't work for me. i need more food containers. i need to get better about preparing my meals ahead of time and eating the food i've prepared. i probably need to work in more food than this, especially on workout nights, since this alone brings me in under target on calories, fat, and carbs, and just barely over target on protein. WAY under on potassium, but i'm always low there, so i take a supplement. if i put butter or cheese into the dinner it would taste better and probably put me right about at target. i also have carrots, celery, and baby red potatoes on my shopping list, along with a head of romaine lettuce. i'll try to work those in there to supplement where necessary.
ok, i did it. i walked the dog. took him for two miles, managed to keep about 4 mph the whole way. it was 60 degrees outside but i thought it was going to be a lot colder so i was way over dressed and sweating a lot. it would probably be good except i had just taken a shower. feel like i should take another. ugh.
he needed it, anyway. we're going to be gone to a party tonight for new year's so he needed to burn off some energy. of course, in a half hour he'll be ready to go again... oh well. better than nothing.
my eating tends to get in a rut. i work out a meal plan for myself, figure out something that works with my dietary needs and fits in my budget, then i eat it a lot, get burnt out, and resort to grazing for junk food instead of eating the food i have provided myself. i have recently found myself back at that place. in the last week, i ate pizza so i wouldn't have to have another meal shake. i had donuts instead of oatmeal. i skipped the popcorn and granola bars in exchange for crackers with cream cheese and pepper jelly. as a result, i found myself feeling nauseous and lethargic. i know that a huge part of how well i feel is related to how well i eat so it is time to change some things around and get myself back in line.
but first, i am going to go walk the dog.
last weekend was christmas. if you know me and my family history, you know that thanksgiving and christmas are very hard holidays for me. true to form, this year was no different. it came complete with emotional binge eating, and ended with me in tears. i haven't worked out in two weeks and the abs i had just begun to define have now gone back into hiding under a layer of jiggle.
even so, i have to hold my head high and forge on. i gained only one pound in those two weeks (between my weigh-in two fridays ago and my weigh-in this morning), and in fact my waist is down to a solid 25.5", so hope is not totally lost. i can still salvage this.
weight: 126.4 lbs (9am saturday)
body fat: 25.1% (handheld)
did not get a chance to do any cardio this week. Did do my weight workouts but only just barely. My body is still in revolt over this whole eating healthy/no processed foods thing. Still having crazy g.i. unrest and feeling generally tired, weak, and sickly all the time. I thought eating veggies was supposed to make feel better! Ugh.
i can really tell that my upper body is the weakest part of me. it is the part most likely to be sore after a workout. today i am sore right where my shoulder meets my pectorals. it's, like, the side of my pectorals. my biceps are a little sore, but only if i really stretch out, and my traps are a little sore if i shrug or carry anything on my shoulders. mostly it's my pecs, though.
granted, i did go through two weeks of sore legs and hips, but i feel like i worked them a lot harder to get to that point. and when my legs get sore, it's not like i have the option to not use my legs until they quit being sore, in the same way i can just about stop lifting heavy things with my arms until my arms stop being sore.
speaking of, tonight is lower body.
it's friday, which is my "free" day. the day where i'm supposed to be able to eat whatever i want. i had planned on hitting up subway today to get a 6" ham and turkey on wheat, and a free cookie. i figured it would be splurging but nothing terrible.
but see, then i got a phone call at 8:10 this morning from a dept that couldn't figure out what they were doing wrong and they needed me to come right over and fix the problem. an hour and a half later, i ended up at my desk, having missed breakfast. then i opened my inbox and realized i had a ton of work to do that i had neglected for the rest of the week and before i knew it, it was nearly noon and i hadn't eaten anything at all. i was getting nauseous and light headed and i knew i needed to eat something.
i figured hey, let's really go all out and get chinese. i waffled, i argued with myself, i weighed it all and finally convinced myself that yes, i should get chinese.
only, then i got there and subway was next door and i got cold feet and went to subway after all.
BUT IT'S FRIDAY! sure, i can get a cold cut or meatball sub for $2 but i didn't want that. i sortof wanted a ham and turkey, but not really. what i really wanted was a mr jim's steak sub from down the street. they're so gooey and warm and toasty and just so good. so i ordered a foot long steak sub on wheat, with a free sugar cookie (because it's friday!), a side of sun chips, and a cherry coke.
so... it's sortof healthy but not really. also, it's not very good. it's cold, there's not enough cheese, and something in it is too sweet for my taste. i think i'm going to save the second half for bryan and just have my cookie now.
last night i got to the gym and the guy at the front desk pulled me aside to talk to me.
turns out a bunch of the bally's locations got sold to LA Fitness, including the gym where i initially signed up with bally's. that means my contract got sold to LA Fitness, and i technically no longer have a contract with bally's. no matter what else i do, that means that since there is no LA Fitness out here, i have to call them and cancel my account.
here's where my decision is: i can either tell bally's i'd like to stay with them, at which point they create a duplicate of my original account, but with bally's (again), at which point i have to call LA Fitness and tell them i'm leaving them for bally's OR i can just say 'no thanks' altogether and have all of my accounts cancelled, at which point i either have to find a new gym or figure out how to do cardio at home every day in the winter.
we got a coupon in the mail the other day from planet fitness, bryan's gym, saying if we sign up by the end of the year, we can pay $10 down and $99 for the next year, which is better than the $156/year i pay for my bally's membership. except my bally's membership is paid through july, and i don't have two pennies to rub together right now, let alone $109 to start a new gym membership.
supposedly if i transfer my account over to bally's, the balance will transfer as well, so i won't owe any money until my pay period is up next summer. i will likely have to do that and hope that by the time my membership is up for renewal, b has a job or i have some money set aside or something, so i can do something then.
i've been with bally's since 2002 or 2003 and i hate to leave but if planet fitness is regularly cheaper (which they are), and offer the same amenities (which they seem to), then there's really no reason for me to stay with them.
have been eating really healthy this week and last week. eating more veggies and whole grains that i have in some time. trying to remove a lot of processed foods from my diet. have lost almost 8 lbs since last monday.
have also been suffering from diarrhea and really bad stomach cramps. hopefully it's just a side effect of detoxing and goes away soon because this is ridiculous.
i hate the sound of people eating or drinking. it makes my flesh crawl. right now my co-worker is eating sun chips and i want to run out of the room like my hair is on fire.
weight: 128.2 lbs (7 am)
body fat: 26.9% (handheld reader)
tonight is upper body, followed by 30 minutes of elliptical. going to try to use the big scary cable machine that does everything you want, depending on which way you stand. maybe next week i'll do free weights.
- bicep curls
- tricep extensions
- lat pull-downs
- overhead press
- seated row
- chest press
60 minutes of random interval training on the treadmill tonight. planned on an hour, wanted to stop at 30 minutes. kept pushing myself and somehow ended up at a full hour done. it's a good thing i got the music uploaded to my phone!
kept my eating well under control today. plain oatmeal for breakfast, apple and cheese for snack, boost shake, then cucumber and tomato salad for afternoon snack. had 4 bottles of water. somehow, none of that helped when i got to the gym.
- incline crunches
- incline oblique twists
- back extensions
- cats and dogs
- kneeling arm/leg extensions
- supermans
after that i tried to do a half hour on the bike but about 5 minutes in my legs locked up on me and i just couldn't go any more. i walked around, stretched out, tried again, and just couldn't. so i went home, stretched out some more and relaxed for the rest of the evening.
i don't like plain oatmeal. i also don't care much for plain frozen fruit. it's all very bitter. there's a good reason they put all that other stuff into the instant kind.
weight: 130.2 lbs (7 am)
body fat: 28%
water: 50.5%
breakfast: plain oatmeal w/ berries
morning snack: gala apple w/ mild cheddar
lunch: boost shake
afternoon snack: cucumber & cherry tomatoes
workout: upper body & ellptical
dinner: tbd
weight: 132.2 lbs
body fat: 27.5%
water: 50.5%
waist: 26.5"
belly: 31.5"
hip/butt: 40.5"
thigh: 23.5"
