Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Oops
Looks like I forgot to diet, exercise and blog for the past six months. I'm baaaaaaack! Arm band on, food logged. Here we go!
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
food snapshot- 1.4, 1.5
Two days in one!
Tuesday
Breakfast- I'm starting to realize that I eat a lot of yogurt! Yogurt with granola, a granola bar and a clementine-- all eaten over the course of two hours.
Lunch- Busy day at work-- so pita chips, almonds and a banana that I didn't photograph
Dinner- Supergreat Husband made a roasted chicken, rice and that weird blob of brown is a shockingly delicious lentil, parsnip and celery mush. Wine-- one glass.
Wednesday
Breakfast- .... yogurt with granola, granola bar and a clementine.
Snack- Pita chips with cheese
Lunch- Welcome to Moe's! Tofu bowl without any of the good stuff on it except cheese.
Dinner- Minestrone. Pasta with chicken sausage, broccoli, mushrooms and onions. Wine.
Tuesday
Breakfast- I'm starting to realize that I eat a lot of yogurt! Yogurt with granola, a granola bar and a clementine-- all eaten over the course of two hours.
Lunch- Busy day at work-- so pita chips, almonds and a banana that I didn't photograph
Dinner- Supergreat Husband made a roasted chicken, rice and that weird blob of brown is a shockingly delicious lentil, parsnip and celery mush. Wine-- one glass.
Breakfast- .... yogurt with granola, granola bar and a clementine.
Snack- Pita chips with cheese
Lunch- Welcome to Moe's! Tofu bowl without any of the good stuff on it except cheese.
Dinner- Minestrone. Pasta with chicken sausage, broccoli, mushrooms and onions. Wine.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Weigh-in Wednesday
It's time for the first of many Weigh-in Wednesdays! Do you want to hear something awesome? I lost 4.3 lbs last week.
I'm going to type it again just because it feels awesome: I lost 4.3 lbs.
The week before this, I ate my weight in Christmas cookies and had a gain (which prompted me starting a blog to keep myself honest). This week wasn't entirely great, either. Remember how I ate a box of chocolates? Yeah. But overall, I did the work and made it happen!
I took a few screenshots of my weekly summary report from Bodymedia (check out more about my armband here). Did I mention I love charts?
The numbers don't exactly add up. My total calorie deficit for the week was 7742 which should equal roughly two pounds BUT I'm not going to argue. This feels really, really good. I worked HARD. I walked a LOT. I invited Jillian Michaels into my television to kick my butt.
But you know what really is lighting a fire under me? I know I can do more work next week, and the week after that, and the week after that.....
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Power of One Challenge
Over at Sisterhood they are kicking off the New Year right with the Power of One Challenge.
The challenge this week is to state our healthy living goals for both 2011 and this 8 week challenge. Here are mine:
2011
Log and Blog: I've never lost weight without logging my food consistently. This blog, as you may know, is all new to me. I will continue to log my food and blog about this journey of health at least 3x a week.
I will be a runner: Last year, I did two 5ks but didn't run either one completely. This year I will complete three 5ks and I will run them all.
Eat clean: I haven't blogged much about it yet, but we changed our family eating habits dramatically last year. We stopped buying meat that wasn't local, hormone free, grass fed, etc. We started moving over to organic foods and cutting out the processed crap. I want to continue the trend this year and clean up out act even more.
Lose those 65 lbs: I mean, it IS the name of the blog after all. I've got to drop it down to 160 to be in the healthy weight range. It's more than doable and I'll get it done.
8 Week
4 servings of fruits and veggies a day.
Drop 12 lbs.
Gym or home workout 5x a week.
Complete the 200 squat challenge!
food snapshot- 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Whoa! That long weekend stunk for posting. Three days of food, coming at ya!
Saturday
Breakfast- Flax seed bagel from Wegman's that make me homesick for NYC bagels. Banana
Lunch- Big salad with chopped turkey and fontina cheese. Green Goddess dressing.
Snack- Clementine, almonds, chocolate chips
Dinner- Homemade popcorn, beer, nearly an entire box of Whitman's chocolate (not pictured). Ugh.
Total Calories: 2859. Ouch.
Brunch- Amazing Breakfast Burrito at Sophia's. Guy Fieri knows what he's taking about.
Dinner- (it was a weird day of errands). Mighty taco-- Bean and cheese taco, Chicken Roastito, Nachos.
Total Calories: 1647 in two HUGE meals
Monday
Breakfast- Kashi TLC bar and a yogurt
Lunch- Big Salad with brown rice
Dinner- Taco plate. Glass of wine. Can you tell that we had a lot of brown rice hanging out in the fridge?
Total Calories: 1307
Breakfast- Flax seed bagel from Wegman's that make me homesick for NYC bagels. Banana
Lunch- Big salad with chopped turkey and fontina cheese. Green Goddess dressing.
Snack- Clementine, almonds, chocolate chips
Dinner- Homemade popcorn, beer, nearly an entire box of Whitman's chocolate (not pictured). Ugh.
Total Calories: 2859. Ouch.
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| Sunday |
Dinner- (it was a weird day of errands). Mighty taco-- Bean and cheese taco, Chicken Roastito, Nachos.
Total Calories: 1647 in two HUGE meals
Monday
Breakfast- Kashi TLC bar and a yogurt
Lunch- Big Salad with brown rice
Dinner- Taco plate. Glass of wine. Can you tell that we had a lot of brown rice hanging out in the fridge?
Total Calories: 1307
Saturday, January 1, 2011
lamentations
I'll do the daily food rundown in another post, but I wanted to share one specific "meal" I had today.
I didn't take my own picture of it. Had I stopped long enough to do that, this story might have had a different outcome. There's been a wrapped Whitman's Sampler in our house for a few weeks. I had dodged it until tonight. I've thought about opening and eating it no less than 25 times. Tonight, Supergreat Husband was working and the kids were playing upstairs and I succumbed. I opened it up and went to town. I ate a serving size (four)... then I ate some more... and more... then I shared with the kids. Now all that's left is a half of a maple cream and an empty box. Shame.
For years I've read about emotional eating and I keep looking for what is damaged in me that makes me eat like a maniac. I'm pretty self aware and I really can't identify anything. I'm just like an addict around sweets. I just lose all self control. Today was a normal good day. No sadness or trauma or feelings I was avoiding. Just opportunity.
I've eaten a lot of crap in my day-- certainly meals worse than 1350 calories worth of chocolate. I usually don't give it a second thought after the fact. But I can't shake the regret I have over this choice. So tonight I'm laying it out there. I'm confessing that I ate more chocolate than a person should eat in months. The chance for this to happen again will inevitably come around. So I want to write a note to future Jeanenne.
Throw it away. Get up, walk to the garbage outside, toss it in. You work too hard to waste it on a few minutes of chocolate buzz. It feels awful afterward. My stomach hurts. My heart hurts just thinking about what I'm asking my body to do to get rid of it. An entire days worth of healthy choices and exercise was thrown out the window. You know better. You can do better. Don't give in-- just get rid of it.
So I'm going to take a deep breath. I'm oddly proud that at least this binge bothered me. That's a step in the right direction. I'm going to own it and move on. Logistically, I had a zero calorie deficit today (my goal is 1000 calorie deficit a day to lose 2 lb/week). I have three more days in this weigh in week, so I'm going to need to burn 330 calories more each day to make this up. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time, right?
For years I've read about emotional eating and I keep looking for what is damaged in me that makes me eat like a maniac. I'm pretty self aware and I really can't identify anything. I'm just like an addict around sweets. I just lose all self control. Today was a normal good day. No sadness or trauma or feelings I was avoiding. Just opportunity.
I've eaten a lot of crap in my day-- certainly meals worse than 1350 calories worth of chocolate. I usually don't give it a second thought after the fact. But I can't shake the regret I have over this choice. So tonight I'm laying it out there. I'm confessing that I ate more chocolate than a person should eat in months. The chance for this to happen again will inevitably come around. So I want to write a note to future Jeanenne.
Throw it away. Get up, walk to the garbage outside, toss it in. You work too hard to waste it on a few minutes of chocolate buzz. It feels awful afterward. My stomach hurts. My heart hurts just thinking about what I'm asking my body to do to get rid of it. An entire days worth of healthy choices and exercise was thrown out the window. You know better. You can do better. Don't give in-- just get rid of it.
So I'm going to take a deep breath. I'm oddly proud that at least this binge bothered me. That's a step in the right direction. I'm going to own it and move on. Logistically, I had a zero calorie deficit today (my goal is 1000 calorie deficit a day to lose 2 lb/week). I have three more days in this weigh in week, so I'm going to need to burn 330 calories more each day to make this up. Don't do the crime if you can't do the time, right?
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