Okay so here goes. It was a big mistake, Huge mistake on my part to think that giving a daily run down of what I ate would be good for me. UGH! All of the sudden I was back in the world of weight watchers and other dieting tricks and it made me want to eat. Notice I haven't posted for the past few days. Well that's because all I could have posted would have been "Don't ask". I guess I still have some hang ups about dieting, and hope, to be honest, I always do. So, that being said, I'm announcing I'm going back to just a weekly update on weigh ins. It may or may not be the only post for the week. When I feel like I want to share; I sometimes share often.
It's amazing to me that once I came to the decision not to give a day by day, I calmed and have been on track today. That's really saying something. We had church this morning. Which is fine, but I tend to get home starving. I thought ahead and planed my morning. In addition, my youngest is moving out today. He found a place with two other friends and off he goes leaving the nest. I got home thinking I would cook me a pork loin chop and roast some veggies, but instead came home to "Mom can you help me pack?". Well of course honey let me get lunch started, and now at 4 pm he has taken the first load and I sit to type to you guys. I did get my chop and veggies. I literally wolfed it down in between packing. Now I sit with you guys eating my "Butter Popcorn" which is 4 gms butter to 3 TBS popcorn popped in a microwave popper.
My workout was also a fly by the seat of your pants. It's house cleaning. That's what I call packing, lifting, sweeping (sand out of the truck so dear son can take it), etc for the past 2.5 hours, but I only counted 45 minutes.
It was definitely a improv kinda day and improv when it comes to what I eat and how I move is what I need. Whatever I do has to roll with the punches so to speak. It has to be flexible because life, more often that not, isn't.
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Barely made it and a thought
So today has been so so. I started out good and then had to pull it out in the end. It will end well though. I redeemed myself. My workout was 30 minutes on the treadmill at 3 mph and a 7% incline, 10 minutes of housecleaning (I did more than that, but counted 10), and 108 reps with 10 lb weights. So that I can check off my list.
The hard part of my day was the want to still eat goodies left over from the holidays. My hubby is having the same issues. As a result almost a third of my calories came from less than stellar sources. Oh who am I kidding. It was junk. Chex mix, cookie, chips, etc. Not my best day. I knew today I needed to adjust my thinking. While doing my treadmill workout, I watched, yet again, a documentary I've watched many times before. It's called "Hungry for Change".
It's available on Hulu and Netflix right now and I highly recommend everyone take a look. When I watch this documentary I get re inspired and a little ticked at the food industry. But they don't make me eat what I eat. I do that. Anyway, after my workout and the movie I sat down and redeemed my day by making sure I have plenty of fruits and veggies to round out my day. As a result I'm under calories, and everything else is in range. I also remembered to fix a large glass of water. Now to just do that everyday.
My thought is that. To make sure I'm loading up on the fruits and veggies. The fun food is fun, but not what I need. It's just for pleasure. I need to start focusing my calories on nutrition and less on pleasure. Don't get me wrong. I will still have my treats, and coffee isn't going anywhere, But I should never look and see I've used that many calories for junk.
The hard part of my day was the want to still eat goodies left over from the holidays. My hubby is having the same issues. As a result almost a third of my calories came from less than stellar sources. Oh who am I kidding. It was junk. Chex mix, cookie, chips, etc. Not my best day. I knew today I needed to adjust my thinking. While doing my treadmill workout, I watched, yet again, a documentary I've watched many times before. It's called "Hungry for Change".
It's available on Hulu and Netflix right now and I highly recommend everyone take a look. When I watch this documentary I get re inspired and a little ticked at the food industry. But they don't make me eat what I eat. I do that. Anyway, after my workout and the movie I sat down and redeemed my day by making sure I have plenty of fruits and veggies to round out my day. As a result I'm under calories, and everything else is in range. I also remembered to fix a large glass of water. Now to just do that everyday.
My thought is that. To make sure I'm loading up on the fruits and veggies. The fun food is fun, but not what I need. It's just for pleasure. I need to start focusing my calories on nutrition and less on pleasure. Don't get me wrong. I will still have my treats, and coffee isn't going anywhere, But I should never look and see I've used that many calories for junk.
Day 2
Well the good news is I stayed away from the chocolate in the candy dish. The bad news is I had Chocolate chip cookies for dessert! LOL. BUT! I stayed in calorie range. I had no calories left over, but I counted it and stayed in range. I also met my fiber intake goals, so there is that. I decided I wanted a Coke Life more than the tortilla with my dinner so I had fajita filling (the chicken, peppers, onions) with no tortilla and a coke life. I haven't had one all season so I grabbed one while I had them. It's all about picking and choosing your battles.
So far today:
Breakfast
2 eggs
3 slices of turkey bacon
1 orange
coffee (With the rest of the flavored creamer. Well no one else was using it!)
Morning snack
1/4 cup cottage cheese
Lunch
3 oz chicken breast
Roasted Broccoli with a little Parmesan cheese (1 tsp)
1 oz chocolate chip cookie.Ahem and some bite size chocolate( Don't judge)
Dinner
4.78 oz pork loin
2 cups broccoli roasted (Love this stuff)
Coffee with milk and sugar
Dessert
2 oz cookies
Notice a trend here? I throw over breads for sweets! Well at least I got plenty of veggie and fruits in too. Now on the upside, I did 40 minutes on the treadmill at 3mph and a 7% incline plus 108 reps with 10 lb weights. Plus more house work so overall not too bad. Could be better. I need to drink more. I get busy and forget.
So far today:
Breakfast
2 eggs
3 slices of turkey bacon
1 orange
coffee (With the rest of the flavored creamer. Well no one else was using it!)
Morning snack
1/4 cup cottage cheese
Lunch
3 oz chicken breast
Roasted Broccoli with a little Parmesan cheese (1 tsp)
1 oz chocolate chip cookie.Ahem and some bite size chocolate( Don't judge)
Dinner
4.78 oz pork loin
2 cups broccoli roasted (Love this stuff)
Coffee with milk and sugar
Dessert
2 oz cookies
Notice a trend here? I throw over breads for sweets! Well at least I got plenty of veggie and fruits in too. Now on the upside, I did 40 minutes on the treadmill at 3mph and a 7% incline plus 108 reps with 10 lb weights. Plus more house work so overall not too bad. Could be better. I need to drink more. I get busy and forget.
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
And we start
This would normally not be a good day for getting back on track. It has been filled with a comedy of errors. That being said, I've stuck to my plan and not given in to the call of a few pieces of chocolate still lurking in the candy dish. If I do give in, I'll count it and let you guys know in the morning.
I began my day by putting up Christmas decor. To me there is nothing more depressing than decorations after the day. I put up my decor early and take it down as soon as the holiday as over. That is today. I usually gather everything together to my dining room and then pack away everything there. All was going according to plan. I had everything gathered and went to get the boxes. That's when things went wrong. I dropped one of the boxes which had some of my hubbies Redskins stuff in it. I broke one of the mugs. I can get it back together, but it was the start.
While packing things away, I went to put the Christmas linens in the wash and noticed something....off with the laundry room. Our cats litter box is in the corner in the laundry room, and at first I thought she might be up to some weird dementia ways when it came to toiletry (she's 18 and crazy as a bessie bug), because it was obvious something wet was around her litter box. When I started moving things I discovered the truth. Our new dog, Sophie, has decided that if the laundry room is good enough for the cat to use for a bath room it's good enough for her. She's a great Pyrenees mix if that gives you any indication of the mess I was facing. Fortunately we are only talking urine (Thank you Lord). So I had to stop what I was doing Decor wise and clean up this mess too. I get it all cleaned up, mopped, etc, and go back to work putting the Christmas decorations away. Oh, before that, I started a load of clothes. You know, Multitasking. I'm making good progress on getting the tree down and I turn towards the kitchen, laundry room area and notice the floor in my kitchen looks very...shiny. It takes a minute then it dawns on me my washer has flooded the laundry room, part of the kitchen, and part of the gym (den). Grabbing every towel available, I quickly turn off the washer and begin to dry up the mess. The drain pipe had come out of its holder and just sprayed everything. I had to pull everything out of the laundry room, pull the washer and dryer out from the wall, and dry up all the floor. The I moved onto moving stuff in the gym to dry under it as well. All is dry now. I have fixed the drain hose, and have a space heater drying up the floor. I've finally finished getting the decorations down, and am sitting down writing to you guys and eating my snack. Speaking of snack, here goes the day so far and plans for dinner:
Breakfast:
Coffee with 2 TBS whole milk and 1 tsp sugar
2 eggs + 1 egg white- "fried"
1 cup blackberries
2 oz french vanilla whole milk yogurt
Morning snack
Apple
2 oz plain yogurt + 1 tsp sugar
Lunch
5 oz pork loin
1 cup brocolli
2 carrots and 1 small potato roasted
Snack (now)
2 oz plain yogurt
1 cup cherries
Dinner
Chicken fajitas- just one
Not sure whats will be my dessert tonight, but I have the calories if need be. I'm only at 1286 and I get 1500. For exercise I cleaned house. I've been cleaning all day, but will only count 45 min. 262 calorie there.
So there's my day in a nut shell. I now have to go back to work. Not done yet!
As for Sophie, she's still cute as a button and sweet as can be, but we have got to keep her out of the laundry room.
I began my day by putting up Christmas decor. To me there is nothing more depressing than decorations after the day. I put up my decor early and take it down as soon as the holiday as over. That is today. I usually gather everything together to my dining room and then pack away everything there. All was going according to plan. I had everything gathered and went to get the boxes. That's when things went wrong. I dropped one of the boxes which had some of my hubbies Redskins stuff in it. I broke one of the mugs. I can get it back together, but it was the start.
While packing things away, I went to put the Christmas linens in the wash and noticed something....off with the laundry room. Our cats litter box is in the corner in the laundry room, and at first I thought she might be up to some weird dementia ways when it came to toiletry (she's 18 and crazy as a bessie bug), because it was obvious something wet was around her litter box. When I started moving things I discovered the truth. Our new dog, Sophie, has decided that if the laundry room is good enough for the cat to use for a bath room it's good enough for her. She's a great Pyrenees mix if that gives you any indication of the mess I was facing. Fortunately we are only talking urine (Thank you Lord). So I had to stop what I was doing Decor wise and clean up this mess too. I get it all cleaned up, mopped, etc, and go back to work putting the Christmas decorations away. Oh, before that, I started a load of clothes. You know, Multitasking. I'm making good progress on getting the tree down and I turn towards the kitchen, laundry room area and notice the floor in my kitchen looks very...shiny. It takes a minute then it dawns on me my washer has flooded the laundry room, part of the kitchen, and part of the gym (den). Grabbing every towel available, I quickly turn off the washer and begin to dry up the mess. The drain pipe had come out of its holder and just sprayed everything. I had to pull everything out of the laundry room, pull the washer and dryer out from the wall, and dry up all the floor. The I moved onto moving stuff in the gym to dry under it as well. All is dry now. I have fixed the drain hose, and have a space heater drying up the floor. I've finally finished getting the decorations down, and am sitting down writing to you guys and eating my snack. Speaking of snack, here goes the day so far and plans for dinner:
Breakfast:
Coffee with 2 TBS whole milk and 1 tsp sugar
2 eggs + 1 egg white- "fried"
1 cup blackberries
2 oz french vanilla whole milk yogurt
Morning snack
Apple
2 oz plain yogurt + 1 tsp sugar
Lunch
5 oz pork loin
1 cup brocolli
2 carrots and 1 small potato roasted
Snack (now)
2 oz plain yogurt
1 cup cherries
Dinner
Chicken fajitas- just one
Not sure whats will be my dessert tonight, but I have the calories if need be. I'm only at 1286 and I get 1500. For exercise I cleaned house. I've been cleaning all day, but will only count 45 min. 262 calorie there.
So there's my day in a nut shell. I now have to go back to work. Not done yet!
As for Sophie, she's still cute as a button and sweet as can be, but we have got to keep her out of the laundry room.
Monday, December 25, 2017
The Apology Tour
MERRY CHRISTMAS! I hope this post finds everyone well. I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas festivities. I know I did!
Ohhh boy. I ate sooo much food! I have eaten so badly the past week. I knew I would. We had our daughter and her family over for dinner. I had the party at my mom's house which was an over night affair with lots of chocolate and cookies, and my mom knows her way around an oven. Plus my sister is a teacher and she brought goodies her student brought her for gifts. Then we had our Christmas eve and Christmas day. UGH! But it was good! Ironically I'm only up one pound. That's great compared to last year.
But now starts the apology tour. This is when I start to say "I'm sorry" to my poor digestive system that has held the reigns this past year, but got thrown over for taste buds.
So, starting tomorrow, for the next little bit, and maybe longer, I will post here everyday with stats. Some days I'll have something to say aside from that, but my daily posts will consist of what I've eaten, how many calories intake, and my workout info. This is an accountability of sorts. To lie to any readers of my blog is to lie to myself and it's not worth it. This will work for me to get be back on the straight and narrow. Accountability is important, especially first starting off. For one it makes it real. By telling someone your plans and goals, it plants it firmly in your mind. Someone else is now aware of your intentions and that means you can't pretend it didn't happen.
I promise I will be totally honest about my weigh ins, my intake, and workouts. If I have a bad day, I'll be honest about that as well.
As a result of this declaration, some daily posts may be dry reading, but I promise to post interesting things too.
This is not a New Years resolution. It is just returning to normalcy. Christmas is over for this year. It was fun while it lasted, but now it's back to everyday.
Now on a fun note, I got something for Christmas that will help me in my fitness endeavors and it makes me feel young! Can't you see me zipping around town, or taking it camping? I can. WEEEE!
Ohhh boy. I ate sooo much food! I have eaten so badly the past week. I knew I would. We had our daughter and her family over for dinner. I had the party at my mom's house which was an over night affair with lots of chocolate and cookies, and my mom knows her way around an oven. Plus my sister is a teacher and she brought goodies her student brought her for gifts. Then we had our Christmas eve and Christmas day. UGH! But it was good! Ironically I'm only up one pound. That's great compared to last year.
But now starts the apology tour. This is when I start to say "I'm sorry" to my poor digestive system that has held the reigns this past year, but got thrown over for taste buds.
So, starting tomorrow, for the next little bit, and maybe longer, I will post here everyday with stats. Some days I'll have something to say aside from that, but my daily posts will consist of what I've eaten, how many calories intake, and my workout info. This is an accountability of sorts. To lie to any readers of my blog is to lie to myself and it's not worth it. This will work for me to get be back on the straight and narrow. Accountability is important, especially first starting off. For one it makes it real. By telling someone your plans and goals, it plants it firmly in your mind. Someone else is now aware of your intentions and that means you can't pretend it didn't happen.
I promise I will be totally honest about my weigh ins, my intake, and workouts. If I have a bad day, I'll be honest about that as well.
As a result of this declaration, some daily posts may be dry reading, but I promise to post interesting things too.
This is not a New Years resolution. It is just returning to normalcy. Christmas is over for this year. It was fun while it lasted, but now it's back to everyday.
Now on a fun note, I got something for Christmas that will help me in my fitness endeavors and it makes me feel young! Can't you see me zipping around town, or taking it camping? I can. WEEEE!
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Danger Foods
This time of year I'm readily faced with, and I know you are too, foods that are too good to eat and not good for you (at all). Thanksgiving and Christmas, along with all the other holidays celebrated this time of year, tend to bring out the good stuff. Weather it's gifts you're receiving or preparing to give, this can be a tricky time of year to stay on track. That's one of the reasons I say make your decision as to what you want to do during this season of giving and gaining. Me? I wanted to stay status quo. If I can hold my own during this season and concentrate on losing again after, then I'm fine. So far, so good.
But......
Enter...the forbidden. Nah, enter the dangerous. Technically I CAN have these, but they're trigger foods for me. Trigger foods are foods that I can't keep in the house in any large number. In other words I have to limit my exposure to them. What foods am I talking about? Well for me it's things like Toffee (apparently... ahem...moving on), M&M's (any kind), ice cream cake (not right now, but in the warmer months). These things I can't stay away from. It's not a short coming on my part. We're genetically geared to be attracted to fat and sugar and, well, there it is! Like credit cards, I can't be in possession of these things. It's one thing if i'm at a party and these things are there. I can enjoy it knowing I'm back on track next day. What I'm realizing is I can't have them around me all the time.
How did I come to this epiphany?
Well Kroger had an amazing sale on Hershey's Baking chips. That included all flavors. I stocked up. Now having an inkling to my weakness for toffee (Heath, Skor), I only bought 5 packages of the heath chips. But OH MY these things have been the bane of my existence. I mean really!!!!!! UGH! So I have to do something with them. Well they are now baked into cookies which I will gift friends, family, the post man, etc. Nothing of this will remain in my house after the 25th. It can't. I know my weaknesses. This is one and it has to go.
We all have those trigger foods. Having them periodically is fine. But if you know they're a weakness, don't put yourself into a position of prolonged exposure. Especially this time of year. When you're stressed, tired, not feeling 100%, your resolve weakens and you can get yourself into a lot of trouble. That's what I've been dealing with. It's been hard with my Etsy store being so busy (Yay). I knew that it would be going into this season and so Thought I planned accordingly. This is another lesson learned. I was sewing, sewing, sewing, grabbing what I could for meals, and sewing. It doesn't make for a smoothly running machine. Now things are slowing down with y store, but picking up with the finishing touches of our own Christmas Holiday. Today is a cloudy, rainy, not feeling well, errand running, etc kind of day and I just needed to get those things out of the house. So now they're all baked up and on their way out as gifts and so I Have to stay away.
But......
Enter...the forbidden. Nah, enter the dangerous. Technically I CAN have these, but they're trigger foods for me. Trigger foods are foods that I can't keep in the house in any large number. In other words I have to limit my exposure to them. What foods am I talking about? Well for me it's things like Toffee (apparently... ahem...moving on), M&M's (any kind), ice cream cake (not right now, but in the warmer months). These things I can't stay away from. It's not a short coming on my part. We're genetically geared to be attracted to fat and sugar and, well, there it is! Like credit cards, I can't be in possession of these things. It's one thing if i'm at a party and these things are there. I can enjoy it knowing I'm back on track next day. What I'm realizing is I can't have them around me all the time.
How did I come to this epiphany?
Well Kroger had an amazing sale on Hershey's Baking chips. That included all flavors. I stocked up. Now having an inkling to my weakness for toffee (Heath, Skor), I only bought 5 packages of the heath chips. But OH MY these things have been the bane of my existence. I mean really!!!!!! UGH! So I have to do something with them. Well they are now baked into cookies which I will gift friends, family, the post man, etc. Nothing of this will remain in my house after the 25th. It can't. I know my weaknesses. This is one and it has to go.
We all have those trigger foods. Having them periodically is fine. But if you know they're a weakness, don't put yourself into a position of prolonged exposure. Especially this time of year. When you're stressed, tired, not feeling 100%, your resolve weakens and you can get yourself into a lot of trouble. That's what I've been dealing with. It's been hard with my Etsy store being so busy (Yay). I knew that it would be going into this season and so Thought I planned accordingly. This is another lesson learned. I was sewing, sewing, sewing, grabbing what I could for meals, and sewing. It doesn't make for a smoothly running machine. Now things are slowing down with y store, but picking up with the finishing touches of our own Christmas Holiday. Today is a cloudy, rainy, not feeling well, errand running, etc kind of day and I just needed to get those things out of the house. So now they're all baked up and on their way out as gifts and so I Have to stay away.
Monday, December 11, 2017
No I'm not missing. Call off the search!
I know, I know, two weeks without a peep, but here I am now.
This is high season for my Etsy shop. I feel like it's the seam that never ends, but I'm happy with that one cause it means a little extra "Cha ching" this time of year. I mailed off something to Canada and something to England this morning. That is too cool! Anyway, I raised my head up enough to say "howdie" from here in the deep freeze south. And I do mean deep freeze. We got snow this past Friday. Real snow with inches accumulated and everything. In fact as I write this there is snow all over my yard, front and back. It is beautiful, and did double duty because it kept me at the sewing machine. Once done with this quick post I am back to the grind stone. My stock is getting low.
On the low front as well, I had a weigh in this morning. More of an accountability weigh in than anything else. This past week has been hard. I have wanted to eat, eat, eat! I don't know if it's because of the cold to generate some calorie warmth, or if it's my inner cave woman saying I need to pack on pounds for winter. Well I'm happy to say if it was the latter, I failed. Oh darn! Even after my terribly awful no good week, I am at my same weight. Actually I'm down compared to my official weight. Who Knew!
Lest you folks in reader land think this is always a breeze let me set you straight. While this is way easier than when I did things the old fashioned way, there are still days....... Compared to before, though, it is a breeze. I don't feel like a junkie needing my next fix.
So that is my post for now. Sorry so short. I'm just busy, busy, busy!
This is high season for my Etsy shop. I feel like it's the seam that never ends, but I'm happy with that one cause it means a little extra "Cha ching" this time of year. I mailed off something to Canada and something to England this morning. That is too cool! Anyway, I raised my head up enough to say "howdie" from here in the deep freeze south. And I do mean deep freeze. We got snow this past Friday. Real snow with inches accumulated and everything. In fact as I write this there is snow all over my yard, front and back. It is beautiful, and did double duty because it kept me at the sewing machine. Once done with this quick post I am back to the grind stone. My stock is getting low.
On the low front as well, I had a weigh in this morning. More of an accountability weigh in than anything else. This past week has been hard. I have wanted to eat, eat, eat! I don't know if it's because of the cold to generate some calorie warmth, or if it's my inner cave woman saying I need to pack on pounds for winter. Well I'm happy to say if it was the latter, I failed. Oh darn! Even after my terribly awful no good week, I am at my same weight. Actually I'm down compared to my official weight. Who Knew!
Lest you folks in reader land think this is always a breeze let me set you straight. While this is way easier than when I did things the old fashioned way, there are still days....... Compared to before, though, it is a breeze. I don't feel like a junkie needing my next fix.
So that is my post for now. Sorry so short. I'm just busy, busy, busy!
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