7:30 breakfast oatmeal with almond milk and spices 170, 2% Chobani cherry yogurt 110, iced coffee with almond milk 30
Snack during laundry / weights workout: chocolate protein nut butter 100, coconut water 100. 200, aminos, seltzers, CBD mix (HI DONKEY, yes, i use the oil during my workout in one of my large cups of many that i drink during workouts!), tastes of my cooking 50
600 cal for lunch, balanced, more carbs. (2.5 servings crackers/chips, wrap with mustard and half cured sausage, cooked veggies)
strawberries, apple
caulipower pizza and veggies 500 basically right before ladder workout :)
8pm after workout: tasty protein bar, very fresh and soft 200 with almond milk. 30
2080, good.
2day: 2190, ok
TOMORROW I WORK OT FOR ONE HOUR (extra hour as i have to do 8 hours in order to get July 5th off also along with July 4th...), so, i'm not exercising at all after work and will be probably reading and taking slow train home as well as going to bed shortly after getting home. so, i hope to keep cals decently in check due to not to much stuff going on after work :-)
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Getting a strenght workout in and laundry this AM, i could be free after lunch all day with just my ladder workout to take care ofllater this early evening!
Because i now order some veggies from a service, and i have enough meat and eggs for the week as well as almond milk, iced coffee and kombucha - i don't need to go to the supermarket today for much besides seltzer/fruit .
I am coming to realize it'd be better for me to go only for little things on the way home (fruits / veggies ) or stop at stands to buy these...and do big shoppings for items in bulk every 3-4 weeks at the supermarket. I'm trying to cut down on time spent doing errands.
If i can manage to get everything done before lunch, after lunch R & I are planning to walk a cemetary right near us. Like, a 5min drive away. It's actually where my grandparents and i think also some of their relatives are buried. I shall hopefully pay them a visit, assuming we can find the graves (very big place), but i think i remember from 2 years ago when my grandma was buried. Seems we like to walk cemetaries now....weird....but, thoughtful and serene.
Tonight, i'll be getting ready for the week ;) It's gonna be a good one. And a busy one with Saturday classes starting up. So today is very important to do my workouts and enjoy the day :)
For laundry, i was going to wash my bedding, but may just do the pillows again and wait one more week for the sheets. Yeah - will try to just do everything quickly today and get it all done :)...
....lots of thinking out loud in this post!!!!!!!!!
Progress as of today: -2.5 lbs lost so far, only 3.5 lbs to go!
slept in a little bit, felt great to do so.
Banana around 5:30am 120 and headed back to bed!
9am breakfast oatmeal with almond milk and stevia and a little saffron in one part of it only (because i like to use oatmeal as a way to get saffron in, so i put it in a little bit of the oatmeal so it softens up!) 180, yogurt 120, iced coffee with almond milk and stevia 40. later a tablespoon of nut butter 100. 440.
almost noon nutritious meal: some of the below greens from the photo 150, wrap with mustard 100-150 and half of a cured pork sausage (small amount) 150 tops. 450. peach 100
1100 so tasty...just gotta watch cals because eating takeout later, just prob getting veg/tofu soup with rice.
bar200, fries 150
dinner white rice 350, shrimp battered 250, veggies in sauce 250. 850?
2300, fine ;)
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I will do ladder workout Tomorrow morning not today...just reading and relaxing now, showering & getting ready to leave by 2pm for beach minigolf with friends!
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spent an hour or so in the morning cooking up my greens using a collard greens vegan recipe (didn't want to put any meat in it)
Progress as of today: -2.5 lbs lost so far, only 3.5 lbs to go!
The vegetables look so beautiful - and tasty! How was beach mini-golf?
yeah, i'm glad my agreement with myself was ladder 2x a week now and nothing more :)
I want to start off today just mentioning how thankful i am for my life and the opportunities i have been provided with since birth. I know i am very lucky & blessed. <3
Several people in my office were laid off today. The project will be winding down. I will probably be amongst the last in this case to remain on the project.
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Home: kombucha 50
1st snack: sf chocolate 60, coffee 40.
breakfast: wrap and egg with seasoning and half avo 150. 350 total.
11am snack: chocolate wafers :) 150
late 1:30pm lunch: all my good leftovers from this week. very happy. romaine salad, seaweed salad 150?,tofu 100 and 2x chips 260:) clementine 550 tops, hot tea.
snacks: almonds 100, later granola bar 100
before strength workout: strawberries, iced coffee, couple munchkins 200 here with almond milk, then small banana 100...got home later so snacked on commute followed by a banana back at home so i can start my workout right away now around 7:30pm
during strength workout: coconut water, amino drinks, etc and nut butter
after workout: TBD :) maybe a sausage again! in a wrap! with mustard. stuck with a protein bar. so glad it has been a wonderful calorie day for me. 200
2050 total.
2070 7 day weekly average is much improvement from all the recent weeks before this one!
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I am working out tonight. and i hope to cook up a few of my vegggies tomorrow morning :) planning the time to cook veggies will be something i DO actually need to consider now. :) being that the veggies are ugly, i prefer eating them cooked. but they do taste wonderful :) and are organic!
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There's a picture in my below entry of my order from Misfits Market. I like that a good percentarge of the produce is Greens. That is what i lacked in my diet and only very recently (like last few weeks) have been making sure that greens (not just any veggie, but lettuce/leafs) are part of my weekly diet, almost daily. I will def be cooking them all up soon. I realize if i have a problem, can't eat it all, i can freeze the food after I cook it. :)
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I get a letter in the mail from the union saying there's been a seat held for me for the Intro to Project Managment course held for 5 weeks, only Saturdays, from 9:00am-2:30pm starting June 15. I decided it's valuable enough that i WANT to take it, so i accepted the seat. It's a free course. It's only a ten minute walk from my apt. So, i'm attending as i'm working in the PM field now and the course is totally valuable towards what i'm doing now.
Since the course is 5 weeks, one week is a skipped week, so it ends July 20, i realize i will have less "exciting" weekend plans for half the summer. I"m totally OK with this as training for the court officer exam can still be done easily on days I have this course and i can easily skip other more adventurous things....i'm glad to stay close to home actually.
My friend who loves the beach will DEF be disappointed when i tell her i have a class on Saturdays, but, she'll def understand as she was taking classes all school year on Saturdays lol.
This is one of several classes i have taken, for free, at the union. It's great i can do this continueed education at this point in my life. It's good every now and then to take part in an organized educational opportunity. I don't feel it will create too many planning problems and i'm much better at organizing my time than in the past. Working out at home has been invaluable to me, especially, as you see i do have obligations that come up time to time besides my regular job.
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All in all, things are going well for me at this current time & I do expect that this year will be following that pattern. After that, it will be slightly up in the air again, but for this time now and for this whole year ahead of me, I'm def staying positive and proactive.
Progress as of today: -2.5 lbs lost so far, only 3.5 lbs to go!
kombucha 50
lighter breakfast to start (trying to change up my eating / calories to change things up / break up all the eating i do) coffee 50, chocolate 50.
mid morning; wrap with egg 200, seasoning, avocado 150. 350.
Healthy lunch: tofu approx 150, seaweed salad with lettuce too 150? avocado half 150, chips 150. clementine 50. 500
snacks: almonds 100 (such a better day, eating a late breakfast at 10am is the way to go for me right now!)
Dinner: to be healthy and to be determined! but i think i might eat another cured pork sausage!!!!!!!! or half of one! YUM! Pork sausage smaller piece 250, chips 160, veggies 100. 500
snack:misfits large tasty peach 100
1700....this is more like it! need a few more days here and there like this one.
6day avg: 2083...thanks more like it, getting closer to what i think is best, around 2000 cal-2050 cal per week.
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Instead of working out tonight, i think i'll do it Friday night instead, and get sleep tonight...this would suit me better and also calories should be better if i stick to it and stick to an early bedtime :) That's the plan, a rest night!
Also, my veggies should arrive tonight from Misfits Market! super excited. i'll post a photo here when i get around to it!
Really looking forward to sleeping tonight :) And a lower calorie day would be good, too.
I'm thinking that keeping Thursdays for rest and Workouts Fridays might be better for summer. we'll see. it's a good option bc for me it's difficult to workout tuesdays, wednesdays, thursdays in a row like that! So tonight is def off, Friday i'll do it (which means Sunday night is my next weights routine to follow).
Progress as of today: -2.5 lbs lost so far, only 3.5 lbs to go!
however, of course they don't LOOK as nice as in the supermarket. these are the products that don't make it to the supermarkets bc they are misfits.
if i can make sure to eat most of what i order and not waste it within these two weeks, i'll be trying to keep ordering from misfits.
sticking to a schedule is very important indeed, and it's a mental victory. i like your idea of getting the thing done at the time it's scheduled. this has been my typical approach too!
Great Articles about the Misfits company. Seems it's a pretty honest, human approach!
i think this company services areas of NYC, NY, Pennsylvania and NJ.
kombucha 50
8:45am Breakfast wrap and egg 200, avo 150, spices, coffee 50. sf chocolate 60
10am snack Dang bar chocolate sea salt 210, almonds 30
12:45pm lunch: sauteed veggies 200?, tofu 100, chips 200, seaweed salad 50?, clementine 550-600
3pm snack: will be fruit 50 and almonds, so snacky, just going with it. 100
6:30pm strawberries100, whipped cream 120, iced coffee 30. 250 before exercise ladder
Heavy duty cured pork sausage - very fatty, VERY TASTY (SO GOOD!) 350? and popcorn 100. 450?
2200
2150 5day which is good :)
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my coworker / supervisor is at a class today...i will leave as soon as possible as well as take a nice, long lunch today! as long as it doesn't rain!
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I have a ladder workout planned for tonight. Weather looks similar to last week, wth rain forcasted. this time, instead of working out in the lobby, i'm going to workout in the front of the elevator, unfortunately, in the space between the four apts on my floor. i'd rather have worked out in the lobby...but, i'll see only my immediate neighbors if i work out only on the 9th floor (4 apts total on each floor). i have decent neighbors who i think will be agreeable and not be frustrated with my doing this workout at the hallway between apts. YES, its tighter area. Yes, the lobby is a better place to do it.
YES, I REALLY DON'T WANT TO SET UP A LADDER WORKOUT IN MY OWN APT where i have things all over and the potential of tripping is there. i just cannot deal with complaining neighbors :( like last time the one woman who was sooo annoying in the lobby when she saw me working out last week.
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I'm trying a new VEGETABLE (i think fruit too but mostly veggies) delivery service! Every 2 weeks, MisFit market sends me "misfit" and regular looking 10lbs of food. :) Similar price to shopping in supermarket and savings bc some food will "look funny." I like the idea of mixing up my veggie consumption since i tend to buy always the same stuff.
Plus, i like that it's delivered to my door (less supermarket shopping on weekends, especially in the summer). Since it's only every 2 weeks and i chose not to do it every week, i'll supplement by still going to supermarket but i'm trying to change over some of my shoppinng needs ;) I think the package comes today. sould be interesting to see what arrives as it's different every week and up to Misfits Market.
Progress as of today: -0.5 lbs lost so far, only 1.5 lbs to go!
I completely support you on your home workouts. The time spent on commuting (for anyone) doesn't make a gym membership effective at this time. That was a really good idea to exercise on your floor rather than in the lobby. I agree that your immediate neighbors might be more understanding that offer busybodies that live in your building. GOOD!
Kombucha 60
Breakfast: wrap 130, avo 170, little bit not that great texture pork roast yucko last bit 100? , seasoning, coffee 50. bit of chocolate sf lilys 60.
keto bar 210
LUNCH 550 in fried cauliflower rice, sauteed sausage and peppers, sausage, chips.
snack: apple very crisp! 100
snack before exercise & during :iced coffee, bar 150; fruit 50, whipped cream 120, pb on rice cake100. 300. chocolate protein nut butter 100.
After exercise: will be a protein bar :) 200
around 2250 total.
4day: 2140/day - good!
Progress as of today: -0.5 lbs lost so far, only 1.5 lbs to go!
kombucha 60
8:45am breakfast (glad to get some healthy avocado in me!) 150, wrap and egg 200, leftover small amount of pork 100 (lower fat part) , coffee
10am already snacky!? some of Lily's dark chocolate bar 120. glad i ordered them, they are great.
11am dark choc dusted almonds :) 100
1pm LUNCH: small portion of my homecooked corned beef 250, lettuce, greens, veggies sauteed 150-200. 450. low carbed it as i got full and decided to try without grains. little tired by 3pm though. and craving carbs at 3pm, but trying to just work and forget about it. would be good to have more low cal days during the week to moderate my weight a little better. shoud actually be easier this month. tea and stevia
3pm blackberries 50 tea and stevia
4:30 more dark choc dusted almonds 100...very healthy day at office. feeling the need to keep it like this, more often! lots of health here!
1450
dinner plan: enjoy some of my cauliflower fried rice 50 maybe mixed with indian okra (craving veggies even though i did already have some for lunch!) half avo 150, egg and egg white 100, chips 3 servings 400. 650.
2100, good
3day 2100, good.hands got caught in the chips bag!
.not exactly sure on dinner, but the options in my fridge are VERY good! i actually would love another 1950 or so calorie day for today, totally possible :)
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i wore fashionable slides / comfortable shoes to work, not sneakers, so my goal is to leave work 10 min late because i arrived late this AM & then go directly home. maybe take the slow train to read. i can walk a little but nothing major of course. yeah. i should try to walk a little as i don't feel sore in my legs today,maybe they are tired, but not sore. and, i did the ladder workout yesterday quite well. i noticed i can go a little faster, toO!
i want to go to bed early tonight, around 8pm, as i could use some more rest to continue to feel ok throughout this week! :) Last night i was working out with breaks until 9pm so i could use an early night again tonight. i love early nights!
Progress as of today: -0.5 lbs lost so far, only 1.5 lbs to go!
The reason i decided on after summer is that summer is a time of year to go out, enjoy the weather, take walks, go to beach. and i figure the ladder workouts are an appropriate amount of training but not overboard in the summer.
8:30 oatmeal with almond milk 170, cinnamon/stevia, chobani honeyand cream whole milk yogurt 160, iced coffee 30. 400. kombucha 50i like this breakfast on the weekend bc it's high volume, sweet, and filling. it wouldn't be good for work. too much volume in the morning.
10:30 dang bar keto toasted coconut 210
almost noon wrap & chicken sausage, ketchup. 200
more coconut water, sausage ,peppers 400, more peppers & part of a mango!
5:30pm early dinner: wrap 130, egg 70, veggies 50 sauteed
during workout: blackberries 50, while making sandwiches for part of the week, indulged in leftover pork 150, more blackberries 50 (not the best day with food planning!)
after workout i tried to limit calories as i ate more than planned already. i did good. just a tbsp of chocolate protein spread. 100
2150.
2day avg: 2100, decent.
i was very active over this weekend :) great weekend!
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Today's plan is to cook a cauliflower fried "rice" from pack i have in my freezer :) DONE!
Also in the morning early afternoon i'll do my ladder workout outside in my bldg playground :) just eating breakfast and reading a little bit before i go out, going out even before a shower of course since it's a fast, sweaty exercise. DONE!
my leg, right side, has been tight in the hip and thigh for a few days. so frustrating. it can be from the desk job perhaps. maybe it's sciatica? either way, i'm rolling it out.
i think i'm going to review the air massagers...i'm going to buy them in the month of July. i'll do the work and paperwork to make sure i get fully reimbursed for them with my funds in my health reimbursement account so it's not a big bang to my budget.
Following that, i'll rest, but then head into a weights workout.soon....decided to do it in early evening after enjoying the street fair and watching a netflix show for an hour with ricky......LAST is the workout :)
There's a street fair which i may go to with Ricky on his block.it may rain, so i'm not so sure i'll actually spend time at this street fair which actually ends on my block. it's right here. we'll see. of course the exercise is more important. DONE!
Maybe watch a movie tonight with him at his apt. DONE!
Progress as of today: -0.5 lbs lost so far, only 1.5 lbs to go!
7:30-8am oatmeal with almond milk 170, banana whole milk chobani yogurt 140, iced coffee 30 with almond milk.350.
10am bar, 210 keto type.
lunch, snacks - all healthy! (grapes, wrap with egg and avocado and everything spices, chips bigger serving after exercise 250)
4pm strawberries and iced coffee
5pm cup of light ice cream 200
dinner at home, healthy: cured pork meat, going to cook the fried "cauli" rice!!! maybe some chips or a wrap or rice cakes...? tea? maybe just the meat and cauliflower :)
bed early i think :)
rice cakes 60 and spinach 60 some oil 40, pork roast 250, ice cream 100. 500
2050 :)
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I'm off with Ricky to the beach today to be active. walk on boardwalk and play shuffleboard. it'll be around 65F there which is nice! We played 2 long games of shuffleboard, each well over a half hour. and also relaxed. 2 hours approx spent only near shuffleboard area! we didn't walk that much on boardwalk, but my legs are quite sore so that's fine :)
I think i'm going to buy the leg massagers that Legs has mentioned.
Got back home around 4pm from beach visit and now having an iced coffee with strawberries, included in totals :), and then laundry / cleaning hamster cage :) DONE!
tomorrow, assuming my legs are better and less sore which i am sure will be the case, I'll do ladder in the morning and full weights routine sometime after that!
Also, i'm going to cook up some cauliflower fried rice and other food for the week ahead at work. Seems i do way better at calories when i bring my lunch and go heavy on the vegetables.
Progress as of today: -0.5 lbs lost so far, only 1.5 lbs to go!
Kombucha 50
8:30AM Breakfast: coffee 50, wrap 100, egg 80, spices, avo 1/2 150.
9:45AM snack: 1/2 Leftover tasty bar keto type 100 - feeling soooo snacky! my gosh! i think i'm tired.
10:30am chocolate cacao keto bar 210 omg so good.
1pm satisfying lunch: fried chicken with a tad of cheese (leftovers from work lunch) big portion too. 450?, sauteed garlic and spinach 150?, tomatoes 50, baked potato 100. ? 750, filling - a bit much, but, at least i'm getting balanced nutrition.
RED VELVET CHEESECAKE ! someone's bday, it was fresh from a great, well known place called Junior's. totally wrecked my calories for today...500...bc it was SOOOO GOOD, i did eat the whole piece i was served. really, really great.
(i will work out tonight and will probably avg around 2500 cals today, oh well!) but will do better in June. i can do this!
1 candy, strawberries and no cal drinks tofu seaweed salad150, strawberries 50, chips 150
2370-2400 total
7day: 2185...well, it's below 2200 :) and that's good!
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Feeling a bit tired (more emotionally than anything)...
So, for tonight, i'd like to get my weights strength workout in so that i don't have to think about it again until either Sunday or Monday. That'd free up my weekend plenty.
also, i'll walk a bit at lunch as well as planning to do partial walk home, like 1 mile tonight.
Next time for Ladder workout is Sunday morning, to be done outside of course weather permitting.
Ladder and weights are both scheduled for Sunday, gonna take the night off & rest :)
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I'm def gaining weight on stomach, so, will continue doing better with calories in June.
Progress as of today: -0.5 lbs lost so far, only 1.5 lbs to go!
Seems next time i'll just have to set the ladder up inside my apt :(
Seems next time i'll just have to set the ladder up inside my apt :(
One observation: you could take your ladder to the gym and do your work there. I don't think it's worth the price of a membership, but just pointing that out, especially since you still have some time left on your membership. Just throwing options out there.
I'm not sure what to say about the weight gain and calories. One thing that I do truly admire IS the variety of foods that you eat and that you don't restrict, but work to achieve a balance. THAT is healthy. So much better from your entries years ago when you were on that rollercoaster of restricting and then overeating.
I know that to build significant muscle, one must eat more. That's what I've been reading on these bodybuilder groups I belong to on FB. They talk about cutting (calories) to get that really lean, muscular look right before competitions. But I've heard other folks talk about stepping it up to the next phase of eating more and building more muscle. I wish more people would talk about THAT rather than vanity photos of butts and pecs.
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Sounds like a nice day! Did I miss something? I thought you were going to do your ladder workout first thing in the morning. Oh well....
yes, totally changed it around :) i figure i'd just do it at the end of the day (def not skipping it!) as the weights is longer and i decided to be more productive all morning with laundry, cooking and weights. :)) all together, simultaneously!
regarding minigolf, the outing was wonderful...but i'm reminded why i have to set my goals and keep them...and not let anyone, any person, anyone else's desires ever deter me. maybe write it to you in a private comment on fb.
BearCountryGG on 06/09/2019:
It's funny how I don't mind doing laundry at all....except the sheets.....I seriously do not like washing, folding, remaking beds....
NEITHER DO I!!!! same here!
Donkey on 06/09/2019:
It can be so easy to get distracted from our goals. Believe me, I know this! And now with your Saturday classes starting up, time management will be even more essential.
A few years ago, when my husband was in the hospital with back spasms after he fell in the driveway - that was a HUGE wake-up call for me, making me realize that I need to be very careful with how I allocate my time and resources. You might notice this same aspect this summer.
Both me and you = prioritizing this summer..
I'm getting annoyed, more than ever!, with myself for even allowing people to have any control over my feelings. meaning, i take full responsibility right now for my happiness, for telling people NO, for prioritizing!
happy-1 on 06/10/2019:
Good strong mindset here!
thank you, it was what i was trying to convey here!!! :)
happy-1 on 06/10/2019:
I do tons of laundry... It cleans my brain...
i do not like laundry lol...but i do have one friend who likes to do it for the same reason as you!