HOLA.
WI points: all points today!
Today was a good day. Productive.
Foods: apple, egg; egg; shredded pork in BBQ sauce; protein bar; large dunkin donuts Latte lite; peach; tomato; VERY LARGE SALAD, lots of Lox (smoked salmon), small head of cauliflower with papricka/garlic/pepper, and another peach.
Total cal: 1275. VERY GOOD DAY! :)
Goodnight, a better update on Wednesday. Tuesday's gonna be rushed.
Bye all!
hello!
WI Points: 36! go me!
2 water, 2 Exercise, 2 Diet, 10 no binging, 10 good things, 10 positive messages.
biscotti, I'm looking for a band teaching job for the long term. I probably would look out of state if it came down to it. However, sometimes you need to get a different state license for each state you teach in. There are also states that do accept out of state certifications.
Today's eating was FANTASTIC. really healthy foods!
Breakfast: peach, one egg
Snack: Peach, tomato, 2 greek yogurts
Lunch: lightly seasoned and flavored carrots and broccoli, lettuce, one egg
Snack: Adkins Advantage Bar (this was the only "unhealthy" thing i had all day!)
Snack: Peach, yogurt
Snack: very large yellow pepper
Late Dinner: vegetables with green soybeans and another yellow pepper!
Total calories: 1285 or so.
I practiced the French horn today and I felt really good for doing so! I may have to play it at an audition and I know I need to stay on top of the game!
goodnight!
I think I may only weigh myself on the 1st of every month. I've had enough for the time being.
At this time next year, I hope I have a tenure track teaching position that I have done well at and will be able to continue the following year. Lately, I look at myself, 24 years old, in my mid-twenties, and wonder how much longer it will be till I will be able to live on my own. Earlier this year, I was paid as a teacher because I had a leave position. Now, the teacher I'm covering for is just using his sick days; and I am being paid like a substitute. I can't move out until I have something MUCH more permanent and with better pay. It's year number 3 since I finished my undergrad and now I'll be done with my masters this summer. I hope to find a job BEFORE summer begins. I'm doing everything I can!
I feel that I performed nicely last night at the band rehearsal I went to, thanks to the practicing i've been doing. I had a nice French horn tone and I should think about that tomorrow and make sure I get some practicing in before I loose it all!
Edit:
WI points: 24 points (none for diet plan, binging.)
Total calories today: 2390.
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well, today started off alright. however, things went downhill at 2:30 when I had my late lunch followed by a binge.
Breakfast: fiber one, soy milk, apple, egg. 370 cal. Snack: chicken salad, carrots, red pepper, tofu. 280 calories.
I guess you can say I was a little bingy in the morning.
Snack: 100 cal balance bar.
Lunch: tomato, salad, portabella muchrooms, 2 yellow peppers, one whole eggplant and tofu. Then, 5 minutes later...I should have LEFT THE HOUSE!
Binge following Lunch: 4 servings of pretzels (440), one mousse yogurt (140), 2 cookies (200), and one cup of cottage cheese (240).
Total calories so far: 2240. could be worse.
lately, its one day is a binge the next 1-2 days I watch myself. then repeat. all January. eh, I would rather February be a little calmer food-wise!
You've been very busy the past few years teaching and working on your Master's, so don't fret. With the high cost of rents nowadays, more and more adult children are staying home because they simply can't afford to move. You most assuredly are not alone.
And here I am on the other side, having taken in my son and his two kiddies who are here every other week. This is the son who left home the minute he graduated from high school so it must be difficult for him to be back. An adult living with one's parents is not the ideal situation and does require care and caution to make it work, but it can be done. I'm just happy to be able to provide a cushion at a bad time.
WI Points: 35. 6 and comments and saying something good.
question, if I drink 8 glasses of liquids, does that count? for instance, do herbal teas count as water? otherwise, I will usually not get the water points.
Today, instead of leaving school right away, I stayed after for a half hour and finished lesson planning for next week. I feel so good and relaxed that I will not have to think about lesson planning all weekend! Maybe I should do that more often.
It is the end to a long week, my throat is a little sore. I just hope that it gets better overnight! I taught at school, then gave a lesson, then went to a rehearsal, followed by an outing to the nearby diner. I stayed on track today and even took a half hour walk on the treadmill.
Foods: Breakfast: egg/apple Snack: egg Lunch: chicken, carrots, tomato Snack: balance bar Snack: yogurt Dinner: tofu, seaweed salad, pound of peppers Diner after rehearsal: salad, vinegar, hard boiled egg.
tired!
I hope your throat feels better and I am so happy you are in the challenge!
Take care & God bless,
Lillian
Great job!!!
Workingit Points for the 29th: 5. (2 for veggies, 2 for water, 1 for calories.)
WorkingIt Points for today: 11. (10 for my comments and 1 for exercise)
calories were pretty good up until 4:30pm, when I ate dinner before my band rehearsal. I ate well, but then binged. It was out of major anxiety about rehearsal. I have done this ever since I started having these rehearsals, SEVEN years ago.
My calories for the day up until 4:30 were 840. I binged on 1265 calories worth of food from 4:30 till 5:15. Instead of starving myself after rehearsal, I came home and had a grapefruit and an eggwhite(although my stomach is still protruding!).
Total Calories Today: 2220.
I had kinda caught up on my craziness with calories yesterday, so of course I make things hard for myself for binging today!!! lovely, now I need to make some deficits again!
hmmm. that's about it. busy and content. Everything's alright, but exercise is slacking...
Goodnight all!
We must do well today in preparation for the weekend!
And I wanted to thank you for your wonderfully kind words you left me several days ago, regarding my breakup. They meant alot to me and I appreciate all that you said.
Take care...
Congratulations to you on how well you've done, btw!
WorkingIt points: 7. calories get 1 point due to some mindless snacking.
Howdy! I almost can't even remember writing here this morning! I wrote: "the pickles weren't pickled" LOL!!!! I meant, the PEPPERS weren't pickled, lol!
so, I ate well today. Although, from the hours of 3:30pm on my way home stopping at Wendy's for an awesome salad till 5pm, I ate a bit more than I planned. But, no binge! At first, I was going to prepare food once getting home, but sometimes I feel better buying food before I get home so that I don't enter my house frazzled and more prone to a binge.
I orderred a Mandarin Chicken Salad from Wendy's. It contains mandarin oranges, romaine, and chicken. I thought that's all I'd eat, but it also comes with roasted almonds and some crispy noodles in little seperate baggies so you don't have to have those ingredients in your salad if you choose not to. However, I also had this salad yesterday and today I was in the mood for those extra additions. so, the calories were a bit higher than just for a salad. ok, and so on!
Today was a busy day at school, the good kind of busy. I had just enough time to get done what I needed and I feel like I accomplished things. Always a good feeling!
Eating has been healthy lately. Mostly whole foods, some processed. It's a good balance and this weekend will be a little busier than normal which I guess will help me in the end. When I wasn't working, it was difficult for me to feel "accomplished." I felt as though I wasn't giving back a thing to the community; and only taking. For instance, I was going to yoga, something for my own benifit. But, what was I doing for others!? so, today was the day that I felt back into the true swing of things at this new elementary school. It was an all-in-all productive day!
I have to say, I have missed yoga lately!
ummm, food. Breakfast: apple, egg, emergen-c, water, tea.
Snack: egg. (I felt hungry, like I wanted more, and it took some pressure for those feelings to pass...this afternoon, I was sucked into those same feelings and did get more food.)
Lunch: Large tomato, baby carrots, bbq chicken salad.
Snack 1: wendy's salad; Snack 2: Dunkin Donuts Late Lite; Snack 3: greek yogurt
Late Dinner tonight: Seaweed Salad, red pepper, lettuce, tofu, tomato.
Off to make some comments on your entries!
Enjoy your evenings!
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Hi...WorkingIt points for Tuesday: 5 points. (calories were a little too low and no exercise.)
yesterday was a long day and my internet wasn't working so i couldn't even make a journal entry! so, good morning!
slipstream, yeah, like you I have an intense addiction to the feeling of euphoria or whatever it is when your body ingests a lot of food and your insulin is all over the place. by that point, i am usually confined to my house for a few hours at least until I can resume to my self and not have to simply sit at my computer or chill out so that I feel better after all that food!
the pickles were NOT pickled, thank god! I do like pickled foods, especially pickles, but, I'm glad I did't have a pound of them. they were just a bag of frozen red, green, and yellow pickles!
Sorry to hear you haven't been feeling well and your struggling a little. I am also finding the last few days more challenging, I'm not sure why!! Its my birthday tomorrow so that means dining out and cake. I hope I can not go overboard with the food this week-end. I haven't yet ate out since starting this, so I'm hoping I can manage to exercise some self discipline!!!
You'll get back under control, you seem to be very determined to succeed with your food battle!! Hope your day goes well.
I'm getting more and more obsessed over my yoga classes, but that's my personality - do something I like so much and so often that I'll eventually start to not like it all that much anymore!
I try to stick to veggies, fruit and whole grains in my diet while adding protein from fish or chicken. Of course, this varies a lot depending on my mood ! but all in all I do well on this eating plan. Your plan sounds quite similar to this, and I would definitely tell you to go for it. Heck, we can always change it up if we don't like it, but we can at least try it out for a bit, right?!
Have a great week!
Thanks for the comment you left me. I can't really discuss my diet with my husband because he doesn't think I need to lose weight. But I'm sure you can relate to that, haha!
well, thank you all for your comments and support. It seems that you agree with most of what I said and do support my plan. that's a good sign for me to continue with it.
my internet is all screwy and now its too late to leave a long journal entry or comment this evening. It'll have to wait until tomorrow!
eating today was healthy. also, i was pretty busy, so calories were quite low.
goodnight all!
WorkingIt Points today: 2 exercise, 2 water, 1 for fruit/veg. total 5
I am thinking of going on the unprocessed, unrefined eating style again. what are your feelings on that? I enjoy vegetables a lot, so that is not an issue for me. I think sugar addiction is my issue, and once i had a little, it was all downhill. I believe that i can allow myself all sugars still, like at parties and any kind of occasion that allows for them. meaning, those foods are not off limits, like i considered them from after thanksgiving until the new year.
I just want to say that i am not happy with my current eating. I went food shopping and bought lots of healthy vegetables and things. I will strive to eat a lot of whole foods from now on. They are what make me feel best. I ate terribly last week and came down with a stomach virus friday. do you think the sickness and poor eating were related? hmmm.
i'm struggling right now. I don't believe i'm looking for a fast fix really. I'm looking for a fix!
Let me know your input on my decisions! ---------------------------------------------------------------
Here's a good article I read on nurtrition and food substitues today:
http://www.gillreport.com/ht-14
-------------------------------------------------------------- donkey, i think someone in my house might have thrown the calorie info away on purpose. usually, i won't touch food that doesn't have its caloric information taped to it!!!!!
hi. my stomach was definitely not all better this morning. but, i woke up around 4am with an appetite. I kinda slept it off. then, around 5, i made some cereal, fiber one, two cups and one cup soy milk. soon after, i fell back to sleep.
I woke up around 8am and had an apple and then a yogurt.
shortly after, i had two pieces of bread with 2 tablespoons of pb and one tablespoon tahini.
i snacked on a pound of peppers at 11am and at noon I had eggplant and two eggs.
calories up to that point weren't even too bad for all that food: 1225.
then, i binged!!! yeah, and my stomach isn't even fully better. I don't know, but i'm having a really tough time. it hasn't gotten better, yet!
my dad had brought home a box of "godiva biscuits" which are all types of cookies with chocolate and nuts and stuff on them. I had two of one thing, 3 of another cookie, and 6 of a third type. then, I had 9 crackers in my house. I followed that by 4 mini butterfingers that i found. then, i followed that by a powerbar. don't ask!
ugh. what is my problem!?
total calories so far: 2900. and, i hope it's not more! i had to guess the calories in the godiva biscuits cookies because it didn't list them, not even online!
argggg!
I hope that you get to feeling better...take care of yourself!
have you been to yoga lately??
I don't know if you got anything out of that rambling, but if it's something you're interested in, maybe I could do it again and we can do it together via DD.
edit: workingit points for today: 4 exercise, (water/tea). i went on to have 4 pepperidge farm cookies after the banana. those cookies combined were 560 calories. my total for today so far is 1650...plus an apple: 1730 total.
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Friday workingit points: none for calories, none for fruits/veg, none for exercise. I'll give myself 2 water points.
Saturday workingit points: calories, none. fruit/veg: 2, water: 2, exercise: we'll see...I'll update later this evening!
Thank you all for your wonderful comments yesterday. I felt better this morning, but still not myself. I've been eating very processed, dense foods today. For breakfast, I started with cereal. I haven't made myself a bowl of cereal first thing in the morning in months!
Breakfast: The first thing i ate this morning was a chocolate truffle. boy did it taste rich! I almost thought i couldn't put another thing in my mouth...
then i had the cereal: cup of soymilk from a container that lists the expiration date as the middle of november 06 but that tastes and smells fine (maybe that's how i got sick, lol), one cup of raisin bran, one cup of fiber one (i'm not sure why this is in my house, because i sure didn't buy it!). so it took me awhile to finish the cereal.
then, i had the second chocolate truffle. after a little bit, i had two chocolates with cherry and cream inside.
LOL. It was a big breakfast. 650 calories. but, with my stomach feeling the way it did, i didn't know when i'd want to eat again! I knew i'd be teaching a music lesson this morning and posible one after that, for an hour. however, that person cancelled again this week because he was sick with fever!
I got home around 4 and had a seaweed salad. i didn't know if i could ingest any vegetables; and it took awhile to eat. However, i felt good after. I stopped by the health food store by me; and i was talking to a different woman who was telling me all about raw foods. she kinda made me believe that raw foods can definitely sustain a person and that's whats gonna get me better. However, i will not become a raw foodist any time soon!
after the seaweed salad, i had canned chicken noodle soup from the generous supply in my house. then, i kept thinking about having more chocolate, but went to have a banana. It was good; and now i'm having an apple. my stomach feels very bloated, but my mind is wanting some more to eat. so, i'm going with that right now!
thanks for all your kind comments, i'm definitely better than yesterday. hopefully i'll be 100% soon!
i also bought some echinacea tea, good for the immune system. It says to have 5-6 cups a day! I have a lot to go on that!
lastly, i bought a really interesting drink at the natural food store. i thought it was going to taste fruity, because it was colorful and packaged so nicely. however, it tastes like VINEGAR! It's called "Synergy," and its organic and raw. It's made from raw kombucha, which is a type of chinese tea cultured for 30 days. It also includes raspberry juice, lemon juice, and ginger juice. that's all. It contains 30 calories per 8oz, for a total of 60 calories per bottle. It also has a trace amount of alcohol, from fermentation (i guess because it's cultured for 30 days), lol.
Kombucha is said to support: digestion, metabolism, immune system, appetite control, weight control, liver function, body alkalnity, anti-aging, cell integrity, and healthy skin/hair. LOL, i guess the company can claim whatever it wants. I'm going to finish this bottle, even though the taste is something to be aquired, which i haven't done.
one more update tonight.
I am also never sure what to do with things which taste and smell fine long after the expiration date. Like I've noticed yogurt tends to last a couple of weeks past the date, which is strange for a dairy product, but I guess maybe it's because it's already sour. The big question is what to do with the barely-touched packet of oat bran in the refrigerator. It supposedly expired about three years ago, but doesn't smell rancid at all. Seems a shame to throw it out...
Glad you're feeling better. You're right, I think these bizarre temperature fluctuations aren't doing anyone any good!
Turns out I felt like I was gonna vomit since I got up this morning. I practically forced an apple down my throat for breakfast. I almost couldn't even finish it. I didn't feel any better at school. We took the bus from the elementary school to the middle school for day 2 of the district band rehearsal.
At times, I walked away from the auditorium thinking i was too nauseaus and in need of a restroom.
we arrived back at the elementary school where I think I can finally do some paperwork and relax. NO! The asst. principal wonders why I have cancelled the one afternoon lesson (I cancelled because the other band teachers told me to yesterday, saying I had fulfilled my teaching requirements for the day at rehearsal.) well, i can understand if the asst principal did want me to teach the one afternoon lesson, since i was in the building. However, then she asked me to teach another extra lesson in the afternoon that had to be cancelled from the morning. well, its my first full week there, so i did it. I had to end up staying late at school; and i'm still not done with my work. I felt like I was gonna throw up while teaching the lessons. ugh.
I think that I caused myself this virus, from whatever I ingested last night. I ate too much. and, whoever warned me that i'd feel sick, i feel sicker than you could imagine!
I ate 360 calories until dinner. It consisted of an apple, some bread, and two eggs. and, i forced that food down my throat. If i wasn't so obsessed with food, i probably wouldn't have even tried to eat all that!
when i got home, i took a nap. then, i had bravo crackers and soup. total: 450. It was difficult to get the solid parts of the soup down and i began to get nauseous again. I hope i'm not making any of you readers sick! sorry if i did.
ugh. i've simply had enough.
I hope you feel better, take care of yourself!
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Awesome Job!!! I love LARGE LARGE salads: They are amazing because you can EAT AS MUCH AS YOU WANT!!! Keep it up!
Runner on 02/06/2007:
GOOD FOR YOU! Keep it up! :)
borntocry on 02/06/2007:
Hey, well done you!
Thanks for your comment. I love the fake deli meat! The hickory smoked Tofurky tastes just like real turkey to me. But then, it's been seven years since I last had real turkey, so perhaps I have just forgotten what it tastes like. Unfortunately I cannot get Tofurky here, but I found a kind of fake ham instead. I've never had ham so I can't say how authentic it was but it seemed very meaty. I don't know what the point would be for a meat-eater, but for me, it's good for sandwiches as it's healthier than cheese and sometimes vegetables just won't cut it on their own!
Donkey on 02/06/2007:
Yes, you are doing very well! I hope you continue to have great days like that one. Stay strong!
WorkingIt2 on 02/06/2007:
Fantastic job!! YAY!!!