Saturday was overdone, my fault, eating too much early in the day. total 2350. but mostly healty. Planning to be getting back on track, but it's the WORST when clothes don't fit how you want them too...and when you don't feel comfortable in your own skin. I'll get back on track as needed.
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Happily stayed in bed till around 9:30
Leisurely breakfast 500
Snack 2 candies chocolates 100
Lunch: noodles with a hair of horrible tasting sauce 300, half turkey patty 100, chips 150: 550. Mikes hard mixed with seltzer 100 1250 :)
Went on a WONDERFUL 2 mi walk in the park with Ricky! finally some light cardio!
4pm early dinner after walkBites of Ricky's sandwich at Arby's 100?, fries a whole big portion 300?, less than half of the AMAZING chocolate chip cookie 200 (whole cookie is 500 cal!) 600 1850
Light night with Ricky (i just didn't plan my eating well today), almost a cup of tomato sauce that i used on the following: Arby's jalepeno bites (not that good - i didn't like them), toasted english muffin with butter and the tomato sauce. just too many calories today.
2350.
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Doing laundry now, currently noon. I didn't see ricky yesterday which worked out better bc today we are going for the stroll - we didn't yesterday get together - and we can have dinner today and see a movie - makes for a complete day. Tomorrow I might rearrange furniture with him otherwise we'll do it on Christmas bc. We don't celebrate but we are off from work and makes for a good day to remodel my living room and entry foyer area so things are better arranged to make the space more attractive aesthetically!
Progress as of today: 5 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
9am: roasted veggies 200, noodles higher fiber / protein 200, kombucha 50 450. :)
11am mini meal it turned out (double portions) before gym workout: stacy's whole wheat pita chips - 2 servings 300 and JIF Almond Butter (very good!) 200. total 500. was very tasty, obviously, and filling.
total before what will be a strong weights routine: 950 :)
Mid workout snack banana 150
AFTER workout meal at 3:00pm: chicken burger 200, veggies 50?, noodles 200 popcorn 150 600 total maybe 650 and tasty. And cooked cranberries 60
Fiber 1 chocolate chip cookie 120
1920 before massage lol
Pb and sf j on a wrap and a light cider drink 450 late night meal.
2350 today - not bad.
7day: 2285 not terrrible at all :-)
Will have a big meal after the gym, back here at my apartment, will probably include popcorn...looking forward to working out!!
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Today's plans:
1. skip laundry until actual weekend (Saturday will be good to do it, i think!)
2. gym workout
3. walking path with ricky somewhere
4. last of my massages until at least a month from now because i have finallly used up all of my prepaids :)
5. bed will be not late, i enjoy an early bedtime even on weekends when i don't go out - probably i'll be in bed by 9:30pm ;)
Progress as of today: 5 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
The reasons I don't buy them include because they are not easily digested and in the past they caused tons of bloated and constipation which isn't good if you have to leave the house for working to sit very uncomfortably and possibly even more in comfortable while working out and just never knowing when I will be able to be relieved of them!
I loved that they were no cal.
But you have y cook something with a lot of flavor to put them in or they really don't sit well in my mouth I need something to break up the texture of only having noodles.
You have to dry them really well.
So I Never really find a good time to eat them - they worked more for me when I had a teaching position with many days off - now they just mess with my digestion and I don't feel I am making a good decision to have them if the my digestion gets screwed up bc there's no time extra to be home or relaxed while I feel that way after eating them.
In the past I have bought them assuming I'd eat them on a long weekend or holiday but all they did in the recent past was sit in the fridge and eventually get thrown out .... but I do think their concept is GREAT if you can cook them and dry them and mix them fully into a dish - no need to eat a full package at a time - there's two servings in the package. I used to by mostly angel hair. I wonder if you could make Mac and cheese with the rice shaped ones :)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO AMERICANS HERE :-)
late breakfast & snacks: pound watermelon 150, chips 350, salami 50, turkey burger 200 tops, tastes of everything i cooked lol 50 800.
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Off to parents with ricky soon. cooked a lot for myself for the rest of the week i have tons of food that'll prob last till tuesday.
around 2500 :) not bad :)
2275 6-day average.
this weeks total is more than usual, but not worrying - at all!
Progress as of today: 5 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
2230 4-day average. decent!
Home: kombucha 60, some candies. at work
Breakfast: banana 150, coffee with milk 50, wrap 100, salami 50, cream cheese 100: 450.
Lunch: 2 med eggs 150 hard boiled, curry potatoes large serving like 350-400 tops. 550 lunch.
snack?
3pm & 4pm: Too many desserts 500 approx...at least, hopefully not more!
6:30pm dinner: crackers around 150, roasted vegetables that ricky made !!! large serving, extra oil 350?, and beef and bean chilli that he made also very tasty 250? total here is over what i like to eat, but healthy: 750. the problem was actually the dessert i ate that i bought before dinner...
2350, not terrible. no exercise. relaxed, nice.
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After work bc we get out at 2pm:
Picking up veggies ready-made 3pm i'll get home,
Getting a small hair trim i think by me 4pm latest i should be home...,
And cooking turkey burgers bc i have the meat home already, cleaning up & walking to friend's apartment by 6pm. should work out time-wise.
Maybe sleeping over Ricky's...we are watching movie and having dinner tonight- Ricky and I.
.instead of even going to my apartment, i got a spot by ricky after getting a haircut and picking up some food, so i just parked, put my food in his fridge, and slept over, didn't even go home last night! Saved time and i just relaxed at his apartment. I was at his apartment by like 4pm. It felt good not to be running around and just relaxing yesterday, plus i slept really well.
Progress as of today: 5 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
What movie are you going to watch? I've been waiting to see Thor: Ragnarok. I can't wait, I want to see it in 3D in the theatre. Well, enjoy dinner and a movie tonight, and Thanksgiving tomorrow! My Thanksgiving was wayyyy back in October.
Thor sounds good...lately, i'm trying to do more FREE things. Living in Queens, NY, there's so much there to do. Facebook shows endless programs and concerts for very low prices. After this year 2017 ends, i will be more conservative of my money...but still enjoyable cultural and fun activities. I have a few more paid for events thru end of December, but after that i plan to save my money....
sorry so rambled. !!!!
Thor sounds really cool in 3D, those movies are always so fun. Yes, you Canadians are finished and already onto Christmas :)
i love to give suggestions :) you are so welcome & happy thanksgiving!!
onion is a good addition...why not add one more veggies next time? peppers? or even cooked / roasted cabbage?
Home: kombucha 70
Breakfast: coffee with milk, stevia (as always) 50, banana 150, wrap 100, sf jelly, nut spread 200: 500.
snack: peanuts :-P
total before healthy lunch: 750
lunch: chips 250, bigger turkey burger 200 tops, bean sprouts 150, sauteed cabbage at most 100? 700 tops.
snack 1: bar and water with stevia before gym 150, PLUM 50
near end of workout and after workout: banana and protein cookie 450
snack before bed - some Amy's pita chips 150-200 hopefully not more, started to eat without counting.
2350 probably, but it was a great workout :)
4 day average: 2200, not great.
Bed soon afterwards.
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Fitness goals this year 2018: better situps, better pushups, increase cardio in January. - practice Spin class (free at gym).
Other 2018 goal: take the estimating classes (as soon as they are available)
3rd 2018 goal: volunteer for auxiliary volunteer police, take the training, after i'm done with estimating classes
ok, now the final goal: work on memorization
Final 2018 goal: go to free events that are mind-stiulating
i'll have to make a plan as to how to tackle all of this.
Progress as of today: 5 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
nice goals for 2018; i haven't even thought about what i want to tackle next year. i just want to get through this year in one piece LOL.
2083 3-day average. good!
Home: had kombucha but shouldn't have. i was empty didn't need to poop lol....yes...really...and now i'm just full out bloated all day. 70
Breakfast at work: coffee with milk 50, banana 150, wrap 100, seed butter 200, honey 50: 550.
1:45 LATE Lunch: curry potatoes 200, chips 200, green beans 100? (big amount) turkey burger 200. total: 700.
4pm - had a tasty small rice krispie treat 80.
while at work - I am catching myself like falling asleep...i could have slept more last night, it's not terrible & i'll sleep better tonight!
I am going to an "Author Talk" at a local library that i have not yet been to. it's from 6pm-7:30pm and i plan to have just a snack then - decaf coffee and dunkin donuts while i listen to the program at the library - great topic of a historical but semi-fictional book. Author will be there. Ricky is joining. I'll return my book at that library (doesn't matter which library we return our books too which is really GREAT!)
I leave work at 5pm and the event starts at 6pm. It'll take about that long to drive and find a spot...looking forward.
half beer before library 100 most lol
dinner at home: roasted red cabbage in a lot of oil 250, chips 300 tops, sausage but not too much 100? 650.
2150.
I had to return a book today:
"We appreciate having had this opportunity to assist you.
The answer to your inquiry is:
The renewal can not go through as the book is requested by another customer. A requested item can not be renewed at the Queens Library."
...I think i'll request this book again to finish it when it becomes available again.
Progress as of today: 5 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
Kombucha, yum 60.
11am-11:30 late breakfast: banana 150 (big), wrap 100, pb 200, honey 50,500, chips 290.
12:45 twix mini and baby ruth mini 100
3pm While doing errands, bite of cornbread sample.
Errands: between 2pm-3:30pm, I went to 3 stores to pick up food for week, even recycled a few bottles at supermarket.
3:30 meal: large caulifower / grain cake pan fried - around 200-250 cal? and sausage and greens 400? total is good 650 cal.
1650 before gym...getting my booty to gym for a good workout...haven't exercise since last Sunday and turning to 3x a week weights workouts now thru January.
Now it's almost 4:30, debating skipping gym, nah...lately i do not have much energy. I will have to push myself and make sure to do walking, even if it's early in the morning...
Total calories were great: 2000.
2day average: 2050 per day.
Need a new battery for my scale! It said "Lo" this morning. A lithium battery. i'll get online on Amazon. and it will be delivered with all my other stuff.
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Laundry was done & put away before 10:30am i think? Bedding is actually back on my bed, not waiting to be done later.
Up to cleaning the hamster cage now, 11:40am.
After cleaning the cage, i'm going out to pick up some food for the week (mostly vegetables and kombucha).
Then, a snack followed by a good gym workout. I just cannnot give up the gym (i just can't!). it seems it will be really hard to fit it in, if you read my upcoming schedule below. it'll be simply a LOT of time out of my apartment, a lot of commitment time just spend sitting, and i'll just have to chug thru as well as i freaking can.
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I am taking the step (didn't want to, at all) to sign up for an estimating (free) course at the union hall by me. My dad wanted me to take it for approximately SEVEN years. So, since it's his wish for me to take it, i'll take it.
The reason why it sounds like i'm doing it for me and not me is exactly that. I'm doing it for him. I honestly do not think i'll become a "much better" electrical estimator by taking this 3 month (i think?) course.
The course is FOUR hours a week. AFTER work. I think tuesdays and thursdays, 6-8pm. so, it means i'll work from 8-5, everyday of course. and two days a week i'll have an additional sitting commitment, from 6-8pm. Add my own desire to exercise two other days during the week (and once on the weekend) and it means i'll be really, REALLY busy.
If i had a family, or dog, i'd simply not have time for any of it.
This is why the real reason i'm taking the course is my father. The course will be a STRESSOR. But that's what i'll have to deal with - as it's only right for me to do SOMETHING my dad wishes. As he's the one who got me this job anyways that i've had for 7 years. so i'm just listening to him.
but yes, i'm pretty frustrated about my schedule - so much sitting, so much extra commitments. Two hours is NOT a small amount of time, especially NOT two times a week.
Fitness-wise, i'll lay low on cardio until the class is DONE. I HOPE it's only 3 months, will have to look into it, soon.
Lastly, that's really it for now.
Looking to go to the gym today, i'll be switching for the time being to 3x a week gym weights workouts, no cardio. This actually equals one less day of a fitness commitment per week as i used to try to do joggging 2x and weights 2x, totallying 4 days. Now with only weights, it'll be 3 days a week, fine. and then i have the course 2 days. that's really already over my own personal limit time-wise, but nothing i can do except accept it.
If my dad helps me, i have to follow something he asks of me. ah freakin well.
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I plan to go back to working on my own cardio after the course ends, but practicing Spin on my own i think, for a couple months i'll do it for 15 min per day on the days i think that i do weights, not sure - i'll figure that out later.
Progress as of today: 5 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
While it's my personal opinion that it's too soon from your life-plan change to enroll in the estimator's class, I do understand why you are taking it, and so I support you in decision and reasons for taking it now.
Look at it this way, maybe: take it now while it's winter. By the time you're done, it will be Spring, with warmer weather to be outside -- and you won't have to be stuck inside some classroom any more.
I like your gym plan too -- even though it's less than what you were doing before, it's a shift in focus (back to weight training). Maybe spinning can be a goal for 2018, if you're ready and if you have time.
I have no choice but to take the class. i have no excuse to others not to. At least it is Winter.
:-)
Your advice helped me here.
AM: blackberries 100, snickers 150, kombucha 50: 300.
Chicken nuggets 4. And a small snickers 1000 before dinner
2100 total i think.
dinner - had a "real beer" called Ommegang Hannipin - one bottle's worth (a belgian beer brewed upstate NY in Cooperstown) and high alcohol percent, around like 8%, if i spelled it rometely correcetly. It was GREAT. ...we were waiting around 40 minutes for a table so we spent time at the bar. Next, dinner was healthy, i ordered brussel sprouts which were not that great, and a salad, with a "shrimp burger" which was really light and tasty. plus i had fries from a friend, they were sweet potato waffle fries, like a serving of them, big serving, very oily. very good!
Progress as of today: 5 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
Home: kombucha 70, at work two mini twix 100 total. 170, honey 30. 200.
Breakfast: coffee 50, banana 150, wrap 100, pb 150, 450 and cinnamon on the wrap too.
Snack: prob peanuts 150
800 before lunch
Lunch: spag squash, 2 marinated mushrooms, and boss suprised us & ordered us pizza, so i have a nice "grandma: slice with a little cheese, mostly sauce, square slice it is and also has a few marinated olives :)
Lunch 750-800 lots of pizza 1550 after lunch.
4pm Granola bar 100
Snack: apple? 100
Dinner: may buy more vegetables...blueberries 120, protein pudding 240, yogurt 190 full fat. 550
2300 total.
7day: 1990, excellent.
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i ran out except for my spag squash (and one thing i bought on the weekend spoiled! - it was steamed broccoli with roasted garlic all in olive oil...totally spoiled - waste of around $5).
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After work: i'll pick up good cooked veg for dinner tonight since i don't have at home right now any more...i may even buy something at supermarket by work during lunch for dinner, instead of an errand after work...we'll see...i've got options.
Progress as of today: 5 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
Kombucha 70
Breakfast: big banana 150, wrap 100, pb 150, honey 50 coffee 50:
Snack: 150
Lunch: leftovers spag squash with marinara sauce 200-250, egg and egg white 100, chips 250. 600.
Snack 1: shortbread sorta big cookie 100 cal
Snack: brought an apple and just realized this AM that i have nice berries in my fridge to eat this weekend / tomorrow (huge blueberries and fresh blackberries) 100 cal for apple
1550 if i have an apple also.
Dinner: tbd, maybe out to eat but not expensive I want to cook some burgers tonight :) i have two pages of chopped meat at home waiting for me...maybe good to eat a fresh burger tonight with dinner!
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Dinner was blueberries 120, burger 150, marinated mushrooms 150 and i think nothing too much else - i fell asleep. 500 tops?
2050 total for Thursday.
6day average:
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I think i'll eat extra cals tonight - closer to 2200.
Still no exercise.
Restarting my exercise routine on Sunday. I enjoy looking good, so, i will not be skipping out on exercise for longer than this week. It's going to be a constant in my life, no matter what.
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Possibly going to a library event tonight...no exercise still taking the break until prob sunday. But it's in an area that has horrible parking, so, i'll have to see. When i say horrible parking, i say i might have to pay for parking somewhere bc there's no street parking left...
The library event is author talks about a book this author wrote...i'd like to go. hear a perspective / opinions, nice to expand my mind this way...with a real live auther in person.
Progress as of today: 5 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
But YES, i'll be def going to more library events :)
options, options :) doesn't mean i need to actually do anything lol.
i am enjoying having no urgency lately. for now. it's nice to not have to be busting my a$$ for anything coming up around the corner, it's the opposite mindset that i'm used to.
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Sounds like a plan, enjoy the movie and good company!