Home: kombucha but i didn't really require it and it didn't work...i didn't eat much volume yesterday so i don't think i even needed a #2....sorry for the info! so i didn't even after a full bottle of kombucha. 60.
9am Breakfast at work: coffee 50 and banana 120, wrap 80 with pb and sf jelly 200, some candies 50. total here: 500.
no morning snacks - not in a hungry mood this week. appetite is actually sorta suppressed i don't know why.
lunch: chips 100, very few veggies bc my stomach doesn't want them (Time of Month) 50, bigger turkey burger 200 350 small lunch.
snack before gym: 120
Total today is 1600
1850 6-day average! Going to be a nice average for this week! yay! needed lower totals.
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Plan is for the gym tonight. This week I skipped a jogging session, it's ok. I preferred my usual gym routines over an extra jog. But the rest of the month it is my priority - jog 2x a week. I'll let it go this week due to funeral stuff - good enough excuse.
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Last night, I went early to bed it wasn't even 7pm by the time i hit the covers. I was exhausted from a lack of sleep every night since Saturday night. I was able to recooperate a bit by going to bed early Wednesday into Thursday and Thursday now i can go to gym...not in a jogging mood plus it's extermely humid so the gym will be better after work. I'm only jogging 1x this week instead of 2 due to planning problems and being exhausted yesterday bc of funeral engagements with family earlier this week.
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I didn't even play with my hamster last night.....needed sleep and no more time but sleeping time after I ate!
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
6:30am Home: kombucha 40
9:30am Breakfast: banana 120, coffee 80, wrap 100 with pb and sfjelly 200: 500
11:30pm snack of almonds 150
healthy lunch: approx 500
early dinner and taking sleeping pill as early as i safely can with leaving work at 5pm...
not playing with the hamster...feeding it as soon as i walk in the door...
and sleeping until tomorrow morning. hopefully my ankle feels good enough for jogging tomorrow and if not i'll go to gym i think instead.
1650 grand total cal today....no snack in afternoon, early dinner,
1900 5-day average.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
Home: kombucha 60
Office: decaf coffee with milk (skin not great of course bc lack of sleep, some stress, period coming ugh hormones) and banana 170
Breakfast: wrap with pb and sf jelly 300.
total so far: 530
lunch: either at work or on my way (prob in car) wrap 100, avocado 150, 1 egg 80) 320 and some chips 120
970....
seltzer with stevia on drive home...
Tuesday was around 2000 cal total and a pretty tiring day!....just remember the total now and it's Thursday haha.
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Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
And yes, now is not a good time for me for putting myself last as it’s coming close to the time that I need to have my own personal training and health as good as it can be before I go and change jobs for the definitely last time in my life. I have no more time to waste for work (I used to waste all my personal time by working overtime and then skimp on sleep to go and exercise which isn’t a good lifestyle to have in the long run and is detrimental and caused multiple injuries as well as emotional breakdowns) – so I know my limits slightly better and know I cannot keep skimping on my training for jogging and passion also of weightlifting when I already do them each only 2x per week for each activity and it’s really already minimal…..so I’m content with the decisions that I made.
I got home Monday night at 11pm....so late!!!! (the shiva / visiting hours end at 9pm so i had NO IDEA people would stay so late last night and i of course stayed as it's my own dad's mother who passed away duh!) and I went to bed like midnight or so and woke before 6am to get ready for work.
I hope to catch up on sleep tonight & will probably leave my parents earlier than i did last night. It's too much right now with work everyday - very tiring to have to wake up early and go to bed late every night including Sunday night....Tuesday i'll go EARLY from work straight to my parents by around 2pm i'll get there...stay till around 8pm i think or maybe even earlier like 7:30 because it's way too tiring to keep going to bed so late it's exhasting with work!)
and then it becomes very hard to exercise after work when tired....and gets you run down. i do not need to get sick or very run down right now.
I am in the height of my training for jogging. No more time to waste.
Summer is the last stretch....where i am learning to jog completely by end of summer (without needing to constantly walk inbetween the jog).
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3:45 am hungry so had banana 120
6:30am kombucha 80
8:30am coffee 50, banana 120 170
Work Breakfast: wrap with pb and sf jelly 300,
Light lunch: half avocado on wrap with egg.... 150, 100, 100: 350
bar before gym 140
dinner at home and cookie at parents: up to 900.
total calories for Monday is approx 2050.
3 day average: 1950, excellent.
Having a tired day, now 12:40pm at work, will prob have energy drink before gym today....probably. bc i am tired and i'll drink it on way home / gym to change into gym clothes (should have brought them to work in my car but i forgot!).
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I am leaving work early to exercise at gym (bc i am not going to go to work and only see my parents tonight at the shiva...i WILL TAKE CARE OF MY OWN PERSONAL BUSINESS and that means taking care of myself and not skipping out on my workouts that i already have decreased to only two gym sessions a week instead of my 3 because it was too stressful and not enjoyable for me now that i've added in 2x per week running).
With the academy so close and my goal to be jogging steadily by end of summer, i have lots of work to do.
The GYM for me with weightlifting is fun. But i don't want to lose all my strength. I try to make the only 2x per week sessions - and that is why i'm telling my boss i have to leave early at 2pm (instead of 5pm) bc of family shiva (how we observe it at home at specified hours) but keeping to myself that i'll be exercising FIRST and then coming home to shower and drive ot my parents.
I am an adult and boss of my life. I will do what i need to do so that i don't "F" up my life anymore than it already is in terms of my salary / current employment and line of work :-)
I am usually an honest person - and that is why i do not regret this choice in the least and feel my grandma would even support it. I even told my dad my plan that i'm leaving early, DOING WHAT I HAVE TO DO (that's what i said to my dad) and then later driving to him tonight.
I'm happy.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
thank you for the support. Today i'll leave early, but to go home to my parents like i could have yesterday (but felt it was more important to go to gym because my dad knows he has my support and i was with my grandma so often while she was alive - my dad understands completely!!) i am lucky.
200, 230, 120 550
Up to 800 for lunch 1350....
Fruit 100
Dinner 350
1800...
Truffles 200
1900 2-day average
We had a beautiful service for my grandma who passed as everyone spoke so well about her - me, my sister, my dad and my uncle :-)
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
9:30am-10am tasty breakfast: banana 120, wheat bran 160, almond milk 40, stevia and cinnamon, dried goldenberries 100, peanut butter 160. 600 or so. very good...some reading now. and maybe some kombucha!
12:30pm light snack: very natural "Gary Null CoCo Magic Bar" these are so expensive but i bought 4 of them ($5 each!!!) after work last night at the organic food store because I love them instead of candy - high quality protein and fat. 250 cal.
Late 2:30 pm lunch of eggs and rice crackers 300 1150.
Dinner: 3 small apricots 100, stewed eggplant around 200?, turkey burger 150, chips 180 or so. total 650 tops.
1800 today, excellent. bed early - have to wake up early for funeral for my grandmother. she lived until 96. First 89-90 years were very good, but she struggled badly at the end.
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Today I'm home. Tomorrow is grandma's funeral and then back home with my folks in the afternoon & evening.
Plans for today are things that i need to do to have a more efficient week to come:
cooking turkey burgers (finished up around 11am)
laundry - doing this now (between 12:30pm-1:30pm)
ended up falling asleep deeply from around 3:30-4:30 or so.
JOGGING practice (went around 5:30pm)
returning DVD / picking up library book requests (before I go jogging today in later afternoon) - and maybe picking up a movie for tonight to watch at home from library also forgot tthis / ran out of time
cleaning hamster cage (tonight)
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
Thank you for your helpful feedback on my diary. I'll be taking at least one break during the drives down and back this week. To ensure this, I will not hold back on my water drinking - something I tend to do on long trips.
Plus, my husband, understanding my stress, has arranged for us to take another route that will avoid some of the really scary highway driving. Bless him <3
Home: kombucha 60
Work: small banana 120, coffee 50, wrap 100, pb and sf jelly 200: 470
Snack: NONE
Lunch: Matzah 100, eggplant roasted 100, pumpkin w. oil mash 150, turkey burger 150 and apricot 50
Snack: cookie 120
Dinner: prob not more than 600
1820
7day average: 1880, perfect !
There was a flood in my dad's house and the darn wet/dry vaccuum was in my apartment so i have to drive to my apt after work to get the vaccuum and bring it to my parents.
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No exercise today.
Going to bed early for SURE.
Hamster is getting more comfortable and was playing with me yesterday. It has SO MUCH ENERGY this little teddy-bear type Hamster. I def love my GB (Gym Boy! is his name!)
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
(Funeral is Sunday and i'm taking tomorrow to do whatever i have to do before Sunday begins bc i'll be with family all day Sunday).
Home: kombucha 50 (didn't need full bottle)
Breakfast (at work i went bc it's not my immediate family and my mom is with my dad today): banana and coffee 170
2nd breakfast: wrap 100 with pb 200 and sf jelly: 300 stayed busy - i'll save it for tonight after or tomorrow's breakfast
snack: ?almonds 150
1pm LUNCH: 1/2 avocado 160, turkey burger 160, matzah crackers 150, pumpkin spread and eggplant spread 200: 650 tops.
1050 after tasty lunch now tired and i have the gym tonight.
cookie before gym 150
big banana after gym 150
1350 total.
6 day average: 1890
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GYM TONIGHT bc i am free TONIGHT and will NOT skip TONIGHT. ...
I was up late last night but i need to stay on track with my workouts right now....my mom is with my dad.
Funeral is SUNDAY so work will be as planned.
I will leave at 4:30 today with short lunch so i can get to the gym a bit earlier. since i was up so late last night anyways it's better to try to get decent sleep tonight before work again tomorrow.
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My grandma passed away last night so this is what i'll say at her funeral, probably on Sunday:
Grandma Ruthie has always come across to me as my own personal all-star Wonder Woman because she always had the power to do most anything & everything. Especially when it came to solving problems. Whenever Sharon & I would fight and argue as little kids in her apartment, grandma would say exactly the right thing and magically she’d put an end to our quarrels in just seconds. I do not remember what she said exactly as it was so long ago – but I definitely remember that our sisterly feuds would end faster than they began whenever we were visiting grandma at her 6th floor Parsons Blvd apartment. I will never forget the heat in that place. It was always at least 80 degrees or higher when we visited…Grandma was always up and moving about, never sitting still, always doing something in her apartment and because she was so active and lead such a healthy lifestyle, grandma was my fit, strong & smart Wonder Woman.
And how grandma Ruthie loved to move and dance…She would take her husband Louie and walk down to the senior center where Sharon and I joined them on a few occasions as little kids…grandma was known to be a great dancer by all in her senior center days and that’s when I was only still in elementary school visiting her with my sister…and still after that time, grandma Ruthie kept dancing. Years later when I was in my mid-20’s visiting her, grandma was now around 85 years old in her new apartment, everyone would call her by her new nickname,“Cha-Cha,” because she brought her dancing with her wherever she went…they all knew she loved to move. Grandma wasn’t a couch potato.
Grandma always had this everlasting energy…she always had even more than me. I’d visit her when she was close to 90, and we’d walk a mile easily in Kew Gardens around the park. On our walks, we’d sometimes stop at Baskin Robbins for a small cup of strawberry ice cream, her favorite. Grandma would always sit patiently for me outside on her walker as I ran in to get us the ice cream. Grandma was always patient. She never, ever, complained. She was so happy to walk with me – and I was so happy to actually be able to exercise during my visit with her!. We even made some friends at the park - regulars we’d see each weekend when I’d go and visit her. I was always amazed by her strength and ability to walk a normal pace not the pace of any typical 85 to 90 year old lady. And she didn’t just amaze me, she amazed everyone.
We’d come back to her room, have lunch of Pastrami sandwiches that I bought earlier and then I’d heat up in her microwave…and sometimes I’d accidentally fall asleep while we watched tv…but she was always awake because my Grandma had super-strength energy.
And even though Grandma was a strong lady, she didn’t get her super strength by spending hours at the gym. She did housework. Lots of housework. She loved to clean. She’d clean everyday. I remember my parents talking how she’d need another new vacuum bc of all the extensive vacuuming she was doing everyone that she must have worn out another one. Her apartment was always spic and span perfectly clean when we’d visit. It would look so neat and tidy, ready for company at any minute of any day. She took pride in her work at home.
And Grandma took pride in herself. And had the biggest heart for her family. The way she dressed and all her mannerisms was always of a well-educated and professional lady. Grandma had so much to teach us about strength and wisdom and I am very fortunate I was able to get to know her as first a child, then a teenager, later a young woman and now the adult I am today. And thankful she can rest in peace with her husband, Grandpa Louie.
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Sorry if too detailed - but below is about my Grandma's Passing Away, last night (not to be said at funeral, but i'm writing it here):
My grandma (my dad's mom) passed away and I am so thankful I was able to be with my dad who was with her also when she died last night.
Very nice eulogy!
Many are losing their parents as of late.
xoxo, J-Donk :-)
Happy July 5th...back at work, feeling very good! And i finally saw GB, my hamster, drink his water so I know he's not gonna die of thirst now!
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Please see my Tuesday, July 4th Entry for nice photos of my hamster & myself!
Calories before am snack: 500
Am snack: almonds 200
lunch: healthy, but chips instead of my usual unflavored crackers. 600 tops.
150 1450... Dinner rushed: wrap 100, avocado 160, lox 100 350 1800
and a fiber one cookie right before bed bc i was hungry and it was very late around 12:30am.
.... 5day average: 2000
My grandma passed away and I am so thankful I was able to be with my dad who was with her also when she did last night. She died at the nursing home of an infection and was unable to breathe in the end. She is beautiful, in heaven at last.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
11:30am healthy higher carb brunch: 700 cal
2pm Lunch rice chips 200, turkey burger 160, grapefruit 90: 450
1150, good.
Cookie snack before jogging (didn't go to any celebrations just relaxed today)
Dinner: 1 egg and 1 egg white 110, eggplant in a bit of sauce with cabbage 200, frozen yogurt 70 400 and chips
around 1900 on Fourth of July~ Independence Day - and a nice jog! good job to me!
4-day average: 1975 - excellent - and my baby boy GB (my hamster) is doing GREAT!
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My hamster photos and photos of me below:
Below is me as a blonde, and now my brunette short hair-do! I plan to keep it brunette, my natural color, for awhile and I also plan to keep it short!
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There were only 2 male hamsters to choose from (the store was getting more in on Wednesday, but time is limited and i fell in love with the one i bought!) - short hair and long haired teddy bear variety. The long haired was sweeter and more relaxed so I chose him. His name is GB - short for Gym Boy!
He is already 9 weeks ! Good to get him home and in his forever home with me! I've already played with him quite a bit last night and I will almost every night is my plan.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
The brown is easier maintenance. Blonde is too much with the bleaching and dying. No good for my scalp, either....but, i enjoyed everyone moment of being blonde!
TY for the compliments. I think he loves his cage!
Thanks for the compliments - the brown is easier to maintain as it's natural and doesn't have roots.
I think about cutting my hair that short to get rid of the dyed part and grow it out again without dying it to let it just go grey au natural.
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Does your hamster drive a Kia Soul?
wow kia soul is cheap....i should get one for myself - forget about my GB Boy hammy!
bearcountrygg on 07/14/2017:
The hamster that we used to have liked to bite....you are lucky to have a nice one.
yes, my hamster is the tamest type - a Syrian "Teddy Bear" long haired hamster. He does not hardly bite at all...once or twice at the beginning he took a light nibble but that has stopped. He doesn't seem to want to mess with me :-) Very well behaved and easy to pick him up.
happy-1 on 07/17/2017:
I say Kia soul because they have the most amazing car ads with hamsters. I fell victim to the ads and bought one. Should have bought a matrix