Appparently my cooking experiment has caused my mom to gain 4 lbs. How???? I said it is probably portion control.
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There is no greater pleasure in the world than getting out of the shower, wrapping yourself in a big fuzzy robe on the couch and sticking your feet under a big fluffy warm dog and running her fur through your toes.
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Goal for today is to clean out iphone. Why can't I get my head around that task?
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Found a caloric needs calculator that takes into account your bodyfat for more accurate caloric needs. http://scoobysworkshop.com/accurate-calorie-calculator/
At 5'10", age 40, 237lbs, 28% bodyfat and 1-3 hours of intense cardio (not just fat burning activity) I need 2515 calories a day to maintain weight and 2263 calories a day to lose 10% (.5 lbs) a week.
Switched my Fitbit food plan to "Low" intensity and it now says 2038 daily instead of 1798 daily. Apparently Fitbit doesn't take bodyfat percentage into account and so the calorie calculations are all off.
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Meal planning challenge: Make a list of 5 healthy meals you can make in just 30 minutes or less with items that you almost always have on hand in the freezer and pantry: spaghetti and meatballs with frozen veggies, quesedillas, soups. Next, make sure you have the ingredients for those meals in your master grocery list, to make sure you keep them stocked up.
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Augh.... so I went out tonight to get more out there and active in the community (new years resolutions) and went to a 5pm Saturday church service. It was actually a decent philosophical and mentally engaging sermon... and they planned for all the New Years people showing up with a 6 week program for new attendees to try a group. Then they had $5 tacos!!!! I was like genius! And the congregation was mostly Asian so I knew they would be good.
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Progress as of today: 73.6 lbs lost so far, only 54.4 lbs to go!
241... Probably more weight fluctuation. I should start a graph. See if there's a trend.
My brain has felt so much better this week and last week. It's like a cloud has lifted and the little neurons are working better. I haven't taken the bait when either of my parents has ftried to start a fight with me for three weeks. I still have the ADHD "butterflies for a brain" that start flying in roughly the same direction when I take amphetamines, but if they were flying through a heavy, thick ground fog that you cold maybe see a foot in front of you in... that fog is a lot lighter. I wonder if it is the reduction in bodyfat. When I was skinny post college and 190lbs when I dumped thousands of dollars into personal training, the lowest my bodyfat was ever in range of was 33%... at 28% I'm in "acceptable range" and maybe that is the difference. I remember an article about obesity and the brain and looked it up today.
I'm just in such a better mood. I double checked with my shrink and counselor Wednesday to make sure I'm not having a weird last-straw breakdown and they both said I sound fine... that it's very likely this is just the cumulative effect of healthy eating and cleaning up my environment (one hoarder box at a time).
I even... Shocker... Took all the gardening stuff I bought this past year and set up the kitchen for regrowing veggies from scraps and starting an herb garden. I have a big black plastic watertight bin of seed starting mix and a little bit of surestart under the kitchen sink. On my doorstep I have 3 pots of dirt and seeds (Parsley, thai basil, thyme) with actual plant markers that I misted with water... Hopefully they will start! I have a few celery scraps that grew new leaves to pot tonight.
And although I should have been doing things for personal stuff and working on Pete's site... I detailed the front seat area of my car. I never noticed how funky my car was getting... All the fur creeping into crevices... Makeup smears on the plastic. I went to the dollar store and bought some cheap stuff to detail it with. Feels better in there, massively.
Every day you are above ground is an opportunity to change and improve for sure.
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Even my dog feels better. She ate two big meals yesterday and all her treats this morning.
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I had a great morning of personal satisfaction. My mom had to go in for jury duty today. She got dressed in the outfit I bought her a couple of months ago for Thanksgiving and looked very nice (and normal) in a grey and white marbled top, houndstooth grey pants, black loafers, and comfy canvas black purse. A little too much grey but she really liked the top and the patterns work together. I just happened to get up at the same time she was headed out the door (8! Yay! So much better than 11ish and depressed) and I had doubled the breakfast I made yesterday and separated them out into single servings so I just popped one in the microwave for her and made her some coffee. She headed off to jury duty in peace and tranquility... then my dad bumbled in and was trying to get his brain together to make breakfast so I popped another one in the microwave for him and sat him down at the table to make his coffee and eat. Curtailed all his morning yelling and blustering. No war today.
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Got feedback on the interview I had zero sleep for. Unfortunately they decided to pass. They did not provide specific feedback, but instead are looking for the following:
Experience pros:
people who have worked for successful start-ups (I haven't)
people who have a track record of being at more than 1 company for more than 2 years (I haven't... keep getting to almost 2 years then they fold)
people who have had the title of product manager (or equivalent) for minimum 3 years (I have that)
people who have worked on customer-facing products (I have)
Experience cons:
multiple instances of <1 year experience at a given company (not me)
people who only work as consultants (not me)
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So continuing my meal planning from yesterday... I'm trying to figure out an optimized flow for this using google spreadsheets. All the meal planning apps fall apart for me because they start from recipes, not from sales.
Today's meal planning challenge from the bootcamp is to make a list of 7 favorite family veggie sides and different ways to prepare them with cooking times.
They will always eat the starchy roots, but the healthier veggies are harder to get into my dad
Might try this if I get ambitious for a breakfast dish: http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/laura-calder/vegetable-terrine-2119358
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Getting a little stressed and anxious over the rejection. Flashing back to a coworker who said I was just a seat filler till they could get someone better. He was a jerk, but probably true.
Plus my dog is haunting my every move because I got up and got dressed. Makes me feel bad because I can't take her with me and she's bored anxious and lonely too.
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Mom came home from jury duty and took me out for pizza and I feel so much better. I wonder if that anxious spinning feeling is hunger on an appetite suppressant medication?
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Took the stress and anxiety and made pot roast in the slow cooker. Should be done around 8pm.
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I have defintiely had food turn out better. Apparently I bought chuck steak and it should have only cooked for 2 hours and I cooked it for 8. The caulitatoes should have been mashed, not mixe in the food processor. Zuchinni bread turned out soggy. It was still a decent meal but... let's just say my parents were mostly good sports.
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S: Coffee + half and half
B: Baked egg omlette, paleo pumpkin bread/pudding
S: skipped
L: apple, peanut butter cup
S: 1:45pm 1/2 a garden salad, 1/2 a small pepperoni pizza, diet coke, water
extra snack - crazy hungry: big bowl of minestrone soup leftover from last week
D: Pot roast, caulitatoes
S: Zuchinni bread muffin
Progress as of today: 73.6 lbs lost so far, only 54.4 lbs to go!
i'm glad everything went smoothly this morning for you at your house!
WTG on the vegetables!!!
240+... just bouncing up and down across the same 5 lbs. I'd be bummed if I hadn't compared a couple of pictures and seen how much thinner my face is. Did you know that when you lose fat you literally exhale it? I'm wondering if it is the adhd meds. I don't get the appetite suppressant effect. I'm continuously hungry but it does raise my heart rate a tick whenever I get up and do stuff so I bet my chores and endless sorting of my parents house is fat burning. I think I need to wear my Fitbit more, get a more accurate calorie count. I keep totaling my end of day calories and they are way way higher but if my fat is changing and my weight is staying the same... what does that mean?
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Flaked on going to the workout tonight... I haven't done what I need to do to get his site together and I am ashamed to show my face.
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Made another meal planning dish tonight. I bought a bunch of chicken thighs at $.79 a lb... Pulled out half and decided to go with chinese food for variety. I basically took a set of kitchen shears and cut off the fat, skin, and bones and chucked them in the slow cooker to cook up for my dog with 3 of the remaining thighs so she gets some meat. Then I took the thigh meat and discovered that a ton of freezer space was going to a bag of asian veggies that had sauce packets. I tossed the sauce packet on the chicken and stuck it in my cast iron braising pan under the broiler, turning it a couple of times. Once it was done I moved the chicken to a serving bowl and did the veggies in the remaining sauce on the stovetop. I thought the sauce was super weak but my dad really liked it. My mom and I dressed it up in our bowls with green onions, cilantro, jalapenos, siracha, hoisin, and ginger garlic paste... made it waaaay better. These are all things my dad hates. The whole thing definitely could have used some peanuts or cashews but overall a successful meal for 3 people for under $10. A 4th serving could have been saved for later, but it was easier to just finish it off.
Parents are very full and quiet and pretty much tucked away at 8:30!!!!! Not rambling around looking for food or fighting and nagging till 3AM. I attribute the peace in the house to full bellies especially since I also made some chocolate pudding for dessert and topped it with dark chocolate brownie crumbs from the stash in the freezer. I am not a big sweets person, but my parents are... and they just have to have dessert.
Still have a bag of 12 chicken thighs, a flat of chuck roast, and the other half of the pork spareribs to make up. I think tomorrow I will setup the beef in the pressure cooker as pot roast or beef stew. I tossed a bunch of potatoes in the slow cooker tonight on top of the chicken thighs and I can pull half of those out for mashed potatoes lightened with cauliflower.
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Did the grocery lists and meal planning that I didn't do last night and stayed up an hour past my bedtime.
Overbought on the three meats I stocked up on... Glad I didn't buy more. Remaining dinners this week are:
Proteins on sale this week are:
Dinners planned are:
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S: Coffee + half n half
B: 2 eggs (spinach, kale), pumpkin bread pudding
S: Stevia punch
L: 1 cup of minestrone soups a little parmesan, 2 cups of milk
S: Skipped
D: Broiled chicken thighs in an asian sauce with stirfried veggies and brown rice
S: Chocolate yogurt
Progress as of today: 73.6 lbs lost so far, only 54.4 lbs to go!
I can wear stretch jeans in size 14 from Forever21 that I couldn't wear because they muffin topped and stretched to show white down the side.
Yesterday I was able to get on a pair of size 14 Lucky Brand jeans I bought on clearance for like $8 that I couldn't zip up a few months ago at the same weight. I can't wear them out of the house yet because they muffin top my belly fat... but it was awesome to get them on, zipped up and wear them all day!!! One step at a time. One meal at a time. One workout at a time.
Yes, isn’t that cool that most fat is just exhaled!? Yes, I’ve read that also, I think it’s amazing that most is lost that way…or through I think our excretions I believe and maybe sweat. But most is thru the air – yep I think it’s really cool! As far as the up and down 5 lbs bouncing and no real loss like you want – keep on. Don’t let your frustrations make you give up…the weight comes off after more time sometimes, just don’t give in to the temptation of giving up! It means you must be gaining muscle if you visibly look thinner but weigh the same!
I’ve been flaking on MANY workouts. But it’s due mostly to having a cold. Today I’m flaking bc we had a BAD snowstorm and I’d rather rest after work than try to navigate the snowy roads. I’m making a plan for my 1st priority tomorrow, early in the day, to be exercise. Sometimes (although try to eliminate excuses), skipping exercise is the better decision especially if it’s better for your safety / health….but I can’t wait to get back to regularly scheduled routines myself! Skipping workouts makes me lose strength! And I hate having to regain the strength I lost constantly instead of improving. But like you, we get back on schedule as soon as we can. That’s what’s good about the pros….the professionals are better at picking themselves up quicker after a fall. It’s not the fall that matters but how fast you recover. Professionals are good at the recovery. So in the gym, that’s how I like to try to make it for myself – whenever I get off track, I try very hard to recover as soon as I can afterwards…that’s all we can do!
It’s cool to read about all your fabulous cooking. Very smart to cook with the food you find on sale. I’m doing this more and more also. Actually, you just reminded me to do this with all my food – sometimes I find myself not buying the fruit or veg or meat that’s on sale…for now on, I’m going to work more to purchase the on sale food each week. I’m working on money savings too..like you…I’m trying to save a few thousand actually this year into my regular savings! My goal is to save $2,000 this year in my savings account instead of breaking out even as I usually do! And with a tax return of hopefully like $2,000…that’s $4,000 savings I hope at least! I’m sick of just breaking even year after year….but due to fun causes mostly like trips the last couple years!
I finally cooked the cauliflower rice that everyone raves about on the internet. But i didn’t add the fun peas and carrots…will have to attempt it again to include all ingredients and make it perfectly on my next attempt. Good to add cauliflower to the potato to lighten it up! GREAT job. Can you tell the difference?????
GREAT idea for a healthier, TURKEY meatloaf!
"I’m going to work more to purchase the on sale food each week. I’m working on money savings too..like you…" See if Mygrocerydeals.com works for your neighborhood. You can pick the best looking sale items at your favorite stores and add them to a shopping list. The printable view of your list copies and pastes well into a google spreadsheet for further refinement. Hard to meal plan for one person but I wish I had done it sooner.
Interview yesterday was OK. I May have f'd up... I got zero sleep and was in a super weirdly happy mood because dd is back online... Why is that such a mood booster? Really wasn't myself...
Add to my top 10 bad ideas that made my inner teenager wake up and says YES THAT! I WANT THAT!!!! I WANT THAT NOW!!! is a dude that emailed me on OKCupid... He posted shirtless photos of himself front and back... yes he is ripped... yes his torso is tattooed front and back with part that says "Long Beach" across his 6 pack. And he has a teaser butt shot up. He's 37 and says he's looking for hookups... but when I asked about it said "short term dating that leads to long term dating". How many ways is he a terrible, terrible idea? SO MANY WAYS.
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S: Cranberry juice
B: 1 pumpkin pancake
S: Skipped
L: Diet pepsi, hot dog / no bun, choc frozen yogurt
S: Chicken cesar salad, no croutons, 1/2 cesar dressing.
D: Spare ribs in pea soup (my meal planned dinner turned out really well and was crazy cheap and easy... 10 min active time.... bubbled away in the instant pot while I walked my dog... delicious and my dad ate all of what was on his plate)
S: Protein pumpkin pudding
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Didn't get everything on my list yesterday... Realized that I only have space in the fridge for breakfast and 3 dinners... Not 7. I just got chicken thighs, chuck roast, and pork spareribs. One of the meal planning bootcamp tips is to stock up on sale meats, but there's no space in the fridge and one package makes 2 meals... so 3 dinners for now. Guess I am still doin a new meal plan tonight anyway for next week :-)
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Make that tomorrow... Time to go to bed... on time!
Progress as of today: 73.6 lbs lost so far, only 54.4 lbs to go!
Ok too many posts in the same night about meal planning... But I WILL SOLVE THIS!!!!
Just doing dinners from that list... I came up with:
Raise your hand if you think I should have gone to bed or at the very least spent the time till 2 am prepping for a job interview tomorrow... not obsessing over grocery shopping.
Progress as of today: 73.6 lbs lost so far, only 54.4 lbs to go!
and your dinners are freaking awesome.
i'm having a shepherd's pie today, a frozen Amy's one....bc i didn't cook over the weekend!
Planning my day for tomorrow... And my shopping. Mostly shopping... because I am meal planning obsessed and cannot think about anything else till I "solve" the process.
I used MyGroceryDeals.com to kind of figure out what is on sale in my area that I should go for... Then I copied the list into a google spreadsheet and refined it till I came up with just fresh fruits, veggies, and meat on sale. The last days for some sales are tuesday and others are wednesday... So I have 2 days to go shopping for these.
I found the sales, right? So I guess the next step would be to figure out what recipes I will make and what I actually need to make them....
Progress as of today: 73.6 lbs lost so far, only 54.4 lbs to go!
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Still up too late.
Tremendously relieved that the WTC classes happen on Wednesdays. I can still go to my park workouts with my dog regularly. A little freaked out about the class. Kind of in a panic.
Still have not prepped for the interview tomorrow. I'm super dumb. Just can't focus. Why am I so obsessed with meal planning???? Ugh. It steals my brain power. I hope this free bootcamp helps me.
Pt 2 of todays meal planning assignment was to inventory your pantry. I just searched around on the web for a pantry that looks mostly like mine and noted what I usually keep on hand. I make my parents hide anything that isn't on this list because I can't resist :(
If any of the recipes call for stuff I don't have I might add, but I'm kind of at max capacity. I cook all the meals in my house, but I am restricted to one teeny tiny cupboard and one drawer in the fridge. Thus I have several plastic boxes in the dining room with the rest of it and my mom keeps trying to get me to donate food. I'm like... Did you like the meals you ate today? 1/2 the ingredients came from those boxes!!!
In addition to the items below, I also keep:
They aren't paleo, but the fitness program I am doing says oatmeal, grains (as long as they are cold), and beans (washed 6 times) are ok. The meat products are used sparingly, tiny amounts for cooking fat and flavor.
I do want an herb garden and I think January is a great time to start one.
The comments on the pantry stuff is from the blogger I grabbed the list from.
Progress as of today: 73.6 lbs lost so far, only 54.4 lbs to go!
Augh... a whole night without a wink of sleep and an interview I'm not ready for. Got up early and am out at breakfast just to make sure I don't nodd off and get off track even more ----- Is it lack of sleep or is this $400 12 month challenge super appealing even though it is for dudes?
https://chadhowse.clickfunnels.com/12-virtues-of-manliness?inf_contact_key=8e612ba3b463d184c008df1fdd761e6620305cf3f7ec888b3123a195b050b29d
--- 4am spaghetti lean cuisine, fake meatballs, mozzarella
7am Denver omelette, cottage cheese, coffee, 4+3+3 creamers
Progress as of today: 73.6 lbs lost so far, only 54.4 lbs to go!
Jan 1 Stats
Weight: 237
Waist: 44
Wrist: 7
Hip: 48
Forearm: 11
Bodyfat: 28% (Holy moly - I might not have not lost much in the way of pounds but I dropped 10% of my bodyfat in the past year. I was 38% in the beginning of last year, and I think my highest was 53%!!!!!)
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Pulling it back together for the New Year. Tried to get to bed on time last night, but forgot to take sleep aid on time. Call with online shrink to set goals for the new year. I might have gotten frustrated a couple of weeks ago, but the truth is she is really good and I should keep going with her.
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New challenge for the year is a meal planning bootcamp.
Day 1 was to plan when I would plan (wednesdays) and where I want to make my plans (google calendar, but more likely the wireframes for the meal planning app I want to make). Day 2 is to make a list of 14 recipes that my household will eat. This was actually really hard because my dad is the world's pickiest eater. Only iceberg lettuce, no veggies, no "noodles", no vegan substitutes, no turkey burgers, nothing spicey. I literally had to make lists and then move my ideas around to the different lists... I couldn't get 14 budget-friendly recipes in each category in one sitting that fit my bootcamp and don't require me to make a separate set of sides for my dad like a salad with iceberg lettuce, white rice, bread, etc.
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S: Skipped
B: Egg bake, 1 paleo buiscut, coffee, 4 fake creamers
S: Skipped
L: Skipped
S: Cranberry juice
D: Mac n cheese, brocolli, hot dogs, stevia coke
S: Apple, and peanut butter.
Dog is a night owl too. Ignored food till 1 am and then she had beef stew, a hotdog, 2 cookies, 4 chicken jerky strips, 2 vitamin chews.
My little yellow soulmate.
Progress as of today: 73.6 lbs lost so far, only 54.4 lbs to go!
Yay!!!! This service is up again. I really missed you ladies. I tried out Spark People while this was down and I like this so much better. Happy new year! I can't believe how much this improved me mood.
Progress as of today: 73.6 lbs lost so far, only 54.4 lbs to go!
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How do you make the baked veggie eggs,In muffin pans?
Silicone muffin cups, no oil needed
graindart on 01/06/2018:
Mmmmmm tacos. I used to eat a lot of tacos and a lot of pizza. We had taco night usually once per week and I'd normally eat 5 or 6 of them for dinner. The amount of pizza that I'd eat was worse. Portion control has always been a huge problem for me and it still is. I can go most of the day without eating and feel fine. However when I start eating, I don't want to stop. I've been able to curb my portions with tacos and now just eat 1 or 2, but have pretty much had to give up normal pizza because who seriously only wants to eat 1 or 2 small slices?
It's probably because you go without eating most of the day that you eat more at night. I frequently space and skip meals and then I eat too much and make bad choices.
Donkey on 01/07/2018:
Wow, too bad the church experience ended on a sour note. What nerve!
Yeah church was fine. The church lady was human spam. The whole conversation was off to a wrong note. She seemed offended when in response to her question about what brought me in... I said I rent a storage unit next door and they always seem to have some kind of trip post disaster they are funding so I figured I'd check it out as a New Years resolution... she was like what resolution would that be? I said to get out in the community more and participate. Be the change I want to see in the world. I don't speak crazy midwestern church lady... should I have told her my New Years resolution was to stop whoring for crack or something?