Happy Veteran's Day Observance Day!
Kombucha: 80
And honey 50 and banana 120. 250 total
Breakfast:
Wrap with pb 250, coffee 50. 300. 550.....
Late 2pm lunch Chinese rice too much 450, shrimp 200, veg 250, cookies 350 ...
1800.....a bit much ....
dinner: 450 - chinese eggplant in garlic sauce, margarita canned drink
2250.
weekly avg: 2250.
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I am off from work and headed (driving in) to NYC to take an hour's tutoring for the phyiscal fitness test for the NYPD. It's just practice and optional tuturing. I am glad i signed up for it - good to have a pre-test and know what will be happening for real in 2 weeks. I'm glad they had the tutoring available today on my day off or I probably wouldn't have participated in the tuturing!
Then, I might be having lunch with a friend who lives also in NYC, a mile from where I will be. We didn't make plans - I'll call her when my tutoring session is over. It's from 11am-12pm. I prepaid for parking for $16 for the whole day, which is awesome - people pay more like $50 if they don't do what i did - pay in advance / look for the deals online.
Progress as of today: 5 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
6:30am Home: kombucha and honey 100
8am Breakfast coffee 50, wrap 100, pb 150, cinnamon, banana 120.
9:30am Snack: Rice Krispie Treat 80...still on a sugar kick...tasty but not needed.
I really need to stop the sugars mostly because they just make me hungrier...
10:30am peanuts 150
11:45...small piece of a homemade sugar free chocolate muffin, wasn't bad was quite light. 50? SO HUNGRY.
Lunch was too big, but good. 750. too many chips is the reason.
snack: apple 100
rice krispie treat 100
1750..too much food lately.
mcdonalds dinner. 500 and i did this time buy a side salad to eat with small fries and 4 nuggets.
2250 :)
6day avg: 2225 :-)
Progress as of today: 5 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
Home: kombucha and honey 100
Work: coffee with milk 50, wrap 100, with pb 150, banana 120: 420.
Several Snacks m&m fun size 70 and kit Kat fun size 80. 150, peanuts 80-100
1pm Lunch: leftover Chinese food for dinner with my added cabbage since i ate the chinese veg last night lol...it's mostly chicken in some sauce and i added my cabbage, i'll also eat some corn chips...700 cal, overindulged in chips again, very tasty.
4pm Snack: plum 50
1500
Snack 2 before jogging at GYM (not gonna jog outside tonight) Rice Krispie treat, i'll jog only between 1 mile to 1.5 miles then BED and relaxing back at home.!!!!!!! been a long, eventful week already.
1600 before dinner, whatever dinner is (probably dunkin donuts)
Dinner back at home:rest of the chicken from the chinese, perhaps, .....tbd.
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At work on time today - all the rest doesn't even matter lol.
Total 2250.
Progress as of today: 5 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
Home: kombucha and extra kombcha and honey 150
Breakfast: banana 120, coffee 50, wrap 100, pb 150, kit kat fun size 80. total here: 500, 100 cal pack peanut m&m's
Noon lunch: decided to eat early and be happy. one egg and one egg white 120, lots of eggplant spread i am supposed to eat it by tomorrow or throw out! 150, little bit cabbage not enough to even calculate, chips 250 extra servings tasty corn chips that i LOVE right now: 550 tops
Snack: Plum 50, maybe something else also like a half a small snack package 50 more. total 100.
1400, excellent, before what i would like to be a healthy dinner!
Dinner at my apt: prob picking something up, had completely enough with everything ... just taking easy road right now and resting tonight.
So dinner was Chinese vegetable soup 100, the fried chips they give 200-250?, and chicken 200? chop suey 200? and a beer 150. total here: 850 tops.
total today is fine: 2250. indulgent week, i'd say!
and i voted, driving thru and walking thru the rain to do it after work!
4day average: 2210. just fine :)
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For the past month, my weight has been either 112 or even a hair lower or even a hair higher. i am content. i don't weigh myself often, just when i feel curious. my clothes fit just fine. i feel fine. I met my goals in terms of weight loss. and in general, i have been maintaining for approx 1.5 years. never in my life did i maintain as well as i do now. i know i'll continue to have ups and downs, but i am prepared this time around with more knowledge about calorie needs and exercise than i ever did have before.
For 1.5 years, i have weighed + or - 115 lbs. and at first i did gain right after my sisters wedding almost 5 lbs, but i got it back down the same month and under control. everything is possible...it's up to us to do the actions to make the possible a reality.
With my skills and needs and accomplishments and past failures, i can tackle maintenance and continue to be successful at it, as long as i keep making and taking the effort. As long as i continue to strive to be how i want to be - as long as i make the choices to help myself in this way - as long as i continue, it will be good for me.
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It must be sorta healthy dinner (i'll cook my chicken or turkey burgers tonight and eat one maybe or we'll see...doing too much...because i am beginning to break out bc tons of sugar and not the best eating and hormones.
Woke up around 5...but got ready slowly and took my time taking me to leaving my apt at 7am this morning and now earlier as planned - just didn't wanna leave before 7am - so sue me! lol
So got to the social security office around 7:30am and waiting on line, outside in windy cold 45 degrees, till past 8. then finally we go in, more waiting, now i'm upstairs at 8:40 took a ticket to wait, but ran down to put money in the meter. got back up with just enough time to be seen and my ticket was going to get skipped had i gotten upstairs any later. so i made it. i finally got into work at 9:45, almost 2 whole hours late. To make up one hour, i'll work thru lunch. then, i have 40 minutes from last week. I will then make up the last 20 minutes by staying LATE 20 min and i'll just do work for myself at that point - NYPD forms i'll continue to do. Now i have my job detailed report everything since high school, so, i can finish writing up my jobs.
After work, I'll vote. I didn't do it early in the morning as planned bc i left late already....so, i just decided to skip it until after work....i might just pick up a healthy dinner tonight that is balanced and call it a night.
Progress as of today: 5 lbs lost so far, only 0 lbs to go!
i have also had two times in my life where i let my weight spiral, and just like you, after my weight got out of hand (out of hand from my normal), i also went to eat everything and anything. i felt i had no control, so i didn't even try.
I will never let that happen again. That's why i also watch the scale here and there, when i can't tell by my clothes because they are fitting ok, i step on the scale to be sure. That's also why i do weekly calorie counts - i can see an average and i can also see where i go astray and/or if i have to change anything. it's my way to stay accountable...and there are many ways - not only my way. my way is what works for me though!
it's good it's happening slowly for you bc the slower the better....slower means you are getting used to the changes and learning your body and learning what works / doesn't and usually when you lose weight slowly, like i did the last and final time, it can stay off because you actually learn the maintenance a bit while you are losing...it's not all a drastic diet.
Well done on the food. And I especially appreciated your introspective, retrospective.
Today was 2200 Weekly avg is 2200.
Home: kombucha and honey 100
Work: coffee 50, banana 120, wrap with pb 250 and cinnamon, 2 candies 60. total here: 480.
11am Snack: peanuts 150 (had to break my cycle of eating carbs constantly in the morning and no protein or healthy fats)
1pm lunch: healthy...with 1/2 large pumpernickel bagel 200, little cabbage hardly any bc my body is still in period mode and doesn't like to eat veg (causes indigestion at this time of month!) and sauteed eggplant spread 150 tops?, 1 extra large egg and one egg white 120: around 500, total = excellent....diet pepsi.
snack before jogging: blueberry nutrigrain bar 120
1350-1400...
Dinner: TBD sick of a lot of things lol....
McDonald's 600 and an alcoholic beverage back at home because I am enjoying the perks of tasty food right now !!!!
I am running in the dark tonight at the track since it's now fully dark at 6pm. I do not like to run inside on a treadmill...so....off i go. i hope other people are there too - or i may have to go to the treadmill...i hope not.
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At lunch i'm reading my awesome book that i remembered to bring. this is about the best book i ever read and i'm only on page like 5!!!!!! for anyone that wants to be successful or learn how to KEEP the good habits, this is the book!
Book is called THE SLIGHT EDGE by Jeff Olson
it's def the best self help / success book i have read...and i'm only on page 5...it's that good!
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little antsy doing forms for nypd instead of work at work...need to get this sh*t done now....getting it done....
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TOMORROW's full list of plans, all in the morning prior to arriving at work! :
YES....polls open 6am...so before i start driving to social security office, i will make sure to vote around 6:30am before I go to the social security office which is by work...then work till 5pm...then HOME!
so tomorrow will be EARLY. i plan to get up around 5:30am. Leave my apt at 6:30am. Vote (only 5 min drive away), then drive to social security office and get paperwork i need, then work. i may be late to work, but i cannot leave my apt earlier than 6:30am....that's ENOUGH! lol. i have my limits!
any lateness i have tomorrow, i'll make up through working through LUNCH. bc i'm NOT staying late after work tomorrow.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
8:30-9am Late fun breakfast : plum 60, chips 2.5 servings 320, kombucha. Total here 450.
Home relaxing and doing laundry.
11am: 400 lunch
850
fell asleep from noon till 3pm - needed rest
deciding if i am still going to gym (i should).
1350 after tasty 3:30om meal and now it's 4pm - will try to be out of apt for gym by 4:30...
1450 after snack and small amount caffeine
Gym will start around 5:15-5:30
Gym in afternoon and Monday is a jog.
Burger King after gym
Total 2200 tasty
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
i am realizing i need to plan a lot less right now in order to keep my training schedule (gym and jogging...) bc if i do too much, it's hard to push myself also at gym / on the track!
i realize now is going to be a time of working more...playing less.
either way, i was able to nap and then fully sleep last night !
Home: kombucha :)
1400 after lunch and snacks :-)
2200 total excellent mix today !
Today even included at least 2 mi walking if not more throughout !
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Today - Saturday - I have a CPR class that takes place at 8am till around 2:30pm i think?
Stinky that I have "TOM" sorta heavy on a day where i need to be in a class all day...i'll have to prob get up to go to the bathroom once in morning and once in afternoon....
Then, Ricky and I might go to a concert, but it's sorta far - at least 45 minutes away, so it depends how i am feeling tonight. I am beginning to feel rushed bc i have a lot of responsibilities this month. The concert is a world-class horn player (and that's my instrument - french horn - this guy is from the Met orchestra - one of the best in NYC)....and he's playing solos with a Long Island, NY orchestra. It's cheap and possibly free which is the reason i didn't want to miss it...but if i feel exhausted, i'm not going out 45 minutes each way to see it and getting home 10pm after this long day with classes starting at 8am.
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"TOM" came early of which i'm thankfully bc for the rest of the month i'll be attending,each on a separate week:
1. traning for the nypd fitness test
2. taking the fitness test
3. interview with investigator - and i am needing to prepare a lot of paperwork for him. i've started.
It's a REALLY busy month, trust me. I also have a lot of tasks to catch up / do. One is important - I need to change one of my doctors to one that is local to where i live (not an hour away!) and he/she must keep good hours (example - MUST have a light night when they are available, unlike the dr now whose hours are horrible for any working person - his hours at 9-5!). I cannot be leaving early from anyhting to go to him...so i'm changing doctors....so i have to do this research...and find one. Just a lot of things to do.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
I don't know of any doctor but one that has office hours outside of the 9-5 business day. Maybe being NYC, you'll have more options available to you. I did hear of one doctor here locally, who, for $1500 a year, will see you at your convenience. But that $1500 doesn't include her treatment fee or anything else - just the convenience of her availability. To me, that seems really ridiculously expensive.
I did skip the concert bc we were taking a class and sitting all day from 8-2 and then we'd have to drive just under an hour each way to a 2 hour concert - too much sitting and concentrating and very early and late day too so we just took a short walk yesterday and did a couple errands, watched a movie at his place and he slept over mine :-) which I liked having him next to me overnight actually
Oh It looked like you saw a nice shoe yourself last night ! How I love the performing arts ! There's so many choices here and inexpensive things to see - instead though I have paid for quite a few performances now thru end of December so there'll be no skipping of those paid performances !
I had a free library music event to go to but cancelled my tickets and ended up sleeping all afternoon lol
Yes I should not have a hard time finding a dr.
Home kombucha 50
Breakfast coffee 50, banana 120, wrap 70, honey 30, pb 150
Snack 180
650 lunch
200 more in snacks first an orange later a Rice Krispie treat :-) small ones are under 100
Dunkin' Donuts 600
2100
Just under a 2000 per day average ! AMAZING
Work was busy which is why this entry is brief
I am here working out at gym tonight started at 6pm
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
Kombucha followed up by small candy pieces 150
Work breakfast: coffee with egg nog flavor stevia 50, wrap 100, with lox 30, and cream cheese 70, banana 120: 370.
Snack: protein oatmeal raisin bar 180
veg salad 150, turkey burger 150, potatoes 200?, other veg 50: 550.
snack: 100 cal bar and an apple but not the whole 100 cal bar lol. 150 approx.
dinner: 600.
2000.
1975 6day = perfect.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
there's also a pumpkin pie or pumpkin spice i think stevia - not as good as the egg nog!
At Work.
Home: kombucha 60
Breakfast: halloween candy 160 and coffee 50 210
Snack: my breakfast of banana 120, wrap 100, pb 200.420.
Lunch: green beans in a little sauce 200, egg / egg white 100, potatoes 200: 500, tops.
Snacks: small bar 100 and plum 50.
Dinner: corn chips 150, small turkey burger 150, marinated veggies hopefully not more than like 200?
1850...and a drink :)
2050, tops.
Progress as of today: 2 lbs lost so far, only 3 lbs to go!
and sunday i plan for it being slower..
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Good luck...I hope you find that you are training exactly right for the outcome you want...I'm sure you are...you are in great physical condition....you should see the cops around here...LOL....and we don't have a donut bakery in town.
Turned out to be very difficult for me. Requirements are the same for men and women. I am lean but have minimal leg strength so it's hurting my results. I will have to take off work to go practice more in the city. I will not Be paid at work bc I ran out of sick days.
Donkey on 11/10/2017:
Training sounds like a really good idea. I hope it went well. Do you feel, from your training class, that you are on the right track with just a little adjustment here and there?
Turns out the test is a lot harder to do than I was imagining it to be...yes, it will be possible but with all my strength. I do need to go back for more practice and it's only on M-F. This week I have to take if Monday and wed from work to go to city for practice. Then, Friday I have the psych testing to do. I will only be at my real job tues and Thursday this week...I am missing more days than I thought I would and I ran outta sick days so I will not be paid.