Breakfast:
*Banana
*Muesli/granola mix: 1 packet (two bars) crushed up Nature Valley Oats N Honey granola bars, blueberries, slivered almonds, 2 tbsp of plain yogurt and a drizzling of honey.
Snack:
*Apple
*2 tbsp peanut butter
*Can of V8
Lunch:
*Bowl of Madras Lentils soup
Delectable. It tastes like chili, but it’s vegetarian and spicy and pretty healthy, with lots of protein and fiber. Though the sodium is maybe a tad high. That’s one thing I’ve been paying attention too lately, but I don’t even really know how much I should have/figure into my day. Hmm. Any sodium watchers out there?
Dinner:
*Tuna and roasted red pepper sauce.
Twas okay. It was better last time when I added a LCL wedge in there.
I also had a cup of green tea today - I went to Starbucks to catch up with a friend from grad school. We had a good time and I was proud of myself to sticking to green tea amidst delicious pastries and sugary coffee drinks.
Not much else is going on. I'm just trying to refrain from freaking out too much in these last few days before The Family gets here. I just...can't. I know my emotions are running a little high but right now I am just dreading next week like you wouldn't believe.
25 September 2009
Unusual Cravings
Here are some foods that I’ve been wanting recently:
*Cauliflower
*Edamame
*Cottage cheese (we ran out last week and I can’t stand it!)
*Every kind of squash ever…yellow, butternut, acorn, zucchini, you name it
*Baked Apples (OMG WANT)
Can I point out that these things are all HEALTHY?! Weird. Sometimes it surprises me how normal this feels to eat this way. It makes me feel good and 99% of the time it isn’t difficult. I fear getting too cocky because last time around I was. I said “I’m at [this weight] for the last time, never looking back” and I said “Under 200, never going there again”. And then I did. So I’m hesitant to feel confident in myself…it feels too easy right now. Sometimes I wonder if I’m still in the honeymoon phase of my weight loss, or if I’m finally getting down to business, because I already know what to do as I’ve been through it a million times. Am I really serious this time or is it just running on weight loss adrenaline and emotions?
Don’t get me wrong, though – I won’t spend my time thinking about it, because that’s what usually gets me in trouble. I’m just going to keep taking it one meal or snack at a time and that’s all I can do, with the occasional meal-planning-ahead. For example, I’m going to Cheesecake Factory next week with a bunch of people, and I’m trying to do some menu-scoping, though the nutritional value is hard to come by. There’s a Pear and Endive salad in their “weight management” section that looks pretty good…any suggestions?
And now, this:
OMG I LOVE THIS SHOW SO EFFING MUCH.
*Cauliflower
*Edamame
*Cottage cheese (we ran out last week and I can’t stand it!)
*Every kind of squash ever…yellow, butternut, acorn, zucchini, you name it
*Baked Apples (OMG WANT)
Can I point out that these things are all HEALTHY?! Weird. Sometimes it surprises me how normal this feels to eat this way. It makes me feel good and 99% of the time it isn’t difficult. I fear getting too cocky because last time around I was. I said “I’m at [this weight] for the last time, never looking back” and I said “Under 200, never going there again”. And then I did. So I’m hesitant to feel confident in myself…it feels too easy right now. Sometimes I wonder if I’m still in the honeymoon phase of my weight loss, or if I’m finally getting down to business, because I already know what to do as I’ve been through it a million times. Am I really serious this time or is it just running on weight loss adrenaline and emotions?
Don’t get me wrong, though – I won’t spend my time thinking about it, because that’s what usually gets me in trouble. I’m just going to keep taking it one meal or snack at a time and that’s all I can do, with the occasional meal-planning-ahead. For example, I’m going to Cheesecake Factory next week with a bunch of people, and I’m trying to do some menu-scoping, though the nutritional value is hard to come by. There’s a Pear and Endive salad in their “weight management” section that looks pretty good…any suggestions?
And now, this:
OMG I LOVE THIS SHOW SO EFFING MUCH.
Food Where's My Car?
Just a late kind of day all around! It’s almost 2:30 and I’m just getting in. One of my best friends is visiting for two weeks and I picked her up from the airport and then we went straight to some friends’ apartment to watch Grey’s, play Wii and be silly and watch YouTube. It’s how we roll. Good times – and according to my “10 Things About Me”, tonight checked off two! Airports AND my group of friends! Nicely done.
Now onto the food…meh. I got up late today, and food wasn’t on my mind until after I got home from getting my suit jacket, so I didn’t eat anything until 1pm today. Yeesh. Not good! So for lunch I had:
*toasted piece of whole grain bread
* ½ a cup of yesterday’s southwestern mix with ½ a stringed string cheese melted on top
*Can of V8
*Half an apple
It was okay. I ate the other half of the string cheese on its own. It was good. Those little string cheese things come in handy for melting stuff. The whole thing is only 80 calories.
Dinner:
*the rest of my chicken salad, about 1/2 of a cup (chicken, LCL wedge, craisins, diced apple
*tuna melt using: arnold’s sandwich thins, LCL wedge spread on top, about 1/3 a cup of tuna, and a stringed string cheese melted on top.
*glass of milk
*1/2 a cup of steamed broccoli
I took the advice of Ms. 266 ;-) and had some protein, and the broccoli. It definitely made me feel better! I’m sure tomorrow I’ll be back on track with regularly schedules meals/snacks and everything. I am thankful that I didn’t go crazy with food…when I was looking for my suit jacket, I stopped in Target (to see if they had anything) which was always my go-to place to buy chocolate and candy and Little Debbie stuff and stuff my face and then stash it under my bed…what’s up, closet eating! It was not good. Anyway, my brain, for just half a second, went to the idea of getting stuff, but I quickly pushed it out.
Temptation came again later in the evening in the form of Five Guys…for anyone who doesn’t know about the insane tastiness that is Five Guys…ask someone you know on the east coast. The burgers are SO GOOD and they literally give you a mountain of fries, and they are real potato and delicious. And the greasiest. They serve it to you in a brown paper bag and before you can get it home the bag is transparent from the grease soaking through. Gross, but the food is just. so. good.
We stopped there in between the airport and our friends’ apartment so my visiting friend could get some food. I walked in there with her, but made sure to leave my wallet in the car. And when we got to the apartment I made some 94% fat free popcorn, and shared it with everyone, so I only ended up having a little. I’m proud of myself that I resisted because her food smelled SO GOOD and even driving home my car still smelled like delicious heaven! Come to think of it, I should have driven with my windows down…but I didn’t. Anyway, it was a fun but long night, and now bed!
Oh PS – FAKE OUT on that job interview. They called me at 6:30pm this evening to tell me they were canceling the interviews because they had an internal candidate with whom they sped up the interview process and hired that person. Before they even talked to anyone else. Such is life. Le sigh. I’m totally keeping the suit jacket I bought though. And can I tell you the most irritating part of this whole thing? Couldn’t they have told me before I had to fill out that pesky ten page application with my employment history for the past ten years? I loathe those applications. Grrr! Oh well. On to bigger and better things, hopefully soon.
Now onto the food…meh. I got up late today, and food wasn’t on my mind until after I got home from getting my suit jacket, so I didn’t eat anything until 1pm today. Yeesh. Not good! So for lunch I had:
*toasted piece of whole grain bread
* ½ a cup of yesterday’s southwestern mix with ½ a stringed string cheese melted on top
*Can of V8
*Half an apple
It was okay. I ate the other half of the string cheese on its own. It was good. Those little string cheese things come in handy for melting stuff. The whole thing is only 80 calories.
Dinner:
*the rest of my chicken salad, about 1/2 of a cup (chicken, LCL wedge, craisins, diced apple
*tuna melt using: arnold’s sandwich thins, LCL wedge spread on top, about 1/3 a cup of tuna, and a stringed string cheese melted on top.
*glass of milk
*1/2 a cup of steamed broccoli
I took the advice of Ms. 266 ;-) and had some protein, and the broccoli. It definitely made me feel better! I’m sure tomorrow I’ll be back on track with regularly schedules meals/snacks and everything. I am thankful that I didn’t go crazy with food…when I was looking for my suit jacket, I stopped in Target (to see if they had anything) which was always my go-to place to buy chocolate and candy and Little Debbie stuff and stuff my face and then stash it under my bed…what’s up, closet eating! It was not good. Anyway, my brain, for just half a second, went to the idea of getting stuff, but I quickly pushed it out.
Temptation came again later in the evening in the form of Five Guys…for anyone who doesn’t know about the insane tastiness that is Five Guys…ask someone you know on the east coast. The burgers are SO GOOD and they literally give you a mountain of fries, and they are real potato and delicious. And the greasiest. They serve it to you in a brown paper bag and before you can get it home the bag is transparent from the grease soaking through. Gross, but the food is just. so. good.
We stopped there in between the airport and our friends’ apartment so my visiting friend could get some food. I walked in there with her, but made sure to leave my wallet in the car. And when we got to the apartment I made some 94% fat free popcorn, and shared it with everyone, so I only ended up having a little. I’m proud of myself that I resisted because her food smelled SO GOOD and even driving home my car still smelled like delicious heaven! Come to think of it, I should have driven with my windows down…but I didn’t. Anyway, it was a fun but long night, and now bed!
Oh PS – FAKE OUT on that job interview. They called me at 6:30pm this evening to tell me they were canceling the interviews because they had an internal candidate with whom they sped up the interview process and hired that person. Before they even talked to anyone else. Such is life. Le sigh. I’m totally keeping the suit jacket I bought though. And can I tell you the most irritating part of this whole thing? Couldn’t they have told me before I had to fill out that pesky ten page application with my employment history for the past ten years? I loathe those applications. Grrr! Oh well. On to bigger and better things, hopefully soon.
24 September 2009
Not enough energy to finish the sente
Man. I just have no energy to do anything today. I got enough sleep, so maybe it's the food? I have felt like I haven't been eating enough fresh fruits and veggies as of late, especially today. I had three things to do today, and I did them, but yeeesh. Barely.
My first task was finishing a job application that I have to take to my interview tomorrow, and the second was finding a suit jacket for said interview. Application finished. And I found a reallll cheap (but nice looking) suit jacket at Macy’s. The one I already own is a size 12...needless to say it doesn’t fit. I don’t particularly like the idea of buying more clothing when I am only going to (knock on wood) lose weight and hopefully never see the size again, but…sometimes you just gotta do it. And there is always tailoring, down the line. The one I got is $30 bucks, simple, black, and works with all the other business professional stuff I have. And it was in a size 20. Which, if math has taught me anything, is less than a size 24. I think my pant-size is probably still 24 or maybe a stuffed-sausage-casing-resembling-22. But it was nice to see that 20! And, one day, it’ll be nice to never see that 20 again, eh?
Third task: gym. I went to the gym, but barely. I just walked on the treadmill for 30 minutes at an embarrassingly leisurely pace, save for 10 minutes when I walked a little faster and cranked the incline up to 4.5 – I usually just keep it on 1.0, no matter if I’m jogging or walking – I still sweated a little bit but it didn’t energize me or make me feel any better.
Three things, and it felt like I was moving through molasses. I can't even muster up the energy to be annoyed with myself for complaining.
My first task was finishing a job application that I have to take to my interview tomorrow, and the second was finding a suit jacket for said interview. Application finished. And I found a reallll cheap (but nice looking) suit jacket at Macy’s. The one I already own is a size 12...needless to say it doesn’t fit. I don’t particularly like the idea of buying more clothing when I am only going to (knock on wood) lose weight and hopefully never see the size again, but…sometimes you just gotta do it. And there is always tailoring, down the line. The one I got is $30 bucks, simple, black, and works with all the other business professional stuff I have. And it was in a size 20. Which, if math has taught me anything, is less than a size 24. I think my pant-size is probably still 24 or maybe a stuffed-sausage-casing-resembling-22. But it was nice to see that 20! And, one day, it’ll be nice to never see that 20 again, eh?
Third task: gym. I went to the gym, but barely. I just walked on the treadmill for 30 minutes at an embarrassingly leisurely pace, save for 10 minutes when I walked a little faster and cranked the incline up to 4.5 – I usually just keep it on 1.0, no matter if I’m jogging or walking – I still sweated a little bit but it didn’t energize me or make me feel any better.
Three things, and it felt like I was moving through molasses. I can't even muster up the energy to be annoyed with myself for complaining.
23 September 2009
Dear Foodence
Breakfast:
*Cup of black coffee
*Granola mix: 1 packet (two bars) crushed up Nature Valley Oats N Honey granola bars, blueberries, slivered almonds, wheat germ, 2 tbsp of plain yogurt and a drizzling of honey.
Lunch:
*Southwestern mix: brown rice, black beans, corn, cilantro, a little bit of hot sauce. Then I made the same corn-tortilla chips I did yesterday and used them to scoop some of the mix. It was pretty good! I might add different spices next time. Maybe chili powder.
Snack:
*veggies (sugar snap peas and carrots) and homemade corn tortilla chips (leftover from lunch), and hummus
Dinner:
*Turkey/spinach wrap: I rolled out one of the other balls of rosemary/whole wheat dough that I had frozen, and before putting in the oven, put some honey mustard, turkey, spinach, and a LCL wedge on there and rolled it up! It was a really tasty wrap/bake thing. *singsong*Taaaaastyyyyyyyy!
*Cup of black coffee
*Granola mix: 1 packet (two bars) crushed up Nature Valley Oats N Honey granola bars, blueberries, slivered almonds, wheat germ, 2 tbsp of plain yogurt and a drizzling of honey.
Lunch:
*Southwestern mix: brown rice, black beans, corn, cilantro, a little bit of hot sauce. Then I made the same corn-tortilla chips I did yesterday and used them to scoop some of the mix. It was pretty good! I might add different spices next time. Maybe chili powder.
Snack:
*veggies (sugar snap peas and carrots) and homemade corn tortilla chips (leftover from lunch), and hummus
Dinner:
*Turkey/spinach wrap: I rolled out one of the other balls of rosemary/whole wheat dough that I had frozen, and before putting in the oven, put some honey mustard, turkey, spinach, and a LCL wedge on there and rolled it up! It was a really tasty wrap/bake thing. *singsong*Taaaaastyyyyyyyy!
Shred, Standby mode, and Pictures.
Did the shred today. Decided to get heavier weights to up the game a little bit. As I was carrying two five pound weights up the two flights of stairs to my room, my breathing quickened and I could feel that it was a little bit tougher. I realized this was the equivalent of carrying my own weight about three weeks ago! Even such a small loss (12 lbs, compared to where I will be in 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, a year) still makes a difference. It was nice to feel a difference when I know I won’t physically see one for another 10-15 pounds or so. Does that count as a NSV? Or just a Non Scale Realization? Whatever it was, I liked it!
The dvd was okay. I was definitely winded again, but I think it’s because I tried harder. Ha, go figure. I could definitely tell that I was better able to do/putting more effort into the pushups. And I was able to do the 5 pound weights with exception to the last strength circuit’s lunch/shoulder weight thing. Even with the 2 pounders my shoulders were still killing me. But I’ll get there. Also, my cardio was better. The abs stuff is where I need the most improvement. I still strain my neck and I am gonna keep at it until I don’t!
I did something fun for me today. I just took a drive. I got my hands on a new CD, grabbed my shades and found a scenic road in rural Virginia. I love driving – I grew up in a family that prefers driving to flying whenever possible (we live in the DC Metro area and DRIVE to Florida. Every time. DRIVE) and I guess I have adopted the love of the road. So I enjoyed the early fall day and took some pictures when I could (safely, mind you! It was a two lane road, and we were either going like 5 miles an hour, or there was nobody behind me and I could stop and snap away!) Anyway here are some pictures:
Pretty countryside.
Cutest house ever. It's yellow with red and white polka dot shutters. Friggin' adorable!
I found water!
I wholeheartedly covet that giant back deck/porch system.
It looks like I did something to change the coloring or what have you, but I didn't! Just somehow the light came out this way. I think it's really pretty.
After the drive I went directly to the gym, because according to the board in the gym AND the online schedule print out, there was a Zumba class at 6:30pm and I was gonna do it! I got to the gym around 6, and just hopped on the bike and leisurely pedaled until 6:30pm. Then…no class. No one was there. So now I’m home. I’m kind of disappointed, but at least I got a little extra movement in with the bike for 30 minutes – though I was going so slow that the bike kept going into standby mode :-P
The dvd was okay. I was definitely winded again, but I think it’s because I tried harder. Ha, go figure. I could definitely tell that I was better able to do/putting more effort into the pushups. And I was able to do the 5 pound weights with exception to the last strength circuit’s lunch/shoulder weight thing. Even with the 2 pounders my shoulders were still killing me. But I’ll get there. Also, my cardio was better. The abs stuff is where I need the most improvement. I still strain my neck and I am gonna keep at it until I don’t!
I did something fun for me today. I just took a drive. I got my hands on a new CD, grabbed my shades and found a scenic road in rural Virginia. I love driving – I grew up in a family that prefers driving to flying whenever possible (we live in the DC Metro area and DRIVE to Florida. Every time. DRIVE) and I guess I have adopted the love of the road. So I enjoyed the early fall day and took some pictures when I could (safely, mind you! It was a two lane road, and we were either going like 5 miles an hour, or there was nobody behind me and I could stop and snap away!) Anyway here are some pictures:
Pretty countryside.
Cutest house ever. It's yellow with red and white polka dot shutters. Friggin' adorable!
I found water!
I wholeheartedly covet that giant back deck/porch system.
It looks like I did something to change the coloring or what have you, but I didn't! Just somehow the light came out this way. I think it's really pretty.
After the drive I went directly to the gym, because according to the board in the gym AND the online schedule print out, there was a Zumba class at 6:30pm and I was gonna do it! I got to the gym around 6, and just hopped on the bike and leisurely pedaled until 6:30pm. Then…no class. No one was there. So now I’m home. I’m kind of disappointed, but at least I got a little extra movement in with the bike for 30 minutes – though I was going so slow that the bike kept going into standby mode :-P
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