Pow!

Day 2 ... walking goal accomplished. How'd ya like that?! Gold Star for me!

My legs are arms are pretty sore today from Mondays workout, but I suspect that I should be fine tomorrow and the plan is to hit the office gym again during my lunch hour.

Food has been good. We had some lovely ground turkey with veg and rice with Rogan Josh(spelling?) Indian sauce over top. Lovely! I've been taking big salads to lunch at the office for the last while and today's was fantastic: Mixed Greens, 1/2 green apple, roasted chicken bits, green grapes, 1 oz brie cheese and a raspberry vinaigrette. Yummy!! That and some laughing cow cheese and whole grain wasa crackers. Lunch was magnificent.

We had a very nice walk - 2miles total. Got home - changed and me and the husband were off to the park. It was getting dark when we finished but got some great blue sky and I was even in shorts. :)

Water today has been poor to appalling. Trying to get some more in my now.

Today has been a good day!

Friday

okay...so I was in bed at 11:30 last night (win) but ended up reading until 12:45am.... hum...perhaps "bed time" was not the real issue here!

Goals for April 3, 2009
1. Done. Activia yogurt eaten at 7:30am
2. Done. Sadly, my legs have that sore quality that suggest I've been "working hard". I admit yesterday I did about 2x as much walking as normal in a day, but my goodness! It was not that much! Happy to be going in the right direction here. :)
3. Done. I was totally exhausted from the late night yesterday.
4. N/A...making plans on what I'm going to do tomorrow - I'm thinking that its going to be a hike of some sort.
5. Done. I really need to remember what day it is - I did 4 and it was the third...hello? Am I in there? lol So I'm going to keep track of how many fulls, how many half (from the knees) and how many "sissy" push ups (knees tucked up and arm press only) I do for each day...then I can track my progress.

Food
Bfast1: pot of activia yogurt
Bfast2: banana + coffee with cream
Snack1: Cashew Cookie Lara bar (yum!)
Snack 2: med half sweet mocha with skim milk
Snack 3: 1 pot fat free vanilla pudding (left over from post surgery foods)
Lunch: Chicken teyiaki with rice and veggies
Snack 4: 4 mini chocolate bars
Snack5: Skim milk London Fog tea lattee, molasses cookie
Dinner1: 1 egg, 1/2 egg whites, 1/2 spinach, 3oz feta cheese, 1 whole wheat pita, 1T becel
Dinner2: 2 turkey&oat burgers, 1 w.w. pita, 2T mustard, 1T ketchup, 1c greens, 1 big bag terra chips.*

Tonight is the last of my running classes sadly. I've not been able to go and I still won't be able to run tonight. The stitches are still mighty tender and I don't want to aggravate them at all while I'm still healing. Bummer. I do have my weekend plans though - so I have been enjoying the extra walking and this week, and so as soon as I can, I want to start my running again.

Same for my yoga class...what a waste! I wish that I hadn't bother to sign up with this surgery. I can't spend time with my head down like what is required in the class... I would be in agony. I'll just have to carry on with my other activities. Shame. I quite liked the yoga.

* updated Saturday. Last night I went to running and then on the way home started having some really terrible food thoughts. It started with Wendy's salad, then decided that I wanted a burger, then forced myself to go to the grocery store and get ground turkey for turkey burgers. Then I let myself look down the chip isle and saw the terra chips.. I bought them and ate the whole bag while cooking. So... not the greatest of evening, but in terms of what I could have done this is still lots better then getting in the drivethrough at McTransfat and getting a couple of burgers, fries and a shake. Ug!

Water Report

Morning - 800ml
Lunch - 600ml
Post lunch - 700ml
Total - 2,100ml

400ml left! I CAN DO EET!!!

Catch up & a Daily Goal

Thursday was pretty uninteresting.

Bfast:
Oatmeal Pancake (plain)
Banana
Clementines x2
Coffee
Lunch:
Large Falafel Pita with lots of veggies and humus
Snack1:
8 small chocolate Easter eggs
Snack 2:
banana
Clementines x2
Snack3:
4 slices turkey breast
Dinner:
6 small slices rye bread
5 oz mozzarella cheese
2T becel
1c Butternut Squash Soup
3 dill pickles

Dinner was… not great. I wanted grilled cheese and soup - I love the bread!!! I've noticed that I've been going a little more out of the normal with chocolate this last bit. I know that I shouldn’t but I still talk myself into it.

I need to get my butt moving more. I did manage to make myself walk the whole way home after work, the sun was out - so it was an easy choice to make. I love me some sunshine! I have to say that my body is still sore from the yoga class on Wednesday…even now I'm I'm sitting I can feel it in my shoulders. Tis a good feeling though.

Tonight is running - I've not been out running in so long now with being sick and the weather getting crappy…that I know its going to be a real struggle tonight. I'm still going to go and do it though!

Today my goal is to drink 2.5L of water before I leave the office tonight. So far... 600ml down 1,900 to go!

WI day and a daily goal

Well... I wish that I had seen Tena's comment on my last post before I stepped on the scale this morning. +1lb. However I did not manage my morning constitutional before weight in, so that had to count for at least some of that! HA! ....two poop posts in a row, how delightful!

I have a headache, my mouth was dry as the sahara this morning and my muscles are sore and tight....hello I'm dehydrated. So....there for we have a daily goal, something that I have not done in a while....

Today's goal: pee at the office 6 times (or more). I'm through 500ml of water so far and I have plans to get through 3L today at the office. I'm going to be using up my share of tp thats for sure.

I will have another weigh-in tomorrow morning and see if I can mitigate some of the damage done over the "weekend of cheese".

PP Update::
2 down, 4 to go!
edit::
4 down and 2 to go!!
I kinda thought that 6 would be easy in a workday... I need to get busy drinking water! 1.5L done so far. I don't think that I'll be getting 3L done in the next hour...but I can do another 500 at least!
Edit::
5 down 1 more to go ... and 1.9L has been consumed! I will imagine that I will need one last trip tot eh bathroom before I get home. Hurray... this is like the first goal that I've set for myself that I've been able to accomplish! LOL!

Sugar Junkie

This morning has not started great - but I'm not going to let that dominate my day.

Bfast:
2c almond milk
2T protien powder
1/3c 1% cottage cheese
2 coffee with cream
1 blueberry scone

Today is office treat day and there are cinnamon buns dripping with icing.

I'm NOT going to have any

So instead - I had a scone from the coffee shop... honestly... I don't think that there is much difference calorically between the two. Regardless... I've not had any water this morning (surprise surprise that I'm "hungry") and I'm jonesing for a treat.

I have my coffee, I'm going to the gym at lunch today, and I'm about to get some water so I can drink this beast into submission then get some less sugar filled foods in me to level out the spike I'm on.

Day is getting better.....

Snack1:
1 lemon pepper 85g tin of tuna
2 hearty rye crackers
Lunch:
1 ham&swiss on rye sammich (mustard, lettuce, ham, swiss, sprouts, tomato, cucumber)
1.5c mixed fruit
(Hidden in bottom drawer bought with my sandwich.... 1 sm packet of salt and vinegar chips...okay... now that I've told, I'm going to throw them away...f*ck...that was easier then I thought...)
Snack2:
2 hearty rye crackers
1tsp butter
Snack3:
1c V8 fruit juice
Dinner:
Sushi Dinner (mixed rolls and sashimi, and a few tempura veggies), green tea.

Exercise:
Walked to work 1km
Gym at lunch - 35min on treadmill. walked warm up and running at 3.6 (did a 4min stint at 4.0)
Post work - 468stairs, walk to sushi restaurant 1.5km

Monday Goals (and a WI)

Well I arrived this morning to a bunch of home made cookies on my desk...ARG! I understand that the person who makes them is proud and enjoys baking. Now I have to try and pawn them off on everyone that comes by so that I don't eat them. Who the he-ll things that I would "need" a dozen cookies? Are they blind?

My goal today - I'm not going to eat any. (there are now only 3 left after I've done typing this. Sadly, everyone who has taken one has expressed to be thier guilt about eating a cookie, I guess I'm a fat agony aunt...perhaps they think that I can relate...I suppose that I can).

Weigh-in this morning - 275lbs. Up 1.8lbs.

Ug... this is an annoying pattern for me. I don't post it here- but I do weight myself every morning. I realize that there are some people who set up camp in "daily weigh ins are not good" and the other camp where "daily weigh ins are good".

I post once a week and try to not let the daily fluctuations bother me. I feel that right now I need the daily scale-step to keep me totally cognisant of what I'm doing and how that is manifested in my weight. I think that I can easily slip into a pattern of gaining over a week unless I see the numbers. I would imagine that this will change further down the path. But for now - its daily. Course...I'm gaining - and I'm weighing in daily... fug.

However, that being said, I seem to always weigh-in lighter on Tuesday mornings then Mondays...If that happens again tomorrow, then I'm changing weight in day to Tuesdays.

The best part about this patterns ups and downs is that the higher days are now lighter then they used to be - so I'm looking at that is moving in the right direction. So I'll take a mini-win for that. Two steps down and one step up... I can handle that.

Wednesday Goals

Today is treat day at the office. I have a lunch in the freezer here, some fruit and veggie snacks, but I forgot to bring my yogurt and cottage cheese. I do have enough food to get me through the day... there is NO NEED for me to have any treats.

There. I said it so that I would know that it is true.

I will NOT have any treats from the office kitchen today.

also...NSV... today the pants that I could "almost" do up.... did up! YAY!!!!!

Edit:: cookie day was survived and I didn't cave. I was ably assisted by the office co-op students. It was like a great white feeding frenzy in there until the cookies were gone! HURRAY!

Not been home yet... we shall see if the Internet is up and working again. If not, I suspect a long time on the phone listening to jazz music.

Treat Day Hell at the office

Today.... its cheese scones, muffins and cookies.

Todays goals are:

1. not have any treats
2. drink +3L water

I can do eeeet!!

edit::

OH YEAH!!! *flips treats the bird* take that treats. I WIN AGAIN!!

me - 2
treats - 0

Friday Nosh & Daily Goal

Bfast:
1c Almond Breeze (unsweetened)
1 med banana
2 tsp cashew/macadamia nut butter
1 whole grain wrap
1 c black tea w/ 1/4 tsp local honey

Snack 1:
1 med skim milk latte

Lunch:
1.5c BNS Mac&Cheese
1c mixed greens (asparagus, peas, spinach)
1/2c Apple&Grain Activia yogurt

Water thus far: 2 liters

Snack 2:
2 slices deli ham
1T mustard
1slice low fat swiss cheese
1 whole grain wrap

Dinner:
2 turkey&chickpea burgers
1c brown rice
1c spinach
1T herb mustard

Snack 4:
3/4c oatmeal
1T protein powder
1/2 raspberries
1 banana

Goal today...I'm not too sure. I got up this morning and weighted myself again ... just to make sure that yesterdays weight wasn't some sort of cosmic joke on me.... Nope. 275.6 again. :)

Oh - I know what my goal today is.... Today is a weekend Goal. To drink 3L of water on both Saturday and Sunday. I'm very bad at getting my water in on weekends. I sleep late, get coffee and don't have a water bottle next to me all the time. This weekend... water central!

Need a little inspiration to get the day started?

I did... I was already plotting how to work in a full-fat muffin to my eating clean challenge when last I clicked over to Becky's site.

yeah... that rocked.



Toady's Goal - besides carry on with the drinking more water - today's goal is really a "tonight goal".

Tonight I am going over to spend NYE with some friends and they are the sort that really like to lay on a big spread. I used to look forward to it, but now...I'm dreading it. So tonight I'm going to eat a BIG dinner and go prepared.

Tonight I'm allowed to have:
2 small helpings of a dessert;
4 pieces of finger food (spanicopita, meatballs etc.);
2T of dip or dressing (with as many veggies as I want); and
1 glass of champers