Another day of studying for finals flew by. And can I just say that my brain my explode if I have to look at one more Chemistry problem tonight.
So here I am.
First the menu for the day:
Breakfast- I had a serving of Kashi Go-Lean with milk and a banana. I love this cereal, but I am a lover of grainy/nutty/crunchy cereals. Since I was a kid. I attribute that to my mean mom who would never let us have the "good" stuff unless we were camping. :) Thanks mom! I know it's something that many people struggle with, but it's good to me.
I also had a 32 oz glass of water.
Snack- 1/4 C fresh pineapple, and a quaker granola bar.
Lunch-leftover chicken enchilada (I made a big pan!) and 32oz water
Snack- green smoothie. 1/2 cup peanuts with the shell.
Diet pepsi-2 cans today
Dinner- Shawn's homemade spaghetti with ground turkey and celery and more water. :) It was hot today. Water was not an issue for me.
Fiber One brownie for desert
Now, some notes. First off, lets talk about that smoothie. So all over pinterest and the blogosphere I've been reading up on these green smoothies. And everyone is raving about them, and how they are so good your kids will drink them up and ask for more! And honestly? I've been really reluctant to try them out, because I just can't see with the ingredients list that they will taste good.
Well after all this talk about getting more veggies in, I took the plunge, grabbed some spinach and some frozen peaches and came home to give it a shot.
I used this recipe Green Smoothie for weight loss recipe, minus the mango (that stuff is insanely expensive) and I used fresh pineapple instead. I also cut back on the spinach because I was just using my magic bullet.
Now, when I finished blending it, it tasted very much like fruity spinach. Which is fine in a salad, but not as a beverage. So I added more peaches. It didn't help. So I added more pineapple and some of the juice. And then I added some vanilla stevia. And then it still tasted like fruity spinach, but since I had so much stuff invested in this tiny cup I tried to give it to my kid. She balked, and then ran away to get a drink because it as "nasty!".
No tricking my kids. So I tried to drink it. Thinking surely I would get used to it. But alas. I did not, and half of it (or possibly more than that) went into the garbage disposal.
So. Your mileage may vary of course. But I think green smoothies are off the menu for me, because I'm sure by the time I get them to not taste like spinach they will not be all that good for me. Now I should add, that I had really high hopes for this. I even took pictures, I was going to post them and rave about how fantastic they were and how you could just drink your veggies while tricking your brain into thinking you were at Dairy Queen. So I really did go into this with a positive mindset. I now suspect most people just pin these things on pinterest in the same vein as I do, to try later, when really the world famous chocolate chip cookie recipe next to it on the board is the one you actually make and eat.
Also, I wanted to note that I don't think I moved my butt out of this chair today. I did dishes. I got up to use the bathroom and refill my water cup. Beyond that, I was firmly planted in front of this damn computer getting my booty kicked by my insane chemistry professor with the homework assignment from hell.
This makes for a long day, and I did get bored. I am feeling pretty good about my food choices today in spite of the fact that I would rather have eaten anything in the house rather than do my work, but I kept asking myself "Are you hungry or bored". Trying to assess this for myself is a goal I have with this journal challenge.
What kind of eater are you? Have you considered why? Have you tried anything that works to keep you on track so you don't give in?
Sunday, April 29, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Food Journal-Day 7 (Katie)
This day was not that great. And this post might follow suit since I'm in a bit of a hurry. I had to work today, like most Saturdays, and I was there from a little after 9 to a little after 5. Then we went home and had dinner and got kids in bed and now I'm here again. And I'll probably be here a while. So that being said you'll have to forgive my brevity and poor food choices alike.
Breakfast: The usual, Carnation Instant Breakfast and an apple.
Snack: 2 Samoa girl scout cookies
Lunch: Left over fajitas from On The Border. It was just meat and veggies (chicken, beef and peppers, onions, and some squash) with 3 small flour tortillas. A bit of rice and refried beans. Diet Mt. Dew.
Snack- A small handful of pretzel crackers and a Vitamin Water.
Another Snack- (we had a really late dinner!) This was partially my husbands fault as it was his idea and also clearly contributed to our late dinner, we went to Dairy Queen where I had a small blizzard. It crossed my mind to get one of their "Mini" blizzards but I honestly have no willpower. And we almost never go there!
Dinner- Grilled boneless, skinless, (tasteless) chicken breast, "shells and cheese" (you know, the kind with white cheese sauce?) I hardly got any of that though because my kids love it, and some yellow and zucchini squash sauteed in a bit of olive oil spray. Glass of milk.
Now that I'm back at work I'm drinking a Red Bull (though this time I'll take full responsibility). And I will probably have something later but I'll make sure it's after midnight so I don't have to record it! ;)
I do have good news though! On the suggestion of a friend I bought a salad spinner! Now I have to hit the store tomorrow so I can get some fixin's and I can bring a salad to work so said friend doesn't make me look bad with her salad!
Breakfast: The usual, Carnation Instant Breakfast and an apple.
Snack: 2 Samoa girl scout cookies
Lunch: Left over fajitas from On The Border. It was just meat and veggies (chicken, beef and peppers, onions, and some squash) with 3 small flour tortillas. A bit of rice and refried beans. Diet Mt. Dew.
Snack- A small handful of pretzel crackers and a Vitamin Water.
Another Snack- (we had a really late dinner!) This was partially my husbands fault as it was his idea and also clearly contributed to our late dinner, we went to Dairy Queen where I had a small blizzard. It crossed my mind to get one of their "Mini" blizzards but I honestly have no willpower. And we almost never go there!
Dinner- Grilled boneless, skinless, (tasteless) chicken breast, "shells and cheese" (you know, the kind with white cheese sauce?) I hardly got any of that though because my kids love it, and some yellow and zucchini squash sauteed in a bit of olive oil spray. Glass of milk.
Now that I'm back at work I'm drinking a Red Bull (though this time I'll take full responsibility). And I will probably have something later but I'll make sure it's after midnight so I don't have to record it! ;)
I do have good news though! On the suggestion of a friend I bought a salad spinner! Now I have to hit the store tomorrow so I can get some fixin's and I can bring a salad to work so said friend doesn't make me look bad with her salad!
Friday, April 27, 2012
Food Journal Day 6 (Kim)
So, I feel like I did a little better today with the fruits and veggies. I even ate less junk food so that is good too. We are on day 17 of a hospital stay for our little one and I am getting really sick of fast food (or any food not cooked in my kitchen for that matter). Today I got to have one home cooked meal!
Breakfast: Carnation instant breakfast (made with about 16 oz. of whole milk) and a banana
Lunch: Chicken salad from the Safeway deli on a kaiser bun, a tomato, some (5-6) sugar snap peas with about 1 tsp. of ranch dressing and about 1 cup of watermelon chunks.
Snack: ONE (believe it or not) Girl Scout Cookie and about 10 Ritz crackers with a slice of pepperoni and a small piece of cheese on each of them.
Dinner: (HOME COOKED!!!) Spaghetti with meat sauce, two small slices of garlic bread and broccoli.
Not too bad for the day, however I did drink two 20 oz. bottles of diet Pepsi and a small carton (think school lunch) of chocolate milk. I did not drink water, which of course I just realized now, so I will be having a glass before I go to bed and that will be my goal for the next few days. If anyone has any suggestions on ways to remember the water throughout the day I really struggle with this and would love the input. I often don't realize how little water I drink until I become really dehydrated...
Breakfast: Carnation instant breakfast (made with about 16 oz. of whole milk) and a banana
Lunch: Chicken salad from the Safeway deli on a kaiser bun, a tomato, some (5-6) sugar snap peas with about 1 tsp. of ranch dressing and about 1 cup of watermelon chunks.
Snack: ONE (believe it or not) Girl Scout Cookie and about 10 Ritz crackers with a slice of pepperoni and a small piece of cheese on each of them.
Dinner: (HOME COOKED!!!) Spaghetti with meat sauce, two small slices of garlic bread and broccoli.
Not too bad for the day, however I did drink two 20 oz. bottles of diet Pepsi and a small carton (think school lunch) of chocolate milk. I did not drink water, which of course I just realized now, so I will be having a glass before I go to bed and that will be my goal for the next few days. If anyone has any suggestions on ways to remember the water throughout the day I really struggle with this and would love the input. I often don't realize how little water I drink until I become really dehydrated...
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Food Journal-Day 5 Heidi
So I'm writing a little early, because not only am I trying to study for a final tomorrow, but I have a choir concert for my second grader to attend this evening as well. I am currently procrastinating (my specialty) but later this evening I know I will be buried in memorizing the nervous system and this will not be on my radar.
This week so far has gone fine. This is pretty normal for me, no PMS and I am a boredom eater not a stress eater, so since I'm swamped with school work, exams, finals, and mom stuff I just don't care that much about food.
Without further ado:
Breakfast: 1 egg and 1/4 corned beef hash.
Lunch: peanut butter and honey sandwich on ww an apple and a Fiber One 90 calorie brownie. Diet Coke
Snack: An apple and a quaker chewy granola bar.
Snack: carrots, I was really hungry around 4:30 so I just munched on a few of these to get my mind back on my studies.
Dinner: Chicken enchiladas that I made last night, and corn.
Snack: I have no idea, but I will edit later if I have one.***I had a Greek Yogurt. :) Tasty, and filling. Good choice I think.
Random: It's going to be a late night, so I will be making coffee.And drinking it. I use a little bit of coffee mate in it, and usually splenda. I'm considering stopping with artificial sweeteners over time, and may try stevia in my coffee. I'm still debating this with myself though. I'll let you know what I decided. ***ETA: I went with the Splenda. But after reading comments I feel a little guilty. ;) I will be working on that in the near future. I may give up soda for the summer. I have to admit, I'm hanging on to it for finals week. It's just not a good time to try to break a bad habit.
I also have had 3 32 oz glasses of water today in addition to my soda.
A few things to note. The corned beef hash--not really all that good for you, but the thing is that I ate 1/4 of a serving for starters, so I'm guessing about 70-80 calories there, and I love it. Plus with the egg, I was full all morning. I really need to change my view on things, because diets don't work for me. I am trying this new thing, I can have what I love, even every day if I want but in moderation. This may save me from falling off the wagon and over eating the stuff I love after about the 3 week mark. (This is when I always falter and struggle and give in and eat way too much crap over the course of a few days).
The other thing is that after my son would only eat peanut butter sandwiches 2 times a day (breakfast and lunch for the majority of his pre-school years and still almost daily for lunch) that we really had to do something about all that sugar. So we use peanut butter that is just peanuts and salt, and we use low-sugar/no sugar jams/jellies. And we only buy wheat bread. I just want to throw that out there, because I think that PBJ can be good for you, and I don't really like meat sandwiches, so you will see a lot of these on my menus. Still kind of high in calories, but again, I know myself, and I won't stick to turkey sandwiches for very long. So I'm trying it my way this time and we shall see how things go.
I should be eating more veggies. I don't know how I'm going to go about that. I am lazy in the kitchen so I hate prepping veggies, even though I love to eat them. I'm also not a fan of most raw veggies. This creates a dilemma for sure. So I'm open to suggestions on how to improve in this area. Let me know if you have any ideas for incorporating veggies without too much effort! :) (And it sounds like I'm not the only one with this problem, it might be genetic!)
ALSO ETA: I want to say that there is so much going on behind the scenes on this blog! Check out the comments section too, some really great conversations are being had there. Thanks so much for reading!
This week so far has gone fine. This is pretty normal for me, no PMS and I am a boredom eater not a stress eater, so since I'm swamped with school work, exams, finals, and mom stuff I just don't care that much about food.
Without further ado:
Breakfast: 1 egg and 1/4 corned beef hash.
Lunch: peanut butter and honey sandwich on ww an apple and a Fiber One 90 calorie brownie. Diet Coke
Snack: An apple and a quaker chewy granola bar.
Snack: carrots, I was really hungry around 4:30 so I just munched on a few of these to get my mind back on my studies.
Dinner: Chicken enchiladas that I made last night, and corn.
Snack: I have no idea, but I will edit later if I have one.***I had a Greek Yogurt. :) Tasty, and filling. Good choice I think.
Random: It's going to be a late night, so I will be making coffee.And drinking it. I use a little bit of coffee mate in it, and usually splenda. I'm considering stopping with artificial sweeteners over time, and may try stevia in my coffee. I'm still debating this with myself though. I'll let you know what I decided. ***ETA: I went with the Splenda. But after reading comments I feel a little guilty. ;) I will be working on that in the near future. I may give up soda for the summer. I have to admit, I'm hanging on to it for finals week. It's just not a good time to try to break a bad habit.
I also have had 3 32 oz glasses of water today in addition to my soda.
A few things to note. The corned beef hash--not really all that good for you, but the thing is that I ate 1/4 of a serving for starters, so I'm guessing about 70-80 calories there, and I love it. Plus with the egg, I was full all morning. I really need to change my view on things, because diets don't work for me. I am trying this new thing, I can have what I love, even every day if I want but in moderation. This may save me from falling off the wagon and over eating the stuff I love after about the 3 week mark. (This is when I always falter and struggle and give in and eat way too much crap over the course of a few days).
The other thing is that after my son would only eat peanut butter sandwiches 2 times a day (breakfast and lunch for the majority of his pre-school years and still almost daily for lunch) that we really had to do something about all that sugar. So we use peanut butter that is just peanuts and salt, and we use low-sugar/no sugar jams/jellies. And we only buy wheat bread. I just want to throw that out there, because I think that PBJ can be good for you, and I don't really like meat sandwiches, so you will see a lot of these on my menus. Still kind of high in calories, but again, I know myself, and I won't stick to turkey sandwiches for very long. So I'm trying it my way this time and we shall see how things go.
I should be eating more veggies. I don't know how I'm going to go about that. I am lazy in the kitchen so I hate prepping veggies, even though I love to eat them. I'm also not a fan of most raw veggies. This creates a dilemma for sure. So I'm open to suggestions on how to improve in this area. Let me know if you have any ideas for incorporating veggies without too much effort! :) (And it sounds like I'm not the only one with this problem, it might be genetic!)
ALSO ETA: I want to say that there is so much going on behind the scenes on this blog! Check out the comments section too, some really great conversations are being had there. Thanks so much for reading!
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Food Journal- Day 4 (Katie)
I had all these fantasies over the last two days about how I was going to have a great day and eat healthy and prove to everyone that I could do it if I tried. But it turns out that when I'm super busy that I don't try that hard. Work has been chaos for two months now and having been out half of both Monday and Tuesday (to go to the fair and to chaperone my second graders field trip ~to a farm to talk about eating healthy of all things~) Wednesday was particularly hard at work.
Breakfast: I started off with my usual Carnation Instant Breakfast. I grabbed an apple on my way out the door but by the time I dropped off the oldest at school and ran a couple errands I had forgotten all about it and it got too hot. I put it in the fridge but not until later in the day. (But hey! It's still there so I can eat it tomorrow!).
Snack: I drank a Red Bull. It's my husbands fault. He bought it and I have no will power when those things are around.
Lunch: A frozen meal with a fish fillet and some macaroni and cheese. It wasn't even very good.
Snack: Banana (YAY! A fruit!)
Dinner: A Beach Club at Jimmie John's with BBQ chips and a big ol' regular Dr. Pepper.
Dessert: About 6 oz of fat free, 25 calories per ounce, Tart Frozen Yogurt with blueberries and kiwi on top.
A few notes:
1. It was Girls Night. Every Wednesday my sisters and I go out to dinner and shopping. We also always get frozen yogurt. I usually load it up with candy and chocolate syrup so tonight I was good and only had fruit. It was delicious and I felt pretty good about it!
2. I should have had iced tea at dinner. I often drink tea but for some reason tonight I just wanted that Dr. Pepper. I think I could cut out a lot of calories (at least when I eat out, I drink Diet Mt. Dew at work) if I only allowed myself to have tea unless it was a special occasion.
3. I need to plan better for food at work. I need to make a menu plan for lunches.
4. I really need to eat more fruits and vegetables!
Today my weight was 152.2. This was a change of -0.2lbs! Ha! And I even went to the fair!
Breakfast: I started off with my usual Carnation Instant Breakfast. I grabbed an apple on my way out the door but by the time I dropped off the oldest at school and ran a couple errands I had forgotten all about it and it got too hot. I put it in the fridge but not until later in the day. (But hey! It's still there so I can eat it tomorrow!).
Snack: I drank a Red Bull. It's my husbands fault. He bought it and I have no will power when those things are around.
Lunch: A frozen meal with a fish fillet and some macaroni and cheese. It wasn't even very good.
Snack: Banana (YAY! A fruit!)
Dinner: A Beach Club at Jimmie John's with BBQ chips and a big ol' regular Dr. Pepper.
Dessert: About 6 oz of fat free, 25 calories per ounce, Tart Frozen Yogurt with blueberries and kiwi on top.
A few notes:
1. It was Girls Night. Every Wednesday my sisters and I go out to dinner and shopping. We also always get frozen yogurt. I usually load it up with candy and chocolate syrup so tonight I was good and only had fruit. It was delicious and I felt pretty good about it!
2. I should have had iced tea at dinner. I often drink tea but for some reason tonight I just wanted that Dr. Pepper. I think I could cut out a lot of calories (at least when I eat out, I drink Diet Mt. Dew at work) if I only allowed myself to have tea unless it was a special occasion.
3. I need to plan better for food at work. I need to make a menu plan for lunches.
4. I really need to eat more fruits and vegetables!
Today my weight was 152.2. This was a change of -0.2lbs! Ha! And I even went to the fair!
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Food Journal- Day 3 (Kim)
Hello all! Kim here reporting in for day 3 of our new blog. This is a first for me so bear with me as I get the hang of it all. When my sisters and I first started talking about doing this and throwing around ideas, this was the one that I was not so sure about but in the end it seemed to be the simplest of the ideas so probably a good one to start with to get the ball rolling.
As I sit here eating a bowl of fresh strawberries with f.f. creamer on them trying to redeem myself at the end of yet another grazing day at the hospital (my baby has been there for the last two weeks). There is not a whole lot to do there so I tend to graze A LOT! At first I planned to be really good all day so that it wouldn't look so bad here but then I thought about why we are doing this and I figured that if I reigned myself in on day 3 just to look good then it would make it more difficult for me on day 99. :O) Besides I think that if I want this 100 day look at my eating habits to do me any good I have to be completely honest with myself and all of you.
So; here goes...
This morning I awoke in the hospital only to realize that I was completely out of my breakfast staples of the past two weeks (carnation instant breakfast and a banana) so I had a Kashi Trail Mix granola bar and some water that was in the room... pretty sad I know but I didn't feel like traipsing to the fridge in the nutrition room for some milk or orange juice and that was about all I had that sounded good for breakfast.
Now as you read yesterday, we gave Heidi the pleasure of reporting on her fair food intake and believe me we gave her loads of crap about it all day. However, I am a sucker for cotton candy and had to bring a bag home with me. So, needless to say this was my snack throughout the day. I bought the jumbo bag, I even let my daughter and my husband have a little (little being the operative word there). But it lasted me throughout the day.
Lunch was a little early for me as you can well imagine a granola bar and cotton candy didn't really fill me up. So I ate about 11:30 instead of my normal 1:30 or 2:00. I had a medium baked potato with Hormel turkey chili on it and a little cheese, I also had two small dinner rolls with butter. REAL butter! I love bread and butter! I also had about 10 oz. of Diet Pepsi.
Again with the cotton candy for a snack (really I just grazed on it all day). I also had some of my husbands soda that was not diet but I ended up not drinking much because it really wasn't very good.
Dinner was my weakest meal of the day. D.H. brought me (at my request) a cheeseburger meal from Mcdonalds. Oi, I hate that I crave greasy foods so much. I ate both the burgers that come in the meal and a medium fry. I also drank a med diet Dr. Pepper.
That is about it for the day. With the exception of the yummy strawberries I just finished off. Hopefully I can just go to bed and forget about food for the night. I always seem to crave the junk right about this time at night. Wish me luck!
As I sit here eating a bowl of fresh strawberries with f.f. creamer on them trying to redeem myself at the end of yet another grazing day at the hospital (my baby has been there for the last two weeks). There is not a whole lot to do there so I tend to graze A LOT! At first I planned to be really good all day so that it wouldn't look so bad here but then I thought about why we are doing this and I figured that if I reigned myself in on day 3 just to look good then it would make it more difficult for me on day 99. :O) Besides I think that if I want this 100 day look at my eating habits to do me any good I have to be completely honest with myself and all of you.
So; here goes...
This morning I awoke in the hospital only to realize that I was completely out of my breakfast staples of the past two weeks (carnation instant breakfast and a banana) so I had a Kashi Trail Mix granola bar and some water that was in the room... pretty sad I know but I didn't feel like traipsing to the fridge in the nutrition room for some milk or orange juice and that was about all I had that sounded good for breakfast.
Now as you read yesterday, we gave Heidi the pleasure of reporting on her fair food intake and believe me we gave her loads of crap about it all day. However, I am a sucker for cotton candy and had to bring a bag home with me. So, needless to say this was my snack throughout the day. I bought the jumbo bag, I even let my daughter and my husband have a little (little being the operative word there). But it lasted me throughout the day.
Lunch was a little early for me as you can well imagine a granola bar and cotton candy didn't really fill me up. So I ate about 11:30 instead of my normal 1:30 or 2:00. I had a medium baked potato with Hormel turkey chili on it and a little cheese, I also had two small dinner rolls with butter. REAL butter! I love bread and butter! I also had about 10 oz. of Diet Pepsi.
Again with the cotton candy for a snack (really I just grazed on it all day). I also had some of my husbands soda that was not diet but I ended up not drinking much because it really wasn't very good.
Dinner was my weakest meal of the day. D.H. brought me (at my request) a cheeseburger meal from Mcdonalds. Oi, I hate that I crave greasy foods so much. I ate both the burgers that come in the meal and a medium fry. I also drank a med diet Dr. Pepper.
That is about it for the day. With the exception of the yummy strawberries I just finished off. Hopefully I can just go to bed and forget about food for the night. I always seem to crave the junk right about this time at night. Wish me luck!
Monday, April 23, 2012
Food Journal - Day 2 (Heidi)
Heidi checking in here. And my sisters thought it would be HILARIOUS to have me post on the day we went to the county fair. Of course!
Ultamately I tried to plan ahead a bit and not make my day a complete bust.
I started off my day with a protein shake for breakfast. These are pretty hit or miss for me. Some days they work great to fill me up and keep me satisfied until lunch. Other days I feel like I'm starving within an hour or two. Usually my shakes are protein powder, oatmeal, some frozen fruit, ice and water. I blend them up with my magic bullet. I love that thing, except that it isn't able to crush up big ice, and my ice maker isn't working so I can't get crushed ice. I digress.
I had a pretty hectic morning, so I fortunately felt full until after class let out. I had some peanut butter crackers with me and that worked until I got home from running errands, around 1:30. I also stopped at Circle K and grabbed a diet Dr. Pepper, aka Liquid of the Gods, and my one true addiction.
For lunch I had a frozen burrito and three cuties.
But then it came time for the fair. It's so hard to be good. Are you kidding me? Giant piles of fried goodness in every form. Meat on sticks. Bags of spun sugar. So.very.hard.
I started out having wokked noodles and terryaki chicken. I'm not going to say it was healthy, but it was chock full of veggies and protein, and I think there were worse things I could have eaten for dinner at the fair. :)
Then I enjoyed:
1/2 a caramel apple, and I'm being generous because my 2 year old nephew ate most of the caramel. He informed me "I don't eat that apple, only THIS part" while pointing at the caramel. And he wasn't lying. He mostly at the caramel off and what he missed his sister happily sucked off. So mostly I had apple. On a stick.
1/2 of a funnel cake. I shared with my guy.
A small pinch of cotton candy.
And 4 small handfuls of cinnamon roasted almonds from my brother in law, then I walked away from him before 4 turned into 24. Those things are like crack. I would guess I had about 20-30 almonds. Drat.
That's it though. I think I fared (pun intended, you are welcome Chris) pretty well.
One other thing, I'm not feeling super happy with my weight right now. And I struggle to lose it. I am doing a lot of things right now that are a hindrance to this process rather than a help, and that is mostly because I'm lazy. I won't lie. And it's also frustrating for many reasons, one of which (and this is a pretty big one) is that I suffer from arthritis in both ankles and knees, bursitis in my hips, and plantar faciitis in both feet. One worse than the other. This makes aerobic exercise difficult and strength training very difficult. I'm looking into some water options and some other things. All this to say that I'm not comfortable posting my weight just yet. I think that time will come. Another day, another post.
In the meantime, thanks for stopping by, and I hope that you keep reading. Like Katie said, I think this blog will surprise you. And will be interesting. Enjoy.
Ultamately I tried to plan ahead a bit and not make my day a complete bust.
I started off my day with a protein shake for breakfast. These are pretty hit or miss for me. Some days they work great to fill me up and keep me satisfied until lunch. Other days I feel like I'm starving within an hour or two. Usually my shakes are protein powder, oatmeal, some frozen fruit, ice and water. I blend them up with my magic bullet. I love that thing, except that it isn't able to crush up big ice, and my ice maker isn't working so I can't get crushed ice. I digress.
I had a pretty hectic morning, so I fortunately felt full until after class let out. I had some peanut butter crackers with me and that worked until I got home from running errands, around 1:30. I also stopped at Circle K and grabbed a diet Dr. Pepper, aka Liquid of the Gods, and my one true addiction.
For lunch I had a frozen burrito and three cuties.
But then it came time for the fair. It's so hard to be good. Are you kidding me? Giant piles of fried goodness in every form. Meat on sticks. Bags of spun sugar. So.very.hard.
I started out having wokked noodles and terryaki chicken. I'm not going to say it was healthy, but it was chock full of veggies and protein, and I think there were worse things I could have eaten for dinner at the fair. :)
Then I enjoyed:
1/2 a caramel apple, and I'm being generous because my 2 year old nephew ate most of the caramel. He informed me "I don't eat that apple, only THIS part" while pointing at the caramel. And he wasn't lying. He mostly at the caramel off and what he missed his sister happily sucked off. So mostly I had apple. On a stick.
1/2 of a funnel cake. I shared with my guy.
A small pinch of cotton candy.
And 4 small handfuls of cinnamon roasted almonds from my brother in law, then I walked away from him before 4 turned into 24. Those things are like crack. I would guess I had about 20-30 almonds. Drat.
That's it though. I think I fared (pun intended, you are welcome Chris) pretty well.
One other thing, I'm not feeling super happy with my weight right now. And I struggle to lose it. I am doing a lot of things right now that are a hindrance to this process rather than a help, and that is mostly because I'm lazy. I won't lie. And it's also frustrating for many reasons, one of which (and this is a pretty big one) is that I suffer from arthritis in both ankles and knees, bursitis in my hips, and plantar faciitis in both feet. One worse than the other. This makes aerobic exercise difficult and strength training very difficult. I'm looking into some water options and some other things. All this to say that I'm not comfortable posting my weight just yet. I think that time will come. Another day, another post.
In the meantime, thanks for stopping by, and I hope that you keep reading. Like Katie said, I think this blog will surprise you. And will be interesting. Enjoy.
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Food Journal - Day 1 (Katie)
The first day falls to me, Katie. Welcome to our blog! If you didn't read the introductory post feel free to go check that out first for a little background information.
We decided to do our first 100 days as a food journal. Like I said before our initial discussions centered around this blog being health related. So while we debated the virtues of giving up sugar or soda or chocolate we eventually came to the conclusion that we needed a way to define our weaknesses. We are all overweight so weight loss methods are something we've all read up on (if not implemented, ahem) and we all know that nearly every diet or lifestyle change plan tells you the first thing to do is to write down what you eat. This makes you accountable. I'm hoping that this will make me accountable because I'm currently gaining weight at an unprecedented rate (except for the three times I was pregnant, but I assure you that is not my excuse this time!). In fact I've decided to post my weight (eek!) for all to see just to satisfy my own morbid curiosity if just being accountable to someone or something will help me make better choices, and hopefully, lose some weight.
So far though, it didn't work very well. Despite knowing I was going to have to write this all down I still ate all this today:
Breakfast:
Carnation Instant breakfast in about 16 ounces of 2% milk and a banana.
Snack:
A handful of Cheez-it crackers and a little pack of dinosaur fruit snacks I stole from the kids. A Diet Mt. Dew.
Lunch:
A Healthy Choice Steamers (lemon chicken).
Snack:
An Orange Dream Eegee's (for those of you outside Arizona you won't know what this is...but it is heaven and it is frozen and it is kind of like a slushy. Only they tell you it contains vitamins and real fruit so it is healthy!--Shut up!) Some more Cheez-it crackers, and a Fruit and Grain cereal bar.
Dinner:
Something my mom makes and calls "Oriental Chicken Salad". It has some chicken breast, some cabbage, some oil of some kind, sesame seeds and probably some other things too but I've never made it so I'm not really sure. But it's really yummy! I had some Ritz crackers with that and a glass of chocolate milk.
Dessert: A slice of angel food cake with whipped cream and a scoop of vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup. (some of this was reduced sugar I bet, since I was at my moms and my dad is diabetic)
Snack (again):
A smoothie made with berries, vanilla Greek yogurt, a scoop of raspberry sorbet, orange juice and ice. A hard boiled egg.
Oh boy! Looking through that makes me feel full. (which is probably sort of the point). I clearly need to cut down on snacking on junk (WHERE are the fruits and veggies?!?) and probably cut down on sugar.
Today my weight is: 152.4
And now I'll be passing the honor on to Heidi who gets to do her first post all about eating at the county fair...hopefully she won't feel too restricted and can feel better the next time she posts!
We decided to do our first 100 days as a food journal. Like I said before our initial discussions centered around this blog being health related. So while we debated the virtues of giving up sugar or soda or chocolate we eventually came to the conclusion that we needed a way to define our weaknesses. We are all overweight so weight loss methods are something we've all read up on (if not implemented, ahem) and we all know that nearly every diet or lifestyle change plan tells you the first thing to do is to write down what you eat. This makes you accountable. I'm hoping that this will make me accountable because I'm currently gaining weight at an unprecedented rate (except for the three times I was pregnant, but I assure you that is not my excuse this time!). In fact I've decided to post my weight (eek!) for all to see just to satisfy my own morbid curiosity if just being accountable to someone or something will help me make better choices, and hopefully, lose some weight.
So far though, it didn't work very well. Despite knowing I was going to have to write this all down I still ate all this today:
Breakfast:
Carnation Instant breakfast in about 16 ounces of 2% milk and a banana.
Snack:
A handful of Cheez-it crackers and a little pack of dinosaur fruit snacks I stole from the kids. A Diet Mt. Dew.
Lunch:
A Healthy Choice Steamers (lemon chicken).
Snack:
An Orange Dream Eegee's (for those of you outside Arizona you won't know what this is...but it is heaven and it is frozen and it is kind of like a slushy. Only they tell you it contains vitamins and real fruit so it is healthy!--Shut up!) Some more Cheez-it crackers, and a Fruit and Grain cereal bar.
Dinner:
Something my mom makes and calls "Oriental Chicken Salad". It has some chicken breast, some cabbage, some oil of some kind, sesame seeds and probably some other things too but I've never made it so I'm not really sure. But it's really yummy! I had some Ritz crackers with that and a glass of chocolate milk.
Dessert: A slice of angel food cake with whipped cream and a scoop of vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup. (some of this was reduced sugar I bet, since I was at my moms and my dad is diabetic)
Snack (again):
A smoothie made with berries, vanilla Greek yogurt, a scoop of raspberry sorbet, orange juice and ice. A hard boiled egg.
Oh boy! Looking through that makes me feel full. (which is probably sort of the point). I clearly need to cut down on snacking on junk (WHERE are the fruits and veggies?!?) and probably cut down on sugar.
Today my weight is: 152.4
And now I'll be passing the honor on to Heidi who gets to do her first post all about eating at the county fair...hopefully she won't feel too restricted and can feel better the next time she posts!
The beginning
The first post. It's always the hardest and the reason may be that it's really hard to define exactly what a blog will be. When I suggested to my sisters that we start this blog I really didn't think it would happen. But now they are nagging at me to start posting and we've already decided what to do for the first 100 days and what to do for the next 100 days (though I'm not sharing that right now, sometimes surprises are fun...and sometimes we like to change our minds!)
Initially when we were talking it sounded like this blog would be health related. And I guess that now it seems that it will be health related, but not necessarily all physical health (this is the only hint you're getting about the next 100 days so pay attention!), it might also pull in some aspects you might call mental health as well.
So a quick introduction to who we are. We are three sisters. We grew up in rural Idaho and ended up moving south seeking heat! All three of us are married and we have children but we do our best to remain best friends. Even our husbands like each other (but no one tell them we said that). This blog (in theory) will have a new post every single day. That sounds difficult but with three of us it shouldn't be that bad since we'll only have to write one post every third day! We'll let you know who is writing the post right up front (except this post, which is being written by Katie though I didn't let you know that right away!). After time it will probably be obvious who is writing because we do have very different styles. Tomorrow Heidi will be posting, then Kim. In real life that isn't in order, but since it was my idea I got nominated to write this post, in real life our birth order is Heidi, Kim and then Katie.
So what's the best way to keep us motivated to write this blog? Comment on our posts, follow us and share us with your friends! We hope this will be fun, engaging and entertaining for everyone!
Initially when we were talking it sounded like this blog would be health related. And I guess that now it seems that it will be health related, but not necessarily all physical health (this is the only hint you're getting about the next 100 days so pay attention!), it might also pull in some aspects you might call mental health as well.
So a quick introduction to who we are. We are three sisters. We grew up in rural Idaho and ended up moving south seeking heat! All three of us are married and we have children but we do our best to remain best friends. Even our husbands like each other (but no one tell them we said that). This blog (in theory) will have a new post every single day. That sounds difficult but with three of us it shouldn't be that bad since we'll only have to write one post every third day! We'll let you know who is writing the post right up front (except this post, which is being written by Katie though I didn't let you know that right away!). After time it will probably be obvious who is writing because we do have very different styles. Tomorrow Heidi will be posting, then Kim. In real life that isn't in order, but since it was my idea I got nominated to write this post, in real life our birth order is Heidi, Kim and then Katie.
So what's the best way to keep us motivated to write this blog? Comment on our posts, follow us and share us with your friends! We hope this will be fun, engaging and entertaining for everyone!
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