Eh, who cares. I've fallen off of it anyway. Fortunately, I've been able to stay on the arc the full half-hour lately. :D I'm proud. I got my Walk Away the Pounds dvd, and I'm planning on trying it out tomorrow or Saturday.
I'm also thinking about taking up running. Of course where and when and what I'm going to do with the children are issues.
I'm doing okay in the food department. Eating until full and then stopping seems to be helping.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Progress!
I wore a pair of shorts of DH's for my oldest's birthday party this past weekend. They fit a couple of weeks ago. They're now too big!!! :D Yay!
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Woohoo!
Lookit the ticker:
Aww, yeah!
I bought a pair of denim capris at Old Navy last week. They were size 16, and they fit relatively well in the store. I got them home, washed them, and no way do those suckers fit. Way too loose and baggy! :D
I'm starting to notice muscle in my legs I didn't have before, and DH walked up to me and poked my butt the other day, then said there was muscle there. :giggle That was a nice little motivator.
In other news, Kroger brand caramel mini-rice snacks (mini rice cakes) are $1.49. Not only that, but they are 60 calories per serving (8 pieces), and don't have the horrid sucralose and acesulfame potassium that the Quaker brand does. I'm happy I've found something to satisfy my sweet tooth that will not totally blow my calorie count for the day.
Aww, yeah!
I bought a pair of denim capris at Old Navy last week. They were size 16, and they fit relatively well in the store. I got them home, washed them, and no way do those suckers fit. Way too loose and baggy! :D
I'm starting to notice muscle in my legs I didn't have before, and DH walked up to me and poked my butt the other day, then said there was muscle there. :giggle That was a nice little motivator.
In other news, Kroger brand caramel mini-rice snacks (mini rice cakes) are $1.49. Not only that, but they are 60 calories per serving (8 pieces), and don't have the horrid sucralose and acesulfame potassium that the Quaker brand does. I'm happy I've found something to satisfy my sweet tooth that will not totally blow my calorie count for the day.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Back on the wagon
Breakfast
Spirutein Shake
Whole Milk
Strawberries
Raspberries - Frozen Fruit
Lunch
Mixed Baby Greens - Organic Specialty Salads
Carrots
Kraft Natural Cube Cheese - Colby & Monterey Jack - Cube Cheese
Full Circle Dressing Organic Goddess - Salad Dressing, Mayonnaise, Sandwich Spreads --okay, so it was actually Annie's All Natural, but they don't have that one in the system, and the calorie division is the same.
Egg, Whole - Cooked, Hard-boiled -2 of them
Total Calories Consumed
843
Plus another 870 for the remainder of last night's 1270 calorie dessert.
That's okay. Dinner is yet to come, and it will be a good one.
Plus, I spent 30 minutes on the treadmill and bike today, and we're planning to go for a walk when DH gets home, as it's just this side of nice. I burned 158 calories with my workout this morning, and later, I walked around the house. And lifted the baby a lot.
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No walk. I messed up my back picking up the 22 pound baby who will be much easier when he finally learns to walk (13 months and counting....none of his brothers walked before 15 months), so we got a trip to the chiro instead. I love my chiro. My back feels better, and that's good.
But I'm hungry again. I'm noticing that the days I work out leave me ravenous all day. That's frustrating. On the good side, I scratched my leg the other day, and noticed that there was muscle where there hadn't been any before. :D I'll take it!
I need to get into belly binding--even though it's been waaaaaay more than 40 days since I gave birth, I wonder if it would still have an effect. My abs are nowhere near as strong as they need to be. Must. do. more. pilates.
Here's the dinner/afterdinner/dessert/midnight snack breakdown:
Dinner
Beef, Ground, 85% Lean Meat / 15% Fat, Loaf - Cooked, Baked (meatloaf ala DH--tasty)
Broccoli - Cooked, Boiled, Drained, Without Salt
Mixed Baby Greens - Organic Specialty Salads
More Goddess dressing
Ketchup
Snacks
Egg, Yolk - Raw, Fresh
Stop & Shop Sugar Pure Cane Granulated
Cocoa, Dry Powder, Unsweetened
The rest of the Molten Chocolate Cake with chocolate and caramel
Beef, Ground, 85% Lean Meat / 15% Fat, Loaf - Cooked, Baked
Total Calories Consumed
2,299
The above is about right. There isn't a calorie counter that I've been able to find that takes breastfeeding into account. Ollie still nurses quite a bit, in addition to nursing at night still (nightweaning really is just around the corner), and Henry still nurses twice a day. I have a fairly abundant milk supply, so it's a pretty safe bet that I'm burning around 300 calories that way, too.
Wow, that's a lot of food. And now I'm hungry again, so I need a very light snack, and then off to bed. :yawn
Spirutein Shake
Whole Milk
Strawberries
Raspberries - Frozen Fruit
Lunch
Mixed Baby Greens - Organic Specialty Salads
Carrots
Kraft Natural Cube Cheese - Colby & Monterey Jack - Cube Cheese
Full Circle Dressing Organic Goddess - Salad Dressing, Mayonnaise, Sandwich Spreads --okay, so it was actually Annie's All Natural, but they don't have that one in the system, and the calorie division is the same.
Egg, Whole - Cooked, Hard-boiled -2 of them
Total Calories Consumed
843
Plus another 870 for the remainder of last night's 1270 calorie dessert.
That's okay. Dinner is yet to come, and it will be a good one.
Plus, I spent 30 minutes on the treadmill and bike today, and we're planning to go for a walk when DH gets home, as it's just this side of nice. I burned 158 calories with my workout this morning, and later, I walked around the house. And lifted the baby a lot.
______________________________
No walk. I messed up my back picking up the 22 pound baby who will be much easier when he finally learns to walk (13 months and counting....none of his brothers walked before 15 months), so we got a trip to the chiro instead. I love my chiro. My back feels better, and that's good.
But I'm hungry again. I'm noticing that the days I work out leave me ravenous all day. That's frustrating. On the good side, I scratched my leg the other day, and noticed that there was muscle where there hadn't been any before. :D I'll take it!
I need to get into belly binding--even though it's been waaaaaay more than 40 days since I gave birth, I wonder if it would still have an effect. My abs are nowhere near as strong as they need to be. Must. do. more. pilates.
Here's the dinner/afterdinner/dessert/midnight snack breakdown:
Dinner
Beef, Ground, 85% Lean Meat / 15% Fat, Loaf - Cooked, Baked (meatloaf ala DH--tasty)
Broccoli - Cooked, Boiled, Drained, Without Salt
Mixed Baby Greens - Organic Specialty Salads
More Goddess dressing
Ketchup
Snacks
Egg, Yolk - Raw, Fresh
Stop & Shop Sugar Pure Cane Granulated
Cocoa, Dry Powder, Unsweetened
The rest of the Molten Chocolate Cake with chocolate and caramel
Beef, Ground, 85% Lean Meat / 15% Fat, Loaf - Cooked, Baked
Total Calories Consumed
2,299
The above is about right. There isn't a calorie counter that I've been able to find that takes breastfeeding into account. Ollie still nurses quite a bit, in addition to nursing at night still (nightweaning really is just around the corner), and Henry still nurses twice a day. I have a fairly abundant milk supply, so it's a pretty safe bet that I'm burning around 300 calories that way, too.
Wow, that's a lot of food. And now I'm hungry again, so I need a very light snack, and then off to bed. :yawn
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Meh
I've done "okay" with calories the last couple of days. It's getting exercise that needs to be the priority right now. I'm going to the gym twice a week (I have noooo idea how that is going to happen once school starts up again and DH is back to work), but I need a little more than that. I keep forgetting to run up and down the stairs (ADD much? Yes, as a matter of fact), and after trying my friend Robin's Wii Fit, um, I want one. Bad.
I will post the official calorie count from the last few days in a bit. For now, I must go wake up the husband (who snuck off to the boys' room and fell asleep as soon as I got up this morning), and then.......we garden.
I will post the official calorie count from the last few days in a bit. For now, I must go wake up the husband (who snuck off to the boys' room and fell asleep as soon as I got up this morning), and then.......we garden.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Stairs suck.
I didn't get to the Y Friday or today. So I ran up and down the stairs at home for a minute and twenty-five seconds. My thighs and calves are screaming at me, and I'm thoroughly winded. I made it up and down 5 times. Go me.
Of course, I also ate 8 freshly made oatmeal cookies. My excuse? I was reading a twin birth story. Birth stories rev up my adrenaline and make me eat whatever I'm eating faster. I'm much more balanced when at a real birth.
In birth news, my current client and I have decided to make her prenatals the Gelato Tour of our city. ;) I think it's a good plan.
Calorie intake: 1,353 calories
Physical activity: Walking around Lowe's, chasing Number One (age 4), and running up and down the basement stairs 5 times (each up and down counts as 1).
Calories burned? 230ish.
Of course, I also ate 8 freshly made oatmeal cookies. My excuse? I was reading a twin birth story. Birth stories rev up my adrenaline and make me eat whatever I'm eating faster. I'm much more balanced when at a real birth.
In birth news, my current client and I have decided to make her prenatals the Gelato Tour of our city. ;) I think it's a good plan.
Calorie intake: 1,353 calories
Physical activity: Walking around Lowe's, chasing Number One (age 4), and running up and down the basement stairs 5 times (each up and down counts as 1).
Calories burned? 230ish.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Hot Schmot, or, The Head Cold Cometh
I'm sick. :hack :cough
Wed, Jun 11 2008 Grade Grams Cals
Breakfast
Chocolate chocolate chip muffin D 142 490
Lunch
Burrito Supreme - Beef - Burritos C- 248 440
Cheesy Bean & Rice Burrito C- 796 490
Dinner
Chicken, Breast, Meat Only - Cooked, Roasted B 140 231
Total Calories Consumed 1,651
And I'm not hungry. Key here, I haven't been very physically active today at all, and I think that's why I'm full on a little over 1600 calories.
Tomorrow, I should be feeling better, and I intend to take the small people to the zoo, which should get the juices going.
Wed, Jun 11 2008 Grade Grams Cals
Breakfast
Chocolate chocolate chip muffin D 142 490
Lunch
Burrito Supreme - Beef - Burritos C- 248 440
Cheesy Bean & Rice Burrito C- 796 490
Dinner
Chicken, Breast, Meat Only - Cooked, Roasted B 140 231
Total Calories Consumed 1,651
And I'm not hungry. Key here, I haven't been very physically active today at all, and I think that's why I'm full on a little over 1600 calories.
Tomorrow, I should be feeling better, and I intend to take the small people to the zoo, which should get the juices going.
Monday, June 9, 2008
Breakfast...or something like it
Breakfast:
1/2 cup of raspberries (.5)
1 cup of organic whole milk (4 points)
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt (1.5 points)
2 eggs (4 points)
2 slices of whole wheat toast (4 points)
2 teaspoons of butter (2 points)
16 points for breakfast. I usually have 3 eggs with two pieces of toast, but figured in the interest of point reduction I'd have only two. I think what I'll do next time is nix one of the pieces of toast. That gets rid of one of the points of butter, too.
I have 21 points left for the rest of the day.
I'm off to the Y with my oldest child, after a night of crappy sleep quality, thanks to a baby who is both teething and on the verge of developmental leaps, and some crazy growth spurt that seems to require him to nurse all night. I see nightweaning in our future.....
Lunch, and then I'm off to work:
1 cup of red beans and rice (5 points)
2 cups of salad (0 points)
2 T green goddess dressing, which I did not realize until afterwards has 4 points.
3 Jolly Ranchers (1 point)
Dinner:
1.5 cups green beans (0 points)
1 cup red beans and rice (5 points)
2T green goddess dressing (4 points)
Snack:
2 carrots (0 points)
That killed my point allowance for the day, but I was still starving. So I added up the calories for all of that instead, and came up with 1620. 1500 is the bare minimum recommended by LLL for a nursing mother. Yeah, I'd lose on that amount, but that's a pretty drastic reduction, combined with a marked increase in physical activity. I think I'm going to have to rethink my strategy. Not ditch it, mind you, just rethink it a little. I will probably use some calorie counting, which I have avoided in the past due to a tendency to obsess, although I've never directly obsessed over calories before (PF Chang's Great Wall of Chocolate aside), and keep up the increased physical activity.
1/2 cup of raspberries (.5)
1 cup of organic whole milk (4 points)
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt (1.5 points)
2 eggs (4 points)
2 slices of whole wheat toast (4 points)
2 teaspoons of butter (2 points)
16 points for breakfast. I usually have 3 eggs with two pieces of toast, but figured in the interest of point reduction I'd have only two. I think what I'll do next time is nix one of the pieces of toast. That gets rid of one of the points of butter, too.
I have 21 points left for the rest of the day.
I'm off to the Y with my oldest child, after a night of crappy sleep quality, thanks to a baby who is both teething and on the verge of developmental leaps, and some crazy growth spurt that seems to require him to nurse all night. I see nightweaning in our future.....
Lunch, and then I'm off to work:
1 cup of red beans and rice (5 points)
2 cups of salad (0 points)
2 T green goddess dressing, which I did not realize until afterwards has 4 points.
3 Jolly Ranchers (1 point)
Dinner:
1.5 cups green beans (0 points)
1 cup red beans and rice (5 points)
2T green goddess dressing (4 points)
Snack:
2 carrots (0 points)
That killed my point allowance for the day, but I was still starving. So I added up the calories for all of that instead, and came up with 1620. 1500 is the bare minimum recommended by LLL for a nursing mother. Yeah, I'd lose on that amount, but that's a pretty drastic reduction, combined with a marked increase in physical activity. I think I'm going to have to rethink my strategy. Not ditch it, mind you, just rethink it a little. I will probably use some calorie counting, which I have avoided in the past due to a tendency to obsess, although I've never directly obsessed over calories before (PF Chang's Great Wall of Chocolate aside), and keep up the increased physical activity.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Dinner
Bleh. 2 cups of red beans and rice with 2T sour cream with broccoli and cauliflower. I can see that portion control is now on the menu.
Dinner:
-Red beans and rice (5 points/serving, 2 servings, 10 points)
-Sour Cream (1 point per Tablespoon, 2T, 2 points).
-Steamed broccoli and cauliflower (0 points)
That's 12 points for dinner.
Now, if I want dessert, I can dip into my flex points and have a zabaglione (discovered thanks to a thread on GCM) with a teensy bit of chocolate syrup for 5 points. I'm debating.
I think I'm also going to make myself a visual aid. I have some leftover cardstock cuttings from work, and I think I'll make 37 little strips and 35 strips (I have yellow and white), and transfer them from pocket to pocket, and let the flex strips stay all week. Sunday (today) is my start day. I can do this.
Aaaaaaaaaaaand 5 flex points for dessert. Yum. That is all.
Dinner:
-Red beans and rice (5 points/serving, 2 servings, 10 points)
-Sour Cream (1 point per Tablespoon, 2T, 2 points).
-Steamed broccoli and cauliflower (0 points)
That's 12 points for dinner.
Now, if I want dessert, I can dip into my flex points and have a zabaglione (discovered thanks to a thread on GCM) with a teensy bit of chocolate syrup for 5 points. I'm debating.
I think I'm also going to make myself a visual aid. I have some leftover cardstock cuttings from work, and I think I'll make 37 little strips and 35 strips (I have yellow and white), and transfer them from pocket to pocket, and let the flex strips stay all week. Sunday (today) is my start day. I can do this.
Aaaaaaaaaaaand 5 flex points for dessert. Yum. That is all.
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