8-25-08

Happy Monday!

I am finishing up my healthy lunch as I type this, defying all recommendations to EAT when you eat and not do anything else.  That doesn’t work for me – the more I pay attention to food, the more I want!

Eating today:

Breakfast: WW english muffin, peanut butter, milk, fruit cup

Lunch – Lean Cuisine (with 2x the usual veggies), cucumber salad (cucumbers sliced very thin, onions sliced very thin, hot red pepper, rice vinegar)

Dinner – Mexican Pizza – vegetarian meal – ww crust, salsa, black beans, shredded cheese, red onion, tomatoes

WATER, Lemon Water after dinner tonight

Weigh loss: 8.2 pounds

GO ME!

Exercise – WATP 3 mile or the gym

My husband is out of town tomorrow night so I will have to work out at home, so maybe the gym would be a good thing tonight. I was up with the little one last night (nosebleed again) so getting up early this morning didn’t happen.

Sigh.

But – just because it didn’t happen today doesn’t mean it won’t happen tomorrow!

I just have to talk myself into it – HOW BAD DO I WANT IT??? RED BIKINI RED BIKINI RED BIKINI!!!!

THURSDAYYYYY

Happy Thursday! Best known for, well, for being the day before Friday!

I did not get to work out last night after all. It was a two-fer loser, and me, I can spot a sign.

First, it was still 95 degrees when it was time to go to the track. Sorry, people. But I know my limits.

Second, I had decided I would do the Walk Away The Pounds 3 mile work out and I was on my way down the stairs to do it and my knee popped. And I almost fell down the stairs but luckily did not. I stayed off it for a bit, and the pain went from barely tolerable to not too bad, and so I walked around the house a little bit. It was the same this morning – sometimes I can walk as far as I want and no pain and sometimes by the time I’m on my third step I am on my knees.  So, I am going swimming tonight – I guess I need to let it rest some but I can’t stop working out completely. I am making progress, and I am not willing to just sit back on my ass. The guilt would kill me. And honestly, I look forward to my exercise. I feel so strong and vibrant and like the life that got sucked out of me at work is poured back in.  Before, this would have been a great excuse to give up.  Now, it’s a small bump in the road.

But, if swimming hurts it too I guess I will have to reevaluate. Perhaps get some actual medical advice. Blegh!

Today I am eating:

Breakfast – egg, english muffin, nectarine, milk

Snack – yogurt, 1 tsp brown sugar, blueberries

Lunch – Salad and grilled chicken

Snack – cottage cheese, grapes

Dinner – (Will be late, which is the only reason I am having snacks today) – no idea yet, something veggie and protein intense!

News on Exercise

OK so you know how the mysterious “they” have been telling us for years that a half hour of moderate exercise three times a week was beneficial…could even help you lose weight. I always felt like that was wrong, that it was too easy, too good to be true!

Turns out, I was right. The news today was that in order to lose weight you have to BUST IT for an hour a day!  Check out this article on Healthhabits!

That makes more sense…and the minute I can breathe again I am back at it, because I think it works!

Day 5:

Usual breakfast plus hot tea with lemon

Snack:none. Felt too bad!

Lunch: 2 pcs thin crust veggie pizza

Snack: none! Slept through it.

Dinner: Bear Cristo sandwich, salad

Weight loss: 4.6 pounds

Some musings about protein

A healthy diet includes some protein at every meal.  “Eating a little high protein food at each meal helps reduce the appetite plus the body uses energy to convert protein to carbohydrates.” (from weightlossforall.com)  However…”Many foods that are relatively high in protein are also high in fat…try to limit your intake of protein sources that derive more than 30 percent of their calories from fat.”  (from new-fitness.com)  So what do those high-protein, low-fat foods include?  Cottage cheese, with 17% from fat…milk, with 5%…low-fat plain yogurt at 25%…light meat chicken at 26%…tuna at 12%.  Then there’s oatmeal, brown rice, spaghetti, whole wheat bread, lentils, lima beans, and kidney beans.  Nuts are high in fat, as are cheese, eggs, beef, and peanut butter.  Dang!  Why are the ones I like the best the ones with the most fat?…………Oh.  Yeah.

Well, Cupcake, this is definitely going to take some work.  Some getting accustomed to.  We’re going to have to become more EVOLVED, eating-wise!