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PROGRESS REPORT

Starting weight (7/5/2009): 212.8

Last week’s weight (12/13/2009): 177.8

This week’s weight (12/20/2009): 177.6

This week’s weight loss / gain: Loss 0.2 pounds

Total weight loss: Lost 35.2 pounds

Next Milestone: Four (4) pound weight loss in December (176 goal weight for 12/31)

This weeks weigh in was so disappointing that I procrastinated putting it up until today (12/26), only one day before my next weigh-in.  I dipped as low as 176.4 earlier in the week, which was majorly exciting, but PMS and holiday meals got the better of me.

A warning:  I expect tomorrow’s weigh in will be much more disgraceful.  Stay tuned.

For my photo food journal, click here.

PROGRESS REPORT

Starting weight (7/5/2009):                212.8

Last week’s weight (12/6/2009):        180.4

This week’s weight (12/13/2009):      177.8

This week’s weight loss / gain:           Loss 2.6 pounds

Total weight loss:                                Lost 35 pounds

Next Milestone:                                   Four (4) pound weight loss in December (176 goal weight for 12/31)

Is this real?  Am I really 177.8 pounds?  Six months ago I would have never thought I would have made it this far (35 lbs lost) by now.  What is even more surprising is that I lost 2.6 lbs this week even with lots of snacking, three huge “dining out” meals, and my company’s holiday party last night.

Speaking of the holiday party, it was nice to wear an outfit I haven’t worn in years.  It was even nicer to not worry about whether my “foundations” (body shaper, control top pantyhose, etc.) were failing me or peeking out.  I was really comfortable and carefree in my size 14 outfit (misses, not plus - finally!)!!

For my photo food journal, click here.  Sorry its not up to date just yet.  I’m pretty swamped but will catch up soon!

PROGRESS REPORT

Starting weight (7/5/2009):                212.8

Last week’s weight (11/29/2009):      180.8

This week’s weight (12/6/2009):        180.4

This week’s weight loss / gain:           Loss 0.4 pounds

Total weight loss:                                Lost 32.4 pounds

I admit, I was disappointed by this week’s final number.  I am still glad / grateful that I lost 0.4 lbs, but I had dipped down to 179.6 for two days in a row midweek.  I was so happy to be in the 170s that I was disappointed when the scale climbed back into the 180s over the last couple of days.

My focus right now is to get through December with a minimum 4 pound weight loss.  I have a number of hurdles in the next few weeks so it will be a challenge to stay on track.

This week:

• December 7 - take my new hire out to lunch, then meet my classmates for dinner to finalize project
• December 10 - meet with old friends @ mexican restaurant
• December 11 - Department lunch @ Benihanas
• December 12 - Company holiday party

Plus, for the rest of the month I also have the usual holiday stuff:  lots of candy and baked goods at the office, vendor offers for lunch / dinner, at least 4-5 christmas- and new year-related events (parties, meals, etc.), and basically a constant urge to eat (nostalgia, stress, social eating, sadness, happiness, etc).

Good luck to us all!

For my photo food journal, click here.

PROGRESS REPORT

Starting weight (7/5/2009):            212.8

Last week’s weight (11/1/2009):    184.2

This week’s weight (11/8/2009):    183.0

This week’s weight loss / gain:       Loss 1.2 pounds

Total weight loss:                            Lost 29.8 pounds

This week was tough. It seemed like I was either SPOT ON or ON A FOOD BENDER. Next week I’m shooting for more balance. I have had a lot of stress, which I could use as an excuse. But life will always have stress and I need to learn how to eat well even in trying times.

I also want to get better about blog updates.  When I regularly blogged on 3FC I posted every day, but since I moved to a different URL, I’m procrastinating.  I also haven’t been taking my food journal photos.  SO, we’ll work on that!

For my photo food journal, click here.  Here is a preview…

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UPDATE (later in the evening):

I’m suddenly feeling very grumpy and I’m having a bit of a meltdown.  I *know* I’ve lost weight.  I *know* I’ve gone down a few sizes.  Therefore I *know* I should be happy and more importantly grateful.

But WHY do I feel like I LOOK EXACTLY THE SAME????  I’ve been comparing recent photos to older photos.  I can tell that I have lost a tiny bit of weight in my face, but my arms, stomach, butt, thighs all look the same to me. A grand total of two people have mentioned my weight loss.  Not even my husband, closest friends or family have noticed.

I’m not trying to bring anyone down and I am not phishing for compliments. I’m just frustrated and I know I can share that openly here at 3FC.  I know it will happen eventually and I need to be F***ing patient.  I just needed to get that out.

Rant over.

what i ate on my vacation here.

I haven’t been posting as much lately.  I am not sure if its better for me to post more often or if that time is better spent on things like menu planning.  So I’m trying this (less frequent) for a while to see how it goes.

3 days of food diary entries below (with pictures!)…..

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Thursday:

• Breakfast: Whole Grain toast with Earth Balance
• Morning Snack:  Amy’s Tofu Scramble Pocket* (makes a filling, hearty, healthy snack at only 180 calories!)
• Lunch:  Amy’s Enchiladas*
• Snacks:  mini sweet peppers*, chamomile tea with honey
• Dinner:  Starbucks Egg Salad Sandwich on multigrain bread* (great portable dinner for school)

Amy’s tofu scramble pocket

Amy’s Enchiladas….  (packed with an apple that I didn’t eat)

Mini sweet peppers…

Starbucks sandwich (picture is from biggestmenu(dot)com)

Thursday’s total calories: 1392

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Friday:

I am a big fan of probiotics, and I used to drink a DanActive Immunity yogurt smoothie every day.  I stopped drinking them for a while because I wanted to cut down on my dairy intake.  I tried Good Belly probiotic drinks but they are way too sweet for me.  There is another nondairy brand I want to try, but in the meantime I decided to go back to the DanActive brand because I could really tell my allergies were worse.  Plus I can’t afford to catch Swine Flu or any other flu for that matter!

• Breakfast:  Whole grain toast with earth balance, DanActive yogurt smoothie
• Lunch:  Amy’s Tamale Verde Black Bean*
• Snacks: 2 dried fruit strips, handful of chocolate raisins, Red Mango fro-yo with dark chocolate sprinkles and graham cracker crumbs (so good and super natural and healthy)
• Dinner: 4 peices of bread with butter, a handful of french fries, a few bites of tomato with vinaigrette, a couple of bites of the husband’s hamburger

I feel like I need to explain that dinner.  We went to the theater to see Wicked last night, and we went to a weird restaurant near the theater.  The entrees were priced way too high, so I just mooched bites off of everyone else’s plates.  Which was by design, of course, so they didn’t mind.  Normally I would never do that!

Yesterday’s lunch (tamales) was soooo good!!  Didn’t eat the peppers pictured here.

Friday’s total calories (estimated):  2143

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Saturday:

• Breakfast:  2 peices toast with earth balance, DanActive*
• Lunch: plate of tomatoes with dried basil and salt*
• Snacks:  vanilla yogurt* with granola, grapes, apple blackberry sauce*
• Dinner:  Black Bean and Espresso Chili with Tofutti Sour Cream* non-dairy substitute

Today’s breakfast is my old standard (toast, danactive, espresso)

Yogurt - this brand isn’t my favorite.  Even with the granola I added it wasn’t sweet enough.  Tasted just like plain yogurt.

Apple Blackberry Sauce - a bit tart, will probably need to use these up in green monster smoothies

Plate of tomatoes sprinkled with salt and basil - an old fave!

Black Bean and Espresso Chili

Tofutti Sour Cream Substitute - delish!  Give it a try!

Total calories for today:  1450

Today 9/2/2009

• Breakfast:  Green Monster (spinach, chia seeds, almond milk, frozen banana, protein powder, strawberry tofu, alfalfa sprouts - 292 calories!)
• Lunch:  Amy’s Enchiladas
• Snacks:  mini sweet peppers, wheat crackers
• Dinner:  Sushi rolls

Tuesday:

• Breakfast:  Morning O’s with oat milk
• Lunch:  veggie sandwich @ catered work lunch (super delicious and high cal) and a few peices of candy
• Snacks:  small peice pizza, shrimp cocktail, grapes, couple peices of candy
• Dinner:  bowl of mighty bite cereal with oat milk

Fitday below:

Tuesday

Grams Calories %-Cals Calories 1,831 Fat 70.1 610 33 % Saturated 21.0 185 10 % Polyunsaturated 22.8 193 10 % Monounsaturated 14.9 130 7 % Carbohydrate 235.1 926 50 % Dietary Fiber 27.7 Protein 79.6 318 17 % Alcohol 0.0 0 0 %

Fat ( 33 %) Carbs ( 50 %) Protein ( 17 %) Alcohol ( 0 %)

Wednesday

Grams Calories %-Cals Calories 1,521 Fat 33.5 298 20 % Saturated 3.0 27 2 % Polyunsaturated 4.0 34 2 % Monounsaturated 0.5 4 0 % Carbohydrate 246.7 966 63 % Dietary Fiber 32.8 Protein 66.9 260 17 % Alcohol 0.0 0 0 %

Fat ( 20 %) Carbs ( 63 %) Protein ( 17 %) Alcohol ( 0 %)

I have been really busy.  I turned 35 this weekend.  I will now be checking the 35-45 box.  Its taking some getting used to.  The weekend was an interesting combination of meltdowns and celebrating. It also included a 3600-calorie day!!

I didn’t post at 3fc at all over the weekend, so now I have to make up for it.  I don’t have pics for everything, but I will post whatever pics I have.  So, here goes, in reverse chronological order.

Today’s Food:

• Breakfast:  Morning O’s with Oat milk
• Lunch:  Amy’s Tofu Scramble
• Snacks:  Jicama, mini sweet peppers, 4 pieces hard candy, heirloom tomato with salt
• Dinner part 1:  shrimp cocktail and leftover grilled veggies with balsamic
• Dinner part 2: Egg wrap (3 scrambled eggs wrapped in whole wheat tortilla)
• Dessert:  1/2 acorn squash with cinnamon and maple syrup

Yesterday (birthday, part 1 ~ part 2 is coming next weekend with a trip to the Napa Valley!):

• Breakfast:  Morning O’s with oat milk
• Lunch:  half portion of cobb salad with no blue cheese
• Snack:  2 Ghiradelli Intense Dark chocolate squares
• Dinner:  roasted dungeness crab, roasted potatoes, fresh bread with butter, piece of hub’s fried fish
• Dessert:  peanut butter flavored frozen yogurt (aka, “froyo” ~ its what the kids these days are calling it) with crushed reeses peanut butter cups and chocolate sprinkles on top.  Wish I had taken a pic of this beauty.

Half cobb salad…

My roasted crab and potatoes….

Hubby’s fish & chips….

Saturday….

• Breakfast:  Morning O’s with oat milk
• Lunch:  Pasta Pomodoro Verdure with Shrimp, a few peices of bread with olive oil and vinegar
• Dinner:  heirloom tomato salad with mozzarella, salt and fresh thai basil
• Dessert:  a few bites of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies

Verdure….

The table at Pasta Pomodoro (incl bread, hubby’s pasta dish, etc.)….

Here are my fitday summaries for each day….

Today:

Grams Calories %-Cals Calories 1,626 Fat 47.2 421 27 % Saturated 9.1 81 5 % Polyunsaturated 7.9 70 5 % Monounsaturated 17.5 156 10 % Carbohydrate 204.3 788 51 % Dietary Fiber 48.4 Protein 85.0 335 22 % Alcohol 0.0 0 0 %

Fat ( 27 %) Carbs ( 51 %) Protein ( 22 %) Alcohol ( 0 %)

Sunday:

Grams Calories %-Cals Calories 3,579 Fat 182.3 1,622 45 % Saturated 51.5 458 13 % Polyunsaturated 40.5 359 10 % Monounsaturated 49.1 436 12 % Carbohydrate 346.4 1,389 39 % Dietary Fiber 22.8 Protein 144.9 587 16 % Alcohol 0.0 0 0 %

Fat ( 45 %) Carbs ( 39 %) Protein ( 16 %) Alcohol ( 0 %)

Saturday

Grams Calories %-Cals Calories 1,799 Fat 44.3 392 26 % Saturated 18.2 161 11 % Polyunsaturated 3.8 34 2 % Monounsaturated 16.4 145 10 % Carbohydrate 226.2 886 59 % Dietary Fiber 16.3 Protein 53.6 217 14 % Alcohol 0.0 0 0 %

Fat ( 26 %) Carbs ( 59 %) Protein ( 14 %) Alcohol ( 0 %)

Today’s breakfast was toast with earth balance and a Good Belly.  (ick ~ way too sweet!)  But I love those happy faces!

My lunch / snack bag….  Amy’s Stir Fry Noodles, Jicama, Tomatoes, Coconut pudding

I was seriously hungry when I got home, so I snacked on some soy chips, pretzel slims, and rice cakes.  About 400 calories worth!  :-\

When I finally mustered the energy to cook dinner, I wasn’t that hungry anymore so I just “pan-grilled” some veggies, including the white eggplant I got from Whole Foods earlier this week.

It was delicous.  Somewhat meatier than a purple eggplant and not even one hint of bitterness.

I’m off to go plan my weekend!

Fitday….

Grams Calories %-Cals Calories 1,555 Fat 46.9 417 27 % Saturated 7.9 70 4 % Polyunsaturated 8.6 76 5 % Monounsaturated 18.1 160 10 % Carbohydrate 251.3 986 63 % Dietary Fiber 36.0 Protein 42.5 159 10 % Alcohol 0.0 0 0 %

Fat ( 27 %) Carbs ( 63 %) Protein ( 10 %) Alcohol ( 0 %)

I didn’t post yesterday so I have 2 days worth going up today!  Yesterday first. Sorry some of the pics are fuzzy.

The funny thing about Thursday was that I thought I did ok on the calories considering my green monster smoothie was super caloric.  But just a few minutes ago I realized I accidentally “forgot” to account for nearly 300 calories.  This is why I take pictures!

Breakfast was a green monster that I was smart enough to pre-assemble the night before to make it instantly ready for blending in the morning.

Before…

After….

Ingredients:  kale, spinach, strawberry tofu, good belly probiotic drink, protein powder, almond milk, banana, applesauce, flax seeds, wheat bran.  [In other words, too much!  I need to cut it down a lot!  I always end up with about twice what I need.]

Check out the happy face opening on the Good Belly juice!  I love it!  But I don’t love the juice.  Its way too sweet.  But its good mixed into a smoothie.

Sorry, no pic of the stuff I packed for lunch.  But I do have a pic of the catered grilled veggies I snacked on at work…..  These veggies helped me stay away from the high-cal catered luncheon food like pasta salad, potato salad, soft rolls with butter, grilled tri-tip….

And, here is a picture of the coconut pudding I’ve been having lately.  This picture really sucks.  It tastes much better than it looks in this photo….

Lunch was Amy’s garden veg lasagna.

Dinner was a seafood louie salad from the deli case at safeway. After I got home I did some serious snacking:  mighty bite cereal, cherries, couple bites of naan bread.

Strange thing lately.  Recently I haven’t really been snacking as much during the day, but a lot at night.  Maybe I need to eat a slightly larger dinner…?

Fitday:

Grams Calories %-Cals Calories 1,875 Fat 74.7 666 35 % Saturated 10.1 90 5 % Polyunsaturated 7.2 62 3 % Monounsaturated 4.1 35 2 % Carbohydrate 256.6 975 52 % Dietary Fiber 51.3 Protein 64.7 241 13 % Alcohol 0.0 0 0 %

Fat ( 35 %) Carbs ( 52 %) Protein ( 13 %) Alcohol ( 0 %)