Weekly Journal Buddy Thread (Dec. 19-25)
Whew, Christmas week for the Journal Buddy Thread! I know a lot of us are insanely busy this time of year, but I hope those who need to can still make it in to post!
Myself, I had a bad weekend (following a bad week, which followed a bad weekend...). I keep saying I need to get back on track, and I have good intentions, but the partie's and the stress and the business is all getting to me. Enough excuses, though. I may have higher calories for a while, but my current goal is to NOT gain betwen now and New Year's. Here's how Today is looking like:
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Good morning! It must be tough with all the Christmas stuff going on for everyone. I actually have very little in the way of celebrations/parties to attend, but I've been feeling pretty stressed lately. I'm sleeping badly, and I'm getting tension headaches, and I've no idea why. :?: I can't see that there's any reason for it.
On Saturday I wasn't at all in "healthy eating" mode. I suddenly got the urge to bake a cake--very strange since the last one I made was in 1984 for my 18th birthday! It turned out surprisingly well considering I made it up as I went along. :lol: I ate a quarter of it anyway for 452 kcals! :devil: And then we had a 7 hour poker session with a big bowl of meatballs to pick at. All in all, a day best put behind me. Sat 17/12: :nono: Breakfast: 1 cup Optimum Slim cereal, 1 oz seedless raisins, ½ cup 0% milk; 500 ml coffee. Liquid Lunch: 3 bottles beer. Snack: Piece of ginger cake. Dinner: 17 baby meatballs in sauce (100 ml Heinz Chili Sauce & 3 oz Welch's Grape Jelly heated together). Water: 2 litres Total kcals: 2062 Exercise: 30 minutes strength training plus an upper-boddy workout scrubbing down walls. It was enough to make me ache like mad on Sunday! Sun 18/12: :) Breakfast: Another piece of cake, 500 ml coffee. Lunch: 2 oz whole-grain bread, 2 oz smoked turkey, 1 tblsp. Phili Light, raw veggies (red cabbage, carrots, celery, tomatoes). Dinner: 2 cups home-made black bean & corn chowder. Drinks: 2 litres, 250 ml green tea. Total kcals: 1113 Exercise: None. I'm too disorganised to have made a proper plan for today. I guess it'll be the usual cereal and shake, with probably chicken & whole-wheat couscous for dinner. We'll see how it goes.... |
Mon 19/12: :)
Breakfast: Shake (5½ oz banana, ½ cup black cherry juice, ½ cup cranberry juice, crushed ice, 2 tblsp. hemp protein powder); 500 ml coffee. Late am: 4 oz tangerine. Mid pm: 2 oz whole-grain bread, 2 oz turkey breast, 3 LC Party Cubes, raw veggies (red cabbage, carrots, celery, tomato). Dinner: 5½ oz chicken breast (grilled), 10 Triscuits, 1 cup coleslaw, 1 oz Stilton. Water: 2 litres, 500 ml green tea. Total kcals: 1508 Exercise: 20 minute bike ride, 50 minute walk. Tomorrow's Plan: :halffull: #1: Cereal, raisins, 0% milk; coffee. #2: Banana protein shake with black cherry & cranberry juice. #3: Home-made soup. #4: Tuna, brown rice or whole-wheat couscous, asparagus, green beans. Snacks: Tangerine, 2% plain yogurt, green olives. Estimated kcals: 1450. Exercise: 30 minutes strength training. |
Christmas week, and I'm on a business trip. Ugh.
Monday Breakfast: Oatmeal, grapefruit, Morningstar breakfast patty Snack: Chocolate fudge cookie Lunch: Shrimp creole over wild rice Snacks: Soy chips, and TGIFriday potato skin chips on the plane Dinner: Au Bon Pain mediterranean chicken salad, with lite olive oil vinegarette dressing Exercise: 46 minutes on the stationary bike Calories: About 1600 |
Well, just my luck NYC subway and buses are on strike. I got up at 5:30am to take a taxi to work, I may need to walk the 2 miles home tonight...
I've been flying w/all the compliments on my weight. I've also been going down in sizes. I started this @ 20W - we're talking pants, then to 18W, then 18 - which was like 2 weeks ago, now the 16's fit and are a little big!! I'm thrilled! Here's my food from yesterday: 2 - coffee 1 - egg whites 3 - luna bar 1 - soup 1 - chocolate 1 - coffee 10 - grilled chicken and feta salad 19 points Exercise: 400 cals - Precor, upper body, abs Have a great day everyone! |
Today's plan:
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Hi there everyone! I see I'm not the only one who's abandoned this tread for the holiday week. I've had too many eating out functions to even dare to count what I've eaten. My scale says I'm maintaining, which is a good thing. I've decided to just try and maintain for the next couple of weeks and if I lose a pound - wonderful if not, no big deal.
Dishyfishy, Jillybean, Rabidstoat & BethC - excellent job for sticking with it. I'll be back in the new year in full force to join you again. I hope you all have a very special and safe Christmas with your families. ~Dee |
Oh dear, a business trip AND Christmas to contend with, rabidstoat! :eek: Keep making those good choices, you're doing really well!
It's so exciting to see those sizes go down, Beth! :cp: When I started I didn't have a pair of jeans that fit me, and I was blowed if I was going to go and buy any either. I was wearing those sloppy pull-on, tie-waist leisure pants (ick!) in UK size 22. I looked and felt like a sack tied in the middle. I'm in size 16-18 now. Hope your party goes well, jillybean. You know what I mean. ;) You're right, Dee, this thread's getting a little lean on posts lately, but if you really must abandon us... :^: have a fabbo Christmas, and rest assured, if you aren't back promptly in the new year, I shall be hunting you down. :s: |
Boy, is it ever hard to keep focused during the holidays. Party after Party after Party!! The next 3 days are party free, so I am going to really try and stay focused. I don't want to be too far off the beaten path when the Holiday strikes!
I lost 2.4 last week, so I am pretty excited to actually be losing during the holidays. I can't wait to see what I can do once everything settles down. That said, I had a run in with the candy store on Monday...:o 12/19/05 290 – Egg McMuffin 105 – ½ zone perfect I had lunch with a friend and ordered the grilled chicken…with cheese and mayo. And as if that weren’t enough it came with a mound of wedge fries which I ate ½ of!! 520 – Grilled Chicken Sandwich 500?? – potato wedges Then after work I went by Fannie May to get 2 gifts. I left with 6 trinadas because I was going to have on each night!! Ha ha ha ha – I’m so funny!! We all know how well that worked! 80 – trinadad 340 – chicken 150-3/4 cup rice 80 – trinadad 80 – trinadad 80 – trinadad 90-1 cup skim milk 80 – bite of Steve’s peppermint bark 2395? – Total After such a bad Monday I didn't feel like being on plan on Tuesday, but somehow I made it through under my 1800 calories!!! 12/20/05290 - Egg McMuffin 450 - Grilled CHicken Ceasar Salad with garlic bread (no dressing) 290 - Bag of cookies (what was I thinking??) 440 - 2 slices of pizza 270 - 1 breadstick 1740 - TOTAL I feel more focused today. Thank goodness!! |
Wow. Monday was bad. I logged. It was like 2911 calories, estimated. About half of it was in sweets -- brownies, gumdrops, ice cream... so I won't put it here, but, yeah. Not great. But I was sensible on meals, anyway, and got some semi-decent nutrition in outside of the sweets.
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Sandi, that's so awesome! You're doing such a great job! You inspire me, so you'd better not disappear during the holidays like so many already have :devil:
Well, I definitely overate at yesterday's Christmas party. It would have been easier, I think, if it was a sit-down lunch like last year. I would have had my 1 plate of food (a little bit of everything) and been done. This year, though, it was finger-foods in a conference room, so we all stood around the tables "grazing" and socializing--what a dieting disaster! I had a brownie, 3 cookies, 6 little meatballs, 2 cheese wedges, a slice of chicken quesedilla, and bread sliced with spinach-artichoke dip. Oh, and 2 little plastic cups of punch :rollpin: It was one of those times where you just don't even realize how much you're eating until the damage has already been done since you take such small quantities at a time, ya know? I guess I need to be more conscious and aware... |
I have no idea what trinadads are, Sandi, but I'm guessing they're not something I need to add to my menus! ;) Great loss again! :high: You're doing wonderfully well.
Those buffets are a nightmare, aren't they, jillybean? You actually did better than I did at the last one I was at. I fully intended to fill my plate only once, but of course, that didn't happen, and I shudder to think how many meatballs I'd put away by the end.... I have some treats, that I need to stay away from, in the kitchen cupboard now. Hubby packs up eating ket for Advent, and starts again on Christmas Day, so this is really his stash. I can take or leave most sweeties, especially the stuff he generally favours like Turtles and chocolate orange, but for some reason, he picked up a box of Quality Street (yummy!), After Eight mints (double yummy!), and chocolate-covered nuts (treble yummy!). He didn't even know that I have a weakness for these things either, so why he chose them is a mystery. :?: I'm going to have to be very restrained. Here's yesterday's eats: Tues 20/12: :) Breakfast: 1 cup Optimum Slim cereal, 1 oz seedless raisins, ½ cup 0% milk; 500 ml coffee. Late am: Shake (5½ oz banana, ½ cup black cherry juice, ½ cup cranberry juice, crushed ice, 2 tblsp. hemp protein powder). Mid pm: 3 oz whole-grain bread, 4 oz turkey breast, ¼ cup coleslaw, red cabbage, carrot. Dinner: 2 cups home-made lentil & split pea soup. Snack: 4 oz tangerine. Water: 2 litres, 250 ml green tea, Starbuck's tall Sumatra. Total kcals: 1502 Exercise: 30 minutes strength training, 40 minute walk. Today's Plan: :halffull: #1: Cereal, raisins, 0% milk; coffee. #2: Banana protein shake with black cherry & cranberry juice. #3: Soup. #4: Tuna, couscous, asparagus, green beans. (What I was supposed to have yesterday, but didn't.) Snacks: Tangerine, 2% plain yogurt, green olives. Estimated kcals: Around 1400. Exercise: 40 minute walk. |
Okay, yesterday was bad too, though slightly less bad. I'll record what I ate. Positive things about yesterday? I skipped dessert at dinner (only thing I skipped, but...), I only had half a burrito for lunch and no chips, and I skipped morning hot chocolate in favor of tea with Equal sweetener. I think today will be a little better, dinner should be more reasonable. Still no exercise (travel day) but I'll be home tomorrow with a day free before my long drive.
Wednesday Breakfast: Oatmeal, mini yogurt cup Lunch: 1/2 a humongous steak burrito (okay, the bigger half) and 1T sour cream Snack: Peanut butter cookie Dinner: 2-3 pieces of bread dipped in olive oil and parmesan cheese, salad with too much vinegar and oil dressing and a bunch of cheese crumbles on it, and broiled scrod with a breadcrumb coating and, again, cooked in tons of butter Calorie estimate: about 2450 (more than half of it at dinner) |
I'm still here, the transit workers are on strike. One of the new guys said it best. New Yorkers are walking around NYC like nomads moving from place to place. I've been lucky to get taxis in the morning to work, but there's easily a chance I could have to walk the 2miles too. I just want this to be over!
The good news it that it hasn't effected my food at all. Here's yesterday: 2 - coffee 1 - egg whites 3 - luna bar 2 - soup 5 - zone bar 2 - coffee 5 - chicken 1 - salad w/dressing 3 - baked potato 2 - sour cream 26 points Exercise: 40 mins Precor - 500 cals, upper body, abs We're closed until next Wednesday, hopefully they'll settle this by then. Happy Holidays everyone! |
Yesterday could've been better. I was only just over my kcal budget, but I didn't get out for a walk--was too busy making soups and power cleaning.
Weds 21/12: :( Breakfast: 1 cup Optimum Slim cereal, 1 oz seedless raisins, ½ cup 0% milk; 500 ml coffee. Late am: Shake (5½ oz banana, ½ cup black cherry juice, ½ cup cranberry juice, crushed ice, 2 tblsp. hemp protein powder). Mid pm: 3 oz whole-grain bread, 4 oz turkey breast, ¼ cup coleslaw, red cabbage, carrot. Dinner: 3 oz tuna (water-packed), 1½ cups brown rice, random assortment of spices, steamed asparagus & green beans. Snack: 4 oz tangerine. Water: 2 litres, 250 ml green tea. Total kcals: 1575 Exercise: None. Today's Plan: :halffull: #1: Cereal, raisins, 0% milk; coffee. #2: Banana protein shake with black cherry & cranberry juice. #3: Turkey sandwich, raw veggies. #4: Bean burger in a whole-wheat pita, veggies. Snacks: Tangerine, 2% plain yogurt. Estimated kcals: 1400. Exercise: 30 minutes strength training. |
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