Yesterday was an expensive calorie day. I ended the day at 2016 cals. I'd ellipticalled in the morning and did a brief tandem ride. Walked a bit with the shopping but I did go over. Mostly, I did log my calories and that was good. If I'm good about logging the cals today, then I should be able to get on track tomorrow. We're roasting a turkey on the BBQ so at least it's cheaper calorie food than steak. But... the steak was good.
Marie
MrsL, I've been using my elliptical for over 3 years. It can take a while.
Yesterday, the calories were better than Saturday but I was at about 1800 cals. And that's a rough estimate. Today is much, much better. I'll finish the day a little less than 1300 cals and a bit of exercise.
Marie
Ended yesterday under 1300 cals. I ellipticalled and walked. I'm trying to convince myself to elliptical today. I'm more in the mood not to. That's never good.
I didn't elliptical yesterday. Ate 5 vanilla sandwich cookies for dinner and made my stomach mad, so I didn't aggravate it. The stomach being mad actually meant that the incisions hurt. Probably bloated from crappy food. I did end the day at about 1350 cals. Not bad but not nutritious. Today I'm much more on track. I did elliptical today and I did my normal, pre-surgery workout. My minimum distance in the allotted time was missed by 0.02 miles. I was happy with missing by just that amount.
Marie
Today I did ok calorie wise as I ate lean proteins, a little carbs and veggies. I resisted the dark choc cake at the meeting but I ate half a cookie. Not bad.
I went for a fast walk for over an hour this morning in the crisp morning air. It was lovely.
Yay!!! I'm not doing a blog anymore. Thanks for coming back Rie. I know my whine to you was the reason. A half a cookie - I didn't know that could be done. I was under the impression that if a cookie broke, all the calories drained out of if so clearly you were in the good since I don't think the rule applies to cakes.
Mary, I'd think that the too much carb amount would depend on the individual and their blood sugar. How was yours? And I bet you're doing well because you're still logging.
I was at 1300 cals yesterday with an elliptical workout - as mentioned above. Thursday is normally my day of rest but I didn't feel great on Tuesday and didn't exercise then. So I don't know... I will decide later.
Marie
Yes, Marie, it helped but I needed to get back here for my own sanity. Today was 1350 cals and good on all macros. I overslept this morning so I didn't work out but I walked almost two hours after work, picking the asparagus.
Marie, I almost got away with NO cookie but I caved. I broke it in half and tossed the other half in the garbage before I could eat it.
Mary do you mean 15 carb servings? How is your bs on that much? I eat between 70 and 130 gms of carbs but that includes almost 50 gms of fiber. my blood sugar doesn't react on that.
1269 calories and 12.67 carb serv. Yes when I say carbs Rie, I mean carb servings ..15 gms carb gms = one serv. Sometimes I forget to say serving.
About my bs it's strange. Sometimes I eat 4 carb serv at a meal and my bs is high 2 hrs after, but then sometimes it's not. Usually I tend to overeat in the evening and in the am I am almost always high. This morning it was 190. But after breakfast and work out it was almost normal and today I ate right (no more than 3 serv each meal) and it was normal the next time I took it. ( Usually I only test once a day since my A1Cs aren't bad and that's all Medicare pays for supplies but sometimes if it's hig I test more) So I think the diabetic meal plan they gave me is probably about right. They said I should stick to 9 or 10 to lose weight and 12 to maintain. I figure it's calories that matter with weight loss and since I seem to do ok with 12 carb serv I aim for that. Howver I have to admit when I was on the Medifast diet I was only getting 8-10 most days and my bs were really nice and low! Normal normal not just diabetic normal as they sometimes are on 12. So I surmise from that that I could "reverse" my diabetes and it's affects on my body if i stayed below 12 regularly. But I just can't seem to do it on regular foods. On MF I didn't get hungry. Now I do. Oh and I also subtract 1/2 the fiber if it's over 5. Right now I'm mainly working on getting my evening eating under control. If I can do that I'm sure it will really help. Next I'll work at cutting down on the carbs more if I can. I'm not too concerned yet unless my A1C gets highter. The doctor said it will since I've gained back my weight but I'm hoping to prove him wrong.
ETA: Good news! LOL I forgot I didn't eat rice tonight after posting it and so I actually did better than I thought...I had 1239 calories and 12 carb servings! Yea!
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Mary, thanks so much for explaining a carb serving and how many you aim for each day. I actually got out the calc to figure out your carb cals for yesterday. When you were saying you had 12 carb servings, I thought you meant you had 12 grams of carbs for a day - I so wondered how you did that! The last two days, you have been an Sounds like your dr got you very competitive with the carb beast. Good for you.
Rie, I'm glad you're back. I don't think I've ever broke a cookie in half and threw it away. That is a great idea! I have twisted an Oreo in half and give the half with the lesser cream center to one of my pups. I love the cream center.
Sorry I didn't post yesterday. I was exhausted after my elliptical workout. I basically zoned out watching Colbert Report on hulu. That is my fave TV show. Heck it chucked DWTS out of first place. Stephen Colbert is so smart and his humor so funny, I just laugh and giggle. And I keep up on the political news through his show. Anyway, I had 1417 cals on Thursday with a walking workout. Yesterday was 1413 cals with the 1.5 mile walk and a 30 minute elliptical workout. It was doing both that did my legs in. Today is supposed to be sunny (even though not terribly warm) and DH and I are going to do the doggie hike and later go for a tandem bike ride. Now that sounds FUN!
Marie
1455 calories and 11 carb servings. It was a good day.
Marie - LOL sorry about the confusion re: my carbs. There was a lady in my diabetic class whose doctor told her not to eat ANY carbs! We all thought she should change doctors. She was about in tears because she couldn't keep to it.
I hope to get up enough nerve to try the elliptical someday! Thursday I was helping this little lady (79) learn how to use a stationary bike and she told me she'd always only used the elliptical before. I guess if she can do it I can do it. Dh used it once though and thought it was pretty tough and he's much stronger than I so that kinda scared me off it.
Mary, that poor woman. I would have to believe eating no carbs would equate to not eating. Ever. The elliptical is a tough machine but you can go slowly and no resistance until different muscles are used to working. I love my elliptical, but I think you know that.
I have come to face my lashing. I went out to eat twice yesterday. Too long of a story of why. And I ate. At best LoseIt guestimate, I was was at about 2150 cals. And 375 of those cals were a delightful strawberry daiquiri. Actual that was 1.5 of them. Oh, that was good. I was so buzzed. My last real drink other than a dash of Irisih Cream in my white mocha was 1.5 years ago in Cancun. With the daiquiri(s), I had nachos for dinner. The chips and the cheese were naughty but the chicken was lean and not greasy at all. All in all, I blew my diet out the window. And there is not one regret. It was Fun, fun, fun. DH and I did go for an 8 mile tandem ride and plan to go again today. The doggie hike exhausted my quads again. I will be so happy when I am truly back in shape. I'm getting there, but definitely not there.
And, I'm having iPhone issues. I lost all my LoseIt past history. When LoseIt frist went to their "create an account" and log in upgrade, I was frustrated by it since it took so long. Now I'm happy it was there. It didn't keep my history but it did save and restore all my foods, exercises and weigh in chart. So all not bad. I was not looking forward to re-entering all my foods. Now I'm thankful they made that change and regret my muttering last fall.
Marie
Now I do. Oh and I also subtract 1/2 the fiber if it's over 5. Right now I'm mainly working on getting my evening eating under control. If I can do that I'm sure it will really help. Next I'll work at cutting down on the carbs more if I can. I'm not too concerned yet unless my A1C gets highter. The doctor said it will since I've gained back my weight but I'm hoping to prove him wrong. 
The last two days, you have been an 
Sounds like your dr got you very competitive with the carb beast. Good for you.
