Breakfast: tuna and provolone melt in flat out wrap Snack: veggies dipped in cream cheese Lunch: turkey bratwurst and provolone in a flat out wrap Snack: south beach diet peanut butter bar Dinner: 1/2 pack of boca ground burger, flat out wrap, 1 tbsp salsa, cheese string Snack: 140g strawberries, 100g cool whip free
Total calories: 1292
Going back to 1200-1300 since I can't exercise... I can hardly maintain w/o exercise on that sadly as I can eat more when I exercise to lose weight...
Good Morning.......... I'm doing the happy dance this morning because I made my Valentine's goal of losing 10 pounds. I was very excited to get rid of my Hearts ticker and exchanged for the "Biggest Loser's" ticker. I'll be back later this afternoon to chat, I want to get breakfast made so DH and I can get to the Fitness center. Sunday's menu: Calories...1,183 Fat 20% Vitamins/Salmon oil - Fiber One and Squash pie with cool whip. (I was getting ready for Church so didn't eat a proper breakfast) More about the squash pie later, Yummy Yum! Lunch: Elk Rolleposte Sandwich - 4 oz. FF Milk Supper: Open face Cheese/Albacore Tuna melts - large vegetable salad topped with 1/2 pear and Olive oil/Balsamic vinegar Evening Snack: Applesauce mixed with cinnamon and FF cool whip and topped with Fiber One. This was really, really tasty. DH was eating Neapoliton ice cream, the ! Catch ya all later! Bobbi
I did well this weekend considering I went out for a fancy dinner on Saturday night.
On Sat I had ~1700 cals, 39% fat, 31% carbs, 22% protein, 8% alcohol.
On Sun I had ~ 1100 cals, 41% fat, 34 % carbs, 24 % protein.
I made it to the gym both days for 45 min of cardio on machines at right around 300 cals a shot.
I'm trying something new today, hitting the gym first thing in the morning. My son leaves for school at 8:05 and I'm jumping in the car and heading out. I had a small breakfast #1 of yogurt, blueberries and some wheatgerm and a cup of coffee. I'll have to eat again when I get home. Today I want to start on weights (I did one wimpy weight routine last week.) I'm also contemplating at 12:00 yoga class. I made an appointment for a private class but that's not for a week and a half.
My goal is cardio 6 days a week, weights 2x a week and yoga 3x a week. Now to fit that into a schedule so I don't crash and burn.
This has consumed me this past week. Reading about healthy eating (the Superfoods Rx books and others,) shopping for food, cooking, planning some meals, and exercising. I'm not having time to be a bum...
This has consumed me this past week. Reading about healthy eating (the Superfoods Rx books and others,) shopping for food, cooking, planning some meals, and exercising. I'm not having time to be a bum...
I hear you on this ... I love all that stuff and would do it all the time ... but sigh ... life gets in my way
I'm not sure this kind of immersion is a bad thing. If we have to be obsessed with something it might as well be our health. We have a lot of learned behaviours and habits ... I hope that if we fill our heads with good stuff, we'll be better able to fight the good fight. Armed with knowledge ... did that make sense?
I was having (am having) some digestive issues and because of feeling weird, I fell off the wagon and stopped calorie-counting for the past few days.
However, I'm back on board today and starting anew. Not sure what my weight is because of my aforementioned issues, but I'm hoping I didn't at least gain.
I could have sworn I posted this already today. Calories in were 1177 with 36% coming from fat.
February is the month to tweak the fat and the sodium. My doctor figures I am holding four to six pounds of excess water based on the amount of sodium I'm taking in.
I gave him my FitDay numbers and he said it's way too much sodium. He wants me at 1500 to 1650 mg a day. I average out okay over a month's period, but he says that on those days when the scale jumps two or three pounds, it means my sodium jumped over 2000 mg the day before. And sure enough, I track the weight to the nutrition, and the sodium is way up there.
As for the fat, he gave me a good talking-to. Twenty percent... stick with twenty percent and I'll have the look and feel I want. And my arteries will love me all the more for it.
Didn't start to watch it yet but more concious of it: sodium at 2011mg.
Still bugging that I can't see sugar intake anywhere in FitDay (PC).
I started calorie counting about 2 weeks ago and one of the eye openers is to see how much vitamin C I get but how little of everything else. So, today I have added a multivitamin.
That's interesting about the sodium, Diva. I'm not ready to worry about it, but I may do that later when I'm done worrying about other stuff.
Matt, I just looked at my stats on Fitday for the past week, and it was interesting to see where my vitamins/minerals fall short. I have been taking a multivitamin but I need to add calcium. So at least I know some of it is covered. It would still be best to get enough from food and then the multi on top to take care of whatever. That will be my aim. I need to add calcium, A, and iron (I think it was.) I'll check later.
So, all in all a good week for me. YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I averaged 1400 cals, 36% fat, 39% carbs, 23% protein, and 2% alcohol. I also exercised everyday but the first day this week.)
My goal this week (I think I'll set a new dietary goal each week) is to get my fat down to 30% for the week.
Oh, another major accomplishment was that I didn't drink booze. I went from 2-4 glasses of wine a night to 2 glasses 1 night this week (dinner out on Sat.) That in itself should help a lot with calorie control. I want to save drinking for special occasions, not an even ritual, which it became.
Good Morning..............Brrrrrrrrrrr, it's 2 degrees below zero this morning and predicted 16 below tonight. I have just a couple of comments then I'm going to put 10 layers of clothes on and go shovel the snow off our driveway and sidewalks. Sakuya...Snack: veggies dipped in cream cheese I love cream cheese but it doesn't go far enough, do you dilute it down with something or make a dip out of it? Alright...
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My goal is cardio 6 days a week, weights 2x a week and yoga 3x a week. Now to fit that into a schedule so I don't crash and burn.
That is a full week, we hope you don't crash and burn. Just don't wear yourself out trying to accomplish it. DH and I were driving into town (we live out in the country as you can see by our chickens) 5 days a week to work out at the Fitness club and we soon got tired of the drive. Especially with snowy, icy roads. We now go Mon-Wed-Fri and life is less stressful. SmartButt... Thanks for the squash recipes, especially the Squash casserole with SF Maple syrup. I made it a couple of nights ago and it was delicious. One night I woke in the night and couldn't get back to sleep. So I opened the frig for a bit to eat and spotted the leftover squash. I didn't want to wake DH with the microwave bell so I started eating it cold. It tasted like pumpkin pie so I added some SF/FF Cool whip and thought I'd died and gone to Heaven. I'm going to make more today just to have on hand for a sweet treat, yum! Diva... What are you going to do to lower your fat intake. I know you're a bit of a health nut and don't eat junk foods nor Fat Free foods. The reason my fat % is usually low is because I live and breathe FF dairy products. Let us know what's working for you. Matt... I always wondered about the sugar on Fitday too! Did you contact them and ask about it? How do you get your fiber in?
31 grams is great. I eat Fiber One every morning dry like popcorn, it has 14 grams of fiber per serving. I just checked my Fitday for fiber on Saturday (52 grams) and yesterday (51 grams). I think one of the reason's I'm never hungry is because of all the fiber I eat daily. The reason I eat it dry is because I can't stand soggy cereal. Fiber One has a sweet nutty taste and good on yogurt. One day I mixed up Applesauce, cinnamon and FF Cool whip, then topped it with Fiber One, it was really, really good. Geezzzz, I'm starting to sound like a commercial. Hi Everyone I missed! The snow is calling me, see ya all later.
Holy Cow............I just looked at the last 7 days of sodium on Fitday. It averaged out to 2,841 per day. What should it be? Diva, your doc said 1500? Is that just for your body and health or is that a general quote for everyone?
Hi everyone
My calories yesterday were 860. I didn't get any exercise with having to go to my son's appointment and being dead tired!! For some reason he doesn't like to sleep all night any more (he's 5). But thank god he did last night, so hopefully I won't be so tired tonight that I just fall into bed. I see that you are all talking about Sodium I am going to have to look at my fitday and see what mine is at. Also does anyone know of a good vitamin?? I know that I should be taking one, but I have no idea what one.
Mary
@Alright: I hear you with the wine :| Micro-portions are good too. Use smaller glasses
@Bobbolink: <slaps forehead> Argh, of course -- I should write them!
I take a fibre cereal. 30 grams has 14 grams of fiber. It seems to be the best way to boost fiber intake. Recently they were talking about how 30 grams of fiber a day is really beneficial for your health.
I too have the impression that high fiber helps with feeling full.
Based on a 2000 cal. diet the FDA sets 2400mg of sodium as a max., often recommends no more than 2000mg and indicates that your goal should be to be under that. So it's basically 1.2mg of sodium per calorie. FitDay has me on 1257 cal/day. 1257 * 1.2 = 1508mg max per day for me.
I'm way over that still... But no wonder, I think... Since starting to better read labels and ingredients I'm baffled at the amount of products that contain sodium and/or sugar!
@Petra6998: wow, that is low!
Good vitamin? I think anything that has everything in it (multi-vitamins) helps. What I read around the web, including the article section here, is that doctors don't find it a good idea at all to just add vitamin pills. A multivitamin a day can complement your diet and make sure you don't lose out on anything.
I'm doing the happy dance this morning because I made my Valentine's goal of losing 10 pounds. I was very excited to get rid of my Hearts ticker and exchanged for the "Biggest Loser's" ticker. 
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Bobbi
I always wondered about the sugar on Fitday too! Did you contact them and ask about it? How do you get your fiber in?
