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Hey, Patchy.. good to see you back. :)
You should see how many activity pts you earned out of curiousity sake. I soooo want to start hiking as a regular thing. My biology class has like an 11-hr hiking expedition scheduled at the end of the month- we're supposed to hike to the top of the Cascade Mountains, here in the Pacific NW, and back down the other side (we're studying eco systems). While I feel like I'm pretty strong, I'm super nervous that I'm going to be dyin' halfway through. Eleven hours of hiking! |
Not a bad day today...although I seem to be having difficulty lately using all of my points. I've been off work for the last 6 weeks for medical reasons, so this is not really typical. I'm also not getting my liquids in daily.
On a positive note, I went for my walk today, so I am succeeding on my weekly goal, and I am doing well on the salt intake this week too. I have a REAL weakness for Mezetta pickled banana peppers, and cocktail onions...so it's not over-salting of food that gets me...it's the pickles. Breakfast None - didn't get up until 10:30 Lunch Raspberry Smoothie raspberries - 0 fat free, splenda sweetened, vanilla yogurt - 2 1% milk - 1 Afternoon Snack Tangerine - 0 Special K Almond and Peanut 90 calorie bar - 2 Dinner Fried Onions and Apples (from the new WW recipe magazine) walla walla onion - 0 granny smith apple - 0 butter - 1 brown sugar - 1 Tomato and Onion Sandwich whole grain rye bread - 5 tomato - 0 onion - 0 butter - 1 miracle whip - 1 Minute Steak - 3 Evening Snack Kashi Soft Baked Bar - 3 Daily Allotted - 29 Daily Used - 20 |
Lunch
Soup - vegetable - low fat. (4pp) Pickles - (0pp) Dinner corn/peas/carrots (frozen veggies) - (3pp for corn) Brocolli - (0pp) Chicken (6pp) Dijon mustard marinade (2pp) Banana (0pp) Cherries (0pp) Snack Nothing yet...still at work! No money to eat anything else lol. points allowed for the day - 33 points used - 15 :( |
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I think I earned about 30 activity points from just the walking/hiking... it was low intensity but steep and for a long time for most of it. Its hard to gague because the kids were with us so its not as intense as I would have liked it. But at a low intensity for 2-3 hours a day it works out to 30 APs. |
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Good job, that's really impressive. Kid wrangling should count for some points, too. ;) Here's for today... BFAST Quaker rice cake, 2- 2 pnut butter, 2 tbsn 5 carrots 0 diet cherry Dr Pepper 0 LUNCH multi-grain crackers x 4- 2 hummus, 2 tbsn 2 string cheese 2 DINNER mini penne pasta, 1/2 c 3 1/2 c spaghetti sauce 1 skinless chicken thigh 4 roasted green beans, 1 cup 0 oil, 1 tbsn 3 french bread, 2" piece 2 butter & garlic, 1 tbsn 4 diet cherry Dr Pepper 0 SNACKS apple 0 bite of smoked salmon 1 TOTAL ALLOWED 29 TOTAL USED 31 REMAINING PTS -2 |
emotional day, but made it through
I want to preface by saying that it was my parent's wedding anniversary and an upsetting day for me, as I lost both of them a few years ago 4 months apart. I had to write a check and looked down at the date and was just so sad.
Then, got home and on my computer and found out a friend's son died, he's had several tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, but was killed in some kind of accident while on leave in France. Between those two things, I was into the cookie jar that I am normally able to resist. Those cookies are for the other people in my family who are not (even if a few should be, I don't force anyone) on a weight loss plan. At any rate, survived the day, recovered a bit. My choices for the remainder of the day were good enough so I didn't use any of my points plus. Points allowance: 29 Breakfast: 1 Frozen waffle = 2 margarine, soft = 1 String cheese stick = 1 Pear = 0 Points remaining: 25 Lunch: WW seedless rye bread = 2 Ham/lite Swiss = 4 pickle = 0 WW small bar = 2 That all would have been fine, but I lost it later on.... Points remaining: 17 Sandwich cookies: 4 Chocolate: 1 (sugar free small piece) Points remaining: 12 Chicken breast, no skin: 5 Brown rice: 4 Grilled veggies with EVOO: 1 Margarine (for rice) = 1 Points remaining = 1 Dessert: banana chose not to use that one last point, I guesstimated my cookie intake and the packing is thrown away. I looked up sandwich cookie (these were like an Oreo but the vanilla kind, not chocolate) in my WW materials and figured this is the right no. of points to count. But, I cannot be sure. Live and learn. I should have done better, but I still stayed in my points range. I took calcium with my vitamins in the AM, thankfully, as what I had for milk servings was certainly lacking. Will try to do better today. |
I know when my husband, nephew and I went hiking this past spring on our camping trip I earned 14 AP in one hike and 8 in another!! I've been wanting to go since then, but I have this thing about hiking alone in the wilderness...maybe I can get hubby to go w/ me this weekend. Some hikes are just walks, while some can be called hikes. Guess what? I hiked part of the Appalachian Trail in Rangeley, Maine! I NEVER thought I'd be able to do that!!
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Tomorrow is WI day, so I always try to take it easy on the points and salt on Thursday
Breakfast Smoothie - 3 Lunch Lean Cuisine chicken and angelhair pasta in a basil cream sauce - 6 Dinner Kashi Creamy Vanilla Hot Cereal with milk and blueberries - 4 Strawberries - 0 Nestle Skinny Cappuccino with sugarfree caramel syrup- 1 Evening Snack Kashi Soft Baked Bar - 3 Daily Allotted - 29 Daily Used - 17 Average for the week - 19 |
Gah. I've had such an emotional roller coaster of a week. I broke down and lost it entirely today. But I haven't eaten my feelings so that is a step in the right direction.
down 2 lbs today. I was lazy and didn't go to body pump but have a date with BFF for 10 am tomorrow morning and some hard cardio. |
Derrydaughter.. I'm sorry for the loss of your parents, and your friends son, those are both such heartbreaking experiences. I lost my own mother 9 years ago, my grandfather 10, and my brother 11. My mom was the most devastating to me.. she was my best friend.. but I can honestly say I now feel numb around her death anniversary and birthdays. I was a hot mess the first 6+ years or so.. so I can relate to the stress eating. But you go girl for still staying within points despite the cookies. :)
MrsD.. it's a good "thing" to have- it's never a safe idea to go hiking alone. That movie 127 Hours cemented that in my brain. lol Patchy, be gentle on yourself.. and good job not eating your feelings. That's such a feat for me, right now. 1) So, I found 2 snacks today that are YUMMY! :) - Blue Diamond almonds, Wasabi & Soy Sauce flavor. 28 = 5 pts - Quaker Quakes rice snacks, Kettle Corn flavor. 15 = 3 pts 2) I worked out, today!! This is HUGE since I've all but stopped within the last 3 weeks. I don't know what that's all about, it's like my body is rebelling, but it did feel good to get a quick, tho mindnumbing like woah did I want it to be over, 15 minutes in. 3) I'm so glad this tracking week is over. Last week, I had a horrible over-eating week.. and this past week was a vast improvement, even tho I've averaged about 2 pts over on my dailies.. so I hope I'm back to being a responsible eater this coming week. I'm also glad this week, in general, is almost over. I can finally sleep in! I've been a crabby biotch all week, and not sleeping isn't helpin'. BFAST muesli, 1/4 c 3 Fage greek yogurt, 1/8 c 1 milk, 1%, 1/2 c 2 carrot 0 LUNCH Green Monster* frozen banana, blackberries, spinach & watermelon 0 pnut butter, 2 tsp 2 grk yogurt, 1/3 c 1 vanilla whey protein powder, 1/2 scp 2 DINNER turkey hotdog 4 bun 3 ketchup, must, kraut 0 diet cherry dr pepper 0 SNACKS apples, blackberries 0 multi-grain crackers x 2- 1 hummus, 1 tbsn 1 smoked salmon, .7 oz 2 carrots & lite caesar dressing 1 Quaker mini ricecakes, kettle corn, X2- 1 wasabi soy almonds x 33- 7 TOTAL ALLOWED 29 TOTAL USED 31 ACTIVITY PTS 4 PTS REMAINING AFTER ACTIVITY PTS 2 |
Here is my tracker from yesterday!
B: Quaker oatmeal - 4 S: 1/2 cup pineapple - 0 1/2 cup strawberries - 0 L: WW Pasta with Ricotta and Spinach - 7 20 oz Diet Pepsi - 0 S: WW Peanut Butter Cup sundae - 4 D: 3 oz beef tenderloin - 7 1/2 cup brown rice - 3 S: 1 minibag Orville Reddenbach 94% fat free microwave popcorn - 3 1 tsp almond oil - 1 Water: 96 oz Exercise: 35 minutes stationary recumbant biking |
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