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Today we had to do some shopping at Sam's club so I know I got a few hours of general walking in. We walked every isle trying to find healthy things. We bought some South Beach Diet high protein cereal bars for my DH to snack on. Since he is a welder he needs things that are easy for him to eat quickly in between meals, since his meals can be as many as 8 hours in between.  Waited until we got home to eat so that was good.  We were going to eat talapia but was too lazy to fix it so ate other things, but balanced it out. 

Nutrition Report

    Fat - 24.8% (37 grams)
 Protein - 24.7% (84 grams)
 Carbohydrates - 50.5% (171 grams)
Daily Sodium Intake - 1,492 mg
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 65 mg
Daily Fiber Intake - 38 grams
 Nutrition Grade  A
 

Calories 1,200

Hi all: just wanted to check in. I'm still brainstorming about what I will do for exercise on days I don't see my personal trainer: I'm thinking about joining exercise classes at a local gym. I'm thinking about taking up turbo kick-boxing and a spin class. I think I will try to get a 30 day membership that way if I don't like it then it won't last long. Anyone ever taken a class? What are your thoughts on them? I've always been intimidated but now that I have been seeing my personal trainer for over 3 weeks now, I don't feel intimidated anymore.

Breakfast: 1 cup of oatmeal, 1 cup of cottage cheese, 1 cup of blueberries

Lunch: 1 whole wheat tortilla, Two 1/4 cups of fat free cheese, roasted chicken, 3 cups of cucumbers, 1 cup of red-bell peppers, 1 cup of green bell peppers, 1/2 cup of red tomatoes, 1 cup of celery

I can never get the right balance of fruit and vegetables. I either eat way too many fruits or way too many vegetables. I need to learn how to balance that out! I have to go to the store tonight to pick up some more fruits. I will get it right eventually. I will check back later to post my nutrition.

Calories Today: 1400

Dinner: Cereal with blackberries (Wasn't very hungry--I think all the vegetables that I ate took my appetite away!)

Nutritional Report: Grade A

16.1% (25 grams)
Protein - 32.2% (113 grams)
Carbohydrates - 45.8% (160 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 5.9%

Daily Sodium Intake - 1,767 mg
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 130 mg
Daily Fiber Intake - 27 grams

Report for January 6, 2008.

Calories= 1,354
Grade= A
Calories burned= 2,059
Calorie Deficit= 705

  Fat - 20.6% (32 grams)
Protein - 17.8% (63 grams)
Carbohydrates - 61.6% (218 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 0.0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 1,927 mg
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 38 mg
Daily Fiber Intake - 32 grams

Yay, another good day!! I'm on a roll right now! Hopefully I can keep it up!

Report for Sunday, 1/6/08
Hi friends! I de-christmas-ified the house today, took a leisurely bike ride (it was very warm and spring-like today), and then had a culinary adventure, I made pita bread. It tastes pretty good (fat free, you make it with yeast), but the flour combo isn't quite right, it was a bit dry. I used 3/4 whole wheat flour, 1/8 rye flour and 1/8 bread flour. Then you let the dough rise, pat them into circles, rise again, and bake. I used one to make a flat sandwich for dinner, with chicken, tomato, grilled onion, and fat-free feta cheese. Tasty! I think I'll try the recipe again once these get eaten through the week.

I took 2BB's advice and had raisins and salt-free nuts for a snack today. Mmm I'll do that again soon.

Other news, SO and I found a beautiful restored Victorian house that we really like. Seems a bit over-priced for the urban neighborhood where it's located so we may try to negotiate. Also looked downtown, and to the east of town, and in northern Kentucky. There's such a WIDE range of condition out there, I can hardly believe it. Good we're looking at many properties to find the right one. Plus we need to sell our houses to get the new one anyway. I need to be more patient. "I will not stress out about that which I cannot control." Now I'll write that one hundred times in my notebook. LOL

This should be a good week, have all my exercise planned in for evenings M - Th this week, and back on the fiber/protein bandwagon and most meals planned for the week. Highlights, some more chicken-veggie soup, some lentil stew with tomato and zucchini, a couple of omelets with grilled onions and chicken-apple sausage, and top it off with some tilapia, baked potato and stir-fry peas for Friday supper. I must go to the grocery tomorrow, the larder looks pretty bare.

Stats for today:

1756 calories--Burned 2560--Deficit 803 (right on target)?
My "burned" number is still about 30 percent off given my weight loss, so consistency is a good thing. I'm very happy with my numbers today, I'll have to give my menu a close look and see how I can build out from it to achieve these stats again.

Fat - 21.7% (45 grams)
Protein - 21.1% (99 grams)
Carbohydrates - 57.2% (268 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 0.0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 2,353 mg
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 324 mg
Daily Fiber Intake - 35 gramsGrade = A

SO is in Detroit this week for work, I miss that boy already! Promised me a bike ride next Saturday if the weather's fine.

tonight I'll finish taking the art down from the walls of the living room, and put out the drop cloths on the furniture. I plan to paint the room a "celery" color (its now a medium jade) since it needs a once over and spruce up before the house goes up for sale 3/1. And more stuff to storage. Decluttering is not my strong suit. Ha! Then next week's "spare" time is dedicated to painting the basement floor. Do I get burn credits for painting? I'll have to look it up!

Deep breaths and steaming cups of tea to all you G4Gers this week.

- RG

Hey all I found this blog called Please HELP me!!! http://caloriecount.about.com/forums/post/pag e/1/73085.html#last

The story was so sad. Seriously the guy is afraid of fats and calories! Not much of anerexia but so close to that considering this is a guy and 1400 calories a day for him doesn't cut it. I hope we all help him

Oddly enough these past two days were all right. Yesterday I consumed 1,488 cal. and today I ended up with 1,719 calories. Not the best but better than over 2,500 calories. Again with my question: how do we eat our meals through out the day. Sometimes for me it's like  I end up eating a day of calories by mid afternoon you know?

Today I was so tired I had to do research for my dad and I brought a genisoy high protein bar (aparently 240 calories) ate that then once my mom picked me up I ate what she cooked which was rice, fried cauliflower (yeah... I had like 3 pieces of those) beef shish kebab, lots of left over rice pudding, tea cookies and tea. My sister offered me one of the last belgian chocolates but luckily I said no. Boy am I proud of myself for that. 

After I ate the meal coarse of rice, shish kebab, salad, fried cauliflower like after less than an hour I went right to eating rice pudding, tea cookies, and tea. Has that ever happened to you? When you finish a meal you think you're done then like less then an hour later you start eating again? How do you combat that?

Thanks for reading and hopefully I get the answers I need. Hope you guys are successful with weight loss/ health.

-hananabanana 

P.S. Since I'm starting school I won't be here to post on most days but will gladly read what you guys have to say. Finals coming up... time to start cramming! 

 

Hey all,

Sounds like everyone is doing great! HB, I like to cut my calories evenly between each meal so I might have 500 to 600 calories for breakfast lunch and dinner but then some-days I just see how hungry I am and then decide.

Exercise today: cleaned and de-cluttered apartment

Nutrition: Total calories: 1471cals,  Grade A minus

Fat - 29.3% (48 grams)
Protein - 23.3% (85 grams)
Carbohydrates - 45.2% (166 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 2.3%

Daily Sodium Intake - 1,511 mg
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 120 mg
Daily Fiber Intake - 23 grams

Hi everyone,

Good luck on your finals, Banana!!

IttyBitty, You are hilarious! What a great treat for folks at the nursing home to get to hang out with a horse! Aero would love the attention too except that he is WAY too big. He may fit through the door but I don"t think I can teach him to use the bathroom. Oh well.

I rode him today for the first time in a real shoe. He was really good and I got a pretty good workout just trotting him around.

Okay...

I am REALLY struggling to lose any weight here. I have followed the plan, worked out every day on my bike and I can only show about a pound loss in 12 days. Am I doing something wrong? Help.

 

skye, sometimes it goes slow (frustrating...)

Are you taking your measurements so you can see progress on something other than the scale?  That helps me.

Try some intervals on the bike.  I do 60 minutes with downloaded music; 4 minutes at 90+ rpms (you can figure it out by looking at a clock w/ a second hand and counting how many times your knee comes up in 10 seconds, then take that total times 6 for your rpm...) and 75 - 80 percent of maximum heartrate.  Then I do a 3 minute song of recovery to 65 percent heartrate.  It is quite a workout, I lay down beach towels before I do it because I sweat so much!

Increase your weight lifting by 10 minutes, or 5 reps per set, or by one superset.

You also might want to add in an extra Luna Bar or similar (180 - 250 calories) if you're upping the intensity on your exercise.

I have to "trick" my body every couple weeks or so with different exercise and nutrition make-up, eg, this two week period I seem to want protein so I'm beefing it up, have been losing about a pound or a little more a week.

And just breathe and be patient, that's the hardest part!

You could also get reeeeeal jiggy and not weigh for a month!  That takes real discipline, and no cheating though, but as long as you stay true to your food and workout program, you could take a month off from the scale if you want.

My .02, hope it helps.
- RG

Yesterday I ate two cookies at a parenting class we went to.  I have no idea of the calories so I looked up toll house cookies and logged them, hopefully it was at least close.  I had too much pressure yesterday, we went over to a friends after church and they ate ham and noodles, I have decided to stay away from ham because of the sodium but I still like it.  Instead of eating their food I took an Atkins Advantage Bar and a sweet potato.  So by the 6:00 I was seriously wanting to eat again and there were those cookies so I gave in. This is what I came up with for my nutrition...

Nutrition Report

    Fat - 31.0% (52 grams)
 Protein - 19.6% (74 grams)
 Carbohydrates - 49.4% (186 grams)
 Daily Sodium Intake - 1,482 mg
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 40 mg
Daily Fiber Intake - 35 grams
 Nutrition Grade A- 
Calories 1,331
 

Good morning, everybody!!!!

"Oh, what a beautiful morning...!

Oh, what a BEE-UU-TI-FUULLL Day...!!!!! "

Need shades... Sun's so bright, in my bathroom...delight!!!  *giggle!*

(Are lunatics happy? Thisone is, today! Lol!!!)

My scale musta' heard Molly's in it's closet!

I finished 8 months today... and dearly wanted a pitiful .25 lbs...

To reach 171.5 and 35 lbs. gone-for-good...

(Another 5 lb. bag of sugar for my 'Weight Box!')

Drum roll...

Made 171.4 right on time!!! (Plus 1/10 to 'shrink on!' )

That seems small, esp. with 3 for my last month...but I'm working on that for my next month, and it will be interesting to compare the effect extra exercise will have and my return to my 3x weekly weight routine...

*Happy sigh *

I've been thinking... my body is really concerned with survival and health! I can't lose FAT fast, and losing weight fast is something I know I CAN do... but it is clearly muscle instead of fat if I resort to starving myself... I looked terrible and pale...! Weight loss became harder! Like Forks... NEVER AGAIN!!! If I can't lose fat fast, I'll accept fat  slow- as I know it's FAT not HEALTH I'm losing! My immune system is really doing well, too. It's nice to not get sick as soon as I usually do at the time of year! And feel sooo good! Sooo HEALTHY!!! Hearing the Nutritionist confirm CC's guidelines and tell me I'm doing it RIGHT!!! is a real help, that I can't express adequately! And the weight lifting benefits...! At 45 years old...lol!!!! I never dreamed I'd be doing so good at my age... I believe I'm settled into a permanent "Life-Style" that will hold even in times of severe stress... THAT is what matters most, and THAT is accomplished! Woooo Hoooo!!!! Champion of MY Life-long struggle! CC has changed my hopeless thinking into real success- love CC!!!

Really doing GREAT in 2008!!!!! Go Gang!!!! G4G has really helped, too!!!!

Thanks for starting us off so well, Dances!!!

Nutrition Report
Fat - 15.2% (22 grams)
Protein - 32.6% (107 grams)
Carbohydrates - 52.2% (171 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 0.0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 2,165 mg
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 155 mg
Daily Fiber Intake - 38 grams
Nutrition Grade A
2008-01-06   1,205

Enjoying lurking, lol! Have found weekends too busy for much talking! Glad every-bodies doing well... don't worry, Scenicskye- it'll go if you hang on... I've heard horseback riding is good, too. Glad your ride went well! Maybe sodium/water/muscle reaction to returning to regular activities? Meds can cause gains, too, grrr! Plateaus become weight slides if we wait 'em out! I'm glad I have. A calorie increase was suggested as effective for some by my Nutritionist, too. Stress DOES cause gain, I was reassured. You've probably had a good bit of that, with your injury!

Tough times and learning what will help us-from the experiences of others like us, is a big part of what makes this thread sooo helpful! Stay encouraged, we understand your frustration, too!

Edited for changed spelling, clarification.

Report for January 7, 2008.

Calories= 1,669
Grade= A
Calories Burned= 2,363
Calorie Deficit= 694

Fat - 21.8% (43 grams)
Protein - 25.7% (113 grams)
Carbohydrates - 52.5% (231 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 0.0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 2,002 mg
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 171 mg
Daily Fiber Intake - 43 grams

Great day!!!! I did 30 minutes on the manual treadmill and about 20-25 minutes of weights. So I'm back to working out! Need to get these inches off!

Where's Molly been??? Did I miss a post saying she'd be gone for a while???

Also kimbecherer, where are you???? I see you still sign in, so give us an update! I hope everything is going alright!

Hey all ,

Busy day for me with school starting again. I have moved my personal training sessions to night time now so that will be really different ( I usually do them in the morning)...Tonight I have strength training. I packed a cooler full of food for work today and it worked--I stuck to my calories and I was never hungry I also got in 3 liters of water or about 101.4 fl ounces. Forks I can't believe you used to drink 200 fl oz. I feel like I am in the bathroom all the time--you must have really been!

Breakfast: Two 3/4 cups of honey bunches of oats (6 grams of sugar) cereal, 1 cup of blackberries

Lunch: Two 2/3 cups of brown rice, 1/2 cup of refried beans, Two 1/4 cups of fat free cheese, 2 cups of cucumbers, 1 cup of red bell peppers, 1 cup of strawberries

Dinner: 1 zero lean organic steak, 1 cup of finger potatoes

Snack: 1/2 cup of cottage cheese, 1 cup of raspberries

Nutrition: 1429 Calories, A plus

01/07/08 Total calories

Fat - 9.1% (14 grams)
Protein - 26.5% (95 grams)
Carbohydrates - 59.6% (213 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 4.8%

Daily Sodium Intake - 1,695 mg
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 86 mg
Daily Fiber Intake - 38 grams

Woo hoo I got exercise today.  First I spent a couple of hours finally taking down my tree, that was just time consuming.  Then we had room for the treadmill to finally come home.  I walked for 25 minutes, after we put the laptop computer beside it so I could watch music videos or watch a movie.  Then my DH and I got the resistance tubes and did some strength training.  I feel great and I can't wait until tomorrow when I can walk all the way through a movie.

Nutrition Report

    Fat - 23.9% (41 grams)
 Protein - 26.5% (101 grams)
 Carbohydrates - 49.6% (189 grams)
Daily Sodium Intake - 1,767 mg
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 114 mg
Daily Fiber Intake - 48 grams
 Nutrition Grade A-
 

Calories consumed: 1,375

Calories burned: 1,920

HOW DO WE MEASURE SUCCESS?

One of the many ways that we measure success when eating healthy (and trying to lose weight) is by stepping on the scale and holding our breath until we received the verdict. Another way we measure success is how well our clothes fit (or don't fit, as the case may be!) A third way to measure success -- especially for those of us with diet-related health issues like high cholesterol or high blood sugar (diabetes) -- is by looking for positive changes in test results. Finally, a fourth way that we can measure success is by using a tape measure and seeing if we've been shrinking.

As a reminder, I've lost 71.6 pounds, 2-3 clothing sizes (depending on brand), my cholesterol dropped 60 points and my blood sugar average dropped 40 points ... ALL very positive measures of success for 20 weeks of eating healthy!!!

I wish I'd had the foresight back in August to take my measurements before I started this weight loss - healthy eating adventure, but I didn't. I waited for two months (about 35 pounds lost) and then took my first set of measurements ... so heaven knows what my actual starting measurements were! (They were depressing enough after the 35-pound loss, ya know?) Anyway, I visited a friend's house today (she's the one with the soft, fabric tape measure) and took my measurements after 20 weeks of dieting.

Here's the results .... the differences which have occured since October 20 ....

NECK ........................ lost 1.25 inches

UPPER ARM ............... lost .75 inch

WRIST ....................... lost .25 inch

CHEST ....................... lost 2.25 inches (drat)

WAIST ....................... lost 2.75 inches

HIPS .......................... lost 7.00 inches (hip hip hooray!)

UPPER THIGH ............. lost 2.25 inches

CALF ........................... lost 1.00 inch

TOTAL INCHES LOST SINCE OCTOBER 20: 17.50!

*   *   *

Another way I measure success is by my willingness to try new foods. Last year, one of my healthy eating goals was to try new food -- and I did. This year, one of my goals is to keep trying new foods, and on the list was "try a new grain in 2008!" So, when I was at Whole Foods this afternoon to pick up hummus, I was wandering around the cereal aisle and decided to pick up a package of organic, puffet KAMUT ("kah-moot") cereal.  I had a bowl-full for an afternoon snack ... it's pretty tasty!

KAMUT is a close relative to wheat whose kernel is about the same shape as a wheat seed but a KAMUT kernel is more than twice as big. Even though KAMUT is very closely related to wheat, some (but not all) people who are wheat intolerant can eat KAMUT with no problems. KAMUT also has some pretty amazing nutritional strengths.  Scientists who have attempted to classify this seed generally believe KAMUT was an obscure grain kept alive by peasant farmers in Egypt or Asia Minor.

KAMUT is a high protein grain, generally containing 30% more protein than wheat. As this grain hasn't been altered by modern plant breeders, it retains its ancient nutrition, flavor and goodness. Due to its slightly higher fatty acid content, Kamut can be considered a high energy grain, and compared to wheat, Kamut also contains elevated levels of vitamin E, Thiamin, Riboflavin, phosphorus, magnesium, zinc, pantothentic acid, copper and complex carbohydrates. All around, Kamut seems to be a very healthy grain.

One cup of puffed KAMUT cereal has 50 calories, 0 fat, 0 cholesterol, 0 sodium, 70mg potassium, 11g carbs, 2g fiber, 0g sugar and 3g protein ... which means it has fewer carbs than puffed millet cereal and more protein ... WOO HOO! When paired up with 1/2 cup of unsweetened vanilla Almond Breeze at 20 calories, you've got a great healthy snack for just 70 calories!

TRY SOMETHING NEW THIS WEEK!

=^..^= MOLLY

Report for 1/7/08

Yay for Mel! Lookin' good! 4Sq in da workout house -- don't worry about those cookies!  Forks is hip hoppin and burnin the calories, and Boots too. You guys rock. 2BB - your sunny messages make my day, keep em coming. Skye--is your foot feeling better? Try any of those interval workouts? That's entirely what I worked on today. We'll see what 5 days of this stuff, plus some long endurance cardio does to the scale. Lovin' the "inches" difference each week. I miss Molly too, hope she's OK, (sends white light Molly's way via head and heart************)

Back from training this evening -- whew, the gloves are off! An hour of circuit training, squats, and some speed work.  I still feel a little shaky, fortunately I did cardio first today so I'm all taken care of at least for today. I ate an extra 180 calorie Luna Bar about 45 minutes before working out

Ugh it was a hard day at the office, I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed with everything I have going on now. Trying to eat right and keep the energy up, not let work stress lead me away from my health quest.

Calories: 1982 Burned: 2897 Deficit: 915

Fat - 26.9% (56 grams)
Protein - 19.2% (90 grams)
Carbohydrates - 53.9% (252 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 0.0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 1,624 mg
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 135 mg
Daily Fiber Intake - 38 grams
Grade = A

Have a good Tuesday, all.
- RG