Maintenance Check-In: Weight--Exercise--Meals--Opinions--Information

This thread is for anyone who wants to log in his/her weights, exercises, meals, etc.  Feel free to add any other information that you find interesting.  Best of luck in maintaining.  Never give in.  If you fall off the wagon, as the saying goes, jump back on!  You can,  you will, and you must MAINTAIN!

my weigh-ins today:

172.5 --- 172.8 --- 170.0 ---170.4

meal 1:  steel-cut oats (1/4th cup dry), w/skim milk and syrup  370 calories   1 can chunk tuna 100 calories  total  = 470 calories

meal 2: 2 pieces of "light" stone-rolled flatbread with 1 can of Mexican diced tomatoes and 1/2 cup of nonfat cheddar cheese and 2 tablespoons of bacon bits total = 430 calories

meal 3: Hershey's larger almond-toffee Symphony bar = 600 calories

meal 4: 16 oz shredded cabbage--sunflower seeds--6 tbs. lowfat dressing--2 medium cucumbers = 340 calories

Total calories = 1840 calories

exercise 1: 40 minute speed walk (had a heck of a time trying to average 135 on my Polar--thank goodness for the Polar or I wouldn't have walked as fast as I did)

exercise 2: 25 minute walk to town and back--carried home a fairly heavy sack of groceries

exercise 3: 25 minute walk to Dollar General and back--Last time their eggs were 40¢ a dozen cheaper, but only 20¢ a dozen cheaper this time.  So for having taken 3 walks already today, I rewarded myself with a larger Hershey's almond/toffee Symphony Bar.

exercise 4: 20 minutes heavy bag

exercise 5: 30 minutes weights--triceps, biceps, handgrips

exercise 6: 7  minutes abs/crunchers

total time exercising = 1 hr. 47 min.

weigh-ins:  168.8 --- 171.8 --- 168.3 --- 171.4

meal 1:  8 pieces of D'Italiano bread--2 tbs. apricot preserves--3 tbs. syrup--6 egg whites--1 tsp vanilla-1/4th cup skim milk = 750 calories

meal 2:  1/4th cup (dry) steel-cut oats, skim milk, syrup  = 370 calories

meal 3: "pizza" flat bread, diced Mexican tomatoes, nonfat cheddar cheese, EVOO, bacon bits = 600 calories

meal 4: 16 oz shredded cabbage, 4 tbs lowfat dressing, 2 tbs ground flax seed = 250 calories

Total calories:  1970 calories

exercise 1: 90 minute walk about the town (steady but not vigorous)

exercise 2: 14 minutes heavy bag

exercise 3: 30 minutes weights biceps-triceps-handgrips

exercise 4: 16 minutes abs/crunchers

total time exercising = 2 hrs. 30 min.

weigh-ins: 168.8 --- 167.6 --- 170.2

meal 1: 2  "Flatout" flat bread wraps; 2 cups of beans/beef, 1 tb light brown sugar = 695 calories

meal 2:  messed around eating things left over in my mixing bowl as I attempted to make a cookie similar to the old "Heyday" chocolate-caramel-crushed peanut-wafer cookie that Nabisco no longer makes.  The appearance was an F, but the taste was an A+. Making them was too time-intensive and somewhat complicated, so this is a one-time deal.  (Heyday, I really do miss you!) I am guestimating that I ate 500 calories worth, adding the "bowl cleaning" to the two cookies I did eat.

meal 3: 16 oz of shredded cabbage, 2 tbs. flax seed, 5 tbs of lowfat dressing, and 2 medium cucumbers = 400 calories

meal 4: 2 whole wheat flat bread "light" wraps--marinara sauce, nonfat cheese, bacon bits = 500 calories

meal 5: 2 homemade cookies as mentioned above = 440 calories

Total calories = 2535 calories  Pooey!   When I ate those last 2 cookies, I thought my calorie total was going to be 2035.  I forgot to add in the earlier 500 for cookies.  Oh, well!!!!! They were good!

exercise 1:  25 minutes: walked to the grocery store and back and carried home a large sack of groceries.

exercise 2: 48 minutes brisk walk (I had to cut it short to get home in time for the World Track and Field Championships)

exercise 3: 20 minutes heavy bag

exercise 4: 30 minutes weights

exercise 5: 7 minutes abs

total time exercising = 2 hrs. 10 mins.

weigh-ins:  --- 168.0 --- 172.0 --- 169

meal 1: left over crushed peanuts and caramel from my homemade cookies  = 600 calories

meal 2: five egg whites, 1 piece of whole wheat flat bread, 1/4th cup marinara sauce = 210 calories

meal 3: Oh, temptation, you miserable old hag  2  homemade cookies 440 calories

meal 4: 2 oz dry of Mrs. Miller's homemade noodles 1/4th cup Paul Neuman's marinara sauce = 215 calories

meal 5:      2  homemade cookies 440 calories

meal 6:   2 homemade insanity cookie 800 calories

total calories:  2705

exercise 1:       20 minutes heavy bag

exercise 2:      1 hr. 27 min walk (not exactly aggressive)

exercise 3:      25 minute walk to Dollar General and back

exercise 4:      40 minutes weights

exercise 5:       9 minutes abs

total exercise time = 3 hrs. 1 min.

weigh-ins:  --- 167.0 --- 167.0 --- 169.6 ---

meal 1:  2 and 1/2 insanity cookies   1000 calories

meal 2: 1 whole wheat wrap, 2 whole eggs, 1/2 tb. EVOO, 2tbs. bacon bits = 390 calories

meal 3: insanity cookie 400 calories

meal 4: 16 oz shredded cabbage, 2 tbs. ground flax seed, 4 tbs. lowfat salad dressing = 320 calories

meal 5: insanity cookie 400 calories

meal 6: 2 cups of bean/vegetable homemade soup with 4 oz. whole grain noodles = (soup 260 + noodles 360) = 620 calories

meal 7: 2 braeburn apples 140 calories

Total = 3270 calories (What!  Am I insane?!  Well, I froze the rest of the insanity cookies!  The damnable things!)

exercise 1: 91 minute walk about the town (steady but not aggressive)

exercise 2: 14 minutes heavy bag

exercise 3: brisk 50 minute walk about the town

exercise 4: weights 35 minutes

exercise 5: abs 8 minutes

total time exercising = 3 hrs. 18 mins.

weigh-ins:  --- 166.8 --- 167.6 --- 168.8 ---

meal 1: 1 insanity cookie = 400 calories

meal 2: 1 light wholewheat flatbread wrap, 4 egg whites, 1/2 tb. EVOO, 2 tbs. bacon bits, 1/4th cup of regular shredded cheddar cheese = 400 calories

meal 3:  2 McDonald's cheese burgers and large fries  = 990 calories

meal 4:  9 tbs. popcorn in stircrazy--Smart Balance spread - EVOO  = 890 calories

meal 5:  1 and 1/2 insanity cookies 600 calories

Total = 3280 calories

The insanity diet is officially over.  Tomorrow back to normal, healthy eating. 

total time exercising = 0 minutes

weigh-ins: --- 167.4 --- 171.4 ( after 2 meals, 2 glasses of water, and 1 pot of coffee and no exercise and no RR break) --- 166.4 (after 2 hr. walk and 17 minutes on heavy bag) --- 165.6 (after 30 minute soak in the tub) --- 167 --- 168.6 ---

meal 1: 4 slices D'Italiano bread + 2 and 1/2 tbs. Naturally More Peanut Butter 582 calories

meal 2: 2 cups of beans-veggies-beef with 1 flatbread wrap = 560 calories

meal 3: 7 little Babybell red coated little critters 70 calories * 7 = 490 calories

meal 4: 16 oz cabbage, 2 tbs. flax seed, 4 tbs. Nonfat Dororthy Lynch dressing = 290 calories

meal 5: 2 braeburn apples  140 calories

meal 6: 4 oz from dry of Mrs. Miller's whole wheat noodles with 1/2 cup of Newman's Mariana sauce  430 calories

meal 7: 1 pound of baby carrots = 175 calories

Total calories = 2667

exercise 1:  2  hr. 3 min walk--steady to brisk

exercise 2: 17 minutes heavy bag

exercise 3: 42 minute walk around the HS track

exercise 4: 20 minutes weights

exercise 5: 9 minutes abs

time spent exercising = 3 hrs. 31 mins.

forgot to weigh in first thing in the morning, was helping wife on the computer

weigh-ins:  --- 167.8 --- 168.6 --- 167.4 --- 168.0

meal 1: 1 5 oz. hamburger from grass fed beef plus ketchup (285) and 1/ cup of steel-rolled oats with maple syrup and skim milk (370) Total = 655

meal 2: 4 45-calorie-a-slice wholewheat pieces of bread--3 tbs. naturally more pb = 687 calories

(I need to get to walking; I have gotten my healthy protein in already!--60 grams and also 49% of my iron)

meal 3: 4 oz from dry of Mrs. Miller wholewheat noodles--I 14.4oz can diced tomatoes--1 diced cooked hamburger = 765 calories

meal 4: 1 bag of OR light popcorn  240 calories

meal 5: 16 oz. shredded cabbage, 4 tbs. Dor. Lynch light dressing, 1 tb flax seed = 265 calories

meal 6: insanity cookie = 400 calories

total calories: 3012

exercise 1:  30 minutes keeping heart rate above 120;  30 minutes speed walk, keeping heart rate above 150

exercise 2: heavy bag 14 minutes

exercise 3: 31 minutes walk around HS track--brisk but not aggressive

exercise 4: 22 minutes biceps

exercise 5: 8 minutes abs

total time exercising = 1 hr. 45 mins.

weigh-ins --- 168.4 --- 168.8 --- 167 --- 168.8 ---

da * * insanity cookie-bars  (I ate 2 more early morning)

meal 1: insanity cookie bars 800 calories (time to go stock up on a lot of fruit)

meal 2: 2 4 oz fillets of salmon + 1/2 tb. evoo 320 calories (great way to get my first protein of the day--44g)

meal 3: 1 insanity cookie 400 calories (It's not the cookie-bar that's insane, it's me)

meal 4: 3 nectarines 180 calories

meal 5: 4 french bread bruschetta sandwiches 880 calories

meal 6: 4 cups diced honeydew melon = 240 calories

meal 7: 5 egg whites and 2 slices of D'Italiano 40-calorie bread = 160 calories

total calories = 2980

exercise 1: 25 minutes walked to drug store and grocery store and carried home a sack of groceries

exercise 2: 9 minutes crunchers

exercise 3: walking slower pace 1 hr. 28 minutes

exercise 4: heavy bag 10 minutes

exercise 5: weights triceps and hand grips 18 minutes

Total time exercising = 1 hr. 30 min.

weigh-ins:  --- 166.6 --- 169.2 --- 169.2 ---

meal 1: 1/2 cups of almonds 320 calories

meal 2: 4 slices of Sara Lee Light whole wheat + 2 tbs. Naturally More PB = 518 calories

meal 3: 5 Laughing Cow French Onion cheese wedges + 15 reduced fat snack crackers = 400 calories

meal 4: 15" homemade wholewheat pizza crust, diced tomatoes, medium picante sauce, nonfat kraft cheddar cheese, colored bell peppers = 800 total calories

meal 5: 2 insanity cookie-bars 800 calories

meal 6: 3 cups diced honeydew melon = 180 calories

Total calories:  3018

exercise 1:  25 minute brisk walk to post office and to grocery store, carried  home a sack of groceries

exercise 2: 1 hr. 2 minutes  firm and steady if not brisk walk

exercise 3: 20 minutes heavy bag

exercise 4: 36 minutes casual about the town walk

exercise 5: 10 minutes abs

exercise 6: 20 minutes weights biceps

total exercise time = 2 hrs. 53 mins.

weigh-ins: --- 166.6 --- 168.4 --- 169.6 --- 170.4 ---

meal 1:  at 1.40 to 1:47 a.m. I ate the last of the insanity cookies ( 1 and 1/2) = 600 calories

meal 2: steel cut oats, maple syrup, nondairy creamer mixed with water (out of skim milk) = 380 calories

meal 3: 15" homemade whole wheat pizza crust, lowsodium diced tomatoes, picante sauce, red-orange-yellow bell peppers, kraft nonfat shredded cheddar cheese = 800 calories

meal 4: 2 4oz salmon fillets cooked in evoo = 320 calories

meal 5: 1 sack Orville 94% popcorn  240 calories + 1 sack Orville Butter Light  300 Total = 520 calories

meal 6: honey dew melon = 400 calories

Total = 3040 calories

exercise 1: 1 hr. 3 min walk around HS Track (somewhat leisurely)

exercise 2: heavy bag 17 minutes

exercise 3: abs 8 minutes

exercise 4: 23 minutes weights triceps and hand grips

total exercise time = 1 hr. 51 mins.

weigh-ins:  --- 167.0 --- 167.4 --- 166.8 ---

meal 1: 1/2 cup almonds 320 calories

meal 2: 8 pieces Sarah Lee whole wheat light, 6 egg whites, 1/4th cup skim milk, 3 tbs. maple syrup = 640 calories

I am drinking a few glasses of cheap wine I bought at Wally World last week.  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...how many calories can I let myself have today?

meal 3: 16 oz shredded cabbage, 2 tbs. ground flax seed, 2 tbs. unsalted sunflower seeds, 4 tbs. Dorothy Lynch low calorie dressing = 320 calories

meal 4: 1 unripened nectarine (I was going to eat 3, but 1 was enough for today) and 3 Laughing Cow wedges with 15 low fat snack crackers = 315 calories

meal 5: 4 pieces of french bread, 6 egg whites, 1/4th cup of nonfat Kraft cheddar cheese = 520 calories

meal 6: 2 light flatbread Italian wraps with 4 tbs. of Naturally More peanut butter = 518 calories

5 glasses of red wine = 750 calories

Total calories = 3383 (Well, what did I expect?)

exercise 1: 18 minutes heavy bag

exercise 2: 8 minutes abs

exercise 3: 1 hr 20 min. walk at 4.08 mph

exercise 4: 18 minutes weights biceps

total time exercising = 2 hrs. 4 mins.

weigh-ins --- 169.4 --- 172.0  --- 172.4 --- 171.2 ---

meal 1: 1 cup of raw almonds 640 calories

meal 2: 2 pieces of Flatout whole wheat wraps, canned tuna packed in water, 2 tbs. Miracle Whip Light, 2 tbs. dill pickle relish = 340 calories

1 glass of red wine - 175 calories

meal 3: 1/2 cups of almonds = 320 calories

meal 4: steel cut oats, maple syrup, skim milk = 370 calories

meal 5: 2 cups of homemade vegetable-bean soup = 260 calories

meal 6: 2 Italian light Flatout whole wheat wraps, 5 egg whites, 2 tbs. bacon bits, 1/4th cup nonfat Kraft shredded cheddar, EVOO  = 425 calories

Total calories = 2530

exercising time = 0 minutes

no exercise today -- my day off and, yes, I noticed the weight gain from last night (LOL)

weigh-ins: --- 169.2 --- 169.4 ---

meal 1:  I got the urge to make a whole-wheat funnel cake, thinking about the State fair. So around 1:30 a.m. I made a whole-wheat one.  I had never made one from scratch before and never out of whole wheat flour.  The appearancee was D- material, but the taste was definitely an A.  However, the calories were an F+.  I guestimate that it was around 872 calories.

meal 2:  I pineapple whip ice cream cone at State Fair = 200 calories ??????

meal 3: 2 Jalapeno cheese burgers Amigo's King's Classic = 800 calories ??????

meal 4: whole wheat funnel cake made at home ( I didn't buy one at the state fair) = 500 calories

meal 5: Healthy Harvest Spaghetti, 93% lean ground beef, spaghetti sauce = 1200 calories

meal 6: OR light butter popcorn = 300 calories

Three glasses of red wind = 525 calories

Hmmmmmmmmmmm....wonder what weigh-in will be like tomorrow morning.  LOL

total calories = 4397

time spent exercising = 0 minutes

174.2 --- 170.6 --- 170.2 --- 169.4 --- 170.0

meal 1: 1 cup of raw almonds = 640 calories

2 glasses of red wine = 350 calories

meal 2: whole wheat spaghetti with lean ground beef = 1200 calories

meal 3: 1 nectarine = 60 calories (still not ripe--how long does it take nectarines to ripen, for Pete's sake?)

meal 4: whole wheat flour, skim milk, sugar, 6 egg whites maple syrup baked like a pie = 540 calories.  This was quite good and I shall be making it again some time.

meal 5: 4 cups of diced watermelon = 184 calories

total calories: 2974

exercise 1: 1 hour mowing, watering, cutting a few weeds

exercise 2: 1 hr. 4 minutes walking at 3.947 mph.

exercise 3: 18 minutes abs

exercise 4: 16 minutes heavy bag

exercise 5: 30 minutes on stationary bike--steady but not over-taxing

exercise 6: 20 minutes weights triceps and hand grips

total time exercising = 3 hrs. 28 mins.

weigh-ins: 169.0 --- 170.6 --- 170.2 --- 168.6 --- 169.8

meal 1: 2 cups of homemade veggie-bean soup 260 calories, 1 and 1/2 cups diced watermelon 72 calories Total = 332 calories

meal 2: 34 light whole grain baked snack crackers 280; 4 wedges Laughing Cow Herb-Garlic 140 total = 420 calories

meal 3:  batter/dough baked  whole wheat flour, sugar, active dry yeast, skim milk, egg whites = 750 calories

meal 4: 1 braeburn apple 70 calories

meal 5: 15" whole wheat homemade pizza, bq sauce, bell peppers, cooked ground beef, Kraft nonfat mozzarella cheese = 1950 calories (And just why did I have to eat the whole thing at one sitting?  Because, Dude, it was so d * * * good!)

Total calories = 3522

exercise 1: 35 minutes stationary bike (I still can't shake the feeling that any moment while I am spinning that the replacement pedal will break off.  LOL)

exercise 2: 15 minutes heavy bag

exercise 3: 20 mins. abs/crunchers

exercise 4: 25 minutes to grocery store and back, carrying sack of groceries home

exercise 5: walking 1 hr. 3 minutes at 3.875 mph.

execise 6: 37 minutes exercise bike

execise 7: 18 minutes weights biceps

Total exercise time = 3 hrs. 33 minutes

Just wanted to give you a little encouragement. I could never be so thorough  but obviously you've hit upon something that works for you. Good luck! (not that I really believe in luck)

tomatotomata:  Thanks for commenting.  Because of my tendency to drift toward the obsessive-compulsive type personality, I have found it easy and necessary and comforting to control my weight this way.  It's not for most people, but it brings enjoyment to me.  I agree we often make our own luck, but chance happening and circumstances still seem to throw some nasty curves our way at time.  My change to eating more healthy foods as definitely helped to lower my blood pressure, triglycerides, and cholesterol.  Best of luck (well, best of keeping your freedom of will where you have it and want to keep it) always to you!

weigh-ins: --- 170.4 --- 172.4 --- 168.6 --- 167.2 --- 170.6 --- 168.2 --- 170.6

meal 1: 7 cups of diced watermelon = 322 calories

meal 2: 4 pieces of pie-cake:  dried cranberries, whole wheat flour, sugar, whole eggs, skim milk, dry yeast, smart balance = 800 calories

meal 3: 1 lb of shredded cabbage, 2 tbs ground flax seed, 4 tbs Dororthy Lynch light  (310) + (not at the same exact time) 1 and 1/2 nectarines (90) = 400 calories

meal 4:  4 four-oz. tilapia fillets with yellow mustard and Napa Valley rub cooked in EVOO HOw many calories?  400 + 200 maybe?  = 600 calories

meal 5: 2 pieces of the pie-cake = 400 calories

meal 6: Stir Crazy popped corn EVOO, 9 tbs. Jolly Time popcorn from dry, Smart Balance = 660 calories

Total calories = 3182 calories

exercise 1: 55 minutes walking at 4.176 mph.

exercise 2: 18 minutes heavy bag

exercise 3: 16 minutes abs

exercise 4: 45 minutes stationary bike

exercise 5: weights 20 mins. triceps and hand grips

Total exercise time = 2 hrs. 34 mins.

weigh-ins: --- 168.0 --- 168.8 --- 166.4 --- 167.6 --- 169.6 ---

meal 1: 4 slices of whole wheat "light" bread + 2 tbs. Naturally More PB = 349 calories

meal 2: 34 light whole grain baked snack crackers 280; 4 wedges Laughing Cow Herb-Garlic 140 total = 420 calories

meal 3: 3 light whole wheat flat out wraps (270) + 2 cans of chunk light tuna in water (200), 5 tablespoons of Miracle Light (250), 2 tbs. sweet mustard (50), 2 tablespoons sweet relish (30) Total = 800 calories

meal 4: 4 pieces of cranberry-crushed peanut pie-cake 4 * 320 = 1280 calories

Total calories = 2849

exercise 1: 21 minutes heavy  bag

exercise 2: 12 minutes abs

exercise 3: 60 minutes walk 4.84 mph

exercise 4: 25 minutes walked to grocery store and back, carried home a sack of groceries

exercise 5: 45 minutes stationary bike

exercise 6: 20 minutes weights biceps

Total exercise time = 3 hrs. 3 mins.