figurethefat's Journal

Indian Buffet

Jul 29 2009 18:30

We went out to my favourite Indian restaurant for lunch. They have a 100% vegetarian buffet -- used to serve meat too but they have done away with that and lowered their prices. Wasn't sure how to post it all up so I just searched recipes for Indian Food and found some similar stuff.

Stats for today:

Fat - 34.5% (68 grams)
Protein - 13.6% (61 grams)
Carbohydrates - 51.9% (231 grams)
Alcohol - 0%
Other - 0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 2,814 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 56 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 258 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 22 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 30 grams

Grade A (Surprisingly) Calories 1,737 (eh, a few too many...)

Stats for Month of March

Mar 31 2009 20:59

Fat - 18.8% (984 grams)
Protein - 18.4% (2,163 grams)
Carbohydrates - 61.6% (7,260 grams)
Alcohol - 1.2% (84 grams)
Other - 0.0%

Daily Calorie Intake - 1,490 cals
Daily Sodium Intake - 1,981 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 56 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 142 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 8 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 33 grams

My calories were higher this month and I only lost 4 pounds. I'm pretty happy with the fat vs. protein. I like to keep the percentages there about the same, with more protein if anything. Sodium could be lower, but with all that eating out! Fibre is good. Average grade was an A- :) I hope I can get the protein and fat up to 20% over the next month, and keep calories about the same.

I'm fairly consistent from month to month, having practically identical stats for January and February. Hmm...

Book Survey

Mar 22 2009 09:45

Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

Instructions:

1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.

2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.

3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.

4) Tally your total at the bottom.

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1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen x +

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien x +

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling x +

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee x

6 The Bible (much, not all)

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte x

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell x

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens x

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott x

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy x

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare x

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien x +

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger x

19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck x

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame x

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy x

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis x

34 Emma - Jane Austen x

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen x

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis x

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne x

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell x

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy x

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding x

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert x

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen x

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley x

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck x

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas x

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac x

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy x

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert x+

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White x

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams x

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas x

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare x

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl x

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo x

Total: 38

Several of these books I had to read for school. Funny I was just discussing books with the kid the other day... I'm not really much into literature anymore and honestly some of the newer stuff on the list is questionable. And no D. H. Lawrence books? What's up with that?? And only the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?? Bah! And no E. M. Forster? Ok, I'm done.

A major fall from grace

Feb 01 2009 09:57

I ate a huge amount of cashews last night (the raw ones) and also lots of homemade granola! I posted it up this a.m. and it was about 2,000 calories in addition to the 1,500 I'd already had, so wow, now I can definitely see how I got to the place I'm at. Certain foods can add lots of calories and that means lots of extra fat.

Sooo, I'm not sure what's up for today. Lots of water for certain, and I've done a good 50 minutes on the treadmill. I'm not hungry and I don't want to say I'm going to forego food today... will just see how it progresses. Tomorrow is my weigh in day and I'm certain to see no drop, and most possibly a gain. eh!

But it's a new month now and I did lose 7 lbs in January. The plan is to lose another 6 in February. I've signed up for the February Exercise challenge, going for 1750 this month, which will require even more dedication because it's only 28 days.

On Superbowl Sunday: I'm amazed on how much this day has turned into a day of eating. It's all about what's being served now, stuff like wings, chili, ya know? Kind of weird. I don't really have anything against football, but these days I don't know anyone who likes it much so I'm not into it. I've always thought the Steelers were a great team though... So go Steelers :)

Friday Weigh In

Jan 30 2009 05:54

Down a huge 2.5 lbs since last week so I'm absolutely rapt about that :)

Here's what happened: I didn't lose much the first 3 weeks, according to the scale, but I could feel my skin tightening up and was even starting to see some definition in my stomach. So finally the scale reflects a good number. But I'm not letting up, I'm so on to my goal of 120 by St. Patrick's day. Not expecting to see much of a drop between now and Monday, or the following Friday. eh! That's the way it is but as long as I go down at least 1/2 lb I'll be happy. The week after will be a different story though. So looking out 2 weeks I'm hoping to be down to 126.

Oh and I've logged my food and exercise for 4 weeks in a row now. Here's the stats from the analysis:

Fat - 18.2% (743 grams)
Protein - 19.8% (1,817 grams)
Carbohydrates - 62.1% (5,710 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0% (47 grams)
Other - 0.0%

Daily Calorie Intake - 1,358 cals
Daily Sodium Intake - 2,105 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 66 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 104 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 8 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 32 gram

I love this song

Nov 08 2008 08:36

Optimistic Voices

You're out of the woods
You're out of the dark
You're out of the night
Step into the sun
Step into the light

Keep straight ahead for
The most glorious place
On the face
Of the earth or the sky

Hold onto your breath
Hold onto your heart
Hold onto your hope
March up to that gate
And bid it open

Keep straight ahead for
The most glorious place
On the face
Of the earth or the sky

Hold onto your breath
Hold onto your heart
Hold onto your hope
March up to that gate
And bid it open

It's from the Wizard of Oz. I kept hearing it play in my head the last few weeks and was thinking it was from when Dorothy landed in Munchkin Land. But no, it comes just after she falls asleep in the poppy field. Here's a link if you want to listen, I tried to activate it but eh, this new cc I don't understand it :/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKYhk9Qui2g

Edit: Another go at the link!

Another day of healthy eating :)

Oct 08 2008 19:16

Nutrition Report

Fat - 15.1% (20 grams)
Protein - 18.1% (53 grams)
Carbohydrates - 66.8% (197 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 0.0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 1,240 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 85 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 9 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 3 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 34 grams
Nutrition Grade

I control my food :)

Oct 07 2008 18:23

Nutrition Report

Fat - 12.6% (17 grams)
Protein - 17.0% (50 grams)
Carbohydrates - 70.4% (207 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 0.0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 1,066 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 110 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 20 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 5 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 30 grams
Nutrition Grade

I can control my food...

Oct 06 2008 19:20

I can't control the stock market, but I can control what I eat:

Nutrition Report

Fat - 15.9% (20 grams)
Protein - 17.5% (51 grams)
Carbohydrates - 66.6% (193 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 0.0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 1,768 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 85 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 27 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 6 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 24 grams
Nutrition Grade

Too much sodium

May 14 2008 20:21

Fat - 14.4% (30 grams) Protein - 15.7% (75 grams) Carbohydrates - 69.9% (332 grams) Alcohol - 0.0% (1 grams) Other - 0.0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 3,845 mg Daily Sugar Intake - 39 grams Daily Cholesterol Intake - 32 mg Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 9 grams Daily Fiber Intake - 71 grams

1739 calories

40 minutes walking 50 minutes biking 56 oz. water