sunshine25's Journal

So this week was a good week. I lost 2.10 lbs. That puts me back into the 160's again. Now if I can just hold onto that loss. I've done it before, changed nothing and climbed back in to the 170's, so hopefully that won't happen. Once again my weight takes a fairly big drop and then nothing happens for the rest of the month. Hopefully this week I can change that.

Upped my calories to 1300-1400 and really ate things this week that I haven't eaten in a long time. I haven't concentrated to much on carbs or fat, they just seemed to fall into a good %. Fat is usually 17%, Protein 24%, Carbs 57%. Seems once I didn't obsess so much on getting my exercise in, what I'm eating etc. things happended. Could I have been stressed so much that it caused me not to loose weight. Stress can do funny things! Who knows, i only hope I can repeat this week's loss again.

Went out this week for a new pair of jeans and bought size "10". Love it!! Have a 50th birthday party to go to tonight, think I will celebrate with a few beers! ( Coors Lite of course)

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Today I worked so couldn't do any exercising during the day. Man, I hate my job. I wish I had a job that I was moving all day. It really cripples me when I'm sitting at my desk all day, looking outside to all the beautiful sunshine, just wishing I could burn a few calories on a good 2 mile walk, especially when I'm trying to burn as many calories as possible these days. I sit and type all day, are there any calories burned when your fingers are going a mile a minute. (Should be)! 

Came home had supper and went down to burn some calories on the treadmill.

Boss brought all his leftover Halloween candy in for us all to enjoy (yeah right), just what I needed to look at chocolate bars all day ( Reece's pieces, Peanut Butter Cups and Oh Henry bars). I was a good girl today. Not one I just kept thinking about how many more steps I'd have to do on the treadmill, besides I ate enough on the weekend to do me for awhile.

Breakfast: Instant Oatmeal, rye bread with Jam, tea with 1% mild and 1/2 tsp of sugar (281 calories).

Lunch: Small bowl of homemade chili, Yogurt (Source) and two small pieces of multi grain bread (455 calories)

Dinner: 1 chicken breast, 1/2 cup of penne, spaghetti sauce (486 calories)

Snacks: Raw baby carrots, Raisins ( mini-snacks), Jello and 2 cups of air popped popcorn.

( Need to work on eating a few more fruits and veggies)

Total Calories: 1358         &n bsp;   Total Calories Burned: 1870  = 512 Deficit

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Well not sure what's happening here. Finished my TOTM.  Got my calories down to 1200 a day and I gain weight. 1200 +500 deficit is=1700. My burn meter is set to 1640, you'd think I would loose something, not gain. I am gaining about .20 a day. I have run out of ideas here. I have tried every scenario that could be tried and very little happens. Getting very discouraged. The scales have still not moved off of the 170's. Been hovering around 78 kgs. (171.60) since September 5th.

Two weeks ago increased my calories to 1300 to see if it would make a difference, only gained, so I have been trying for the past two weeks to loose that weight I gained and got it down to 170.10, but right back up again.

We'll see what tomorrow's weigh in shows.  It's just so frustrating. I just wish one week I could see 1 lb. loss. Haven't seen that since last spring.

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Not feeling great these days. Kind of feeling down about alot of things. #1 being my weight loss, #2 daughter lost her job, #3 weight loss, #4 tired all the time, #5 Did I mention my weight !!!

Feeling really lazy these days. Trying to read so much about calories, how much I should be eating, zig zagging my calories, scales, trying anything to move the scales a bit. It is also TOTM for me so that always makes things worse.

Don't really feel like going to my Zumba Classes tonight, but I've eaten 1222 calories today and I have to get that Burn meter up to show a deficit. Have been concentrating on that alot also.

Dr. Oz says with my age, I should be eating about 1,000 calories, but I just can't do it. It's just not enough food for me and I'm starving all the time. I'm also snacking a bit more because of the TOTM. Also ways need a little bit of something sweet. Drinking lots of water, so much that my bladder hurts. Ha

Well guess i better get ready for my dancing classes. Started them thinking they would reall jump start my metabolism big time and make a difference in inches on the waist, but it's been a month and nothing has changed. Not sure if I will continue with them or not. It's hard and I am jumping the whole time I am there, I have to be burning at least 350 calories for the hour. She has us going and moving for the whole hour.

Then heading home to watch "Biggest Looser" my favorite show these days. Kind of gives me incentive to go on when I feel this way. Yuck, I feel like crap. Hope tomorrow is a better day !!!

 

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Scales read 170.10 lbs. this morning. I just couldn't hold onto the 160's. It sucks. I really though I had exercised lots this week. I know I'll see it again in a couple of days though. Had a piece of pizza last night around 10:00, I just felt soo hungry the last few days. Not sure why! But really hungry, one that water does not fill me with. So hubby was out and asked him to bring me some home. ( Never felt guilty one bit). I had my piece while I watched him chow down on 4 pieces. ( Lucky guy)

Trying to switch up my menu a bit by bringing my fat up to about 20%, but lowering my carbs to about 55%. A couple of days there I was over 63% and still only 1200 carbs, so I think that's a little much for my body. I'm working on lowering them and trying to bring in a few new foods into my menu's.

This week I have snuck in a few things that my body is certainly not used to. Had a small reeces pieces (small halloween pack) 10 little ones, had some chocolate in them of course, not used to that, pizza last night (can't remember the last time I had pizza), even had a small piece of pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving ( pie) my stomache hasn't seen pie in a year. So that might play a part in the .20 gain. Who cares, I've gone a long time without those little treats, stay right on my scheduled food and don't usually go off my plan, guess I got a little brave this week. I'm on my treadmill more than ever now, so I think I can treat myself to a piece of pizza.

Hope everyone has a super week !!

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So Saturday night had a 30th birthday party to go to so I decided not have a big supper, cause I knew I'd be snacking. Food came out, no problem, had a few little picky things, cheese, crackers, bet it didn't even come to 150 calories. It was the Lite vodka coolers (100 calories), but I had four, so that pretty much put me over my calories for the day. So didn't earn any stars that day. 

Sunday was thanksgiving, I did pretty good. I paced myself and ate only a small amount of turkey, bit of ham, salad, hot veggie dish and a piece of pumpkin pie, yes, my mouth was watering for it all day, then went over with the two glasses of wine I had after supper. ( Monday) I was back on the treadmill (burned 215 calories), not to mention the 3 loads of laundry I did, washing floors, vacuming just cleaning after my company of 16 people left. Wow, it will be a long time before I do that again. Today felt exhausted.

All in all those much dreaded holiday dinners didn't really bother me that much. I never felt that I was cheated out of anything. Realizing that I really don't have a taste for alot of things anymore. I used to love mashed potatoes, nope, don't care if I have any at all, turkey dressing, nope, didn't bother me either. I think in the back of my mind it is sooooo hard for me to loose a 1lb. that I would rather not. I've learned that even when I change up my menu or add a different food, I can gain overnight. So I stick to what I know and that is my fish, chicken, liver and turkey. I'm safe with those.

Not gonna weight myself until Wednesday morning. Drink lots in the meantime and my Zumba classes tomorrow night so hopefully I can burn off those drinks I had over the weekend. Wednesday is the big day (1 year anniversary) so I'm hoping to get to 40 lbs. I would be so happy.

I didn't log at all this weekend. I'm trying to not log on weekends just to start training myself and see how i do with making my food choices. I know I have to log during the week to keep me on track. That is something I will continue to do for a long time.

Walked into the party Saturday night and everyone commented on how great I looked, it felt so good to hear that from people. It's like putting more fuel in the tank to keep the old body going. It gives me more drive to keep on going.

Hope everyone had a great weekend.

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I did it !  I weighed in this morning and now officially are in the 160's.  It's just the beginning, but I did it! I have waited so long. I weighed in at 169.90 lbs. That's a 1.70 loss this week. Beginning of the week nothing, but the last three days, wow, the scales started to move.

I did change my fat intake. I tried to keep it around 20% and never went over. I had a low day in there, but that was a fluke and still don't know how that happended. My carbs are pretty high somedays, but didn't seem to bother my results. I try and exercise more than usual. Started up again on my treadmill. Some nights all I could do was 30 minutes, but I still did it. Haven't taken my measurments in a while, but next Wednesday is my offical 1 year anniversary at CC, so will have to give you all a report then.

Tonight I have a birthday party to go to. Thanksgiving tomorrow, oh I have to find a way to hold onto this loss. ( I'm scared). I am cooking for 16 people on Sunday, so maybe I will be too stressed out to eat. I doubt it, I love my turkey and gravy and potatoes. I have to keep telling myself the more I eat the more time I have to commit to that treadmill and that might be a little hard to do this weekend with so much going on. I'm gonna do my best.

Happy Thanksgiving to you Canadian's out there! I'll be thinking about you all on turkey day!

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  Fat - 9% (11 grams)
Protein - 22.3% (64 grams)
Carbohydrates - 68.7% (196 grams)
Alcohol - 0%
Other - 0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 1,345 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 56 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 80 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 1 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 22 grams

So today I think I did pretty good, although the scales will tell the tale tomorrow. 

Breakfast:  1 cup All bran Cereal (110 calories) , 1 cup of 1% milk (108 calories) , Tea with 1 % milk and tiny bit of sugar. ( 50 calories)

Lunch:  Low Fat oven roasted chicken breast (2 slices) (30 calories)on 2 pieces of Body Wise Multigrain Bread ( 90 calories), FF Yogurt (35 calories), 1 cup of watermelon (46 calories)

Dinner: 1 fillet of salmon (110 calories), 1 cup mixed veggies (118 calories),  3/4  cup of Minute Rice (150 calories) FF Yogurt (35 calories), 1 cup of watermelon (46 calories) sprinkled with Kashi Go Lean (20 calories)

Snacks:  Celery (3 calories), Cucumber (4 calories), cherry tomatoes (7 calories), even had a piece of Angel Food Cake ( small piece) (129 calories).

Carbs are a little higher than usual, usually can get them to about 55%, all this for 1,089 calories. Have to fit about 200 more in before bed. Hmmm. Going to burn 200 calories on the treadmill and probably finish the day out with a smoothie. Hopefully the scales will love the day I had also. 

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Still no weight loss, still at 171.60, so at least I'm holding. Went to my Zumba class last night and danced my &&&& off. Boy when I leave there I feel like I could run a marathon I have so much energy. CC says I burn 545 calories going steady for an hour as they say it's "high impact", whatever that means, but I'll take it. I think I am the only one with the face as red as Santa when I leave there.  But it feel so good to sweat a good sweat, sick eh!

Today did some shopping  ( burned 110 calories by my pedometer) and then came home and burned another 300 calories on the treadmill.  LUnch was 3 chicken fingers (small) and ceasar salad, not real heathly, but trust me there was nothing else on that stupid menu that I could order that was healthy. I'm gonna try and pick up my socks and burn more calories than normal. Daily, I have to stick to this exercise thing DAILY. No excuses. Have so much going on this weekend, birthday's, parties and of course Thanksgiving where I will be hostess to 12 family members. I don't mind, I like when the family gets together.

My calories are averaging daily about 1200 - 1250, so I'm sure to loose a lb. with all this exercising. Well, maybe not, I'm not expecting anything, that way I won't be too disappointed. Hopefully I will loose this week as I know next week will be a gain for sure. Yum Yum, turkey & ham and pumpkin pie.  

Stay Focused !!!

Just checked in my journal haven't lost a thing since September 12. I think I'm overdue.

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  Fat - 12.7% (18 grams)
Protein - 25.1% (80 grams)
Carbohydrates - 62.2% (199 grams)
Alcohol - 0%
Other - 0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 1,223 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 56 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 35 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 4 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 25 grams

 Today was another good day, although no exercise tonight. Came home from work with good intentions, had supper, had to make a birthday cake for my boss (angel food cake). Somehow the night just got away from me and here I am checking messages just before bed.

Pretty happy about the fat intake today, maybe even a little low, but I'm not really hungry.  Just can't win, you get your fat low and your carbs are high.  Haven't mastered that yet.

Tomorrow night is my Zumba classes so I'll get enough workout to do me for the week. I am excited to go back to it again, but hope she takes the steps a little slower, can't seem to get that hip motion going.  Hope tomorrow was as good as today, still haven't weighed myself. I think I'm gonna step on those scales tomorrow and see if there kind to me or not.

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