Health Diary (Complete)

[silverthorne]

Breakfast

1 cup Kashi GoLean! Crunch, 1/2 cup skim milk
2 16 oz mugs of coffee w/creamer

Lunch

Oh, hell...swimming won't cover this. There will have to be bouncing to Bon Jovi when I get home. Hospital gave us free lunch for getting 'Five Stars' in regards to patient services this month.

Hamburger, with whitebread seasame bun, white onions, and dijon mustard
3 Tablespoons of potato salad
2.5 Tablespoons of baked beans
4 slices of cucumber
16 oz fountain cup of Barq's Rootbeer.
1 extra large sugar cookie Only one-third of the cookie. It actually tasted bad to me, so I threw the rest out.

Yep, I'm doomed.

3 16 oz mugs of water

1 navel orange

****40 minute yoga work-out
1 hour of dancing

3 16 oz glasses of water

20 chilled shrimp

2 squares of chocolate

5 large strawberries

Comments

[ursa-mater.livejournal.com]

You are doing sooooo much better than I am! I got this sudden 'cooking' bug, (comes from watching too much 'Top Chef') and I've been a kitchen MADWOMAN! SO, starting today tomorrow I'm going to try again. Once more, with FEELING, to attempt that 'eat better and attempt to exercise' thing.

*so many hugs to you for doing so well, in spite of the sugar cookie that is!!!*

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

*Hugs right back*

Thank you. ^^

I think the Barq's is prolly just as bad, you know? Lacks caffiene, but more than makes up for that in flat out useless sugar intake. Still...Barq's! Hmnnnnn (although the diet version tastes just as good, and I would have that instead if it had been available)

Heh, yeah, that's the problem, though, isn't it? Let food into the house, and next thing you know...

What I've been trying to do is limit what I bring into the house as far as 'bad' food goes--like, the chocolate is expensive, so I'm less willing to spedn money on it, and also less willing to gorge and be out in two days flat. I've also upped the fruit supply, and make myself reach for that banana or apple or strawberries instead when I get a sweet craving instead, and hold out oin the chocolate until my body makes it more than clear that a substitute for the craving isn't going to help.

My worst problem is resisting the urge to go get ice cream--there's a Tom Thumb right across the corner from the hospital (on a five minute trip to home), which is very tempting when I'm crving something, and then, get this, there's a Diary Queen right next to the apartment complex.

...I honestly think that's why I haven't taken a walk yet--I'm more afraid the ice cream shop will jump me than anything else. *g*

I think once you get rolling, you'll do great. You seem to be able to grab onto things and not let go, you know?

[ursa-mater.livejournal.com]

Actually, Barq's does have caffeine. That's why they say 'Barq's has bite'. It's one of the only rootbeers to have it, and consequently the only rootbeer I like to drink! *g*

And yea, at work I do good, at least when I work first and second shifts. They make me these sandwiches there - 12 grain bread, just a little mustard, and so much roast beef and lettuce and tomato and onions... yum!

I drink water while I'm working as well, so it cuts back somewhat. But I had to go out and buy Jet Alert caffeine pills to take the place of the soda I cut out. I know, caffeine is bad, but not as bad in pill form with water, as when it's in soda form with salt, and carbonated water (makes you bloat) and sugars and stuff! But I don't really see any changes in my physique. Other than I think it's getting bigger. Oh wait, of course it is, right now I'm bloated and grumpy! heh.

See? Little steps!

Anyhow, gonna take a shower and then have youngest mutant son try to take a pic of me without makeup. Every time I try to take one of me in the mirror, the flash kills the photo. So wish me luck and all that! *hugs you muchly* Miss you

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

It does? Huh...could've sworn on the cans...ah well. *g*

Those sound really good. I've found though, that before I mobed out, since I was eating so much starch and carb-rich foods for dinner (potatoes, pasta, bread), since that was mostly what was available at any given time (and wouldn't start a fight when eaten), that my body pretty much just packs that away when I eat it--I've had to cut out all my breads and spuds, for example, or my weight holds steady. It's also been an energy killer, so even with the 12-grain bread, I've had to give it up as a regular diet food.

I;ve gotten to the point where I crave water, rather than have to fight the 'but there's no taste, yuck!' reaction, so I consider that a very good thing. Tea and soda has gone back to being an occasional treat, which is really what it should be. ^^.

And I hear you on the bloat. :/ Sucks to be female sometimes.

Most of me is slimming down, although my gut seems to hang out more now...or maybe I'm just honestly seeing how big I really am when I relax my muscles. I think I'm going to start tummy crunches though, because the gut is getting annoying to look at *g*.

Yep, small steps, big journey! But we'll get there. ^^

*hugs hugs and hugs* Miss you too! ^^

[ursa-mater.livejournal.com]

See, I've been a fast food girl for a while. Especially when I work overnight it's 'hit the McDeaths, then off to the hospital.'

So cooking my own food is a start in the right direction, but making ribs, and mashed potatoes, and pulled pork and brownies... like I said, baby steps, right? (the brownies were really good though! I put almonds on them and... skip it)

heh. I know we will, I think my next step is going to be a ten-speed or something so I can go riding. I'd like a kayak, but I think I'd use the bike more, actually.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yes. Fast Food. ast goes to the butt, hips and everywhere else. I remember the days when that wasn't a problem....twenty years ago. :P

Heee! Yes. American meat-and-potato diet! Hmn...

Damn, now I wish I was twenty again. XD.

Yeah, that is the thing--it's one thing for people to suggest different exercise ideas, but if you personally aren't that attracted to it, it really won't do you all that much good, especially if your 'diet buddies' aren't physically there to push you along, you know?

Like, I could ride, but in all the time I had a bike available to me, I actually wanted to use it all of three times. If I had had the freedom at the time to walk, I'd have been out every evening. NOwadays, at least at this weight, walking doesn't hold quite teh attraction for me anymore (Probably because it's hot down here, and I'm not confident of the neighborhood just yet), but swimming? Hell yeah. And bouncing to music? Since I'm on the first floor, the walls can handle the volumn I put my music at, and I don't have to worry about being censored, you betcha!

Thing is, is that a person's gotta make sure that whatever they're ginna do, they have to be ready to make a lifetime commitment to it (which is why I;m not following an 'actual diet', or spending money on diet pills, a trainer (at least not yet), and various 'diet foods'. What I'm eating now is a permanent part of the diet, more or less. And If I;m gonna do that (if anyone does it), you gotta make sure it's something you;re willing to stick with for the rest of your life.

In a way? It's a lot like kicking an addiction. (Something Dad and I talked about while he was here). You gotta treat it the same way--as in 'never again', or else once you stop doing all the 'right things'? Eventually, you'll most likely end up in the same mess as you were before you started.

Okay, soap box time is over now. *g*