Angie's Diary...Fit and Fabulous

[Unique13_]

Well I thought I would try posting my daily food intake and see if I can improve what I am eating.
Please feel free to make comments both good and bad and any suggestions you may have are more then welcome.

Today is Dec 3rd, 2007.

I'm starting at 138lbs.

My food intake for today :
(I'm working night shift so the times will vary from week to week as I switch from day shift to night shift)

Woke up at 3:30pm

Breakfast at 4:30pm : 1/2 cup of Quaker harvest honey and oat cereal, 1 cup of milk and 1 banana.

6:30pm : a large homemade coffee, 3 tbs cream, 3 splenda.

9pm : 1 granny smith apple, 1 low fat cheese string and 1 cup of water

12pm : 20 minutes on the treadmill and 40 minutes of weight lifting upper and lower body.

1pm : a salad (spinach, mushrooms, cucumbers, tomatoes, avocado, 2 piece's of cheese cut up, 1 boiled egg, green pepper, red pepper) with 2 tbs of low fat salad dressing, 1 cup of water

3pm : hot chocolate (I'll usually have another coffee but thought I would change that)

4pm : grapes and 1/2 cup of cottage cheese.

7am : drive home and go to bed.

Not prefect but could be far worse I think. Any comments?

 

[maleficent]

Just doing some random calculations in my head - your calories seem very very low - especially wiht the workout you've got doing -and it will be tough to sustain it long term... try using a program like to record your calories.. and other nutrients.

How tall are you and what is your goal weight range?
Are you taking measurements as well - I'd strongly urge not focusing on the number on the scale, which can fluctuate drastically, instead focus on measurements...

and welcome to the forum and your diary...

 

[Unique13_]

Hi There,

Thanks for your post maleficent but I really don't have time to be using fitday, I barely have time as it is to be posting my food intake daily, thank god I’m fast at typing.

I don't have a goal as such just to be healthy, eat more and be more active. I wouldn’t mind losing another 10-15 lbs but it is not necessary.

My height is 5'4 and I’m going on Wednesday to get my measurements done at the gym so I can let you know more details then.

I also posted in the newcomers section of this forum called “I’m the new girl from Canada”. I’ll copy and paste it for you at the bottom, It will give you more of an idea as to why I started this diary. I guess I should have posted more about myself at the beginning of my diary, sorry about that.

So you don’t think I’m eating enough calories? I didn’t feel hungry.

I should mention too, I don’t want to be counting calories, I’m trying to change the way I eat and change my lifestyle and I don’t want to be counting calories for the rest of my life.

Thank you again for your much needed support.

My post “I’m the new girl from Canada” :
Hello to my fellow forum members.
I have been viewing your board now for the last couple of weeks and decided tonight that I would join.
I didn’t join this group basis on that I need to lose a large amount of weight, in fact I am 5'5" and 140 lbs, 10 pounds would be ok but not necessary. I am here because if I don’t get myself on the right track now I will be over weight.

I am some what a healthy eater now, but recently I started skipping meals, not that I pig out on junk food because I don’t even carry it in the house, but I’m just not hungry. I have to force myself to eat. I don’t intend too skip meals, it’s just some times I get so busy I just forgot to eat until I realize I haven’t eaten in the last 5-6 hours, this problem only happens to me on days off. I’m a shift worker, I work 12 hours shifts of both days and nights and for the next month I’ll be on nights, so before I go to work I always prepare my meals for the evening and I make sure I bring a healthy selection. I had months where I made sure that I was eating every 3 hours, I set my clock to remind me, I’d have a carb and a protein but no matter what I ate my sugar cravings always overtake me. I can have a very well balanced meal and about ½ hour to 45 minutes later I am craving sweets to the point that I will open a bag of chocolate chips that I have for baking just so I can get that sugar into my body to relieve the cravings. If I carry any type of junk food in the house I will gorge on it to the point that it is either gone or almost gone, so I can’t have it in the house at all. I have tried just about everything, eating balanced, lots of fruit and veggies, water, exercise, chromium and still every evening I get those stupid cravings. My cravings get so bad to the point that if I don’t get sugar I get very beside myself, cranky and I’ll usually just go and lye down, but I don’t want to have to be doing this every evening.

So I guess I’m here for motivation to keep my butt moving and to keep me on the right track for eating. For the most part I know what I should and should not eat but it may need a bit of tuning. I do not count calories and I have no intention of doing so, I know how to portion sizes (except when it comes to junk food, I just can’t stop) and I have tried fitday for a couple of months and I found that I just didn’t have the time at the end of each day to be placing my meals on there, especially if what I eat I can’t find in the fitday selection, then I need to input the nutrition value myself, it was a lot of work for the little time that I had.

I’m from eastern part of Canada, and here it is pretty cold this time of year. So getting outside and exercising isn’t as easy as it was a month or so ago, and if I go to the gym I feel bad for leaving my puppies behind because they are not getting any exercise and I am.

So I hope I didn’t bore anyone with to many details. I’m looking forward to interacting with many different people. Have a great weekend. Cheers