Burlesque Babe

A bit of another weird day for me. Finished cals at 1143, which is much lower than I like to stick around, but I got home from grocery shopping totally exhausted, too exhausted to think of making anything to eat (was around 5ish maybe) so I watched some netflix and surfed the web for a bit before finally getting up enough energy to make something. Made my Stuffing Chicken Dish, which takes a while to make since I make the stuffing myself and have to bake the chicken first before putting it all together. So by the time I ate it was around 7, I ate 2 big servings and felt really full. I watched a movie after that and now it's nearly 10pm and I don't care to eat anymore right now and if I did it would seriously just be boredom eating because I'm not hungry at all.
Shorter day at work and with how tired I am I didn't ride or do any exercise. The scale was looking kind this morning, but the sodium content of my dinner was pretty high so not sure if the scale will still be kind tomorrow.
 
Yay! A good weigh in today. Was worried it wouldn't be with the sodium from yesterday. Down over 2 pounds I think.

Starting Weight: 168lb (Original Weight from a few years ago, my heaviest)
Current Weight: 161.2
Mini Goal: 155lb by October 27th *MADE MINI GOAL Oct 19th*
Mini Goal: 150 lb by November 15th *MADE MINI GOAL Nov 9th*
Mini Goal: 145 lb By Dec 7th *Didn't make it* New Date: March 1 *MADE MINI GOAL Feb 22nd*
Mini Goal: 140 lb By April 5th *Didn't make it* *MADE MINI GOAL APRIL 19th*
New Goal: 135 lb by July 12th *didnt make it*
New Mini Goal: 155 by January 31, 2014
Final Goal: 128lb
 
Being exhausted is often a trigger for me to eat, but lately I have been SO exhausted that when I finally get home all I want to do is sit/lie around and I hardly have the energy to get up even to grab something to eat. This is working out great for the eating aspect(finished off at 1327, still a touch low but not bad), less good for the exercising aspect. Not sure if this is all due to being busier at work and so I am usually working then riding from 7:30am till 7:30pm, or if it's residual from being sick, or if it's from not having the healthiest of foods. I've got a very strict budget on everything (new for me in the last 3 months) and I stretch my food out as long as possible, but this means that I don't tend to have a lot of veggies and fruit and sometimes I end up with nothing to eat but granola bars and alphegetti for a few days. I'm still learning to budget my grocery spending too so I am not the most efficient at it yet.
 
I was too tired to go to the Christmas party today but my friend took me out to dinner. Of course it was a higher calorie day. Finished under 2300. Not too unhappy with that, with having a few too low days in this week.
 
My diary is feeling kinda lonely lately.
Today was family christmas so I have no idea what my calories were but it's probably not great. Had perogies for lunch, a couple 'mars bar squares' for dessert, snacked on Kernels popcorn, then had some appetizers and such for 'supper'. Also had a bit of pop, and apple cider. Now that I think about it, it really wasn't that ridiculous. Could have been worse I think but definitely not a low cal day.
Did go tobaganing for a couple hours after lunch and climbing up and down those hills was a good workout so hopefully burned off some calories doing that!
 
Hi Mystic, Diaries can feel lonely at times, but many people read your diary I'm sure & enjoy it, but not everyone feels like posting. I often feel like I'm talking to myself, but also find it great therapy & it also keeps me accountable. I used to think no-one read my diary & felt I was talking to myself.

I often have to Google a lot of the food I read about in the forum. Perogies? NEVER heard of that/them before! There are so many things that we just don't eat & I'm sure there must be lots of things that we eat, that you have not heard of.

[We both had our family Christmas early. Hope yours was as lovely as ours, xo Cate
 
Thanks. It's just a bit hard when you have a good weigh in and no one acknowledges it. Though the weigh in itself should be the reward I guess haha.
We have cottage cheese perogies with gravy. It's probably my favorite meal ever!
My christmas was great! Hope your's was too!
 
Finished my day at 1835. Not my best day. I made my stuffing chicken again for the next couple days, but ate it all today! Whoops. Thank god I don't have any bad foods in my house! Cravings get so bad after you eat bad foods! Just from saturday night and sunday and the cravings are strong!! Want to stay closer to 1500 for cals for the rest of the week.
 
Yes, I hear you. I eat one bad thing, and it is easy to chase after more bad foods! Had a big juicy steak on Sunday and started wanting some double cheeseburgers. Not that steak is that bad, but it is if you are trying to lower cholesterol as I am. Good plan to keep the rest of the week at 1500.
 
Thank you.
Unfortunately today was not great calorie wise. I definitely gave in to my cravings, which means tomorrow will be an equally hard day. However work should be longer tomorrow so having my evenings be shorter helps, however (again) the weather is supposed to be really bad so I probably won't ride which will make my evening at home longer again. Maybe I can get myself to do some exercise if I dont go ride or something.
I'm gonna put my cals at 3000. I don't think it was that much but I'd rather guess a bit high than too low.
 
I've not been keeping up with anyone's diaries lately, just posting in my own. But I think I've caught up on reading everyone's now.

I agree once you eat bad food you just crave more of it. Be it greasy pizza, chocolate, candy, chips, whatever it is. Then you start to crave other things and sometime think "I've already slipped so who cares" which is even worse. Ugh! I have been trying not to fall into that.

Glad you had a great early Christmas :) Good job on the weigh in last week! Hope the evil cravings subside.

Where abouts in Alberta are you? Calgary is gonna be blizzard like and -27 today - compared to being +3 at 11:30pm last night it was -10 at 8:30am. Sadly it's not technically even Winter yet LOL. Tell that to Mother Nature!
 
I'm in Calgary. It was pretty nasty today.
BAAAAAAAAAAAD eating day today. Ick! Gotta do better tomorrow and hope this bad eating this doesn't turn into a rolling ball taking me way off track!
 
It really was horrible yesterday, and as always they ate through the snow removal budget too fast because they never budget enough. They need to set a budget, then double it and hope that works.

Hope you do better on the eating front today! And stay warm, the wind is going to be bad today.
 
Thanks. I actually made it to the barn and rode today. It was decently 'warm' if you weren't in the wind! (We have an indoor arena to ride in, but getting your horse from his pasture and walking him from the barn to the arena had some cold times!)
Bad day eating again. Gotta break the cycle but with Christmas coming up it's so hard! All the goodies and such around! Tomorrow is gonna be HELL! EIGHT dogs to groom, then a riding lesson after it. I doubt I will get home before 8:00 or 8:30 and it will all be go go go. THen I have to work on Saturday too!
 
You're a dog groomer? Cool :) Where at? If you don't mind me asking of course..

It really does suck how much treats and sweets are around this time of year. It is so hard to say no and "maybe just one" leads to "I guess one more won't hurt" and then half the box is gone :( Perhaps being super busy today you won't have time to think about sweets?
 
"Eight dogs to groom" sounds like something from an odd re-write of the 12 Days of Christmas.

Anyway, just try and make it through the Holidays as best as you can and then do the whole 'New Year's Resolution' thing.
 
Howdy ladies and Gents! Back from Christmas 'vacation' and hoping to slip into some good eating habits.
Since it's midnight I won't make it around to other people's diaries today, but maybe tomorrow!
 
Happy holidays MR! Do Canadians have the same New Year as Americans, or do you celebrate it on different days like the Chinese?

Have a great 2014!
 
URG!!!! So, as you can probably tell from my absence, things have not been going great for me. Eating so poorly, Feeling so poorly, dealing with a fair amount of stress with my barn situation. Bleck. Just gotta keep trying to get back on that horse (haha) and get this weight off.
And I really need to do it soon! I have a horse show at the end of March and I had my show jacket tailored to fit me when I was 20+ pounds skinnier!!!! Ah!
 
Sorry to hear you have not had a good start to the year.

We are in the same boat Mystic, both need to lose about 20lbs in 2-3 months. We can do this! Just take it one step and one decision at a time. Each choice you have is a new choice so just focus on that rather than future decisions and things that need to be done.

There is a new challenge we are looking at starting, individual and possibly teams if there are enough people. Hoping it will help me push to make healthier choices. Check it out! http://weight-loss.fitness.com/threads/61324-Sign-up-here-for-a-new-party-games-style-challenge

Hope today goes better for you.
 
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