Confessions of a Cube Rat Junk Food Vegetarian

[maverick2]

That's gettin'er done! I am sorry to hear you've had to go through that with your Father.

Thanks, it's not too bad. It is near TMOTM, so I am extra emotional anyway. (Sorry if that's too much info guys, but you're reading my diary! )

Congratulations on your raise! That is very exciting!

Thank you, I am so pumped!!!

How was your Halloween Evening? I completely forgot the whole thing.

Well we had to cancel our party due to lack of people willing to drive two hours in bad weather to our farm in the middle of BFE, Alabama. So we ended up driving to my alma mater university to hang out with those kids instead. We just visited a friend and stayed in all night drinking whiskey, eating pizza, smoking, and watching movies: The Shining, Mommy Dearest, and Carrie. It was very chill and an awesome Halloween overall.

I drink unsweetened Almond Milk, I hear the regular is quite sweet though, and I'd had enough of substitute milks tasting overtly sweet! I'd like to give the coconut milk a shot, I have yet to do so.

If you don't want an overly sweet non-dairy replacement, I'd definitely go with So Delicious Original Coconut Milk Beverage. Its stats are pretty close to regular milk, and in my experience it's the one that most closely imitates regularl dairy milk - I honestly wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two in a blindfold test.

How sweet to go into a review KNOWING you'll do fine. I was a wreck last year during mine - fortunately the evaluator liked me and my review was downright glowing (to the point of embarrassing!) LMAO

Last year's year end review was my first review ever at a professional job (I was right out of college) so I was so nervous I was almost sick. Same scenario - my evaluators gave me glowing praise and a raise. We have a new supervisor though who has not had very much personal experience with us on an individual level, and he'll be reviewing us for half an hour instead of fifteen minutes, so I'm still nervous.

I will admit to eating more than I should have this weekend -and there was a lot of salt involved. I'll be drinking water by the gallon for the next few days and doing my best to eat well. Damn halloween treats!

Yeah, I'm officially back on the wagon. Yay Mondays...

*goes to fill up a cup of water, first of many for the day*

*sigh*

 

[maverick2]

Back on the wagon (11-2-09)

Breakfast:
- banana
- small green sour apple
- 2 cups of water

Call it penance for Halloween backsliding.

 

[zephyr]

Oh man.. I need to drink MY water, too. The damage's been done over the Halloween weekend and now I need to fix myself up!

 

[maverick2]

Lunch:
- 6'' vegetarian sub: lettuce, tomato, peppers, cucumbers, pickles, black olives, and provolone (w/ sweet onion teriyaki sauce)
- 4 cups of water

Notes: I wanted a bag of chips SO BAD. And not the baked, sort-of-good-for-you kind, but the greasy BBQ kind. However, if I have to have high cal refined carbs somewhere, I'd prefer they be in herby Italian bread form.

 

[maverick2]

Dinner (11-2-09):
- two Boca burgers with mustard and ketchup on a sesame seed bun
- one serving oven baked red potato fries
- baby greens salad with carrots, tomatoes, and catalina dressing

Notes: No dessert, because those burgers seemed like the best burgers I'd ever put in my mouth and I was STUFFED. We had chocolate cake mocking us from the dining room table too (leftovers from my parents' Halloween party that they sent with me).

No scale this week, as it is *ahem* TTOTM. And I gain water weight like crazy. So I'm not even gonna bother. I will just drink lots of fresh water and try to keep my appetite in check.

 

[Guest]

Chocolate Wine.......?

Hello Maverick! ​

 

[maverick2]

Chocolate Wine.......?

It's called Chocovine - it's a red wine/dark chocolate mix. It sounds weird as hell, but it is fabulous. And 14% alcohol by volume.

Breakfast:
- bag of Chex Mix (480 cal, 18g fat)
- 2 cups of water

Edit Menu: Did not eat my yellow apple because I'm not hungry anymore. I'll save it for a snack later.

Notes: I actually started to pull into a fast food drivethrough for breakfast before realizing that it would break my "no fast food" rule. (Bad habits die hard.) So my compromise, since I had no breakfast foods with me when I realized there was none at the office except for an apple, was to grab Chex Mix. Which is much better than the egg-and-cheese sandwich and tater tots that I wanted to eat, so I'm counting this one as a victory.

I have got to bring in a fruit bowl and a few other healthy snacks for breakfast and lunch at the office.

No writing done yet on NaNoWriMo since I decided to start a new novel for the contest instead of adding on to my work in progress (but I might write on both in November). Despite my lack of prose, I do I have a protagonist, a basic plot, a setting, and some ideas for supporting characters. Now I just need to catch up!!!!

 

[changes]

A writer eh - sorry if I missed this in your blog - but what kind of writing do you do?

 

[tezzy]

hey! just wanna offer you some encouragement on your weightloss journey!

youre doing FAB!

 

[maverick2]

A writer eh - sorry if I missed this in your blog - but what kind of writing do you do?

I'm a novelist. Right now I'm working on a dystopian post-WWIII novel set in totalitarian California called We Are the Weapon. I'm a little more than halfway finished.

For National Novel Writing Month, I'm taking a semi-break on Weapon and working on its sequel, tentatively titled Outland, which is about space colonists returning to restore an Earth ravaged by nuclear war; it's set in the same world during the same time period (2098 AD for the first book, 3011 for the second).

I also freelance nonfiction articles for magazines and short stories for literary journals.

hey! just wanna offer you some encouragement on your weightloss journey!

youre doing FAB!

Thanks!!!

 

[maverick2]

Lunch:
- yellow apple (37 cal, 0g fat)
- bag of mini pretzels (330 cal, 0g fat)
- 1 tbsp. peanut butter (94 cal, 8g fat)
- 2 cups of water

Notes: I wanted fast food SO BAD. I am very proud of myself for not giving into temptation!

Exercise:
- 10 minutes aerobics in cubicle

 

[maverick2]

Water...

makes me have to peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

- 8 cups of water

 

[maverick2]

Exercise:
- 25 crunches
- 10 pushups
- 10 minute walk (smoke break)
- 20 minute walk (foxtail walk)

 

[zephyr]

I tried chocolate wine just once before at a party, HAHA. It was amazing!

 

[Omega]

Hi Kellye

Good to see you back.

Margaret, that is just beyond my power to describe in words. You're an inspiration to us all. And I don't even mean that in a hokey Hallmark way. I mean, that is craziness. You look absolutely fantastic - go girl go!!!!!!!!!!



~ Mav

Thank you so much for popping into my diary and leaving such a nice comment about my pictures.

I have never done a before and after thread and finally got around to doing it on another diet forum where I tend to be more active these days. Kara and I decided that there was not enough focus on maintenance around here so we set up something very similar to here that also puts a focus on maintaining those losses too... Too many places speak of a lifelong commitment without giving any thought to how to keep a weight once you get there. There is no joy in doing a good impression of a yoyo...

The before/afters just goes to show where exercise and food control can get us if we just keep on at it long enough… I just want to keep it this way now.

You know that the food control and exercise works. It has worked for you before too. Keep at it. Stay strong.

 

[maverick2]

Binge:
- 4 servings of chips (appx.)

Notes: This was a full-on "loss of control" binge. Like, wait 'til the roommate leaves and open two bags of chips and stuff your face on the downlow binge while feeling shameful of yourself. I don't even want to think of the caloric damage done here. I don't know what triggered it, since I had a really good day yesterday. (Did have the munchies though.)

The thing that frustrates me most is that there were healthy options in my house, I just didn't take them. In any case, this is why we don't keep chips around. *makes a note*

Dinner:
- 1/2 plate of vegetarian spaghetti with carmelized onions, garlic, green bell peppers, mushrooms, and mock hamburger
- 2 pieces of garlic-onion bread (hotdog bun)
- small salad of baby greens, carrots, and tomatoes with catalina dressing
- 3 small Jack-and-Cokes

Notes: Normally I don't drink liquor during the week, but we're trying to kill a handle of whiskey left over from Halloween.

I see a developing pattern in my eating habits - eat well all day at work (low cal) and then go overboard at night. Part of this is probably that cyclical winter hibernation mode, but something needs to be done to combat it. I am seeking a game plan now...

 

[maverick2]

Fresh start. Superfoods to the rescue!!!

Breakfast:
- 2 cups of black coffee (unsweetened)
- 2 cups of water
- 1 Naked Superfood Smoothie (Red Machine)

Notes: Trying to undo the damages of yesterday. I was triggered hard on the way to work and actually pulled into a Burger King parking lot to get a fast food breakfast, but I stopped myself and went to the grocery store instead. Picked up some Naked smoothies, a six-pack of V8, a precut mix of vegetables, and a spread of fresh fruit.

Also, I highly recommend Naked smoothies. The biggest drawback to them, admittedly, is that they are hellaciously expensive (I pay $2.99 for one of them). However, here's a breakdown of everything that is in a Naked smoothie. I'll use the Red Machine I'm drinking now as an example:

- 13 raspberries
- 11 strawberries
- 3 cranberries
- 1 1/2 apples
- 1/4 pomegranate
- 1/3 orange
- 1/2 banana
- 7 red grapes
- flax seed (8 g)
- omega-3 (4384 mg)
- vitamin B6 (2 mg)
- potassium (780 mg)
- vitamin C (20 mg)
- fiber (5 g)

So, as you can see, it really is a superfood. And there's probably 4 servings of fruit in it.

Even though I'm embarrassed that I let myself fall into a binge last night, I feel much stronger now that I have some healthy food at work to make sure I don't mess up. I also brought leftovers of vegetarian spaghetti, so I won't be tempted to go out to lunch.

By the way, I also highly recommend Gimme Lean Smart Round mock hamburger. It tastes exactly like real beef in spaghetti, and it's much better for you than real ground beef. Even my carnivorous father, who is a very forbidding culinary critic, would have given me props on this one.

 

[maverick2]

Good to see you back.

Thanks, good to see you too!!!

There is no joy in doing a good impression of a yoyo...

I know this from personal experience. I am tired of my weight yoyoing between a size 6 and a size 16.

The before/afters just goes to show where exercise and food control can get us if we just keep on at it long enough… I just want to keep it this way now.

I just want to get where you're at!!!

You know that the food control and exercise works. It has worked for you before too. Keep at it. Stay strong.

Thanks so much Margaret, I'll try!

 

[Splodge]

they are hellaciously expensive (I pay $2.99 for one of them).

$3 for a smoothie, $15 a month for a gym (I saw elsewhere). You people don't know the meaning of hellishly expensive. Try living in Dublin for a while! For starters, an innocent smoothie , which sounds close enough to yours, would be $6 a pop, and I'm paying $75 a month for the gym (admittedly with a couple of add ons).

 

[maverick2]

$3 for a smoothie, $15 a month for a gym (I saw elsewhere). You people don't know the meaning of hellishly expensive. Try living in Dublin for a while! For starters, an innocent smoothie , which sounds close enough to yours, would be $6 a pop, and I'm paying $75 a month for the gym (admittedly with a couple of add ons).

*whistles* Damn, that is expensive. I'm Irish-American though, so I'd looooooooove to at least visit Dublin.

I used to have a YMCA gym membership, but at $54 a month, it was threatening to max out my credit card. After I moved to the country, it also put the gym an hour from my house, which is decidedly inconvenient. I need to look for a smaller gym in my new hometown, but I have to pay my credit cards down a bit first...

I need to find a gym for $15 a month.