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Don't beat yourself up too badly, I don't know any human on this earth who could resist fresh baked bread still warm!!!! Today is a new day
Cord's Quest
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Cord the Seeker
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Today is a new day
Ha! You turn my favourite phrase against me.
Thanks.It is indeed a new day. I'm currently eating the salad I skipped out on last night.
Cord the Seeker
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June 26
A weird food day. We were just going around doing stuff, and never really sat down to eat.
Spent a couple of hours at the farmer's market this morning, just hanging out with friends and nibbling on stuff from the vendors. Then we went to Dairy Queen. Later on we went out and bought a kayak. I'm really looking forward to tooling around on the lake this summer.
Breakfast - big salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, lt caesar dressing)
Snacking throughout the day - 2 small salty buns, 1 chocolate cookie, 1 Save-On chicken pie, a dozen cherries, 1 DQ Dilly Bar, 1/3 small DQ chocolate sundae, 1.5 cups dry cereal
Exercise - 1 hour fast walk, 20 minute casual walk with the family.
I'm working the midnight shift tonight, and have a big heap of fruit and vegetables to get through it. But I've decided to start counting that tomorrow.
A weird food day. We were just going around doing stuff, and never really sat down to eat.
Spent a couple of hours at the farmer's market this morning, just hanging out with friends and nibbling on stuff from the vendors. Then we went to Dairy Queen. Later on we went out and bought a kayak. I'm really looking forward to tooling around on the lake this summer.
Breakfast - big salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber, lt caesar dressing)
Snacking throughout the day - 2 small salty buns, 1 chocolate cookie, 1 Save-On chicken pie, a dozen cherries, 1 DQ Dilly Bar, 1/3 small DQ chocolate sundae, 1.5 cups dry cereal
Exercise - 1 hour fast walk, 20 minute casual walk with the family.
I'm working the midnight shift tonight, and have a big heap of fruit and vegetables to get through it. But I've decided to start counting that tomorrow.
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Cord the Seeker
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June 27
Okay, I'm changing things a little here, due to the summer shake-up challenge. I am going to be counting my days from midnight to midnight instead of my previous sleep to sleep. I am also going to tally my total servings of fruit and vegetables, and my total time spent exercising.
midnight shift - weight watchers smart ones slow roasted turkey breast with gravy and mashed potatoes, 1 cup dry cereal, 6 peanut m&m's, heap of cherries, vegetable plate (tomato, cucumber, carrot, snap peas)
I don't normally eat microwave entrees, but these were on sale and looked like they might be handy night-shift eats. Was pretty good, actually.
home after night shift - 1 slice ww toast w/butter, 1/2 cup milk
breakfast - 2 wraps (ww tortillas, 2 eggs, 3oz roast beef)
snack - 1 doughnut
supper - buffalo burger on ww bun, a few tomato slices and carrot sticks, 1" thich round of watermelon
dessert - 1 piece of honey-apple cake
total fruit/vegetable servings: 8
Exercise:
midnight shift, 20lbs dumbbells, 30 minutes or so
curls 3x12
tricep extensions 3x12
shoulder presses 3x12
lateral raises 3x12
shrugs 3x12
scarecrows 3x12
woodchoppers 3x12
hammergrip front raises 3x12
bench rows 3x12
curls 3x12
afternoon - 45 minutes swimming (1000m) I couldn't go quite as fast today as I was pretty tired.
Total exercise time: 1hr 15 min
Overall, a pretty good start to the challenge.
Okay, I'm changing things a little here, due to the summer shake-up challenge. I am going to be counting my days from midnight to midnight instead of my previous sleep to sleep. I am also going to tally my total servings of fruit and vegetables, and my total time spent exercising.
midnight shift - weight watchers smart ones slow roasted turkey breast with gravy and mashed potatoes, 1 cup dry cereal, 6 peanut m&m's, heap of cherries, vegetable plate (tomato, cucumber, carrot, snap peas)
I don't normally eat microwave entrees, but these were on sale and looked like they might be handy night-shift eats. Was pretty good, actually.
home after night shift - 1 slice ww toast w/butter, 1/2 cup milk
breakfast - 2 wraps (ww tortillas, 2 eggs, 3oz roast beef)
snack - 1 doughnut
supper - buffalo burger on ww bun, a few tomato slices and carrot sticks, 1" thich round of watermelon
dessert - 1 piece of honey-apple cake
total fruit/vegetable servings: 8
Exercise:
midnight shift, 20lbs dumbbells, 30 minutes or so
curls 3x12
tricep extensions 3x12
shoulder presses 3x12
lateral raises 3x12
shrugs 3x12
scarecrows 3x12
woodchoppers 3x12
hammergrip front raises 3x12
bench rows 3x12
curls 3x12
afternoon - 45 minutes swimming (1000m) I couldn't go quite as fast today as I was pretty tired.
Total exercise time: 1hr 15 min
Overall, a pretty good start to the challenge.
Cord the Seeker
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Another day, another entry.
June 28
As usual, I was a little messed up due to the night shifts. I felt sick in the afternoon and was blaming it on the cereal I ate when my wife reminded me that I always feel like this on midnights.
Midnight shift - weight watchers micro entree (same as yesterday), 2 1" rounds of watermelon, 1 apple, a pile of cherries, 20 peanut m&m's, 1 cup dry cereal
breakfast - 1 buffalo burger on ww bun
lunch - large bowl of cereal w/milk, 1 banana
supper - buffalo sausage, oven-roasted potatoes, beets and carrots, lettuce and tomato salad
(bonus - the beets and lettuce were from our own garden. I'm sure those of you who live in the south have had lots of stuff growing already, but we had a long winter and stuff is only coming up now)
dessert - 1 piece of honey-apple cake, 1" round of watermelon
That's 8-9 servings of fruit and veg (mostly fruit).
Exercise - 45 minutes hard going on the heavy bag. I normally like to do 30-45 minutes on the bike or something afterwards, but today I was just too bagged.
Now I'm back on day shift for a few days, and things should be easier on me. Planning to get some weight training in this evening.
June 28
As usual, I was a little messed up due to the night shifts. I felt sick in the afternoon and was blaming it on the cereal I ate when my wife reminded me that I always feel like this on midnights.
Midnight shift - weight watchers micro entree (same as yesterday), 2 1" rounds of watermelon, 1 apple, a pile of cherries, 20 peanut m&m's, 1 cup dry cereal
breakfast - 1 buffalo burger on ww bun
lunch - large bowl of cereal w/milk, 1 banana
supper - buffalo sausage, oven-roasted potatoes, beets and carrots, lettuce and tomato salad
(bonus - the beets and lettuce were from our own garden. I'm sure those of you who live in the south have had lots of stuff growing already, but we had a long winter and stuff is only coming up now)
dessert - 1 piece of honey-apple cake, 1" round of watermelon
That's 8-9 servings of fruit and veg (mostly fruit).
Exercise - 45 minutes hard going on the heavy bag. I normally like to do 30-45 minutes on the bike or something afterwards, but today I was just too bagged.
Now I'm back on day shift for a few days, and things should be easier on me. Planning to get some weight training in this evening.
brazenlysasse
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Hey there Cord, lately Ive been also going through bouts of planning to eat one thing and then end up consuming something completely different. I get soooo frustrated and then I feel down..not just because of my poor choice but because I feel crappy from WHAT I ate. I think its all a crazy circle that I am so desperately try to break free of.
Its great that you are expressing your frustration and that you continue to be honest about what you are going through. I believe that is what will help you to keep getting back on track *me too* and eventually will help you stay on track for the most part.
Keep up the hard work
~Michelle~
Its great that you are expressing your frustration and that you continue to be honest about what you are going through. I believe that is what will help you to keep getting back on track *me too* and eventually will help you stay on track for the most part.
Keep up the hard work
~Michelle~
brazenlysasse
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For you're info *good old Wikipedia... lol
The traditional recipe, registered in 1982 by the Bolognese delegation of Accademia Italiana della Cucina, confines the ingredients to beef, pancetta, onions, carrots, celery, tomato paste, meat broth, red wine, and (optionally) milk or cream. However, different recipes, even in the Bolognese tradition, make use of chopped pork or pork sausage, while chicken or goose liver may be added along with the beef or veal for special occasions, and today many use both butter and olive oil for cooking the Soffritto of small amounts of celery, carrot and onion. Prosciutto, mortadella, or porcini fresh mushrooms when in season may be added to the ragù to further enrich the sauce. Milk is frequently used in the early stages of cooking to render the meat flavors more "delicate" but cream is very rare in the everyday recipe and only a very little would be used
The traditional recipe, registered in 1982 by the Bolognese delegation of Accademia Italiana della Cucina, confines the ingredients to beef, pancetta, onions, carrots, celery, tomato paste, meat broth, red wine, and (optionally) milk or cream. However, different recipes, even in the Bolognese tradition, make use of chopped pork or pork sausage, while chicken or goose liver may be added along with the beef or veal for special occasions, and today many use both butter and olive oil for cooking the Soffritto of small amounts of celery, carrot and onion. Prosciutto, mortadella, or porcini fresh mushrooms when in season may be added to the ragù to further enrich the sauce. Milk is frequently used in the early stages of cooking to render the meat flavors more "delicate" but cream is very rare in the everyday recipe and only a very little would be used
brazenlysasse
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ahhh... i just call it good old tomato and meat sauce...lol
brazenlysasse
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ah geeze, im sorry, that was for your other post...im such a dork..lol
Cord the Seeker
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cinderelly
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HA HA HA - Im sorry I havent been by in a bit, I have been reading just not taking the time to post...
Ive been a lil distracted by boys, im such a girl sometimes, LOL...
Im working on being here more, LOL
Your exercise has been impressing me...
And ya klnow you will always battle with steppin back into old habits at least I still do, LOL..Ive been at this for years, I should be skinny by now damn it!LOL
just move on as you did and continue to do that , those little hurdles do get easier.
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cherrygarcia
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heya cord,
just passing by, man, i don't envy you doing those midnight shifts, but i have to say i think your handling things quite well with managing to get in workouts while you can.
i'm doing ok, i always used to think that things would get easier with time on the weightloss journey, but to be honest the longer i'm on it the harder it becomes. for me i've been yoyoing between 313 and 316 for a while now
and sometimes i feel like i just want to breakdown and cry...but for now i'm still hanging in there, i feel like it was AGES ago when i said i'm looking forward to getting out of the 300club, i guess it just means it'll take a little longer than i thought.....but slow progress is better than no progress right?
let's just keep on taking things one day at a time...we'll all get to where we're going. all the best xoxo
just passing by, man, i don't envy you doing those midnight shifts, but i have to say i think your handling things quite well with managing to get in workouts while you can.
i'm doing ok, i always used to think that things would get easier with time on the weightloss journey, but to be honest the longer i'm on it the harder it becomes. for me i've been yoyoing between 313 and 316 for a while now
and sometimes i feel like i just want to breakdown and cry...but for now i'm still hanging in there, i feel like it was AGES ago when i said i'm looking forward to getting out of the 300club, i guess it just means it'll take a little longer than i thought.....but slow progress is better than no progress right?let's just keep on taking things one day at a time...we'll all get to where we're going. all the best xoxo
Cord the Seeker
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heya cord,
just passing by, man, i don't envy you doing those midnight shifts, but i have to say i think your handling things quite well with managing to get in workouts while you can.
i'm doing ok, i always used to think that things would get easier with time on the weightloss journey, but to be honest the longer i'm on it the harder it becomes. for me i've been yoyoing between 313 and 316 for a while now
let's just keep on taking things one day at a time...we'll all get to where we're going. all the best xoxo
One day at a time, that's the way to do it.
I'm sorry you're stuck on a plateau - I'm sure you'll get through it. I wish I had some answer for you.
I do have total confidence in your ability to bust through this wall, though. I can't imagine you letting anything stop you.
you guys got it. i say EFF THE SCALE!!!!! it does nothing but bring heartache to peeps. its nice to see numbers go down, but its better to see sizes go down. you body will lose at its own pace, and the scale won't always be there to compliment your work. its like a boss at work. he doesn't always tell you you are doing a good job, but you keep getting work and you keep working hard on it. you don't go looking for acknowledgment, because you know if did a bad job, you wouldn't get more work to do. so what you are doing is definitely working. then one day you go to talk about all the work, and you get a huge raise! that's how weight loss works. some times the scale has to catch up to you first and when it does its more than a pat on the back good job. it a promotion so to speak. so keep at it guys. i gots the faith in ya!
Cord the Seeker
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June 29
Not a great day. I felt rather ill last night, although I seem to be fine now. Don't know what was wrong, but it really threw me off. I was sneezing uncontrollably (I guess all sneezing is uncontrollable, really), runny nose, fatigue, massive, massive fatigue. Between that and my wife's book club (meaning I have to mind our daughter and I couldn't run off to the gym), I got very little exercise, or at least a lot less than I would have wanted.
My daughter was also feeling sick, so perhaps we had the same thing?
Breakfast - steelcut oats with hemp seeds and agave nectar
Lunch and work snacks - a heap of cherries, 1 orange, 1 ww bun w/almond butter, 1 ww bun w/buffalo sausage, 1/2 cup dry cereal, 12 peanut m&m's
Supper - Save-On chicken pie, oven fries, 1 carrot, 1/3 cucumber, bunch of snap peas
Dessert - 1" round of watermelon, 1 piece honey-apple cake
Total fruit/veg servings - 7
Exercise - 30 minute walk during work, 20 minutes on the Total Gym at home. Had to stop the TG workout to put my daughter to bed, and then felt too lousy to start again. By then my wife was home and she bade me go to bed.
We will see how today goes. Should be nothing stopping me from getting to the gym tonight.
Not a great day. I felt rather ill last night, although I seem to be fine now. Don't know what was wrong, but it really threw me off. I was sneezing uncontrollably (I guess all sneezing is uncontrollable, really), runny nose, fatigue, massive, massive fatigue. Between that and my wife's book club (meaning I have to mind our daughter and I couldn't run off to the gym), I got very little exercise, or at least a lot less than I would have wanted.
My daughter was also feeling sick, so perhaps we had the same thing?
Breakfast - steelcut oats with hemp seeds and agave nectar
Lunch and work snacks - a heap of cherries, 1 orange, 1 ww bun w/almond butter, 1 ww bun w/buffalo sausage, 1/2 cup dry cereal, 12 peanut m&m's
Supper - Save-On chicken pie, oven fries, 1 carrot, 1/3 cucumber, bunch of snap peas
Dessert - 1" round of watermelon, 1 piece honey-apple cake
Total fruit/veg servings - 7
Exercise - 30 minute walk during work, 20 minutes on the Total Gym at home. Had to stop the TG workout to put my daughter to bed, and then felt too lousy to start again. By then my wife was home and she bade me go to bed.
We will see how today goes. Should be nothing stopping me from getting to the gym tonight.
BansheeBabe
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Hey Cord! Just thought I would drop by and check out your Diary! You give people awesome advice all over this site and your progess is amazing! Keep up the good work and I'll be checking in on you!
P.S. MMMM, watermelon!!
P.S. MMMM, watermelon!!
Cord the Seeker
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treehugger
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Hi Cord, just passing through. Midnights are tough, I used to work them too.
I'll bet this kayaking is going to be a blast, it's something I've always wanted to do too. Now I have kiddos in two, so I'd need one w/ a sidecar...lol Let us know how it goes.
BTW: I want cheesecake now..ugh! I'm such a follower..not good, not good.
Take care and keep up the good work...........
Cord the Seeker
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Happy Dominion Day!
Hey there, it's time for another day in the life of Cord the Seeker!
June 30
Today felt like a pretty good day. Only one dietary slip, and it wasn't that bad. Exercise felt good.
Breakfast - steelcut oats with hemp seeds and agave nectar
Lunch and work snacks - 30 cherries, 1 apple, another one of those weight watchers turkey & mashed spud meals, some pretzels, 1 cup dry cereal, and, sadly, wayyyy too many peanut m&m's.
My plan was to buy a small bag and dole them out sparingly through my work week, but yesterday I just kept eating them - had at least 20 and probably closer to 30. It may not sound like much but I was annoyed at not having better self-control.
Pre-workout - ham sandwich (ww bun, lt cream cheese, ham), 1/2 cup milk
Post-workout - big plate of vegetables ( tomato, carrot, celery, snap peas), 1tbs buttercream icing, the rest of the ham (total 140g of ham between this and the aforementioned sandwich)
Fruit/veg servings - 7
Exercise - 30 minute walk during lunch break at work, then hit the gym in the evening:
warm-up - stretching and 5 minutes on the treadmill
seated leg press 270lbs 3x12
lat pulldown 80lbs 2x12, 70lbs 1x12
bent-over low cable row 50lbs 3x12
tricep pressdowns 70lbs 3x12
pec-dec 50lbs 3x12
DB shoulder press 30lbs 4x5, 25lbs 1x5
DB curls 30lbs 1x12, 25lbs 1x12, 20lbs 1x12
attempted 1 chin-up and failed
reverse flys blue band) 3x12
good mornings 20lb body bar 3x12
v-crunches 3x12
squats 40lb bare bar 3x12
cool-down - 5 minutes on treadmill, tried running at 5.5 mph and managed it for 2 minutes before slowing down to 4mph but increasing incline to 7 deg.
I was pretty wiped after that, and sore, but feel fine today.
I am trying to increase the weight on many of these exercises.
I think I am going to incorporate trying a chin-up every time I go to the gym.
Edit: Big day tomorrow - my 3-month questiversary!
It is my weigh-in day, my measurement day, and I will be taking comparison photos (I took some when I began the quest).
Hey there, it's time for another day in the life of Cord the Seeker!
June 30
Today felt like a pretty good day. Only one dietary slip, and it wasn't that bad. Exercise felt good.
Breakfast - steelcut oats with hemp seeds and agave nectar
Lunch and work snacks - 30 cherries, 1 apple, another one of those weight watchers turkey & mashed spud meals, some pretzels, 1 cup dry cereal, and, sadly, wayyyy too many peanut m&m's.
My plan was to buy a small bag and dole them out sparingly through my work week, but yesterday I just kept eating them - had at least 20 and probably closer to 30. It may not sound like much but I was annoyed at not having better self-control.
Pre-workout - ham sandwich (ww bun, lt cream cheese, ham), 1/2 cup milk
Post-workout - big plate of vegetables ( tomato, carrot, celery, snap peas), 1tbs buttercream icing, the rest of the ham (total 140g of ham between this and the aforementioned sandwich)
Fruit/veg servings - 7
Exercise - 30 minute walk during lunch break at work, then hit the gym in the evening:
warm-up - stretching and 5 minutes on the treadmill
seated leg press 270lbs 3x12
lat pulldown 80lbs 2x12, 70lbs 1x12
bent-over low cable row 50lbs 3x12
tricep pressdowns 70lbs 3x12
pec-dec 50lbs 3x12
DB shoulder press 30lbs 4x5, 25lbs 1x5
DB curls 30lbs 1x12, 25lbs 1x12, 20lbs 1x12
attempted 1 chin-up and failed
reverse flys blue band) 3x12
good mornings 20lb body bar 3x12
v-crunches 3x12
squats 40lb bare bar 3x12
cool-down - 5 minutes on treadmill, tried running at 5.5 mph and managed it for 2 minutes before slowing down to 4mph but increasing incline to 7 deg.
I was pretty wiped after that, and sore, but feel fine today.
I am trying to increase the weight on many of these exercises.
I think I am going to incorporate trying a chin-up every time I go to the gym.
Edit: Big day tomorrow - my 3-month questiversary!
It is my weigh-in day, my measurement day, and I will be taking comparison photos (I took some when I began the quest).
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