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courage to be

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SO. I haven't been on this site since - mmm - November of last year or something like that.

Life is CRAZY busy. I finished my last semester of school and then moved back to my home state where I immediately started my new job - as the minister of a small town methodist church! eek! It has been a blast, but those church ladies have food EVERYWHERE and I'm about ready to cry when I look at how much weight i have put back on.

I started this journey so long ago at 172 lbs. And in October of 2006 I was down to 135 lbs. But here I am, back up to 156 and feeling oh so blue.

My current plan to take it off: running (or at least working up to running) 4 days a week for 30 minutes a time. I'm starting with the from coolruning.com and we'll see where it gets me. I'm halfway into week 2 already.

My biggest problem however is food. I know it, my husband knows it, my cat would know it if he knew better. I am ALWAYS hungry. And I make bad food choices. It's really hard when little old church ladies keep bringing over baked goods. I do have fruit in the fridge, and 100 cal packs of popcorn, but I really need to figure out healthier snacks with more protein and fiber to fill me up better. Any suggestions? For a while there my husband and I were eating ALOT of carbs too... because they are so cheap and he and I both weren't making any money. But now I have this great job and he is getting his business running (still not makign a ton of money) but we can afford more veggies and whole grain pastas and what not.

umm... I guess that's it for me right now. I'm back. and it feels good to be back. I hope some of you that I know and love are still here, getting that great accountability and support and either getting that weight off or keeping it off =)
 
day 1:

1 c. cheerios - 110 cals
1/2 c. 1% milk - 51 cals
1 banana - 109 cals
= 270 cals

ham sandwich - 217 cals
baked beans - 157 cals
orange - 85 cals
= 459 cals

single serving homestyle popcorn - 100 cals
sweet tea - 90 cals
= 190 cals

wendy's spicy chicken sandwich - 440 cals
small dr. pepper - 120 cals
2/3 small fries - 226 cals
= 786 cals

calorie total: 1704
exercise: 31 min walk/run (5m warm up, 5 mwarm down... alternate 90s jogging/2m walking); 2 hours gardening (pulling up a whole bed and then hand tilling); 2 hours playing disc golf
 
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you might want to consider a higher fiber cereal - it will probably keep you full longer - though I do use cheerios (the apple ones) as snack - they're satisfy the sweet tooth - but for breakfast -I like more filling fiberfilled cereals...

you're off to a great start and nice to see you back...

can you talk to the church ladies and have then be experimental with soe healtheir options?
 
high fiber cereal definately needs to go on the list. And I'm getting better about what I choose to eat from the church ladies, but it'll be an uphill battle =)

I was VERY active today. And got sunburnt because of it =) but according to fitday I burned over 1000 calories from my extra activities alone. Which feels good! I really didn't want to do the fast food on my first day back into my new food plan - but we were exhausted after disc golf and it was close and sounded oh. so. good. Now I just have to keep from eating the rest of the night. THAT is another weakness.
 
I know, I have to stop myself from eating after dinner too. I'm on this site so I avoid doing it right now. We can do it! One night at a time :)
 
Great to have you back :)

That is awesome to hear you've started a new job and are liking it. I bet those church ladies love to cook. They do in my family too. They make the "funeral potatos" as we call them here and they are like my kryptonite, hehe...

Have a great rest of the weekend,
Sam
 
so. i haven't really officially kept track of my calories today - mostly because it was a busy day

english muffin and banana for breakfast

cookie for after church snack (hey - at least it was oatmeal!)

ham sandwhich and orange for lunch

then... I carpooled with a bunch of church people and we went up to a flooded town nearby and raked 1/2 to a 1 foot deep layers of cornstalks out of a lady's yard. For THREE HOURS! And then when we went to drop our stuff back off at the fire station, they had burgers and green beans and chips and rhubarb pie. it completely hit the spot.

Now I'm back home, and hubby is hungry, so i'm quickly making some spaghetti. I might need the extra energy... but maybe could do without. Idk.
 
Hi :)

I checked out that couch to 5k link and i think i want to try it! Thanx for putting the link up :D Im hoping that i will soon be able to run (even just a little!) on the treadmill in the gym without feeling like an idiot!

Good luck with your weightloss!

Allie x
 
thanks tinkerbella - and no problem!

so yesterday, i didn't post... mostly b/c i have no idea what my calories were for the evening. Before dinner I had:

cheerios w/ 1% milk and banana

for lunch: hot dog on bun w/ baked beans and orange

for a total of 730 calories

THEN, I went to a fundraiser dinner for a mission hospital in Africa and had all sorts of good food: banana soup, a beef/plantain curry, grilled tilapia, and coconut milk spicy black beans. plus the requisite rice and flat bread. yum. I did drink only water, which helped, and probably ended the night around what my normal calories should be.
 
today:

kashi go lean cereal - 140 cals
1% milk - 50 cals
banana - 110 cals
= 300 cals

green olives - 35 cals
white cheddar cheez-its (just a few) - 60 cals
strawberries and nonfat yogurt/granola parfait - 119 cals
coffee - 5 cals
= 219 cals

UGH - leftover African food for late lunch - who knows how many calories (maybe 1/2 c. rice, 1/2 c. of the beef/plantain dist, 1/2 c. blackbeans and some flat bread)

and the UGH UGH - my girlfriend drug me out for chinese buffet. okay - i didn't go kicking and screaming, but went willingly, so it was mostly my fault. =(

total cals: ???
exercise: I'm actually kind of concerned about getting my running in the next week - it is supposed to rain all week long, and i don't have a treadmill or access to one in town =(
 
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You should try Fibre One Honey Oat Clusters. It is sooooo good and has 56% of your daily fiber needs per 1 SERVING!! WOWWWWW!!!!!!

Just a thought :)
Good luck!!
 
well, the rest of the day yesterday went to pot. I'm doing sort of better today...

egg, bacon and cheese on english muffin - 377 cals
3 cups of tea - 7 cals
= 384 cals

1/2 ham sandwich (white bread, light mayo) - 147 cals
an orange - 62 cals
baby carrots - 57 cals
= 266 cals

yolite raspberry - 80 cals
= 80 cals

total cals = 729
exercise =
 
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okay... getting back to me - take 2

I kind of slipped off the wagon there for a couple of weeks. Lots of rain = lots of flooding here in Iowa. And I had some family things and a conference to go to before the flooding.

Needless to say - I've been slipping.

I've gained 2 lbs since I was here last and I am determined NOT to let my scale read 160. So here I am, back again.

I'm not even going to post my food today, because I decided way after a whole bunch of bad choices that I was going to get back on the wagon, so we aren't going there :p

BUT I did work in the garden raking for about 2 hours today, and just got back in from a 30 minute run/walk. I had to start over the 9 week "couch-to-5k" program because I had been away for too long. But I did it, I'm starting again.
 
I did day two of week one today... got some good running in and it felt great.

ate a big bowl of kashi go lean cereal and a banana for breakfast, then had some homemade little pizzas for lunch... and a brownie - which wasn't the best idea.

had an apple as an afternoon snack

and taco pizza for dinner.
 
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alright, getting myself back on track =) thanks for the encouragement korrie! I tend to beat myself up for little slip ups, and I need to leave a little grace for myself!!!

bkfst:
cheerios w/ 1% - 161 cals
banana - 125 cals
= 286 calories
 
yea, give yourself a break girl!

Looks like your day is starting off nice and healthy :D Keep it up!
 
I am so out of the habit of coming here that it has been difficult - but I'm working on it. =)

yesterday:
bkfst: egg/cheese/bacon on an english muffin
snack: 100 cal pack wheat thins + fruit
lunch: asian homemade taco/burrito thing (leftover bbq chicken, w/ sauteed peppers and onions over jasmine rice w/ lettuce on two flour tortillas)
dinner: french onion soup, reuben, some french fries, 2 glasses of wine and a raspberry swirl brownie, oh, and a cup of coffee

Exercise has not happened the last few days - at least not putting on tennies and running kind. But we have been doing flood clean-up and i've been outside and sweating a lot.

Weighted in today at 155.6. Which might just be post t.o.m. loss =)
 
okay - i really need to stop here every day if this is going to help me at all! =)

I went to my doctor today because I have been having some neck pain. Mostly I'm guessing its from sitting at the computer all day - either at work, or at home playing computer games with my hubby.

So she wrote me a prescription for more exercise (doh!), massages from my husband (whee!) and a muscle relaxant for bedtime so that I can let all that tension out and get some decent sleep. But I think she's right about getting more exercise. crap.

Food today:

bkfst: honey nut cheerioes w/ 1% milk and a banana
lunch: jr. bacon cheeseburger, small fries and a mt. dew (wendy's)
snack: 2 handfuls of cheez-its
dinner: baked chicken w/ peach-ginger glaze, cous-cous, and a sliced cucumber w/ apple cider vinegar, oh - and a bud light

I'm not eating horribly - and I think my food would be fine if I were getting more exercise. I'm going for a run in about an hour - once it cools off a little bit more outside and my dinner digests a bit.
 
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