Heather's Healthy Beginnings

heathercb04 said:
It's almost Friday!!!

What a week. . . .I love my job but sometimes I'm just ready for the weekend. I have to have tough conversations with my patients sometimes, and today was definitely one of those days. Le sigh. I think in nursing you either are physically exhausted at the end of your day or mentally exhausted. Well, that's not true, but sometimes it feels that way. In the hospital it was physically exhausting. In home hospice it's mentally exhausting.

So tonight is gonna be a short entry because I'm drowning my sorrows in TV. It's Lost night!! I wish I could find a Lost buddy to watch the show with because I just got into it this season and I looooove it!!!

Totals for today:

Calories: 1396 (holy crap!!)
Carbs: 181
Fat: 33
Protein: 65
Sodium: 1446

I jogged for 10 minutes on the treadmill today!!! Granted, not all at once but I did a five minute jog then a five minute walk then another five minute jog. Sad to think I used to be able to jog for like 15 minutes straight, but I'll get there again.

ANnnnnnd. . . .the scale is sticking solid at 209! So I'm hopeful by weigh-in Sunday, I'll be down to 208 and I can put some more on my ticker :-D

I also think I should probably change my weight on SparkPeople every 5lbs, just because I don't know at what point they consider changing your values around. Wanna keep on track!

OH! The boy apparently wants to start coming to the gym with me in the morning. While I am hopeful that this will be the case, I'm not banking on it as he hates the gym and he hates getting up early. We'll see. Looks like I'm becoming a good influence, though. :)

Hope everyone has a good night!
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hun
you doing wayyy better than me ..when I job ..my butt hurts and I feel awful .. I am too top heavy for jogging ..
but look at you! You are doing awesome! Keep at it and before you know you will be right at the top of your game Heather...

Keep it up hun
You can do this
never give in .. you may have bad days ..but never give up ..thats what I have learned :)

You go girl!
love yas
natalie jo :party:
 
Good Sunday Morning! (er, afternoon now I guess!)

Sophie - thanks for the encouragement!! The scale definitely was kind to me today! (see further down) I hear you on the not wanting to clean. Although, I gotta say since I've been doing the one chore a day, the apartment has looked much nicer. I still don't like to clean, but it's not as overwhelming.

Natalie - Girl you'll be jogging before you know it! I am NOT built to jog, but would love to eventually be good enough at it that I could go jog outside for longish periods of time. (I'm top-heavy as well. . . . .nightmarish to find sports bras that actually work!) All about the slow and steady endurance building.

Newbride - Summer solstice started, but it looks like you got in anyway! (Unless the black team is for something else) Sign ups finished on the 7th. It's looking to be a fun time!!

So yesterday was a calorie disaster, but that's ok. I told myself at the beginning I can have a few "cheat" days a month. I'm starting to get the PMS salt/fat/gorge cravings that KILL my healthy eating. Anyone else get these?? How do you satiate them!?!?!? Drives me INSANE! It will be ok during the week because I pack my lunch and I'm always on the road so I don't stop for fast food anymore - I remind myself that I have lunch in the car and I eat that. Plus fajita wraps are really good for the salt cravings, and I pack triscuits as well which help. But yesterday I almost went insane trying to figure out something that would be somewhat healthy for me and not kill my calories - ended up making some oil-popped popcorn (bad, I know - but not the worst I could have done) and just chowing down. It was good because all in all it didn't raise my calories TOO much and it gave me that salt/fat combo that I was so desperately craving. Managed to avoid temptation with dinner though even though the calories yesterday were abysmal. The fiance got pizza and cheese fries from our favorite delivery place, and I got a grilled salmon salad. That thing was AWESOME. And I am proud to say I had no pieces of pizza nor did I have cheese fries. Stuck to my salad and kept telling myself that if I finished the salad and was still hungry (highly unlikely) then i could have a piece. It worked!

So ok, values for yesterday:

Calories: 2398
Carbs: 242
Fat: 54
Protein: 80
Sodium: 1713

Not great, but not earth shattering. I actually didn't eat anything that was really horrible for me. Drank two strongbow ciders while I was out with friends which put a hefty toll on my calories, but whatever.

Another thing helping me keep the calories in perspective is. . . .*drum roll* weigh-in today was:
207.5!!!!!:party::party:

I've officially lost 7.5lbs!!! I'm starting to feel it as well. I look in the mirror and like what I'm seeing. Clothing is fitting a little better - and thank god because I was starting to get worried about the warmer weather. I don't have much in the way of spring clothes that fits me. Plenty that's too tight on me, but not enough that fits. So if I keep this up, I"ll have plenty to wear by the time spring comes around!!

I'm definitely sore from yesterday. I did a bunch of ab stuff and some arm stuff, and boy am I feeling it!!! Well that plus the fact that we were out till 2am last night. . . . .that was fun, but a little tough on the old body. :p Hehehe!

Have a great day everyone :)
 
Hey, excellent progress! And I'm glad you had a nice cheat day (or splurge, as I like to call them, since it sounds more fun and less guilt-inducing). Your power in resisting the pizza and cheese fries is formidable!

Sophie
 
Hellooooo everyone!

So here's something crazy: I was 200 calories UNDER my range today. That's right - I ended my day at 1214 calories. However, because I have a history of eating too little, I reminded myself that it is important to keep my calories steady and not to cut back too much. So I'm now enjoying some yummy strawberry Activia and a special K chocolatey drizzle bar. Yum! I'm not a big dessert person but this is pretty cool.

Ooops just realized I forgot to add my milk from dinner (yes, I drink milk with meals. It's something my mom ingrained into my psyche at a young age. Guess it's not the worst habit she could have passed on!!) So ok, final total!!

Calories: 1586
Carbs: 230
Fat: 33
Protein: 101
Sodium: 2390

I tell you what brought that sodium level back up - the stupid rice mix I made with dinner!!! HOLY CRAP! I had literally half a serving because I figured I could fill up on the yummy garlic spinach and feta stuffed chicken breast I made plus some nice steamed broccoli. Thank God I did, because I didn't look at the sodium when I read the nutrition label!!!! The stupid stuff has HALF OF YOUR DAILY ALLOWANCE OF SODIUM IN IT!!!! In ONE SERVING! The fiance had a fit - he's trying to watch his sodium intake. (Somewhat amusing considering he had pizza and fries Sat and Sun, but I love the goober anyway. Not here to judge my sweetie.) But I usually make relatively healthy stuff for us and I guess he was just shocked at how much was in it. So we probably won't be buying that again!

Tomorrow's my weight training day - wheee! Nice to have that break from the treadmill and only do 1/2 my usual time.

Also, I discovered that the best music to listen to on the treadmill for me is boy band stuff. *hides* It's sad, but that stupid stuff just makes me not watch the clock and enjoy my time! OH! Also did 15 minutes of jogging this morning. :-D Granted, 5 mins of jogging then 5 mins of walking, but still I felt pretty darn good.

And now I'm going to paint my nails and watch the boy play video games. Fun :)
 
heathercb04 said:
Hellooooo everyone!

So here's something crazy: I was 200 calories UNDER my range today. That's right - I ended my day at 1214 calories. However, because I have a history of eating too little, I reminded myself that it is important to keep my calories steady and not to cut back too much. So I'm now enjoying some yummy strawberry Activia and a special K chocolatey drizzle bar. Yum! I'm not a big dessert person but this is pretty cool.

Ooops just realized I forgot to add my milk from dinner (yes, I drink milk with meals. It's something my mom ingrained into my psyche at a young age. Guess it's not the worst habit she could have passed on!!) So ok, final total!!

Calories: 1586
Carbs: 230
Fat: 33
Protein: 101
Sodium: 2390

I tell you what brought that sodium level back up - the stupid rice mix I made with dinner!!! HOLY CRAP! I had literally half a serving because I figured I could fill up on the yummy garlic spinach and feta stuffed chicken breast I made plus some nice steamed broccoli. Thank God I did, because I didn't look at the sodium when I read the nutrition label!!!! The stupid stuff has HALF OF YOUR DAILY ALLOWANCE OF SODIUM IN IT!!!! In ONE SERVING! The fiance had a fit - he's trying to watch his sodium intake. (Somewhat amusing considering he had pizza and fries Sat and Sun, but I love the goober anyway. Not here to judge my sweetie.) But I usually make relatively healthy stuff for us and I guess he was just shocked at how much was in it. So we probably won't be buying that again!

Tomorrow's my weight training day - wheee! Nice to have that break from the treadmill and only do 1/2 my usual time.

Also, I discovered that the best music to listen to on the treadmill for me is boy band stuff. *hides* It's sad, but that stupid stuff just makes me not watch the clock and enjoy my time! OH! Also did 15 minutes of jogging this morning. :-D Granted, 5 mins of jogging then 5 mins of walking, but still I felt pretty darn good.

And now I'm going to paint my nails and watch the boy play video games. Fun :)
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Heather I am so happy you raised your calories. That is awesome!!

and ... I think I am going to paint my nails tomorrow ...

good idea!
and at least you found out about the sodium, so you don't use that particular product again...

well wishes ..
Ttylater hun
always
natalie jo :party:
 
Evening everyone! So this might be a short entry, I'm zonked. Forgive me if I don't come by your journal today!!

Did the weights thing again today. Felt good! The boy came downstairs with me. And although I appreciate the comfort, he certainly can be a downer in the morning. I actually enjoy the gym in the morning and he essentially NEVER enjoys the gym. So being down there when he could be in bed is doubly annoying. Then again, it's not like anyone is forcing him to get up. Blah. I'm cranky today. (PMS) I actually feel like going to the gym AGAIN right now. Hah! While I could I suppose, I'll stick to killing some imaginary bad guys on the fiance's computer. Sure I COULD do something productive with my time, but right now I'm feeling pouty and sorry for myself and instead of using my usual PMS remedy (salty fatty food) I'll take my frustrations out on imaginary creatures.

Ok, today's totals:

Calories: 1340
Carbs: 151
Fat: 57
Protein: 69
Sodium: 2575

Fat was high today, even though the calorie total was OK. Food during the day was good - although I used half and half in my coffee when I stopped at Starbucks this afternoon. Then when I came home I had a tiny piece of mozzarella cheese and put a slice of provolone in my turkey sausage sandwich. That's probably where all my fat came from. Le sigh.

OK time to take my cranky self somewhere else!! Hope everyone else is having a good night :)
 
Hey lady! LOL phooey on the crankies!!! We all get 'em now and then.

Good on ya for keeping up with your exercise and journalling your food! You deserve to keep right on losing. And you will!

((HUGS)) so ya feel better,
ABBA
 
Hey, sounds like you've been doing really wonderfully. We all have days that don't feel optimal, but we're still on track, still doing this. So you, you are fine.

Sophie
 
'Evening all.

So here I was this week, trucking along thinking "Wow, exercise and diet change must be REALLY good for you, I don't even have PMS this month!!"

Wrong.

Suffered to get out of bed this morning but still made it to the gym and still did my 2.2 miles (300 cals!) on the treadmill. Still jogged 15 minutes. I rule. And I did indeed feel better afterwards. But was just dragging all day today. Feeling a little bit better right now, but am still tired and have some stupid stuff on my mind unrelated to weight loss. However, that's what the therapist meeting tonite is for! :p Made some progress on the stalled search for a nutritionist - my insurance has contracts with several nutritionists in the area and I got the name and number of one in my neighborhood! It's actually in this holistic health center I've been kinda wanting to check out anyway. They have chiropractic, medicine, acupuncture and nutrition. Seems neat! So I'll try to give them a call tomorrow. I get six free sessions with my super awesome insurance.

I find myself mildly disturbed because I have been having TROUBLE meeting calorie goals for the past few days. Monday I was ok because I added some stuff and then ended up being right on target. Tuesday I was just a hair under, but today I'm literally at about 1100 calories and I just ate dinner. What the heck!?!?!? Here's a breakdown of what I ate; I'm thinking that the veggie stir fry really shouldn't be my lunch anymore because it's not giving me enough cals. Or something.

Breakfast: 1 cup cheerios with 1 cup skim milk
coffee with coffeemate

Snack: Banana, Special K bar

Lunch: Veggie stir fry (mushroom, spinach, bean sprouts) with tofu
activia strawberry yogurt

Snack: Rosemary and olive oil triscuits, 1/2 gala apple (just wasn't hungry for the rest)

Dinner: Lean cuisine stuffed cabbage

So here's the totals -

Calories: 1159
Carbs: 167
Fat: 38
Protein: 49
Sodium: 1387

Bah. Not enough protein, either! Probably should replace the veggie stir fry with something more substantial. I was so excited about that stuff, too. Oh well. Or I need to bulk up my snacks, but I do pretty well with them. Or maybe this is all just because I felt gross in general during the day today. Feel better right now. Maybe if I come home and I'm hungry I'll make something else.

Weigh day for summer solstice is in 2 days. Yikes!!! We'll see what happens!
 
heathercb04 said:
'Evening all.

So here I was this week, trucking along thinking "Wow, exercise and diet change must be REALLY good for you, I don't even have PMS this month!!"

Wrong.

Suffered to get out of bed this morning but still made it to the gym and still did my 2.2 miles (300 cals!) on the treadmill. Still jogged 15 minutes. I rule. And I did indeed feel better afterwards. But was just dragging all day today. Feeling a little bit better right now, but am still tired and have some stupid stuff on my mind unrelated to weight loss. However, that's what the therapist meeting tonite is for! :p Made some progress on the stalled search for a nutritionist - my insurance has contracts with several nutritionists in the area and I got the name and number of one in my neighborhood! It's actually in this holistic health center I've been kinda wanting to check out anyway. They have chiropractic, medicine, acupuncture and nutrition. Seems neat! So I'll try to give them a call tomorrow. I get six free sessions with my super awesome insurance.

I find myself mildly disturbed because I have been having TROUBLE meeting calorie goals for the past few days. Monday I was ok because I added some stuff and then ended up being right on target. Tuesday I was just a hair under, but today I'm literally at about 1100 calories and I just ate dinner. What the heck!?!?!? Here's a breakdown of what I ate; I'm thinking that the veggie stir fry really shouldn't be my lunch anymore because it's not giving me enough cals. Or something.

Breakfast: 1 cup cheerios with 1 cup skim milk
coffee with coffeemate

Snack: Banana, Special K bar

Lunch: Veggie stir fry (mushroom, spinach, bean sprouts) with tofu
activia strawberry yogurt

Snack: Rosemary and olive oil triscuits, 1/2 gala apple (just wasn't hungry for the rest)

Dinner: Lean cuisine stuffed cabbage

So here's the totals -

Calories: 1159
Carbs: 167
Fat: 38
Protein: 49
Sodium: 1387

Bah. Not enough protein, either! Probably should replace the veggie stir fry with something more substantial. I was so excited about that stuff, too. Oh well. Or I need to bulk up my snacks, but I do pretty well with them. Or maybe this is all just because I felt gross in general during the day today. Feel better right now. Maybe if I come home and I'm hungry I'll make something else.

Weigh day for summer solstice is in 2 days. Yikes!!! We'll see what happens!
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Hun .. now you have me more worried... I have been reading your journal .. it is so easy to fall back on old habits.. I used to be anorexic ... you should be worried.... it probably is that stir fry ..add som calories hun ..maybe pieces of chix to it ..or beef .. you want way more calories than you are putting in .. you know what I mean ...

Take care of yourself hun
and try putting meat into the veggie stir fry ..if your not vegan ... it might just be what you need ..or add an extra snack ..like a protien bar ... or one of those south beach bars ..they have about 200 calories in one ..and they are so good .. that might just do the trick

best wishes hun
love yas
natalie jo
take care of yourself! **hugs**
 
I finally got here to catch up on your diary while it is still a manageable size! I noticed that you were nervous as you got started here - I was like that! I am still like that if I've been off track and am just getting back on! Yet these days I have an underlying confidence that constantly turning myself into the direction I want I will get there! I think you have that too.

I loved the way you made yourself a list of all the things you wanted to accomplish and started moving on them a bit at a time. That's the healthy, sustainable way to make changes - good for you.

You have lost 7.5 lbs since you started here! That is very, very nice! Congratulations.


Go Blue Team!!
 
I'd probably add some more fruit if I were you--and, as you said, some more protein. I'm facing a similar issue myself right now--my recommended calorie intake for weight loss is somewhere around 2300. I feel okay cutting that down to 2000, but many days, I'm realizing, I'm not really making that.

Sophie
 
Hey gals!

OK so sorry I've been MIA in other people's journals the past few days. I've been kinda busy. Yesterday I went for the therapy session then went to have a few drinks with a friend kinda spur of the moment. Today I have my mom and my brother visiting for the evening. Not much time for entries!! But Mom's on the phone with her boytoy for now so I have some time to enter my info before dinner:

Calories: 1025
Carbs: 144
Fat: 24
Protein: 47
Sodium: 1384

So no worries gals, I have dinner coming to me and we ordered out so I'm sure it's going to be like 800 calories at least. Yesterday I ended up having some food at the bar my friend and I were at, and combined with the two drinks I had, it totalled up alright.

Ok everyone have a GREAT night and I promise I'll come by soon!!
 
heathercb04 said:
Hey gals!

OK so sorry I've been MIA in other people's journals the past few days. I've been kinda busy. Yesterday I went for the therapy session then went to have a few drinks with a friend kinda spur of the moment. Today I have my mom and my brother visiting for the evening. Not much time for entries!! But Mom's on the phone with her boytoy for now so I have some time to enter my info before dinner:

Calories: 1025
Carbs: 144
Fat: 24
Protein: 47
Sodium: 1384

So no worries gals, I have dinner coming to me and we ordered out so I'm sure it's going to be like 800 calories at least. Yesterday I ended up having some food at the bar my friend and I were at, and combined with the two drinks I had, it totalled up alright.

Ok everyone have a GREAT night and I promise I'll come by soon!!
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Hi Heather,

I hope you are doing well. Sounds like you have things under control, Yeah!
GO BLUE!!!!
 
heathercb04 said:
Hey gals!

OK so sorry I've been MIA in other people's journals the past few days. I've been kinda busy. Yesterday I went for the therapy session then went to have a few drinks with a friend kinda spur of the moment. Today I have my mom and my brother visiting for the evening. Not much time for entries!! But Mom's on the phone with her boytoy for now so I have some time to enter my info before dinner:

Calories: 1025
Carbs: 144
Fat: 24
Protein: 47
Sodium: 1384

So no worries gals, I have dinner coming to me and we ordered out so I'm sure it's going to be like 800 calories at least. Yesterday I ended up having some food at the bar my friend and I were at, and combined with the two drinks I had, it totalled up alright.

Ok everyone have a GREAT night and I promise I'll come by soon!!
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Hey Heather,
Happy to see you kind of back! lmao ... you sound like you are doing so well with the caloric intake. Keep it up girl! You rock!! and I hope you enjoyed your outing ... boytoy.. I laughed at that!! lol good one

well ttylater hun
and look forward to hearing from you!!:hurray:

laterz
always :cheers2:
natalie jo
 
Happy Saturday, everyone!

So I haven't been very good with my calories for the past three days. I'm somewhat annoyed with this, but . . . . I've been doing really well at the gym, and I'm feeling good. This weekend was somewhat abberant as well since my mom and brother were here - we ordered out Friday and I kinda went a little nuts, then yesterday I ate really well for the most part, just went a little over. Same for today - I had sushi for lunch and you definitely don't realize how many calories sushi has!!! But I'm doing good things for myself - splurged this morning and had two sunny side up eggs on toast, but cooked the eggs in butter flavored pam and then used butter spray on the toast. Totally delish and absolutely a protein-packed awesome breakfast after an hour at the gym! So, true to form, here's my info for the past three days:

3/13
Calories: 2171
Carbs: 209
Fat: 78
Protein: 111
Sodium: 2944

3/14
Calories: 1906
Carbs: 217
Fat: 58
Protein: 78
Sodium: 2255

3/15
Calories: 1996
Carbs: 215
Fat: 64
Protein: 109
Sodium: 2337

Soooo not too spectacular for those three days, but I do have to say I'm still doing WAY better than I used to. Sure, I had some garlic bread with cheese on Thursday night, but then instead of ordering a huge pasta plate like I used to, I ordered some chicken breast with capers and artichoke hearts. And despite the fact that I "overate" for the past few days, I was doing some internet research and it appears to maintain my current weight, I would have to eat almost 2700 calories per day. So I'm STILL in a good zone.

Wanted to explore a topic here that my therapist brought to my attention recently - I'm still going about this healthy change with a dieting mentality. By joining the challenges and focusing on the lb change, I'm still trying to "fix" myself. So for a while I contemplated dropping out of the challenges, but then I thought 'well, I can continue in the challenges, and we'll just see what happens!' If I get kicked out of the summer solstice challenge, so be it. No problem. I'm just not going to fixate on the scale. I'm going to work on my mentality and how I think about food and about my weight and about what I'm doing myself. My therapist brought up a really good point - no matter what anyone says, everyone's body is perfect. And when you think about it, that's TRUE. Every single person's body is a perfect work of nature. The functioning of our bodies is amazing and it IS perfect. And I don't need to fix the way I look to conform to a vision society puts into my mind. If I continue on my path to being healthy and I'm still heavy, then so be it! I want to cultivate a healthy lifestyle for not only myself, but for my family. Sure, right now my family is just my fiance, our cat and the ferret, so my influence is somewhat limited to cooking for the fiance and giving the pets their kibble. ;) But I do want to have children some day soon (by 'soon' I mean in the next 4-5 years) and how am I going to provide them a good example if I don't live it myself? I come from a history of women who lose weight by starving themselves, and subsequently base all of their self-worth on the numbers on the scale. I refuse to cave to that, and I don't want my daughter to even have that idea cross her mind. It's hard to change the way I think, and I'm definitely still struggling with that idea, but I think I'm getting there.

I was talking to my mom last night during dinner and we were discussing weight loss, and it is so hard to talk to her about what my therapist said, because it IS revolutionary and severely contrary to what society says. It was especially hard getting mom to see it because she has never thought of herself as thin. My mom is so damn tiny it makes me ill. She's maybe 5'3 and 130-140lbs. She has NEVER been fat. Her weight has fluctuated through the years but she has never been big. And she cannot see how pretty she actually is. She actually told me that she is never able to look at herself in the mirror and even think "hey, I look OK today. I got it together alright this morning." That breaks my heart because I don't think she'll ever get to feel that way, and that's just crappy. I refuse to allow that mindset get to me and I WILL NOT base my own self-worth on my weight.

Anyhow this is an insanely long entry so kudos to those who read it! :smilielol5:

Hope everyone has a great weekend. :)
 
Woohoo Sunday weigh-in!!!

206.5lbs baby!!

:party:

I am honestly trying not to focus on the numbers that stupid scale provides me, but it does feel good to see my hard work is producing something. :)

Have a happy day everyone!
 
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