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Hey there - it sounds like you are doing really well. I struggle with the same guilt when I eat something I shouldn't or don't have the right balance...but it really helped me to read your posts....and the replies from others:) Keep up the good work. You are too awesome for staying on track today and avoiding junk food. I remember grad school - and it is definitely a different world. It was MUCH harder then to avoid junk...so kudos to you!!!
 
Thanks guys! I'm going to go for it.

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Dinner- Protein shake + orange, bite of turkey sausage

Workout:
Cardio- 45 min Run
Weights- x
Abs- x

I think I'm going to make a quickie workout log next to my eating journal. This way I can keep track of what is EXACTLY happening vs. what I feel is happening. A little bit too in the moment. ie. worked out 3 days in a row so I ease some cookies into my routine or eat like crap for 2 days and then go on some crash diet. No, no, no. I'm working on the big picture here.

Was a little worried about the shake for dinner because I still don't trust my own motivations sometimes. I think I still think of shakes for dinner as a possible negetive because in the past I used protein shakes as all my meals thinking they will make me lose weight faster than a "food meal". Looking back it just did alot more damage than good both in my thinking and my fitness goals. I kind of feel like this is my last chance, my life line to getting it straight. (no pressure, right? :p) So, I'm trying hard to forget all the bad dieting habits that I believed in so much and really focus on eating good healthy food regularly and cut myself some slack with the slip ups. I figure I will give/ need to give this some time and the worst thing that can happen is that I gain weight, at which time I surrender myself to the hands of a dietitian and see if we can't come up with something together. (I would go now but school insurance isn't the best and it is really expensive to see anyone.)

Man, writing it all down makes it alot more concrete and managable. It's really good to get this all out of my head and just let the computer hold it for a while.
 
I understand shakes are very convenient, however, I also think that your nutrient needs should be able to be met by whole natural foods. And writing is a cathartic experience - good for the soul. :)
 
Ok, another quick check-in (I'll be able to write more tomorrow morning):

B- Protein Smoothie, Orange
S- Apple, Egg White
L- Oatmeal+ Protein Powder
S- 3 handfuls of Cherries, 1/2 c. Spinach
D- Boca Burger patty, Salad, 1 pickle spear (they say 0 cal but that seems very doubious) 1/2 glass of White Wine

Cardio-x
Weights-x
Abs-x
(had dinner w/ a friend instead of hitting the gym, figured it was good for the soul if not the body :p)
 
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Ackkkk!

Well, last night I pretty much stayed on schedule except I got a chance to hang out with one of my friends that I hadn't seen in forever so I blew off the gym and spent some time w/ her. But I think it was worth it. She made me laugh so hard! It was kinda good motivation too because I got up early before work and went for a 30 min run before it got too hot outside.

Now I'm back in the office and damn those architects!!!! Yesterday I was soooo proud of myself because some of them were having a client meeting which involved sandwiches and huge oatmeal cookies (my arch nemesis along with it's sidekick pizza). Of course the sandwiches got put way and this huge platter of cookies was walked into the shared office and everyone spent the next 4 hrs. walking past and snacking on them. But I resisted, yay!!!! I had oatmeal w/ vanilla protein powder which satisfied the urge for sweets. So, after that debacle, I walk into work today and as soon as I sit down I hear someone yell, "Donuts!". Yes, a huge box of donuts just walked into the office. Sheesh. Luckily, with the journaling and my meals planned (I brought oatmeal again today anticipating some kind of pastry would be here) I feel alot more structured to go about my business and not mindlessly participate in junk food snacking. Don't get me wrong, you all know I LOOOOVE junk food snacking, but come on, let's make it count right? At least something I want, not just something that's there.

Trying to not "white knuckle" it, but just nonchalantly remind myself I don't need it. My mom is bringing friends into town tomorrow night and we have reservations at her favorite Italian restaurant, so I gotta pace myself. This place only has small dinner salads, which it would take 3 of them to make a meal out of and still no protein. I think I will try to go by there after work and strategize the menu. White flour pasta? Breaded chicken breast? I will have to figure something out. No worries. Wow, didn't know I had all that in there. Will probably write again later, what with all the donuts staring at me and all. Lol.:p
 
Good job resisting all the yummy food. It makes you feel good when you can. It's like when I resisted all that junk food at Walmart. I knew what I wanted, went in and got it and left. I knew if I bought it, I would eat it, so I didn't buy it, but the muffins and doughnuts sure did look good:D
 
Well, I made it through the office donut party, yay! I am so glad I started tracking everything I'm doing I can already tell my habits are changing, nothing huge, just no snacking on the passing cookie and then no feeling hungry enough to eat dinner. I (like an idiot) when on the scale again today as was totally discouraged when I registered still 128. I had to talk myself back to reality and say, hey, it hasn't even been a week yet, relax! I was cracking up when reading Sparrow's entries about her fights with the scale. I felt like she was reading my mind. I really gotta lay off the numbers. Hey, how often does everyone weight themselves, once a wk - more? I have the bad habit of weighting myself almost, well, ok, every day, which I know is retarded because alot of the daily flux is due to water or other beautiful bodily stuff. I just can't help it. We'll see tomorrow.

Ok, food:

B- Protein Smoothie, Orange, handful of plain Cherrios
S- 1 c. Spinach, 3 deli slices low sodium turkey breast
L - Oatmeal + Protein Powder
S- Yogurt, 2 Sun Chips (I know these are very nominal but for the sake of accountability I am trying to be as accurate as possible.)
D- 1 c. Broccoli w/ chopped onion, 1/2 c. FF Cottage cheese, 3 oz. Steak

Speaking of accountability- I also have 1-2 c. coffee w/ FF milk, 2 diet sodas and sometimes crystal light. (Did anyone find out if crystal light is bad for you? I know the asparteme probably isn't great, but other than that....?)

Workout:
Cardio - 30 mins. run
Weights - 60 min. class
Abs - 15 mins. myself + 10 mins from class

All in all, a good Wednesday.
 
I don't know about the Crystal Light...hopefully someone else will chime in on that one...but it looks like it was definitely a good day - excellent work girl!:D
 
(Did anyone find out if crystal light is bad for you? I know the asparteme probably isn't great, but other than that....?)
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Not that I know of..lots of people drink it. Stingo is the know-it-all (lol..love ya honey on that one). He might know something.
 
is 5 calories per 8 oz serving. Nutritionally zero in all other aspects. The ingredient list is:
Kraft said:
Ingredients: WATER, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF NATURAL FLAVOR, POTASSIUM CITRATE, CITRIC ACID, MALIC ACID, GUM ARABIC, SUCRALOSE AND ACESULFAME POTASSIUM (SWEETENERS), SUCROSE ACETATE ISOBUTYRATE (SAIB), SOY LECITHIN, YELLOW 5, SODIUM BENZOATE, POTASSIUM SORBATE AND CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA (PRESERVATIVES).
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Not sure what all those do - but plain water seems a safer bet.
 
I hate my scale. I seriously need to refrain from looking at it everyday. Today it said I weighed 126 which is good. Closer to my goal, meeting my 1 -2 lb a wk loss range. Unfortunately, I when I weighed myself yesterday it still read 128 so I'm not sure how much I trust this number vs. just fluxuations in water. I am going to try to get my body fat measured later this wk. My scale measures it at 18.6%, but I think it just cross-referencing my weight and height to get that number. So, I think I will try not weigh myself for a wk, anyway, I have to go to dinner with my mom and friends tonight (which I will use at my cheat meal:p ) and it would be retarded to weigh in after something like that right? Ok. I will check in later to see how the meals go.... probably clean and light to give me some leeway for dinner!:D
 
Ok, a fun day but we will see how it plays out in the dietary aspects of it all. Most importantly I think is that I had everything I wanted and didn't feel the need to go overboard / stopped when satisfied which is great for a cheat day. Probably because it was a planned cheat, not a bad day that demanded ice cream and pizza. Speaking of ice cream...

B- 3 egg whites + 1 grapefruit, coffee w/ FF milk
S- Apple, String cheese
L - Protein Smoothie, 1/2 Orange
D- 6 oz. Chicken breast w/ white wine lemon sauce (butter? It tasted a rich), mesclun salad w/ balsamic vinaigrette Glass of white wine, glass of red. Decaf coffee w/ reg. milk

Dessert - Tastee Delite FF frozen yogurt on small cone. One and a half glasses of champagne w/ 1 fresh strawberry

Ok. Determined not to weigh myself tomorrow and think I should set a date. Weigh myself next Thur.? One week from today? That seems impossible, maybe wait til Mon. Guess we'll see how it goes.

Edit:
Workout:
Cardio - 10 mins. (I fell hard, gave up and got some coffee:D)
Weights -x
Abs -x
 
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Ok. Determined not to weigh myself tomorrow and think I should set a date. Weigh myself next Thur.? One week from today? That seems impossible, maybe wait til Mon. Guess we'll see how it goes.
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Sounds like a plan. Might have to try that too.
 
So far so good.

B- Protein Smoothie, 1/2 Orange, 1/2 Banana
S- Califlower, Hummus
L- Oatmeal + Whey Protein Powder
S- Grapefruit, String Cheese
S2 - FF yogurt (starved after workout)
D- ? (I'll come back and edit tonight) EDIT: 3oz. tuna w/ tomatos, pickles + onions, FF mayo, 1c. peas
Dessert - 1c. cherries

Workout:
Cardio: 45 run
Weights: EDIT: Ass-kicking 90 min Boxing Class
Abs: 30 mins.

Good! Now I don't have to carry this around in my head anymore:D .

That was a 2 hr. boxing class. My whole body hurts. It took all my strength to make a real dinner and not cave into a smoothie (that would have been 2 smoothies today with not enough "real food" involved.) I AM EXHASTED. Man, I can't wait to go to the Sunday class, lol.
 
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Sat. July 22-

B- Protein Smoothie + Orange
S- Apple, Hummus
S2- (pre-workout) Yogurt
L- Steak, LF Cheesy steamed veggies, 1/2 WW Tortilla
D- Steamed broccoli, califlower, 3 egg whites, 1 Glass white wine
S- 2/3 NF Cottage cheese, 2 soycrisp crackers



Workout:
Cardio- 50 min run (normally my 60 min loop but was caught in the rain and broke my record!:) )
Weights-x
Abs-x
 
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Ok, I am feeling that this is usually the point where I start to slip. I have been doing good, feel better and have been eating healthy long enough (1 whole week, lol not long but feels like a long time) that I start to not know what to do with myself. I start getting bored with making dinner and just slip into lazy quick things (ie. slice of pizza or just a protein shake - both not really healthy options for me, one is a binge food, the other a diet food.) This journal is really good in that it gives me a little more direction and motivation to keep plugging away. I keep looking at everyone else's food and it helps me get inspired and creative with dinners. I really don't want to mess this up. My head feels so much better, dealing with every day in the moment instead of dealing with it with food. It actually works better too, who would have thought! LOL! But I AM at this point where I am waiting for the other shoe to drop. Waiting for where I freak out and eat junk or whatever. But I guess this is me trying to calm myself down and just take one day at a time. Tonight I have my boxing class which is a really good workout so I am just going to go to that, eat some dinner and another day will be done without crisis or excess.
ARGGGH. It's just this is just such a new pattern in some ways that it just all of a sudden hit that this wasn't a diet but my lifestyle now. It's not going to stop after 2 weeks or a month or when I get to my goal weight. Eating healthy and balanced, along with exercise needs to be part of my life like, "I wear shoes and have brown hair" it is now part of who I am. I guess I just kind of don't know what to do with that yet. Along with the fact it feels like a huge responsibility / undertaking to be committed to living a balanced lifestyle without excesses of highs and lows. Something I am so unfamiliar with I am now realizing, I am not sure I know how to do it/ maintain it. Kinda makes me want to run in the opposite direction! So I guess I will do the whole one foot in front of the other thing and just strive to be healthy (eat right + exercise) everyday and if I can get close doing both of those things then that's what I do that day.



B- Protein Smoothie
S- Cauliflower, Hummus, 1/2 Apple
L- Tuna (FF Mayo), Salad
D- Cheesy Steamed cauliflower, Steak
S- Watermelon, Yogurt (I know I did this backwards but was starved after my class and went for the real food and then made dessert my 3hr. later snack.)
 
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