My dairy

Didn't get to wake up at 4:55 am today, but I did wake up around 8-9 to do some cardio riding my bike. Surprisingly, it wasn't too bad, it wasn't that hot out, although it was humid. There were some small droplets of rain too. I did 30 minutes on the bike...turns out my stationary bike can't be fixed, my dad doesn't have the right tools to fix it. So every 2 minutes or so I have to re-adjust it or it falls apart, a real pain.

Weighed myself today and I'm still at 231, no change.

I'll update as soon as I eat breakfast, taking a quick break.

Breakfast:
4 slices of lean ham (60)
The usual quaker cereal (150)
Celery with hummus - (69)
1 diet coke (0)
Cantaloupe (90?)
Total cal for breakfast: 369

Lunch:
2 slices of whole wheat bread (140)
1 1/2 serving of tuna (90)
1 piece of provolone cheese (70)
1 glass of milk (90)
1 serving of cantaloupe (90)
1 serving of green beans (19)
Total cal for lunch: 499

Total cal for today: 868

I rode my bike to walmart and back, just wanted to get out of the house and see people. My family doesn't get out to do stuff often, and I have no friends nearby, so I'm usually always at home, bored. The trip to walmart is around 1.5 miles one way, so 3 miles total. I checked out the electronics section, they got some pretty cool stuff. Saw something interesting, but forgot what it was.
 
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Breakfast:
4 slices of lean ham (60)
The usual quaker cereal (150)
Celery with hummus - (69)
1 diet coke (0)
Cantaloupe (90?)
Total cal for breakfast: 369

Lunch:
2 slices of whole wheat bread (140)
1 1/2 serving of tuna (90)
1 piece of provolone cheese (70)
1 glass of milk (90)
1 diet coke (0)
1 serving of cantaloupe (90)
1 serving of green beans (19)
Total cal for lunch: 499

Dinner:
2 slices of brooklyn extra large domino's philly cheese steak pizza
1 diet coke (0)
Cal:852

Total cal for today: 1720

Yikes, so my mom decided to get domino's pizza for dinner. I was hungry and she didn't feel like cooking so we got it. The serving size is 1/6 of the pizza, but the slices are HUGE. I had 2 slices. That's 426 cal PER SLICE! I had 2, the good news is I'm still only consumed 1720 cal for the day. The bad news? One slice has 1040 grams of sodium, yes, that's right, 1040 grams of sodium PER SLICE! I had 2, that's over a days worth of sodium in one meal! My god..I'm going to have horrible water retention tomorrow. Luckily I think we all had 2 slices so the whole pizza is gone...I have to say its ok to splurge every once in awhile, but the sodium facts is killing me here. I hope I don't gain any weight from this. Will be back on track tomorrow.

1040 (grams of sodium per 1 slice, I had 2 slices)
23 grams of protein (I had 2 slices)
18 grams of fat (I had 2 slices)


Kara, please don't kill me :banghead:
 
hey spark.. I had pizza today also~ the calories were up there, maybe not as high as the Dominoes.. but still- I didn't realize the sodium in pizza... ugh. You're still doing so well.. keep it up!!!
 
Sweetie, I can't kill you because I went bowling with my officemates tonight and had three (THREE!!!!) margaritas and 3 slices of cheese pizza. :)

So we'll retain water together tomorrow. ;) Drink lots and lots and lots of water. That's my plan.
 
To confuzzledwife,

Thank you for the support..I appreciate it. I love this community.

To karacooks:
At least we'll be in it together, that's my plan too, to drink lots of water and try to flush it out. Oh, by the way my mom and I love your salmon glaze, we're cooking up a bunch of salmon fillets right now for tomorrow with your glaze on it :)
 
Last night I drank lots of water...weighed myself in the morning today, and I'm 230.5. Didn't seem to retain any water weight, weird.

I decided to take a day off exercising today, my ankles hurt still, especially where my ankle meets my foot. We went for a quick walk yesterday and it hurt to walk if I landed on the wrong spot of my foot. I also think that I deserve a day off every now and then..

Breakfast:
1 serving of green beans (19)
1 piece of salmon with kara sauce (100 cal for salmon + 50 for sauce = 150)
1 yogurt (110)
1 serving of cantaloupe (90)
Celery with hummus (69)
Total cal: 438

Lunch:
Salmon with kara sauce (150)
Leftover chicken/meat/pasta (100?)
White bread toasted with peanut butter and 1 serving of fruit (dried cranberries)
(350)
Total cal: 600

Total cal for today: 1038
 
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I also think that I deserve a day off every now and then..
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Yes you do! I won't be online over the weekend, so have a great one and I'll catch up with you on Monday!
 
So here's the scoop, it was dinner time around 6 pm. I was very hungry, and so were my parents. We were deciding where to go..first it was yoshi's, then fatburger, mom wanted a quarter pounder. We thought about quizno's, but looking at the nutrition information doesn't look good, it had some high calorie stuff.


So I convinced them to go to subway, which was really the only good place closeby. I got the sweet onion teriyaki, but I was having a bad craving for cheetos, so I got those too. 320 cal for the whole bag, my dad told me that wasn't a good/healthy decision I made. So I ate half the bag, and out of disgust (and feeling bad for eating it) threw the rest of the bag away. My dad said I have to eat the whole bag, and not have it go to waste since they bought it, but I was too disgusted with myself when I ate half the bag.

I took my medicine and I'll resume excerise tommorrow. I plan to go to filberto's, (riding my bike), then over to walmart and hopefully by that time it will have been 30 minutes of cardio, and as a reward for the work go shopping at walmart (just looking) at the end of it. It gives me some motivation to excerise. The eating right part isn't that hard for me, its the excerise and making it fun. If I had some friends I would love to do basketball, but I have no friends (nearby at least). Basketball is fun..so Its riding the bike for me and strength training on the wii tomorrow.

Breakfast:
1 serving of green beans (19)
1 piece of salmon with kara sauce (100 cal for salmon + 50 for sauce = 150)
1 yogurt (110)
1 serving of cantaloupe (90)
Celery with hummus (69)
Total cal: 438

Lunch:
Salmon with kara sauce (150)
Leftover chicken/meat/pasta (100?)
White bread toasted with peanut butter and 1 serving of fruit (dried cranberries)
(350)
Total cal: 600

Dinner:
6'' Sweet Onion Teriyaki sub
(Base 380) + 2 cheese slices (40)
2 large diet cokes
Total: 420

half a bag of cheetos
(160)

Total cal for today: 1618
 
Good for you for throwing the bag away despite what your dad said. Next time offer him the $0.50 if he gets pissy about it. The money is NOT more important than your health. And maybe next time put it to him right like that: So Dad, you're saying you think the $0.50 the bag costs is more important than my health??? See how he responds to that.

And I had to laugh at the "kara sauce". :) I'm glad everyone is enjoying it.

Edited: BTW, Cheetos are one of my guilty pleasures, too. You still stuck within your calories - so it's not a tragedy! :)
 
Thanks Kara.

Weighed myself today, back up to 232. Was 230 yesterday, must be the sodium. Off to exercise

Finished the 30 minutes of cardio on my bike, seemed to be easier this time, although I don't feel I got as much as a workout. I guess I must be getting used to it. I may do the stationary bike tomorrow, it turns out my dad fixed it! Yay!

Finished 30 minutes of strength training...had a protein shake (116 cal) after workout.

Breakfast:
Post-workout protein shake (116)
Salmon with kara sauce (150)
Quaker apple cinnamon oatmeal (150)
Total cal: 416

Snack:
1 piece of salmon
150

Lunch:
Cucumber sushi (250)
Crunch roll (350)
1 1/2 serving of grapes (150)
1 oat cluster (sample) (30)
1 cracker with weird walnut chocolate (50?)

Dinner:
2 slices of delite pizza (1/8th x 2)
~250 cal x 2 = 500
+ salad greens = 20
total 520
Total cal:
~1916 for today

A little over, but not too bad. I'll do better tomorrow.

The sad thing is I made a critical error. I actually thought this pizza was healthy, after realizing how small 1/10th of a pizza is I've become aware it probably is *not*. My dad has always said it was healthy....sigh oh well.
 
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So we decided to go to yoshi's, a japanese restaurant. The problem is I've had their food before, its great, but on their website and also at the store there is no nutritional information menu's, so I have no idea at all on the calorie's here.

We went shopping today, still not done. We got ginger chips (made from a special potato), wheat thin harvest cheddar (artisan variety), soy beans, tofu, lots of veggies (carrots, baby lettuce, spinache) fruits, such as cherries, grapes, nectarines, apples (green and red), corn. We also got this full fat tillamook medium cheddar cheese in little small serving squares. (less than 1 oz)

Here's what my meal consisted of at yoshi's. I got a a diet coke for a drink.
1. White rice wrapped in seaweed (roll) with fresh cucumbers
Regarding this one, it MUST be healthy. Literally just rice rolls with seaweed, and fresh vegetables (cucumbers). It looked absolutely gorgeous. This is one of the places where the picture you see outside looks like the food you actually get!
2. The crunch roll. Now this one is beautiful, white rice rolls, with seawood, imitation crab meat (little to no mayo), avocado, bits of shrimp tempura, drizzed with teriyaki sauce. Absolutely delicious!

I'll keep ya'll updated as always. Here is their website btw:
 
Sushi is generally pretty healthy but there are two things you have to look for.

One is the use of white rice - obviously very starchy/carby and it can slow your loss for a few days. I've found eating simple carbs (white rice, white bread, white sugar, etc.) often stalls me out for a bit. Dunno why - it just does.

The other is that some sushi places use mayonnaise in their rolls - it helps keep the inside moist and holds all the ingredients together. And I've found that "real" Japanese places tend to use mayo more than not. :)

But ... in general a veggie roll (rice, nori, cucumber, maybe avocado) runs about 200-250 calories per roll (one roll is usually cut into 6-8 pieces).

The crunch roll is probably a little more at around 350 per roll (again one roll = 6-8 pieces). The tempura batter is fairly high cal (although you're not getting a lot of it in the roll) and the avocado bumps things up as well.

Personally I think sushi is a great healthy splurge item. I try to get mine with brown rice instead of white, but if I can't, I just enjoy it anyway.

Oh oh oh ... the other thing is that sushi is high in sodium, so if you retain some water weight this weekend, don't sweat it. :)
 
KaraCooks said:
Sushi is generally pretty healthy but there are two things you have to look for.

One is the use of white rice - obviously very starchy/carby and it can slow your loss for a few days. I've found eating simple carbs (white rice, white bread, white sugar, etc.) often stalls me out for a bit. Dunno why - it just does.

The other is that some sushi places use mayonnaise in their rolls - it helps keep the inside moist and holds all the ingredients together. And I've found that "real" Japanese places tend to use mayo more than not. :)

But ... in general a veggie roll (rice, nori, cucumber, maybe avocado) runs about 200-250 calories per roll (one roll is usually cut into 6-8 pieces).

The crunch roll is probably a little more at around 350 per roll (again one roll = 6-8 pieces). The tempura batter is fairly high cal (although you're not getting a lot of it in the roll) and the avocado bumps things up as well.

Personally I think sushi is a great healthy splurge item. I try to get mine with brown rice instead of white, but if I can't, I just enjoy it anyway.

Oh oh oh ... the other thing is that sushi is high in sodium, so if you retain some water weight this weekend, don't sweat it. :)
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I had half a roll of each to save calories. I believe it was around 4 or so of the cucumber rolls and I think 5 for the crunch. This wasn't a 'real' sushi place, it was obviously americanized somewhat because all of their meats are cooked, not raw. I asked if their eel roll is cooked, they said it was. Next time I go there I'll have to try the eel, never tried eel before.
 
Well we just came back from another store. I am soooo hungry, especially when I went there. We had coupons for gushers (bad me), we bought 4 boxes. I told my mom to hide them so I can have them in moderation (I love gushers)

We also bought some cheese/onion kaiser rolls for sandwiches...with no nutrition information on them. I'd like kara's input and expertise on how many cal's you think it has..I'm guessing 300 for a half? They sure smell good. More white bread..sigh

We bought some whole grain thompson english muffins...some of that V8 fusion juice that has vegetables and fruit servings in it, although you don't get all the fiber assosiated with eating the actual fruit.

After that we went to papa murphys for a take 'n' bake pizza. We got the articoke chicken bacon. It has a white sauce, bacon bits, extra thin crust, articokes, and chicken. 444 mg of sodiums per slice, 1/10 a pizza per serving. Calorie wise not too bad, 182 cal per slice.

Tell me what you think..


So the serving size is 1/10th, we split them up into 8th's. So slightly more calories...1/10th is 183 cal. We'll say 250 each slice for an 8th, I think that is reasonable. ~500 + spinach salad greens/20

Total cal:
~1916 for today

A little over, but not too bad. I'll do better tomorrow.

The sad thing is I made a critical error. I actually thought this pizza was healthy, after realizing how small 1/10th of a pizza is I've become aware it probably is *not*. My dad has always said it was healthy....sigh oh well.
 
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Got on the scale today, 231.5. Grr...still haven't gone back to 230 where I was. Going to try to do better today..


Breakfast:
Fiber thompson english muffins (1) (100)
Low cal fruit spread (40)
1 serving of blueberries (81)
1 omelet with meat and veggies (200?)
Total: 421

Snack:
Grapes (81)
Cheese 3/4 oz (90)
Carrots (35)
Cal: 206

Lunch:
Chicken breast, grilled. (186)
1 cup raspberries, fresh. (60)
1 oz habenero cheddar (110)
1 cup of fresh greens (20)
Total lunch: 376

Nature valley crunchy almond granola bar: 190

Dinner:
Salad with caesar dressing, 6 croutons, some light cheese flakes and pan cooked tofu cooked in the pan with garlic
(70 for tofu + 140 for salad)
Wacky macky noodles (vegetable noodles) with a cheese sauce (low fat)
(150)
1 oz serving of beef jerky (70)
17 slices of low fat turkey pepperoni (70)

Total cal: 1693


I just did the stationary bike for an hour..glad its fixed. Will bike ride tomorrow and continue with strength training.

Today we went out to the mountains..beautiful. It was hotter than heck though, and I wish it was cooler or it would've been alot easier. We took the dogs and 2 of them (1 of them even dived in the lake!), lots of people were there. You can buy something called a 'tonto' pass to camp there. They had a nice restaurant we didn't eat at (was mostly junk food except for the salads) and a few cool stores that I wanted to go in to (but didn't). Mostly it was cool because it was a long drive, to get out of the house and do something, and it seemed so isolated. We did some walking there too...
 
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Heya! I"m here - just had a busy weekend and my posting was minimal. :)

Yay for 230. You're moving along really well!
 
KaraCooks said:
Heya! I"m here - just had a busy weekend and my posting was minimal. :)

Yay for 230. You're moving along really well!
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Hope your weekend was good. I'm going to try and thaw out the whole wheat bread tomorrow. My mom bought some cheese onion kaiser rolls, going to try some for lunch. They aren't whole wheat, and probably isn't the best thing for me, so hopefully tomorrow I can convince my mom to unthaw the whole wheat bread for a sandwich. I did the strength training today. Can't wait to get under 230

Breakfast:
Post workout shake (116) + 1 cup milk (90)
1 tangerine and 1 cup leafy greens
Total: 269

Lunch:
Lightly smoked mesquite turkey (deli) with an onion cheese kaiser roll
(roll 300?) (turkey 100)
Snack: Nature Valley Roasted ALmon bar (190)
Snack: 1 serving of soy beans (100) with 1 serving of grapes (114)
Total: 1073
 
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I just had to pop in and say the next time you have sushi if you want to cut the calories order sashimi style. I love raw tuna, salmon, and halibut, but prefer the eel smoked. My favorite though, is octopus, which is cooked (unless you want it raw and still wiggling in your mouth).
 
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