Pequin Weight Journal

My Starbucks buzz just hit me. I haven’t had any caffeine in weeks and boy can I tell!! I got a Double-Shot Espresso (no sugar, no milk) brought it home and added 1c. 1% milk to it. (Thanks Mal for the tip about the shorty - I knew they had the little tiny cup but never had the cojones to ask for it, now that I know the name I can be all nonchalant about it - “yeah, gimme a short non-fat latte -thaaanks!”)

This was my treat for staying on the wagon for exactly one week. Woohoo!!

I thought of things to write on my way home, had it allll planned out but dang if I didn’t forget. Oh well, maybe later.

Breakfast: Yo! Crunch Strawberry (minus about 1oz. cause it tasted seriously weewow)
Lunch: Spaghetti with a garlic yogurt sauce (yeah tastes about as good as it sound, bleh! only ate about half, won’t be making that again) small salad with carrots & fresh mushrooms and 1T. ranch dressing
Snack: aforementioned espresso, 1/2 blueberry muffin
Supper: 1 small grilled chicken breast (skin & bone removed) cheddar rice (Lipton Mix) with extra broccoli and some mushrooms
Dessert: Smart Ones Cookie Dough Sundea
Total Calories: 1,251
Carbs: 157
Fat: 29
Protien: 74

Water: 3 20oz bottles
Exercise: None, still can't breath!
 
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I noticed today while changing my fitday food diary over to spark that I eat a whole lota dairy! Is that a good thing? Or should I start cutting some of it out?

The water thing is so hard for me, it was okay for the first few days.. mmm.. water! But now I'm having a hard time making myself get the simple 64oz a day how in the world do you guys drink half your weight?! Do you space it out or chug-a-lug?
 
I have a 32 oz nalgene bottle with me at all times and every once in a while if I think I'm slacking I sit and chug about 16 oz...lol. I eventually make it to the end but I tell you, I'm up late peeing so it doesn't wake me up when I fall asleep and due to my early wake insomnia it is becoming disruptive to my schedule because it never fails I have to pee at 5am and then I'm awake for good.
I have noticed I have been sleeping sounder and harder since I started cardio. I could use a nap right now as a matter of fact but that just isn't in the stars...lol!
Okay, I'm going to try and attempt to answer your questions that I can remember reading thus far
1) either too many calories or not enough? How about pre planning your meals a day ahead using a calorie counter, then you can be sure to get the right number of calories.
2) too much dairy? check on how many servings a day you need and go from there. They do say that 3 servings of milk or yogurt a day help you lose more fat (I read that in the October Women's Day issue).
Keep up the good work, and I hope your allergies improve.
 
Thanks Iwan. I think I'm going to have to just suck it up and drink that dang water. My problem it that I can't drink water from our kitchen tap, burns my stomach. Bottles are handy but those clear plastic bottles are really piling up. It's kind of disturbing, good thing we recycle I shutter to think of what would be going into the landfill if we didn't!

Most of my dairy is yogurt, after reading a bit on the net, I don't feel so bad about it. yogurt = good for you! :p

Today I'm going to have to count as a crap day.

My cousin and I went shopping with an impromptu lunch stop. I tried to pick sensible things but I got home and looked it all up to find I hadn't done as well as I'd hoped. :(

We went to O Charley's. I had 1 dinner roll, a house salad with honey mustard dressing and half a club sandwich - 1,344 :eek: But I didn't have a soda, I had water with lemon. I know where I went wrong too, I should have asked for dressing on the side, no cheese on the salad and no butter on the club bread. Oh well, live and learn :eek:

Totals:
calories: 2,439
carb: 191
fat: 109 :eek:
protein: 120

Whether I can breath or not, I will be walking tomorrow.
 
Weigh in Day! I've been so good at not sneaking a peek at the scale. And then today I forgot to weigh myself! Did my morning thing, ate some breakfast and was getting ready to get dressed when it hit me! Duh!

325, I'm lost 5lb since last Thursday at the Dr.'s office.

Yes it was a different scale but I came right home after the appointment and stood on our scale and it was spot on with the Dr. I'm so happy :D :D I wasn't expecting to see so much loss!

My dad tried to make a discourage play when I told him. He didn't say great or congrats, just looked me in the eye and said "It doesn't matter what I eat, I've been this exact weight (270-300 range) for over 6 months." Then scowled at me. I had to respond with a tight lipped, "Well, you must be eating enough calories to maintain that weight otherwise it wouldn't be there." He knew I was right, there was nothing he could say.

I'm not glad I hurt his feelings but I have to start defending myself, otherwise I will be back into the old rut and all the work will have been for nothing.

Cousin's baby shower is tomorrow. I'm going to try and be sensible with the cake and be as active as possible. I usually find a quiet chair and hope nobody notices me. I hate being the wall flower, it's no fun! Though I won't have much choice tomorrow as I'm supposed to be the one hosting the thing.

This sans-boyfriend time is going to be about me. Self discovery and self improvement. I'm 26 and barely know myself. I thought I did but I'm realized everything I knew of myself was in terms of him. No more! :)

"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened." -Lao Tzu

New goal for this coming week: Stop making excuses for myself!

GOT to go take a shower, I'll post food and totals later.
 
EXCELLENT Pequin!!! 5 lbs!!! you should find a 5 lbs bag of sugar and see how that feels not lugging that around anymore. I'm so proud of you and I love that quote. Have FUN at your cousins baby shower and don't try and hide. (((Hugs)))
 
Woo Hoo!! 5 pounds! That's amazing! (You are eating enough aren't you? You aren't starving yourself, right?) ;)

That is simply teriffic!!

Now...about this wall flower thing...

It is never to late to start BEING the person you want to be.

Good for you for being so in Control!
 
Iwan naloseit said:
EXCELLENT Pequin!!! 5 lbs!!! you should find a 5 lbs bag of sugar and see how that feels not lugging that around anymore...
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I had to carry in 2 2 liters of soda for the party tomorrow. I figure that's how much weight I've drop in the past 2 weeks and Jesus H. that's some heavy stuff right there!

T2 Trucker said:
Weeeeee good times for the pepper girl!!
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Yay! You know what a pequin is! Most people just think I can't spell penguin. :p

M2M said:
You are eating enough aren't you? You aren't starving yourself, right?
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Yep, or at least I think I am... I went to Spark and got their projections for my weight and goal. They said to keep it around 1,500 to 1,850 calories. I hate to admit it but I was so out of control with my eating that it's disturbing! We had Chinese tonight, before I would eat it all plus my egg roll and soup. I was nearly full after the soup! And I skipped the egg roll. :eek:

Thanks guys for the support, very much needed & appreciated.

Food & totals for the day:
Breakfast: 1/2 blueberry muffin, 1/2c. peach yogurt
Lunch: 12 small pieces of California roll, 3 slices pickled ginger, dab of wasabi
Snack: homemade fresh veggie spring roll with lettuce, carrots, apple, 2 Shitake mushrooms & 1T. Sour Cream
Supper: Chinese food, mmm; garlic chicken with steamed rice and Hot & Sour soup
Totals:
Calories: 1,828
Carbs: 177
Fat: 59
Protein: 137

Water: 4 20oz bottles
Exercise: .63 miles in 15 minutes! woohooo! I'll be at one mile by the end of next week!

I saw the old crush from high school tonight. I'm so ashamed of myself. I saw him look up but I just ducked my head and walked on. I should have said hi, I should have said SOMETHING! Damn that man has gotten fine!
 
Baby Shower day, the party went so well. I couldn’t have asked for it to go any smoother.

I stood the almost whole time & didn’t let myself settle into my rut. Although admittedly, the flimsy plastic chair felt like it was bowing under my weight. Not a good feeling… which leads me to reason #325 of why I need to loose the weight:

So that I can safely sit on the lawn furniture.

The whole day I tried to stay sensible. I really did. And food wise I did pretty well. Ok, except for the muffin…. I just had to eat that muffin. I will say this: my family is a bad influence. They took me to the bakery to pick up the cake and insisted that we sit and have a donut. I settled on the cranberry orange muffin. The best choice considering that my other choices were banana nut, chocolate chip and chocolate cream cheese.

But what put me over the goal range was the punch. I forgot about the punch. Dangit I made the punch and I forgot about it. It had grape juice concentrate, sprite and vanilla ice cream, not so bad but when you have 3 cups because you’re trying not to munch on the candy and nuts… yeah. I just forgot.

But I did have a minor victory. I skipped the pizza my mom pulled out for lunch and I had 1 small piece of cake from the middle no flowers. First instinct is to call dibs on the corner with the biggest flower. I will take my victories where I can get them.

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow'." -Mary Anne Radmacher

Breakfast: 1/2c. mixed berry yogurt, 1 large orange cranberry muffin
Lunch: 1 small piece of cake, 2T. mixed nuts, 3 stinkin cups of punch (wasn’t even that good! :mad: )
Supper: Chili con carne with beans, 1/4c. shredded cheese, 1T. sour cream, 1 piece of cornbread
Totals:
Calories: 1,951
Carb: 252
Fat: 84
Protein: 56

Water: 8 8oz. cups
Exercise: Stood nearly the whole party and helped lug bags and boxes to and from the cars (up and down a VERY long, steep ramp).
 
oh yeah - we kicked that pizza's ass. We should invite M2M and have a minor rumble, with switchblades and snapping ala West Side Story!! ;)
 
Okieeeeeeeeeeeee... here goes my first reply in somebody's journal!!!
I'm having fun reading your journal.... makes me laff lol. Not at you i mean. Serious.

I'vs a question.... how much calories is in a chili con carne?
 
It does kinda sound like your family is unintentionally trying to sabotage you-- donuts (but you chose a muffin, yay!), pizza (but you didn't have any, yay!), and of course your cousin deciding to have a baby as soon as you're trying to eat better! Grr!... just kidding, congrats to your cousin, and of course to you as well for resisting all that temptation. I hope your today goes just as well if not even better!

Sifen
 
Way to go on the 5 pounds pequin!... I hope you also enjoy your time of self discovery during your weight loss :) ohhhh and awsome job at the baby shower!

I live in Indiana too!!!
 
They thought you misspelled penguin lol. The only thing struck me odd is your from Indiana and yall have those crazy hot peppers up that way... ;)
 
Great job at the party and resisting not only donuts but pizza too! Today I resisted pork rinds (which isn't very hard for me...lol...its deep fried FAT!). Freakin football season.
Pizza is the hardest to resist.
 
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