Photocrazed - Journey to a Healthy lifestyle

I just caught up on your diary and man, you are doing great. Strength training is the best, and you are pretty strong (for a girl lol).

154 pounds is so great, is it weird now to look back and think about what you used to weight and how much has come off? I mean seriously, 11 pounds is a lot. That's like the size of a one-month old baby!

(haha, I relate all pounds to sizes of kids since I work with them. My friend told me she had lost 50 pounds and I was like "oh-my god, that's like a whole entire pre-schooler." and she was like, damn I never thought of it that way).
 
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photobaby i am back :D
but i have seemd to missed out on quite a lot. are things going well for you? i do hope so. i reckon i am going to have gone the same way as you from my trip (upwards rather than downwards)
hope you are feeling fabfabfab
x
 
protectiva said:
I just caught up on your diary and man, you are doing great. Strength training is the best, and you are pretty strong (for a girl lol).

154 pounds is so great, is it weird now to look back and think about what you used to weight and how much has come off? I mean seriously, 11 pounds is a lot. That's like the size of a one-month old baby!

(haha, I relate all pounds to sizes of kids since I work with them. My friend told me she had lost 50 pounds and I was like "oh-my god, that's like a whole entire pre-schooler." and she was like, damn I never thought of it that way).
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Hehehe. Well, I have always been told that, I was strong for a girl. Growing up, I always wanted to be on the football team as the kicker or punter or whatever you call it, but I wans't allowed because "you're just a girl" I've never thought of myself as "just a girl". I played tackle football with the boys and hit with all my might. I was never one afraid to run with the ball. I think it could have been because I liked the boys tackling me too. :D I love sports and played volleyball, softball and was a cheerleader back in my teens. I also ran track and ran the 100M and the 4*100M on a team and once ran the 400M and almost died afterwards. When you condition your body for short sprints, it really sucks to try to sprint for 400M on race day with NO practice (thanks a lot coach).
 
Hey, my kind of girl (if i had one, lol) I hate the "just a girl" sterotype, I believe woman can do ANYTHING a man can (well, just about).

I was in track too in H.S. I ran the mile :)

ANYWAYS...your doing great !! Keep up the good work!
 
Oh, and I'm not currently at 154, but my official weigh in after my week in Boone is coming up on Friday. I'm hoping to at least be there or less by that day!
 
Woo hoo, you will make it. You've done so great already. In my opinion, the first ten and the last pounds are the hardest to lose. All the crap in between is pretty easy, relatively speaking.

-k-
 
I cannot go a day without weighing myself. It drives me nuts, makes me feel like out of the loop. I want to know what's going on in there! You have a lot of willpower not to weigh yourself every day, girl. Good for you!
 
Good Morning everyone. Beautiful day.. high 62 degrees. I have my presentation today and it's almost time to start stressing, but I need to hit the treadmill first. .. maybe this will help with stress.

Just a few more days to my official "re" weigh in and I'm hoping it goes well. I took out the tape measure this morning and measured my body parts based on this nifty little chart I found online.. Attached here for you to see. I'm hoping for a loss, but I"ll be happy with what I get and remember the learned lesson.

Breakfast-

1/4 Cup Tuna
Kashi Go Lean
Skim Milk


Lunch
Nature's Own Light White bread, 1 serving
Smuckers Natural Peanut Butter with Honey Creamy, 1 serving
Smuckers Strawberry Preserves, 1 serving

dinner:
Vegetables, Mixed Salad Greens, 1 serving(s)
95% Ground Beef Raw, 4 oz
Whole Wheat Spaghetti, cooked (pasta),
Sauce, Pasta Sauce, 1 serving
Archer Farms Parm Ranch FF Croutons, 0.5 serving
Mexican Cheese Kraft, 0.3 serving

Snack
Planters Mixed Nuts, 2 serving

TOTALS
CALORIES CARBS FAT PROTEIN
1,508 159 63 92
Your Daily Goal:
1200 - 1550 135 - 252 27 - 60 30 - 136

Water 69.7

Exercise
HIIT- before breakfast
5 min warm up
30 sec sprint 10mph
1 min cool down
30 sec sprint 10mph
1.5 min cool down
30 sec sprint 10mph
2 min cool down
35 sec sprint 10mph
3 min cool down
 
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Thanks for the measurement diagram - very helpful. Good luck with your presentation. Don't sress out too much. Go kick some ass!
 
thanx for the diagram, photo. and good luck with your presentation, i'm sure you'll do great.
you have a great workout i still can't do that one, but eventually i will :D

have a great day,
Lena
 
Hope your presentation went well. Good luck on the weigh in. I'm sure you'll do just fine.

Enjoy the the nice weather.
 
Stumbled my way through the presentation, I have had a terrible headache today and almost forgot about my advising appointment for fall class registration. Finally made it through that and had to walk back across campus to Academic Services to get another form signed and found out I had to leave it. I really need this form signed ASAP so I can register for a summer class that might fill up. I'm going to be pissed if I miss out on this class!

Got my Ling paper back and recieved an A-, which I thought was really good. I'm happy with that, especially considering some of the grades I heard about others getting. .. I still don't like the class as much as I wish I did. I really like the professor though!.

Thanks everybody for your wishes! I'm hoping I don't get marked badly by the students. We each had to do student presentation evals for 2 of our classmates too. UGH.
 
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1 Cup- homemade pasta sauce w/97% lean beef (I have no idea how to calculate calories for this). Any ideas???
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Hi, saw this and try to help..
Did you cook it yourself? If so, do you have kitchen scales? If so, next time your cooking, just weigh everything and put them on a spread sheet (as an attachment here, unzip first, then opens with Excel or OpenOfficeCalc) with the nutritional info per ingredient. This simple spreadsheet calculates the nutritional values for the whole dish as well as the portion you ate (if you enter it there). Portion thing is not 100% accurate with dishes you cook for a long time, as their water content changes, so for those it's better to use the whole dish values and just estimate that you ate a quarter/third/half or some part of it and divide the total values of the whole dish accordingly.
A long explanation, but I hope this helps you. I created this for myself, because I was fed up with estimating everything all the time. Feel free to ask me, if you have questions, and if you make improvements to this spread sheet model, I'd love to have the improved version.
Have a good week!
Juliette
 
Thanks Juliette! I'll definitely have to give that a try. It's semi homemade I guess. Here's the recipe..

1 pound hamburger/ground turkey, browned
1 med. onion, chopped
1-2 cloves garlic
15 oz can tomato sauce
6 oz can tomato paste
15 oz water
1 tsp oregano flakes
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
¼ to ½ 5oz block
Romano cheese, grated
¼ cup sugar (I use sugar/splenda mix)
1 Bay leaf

brown the first 3 ingredients together and then add them all to pot and simmer for 3-4 hours with the other ingredients.
 
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Sounds delicious!
I'd call that home made, who'd bother to do that from fresh tomatoes, since you can get the canned ones without any additives or sodium. Haven't made sauce like that for a long time, might just give it a try tomorrow.. :)
PM me if you have problems with the spreadsheet..
Julie
 
I now use this for everything from Lasagna, to homemade pizza's to spaghetti and/or stuffed shells.

..I love the sauce recipe. I got it from a neighbor a while back and normally make a double batch when I make it and separate and freeze it for later. It's a little sweet, and is a little runny for hubby's liking so I only put in about 10-12 oz water.
 
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