Project Ann

Yesterday's stats:

Calories 1813

Calories from protein 31%
Calories from carbs 32%
Calories from fat 37%

Exercise Curves circuit 30 minutes

Weight 308.5lbs


I have so many notebooks started with this information recorded in them, I thought I'd stick with one place to record and reference back to. I'm getting my numbers from Calorie King. I coughed up the $40/year to use it.

I caved today and had the scrawny doughnut at a board meeting this morning and then got a mocha w/skim, no whipped cream from the coffee cart. It was a nice treat, but I have to get back on track with lunch. Salad time for me!

I've been trying a lower carb diet, but it's too hard to do without having the majority of my calories coming from fat, so I think I'm going to go back to just counting calories.
 
Counting calories really is the most sensible approach - to me anyhow - that way you don't get those wicked carb cravings and blow your hard work with giving in - calorie counting you really can have anything.. just keep it in a reasonable range..
 
Yesterday's stats:

Calories 2038

Calories from protein 29%
Calories from carbs 41%
Calories from fat 30%

Exercise none

Weight 308.5lbs


Today's weight 308.5. I'm going out of town for the holiday weekend and won't be able to update until I get back. It's going to be a challange with my mom having nothing but cookies and danish around any my sis-in-law wanting to pour alcohol down my throat. I think I'll make my own food to bring along with a case of water and some diet Sprite to help me cope. Hmmm, what to bring...Kashi for breakfast, some grilled chicken breasts for lunch and dinner, a bag of baked Lays for munchies (have to fit in a little bit heh), some sugar free pudding for a sweet treat. That should help out. Oh, I wonder if there is a grill up there. Chicken on the bar-B sounds awesome. Of course it's supposed to be 52F and rainy.

Sorry for the rambling, I just woke up! Hope everyone has a good weekend!

ann
 
Yesterday's stats:

Calories 2540

Calories from protein 26%
Calories from carbs 30%
Calories from fat 44%

Exercise Curves circuit 32 minutes.

Weight 308.5lbs

Went out for dinner at the Capital Grille for my birthday lastnight. Splurged. Not as much as I could have, I've found that I can't eat as much as I used to. Small victory! But the bernaise over the filet mignon and the lobster mac and cheese were sooo worth it! So were the strawberries with a small scoop of vanilla ice cream for dessert. Now mind you I split the mac and cheese and shared some of the dessert with my friends, so I wasn't quite the glutton I used to be...heh

Getting all packed up to head up north to the cabin. I wonder if the small town grocer will have Kashi cereals? I guess we'll see!

Hope everyone has a good weekend!

ann
 
No calorie counts for the weekend. I haven't had the motivation to sit down and try to remember what all I ate. The scale said 311 when I got home today, the same as Saturday morning before I left. We'll see what tomorrow brings. Today was a mess. My parents had a cookout for the holiday, hamburgers, hotdogs and brats all grilled nicely. My mom also made one of her home made chocolate cakes, had to have a piece.

I had a good time bonding with my 19-year-old niece. I see so much of myself at that age in her, the depression issues, food issues, boy issues. Poor girl. I couldn't imagine going through that again. :eek:

Well, I'm tired and rambling. Will type more tomorrow.
 
Holy buckets, fell off of the wagon big time last week. The scale was 311.5 this morning, so no weight gain, but I didn't workout once last week. Didn't post on here at all. Just awful. I did force myself out of bed this morning and did 20 minutes at Curves. Eating isnpt going to be perfect this week. I'm trying to clean out my cupboards and can't bring myself to throw away perfectly good food, nor can I afford to throw it all out and buy new. It's not totally horrible, I had some udon noodles instead of whole wheat or the buckwheat soba, so that is my lunch today, with veggies and chicken breast meat. There's alot of canned soup, again not horrible, but really high in sodium. Mac and cheese, I can make that with light soy and no butter to make it better. I'm going to have to get creative to make this stuff "better". Adding salsa, veggies and chicken breast to the noodle things, frozen veggies to the canned soups. It should be ok.

Goals for the month:

299
1500-1800 kcals/day
900 minutes of exercise for the month
Ween myself off of caffeine
Get the cupboards in order!

Not too horrible. I normaly have "cheat" days scattered around, but this months weight goal is too big. I have to be good. I've figured in a little wiggle room, but I need to see the 200's!

I had some good motivation walk in the door this morning. The guy I'm in lust with was just in talking about how lonely he is, that he needs a girlfriend. I wanted to reach acrossed the counter and smack him. "Hello! I'm right here!!" Someday I'll grow a pair and say something to him...
 
great goal :) leaving behind the 300s will be a great milestone... and there's be a huge party when you get there :) I'll be watching :D

but your calories do see low - I wouldn't go less than 2000 a day and probably even up from there...
 
Just got back from a 40 minute walk. I wanted to do 45, buy my damn knee started hurting so I thought I better quit there. I figured I better get my butt in gear if I want to be 299 by June 30th. For so long I've been telling myself that I have to lose some weight before I can start exercising. How wrong. Thank goodness I found a workout that I can do. I went for a walk around a local lake on Sunday. Last year I walked around it with a friend and felt like I was going to die halfway around. Sunday, not only did I make it around (1.51 miles) in the 89 degree heat, I would have liked to break into a little jog halfway around. I think I'm only down about 10lbs from last year. Amazing what 30 minutes, 3 times a week for a month can do for you! The scale hasn't moved much, 309 this morning, but I've been walking or doing the Curves circuit 30 to 45 minutes everyday since Friday. Ok, so only 5 days in a row, but that's got to show up somewhere.

I started eating better Monday. I was out with my friend who has a BS in Public Health and is completing her 4year RN on Sat. I happened to have my blood pressure readings for the last 6 mos with. She looked at it and said I was pre hypertensive and should try the DASH diet. I looked at it and it's exactally what I've been looking for. I know common sense should tell me, eat more vegetables, fruits and whole grains, lean meat and low fat dairy, cut way down on saturated fat, sugar and salt, but why is it I have to see it in writing for it to be doable for me? At least I feel the like the flailing around in open water feeling is subsiding. I'm feeling more like treading water to a slow crawl now. Things are starting to click, fall into place if you will, for me. Eat right, 1800 -2000 calories a day, and try to get 30 to 45 minutes of some sort of exercise everyday.
 
50 minute walk tonight. My knee is hurting, but not killing. There were a couple of times where I took a big step and yikes! but it was gone within a couple of steps. I'm feeling a little more wiped tonight than last night, but that's probably because I walked 2 days in a row. No Curves today, I have to go tomorrow and Saturday to get my 3 days in for the week.

Food was good today. I found that I couldn't finish my breakfast, had to throw half of my cereal out. I had 1 cup 1% cottage cheese with some no sugar added frozen strawberries, roughly half of a cup, then half a cup of All Bran with half a cup of Silk Vanilla Light. Couldn't eat it all. Same with lunch come to think of it. I packed a big salad - lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, onion, a little reduced fat cheese and a little chopped black olive with salsa for the dressing, oh, and 1 tbsp light sour cream, about 3 cups total of salad. More cottage cheese, half a cup and half a cup of strawberries, and an apple. Couldn't eat the apple and was completely stuffed after the cottage cheese. Dinner was the rest of the lunch salad, about 4 cups, one low carb tortilla (not doing the low carb thing, but they're whole grain and taste good!) and a yougurt. I think I came in around 1880 kcal for the day.
 
Yeah, the not killing too much knee pain has kept me benched since Wednesday. I'm going to try a slow walk today. I have to do something. Going to a graduation party today. I made a proper pan of Minnesota bars to bring. I tried one small corner to make sure they were edible, they are, and am doing my best to stay away.

Ordered in chinese for lunch yesterday, otherwise food has been good. Breakfast consisted of 2 slices light 12 grain bread, 3 tbsp peanut butter and a banana, no, not a pb and nana sandwich... :jump: Lunch was half a cup of white rice, half a cup of the moo goo gai pan and a little bit of sesame chicken, the sesame chicken wasn't that good. Hmmm, a strawberry banana apple juice smoother from the coffee cart, just those 3 ingredients, water and ice are all that's in it. Dinner was half of a cup of a whole grain rice side dish, 8 oz chicken breast and once slice of swiss cheese, 6 oz fat free yogurt. Snack whilst cleaning, 1 small banana and 1oz almonds, 1 cup light chocolat Silk. I have to enter all of this onto Calorie King to see what I total up to. Doesn't sound like much to me, but that's when it ends up being 18,000kcal instead of 1800.
 
Decided to stay off of the knee a couple of extra days. I did a 30 minute walk last night at a very slow pace. A couple of hairy steps, but fine for the most part. Did another 30 tonight, only one painful step, and again, at a slow pace, roughly 2.5-3.0 mph. I think I'm going to stay with this plan for the rest of the week. Now, I just have to get my butt up in the morning and venture to Curves and give that a try. I have to have my measurements taken if nothing else. I'm interested to see what's up with them, my jeans have been fitting differently this past week.

Food. It was totally out of control yesterday. A preface to the upcoming story. I work for an extremely small credit union in a hospital. Only 3 of us in the entire office. Everybody from the hospital, members or not, stops in to see us and say "hi". A very sweet man and his wife from the cardiac rehab center stopped in yesterday. They felt bad because they never have a chance to take us out for coffee or breakfast since we can't really close the bank, so they brought in a box of doughnuts for us. Three of us in the office, a box of nine doughnuts. Stuff like this is always happening. People are constantly bringing us treats. Luckily my manager brought the box home to her family. I ate doughnuts yesterday, two of the most heavenly chocolate glazed chocolate cake doughnuts ever! (pms-ing or what?!?) KFC for dinner, a regular Coke at the night job.
I stuck to salad and carrots today. Yogurt and a mini whole wheat bagel for breakfast, the salad for lunch, a loin chop, potato buds and brown rice for dinner. I'm going to have to make up for more of it tomorrow!
 
No Curves this morning, stayed up too late last night. Couldn't wake up to save my butt. I did bring workout clothes to work so I can change here and drive straight there after work.

Yogurt and a mini whole wheat bagel for breakfast. Snacking on carrots presently. There hope for the day!!
 
Another mini bagel for a snack, yesterday's leftover dinner for lunch, pork loin chop, instant potatoes, brown rice and that powdered gravy stuff. I had a triple shot mocha with skim this afternoon to keep me awake. Just have to figure out dinner, probably a salad of some sort.

I did 25 minutes of Curves after work today, alot longer than I had figured. I'm going to push my luck and go for a little walk before it storms, very black clouds rolling in...
 
Well done, it feels good to get back on track, doesn't it?
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I am sooooo happy! I was very frustrated at the thought of being benched right when I finally started to get some exercise in! Curves is helping, but adding walking along with it was producing big results just after one week!

Taking 5 days off to rest my knee has dashed my hopes of 299 by 6/30. Even at 307.5 this morning, doubtful I can lose 8lbs in a week and a half. Weight loss lesson learned, even though you have the best laid plans, you never know what life is going to throw at you. You have to be adaptable and be able to come up with a new plan from time to time! So, bump out the 299 to 7/13.
 
great attitude... :) sometimes goals do need to be shifted a bit - just keep remembering that you're close to it than you were a month ago :)
 
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