Rachie's Diary

My body (scale) is doing the same thing to me, Rachie. I can't see the actual scale moving down, but I am noticing small things about my body changing. Therefore, I will keep at it! It is frustrating when I was thinking that I would be able to lose at least 6 lbs a month, but that's just hasn't worked out this month so far. Unless there is a huge drop this next week or something... (highly doubtful, but staying the course).

Keep up all the good work!
 
Hi photo, I know what you mean we have to keep trying and soon enough the weight will drop. I do find that after a plateau the weight tends to skip down suddenly and then I get a steady drop till the next plateau! It's my TOM right now so I shouldn't expect too much. I ate a bunch of carbs this weekend which didn't help! Keep it up! The scales will shift in the end!
 
Monday's Totals

Breakfast: coffee ~20 cals

Lunch: Minestrone soup ~246 cals

Afternoon snack: Strawberry nutrigrain, coffee ~160 cals

Dinner: rice, peas, two fried chicken thighs and small piece of bread ~824

Evening snack: fat free milk

Calories out: 2622
Calories in: 1310
Calorie deficit: 1312
 
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Tuesday Totals

Breakfast: blueberry nutrigrain and coffee (think I'm hooked by the high fructose corn syrup- need to get off these) ~160 cals

Morning Snack: ewww half a small banana (it was NOT a good one) ~47 cals

Lunch: Minestrone soup ~410 calories

Dinner: Flatout flatbread w/ salad and dressing, few potato wedges (grrr leftovers)
and a piece of bread ~654

Evening: tea and dash of milk, plus a mini-cadbury's chocolate bar ~10 cals + 60

Exercise: 2 miles on treadmill; sprints and 1 mile on elliptical ~ 300 calories

Totals so far: ~1318 calories in
Calories out: ~2889 calories out
Difference: ~1571

need more protein tomorrow :)
 
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Wednesday

So I am back down to 134.5lbs this morning. Now I just need to be that weight or less for Monday's weigh in and I might be able to reach my 12th March mini-goal :D
 
its great to see someone so enthusiastic. you just made me wanna workout lol (i'm at work so i can't) hehe
i'm sure you'll reach your goals the way you planned.
have a great day rachie:)
Lena
 
lena410 said:
its great to see someone so enthusiastic. you just made me wanna workout lol (i'm at work so i can't) hehe
i'm sure you'll reach your goals the way you planned.
have a great day rachie:)
Lena
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Thanks Lena :) I definitely have ups and downs on my motivation! The scales not shifting this week made me want to do more and I knew I had been sat back a bit so needed to push myself.

maleficent said:
Happy Hump Day to you- hope it's a great one for you
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Morning Mal, Happy Hump Day to you too. Hope you enjoyed pancake day yesterday and got through your work day with a successful tarring and feathering of your colleague :)

Just got back from the gym, I did 15 hard minutes on the elliptical - must push myself like that more often, 6 rubbish minutes on the treadmill - wasn't feeling it today, so hopped on the bike and did about 10 minutes, oh and I did just a couple of sets of weights. All in all about 229 calories according to fitday. It was a relatively quick workout. Going to run and get a coffee and my morning snack now. Long day of work ahead of me!
 
Wednesday's Totals

Running Tab of Today's Food and Exercise Totals...

Breakfast: Coffee and Low Fat Vanilla Yoghurt (yummy) ~197 cals I think

Morning snack: Apple (veered away from the nasty bananas this morning) ~81 cals

Lunch: Salad w/ broccoli, tomatoes, tuna and a bunch of other stuff I am too lazy to type

Afternoon Snack: Trail Mix, yum

Dinner: poached eggs on toast

2 glasses red wine (hey - it's Lost night!) 148 calories

Exercise: elliptical 15 mins, treadmill ~6 mins, bike 10 mins, weights ~5 mins. 229 calories

2812 calories out
1308 calories in
1504 difference
 
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Soooo funny

Oh my god. Has anyone seen the best of craigslist on their site? Just read this story about a dog and some bread rolls. So funny, I cried with laughter.
See what you think!!!
 
so I get home tonight and got on the scales: 133lbs pops up - I get a bit excited but realize this is highly unlikely given that I weighed more than that this morning... I come back, it tells me 3.5lbs more. Methinks me needs a better scale!
 
Well I got on the scales this morning and it said 134lbs :) I moved it too cause I think it was getting stuck in the previous place. It had shown me 133lbs again and then jumped to 134lbs. So I think I am doing okay! Have to work hard at the gym again today especially because I am going out for dinner tonight so might have a calorie heavy day. I think this is cool though because my calories have been fairly over the last couple of days. Anyway, I'll try and be good today! :D
 
Wishing you a very happy almost Friday... Hope it's a great day today.

it's also be Humble day -- which personally i find silly - take a moment tobrag on your accomplishments... :)
 
Thursday's Totals

Thanks Mal - I will be unhumble :)

Exercise: 10 mins elliptical, 10 mins treadmill, 5 mins rowing, 10 mins bike
- my own little circuit training course :) ~269 cals
I kicked my own butt at the gym today :D

Breakfast: Kashi Bar ~140 cals

Lunch:

Dinner:

Totals:
Calories in:
Calories out: 2842
Difference:
 
So I have been using calories as a guide to where I should be but I do look for a balance in my diet. I was wondering whether I am in the healthy range for carbs/fat/protein so I went onto sparkpeople and found a table that gives some guidlines....
Calories protein (g) Carbs (g) Fat (g)
1200 30-105 135-195 27-47
1500 38-131 169-244 33-58
1800 45-158 203-293 40-70
2100 53-184 236-341 47-82
2400 60-210 270-390 53-93

Protein = 10-35%
Carbohydrate 45-65%
Fat 20-35%

So my diet breakdown for the last month from fitday shows:
Fat 30% Carbs 49% Protein 21%
this doesn't sound too bad, I would like to decrease fat a little bit and replace with more lean protein and could probably increase carbs a bit. This is something I have been struggling with still. Need to add the tuna/chicken/egg whites.
Not too bad though.
 
Rachie said:
Oh my god. Has anyone seen the best of craigslist on their site? Just read this story about a dog and some bread rolls. So funny, I cried with laughter.
See what you think!!!
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Is that the one where the dog was basically drunk from the yeast?? hehehe.. I read that one. It was great!
 
Rachie said:
So I have been using calories as a guide to where I should be but I do look for a balance in my diet. I was wondering whether I am in the healthy range for carbs/fat/protein so I went onto sparkpeople and found a table that gives some guidlines....
Calories protein (g) Carbs (g) Fat (g)
1200 30-105 135-195 27-47
1500 38-131 169-244 33-58
1800 45-158 203-293 40-70
2100 53-184 236-341 47-82
2400 60-210 270-390 53-93

Protein = 10-35%
Carbohydrate 45-65%
Fat 20-35%

So my diet breakdown for the last month from fitday shows:
Fat 30% Carbs 49% Protein 21%
this doesn't sound too bad, I would like to decrease fat a little bit and replace with more lean protein and could probably increase carbs a bit. This is something I have been struggling with still. Need to add the tuna/chicken/egg whites.
Not too bad though.
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I think your protein number should be a lot higher.. I think..
 
Hi Photocrazed - it is the one where the dog was drunk - poor thing but very funny!!! I thought my protein was low too!?! But I always struggle with that. It's hard to get protein for lunch around here unless I want fast food sandwich! I think I need to bring my lunches more often. But it looks like I am in the right range according to sparkpeople. I'm going to read around but in the meantime I am going to try and cut fat a little and increase protein so at least they are about 25% each and carbs is 50%. I really don't want to cut fat too low as I feel ill if I don't have a decent amount of fat in my meals. :)
 
Duh I really need to read and not skim

"The SparkPeople diet takes a middle of the road approach with these ranges. Our specific breakdown is 15% protein, 55% carbohydrates, and 30% fat."

Okay so this was in the same article as the numbers I previously posted. So fat is higher than protein....

So protein:carb:fat: my numbers are 21:49:30 and they say 15:55:30

So if anything my protein % is high, that's weird. Well, I guess it's okay as it is?!
 
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