Radiant's Diary

I decided to do the calorie counting thing, no matter how repulsing I find it. I got an account on fitday.com because I saw somebody recommend that on this site. No, I've eaten everything I had planned on eating for today (just had two slices of cheese pizza in addition to what I listed earlier.. it was free and an end-of-the-season thing.. but I guess it wasn't all that horrible for me..) and I says I've eaten 1111 (cool number!) cals today. Now, I know my portions are generally pretty small.. but I honestly thought I was getting around 2000 if not more every day, so now I am confused. Now, I need to figure out if I'm using the site incorrectly or if it's correct.. then figure out if it's okay to eat that little or if I should try to bump my calories up. Urgh.

Aside from that, my exercise buddy skipped out on me tonight because we got a big storm and her four wheel drive doesn't work and she has to get it fixed.. but I'm still planning on going.
 
1100 calories at your current weight is entirely too low and will hurt your efforts long term - I don't buy into the whole starvation mode term that gets tossed around but at 1100 calories - you have no room to go down if you need to make an adjustment...

I'd consume no less than 10 calories per pound and probably go to 12 calories per pound.. (that is the number I'm currently shooting for anyhow... and you're a lot younger than I am so you can handle even more than that... )

the toughest thing to master with calorie counting, is getting your measurements correct... if you have a digital kitchen scale that's much more accurate when it comes to portions than measuring cups -but somethings you'll be able to eyeball after a while...
 
I'm actually at a loss measuring-wise as I eat in the food service and you can't exactly take a scale down there with you, ha. That would be funny.. however, I have been baking for YEARS and can eyeball fairly well.. which will have to do for now.


Sooo, shooting for over 2,300-ish cals per day. I better go down and have another bite to eat before my day is over.. can do.

Thanks for the input :)


I should be able to do better measuring when I am back at my parent's house during the holidays, especially since that is when overeating tends to happen anyway.
 
Today I was really bad. Ate biscuits and gravy for breakfast, a glass of orange juice, and then for a snack I got hot chocolate made with milk. Bad bad me. I'll be better in the second part of the day, plus I'll exercise later on. Good news is that I woke up this morning at 196.5 which is down from where I have been. Given that I'll want a few days at that weight... it still feels good to see it on the scale. Hopefully I'll be able to talk my exercise buddy into going tonight, but if not then I'll just go on my own again.
 
Soooooo.. had to move out of the dorms for the week as they close down and I am back at my parent's house. Went to the gym at 8 this morning to get in one last go, and then headed to my parent's.. got a flu shot.. and then. . . . . started baking. I HAVEN'T EATEN ANYTHING YET, THOUGH. Go me! Anything bad, anyway.

Breakfast: one cup of peaches, one egg, one slice of whole wheat toast.

Lunch: Half bowl of tomato soup (yummmm) and a half sandwich with whole wheat, cheese slice of salami, and of COURSE loads of lettuce. Fresh from the store today.. yummy yummy!

As far as the baking goes, today is my brother's birthday.. then tomorrow is Thanksgiving.. it's going to suck. I made caramel from scratch, going to make caramel turtles once that cools and I can cut it, then fudge, then two pies for tomorrow. Eek. It's fun though, I LOVE to bake. It's just the not eating five of everything once I finish baking them that is difficult! I'll make it through okay, though.. and although I don't have the gym with the elliptical this week, I do have a tread mill that I can walk for a long ways on and my parents bought an ab lounge! Woot!

Tonight, yes, I AM going to eat cake, but only one tiny slice and no ice cream with it. That's the plan.
 
So after all was said and done, my cal. count for today was 2,129, which I was REALLY happy about! I made sure to enter in every little thing, too! Go me! Just for the heck of it, since it's so early, I think I am going to go for a walk and maybe do some crunches.

Today was a good day.

(Hopefully I'll do just as well tomorrow.)
 
Hey just wanted to pop in on ya and say thanks for the postive comments on my pics.
Sounds like your gonna have a fab~tab~u~lous Thanksgiving!
Keep up the good work!
 
Thanksgiving is going well! I've been baking all day, but eating very little of that stuff.

Breakfast: fresh pear! Tiny bit of oatmeal.. wasn't that hungry and didn't have more than five or six bites.

Lunch: nothing yet. I woke up late, so I'm thinking of considering my pear/oatmeal a brunch for the sake of today.

Cals so far: 350 some. Can't remember the exact count. I should probably snack a little before dinner just to keep something in my system.

Not sure about exercising today.. may take the day off as I haven't had one off for a couple weeks. Wouldn't kill me, but I'll see later.
 
Not going to list what I ate for dinner, because I ate so many tiny servings of everything!

Day ended with no exercise, but 1873 cals!
 
Hour and a half of exercise today.. 40 mins spread out of cardio and the rest with weights and whatnot.. more than I normally do.

I did tread mill today since it's what I have available, instead of the elliptical, and I couldn't push myself extremely hard because of my knee, but it should work for the next few days alright.

Todays cals added to 1932. I guess I'll have another snack later... maybe a pear or something.

Watching Home Alone right now, this movie rocks! No weight change in the last little while.. but I guess I'm still working on building up my muscle mass so I should just be happy that I'm not gaining weight.
 
Today's cals: 1930

Planning about an hour and a half of exercise to be completed in a little while.. nothing really happening aside from that.
 
Hour and a half of exercise complete. Didn't do much weight training because I hate what I have at my parent's house... just some free weights and a bench press. It disgusts me how much dust is on their exercise equipment. I had to take THREE cloths to them to get them descent enough to use them. It kind of scares me. I worry about my mom and her health... but she won't listen to me, so I don't really know what to do. Tomorrow I can head back to the dorms with my normal exercise equipment and whatnot. Go me.
 
[QUOTE Go me.

Yes, GO YOU, indeed! You are to be commended on your exercise dedication, and on your loving concern for the folks. It is downright scary how we can let ourselves go to pot, and especially dangerous the older we are! How wonderful that you are getting in shape NOW. I hope your Mom is inspired by you (she likely is, even tho' she might not say so) and that she will eventually be ready to start her own journey to health.

Best wishes!
 
She's tried multiple times before, but we have a common enemy: my dad. He is one of those people that tell us how out of shape we are and makes us feel like crap about everything we do in life. It's a loooong story, but I hope you are right and that she actually follows through sometime.

My exercising is going well, yea.. but it seems so pointless somethings :( ugh just have to keep on going.
 
No exercise today: moved all my stuff back into the dorms and really just want a relaxing day before I go back to run run run around campus. I did so well this past week, though, that I don't feel guilty at all.. it's probably good for my body to have a break come to think of it!

My cals for the day (without dinner) are 1047. I am going out to Chinese with one of my friends, and just looked up what I want to eat and HOLY COW, I am going to be eating small portions!!! I crave Chinese soooo badly when it's that time of month, so I'm going to go take care of that craving! Crab wantons, here I come.... but on a much smaller portion than usual :( Oh well, it's all for the end result!
 
Thanks for dropping by!

Ended out the day with 1980. AND I got my Chinese. Got the chocolate in the freezer too for when I start to need it this week.

This is going to be one of the most stressful weeks of the year for me. Oh how I am not excited.
 
You remind me of me and how I get about exercise and food =P And with the baking, lol, thats my main goal while I'm making things "DO NOT EAT IT WHILE IT's BEING BAKED!!" It's such a dang temptation!!

I'm glad to see you're using fitday.com. I use it here and there, but over the years, I've learned to size up and take a guess at how many calories I consumed. I also add 10 extra calories onto everything just to make sure I don't over eat it. If I'm already 10 over on each, why would I want to eat more? The trick is, to forget that you added it on yourself.
 
So for breakfast this morning, I had a bowl of cereal and a glass of skim milk.

Headed down to the music building for classes and found out that a friend and fellow music major died in a head-on car accident yesterday.. so I'm taking that kind of hard. Not going to any of my music classes today.. just kind of need some me time I guess.
 
Oh, wow! That is terrible! I am sorry to hear about that. :(

Take your time and be strong.

--Jason
 
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