Tiffany's journey to a healthier life...

Well, I am having another good day! The food situation is good. I had my fruit this morning, a low fat yogert for a mid morning (10 am) snack, a 1 serving can of low sodium V8 for another snack (11am) and a small black bean burrito w/ two hard boiled eggs for lunch. I got the burrito on campus and you can make them huge, but I have been having them made about 1/2 the size as I was eating last year. I have also drank over 2L of water and made my exercise goal for the day! I made it to the gym after class and did 3.5 miles on the eliptical in 36 min. It said I burned 500 calories! :D I also did some upper body lifting and stretching.

For dinner I am having brown rice with a red sauce that has bison meat in it with veggies. I think I will have some corn and possibly baby carrots with that as well.

After all of thoes great things today I have to try to do homework! I am really having a hard time getting into the swing of things. I have a lot to do. It is going to be a long night.

One more day until weigh-in. Hopefully I make it to the gym in the morning. My knees are hurting a little bit tonight, but I got my glucosamine that I have gotten away from taking. Hopefully that will help.

Well, thats all for now. I have to go do some research and write a short paper tonight.
 
September 13, 2007

Well, so far today I have been having another good day. I don't think I am going to be able to exercise today though. I was supposed to go to the gym this morning, but due to a crazy evening I had to spend the morning finishing up homework. :( I do need to let my knee's rest and I have worked out everyday since Saturday, so my body needs a day of rest. I think I am going to make it to the gym tomorrow afternoon.

For food today I had my bowl of fruit, a protein shake, a small salad with two hard boiled eggs and we are going out for Japanese for dinner. I am feeling like I am low on calories today (don't want to be one of thoes 1,200 calorie people that Steve is concerned about)... so I will make sure to eat plenty tonight ;). I might even have a small snack before dinner... I am feeling hungry.

Weigh-in in the morning... hopefully it goes well!
 
Hello 170's! :D

Well, I made my goal for the week! :D

Today I weighed-in at 179.4! I lost 1.8lbs this week. :D According to my BMI I have officially moved from "obese" to "overweight." :jump:

I am 31.4lbs away from my current goal.
I am 11lbs away from my lowest weight (that I have been to in a couple years).
I am 14.4lbs away from my fall semester challenge goal.

It is a good day!

My goal for next week is 1.4lbs. I would like to be within 30lbs of my goal! :D.

Thats all for now... busy Friday.
 
yay for breaking into the 170s! thats awesome! congrats on that. sorry i havent been around for a few days... im sure you understand.
anyways, now im trying to get back into my diet and back into living my life everyday. neede your help on this!!

im so proud of you for breaking into the 170s though! thats amazing!
 
Thanks Jersey and Katt for your support!

I did have a little bit of a binge last night. We went to some friends house for a BBQ (so I didn't make it to the gym again). I ate a little too much and had some wine. But, that is my only binge day this weekend (unlike last weekend's challenges). I feel ok about it. It could have been worse! I could have ate a lot more and finished the bottle of wine. I did get some unconventional exercise last night ;), so that counts as calorie buring... right?

I am dressed and ready to go to the gym today. I am at work (I watch a couple kiddos now and then), but I am headed straight to the gym when I get done. I need to burn off some of the foods from last night. I think I will be staying home the rest of the weekend. I have lots of reading and homework to get caught up on.

Until next time...
 
Frustration...

I guess that means I can count that as buring calories ;).

I am a little frustrated with myself today. I was doing laundry and looking for something to wear while my jeans that I love were drying. As I looked through my closet I pulled out a pair of slacks that I haven't worn in a while. I lived in these slacks two summers ago and thought they would be nice to wear today. Well... apparently no such thing was going to happen. They are not even close to fitting me :cry:. I am so mad at myself! As happy as I am with the results that I have gotten over the past month, I am upset that I have to go through this again. Because of what? Because I get lazy and I start eating whatever I want without thinking about it. UGH! I am about 10lbs away from fitting into that particular pair of pants. I just want this to be the time that I loose ALL of the weight and keep it off! :flame: I am sick of this roller coaster!

I did do pretty good today. I had a great workout this afternoon and did decent food wise. Weekends are always harder, but I did much better today than last Saturday and I didn't have any wine or vodka (always a plus). I am headed to the gym again tomorrow (well today... since it is 1am).

I feel better now that I got that off my chest. Time for sleep. :sleeping:
 
I didn't get a chance to workout today. The hubby and I had to go shoe shopping (running shoes for me and work shoes for him). We had lunch at the Olive Garden. I had the soup (minstrone), salad and breadsticks lunch. It was good. I looked at the calories for it when I got home... and I think it was about 750. We had salmon with brown rice and salad for dinner. Overall today I think I did well with the food. With my morning fruit I think I am around 1700-1800 calories for the day. Considering that my maintenance is ~ 2150... it was a good day.

Tomorrow is going to be a LONG day! I start class at 9am and don't get out until 4pm (with NO breaks). I have already made myself a chicken salad for lunch and I will also pack some FF cottage cheese, low fat yogert and other yummies for snack. I have a 5pm apointment tomorrow night and I am a little nervous about food temptations. The lady that I am going with to the appt mentioned today that we could go through the drive through on the way there:eek:... I think I will have to pack extra food so I can tell her I am not hugry. Also, last time we went to visit this person she had cookies for us :eek2: ... it might be a long evening tomorrow. I don't think I will get a workout in. Maybe when I get home... I REALLY want to try out my new shoes :cool:.

Anyways, thats all for tonight... I have more reading to do than one person can get done in a day. Sigh... oh well.
 
Man, if I woulda gone to the OG, I probably woulda had much more than 750 calories, lol. And I don't envy you the cookie lady :rolleyes: if they were just hangin out in front of me, well, I'm not really sure what I would do!
Anyways, you sound like your doing a really good job- and congrats on making your goal for the week, I'm a little bit jealous haha!
 
Getting a cold...

Unfortunately I feel like I am getting a cold. My nose started feeling funny in class this morning and now my head hurts all around. I have started strong doses of herbs, so hopefully I will not get a full blown cold. It is WAY too early in school to get sick! Not to mention I have been taking my multi-vitamin every day (why do you always get sick when you are on top of things more than normal?). Due to this development I don't know if I will be able to workout this week. I was going to go running tonight, but I think I will be better off resting.

What are other people's thoughts about working out when sick?? My hubby is completely against it and wouldn't let me go if I wanted to.

I didn't make it to my appointment today. I was supposed to switch classes to go, but my prof. wouldn't let me. I was a little pissed, but I did avoid the food conflicts. We will see how the food situation goes this week if I do get sick. Right now all I want is pasta or bread... lots of carbs!! I have done good so far today, but dinner might be a blunder. Even PP&J sounds good right now!

Jess- It was hard not to order past at the OG... I think I just got lucky that I wasn't too hungry. Thanks for the support!
 
sucks that you might be getting sick. believe me- i know the feeling. anyways, how is school going for you? do you have a myspace or soemthing?
 
Food wise today has been a good day. I haven't been that hungry due to my now very nasally cold. I won't be able to work out for a couple days due to sickness.

I have eaten a little less than 1,300 calories today... maybe I will have some Dryers slow churned ice cream to increase my calories for the day... that sounds good.

Other than food I am pretty pissed. One of my professors seems to think that she is queen of the world and knows everything. Apparently after 5 years of school I have horrible writing. Who knew? I didn't know you could get through that much school completely sucking (sarcasm). I am so MAD right now:flame:. Really, do people sit there when they are writing and name of the parts of the sentence? Oh... there was a pronoun, now a noun and don't forget the verb. COME ON!?! WHO DOES THIS?!? I need to hear from these people. I F*** hate this lady. She is retiring in December... why couldn't she have retired in May?? NOBODY WANTS HER AROUND!

Thats all for now.... I need to go cool off.
 
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i too hate school like its nobodys business. sorry to hear you have a shitty teacher. i think im leaving my program at the end of the semester though. Ive been ready to be done with school forever for like 2 or 3 years now.
i hate when people act like everyone owes them something. she probably gets off on making everyone feel like they suck and that they have to answer to her.

you need to send me a private message with your info so i can make you my facebook/myspace friend!!!
 
Jersey,
I wish I could quit! I am to the point that I can't... which really sucks! I am so over it. I used to love it during undergrad, but not taking any time off has taken a toll on me.

I resisted the ice cream last night. So yesterday was a low calorie day. I am still hoping for at least a small loss this week, even though I haven't been able to work out. This cold is going to be the end of me. I tried to take a nap, but I hate trying to sleep when you can't breathe out of your nose and the back of your throat is dry. Ugh... Food wise today has been fine. According to my calorie counter I have 500 calories for dinner. I think we might be going out to dinner. We go to a local place here. They have a garden salad that I get with chicken on it and ranch on the side. How many calories are in crutons? They do put a lot of those on it. Humm... might have to look before we go.

Anyways, I am off. Need to make myself look presentable. We might be going to a movie as well tonight. Who needs to do home work? NOT ME! Well... I should, but I am not going to. I have all morning (9-1). :D
 
Hey Tiffany,

Hope your dinner and movie went well. I finished my masters last spring so I know how much good some time off can do you! Hope you enjoyed it.

Have a good day today!!
 
Hey Tiffany,

Thanks for the kind words on my diary. My first time doing one of those so the encouragement was really appreciated.

I am really sorry to hear you have a bit of a cold thats no fun at all. Hopefully it will pass very soon.

What movie did you end up seeing? Hope all is well!
 
hey tiff,
since i did my undergrag at princeton it was an insane amount of work and im just freaking wiped out. i think i might just get these credits under my belt and then take some time off from school.

anyways, the croutons answer depends on how big they are and how many. like i knwo taht a little pouch of them for a pre made salad has anywhere between 25 and 90, dependant on the size of the package and the croutons...

Anyways, i hope that cold goes away soon and you start feeling better. :)
 
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