Weight Loss Journal

July 29, 2008

I am super exhausted today. And I know why. I smoked a joint last night and went to bed burnt out. Not to mention my friend was texting me and trying to converse at 2:30 in the am. Anyways I did my tae bo DVD last night and I'm not nearly as sore as I expected to be. For dinner I had my protein shake and a ceasar salad (thanks to my wonderful mother...). Then after smoking that joint I was just like "FOOOD I WANT FOOOD!!" But I stopped myself from eating very bad and eating everything I was thinking of and I just had a bit of raw broccoli dipped in garlic hummus. Oh and I had ONE cracker in hummus, and after that I just put everything back and let my mind run wild with thoughts of food and never satisfied the cravings. Serves them right!

So I didn't workout this morning. I want to go home and do my other tae bo DVD (55 minutes instead of 46) called total body fat blaster. This is the one I did with my mom without the bands, but this time I am using the bands!! Man I can't believe how drained I feel right now.... ugh..

Meals today:

Breakfast: Fibre One Honey Oat Clusters w/ skim milk - 270 cals
Snack: Protein shake - 250 cals
Lunch: Pita w/ garlic hummus, provolone cheese, 2 slices tofurkey, and cucumber - ~300 cals
Snack: Apple - 125 cals
Dinner: Salmon w/ small salad and some crispy mini's ketchup flavour - 390 cals

Total: ~1500

For some reason I am beginning to think that I am actually overestimating my calories. I generally measure out my foods and I usually read the nutrition label and either do a calculation for the portion I'm eating (cross multiply the labels calories per X pieces and figure out how many cals I'm eating for the amount of pieces I have). I'm not sure if anyone has noticed, but if you add up all the calories in my daily meals, they will usually only add up to about 1280 or 1150 ish (today's is 1335) and then I'll add a couple hundred to that number, just in case I underestimate anything. Does anyone think that this is a good idea if I'm generally measuring out my food or could I actually be severely overestimating my cals????

Oh one more thing I wanted to leave everyone with. This is an article that I found in the Metro news this morning on diaries aiding in weight loss.
 
There were some evil cookies in the lunchroom during my meeting today. Probably about 200 clas each. And I managed to avoid those evil things. Another good thing... the ice cream in my freezer is pretty much doneski. I told my mother no more ice cream because I'm beginning to develop quite a pallet for the stuff. Not sure if I ever mentioned the muffins my uncle bought last week. 530 CALORIES PER MUFFIN!!!! I didn't touch a single one. They were banana chocolate chunk. They looked soooo scrumptious. But nope. Ice cream seems to be my weakness as of late. Oh and all the regular salty foods that I crave. But I did manage to resist a number of big bags of chips until they were all gone. I had maybe 6 in total out of one bag. I just decided to write down some of my accomplishments in the last little bit while I mentioned the cookies. :coolgleamA:
 
I don't think it's a problem. Better to overestimate than underestimate and as long as you're not overestimating too much (read: starving yourself) then I think you're fine.

If I were you, I would add based on a percentage rather than a base unit like 200 calories or whatever. Say 10%. Given 1335 that'd be 1468 so you're in the right ballpark, but as you move up or down in calorie intake 200 becomes a greater (or lesser) percentage. Make sense?
 
Hello! Thanks for stopping by my diary.

Great job on the workout last night. Good for you for avoiding the cookies!! Hopefully they will get eaten up fast so you don't have to see them all day.
 
Hey guys thanks for visiting my diary and the kind words and motivation :)

July 30, 2008

First I want to mention that I got a job. I will be working at Swiss Chalett as a hostess and eventually be trained as a server. I am pretty excited to start serving. I want to make decent money without having to work in a warehouse. I've made 17/hr for the last 2 years and I think anything less than that I would struggle to get by with. If I am serving I will have tips and stuff and I'm sure I could get by with what I make. Anyways, I have another job interview tonight at Pizza Hut. I hope it goes well. I wouldn't mind juggling two jobs during school. I have faith that I can do it.

So last night went alright. I did the total body fat blaster, but only did 45 minutes of it. That tape is seriously friggin hard. To my surprise though I am not sore today. I do feel a slight tightness when I use certain muscles. I did fairly well in the eats department last night. My mom made a pizza and I only had like 1/20th of the pizza. Probably worked out to 75 cals. 1/4 of the pizza is 230 cals. Ok I think the math is wrong there but I'm too lazy to calculate the difference. My cousin wanted to go out for dinner last night, but decided tonight would work better. Now you guys all know that me and eating out do not mix very well. I need to really be strict tonight and eat healthy. I may get fish with veggies on the side and ask for minimal rice or no rice and more veggies. Or I may get veggie fajitas. Not sure yet. Anyways, I did not workout this morning because my interview tonight is at 5 and I will have no time to shower in between. I will workout after the interview and dinner. I am craving salty and sweet foods today. Check out my eats haha.

Meals today:

Breakfast: Bagel w/ light herb and garlic cream cheese and strawberry yogurt - 240 cals
coffee - 70 cals
Snack: Fiber One Chocolate and Oats bar - 140 cals
Lunch: 1/3 multigrain thin crust spinach and mushroom pizza with light ceasar dressing (dip) - 340 cals
Snack: Protilife Chocolate Delight protein bar - 160 cals
Dinner: ?????

Total: 950 cals before dinner. Leaving me ample room for a decent meal.

Note: I did not add any additional calories today because all the calories I listed are printed directly on the package (1 bagel, 1 bar, etc) and I worked out the conversion of 1/3 the pizza compared to 1/4.
 
nc_bmac08 said:
OMG, I love Swiss Chalet. That place is amazing, go there every time I'm in Canada.
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Swiss Chalet is only in Canada?? Hmmmm interesting. I'm actually not a fan of Swiss Chalet at all. I don't like the sauce (everyone always goes wide-eyed when I say that). This will probably (HOPEFULLY) help me to stay on track with my eating.
 
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adeon said:
I'm actually not a fan of Swiss Chalet at all. I don't like the sauce (everyone always goes wide-eyed when I say that).
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Oh my, I would friggin'drink that sauce if I could get away with it. Best. Sauce. Evar.

Bmac -- next time you're in Canada hit a grocery store and you can buy packets of the Chalet sauce. It's a dry mix... boil water, stir, let sit. Tastes JUST like the real thing. We have it all the time since we eat so much chicken anymore. You can also buy their gravy packets, I just haven't tried them so I can't speak to how they taste... but the sauce? Two thumbs up.
 
thedarwinfish said:
Oh my, I would friggin'drink that sauce if I could get away with it. Best. Sauce. Evar.

Bmac -- next time you're in Canada hit a grocery store and you can buy packets of the Chalet sauce. It's a dry mix... boil water, stir, let sit. Tastes JUST like the real thing. We have it all the time since we eat so much chicken anymore. You can also buy their gravy packets, I just haven't tried them so I can't speak to how they taste... but the sauce? Two thumbs up.
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I couldn't agree more. Yeah, we bought some of the packets last time we were up there. There's just something special about going to Swiss Chalet when you haven't been to Canada in a year. It's tradition for us. :D
 
thedarwinfish said:
Oh my, I would friggin'drink that sauce if I could get away with it. Best. Sauce. Evar.

Bmac -- next time you're in Canada hit a grocery store and you can buy packets of the Chalet sauce. It's a dry mix... boil water, stir, let sit. Tastes JUST like the real thing. We have it all the time since we eat so much chicken anymore. You can also buy their gravy packets, I just haven't tried them so I can't speak to how they taste... but the sauce? Two thumbs up.
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Well that will be this weekend won't it Shaun?

Lol I can picture the way you said best sauce evar. Too funny.
 
adeon said:
Well that will be this weekend won't it Shaun?

Lol I can picture the way you said best sauce evar. Too funny.
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It sure will. I'll have to check out the nutrition label on it to see if its worthwile. If not then I'll just enjoy it while I'm there, then wait til my next trip to Canada.
 
July 31, 2008

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! Thats all I have to say. Shitty night and shitty day. My cousin is a really bad influence in the weight loss department. Went out for dinner last night and I had a long island iced tea (made w/ diet coke) and salmon with veggies, salad, and garlic toast. I ate all everything except the toast, I had about 1/3 of it.

Came home from dinner and I was going to go to the mall. My cousin wanted to have a couple drinks... so I of course agreed. Well.... I drank too much. I was hammered. Rum and coke. And then rum and coke and malibu rum. DIET coke though. I was up till 5 and had to wake up at 6 for work. Well work didnt happen. I was soo tired. Woke up this morning and immediately went to the kitchen. Had some chips and ice cream and then fiber one cereal. THEN for lunch I (yea it was my idea) decided that we should go to the chinese buffet (when I'm hungover willpower doesn't exist). I had 1 plate of various salads (certainly not the healthy kinds) and 2 plates of fatty greasy foods of all sorts. Then I had a large plate of dessert (I had a couple bites of each dessert) and then I had a bowl of ice cream. How do I feel after that?? Absolutely dreadful. I ate way too much, drank way too much, and missed work. I think I need to not see my cousin as often. Anyways I am about to go and do my Ab DVD and I may walk or jog later and hope that this will kinda cancel out some of my horrifying decisions. I don't think I will eat any dinner or anything.... maybe a salad if anything.
 
Heh, sounds like a rough day Amanda. No big deal though, just learn from your mistakes and get back into it. Don't let one bump slow ya down.
 
Well the bump will definately slow me down in the weight loss department. I'm sure I've gained some after yesterday. But I will just jump back on the horse and forget yesterday ever happened.

August 1, 2008

Yesterday couldn't have gotten any worse. Well it could have but I didn't get the fries I wanted. I went to go workout and my fams were using the TV. At that point I pretty much said.... alright to hell with this day I'm just going all out. And I did. I ate a veggie burger for dinner and I had some chocolate and some more ice cream. I am super fucking pissed that my sister bought the god damn ice cream. It just makes things worse for me.

So today is the first of the month. I have decided to forget yesterday happened (as I already wrote). I will be working extra hard this month to get into some nice numbers in the weight loss department. No more weekend eating like I have been. I do not care how hungover I am. I will shove the fucking salad down my throat and avoid the stupid greasy foods that I usually crave. Treats will only be awarded when I eat well during the week and will be ONE TREAT! Not a fucking day of splurging. Can you tell I'm not impressed with myself!?!?

So this month I will need to seriously make some sacrifices for my workouts. I will be working two jobs at least and my days will go from 6 am to 9 pm. I have decided that I will wake up earlier. 4:30 am. Get to the gym for 5 or so and workout for an hour before starting my day. That's the plan for the next 4 weeks. It's only 4 weeks so I think I can do it. I want to be at least 128 lbs by the time school starts. Just typing that number looks soo freaking cool. I am actually not even scared to tell people now that I'm 133 (well I'm probably 137 today).

Anyways I didn't pack a lunch so I will go out and buy one. A healthy one.

Breakfast: 2 packets of weight control oatmeal - 300 cals
Coffee - 50 cals
Snack: Fiber One bar - 140 cals
Lunch: ???
Snack: ???
Dinner: Tuna salad (The ones at subway w/ no dressing) -

Total: ??????

To a good month!!!:beerchug:
 
Ok so lunch ended up being a meal from this healthy place called cultures. I have never been there before and was confused with all the menu and whatnot. I had a turkey panini (yea I know) and two types of salad. One was spinach (with a fattening poppy seed dressing) and the other was this nutty crunch salad. I think my meal totalled to more than what I'd like it to be. Probably like 600-800. I will not be having a snack as a result and my tuna salad for dinner is probably 300 cals tops.

sooo....

Total was probably around 1500-1600. A drop from yesterday, but slightly high to me. (I got the number using the higher caloric value I guessed for my lunch). Who knows, the lunch could have been higher. It was damn good, but I wish I saw the freaking veggie panini's. That would have cut out like 200 cals. Oh well... I plan to jog after my shift at Swiss Chalet. I'm gonna try to go for 45 minutes. Just push myself and get some extra cals shed.
 
Ok... we are just going to pretend that yesterday was July 32nd. The new month starts today lol.

I was doing sooo well yesterday and then I smoked a joint. I only had 3 crackers and some hummus and then i went to bed so that I didn't have to deal with the munchies I was having. But the puppy we just got (oh yea we just got a puppy) wanted to stay up and play. The puppy is not potty trained and so I had to get up with him and take him outside to make sure he didnt go to the bathroom inside. Because I had dinner at 4:30, I was much more easier to break in terms of willpower. I went to the kitchen and made a waffle with nutella on it. Meanwhile I was pretty much eating the nutella and peanut butter while my waffle was toasting. I ate that and tried to tucker the dog out and then came back up to the bed. Welll the dog still wanted to play so I got up and went downstairs and indulged in 2 chocolate chip cookies. horrible I know.

Anyways I didn't workout last night either, so I woke up this morning and jogged for 40 minutes. I ran outside so i dont know how fast my pace was, but I'd say it was decent. I went on the scale fully clothed after my run and saw 135.2. Now I know this number may be off but at least it didn't say 142 like I dreaded it would. I plan to eat fairly healthy today and I feel that the jog, after not exercising for a few days, really kinda put me back in the zone.

I also started my new job yesterday and was rushing around bussing tables. It was a lot of fun actually haha. I really enjoyed the fast pace (after working in a warehouse for 2 years I'm actually shocked that I'm thinking like this).

So that's pretty much where I'm at right now. I havent taken my pics yet, but I will next weekend. I just dont want to take pics when I've done so terribly in the last week... I'm sure you guys understand.

Have a great day everyone.
 
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