Xenon's diary....(enter if you dare :p)

Came up a little short today 3/13:
CALORIES CARBS FAT PROTEIN
Totals: 1,182 131 41 39

And only 4 glasses of water. I ran out of Zephyrhills and there was only tap...bleh :p
I don't think I'll be coming up short tomorrow @ all...possibly way over but we'll see how the day goes. I have a lot of social things tomorrow.
 
Ya it's waaaaay over today! But it was a good experience. It finally makes so much sense to me why I am so overweight! I did not eat a lot, but the things I ate! WOW! :svengo: SO many calories.

It was a good day today. Hubby bought me a shirt to celebrate the week of low calories lol and he bought me some really comfortable sneakers for walking and running <3 Gotta love the man :p He also checked the gym and there are treadmills in there so tomorrow I start exercise :D
 
Hope the exercise goes well! Don't over do it at first, work your way up. Good job on making good choices last week and don't worry about one day. I had a bad calorie day this weekend too.
 
I hope the exercising went well!!! I always keep at least one meal a week as a cheat I try to keep the portion size on the small side but we all have bad days...as long as a day doesn't turn into two .....two to three ect.......
 
Thanks so much Mizzie and Veronique :D

My husband's work changed his schedule drastically this week...which I forgot about...so it rules out gym time today. When he'll be back the gym is closed. I used to bellydance before I got pregnant, but I have not since then and I do not know if it is good to start with that. I might give it a try and make it more low impact...or search the web for exercises which can be done around the house. There is no place in the house really to do a lot of walking. I plan on walking outside when he comes home tonight....but I want to do something around the house today. Any ideas anyone?

Calories are back on track today...I still have over 800 left :D I was feeling bad about yesterday until I read this article about calorie cycling...so I guess it is not such a bad thing and I'm definitely not doing that everyday! lol. It was really an eye opener and it freaked me the hell out. :D
 
Hiya Xenon.

Most of my exercising takes place in the house. I have a rebounder (mini trampoline - $60 at the local exercise gear place) which I use a lot to walk/slow jog while watching TV.

But as well as that I just walk up and down a lot in front of the TV. Even if nothing too exciting is on the telly, it distracts me from the fact that I am trying to get my pedometer numbers up. I think buying a pedometer to record my steps is one of the best things I ever did for myself. Getting to the magic 10 thousand or more, really helps me to just keep on moving.

Well done on getting your calories back on track. Keep up the good work!
 
Thanks so much Mrs. Shadow. I took your advice haha :p

I marched while doing the dishes for 15 minutes and later I walked briskly for 10 minutes before hurting my ball and socket joint :eek: I will try to walk a little slower tomorrow, I'm just excited to be doing healthy things :D I'm still below 1200 for calories today...which is not so good because I wanted to consume between 1400 and 1600 calories on the days that I work out.
 
Well I won't be eating anymore for today so here are my stats:
CALORIES CARBS FAT PROTEIN
Totals: 1,107 138 36 51

Exercise time: 25 minutes
Calories burned: 208
Week goal for calories burned is 930, only 722 to go!
7 glasses of water
 
Trusylver said:
looking a little low on cals, are you able to fit in a little more protein ?
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I knowww :sigh: this is lower than what I wanted today, and I exercised a bit which makes it worse!!:svengo: I was thinking of adding in some meal bars...because of convenience and nutrition. What do you recommend for protein Trusylver? I'm slowly starting back on exercise and want to lose 150 lbs.
 
I should also mention that i want to start running again and am planning on doing the c25k thing once I pick up the pace.
 
There are plenty of foods with good protein content, what is your main sources of protien that your getting already ? then i might be able to come up with a few you havn't thought of . :)
 
When I used to live too far from the gym I invested in a couple of AWESOME pilates dvds which helped me lose the weight the first time. There are so many fun ones out there now too, great to have a couple of good ones if you can't get out of the house for any reason :)
 
My favorite way to add protein, and fiber, is an apple with peanut butter. The peanut butter has fat and sodium though, so only have it if those numbers are good.

Marching in place while doing dishes is a great idea! I also like to do squats while I brush my teeth. And since I have a desk job, I have a "rule" that something must be moving at all times, like tapping my foot or dancing to the radio (I'm alone in the office). From what I've read, you can burn up to 500 calories a day just by fidgeting. ^_^ I forget a lot, but I'm trying.
 
Trusylver said:
There are plenty of foods with good protein content, what is your main sources of protien that your getting already ? then i might be able to come up with a few you havn't thought of . :)
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Hmmm...
Steak (normally 1-2oz)
Chicken Breast (2-4oz)
Hummus (1tsp - 2tbsp)
Shrimp <---I plan on getting some this week, haven't eaten any in a while
Protein Soy Weight loss shakes
*thinks*....what else....
1% Milk

I think that's it :)
 
luzdafuzz said:
When I used to live too far from the gym I invested in a couple of AWESOME pilates dvds which helped me lose the weight the first time. There are so many fun ones out there now too, great to have a couple of good ones if you can't get out of the house for any reason :)
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Thanks Lucy! I'll check it out...I've never tried pilates:leaving: *hides for shame* :p
 
Xenon said:
Hmmm...
Steak (normally 1-2oz)
Chicken Breast (2-4oz)
Hummus (1tsp - 2tbsp)
Shrimp <---I plan on getting some this week, haven't eaten any in a while
Protein Soy Weight loss shakes
*thinks*....what else....
1% Milk

I think that's it :)
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Steak is good but is fairly high in fat even with the visible fat trimmed off, chicken is an awesome protein source. Fish is a good source of protein to add especially tuna but not everybody likes it and it can be a bit expensive. Pork is a good lean meat when the visible fat is trimmed of. Game type meat is also good eg. venison, goat, rabbit, kangaroo etc. eggs - especially the whites, cottage cheese or other low fat cheese. If they dont affect you to much beans of all sorts are great for protein as are nuts but nuts can be high in fats (the good fats). mixing up your protein sources will also give you a full range of the esential amino acids as well.

For general sports activity (basic exercise) you need to be eating around 1 gram of protein per kg of bodyweight. I am not sure what that is in non metric.
 
Thanks so much Trusylver! I forgot egg whites. I don't eat pork but I love curried goat...especially with roti :D

That would be 123 grams of protein for me on the days that I work out. Why is it necessary to have that amount of protein?...To not lose muscle or something?
 
:willy_nilly: Why can't I get to 1200?!

Here are my stats for 3/16:
CALORIES CARBS FAT PROTEIN
Totals: 1,182 135 28 52
Exercise time: 0 minutes
Week goal for calories burned is 930, only 722 to go!
8 glasses of water

I really thought I went over. Oh well.
No exercise today. For this first week I want to exercise every other day. Really I wanted to do more but when I pulled my joint after walking only 10 minutes yesterday :eek: I think I will take it easy this week. 30 mins of cardio tomorrow. I had zero fruit today but sooo much veggies. I want to have at least two servings of fruit a day. I have strawberries and grapes...but the grapes are the bitter death:ack2: I've seen a few others on here complaining of that too.

Maybe tomorrow I'll eat a slice of wheat bread instead of the whole wheat pita.
 
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