| | Alright...I'm going to start calorie counting again. I have been slacking off in that. I've been watching the food I eat...but I haven't been counting my calories. That needs to start again. | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment   |
| Alright. I haven't updated in FOREVER because I've been TERRIBLY SICK. My daily schedule consisted of: going to class, coming home and sleeping till about 8:00 pm, eating something, sleeping again at 10:00, wake up, go to class, etc.
So, I haven't been exercising. And my foods have been...well, the "dinner" was just whatever was simplest to make or eat. And so I don't think I've lost much weight obviously. BECAUSE...even though I've been so sick, I still have my appetite! AAGH!!!
And also, the entire time I was sick I didn't drink my usual water intake. This is because since I was sleeping so much I didn't want to wake up and go to the bathroom every 2 hours.
Sigh. I've gone through 2 bottles of Nyquil.
ANYWAYS. I am better now. And am ready to start again. Next week I am going to start going to yoga classes with my mom. They are 1 hour and 30 minutes!!! Hopefully I can go three times a week. That with going to the gym at least 4-5 times a week and with my jump roping (I want to do at least 200 everyday, 500 on days I can't make it to the gym), I think I should get back on track with my weight goals.
I do NOT want to get on the scale this week because I don't want to get depressed. So I'll be weighing in next Friday and go from there.
Also, I think I'm getting a dog at the end of this month. There's a puppy I want from a local animal shelter, so hopefully I'll be able to get it soon. I can include dog walks into my life! Hooray! :) | | comments: Leave a comment |
| So I'm going to Hawaii tomorrow to Saturday. Well, let's just say it'll be good thinspiration!! I bought a jump rope so I can jump rope when I can't go to the gym. I want to try to jump rope at least 500 time everyday. We'll see if that happens. I'm taking it to Hawaii so I'll still be able to exercise there. I can exercise in the hotel fitness room too but I can't bring my running shoes because I have no room. :-\ Well, I know I'll still be able to exercise.
Now looking forward to my 145 goal weight next Friday!! I know I can do it! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Subject: | Upset | | Time: | 12:13 am |
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| I'm so UPSET. I didn't exercise today and I ate so much.
I must have eaten over or at least 1,500 calories. I went to Wendy's (not by choice) and got a chicken sandwich (ran out of fruit bowls) and even ate some FRENCH FRIES. WITH some SAUCE. WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?!?!
THEN, I came home around 9:40 (which is why I couldn't exercise) and ATE. I went grocery shopping today and I ate a sandwich and veggies with cheese on top. This was around 10:30!!!!!!!!!! AAGH!!!!!!! I'm so upset!!! I was fighting with myself but I just couldn't stop. Once I started eating, I wanted to eat all the things I bought. I first just started with the sandwich, then I made grilled veggies so I could eat mozarella cheese, then I ate some low calorie ice cream. Maybe 3/4 of a cup. That's 125 calories.
I'M SO UPSET!!! Tomorrow I'm going out to eat dinner (sushi) with my mom. I love sushi and want to eat as many pieces and whatever I want, not just sashimi. So, I'm only going to eat 360 calories before dinner:
Special K/Soy Milk: 200
Ice Latte: 160
That way, I can eat up to 800 calories of sushi. I looked on calories per hour and found that california rolls and stuff have a lot more calories then I thought.
I WILL NOT FAIL TOMORROW! I'm not weighing myself tomorrow morning because if I gained I'm going to be too depressed. So, I'm going to weigh myself Monday morning. That way, it'll help keep me motivated over the weekend too.
TOMORROW: at least 400 calories at the gym. AT LEAST. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Okay so I cheated and went on the scale this morning. I'm between 148 and 149!!! My scale really sucks, I should have gotten the digital one. Anyways, I'm really excited because I was at a solid 150 on Tuesday morning and 155 2 weeks ago!!!
I know it's not water weight I've been losing, I've been drinking all my water everyday for about 3 weeks now (except for Vegas weekend). I've also been pretty consistent in going to the gym.
Hopefully tomorrow I'll be at a solid 148!!! (Although I can tell the numbers 6-9 very clearly on my scale). | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Half Fiber One/Half Special K and Soy Milk- 230
1/3 cup of Special K snack - 40
1 Asian Pear - 115
1 Large Grapefruit - 100
Pork Tenderloins - 350
Steamed veggies - 50
Edamame - 30
Total: 915
I wasn't going to have a ice latte today cus I thought my calories would be high but maybe now I have room for it! Hooray. So with that my total would be 1075. I haven't been eating peanut butter lately because the meats I've eaten have fat and I don't want to eat peanut butter when I'm already consuming lots of fat.
Work out goal...400 calories burned and weights+situps. Hooray.
**EDIT**
I didn't end up eating the grapefruit. I'm saving it to eat tomorrow. I also ate a popsicle for dessert, used olive oil to cook the pork, and got the ice latte. So my total is: 1095.
I'm going to see what my weight is on my weigh in day on Friday to see whether or not I should up the calories or keep it around here. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Fiber cereal/Soy milk: 270
Special K snack: 100
Iced latte: 160
Steak: around 300
Mushrooms: about 10
Olive oil: 240
Popsicle: 25
total: 1105
I don't think the steak was 300 but I ate it with the fat and it was pretty big (although very thin) so I'm just guessing it should be around there.
I want to work out for an hour on the treadmill again tonight. That is, if a certain boy doesn't walk in the gym! Oh dear.
**UPDATE**
Well I burned 451 calories today. I could have burned more. I had 15 minutes left on the treadmill but a worker came up to me and said they were closing. I was told them I thought they closed at 10...and she shook her head and said "9:45". I asked if they closed at 9:45 every night and she says "yes." Strange, since I've stayed until 10 a lot of times before!!!
Frustrated because I could have burned more, especially since I ate a ton of calories today. Aagh. Scared that maybe I will gain. Since eating the meat last night and tonight, I still feel full even after working out. I don't know if this is normal and just because it's meat with lots of fiber...but I don't know how I will lose weight when I don't feel hungry!! Oh well, we'll see what happens. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| I need to figure out my workout schedule...I want to watch American Idol tonight, but the gym closes at 10 and I want to do more than an hour. We'll see what happens.
The good news is, I weighed myself this morning and I'm at a solid 150. So I've maintained throughout the weekend and even dropped 1/2 a pound. So at this point I really don't think I'll make 145 by Friday, so I made a new set of weight goals (I actually planned this new weight goal last week):
this friday: 148
march 11: 145
march 25: 142
april 8: 140
april 22: 138
may 6 : 136
may 20: 134
june 3: 132
june 17: 130
july 1: 128
july 15: 126
july 29: 124
august 12: 122
august 26: 120
september 9: 118
september 23: 116
october 7: 114
october 21: 112
november 4: 110 | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I burned 560 calories on the treadmill today! This brings my net total to: 493. Awesome! I think this eating meat for dinner thing is a good idea. I'm not hungry at all. Usually I'm pretty hungry after I work out at night but right now my stomache is content and still slightly full!!
I feel good about the calories...
HOWEVER.
I saw my crush at the gym when I was finishing up on the treadmill. This is a guy I kinda know and crush from "afar." Haha. I HATE running into people I know at the gym. I get so self-conscious. I was planning on working out for 30 min. on the elliptical after the treadmill...but after I worked out on the treadmill I just did some situps and weights and RAN out of there!!! I think he saw me..we didn't make eye contact or anything though.
AAGh. I've been at the gym at the same time everytime and I've never seen him there before. I hate this!! I pray he's not there tomorrow night!! Haha oh dear. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Well, I was way too chicken to weigh myself this morning. The weekend went pretty okay. I tried to make smart decisions (salmon for dinner instead of fettucine) and didn't drink a lot. I didn't get to exercise Friday, Saturday and Sunday so that's why I'm not sure what the scale was going to say this morning. I also didn't get to drink all my water everyday (5 hour car ride...didn't want to keep asking to pull over to go pee). Today I ate pretty well. I think I'm going to up my calorie intake to around 1,000. And my goals for calories burned are at least 350 everyday.
Today I was craving meat like crazy so I went to Whole Foods Market and spent a fortune ($19) on a fat juicy rib veal. It was delicious. I think I'm going to buy more and more meats and eat that with veggies (when I can afford it).
Veal: 213
Olive oil: 240
Cereal/Milk: 200
Asparagus, mushrooms: about 50
1 large grapefruit: 100
K-smart bar: 90
Iced caffe latte: 160
Total: 1053
I'm going to work out and lift weights for 2 hours today. Maybe I'll weigh myself tomorrow morning to see if anything happened over the weekend. And it'll also let me know what I need to do to make my weight goal on Friday. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| My scale this morning was between 150/151. Gaaah. So I didn't make it under 150. Oh well.
I don't know if I'm going to hit my 145 goal by this Friday. :T
I've already lost 4-5 pounds though, and I started on Tuesday! So I'm proud of myself, but 145 was my weight for most of last year so I just want to get there and lose more so I can start seeing a difference.
This weekend...I will try my hardest to not make all this hard work so far useless. Hopefully I'll be under 150 when I get back...but I doubt it. Cus I won't be able to work out. Well, I just hope I'm able to maintain... | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| So I've eaten on schedule; however, I ate a pickle with my sandwich (35 calories) and one extra slice of bread (45 calories). I haven't eaten my fruit popsicle yet but I plan to a bit later.
Only problem is, I'm still kind of hungry. :T
So total for today: 703.
I wonder if I should eat something else now so I don't get really really hungry after my workout and give in. We'll see. Whatever I eat though, I need to burn it off.
So goal for calorie burning today: 203. To make it an even net 500 calories. However, if I do decide to eat something it'll just be added to my calorie burning goal.
**UPDATE**
I didn't end up eating anything else. I'm glad too, because I forgot I'm weighing myself tomorrow before I go out of town for the weekend. I burned 205 calories on the treadmill then did 25 minutes of weights and sit ups. So I met my goal for today. Hooray! That makes three days in a row.
I really want to be under 150 tomorrow. I don't know if it will happen. I'm not drinking anymore water tonight (I already got my 64 oz. for today) and hopefully, HOPEFULLY maybe I will be under 150. If I am under 150, that means I dropped about a pound a day since I started! I need to drop a pound a day next week if I want to meet my weight goal of 145 by next Friday. Oh dear. I'm drinking this weekend too!!! Aagh..well, I won't worry about that now. I just want to be under 150 tomorrow. *crossing fingers* | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| 383 calories burned! This is again not counting the bike rides to and from gym. Yay, I feel happy! (and clean...just showered :P)
Tomorrow I will eat...
Fiber Cereal/Soy Milk - 270
Special K snack - 110
Sandwich (2 slices of bread, 1 slice of ham, onions, mushrooms, honey mustard, garlic dressing): 123
1 table spoon peanut butter: 95
1 fruit popsicle: 25
total: 623
I get a lot of my calories from my breakfast cereal and peanut butter. But since breakfast is an important meal and since it's so early in the day...I don't feel so bad about it. Also, the peanut butter has so many calories...but since I'm not getting a lot of fat in my diet I think maybe the peanut butter might help.
I can't wait until tomorrow so I can eat! Haha, I'm quite hungry right now and it's 11:00 p.m.... | | comments: Leave a comment |
| This is just a list of calories in some of the foods I eat...so I don't have to keep checking the labels.
bread - 45 calories (1 slice)
egg whites - 18
egg - 87
soy milk - 100
Special K - 110
Special K Carb Smart - 100
Fiber Cereal - 170
Special K bar - 90
ketchup - 15
peanut butter - 95 (1 teaspoon)
ham - 13 (1 slice)
honey mustard - 5 (one teaspoon)
olive oil - 120 (1 teaspoon)
one pickle - 35
ceasar dressing - 50 (2 teaspoons)
garlic dressing - 20 (2 teaspoons)
popsicle - 25
I think that's all my foods for now. I'm not counting any veggies because veggies are always good and you can never eat enough.
So today I've eaten:
Fiber Cereal/milk: 270
Special-K snack: 110
veggie omlette: 266 (ham, olive oil, one whole egg, one egg white, ketchup)
one slice of bread: 45
2 table spoons of peanut butter: 190
total: 881
It would have been 691 without the peanut butter but I heard that peanut butter helps you lose weight because of the fat (how ironic). So I bought a little jar and I'm going to eat one tablespoon everyday. I ate two tablespoons today because it was so good (haha) and I haven't eaten it in so long. But only one table spoon from now on.
I only ate half of the omlette and I'm going to be eating the rest for dinner so 881 is my calorie total for today.
Tonight my calorie burning goal will be...381. To make a net calorie intake of 500. That's a lot of calories to burn; I haven't burned more than 300 yet but today will be the day!!!! I'm determined. I will do it!! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Special-K/soy milk: 210
bag of Special-K for snack: 110
half onion, mushrooms, 3 ham slices, and other frozen veggies with olive oil: 159 (I'm only counting calories for the olive oil and ham because veggies are always good haha)
Ceasar salad dressing: 200
1 fat free all fruit popsicle: 25
total: 704
I went to the grocery store today and got some Fiber Cereal, Special K Carb smart cereal, Low Carb bread (only 4g of carbs!!), fat free popsicles (only 25 cals!), and some more veggies. I love onions and mushrooms. I can eat that for every meal haha.
I figure since I'm eating so many sandwiches and cereal, might as well have them be low carb, right? And I found a great snack: Special-K! Instead of having it for breakfast, I'm going to have my fiber cereal for breakfast and eat Special-K for my midday snack on campus.
I did good on calories and I wasn't that hungry throughout the day. I got some green tea pills and I wonder if they'll work. I took them today and I don't really know if there was a difference. Oh well, even if it's a placebo effect I'll take it!
I found out that every pound of fat has 3,500 calories. No wonder it's so hard to lose weight!
I've been doing really good with all my water too. I've been drinking at least 64 oz. of water if not more for about a week now. My skin has been really good these past few days, not cracked and flaky at all and I'm loving it! I'm going pee every second though and I hate that. Haha.
Time to exercise tonight. My goal: 204 calories. To bring it to an even 500 net calories for today. :)
Oh, and I also bought a scale the other day. It's in my closet. I don't really want my roommate to know about me trying to lose weight. I get too self-conscious about it. I'm not going to weigh myself until next Friday. Well, maybe once this Friday because I'm going to Vegas over the weekend and I'll weigh myself again when I get back on Sunday and see if I gained any weight. Haha.
Okay. Enough writing. Time to sweat!
**EDIT:**
I burned 235 calories. woohoo! And this is not even counting the 15 minute bike ride to and from the gym! So net calories for today: 469. Not bad. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| No calories burned today. Gym is closed Sundays.
I did not do so well eating-wise this weekend. Honestly though, I'm not going to beat myself up about it. Because going out with friends and stuff...I'm not going to give that up just to lose weight! No need to be a hermit crab and closed-off to the world just to shed some pounds. So...weekends...I won't beat myself up. I also drank Saturday night but my chaser was Diet Coke so I guess that's not so bad??? Haha.
Okay so I'm going to set some realistic weight goals for myself. I've done this like millions of times but they were never realistic (6-7 pounds per week) so this time...I'm giving myself more time and hopefully I will stick to it.
Feb. 25th: 145
March 11th: 140
March 25th: 138
April 8th: 135
April 22nd: 133
May 6th: 130
May 20th: 128
June 3rd: 125
June 17th: 122
July 1st: 120
July 15th: 118
July 29th: 115
Aug. 12th: 112
Aug. 26th: 110
Okay 40 pounds in 6 months is kind of crazy. Is it? I don't even know. But I made my goals 2-3 pounds ever 2 weeks after March 11th. My weigh-in days are on Fridays.
110 is my goal weight. The last time I weighed that much I think I was in 6th grade. But it's still a healthy weight for my height and I really really want to do this. I just need to keep telling myself that this will take time and I shouldn't get depressed if it doesn't happen right away.
That's the problem, I always think that I want to get super skinny in like a month, and then I get depressed because I'm still the same weight that next month. Retarded, I know. So retarded. So this time, it will be different!!!
145 by next Friday, here I come. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I was pretty on schedule for today. I had the omlette, but I didn't have enough time to make my sandwich for lunch before I went to class. I just grabbed a K-smart Bar before I ran out the door because I knew I would be starving by lunch. So during my hour lunch break I ate that...and about 20 minutes later I was still really hungry. I knew if I didn't eat anything then I wouldn't make it until dinner and would probably eat after class instead of work out and wait until dinner...so I went to Jamba Juice and got a sixteen oz. Strawberry Nirvana. I'm so glad they made enlightened smoothies, only 160 calories!! I used to get Chocolate Moo'd (Original) and I found out recently that those have 720 calories. 720!!!! That's like a whole days worth of calories. Crazy.
So after class I went to work out even though it was raining and I had just dried off. I was proud of myself. I did 30 minutes on the elliptical, 15 minutes on the bike, and 5 minutes sprinting on the treadmill. 50 minutes total. I set the time for 45 minutes on the elliptical but I got so bored I decided to stop at a half hour. I burned 190 calories total. I think I didn't burn as much because I wasn't really going hard on the bike.
I think from now on I will do 30 minutes elliptical, 15 minutes treadmill, and then 15 minutes stairmaster or bike. I get so bored easily on machines even with my iPod. I need to do something about that or suck it up.
I'm going to buy a scale so I can start weighing myself and chart progress. I'm not going to be able to work out tomorrow or Sunday...maybe I can go out and ride my bike. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| I could not burn 500 calories. After an hour (more like 45 minutes because the gym closed) I had only burned 200 calories. I'm factoring in my 15 minute bike rides to school/gym and the fact that the way back is mostly uphill to have burned about 50 calories. So...my total is 250 calories. But now I know. So now I know I will have to work out for longer periods of time (obviously).
I'm going to visit home tomorrow night and my mom is cooking me a spaghetti meal. Uh oh. I don't know what to do. She is excited about this so I can't say no or not eat it. I'm thinking that maybe I will eat something for breakfast and lunch that would make a spaghetti dinner not as bad. And work out for an hour and a half. The gym closes at 7 tomorrow so I have to be careful to plan my day right.
Okay so right now the lowest calorie foods I have in my fridge are sandwiches (130 calories) and K-smart cereal (210). So I guess I will be eating sandwiches for breakfast and lunch tomorrow. Maybe for breakfast I could make an omlette instead. I have eggs and veggies so I can make an egg whites only/veggies/ham omlette. That sounds good. I have to check the calories on that. But I'm guessing it wont' be more than 150? 1 slice of ham is 13 calories, I think egg whites were 40? or something around there. And veggies aren't bad so that'll be a good breakfast.
So tomorrow I will post an update on how my day went. Hoping for the best!! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| 5 slices of bread - 450
2 tablespoons of honey mustard - 10
2 cups of juice - 240
3 slices of spam - 180
K-smart - 110
1 bowl of soy milk - 100
3 slices of ham - 40
total: 1130
Okay, wow, I had no idea I was consuming this many calories. But now I think this is good. I know what I need to cut out and what I could replace. Less bread, and no more juice. I need more recipe ideas...sigh.
Well, goal for calories burned tonight=500. I will be back and report good news. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| I did not exercise today. Some friends came over for a surprise visit and ended up hanging out/staying out from about 5-10! It was nice though, to relax and have fun. I didn't have time to exercise, since my day ends at 5 on Wednesdays and the gym closes at 10. I did do some situps though, I doubt that does anything though.
I'm glad I was able to eat healthy today though. Low carb bread/mustard/2 pieces of ham to make 2 sandwiches for brunch lunch/snack. Sushi for dinner. and a Jamba Juice Strawberry Nirvana 16 oz. (160 calories) instead of the ice cream friends got!!! I'm quite proud of myself.
I just need to make up the exercise tomorrow. 1 hour, no excuses. I will come back here with good news! :) | | comments: Leave a comment |
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