Eating on Tuesday

Breakfast

• Cereal w/milk (150)
• Coffee w/milk and sugar (50)
• Water

Lunch

• Tuna fish (150)
• Triscuits (120)
• Guacamole (160)
• Tortilla Chips (130)
• Relish (15)
• Diet Coke
• Water

Snack

• Baby Carrots (40)

Dinner

• Rice (205)
• Pineapple Curry (400)

Total calories consumed = 1420 - 200 calories walked = 1220...not as great but at least I didn't go crazy on the curry...it was so good.

Food for Monday

Breakfast

• 1 serving of Berry Blast Cheerios w/milk (150)
• 1 cup of coffee w/milk and sugar (50)
• 1 glass of water

Lunch

• 1 enchiladas (332)
• 1 serving of guacamole (136)
• 1/2 serving of plain tortilla chips (75)
• 1 glass of Diet Coke
• 1 glass of water

Snack

• 1 20 oz Diet Coke
• 1 serving of Cool Ranch Doritos (130)

Dinner

• 1 enchiladas (332)
• 1 serving of guacamole (136)
• 1/2 serving of plain tortilla chips (75)
• 1 serving of 1% milk (100)
• 1 serving of salad w/Japanese ginger dressing (50)

Snack

• 1 medium Fuji apple (70)

Total for the day = 1636- calories burned (468) = 1168. Not great but not so bad considering enchiladas twice today...they will be gone tomorrow when J takes the last of them for lunch....

Exercise for Monday

Walked and geocached my butt off....

More than 11,000 steps (468 calories...).

The Things We Learn

I discovered the other day, that I can eat 1 serving of my regular tortilla chips (9 chips) for 130 calories or I can eat 1 serving of Doritos Cool Ranch or Nacho Cheese (13 chips) for 140 calories....here I thought the plain ones would be so much lower in calories....but no!!!!!

Goal for Next Week

I really want to step things up exercise wise so that I am burning enough calories each day in exercise that I don't have to worry as much about what I am eating....as long as the end total comes out to be in the 900's after subracting the exercise, then I am good to go.

Idealistically, I would like to workout twice a day. Once in the morning at the gym doing cardio and weights and then again in the afternoon, walking or something around outside.

Unfortunately, realistically, I haven't been able to get exercise in my day (other than what I am counting on the pedometer) everyday yet, so I guess I should start focusing on getting dedicated exercise in everyday and then try to pump it up to twice a day after I accomplish that.

I just so want to not be looking at the calories as much and enjoying what I eat a bit more....not that it hasn't been good food, but I feel like I can't cook regular stuff....ugh. Thank goodness that J hasn't been here much because that allows me a lot more freedom in my eating.

Sunday Exercise

Walked over 10,000 steps today with three geocaches in a near by town...it was fun and I don't feel too bad about not counting my calories.

Sunday Food

Today was allocated as my free day...no calorie counting. I have to have one of these every once in a while or I will go mad, and my avocados will go bad.

Made mexican food for dinner so I could make some guacamole and there is no counting calories with that...

Tomorrow starts fresh again.

Saturday Exercise

Lots of walking and yard work...

Pedometer reads 5306 in steps so that is about 220 calories. I was wearing it while I was doing yard work (which wasn't that strenuous) so I won't count the yard work separately.

Food on Saturday

Breakfast

• 2 pancakes (201)
• 1/2 serving of lite syrup (50)
• 1 cup of coffee w/milk and sugar (50)
• 1 serving of milk (100)
• 1 glass of water

Lunch

• 1/2 medium avocado (160 calories)
• 1 serving of pitette bread (70 calories)
• 1 serving of roasted garlic hummus (40)
• 1 serving of baby carrots (40)
• 1 glass of Diet Coke
• 1 glass of water

Dinner

• 1 spaghetti squash, microwaved (90)
• 1 tbsp margarine (61)
• 1 english muffin toasted (140)
• 1 veggie burger (170)
• 1 serving of ketchup (15)
• 1/2 serving of pepper cheese (50)
• 1 glass of water

Snack

• 1/2 bag of popcorn, microwaved (50)
• 1 glass of water

Total calories for the day = 1287 - 220 for walking = 1067 for the day with is right on target with my reduction of 500 calories per day to lose a pound a week....

Friday Food

Breakfast

• 1 english muffin toasted (140)
• 1 serving of Cheerios w/milk (150)
• 1 serving of lite Laughing Cow (35)
• 1 large coffee (50)
• 1 glass of water

Lunch

• 1/2 medium avocado (160 calories)
• 1 serving of pitette bread (70 calories)
• 1 serving of roasted garlic hummus (40)
• 1 serving of baby carrots (40)
• 1 glass of Diet Coke
• 1 glass of water

Dinner

• 1 serving of Wolff's chili w/beans (370)
• 2 servings of Ryecrisp crackers (120)
• 1 bag of microwave popcorn (110)

Total calories = 1285 - calories burned (598) = 687....not bad...we'll see if I can keep it up.

Exercise on Friday

Walking 4 mph for 20 minutes = 115 calories

Hiking around for geocaches 2 hours = 483 calories (counts for the majority of the steps on my pedometer for the day)

Total for the day = 598 calories burned....

Thursday Food

Breakfast

• 1 serving of oatmeal (140)
• 1 banana (105)
• 2 cups of coffee w/milk and sugar (100)
• 1 glass of water

Lunch

• Chicken patty (240)
• Onion roll (210)
• Ketchup (25)
• 1 Diet Coke
• 1 glass of water

Dinner

• 1/2 Porterhouse steak (480)
• 1 baked potato w/1/2 serving of lite sour cream (275)
• 1 serving of creamed corn (60)
• 1 cup of 1% milk (100)
• Salad w/Japanese dressing (25)

Total calories = 1760 - workout calories burned (310) = 1450

Thursday Exercise

Jumping Jacks 5 minutes (46 calories)
Walking 4.0 mph 40 minutes (230 calories)
Lunges 3 sets of 10 each leg (34 calories)

Total workout = 310 calories

Not great but better than just doing nothing...need to get more going workout wise..wish it wasn't so damn cold outside.

Eating on Wednesday

Breakfast

• 1 serving of Cheerios w/milk (150)
• 1 banana (105)
• 1 cup of coffee w/milk and sugar (50)
• 1 glass of water

Lunch

• 1 serving of pasta (220)
• 1 serving of spaghetti sauce (60)
• 1 serving of turkey meatballs (190)
• 1 onion roll w/margarine and garlic (250)
• 2 glasses of Diet Coke
• 1 glass of water

Dinner

• 1 serving of steamed Jasmine rice (205)
• 1 1/2 servings of Thai masaman curry w/chicken (405)

Snack

• 1/2 bag of microwaved popcorn (50)

Total Calories = 1685- pedometer calories (82) = 1605...not going to lose weight eating more than my BMR, am I? Need to reduce the calories a bit and get more exercise in...

Tuesday Food

Breakfast

• 1 toasted english muffin w/peanut butter (330)
• 2 cups of coffee w/sugar and milk(100)

Lunch

• 1 1/2 servings of Triscuit crackers (180)
• 1 serving of smoked oysters (190)
• 2 servings of lite cream cheese (120)
• 1 glass of Diet Coke

Dinner

• 1 serving of salad w/Japanese dressing (25)
• 1 serving of turkey meatballs (190)
• 1 serving of spaghetti pasta (220)
• 1/2 onion roll w/margarine and garlic (105)
• 1 serving of grated parmasean cheese (20)
• 1 serving of spaghetti sauce (60)

Snack

• 1 Fuji Apple (72)

Total calories = 1612....not much exercise since I was working on my PC all day getting ready for class to start back up tomorrow.

Food on Monday

Breakfast

• 1 serving of pancakes (201)
• 1/2 serving of lite syrup (50)
• 2 coffees (100)
• 1 glass of water

Lunch

• 1 grilled chicken sandwich w/no mayo (415)
• 1 small diet coke

Dinner

• 1/2 nacho supreme (300)
• 1 hard shell taco (220)
• 1 bean burrito (370)
• 1 glass of water

Total calories = 1656 - calories burned (442) =1214 not bad considering I didn't get to the gym...just walked over 11000 steps running errands all day.

Sunday Food

Breakfast

• 1 serving of pancakes (201)
• 1/2 serving of syrup (50)
• 2 servings of turkey bacon (140)
• 1 coffee (50)
• 1 water

Lunch

• Turkey and cheddar sandwich on multigrain bread (447 calories)
• 1/2 serving of pretzels (55 calories)
• 1 serving of baby carrots (40 calories)
• 1 serving of Doritos (140)
• 1 huge Diet Coke
• 1 water

Dinner

• 1 baked salmon steak (250)
• 2 servings of zucchini w/lite sourcream (100 calories)
• 1 baked potato w/margarine and lite sourcream (240 calories)

Total calories = 1713 - workout burn (310) = 1403...right about my BMR...oh well.

Sunday Exercise

Weight lifting backs and abs, 45 minutes vigoriously (310 calories)

Not much else...have too much computer work to do before class starts and of course there is the NFL playoffs....

Saturday Eating

Breakfast

• 1 whole egg scrambled, 1 egg white scrambled, 2 slices of turkey bacon microwaved, 2 slices of multigrain toast dry, 1 serving of salsa on top (480 calories)
• 1 large coffee w/sugar and milk (50 calories)

Lunch

• 1 taco supremes (660 calories)
• 1 large 1/2 sweetened tea (200 calories)

Dinner

• 2 servings of salad (lettuce, celery, tomato, onion, cucumber, spinach) (70 calories)
• 1 serving of chicken breast (140 calories)
• 1/2 serving of blue cheese dressing (80 calories)

Snack

• 1/2 bag of popcorn microwaved (50 calories)

Total calories = 1730 - workout burn (564) = 1166 calories....yeah!!!!

Saturday's Exercise

Recumbant bike and elliptical for a total of 40 minutes = 357 calories (according to the machines)

Weight lifting, shoulders, abs for 30 minutes = 207

Total calories burned = 564 whooooeeee! and I might have gotten some muscles in there as well.

Exercise for Friday

Walked 2 miles in 35 minutes for 211 calories

Walked on pedometer (separate from cardio) for 109 calories

Did about 20 minutes of yardwork for another 115 calories.

Total is 445 calories. Not great but at least I moved some. We'll see what tomorrow holds, I guess.

Eating on Friday

Breakfast

• 2 slices of multigrain bread with one serving of margarine (270)
• 1 banana (105)
• 1 cup of coffee (46)
• 1 cup of tea (46)

Lunch

• 1 serving of pilaf rice w/hamburger (450)
• 1 serving of steamed broccoli (31)
• 1 glass of water

Dinner

• 1 1/2 sushi rolls (600 calories)
• 3 pieces of sushi (180 calories)
• 3 pieces of vegetable tempura (320 calories)
• 1 serving of miso soup (36 calories)
• 2 cups of green tea
• 2 glasses of water

Total Calories = 2084 - workout (425 calories) = 1659 calories....terrible but the sushi was good!!!! At least I didn' t have an sake and I talked J out of stopping a local pub on the way home...last thing I needed was a beer to add in.

Food for Thursday

Breakfast

• 2 slices of multigrain toast w/lite Laughing Cow cheese (235 calories)
• 1 banana (105 calories)
• 2 cups of coffee (100 calories)
• 1 glass of water

Lunch

• 1 serving of steamed jasmine rice (205 calories)
• 1 serving of Thai green curry (400 calories)
• 2 glasses of water

Dinner

• 1 serving of stirfried veggies w/chicken (179 calories)
• 1 serving of steamed jasmine rice (205 calories)
• 2 glasses of water

Snack

• 1/2 bag of lite micro popcorn (50 calories)
• 1 glass of water

Total calories = 1397 (included reduction due to walking calories burned).

Food for Wednesday

I went into diet shock today...after seeing how bad I have been doing for a few days, so my calories are pretty low today....not the healthiest move but at least I am eating something, right?

Breakfast

• 1 serving of Cheerios w/milk (170 calories)
• 1 large coffee w/sugar and milk (50 calories)

Lunch

• 1 serving of baby carrots (40 calories)
• 1 serving of Triscuit Low Fat crackers (120 calories)
• 1 glass of Diet Coke

Dinner

• 1 serving of pilaf rice w/lean hamburger (480 calories)
• 2 servings of steamed broccoli (61 calories)
• 2 glasses of water
• 1 tangerine (58 calories)
• 1 box of raisins (130 calories)

Snack

• 1/2 bag of popcorn (50 calories)

Total calories = 1149 - workout (640 calories) = 519 calories

Exercise on Wednesday

Went to the gym this morning after looking for a few local caches (micros that I am determined to find)....

20 minutes on treadmill, doing interval training (154 calories)

20 minutes on recumbant bike, moderate (161 calories)

65 minutes of weight lifting, chests, triceps and abs (224 calories)

Walking with pedometer on, except at gym, 2727 steps, (101 calories)

Total workout of 640 calories

Chicken's Wednesday

Breakfast
3 scrambled eggs 1.8 carbs
2 sausage links .8 carbs
2 diet sodas 2 carbs

Forgot Yesterday

Breakfast
2 fried eggs 1.2 carbs

Lunch
Ceasar Salad Wrap 6 carbs
2 diet sodas 2 carbs

Dinner
2 chicken Souvlaki Sticks 0 Carbs
4 oz Saganaki 4 Carbs
2 diet sodas

Exercise
Only walked 7500 steps

Exercise on Tuesday

Geocaching and errand running....no cardio but I got 7948 steps in during all that.
Did some vacuuming as well and now it looks like I might be crawling under my house to see if there is a plumbing leak somewhere....ugh!!!

Burned about 317 calories according to the pedometer....

Tuesday's Eating

Breakfast

• 1 serving of Honey Nut Cheerios w/milk (200 calories)
• 1 cup of coffee w/milk and sugar (50 calories)
• 1 glass of water

Lunch

• 1 chicken sandwich w/cheese (460)
• 1 serving of peanut butter (190)
• 1 glass of Diet Coke

Snack

• 1/2 serving of roasted peanuts no salt (120)
• 1/2 Powerbar (120 calories)
• 1 glass of water

Dinner

• 2 servings of Gang Koong (Thai red curry w/shrimp) (500 calories)
• 1 cranberry juice w/vodka (254)

Total calories = 1894 - 317 for workout = 1577....I can do better and need to. Will be busy again today, hopefully that will get me down and I'll be away from high calorie food....

Eating on Monday

Breakfast

• 1 serving of oatmeal (140 calories)
• 1 cup of hot tea w/milk and sugar (46 calories)
• 1 glass of water

Lunch

• 1 1/2 servings of laab (378 calories)
• 1/2 of som tom (75 calories)
• 1 1/2 servings of steamed jasmine rice (300 calories)
• 1 glass of Diet Coke
• 1 glass of water

Dinner

• 1 serving of homemade greek salad (120 calories)
• 1 breaded chicken sandwich w/cheese (460 calories)
• 1 Yoplait lite yogurt (100 calories)
• 1 glass of cranberry juice w/vodka (300 calories)
• 2 glasses of water

Total calories = 1919 - 137 burnt in walking....1782...not too good today....

Exercise for Monday

Have a lot on my list to do today and the day is mostly gone and I have barely even touched the list so exercise is limited to this:

Walked 30 minutes (2 miles ) at 4.0 mph (6.4 km/h) = 172 calories

Not great but plan to eat salad and chicken sandwich for dinner so it shouldn't be too bad.

Note To Remember

I found out the other day, that the speed of certain activities on the Discovery Health Activity Burn Calculator is in metric so you will have to convert it if you are using mph....

Sunday Food

Okay, while I remember what I ate and the calories of most of it....portions are hard to determine at this time, so I am taking today as a free day (I think having one of those every two weeks or so is okay). I will list what I ate but the calorie count will be nonexistent.

Breakfast

• HoneyNut Cheerios w/milk
• 1 large coffee w/milk and sugar

Lunch

• Kia Kiew (Thai Egg Omelet)
• Egg Rolls
• Gyoza
• Rice
• Diet Coke

Dinner

• Laab Moo (Thai Ground Pork dish)
• Cucumbers/Cabbage
• Som Tom (Thai GreenPapaya Salad)
• Kao Niew (Thai Sticky Rice)
• Cranberry juice with vodka

I made the laab, som tom, and kao niew, kai kiew myself (first time for the laab and kao niew). I was excited that the first timers turned out (although I still need to work on making them more authentic).

Exercise for Saturday

Went to the gym with J this morning.

10 minutes of recumbant bike, level 3 = 115 calories

10 minutes of hill walking at 4.0 mph = 70 calories

Weightlifting legs and abs for 45 minutes = 310 calories

Total exercise = 495 calories

Eating for Saturday

Breakfast

• 1 serving of Honeynut Cheerios w/milk (150 calories)
• 1 large coffee w/milk and sugar (60 calories)

Lunch

• Turkey and cheese wrap (300 calories)
• 2 servings of pretzels (220 calories)
• 1 Diet Coke
• 1 tangerine (58 calories)

Dinner

• Yakisoba (268 calories)
• 1 Yoplait lite yogurt (100 calories)
• 1/2 bag of popcorn (50 calories)
• 3 glasses of water

Total calories consumed = 1206 - 495 in workout = 711

Eating on Friday

Breakfast

• 1 serving of oatmeal (140 calories)
• 1 hot tea w/milk and sugar (46 calories)
• 1 glass of water

Lunch

• 1 Powerbar (240 calories)
• 1 liter of water
• 1 turkey and cheddar sandwich on multigrain bread (360 calories)
• 1 serving of tortilla chips (138 calories)
• 2 glasses of slightly sweetened iced tea (100 calories)

Dinner

• 3 meat tamales (210 calories)
• 1 1/2 servings of pintos w/jalapeños (200 calories)
• 1 serving of tortilla chips (138 calories)
• 2 glasses of water

Total calories consumed = 1572 - (modifying this a bit because I think 1700 calories is too high for the yard work) 1200=372 calories for the day....way below the BMR...yeah!!!!

Exercise on Friday

Well, I did vigorous yardwork for about 5 hours today (if I take out time for the Powerbar break and the lunch break we took).

That comes to 1723 calories burned (although I don't think it was that much). I was hungry afterwards and had almost no gas left in me but it can't be a whole day's worth of eating, can it? This is according to the discovery health calculator and my weight added in....hmmmm.

My back, shoulders and arms are going to be yelling at me tomorrow, that is for sure.

I also walked 9200 steps in all that yardwork but I am not counting the calories there because it would be counting the activity twice....

Activity Burn

Since it looks like you can get to the activity burn calculator on Discovery Health without having to log in, I have placed a link to it on the side bar...it has a cool calculator for figuring out calorie burn on many activities...I use it just about everyday.

Hope you find it useful.

Chicken's Friday

Well it has been almost two weeks since I started my diet and I'm not feeling like I've lost anything. I know it take time but I just want to feel some results to know that it is working.

Breakfast
1 Low Carb Yogurt 3 carbs
1 diet soda 1 carb

Snack
2 pieces of cheese
1 diet soda caffenine free


I know I need to lay off the soda but I've been so good about everything else.

Food on Thursday

Breakfast

• 1 serving Honey Nut Cheerios w/milk (200 calories)
• 2 large coffees w/milk and sugar (100 calories)
• 1 glass of water

Lunch

• 1 can of tuna fish salad on 1 serving of Triscuit crackers (645 calories)
• 2 glasses of water

Dinner

• 1/2 calzone (430 calories)
• 1/2 lasagna (315 calories)
• 1 small salad w/vinegarette (142 calories)
• 2 rolls (200 calories)
• 1/2 Heineken (75 calories)
• 1 glass of water

Total calories = 2107 - 258 in walking = 1849....so I have some work to do tomorrow....ugh!!! But eating out was nice for a change.

Exercise for Thursday

Yesterday I did get some walking in but it was only about 20 minutes and only came to about 100 calories....I only noted it on the food post.

Today, I geocached and walked quite a bit. I put my pedometer on around lunchtime and I walked 6600 steps from lunch until around 4:30pm....so I burnt about 258 calories if we don't take into account that part of that walking was pretty fast...I think if I do it on the other calculator, which lets you put in your speed, it comes out to be much more....414 to be exact....so at least I have that, huh?

Oh well, I need to do more anyhow if I want to make any kind of head way.

Chicken's Thursday

Breakfast
Atkins Low Carb Shake 2 Carbs ( I thought it was three before)
1 can diet soda (caffenine free) 1 carb

I haven't been logging my water intake but I guess I should. So far today I've had 32 oz of water. I don't usually drink that much this quickly but I think I'm dehydrated.

Lunch
1 Ceasar Salad Wrap 6 carbs
1 can diet soda

32 oz of water

Dinner
Meatballs 0 carbs
2 slices of cheese 2 carbs

I only walked 7500 steps because I didn't take an afternoon break.

Last Night

Well I ate pretty well last night. Here it is:

4 Chicken Tenderloins 0 carbs
Broccoli 2 Carbs

Here is the bad:

I drank a couple of beers with my cousing last night. I don't even want to know what the carbs are.

Here something I can feel good about. I walked 12,632 steps yesterday. According to my pedometer that is 7.2 miles burning 335.5 calories.

Food on Wednesday

Breakfast

• 1 serving Honey Nut Cheerios w/milk (200 calories)
• 1 hot tea w/sugar and milk (46 calories)
• 1 glass of water

Lunch

• 1 Slimfast drink (200 calories)
• 1 serving of roasted peanuts, no salt (190 calories)
• 1 glass of water

Dinner

• 1 serving of Thai green curry w/chicken over steamed jasmine rice (685 calories)
• 1 serving of medium cheddar cheese (114 calories)
• 1 Fuji apple (72 calories)
• 2 glasses of water

Total calories = 1507 - 80 calories in walking = 1427....so right about what it cost me to live today....not much burn going on there....oh well.

Chicken's Yesterday and Today

Yesterday's food

Low Carb Bar 3 carbs
Ceasar Salad Wrap 6 carbs
Meatballs and Cheese 3 carbs
2 diet sodas 2 carbs

Exercise- Only 3600 steps. Left early from work to Dr appointment, no lunch hour taken.

Today's Food

Breakfast
2 Scrambled Eggs 1.2 carbs
1 diet soda 1 carb

Tuesday Eating

Breakfast

• 1 serving of oatmeal (140 calories)
• 1 large coffee w/sugar and milk (80 calories)
• 1 banana (105 calories)
• 1 glass of water

Lunch

• 1 peanut butter and jelly sandwich
• 1 glass of milk (total lunch was 680 calories)

Dinner

• 2 soft tacos w/works (600 calories)
• 2 glasses of water

Snack

• Tangerine (37 calories)

Total calories = 1642 - workout 489 = 1153....not too bad.

Tuesday's Exercise

Walked vigorously for 45 minutes (155 calories burned)

Walking lunges 3 sets (10 each leg) (34 calories burned)

Yardwork 2 hours (300 calories burned) Site says 689 but that seems too high to me....maybe tomorrow when I am digging holes...haha.

Total burned not counting my BMR = 489 calories

Ooops

I made guacamole last night with the mexican food we ate, and I forgot to add that to my calories...so I guess I wasn't under my BMR....the guacamole had 3 avocados in it and some skim mozzarella cheese (along with some other veggies that don't add much calorie-wise). Each avocado has 322 calories, and between J and I, we ate half of it last night so I would guesstimate that I ate about 300 calories. Oh, and I forgot the 2 servings of tortilla chips too....no wonder I felt full when I went to bed....bad, bad.

Don't know if I will be able to avoid eating it some with the left over burrito I might have for lunch or not....eeeekkkkk!!!!

Guess I better get some exercise today, huh?

Eating on Monday

Breakfast

• 1 English muffin toasted (134 calories)
• 1 serving of creamy peanut butter (190 calories)
• 1 cup of hot tea w/milk and sugar (46 calories)
• 1 glass of water

Lunch

• Banana (80 calories)
• 2 glasses of water

Dinner

• 2 burritos (880 calories)
• 1 Corona Lite w/lime (105 calories)
• 1 glass of water

Snack

• 1 tangerine (37 calories)

Total Calories= 1472 not great but at least I wasn't over my BMR....got to get serious.

Happy Monday

I slacked and didn't log my weekend eating although I didn't really stray from my diet. I didn't get very much exercise which needs to change although walking in rain going sideways isn't a ton of fun. Ok enough excuses on with today's food:

Breakfast
1 Low Carb yogurt 3 carbs

Lunch
3 celery sticks 1.8 carbs
2 pieces of cheese 2 carbs

Dinner
Chicken Satay 1 carb
Here is the big cheat Spring Rolls ? Carbs

10,001 steps were walked!

Sunday Eating

Breakfast

• 2 eggs scrambled w/onion, bellpepper, tomato, partskim mozzerela, salsa, lite sourcream
• 1 Lenders onion bagel toasted
• 2 pieces of turkey bacon microwaved (whole breakfast was 390 calories)
• 1 cup of hot tea w/sugar and milk (46 calories)
• 1 glass of water

Lunch

• 1 serving of Thai fried rice (500 calories)
• 2 glasses of water

Snack

• Hickory Farms crackers, meat and cheese (200 calories)

Dinner

• 2 Vietnamese Sandwiches (250 calories each)
• 2 glasses of water

Total Calories today = 1636 - 483 in housework = 1153 calories

Saturday Eating

Breakfast

• 1 English muffin toasted (134 calories)
• 1 serving of creamy peanut butter (190 calories)
• 1 cup of hot tea w/milk and sugar (46 calories)
• 1 glass of water

Lunch

• 1 serving of steamed white rice w/pineapple red curry (480 calories)
• 2 glasses of water

Snack

• Hickory Farms crackers, meat and cheese (360 calories)

Dinner

• 1 bowl of Thai fried rice (500 calories)
• 2 glasses of water
• 1 serving of cucumber (10 calories)

Snack

• 1 apple (72 calories)
• 1 Yoplait Lite (100 calories)

Total of 1892 calories but I exercised 650 worth so that brings me back down to 1242 which is below my BMR so I am looking good....

Saturday Exercise

20 minutes on the elliptical (hill profile, level 3) = -282 calories

20 minutes on the recumbant bike (manual profile, level 3) = -161 calories

30 minutes of weight lifting (backs and abs) = -207 calories

Total workout calorie burn = 650 calories

Basal Metabolic Rate Calculator

I found this BMR calculator today...I figured mine out sometime ago but thought I would link this one here to anyone that wondered could figure out their BMI and know how much they needed to eat and not eat to lose weight.

Your BMR is the number of calories you expend just living based on your weight, height and age. It is obviously not specific to each person's particular body but it gives you a basic idea of where to start.

My BMR is 1461 calories...which means I burn that much just being alive, before any kind of exercise. So basically if I didn't want to exercise at all, I could reduce my calorie intake to 1000 calories a day (not really a healthy number to go with) and I could still lose a pound a week (because this would equal a 3500 calorie decrease over the week which equals a pound). Or I could eat the 1461, and exercise off the 3500 calories a week...it is really up to me, although as I mentioned that low of a calorie intake is not that healthy and I would rather get some exercise and eat more freely.

As you age and you lose weight, your BMR goes down (note that this does not take into consideration the fat burning less than muscle issue) so that is partly why it is harder to lose weight as you get smaller...those last few pounds are always the hardest. This is also why building muscle mass is a good idea because it helps to keep your metabolism up.

I know it sounds like I am concerned about the pounds, and I realy am not...if I look better in the mirror, feel fitter and fit in my clothes better, I could care less what the scale says (I tend to weigh more when I am lifting weights anyhow). I just use the calorie thing as a guide to get portions under control (which seems to be my big issue). We eat pretty healthy otherwise.

I added this link to the sidebar as well. Hope it is useful.

Friday's Eating

Breakfast

• 1 Lender's Onion bagel toasted with 1 serving of lite creamcheese and 2/3 serving of turkey ham (240 calories)
• 1 hot English Breakfast tea w/milk and sugar (46 calories)
• 2 glasses of water

Lunch

• 1 serving of baby smoked oysters (140 calories)
• 1 serving of water crackers (70 calories)
• 1 serving of lite creamcheese (60 calories)
• 1 handful of trailmix (303 calories)
• 2 glasses of water

Dinner

• 1 1/2 servings of steamed white rice with pineapple and chicken curry (480 calories)
• 2 glasses of water
• 1/2 serving of carrots (20 calories)

Total Calories = 1359 - 352 in exercise = 1007 calories for the day...whooeee I am losing weight for sure today.

Exercise on Friday

Walked for an hour relatively quickly (sweated) while searching for a geocache near my home (-262 calories)

3 sets of lunges (10 reps per leg) (-92 calories)

Total calories= -354

Sidebar Update

We added a section for fitness links on the sidebar. These are some of the links we use to figure out our calorie/carb intake and our activity burn....if you see a site that is useful, drop us a line or comment and we'll make sure to add it.

Discovery Health

I found on Discovery Health the National Body Challenge 2006. I signed up for it just so I could use most of the tools...don't plan to do their plan in particular. The diet would just be too hard to incorporate with J around but I did find some cool things on their site I would recommend checking out.

If you want the password and user name so you too can use their tools, drop me an email. The activity burn rate calculator is pretty awesome but I think you have to be registered to use it, so feel free to use my info to log in....nothing in the profile is real except my email address anyhow. They also have a menu section that allows for you to plan your meals for the 8 week challenge that starts in mid January. You could check it out and then if you wanted to register on your own to do the meals or something, that would be an option.

Anyhow, just thought I would share the information.

Friday

Well I walked over 10,000 steps yesterday!! Now on to the food so far

Breakfast
Atkins Shake 2 carbs
3 Celery Sticks 2.4 carbs
2 cheese 2.0 carbs

I am feeling crappy about my body today. I know that I am doing well with my diet and exercise and I just started but I feel super fat. I tried on some of my smaller pants and could barely get into them. I really let myself go. I hope I see some results in the next couple of weeks.

Snack
Marathon Bar 3 carbs

Thursday Food

Breakfast

• 1 Lender's Onion bagel toasted with 1 serving of lite creamcheese and 2/3 serving of turkey ham (240 calories)
• 1 hot English Breakfast tea w/milk and sugar (46 calories)
• 2 glasses of water
• 1 Yoplait Lite (100 calories)

Lunch

• 1 serving of steamed jasmine rice with Thai Green Curry w/shrimp (around 480)
• 3 glasses of water

Dinner

• 2 servings of salad w/ lite honey mustard dressing (210 calories)
• 1 1/2 servings of Snow's Clam Chowder (180 calories)

Snack

• 1 applesauce cup (90 calories)
• 1/2 bag of microwave popcorn lite butter (50 calories)

Total Calories= 1406....not bad once again since I didn't get any workout in again for the third time this week.

10,000 steps

I just found some great tips from this 10,000 steps program. I think that meeting my goal on weekends will be difficult.

Chicken's Thursday

I forgot to log my food yesterday. Oh well. I did wear my pedometer and walked 9300 steps. It was a lot more than I thought it would be. If I start walking after work I can make the 10,000 mark with no problems. I think I'm going to to do Yoga today though. I need to stretch my back.

Ok here is what I have has so far:

Breakfast

2 sausage patties .6 carbs
1 Atkins Shake 2 carbs
1 cup of coffee with sugar free creamer 1 carb

Lunch
1/4 cup cottage cheese (2%) 2 carbs
2 celery sticks 1.6 carbs
2 pieces of cheese 2 carbs

Dinner
3 chicken tenderloins 0 carbs
2 pieces of pepperment chocolate (Krista made them for Christmas) 6 carbs (guessing)

Eating on Wednesday

Breakfast

• 1 toasted english muffin (134)
• 1 serving of peanut butter (190)
• 1 cup of tea w/sugar and milk (46)
• 2 glasses of water

Lunch

• 1 burrito (beef, beans, skim mozzerella, onion, bell pepper, tomato, Tabasco, lite sourcream, 10 inch flour tortilla) (434)
• 1 glass of water

Dinner

• 1 serving of tortelini (cheese filled spinach pasta) (328)
• 1/3 serving of pesto sauce (100)
• 2 pieces of garlic bread (250)
• 2 glasses of water

Snack

• 
  1 20 oz Diet Coke (0 calories)
• 1 Fuji apple (58)
• 1 tangerine (80)
  

Total calories= 1620...much better than yesterday. If I manage to keep this up, I'll meet my -3500 I have to have each week to lose a pound a week...although poundage is not my goal...fitness is my goal.

Food for Tuesday

Breakfast

• 1 Lender's Onion bagel (153 calories)
• 1 serving of lite cream cheese (70 calories
• 2/3 serving of ham lunchmeat (40 calories)
• 1 cup of English Breakfast hot tea with milk and sugar (46 calories)
• 2 glasses of water

Lunch

• 1 serving of steamed Japanese rice w/1 serving of hot curry (397 calories)
• 1 serving of slimfast in 1% milk (210)
• 1 glass of water

Dinner

• 3 small tacos (corn tortilla, beef, onion, bellpepper, garlic, tomato, skim mozzerella cheese, salsa, lite sourcream, refried beans, ortega green chillies) (606 calories)
• 1 lite Corona (105 calories)
• 1 serving of refried beans with skim mozzerella (160)

Snack

• Handful of trailmix (303)

Total calories for day (based on the CalorieKing website) = 2090 calories.

Higher than I want to be to lose weight but if I had managed to get some cardio in, it wouldn't have been as bad. Need to get more water in there....

New Start

I'm starting with a clean slate like Mishka. My goals from October got lost during the holidays.

Last night William and I set up my pedometer although I forgot it this morning. I went to the store and purchased a ton of low carb foods for work. William and I will grocery shop later and I will make sure to eat low carb dinners each night. In addition to the 1 hour of walking that I do at work each day, I would like to walk after work and/or do my yoga routine.

Here is what I've had so far today:

Breakfast
2 scrambled eggs 1.2 carbs
1 cup of coffee w/sugar free creamer 1.0 carbs

Snack
2 celery sticks 1.6 carbs
3 pieces of cheese 2.0 carbs
2 diet sodas (no cafffenine) 2.0 carbs

I'd like to keep my total carb intake for the day below 20 carbs. I really need to stop drinking so much soda and continue to reduce my caffeine intake. I'll post the rest of my food later.

Update-

I've walked 45 minutes today and here is my lunch:

Lunch
2 Celery Sticks 1.6 carbs
1/3 cup cottage cheese 3 carbs
1 Laughing Cow wedge 2 carbs


It doesn't look like I'll make my 20 carb goal unless I do stictly protein for dinner. We will see I guess.

Dinner
2 Brats 2 carbs

Looks like I made it!! William and I went shopping tonight so I have tons of food that I can eat now.

Here We Go Again

Well the weekend is over and it is time to get back at my fitness goals...a new year is a great time to start this kind of thing. Like a fresh start.

So I had my last little binge of crap food this weekend and I am starting out slow this time on getting things together.

I plan to get a walk in today...will try to do that all week, and then next week we will add in the gym too. I am back to eating decently (although I never really left, because we naturally eat pretty well). The holidays weren't too bad, probably had a bit too much in portions and sweets but since we don't normally eat sweets at home, I think getting the portions down will be a piece of cake...haha...no sweets, right?

Anyhow, better run, have to get my butt in gear....