I’m going to post my food journals weekly instead of daily. Most of the time before I was really posting them once every couple days and just backdating them.

Saturday - Feb 23

Breakfast - 2 mini bagles 100 calories each & some dried fruit & nut mix - 2 grain, 1 oz meat, 1 fruit

Morning snack - String Cheese & Milkey way :p odd combination i know - 1 dairy

oh oh.. I don’t remember specifically waht else I had. I know i had some more snack-food type stuff cause I didn’t bring lunch with me.  I think I had a cheez’n'crackers handi snack and a reeses… and I had some juice. - 1 grain & 1 fruit

“Dinner” - Chips & salsa - at least 3 grains & 1 veggie

Daily totals : >5 Grain ; 2 Fruit; 1 veggie; 1 dairy; 1 meat; >3 sweets;

Saturday wasn’t that great. I didn’t bring anything to eat to work so I had to buy stuff.

Sunday - Feb 24

Slept in til noon.

Had some leftover taquitos, like 5 of them for “lunch” - about  3 oz meat & 2-3 grains.

Dinner : Roasted Garlic & Chili Pasta; Salad with Ceaser Parmesean Dressing; Rustic Italian Bread dipped in Vinegar & olive oil. - 4 grains, 2 veggies

Daily Totals : 7 grains, 2 veggies, 3 meat,

274.0

Well I was going to treat myself to something when I hit 20lbs but I think I’ll count last night for that. My sister came over and dyed my hair and her hair and then we sat around and ate nachos … My hair’s so pretty now *pets* hehe

Today I have to write a 4 page paper that is 30% of my grade, present its conclusion in class, run from class to practice.
Tomorrow I have work in the afternoon, ending at 6pm, and I will probably have to be already dressed etc ready for warm up by 6 or 6:30. That’s gonna be fun… We’ll find out the time tonight.
Thursday I have work in the morning and I’ll have to be dressed & ready at the same time as tomorrow.
Friday afternoon I have my math final.
Some time before friday afternoon I have to go to the college & take my literature final.
Sometime before tomorrow night I have to put the hem in my skirt. 

As far as exercise goes I haven’t been doing much for a while. This week is finals week, I’ll have much more free time soon. I will get back on track with my running this weekend.

For the past few days I’ve been trying to keep what I eat to 3 dairy (incl soy substitutes), 3 meats, as many fruit and veg as I can fit in :P, 6 grain servings, as much whole as I can. I’m trying to only imbibe in sweets or less healthy foods like chips if it’s a social occasion. It’s almost working

Here’s my food journal

Wed Nov 28th
Cherry Orchard Yogurt
Med-Lg Banana
2 Corn Dogs
Snap peas with ranch
Symphony Bar

Thur Nov 29th

I didnt’ write it down

Fri Nov 30
Yoplait Yogurt 1 dairy
Blueberry Cereal - dry - 1 whole grain
Cottage cheese & chips - 2 dairy
flipz - chocolate covered pretzles - 1 grain? xD
Stew - meat & veggies

Sat Dec 1
Dried Apricots 2 fruit
Flips ….
Salad - 2 veggie
Peanut butter sandwich - 2 serve pb + 1 grain
Sunday
Rice Chex Cereal + soymilk 1-2 grain 1 dairy
Apple + PB 1-2 fruit + 1 protein
Chicken Breast
Green Beans - 1 veg
Stuffing - 2 grain
Carrots & Broccoli 3-4veg

Monday
Yolplait - 1 dairy
PB&J sandwiches - 3 grain, 3-4 protein, dare i say 1/2 fruit? it was strawberry preserves
1/2 milky way

Nachos with salsa & sour cream - 2 grain 2 dairy 1 veg, possibly more
almond roca

I just found this site, its pretty good. I think I’ll use it to help me determine food exchanges.

http://www.exrx.net/Nutrition/FoodExchanges.html

Tuesday November 13th

Breakfast: KS blueberry yogurt

Lunch : sandwich on moms homemade bread. 2 slices wheat bread, little mayo & mustard, lettuce, pickles, 2 slices turkey, 1 slice muenster w/jalapeno cheese

I don’t know if remembered all of what I ate, in the evening I got a flu shot and then I went to the store with mom, and I followed her example, buying tons of candy that I shouldn’t have…

I ate some of it.. some of each kind except the chocolate orange
1 serve of the symphony bar (13 pt)4.5
around 1 serve each rollos & reeses  (9.5 + 13) 4.5 + 5
Sunbelt fudge bar - 12 pts, when i bought these i thought they’d be like …4-5 … apparently i’m not that good at estimating yet.. I also didn’t imagine any of those candies were over 8 points a serving… and then I ate them over the next few days

onli 4.5 =D not so bad afterall… ditzy nancy used fat CALS instead of fat grams xD

Wednesday November 14th
extra large banana nut muffin 15 pts
big salad with 6 oz (4-5?) chicken + salad dressing (abt 2-3pt)
way too much chocolate
1 serving portion of Symphony bar 13pt 4.5
1 serving of Chocolate orange 13.5 pt  5.5
sunbelt fudge dipped coconut bar 12 pt 4.5
Rollos 9.5 pts 4.5
reeses mini cups 13 pts 5

o.o

EW

This is what I get for buying candy… that was a horrible day point wise, over 70.

lmao… i was putting in fat calories for fat grams *phew* It was still bad but not 13 pts a treat xD

32..
Nov 15th

Lt Coffee - 1pt
simply asia take out box 16 pts (8 pts each, 2 servings in a box… but it was one package so… i ate the whole thing)
salad + dressing, 2 pts from dressing
chicken - 2.5 ?
cheese tortilla 1.5 serve cheese, taco size tortilla 4.5+3
1 serving symphony bar 4.5
1 serve choc orange 5.5
sunbelt fudge dipped coconut bar  4.5
5 pc rolo 3.5
3 pc reeses  3
I ate more of that candy.. theres a little left. Lets see how long it will last. Maybe I’ll give away those granola bars. No need now that i know they’re only 4.5 .. .right where I thought they’d be

total 50

I’ve been doing a little exercise, 15-20 mins a day. I haven’t been really sticking with my training, but I have been exercising.

YAY we did it! Two of us did our mile, one did a half-mile!

Go us!

We approximated that 20 laps around my parents back yard is 1 mile. Two of us (the younger two with no children) did all 20 laps, 2nd from oldest did half her laps, then had to take care of her son and never made it back out, and nobody else did any. Then we did DDR (finally ) all 4 girls did DDR and liz did one round. I only have 2 mats so we were taking turns but we’d stand around and do the moves anyway. It was great! The only problem is that I’m still energized and its 2:18 am o.o

However I didn’t do that great at eating today

appx 1 C Organic Rasin Bran + 1/2 C soymilk

2 c broccoli w/ bottled ranch dressing

1 slice Mom’s home made wheat Bread with honey

Big bowl of stew (appx 2 cups) including lots of veggies a little meat a little rice and the liquid.

With a few more slices of bread with butter

A few mini candy bars (like 5)

I think thats all. for food… gonna go take my calcium pill right now and I had lots of water today… so… I’ll have to calculate this later… its so late xD wheee *falls off chair*

Marathon training day 1 = success

Catching up again

Friday November 9th - Today

Breakfast… I don’t think I ate anything

Lunch Pizza Pocket hot pocket

Snack Golden almond granola bar by sunbelt; less than 1/2 serving smoked almonds; Strawberry Kiwi Shasta Soda

Rest of my lunch : applesauce single serve

Dinner : hasnt happened yet … I will catch up point countings and stuff for the past few weeks soon hopefully.

Appx water today (so far, 5pm ) 2 cups

Thursday November 8th

I don’t think I exercised

Breakfast: Lunch:

Cinnamon rolls + coffee drinks

Dinner: Mom made french onion soup, salmon, seasoned potatos, and salad for dinner for a birthday celebration YUM YUM Hehe… Yum. 2 c french onion soup + the bread slice on top of it, a peice of fish about the size of a deck of cards that’s a serving, right? … I’m really bad at approximating serving sizes of meats… any tips would be awesome. At least 2 cups of salad with ceaser vinegrette dressing.. i think thats what it was called. oh and a slice of white bread… not quite french bread, not sure what it was.

Later I was hungry so I got some more of my yummy broccoli and pea pods out and was munching on them but It wasn’t very filling so I got a slice of bread with peanut butter and bananas. That worked, I was stuffed.

I took my calcium pill I haven’t been doing this since I moved (see next post)

Appx water for thursday 6-8 cups

Wednesday November 7th

Split 2 costco muffins in half & ate half of each of them for breakfast cause I couldnt choose a flavor I saved the other halfs. You’ll see them appear somewhere in the next few days. My sister took the other 9 away… The third one I kept I ate later …

I bought a big bag of cut broccoli and a smaller bag of pea pods… I ate 1 sandwich bag full of broccoli, one split between peas and broccoli, and one that was half full of baby carrots for lunch with ranch dressing. YUM.. I think the lack of protein in this “meal” is what caused me to break down later and eat that second muffin.

later I was hungry so I had a peanut butter & honey sandwich (open face, only 1 slice bread) and I ate a bunch of broccoli … had it been anything other than veggies I would feel MASSIVELY guilty about the volume of food I ate that night… But really it just made me happy Hehe I love broccoli + ranch. yum yum..

24 spam comments today… and no real ones.

When I looked in my inbox I saw that nearly all of them were on “Yummy Chicken Salad” I don’t see anything on that post that could be attracting spam. I’ve heard of other people deleting links in posts helping with the spam… icky

Anyway….

Catch-up post again

Tuesday (today)

“Breakfast”: not… at like 2pm i had a 1oz bag of ruffles potato chips

A while later I had leftover sloppy joe stuff on bread, it was the ends of the bread and they were quite abit thinner than other slices so I’m counting 1.5 pts for both bread peices. Not sure on the appx 3/4-1c sloppy joe filling I put on them.

and right now i’m really hngry, its past midnight, but I’ll have to find something … I’ll finish editing this post tomorrow.

I found something… Pizza.. 4 slices of it. It didnt feel so great in the morning.

Monday

I think I had a yoplait yogurt with some graham crackers, but that could have been saturday.

I remember thinking I shouldn’t have eaten that Nestle Crunch bar

and I had 3 milk chocolate milano cookies … but I don’t remember what if anything I had to drink with them, typically I would have a coffee drink of some sort

I don’t remember monday well… I had a snickers… in the late afternoon

and I think I had some cookies in the middle of the night

Sunday

Breakfast:

• Shredded potatos
• 2 eggs
• 2 sausage links
• waffle - 1 sqare abt 4-5 in sq
• maple syrup
• soymilk

Then while cleaning up i grabbed another sausage link.. It didnt taste that good because I wasn’t really still hungry. I ate a good amount while sitting… my habitual picking in leftovers needs to stop, It’s not as prominent as it used to be.

Then dad made oatmeal rasin cookies :/ then the girls made chocolate chip cookies

Then I only ate a couple … each

Then we had dinner

• small peice of roast
• half of a very large potato
• carrots

I think that was all

I moved a bunch of furniture… rest on the sabbath … heh … not this week… they cancel church and suddenly its not the sabbath? =I

Sunday’s evaluations

WI : Skipped… due to the attack of the rhinovirus (cold) :/

Avg pts for the week: — need to finish all my posts & quit skipping them

I only missed 1 calcium pill this week, sunday, and it was primarily cause I was sick.

What happened to all those good health habits my parents taught me over the years?

Don’t eat sugar when you’re sick. Never eat sugar before a meal. Eat your veggies. Cookies (icecream, cake)  are a treat, don’t eat a lot of them. etc

Oh … right, they don’t police what I eat anymore. *sigh* I guess I only ever did them because they didn’t want me to.

On another note, some that HAVE stuck with me

Don’t drink soda, it will eat your teeth and bones.  Drink your milk (I’d really like to… honest). Brush your teeth. Cover your mouth when you cough. (more for OTHER’s health)

It’s interesting to see which habits stuck and which ones didn’t.

 Ok .. Food Journal

“Breakfast” (do I dare call it that?)

Cookies & Iced Coffee… inspiration for that bit about the sugar and health habits up top.

I ate the cookies til it seemed like I’d had enough, turns out it was 4 servings. Looks like I’m suffering from Portion Distortion. I noticed this yesterday too, what I’d view as a normal amount of soup was 2 servings.  On another note… I tend to underestimate a serving of chips like cheetoes, but overestimate on flat chips like potato chips & corn chips.

I was watching tv while I cleaned up in my room a few nights ago. A program was on pbs, they took 13 people with highly sedentary lifestyles and over the course of 40 weeks trained them up for a marathon. Only one dropped out, a diabetic woman who got shin splints that were taking a long time to heal. The other 12 finished the marathon. It was pretty inspiring. I was telling my mom about it, she said we should try it. I’m going to see if I can find their (or a similar) training schedule :). I found 18-week and 22-week “walk a marathon” schedules. http://www.pbs.org/americaswalking/health/health18week.html

I think this was saturday but … I don’t remember if i ate anything else.

Oh right.. dad made cookies hehe then The girls made cookies. Then mom made dinner… or was that sunday …yeah that was sunday… did i eat on saturday? I honestly can’t remember… that’s what I get for finishing posting saturday on tuesday.

Oh oh i remember… mom & I got those pizzas from the store… from the refrigeration case, next to the cheese… Mmm.. fluffy bread. =/ I ate like 6 peices.

Got up late, didn’t have time to do my exercise, plus I’m comming down with a cold, it’s been worsening all day. 

Breakfast

•  Yoplait 3.5
• Graham Crackers 2.5

Morning Snack

•  I was lacking in protein and craving chocolate…I wanted a snickers, this is the same amount of points but a better choice.. i think
• Peanuts 4
• Chocolate Pudding 2.5

Lunch

• Soup 4
• Hershey Bar 5.5 - This was my biggest goof of the day IMO

Someone brought Sweet N Salty Chex Mix, Brisk Iced Tea,  Donuts, and Apples to class. I think I did fairly well

• Donut 6
• Small Apple 1

Back at work I was on a low from the sugar rush, and I was craving protein still. I had some Smoked Almonds - 28 is a serving

Dinner : Sloppy Joe on a whole wheat bun

• Bun 2pts - 1pt each side
• Sauce & meat - probably like 6 pts, just a guess.

I’m pretty terrible at this. Hopefully I’ll get better.

Mittelschmerz… That’s the official name for something I’ve been experiencing for years.  Funny sounding word… I think I have Mittelschmerz. A few days ago I had a pain … not the first time, but It’s been a while since I felt it. So I looked it up again, but it’s the first time I’ve found that word. Some ladies might already know what this is, Mittelschmerz is based on the german for middle of the month. I would go on, but I think I’ll let everyone look it up for themselves.

: )

essersise vill make me tuff… rite?

31 reps each crunches (2 types) leg lifts (both sides) squats.

I think I get hungry less when I exercise… is that possible? Was I just too busy to pig out today? Cause I didn’t really exert that much effort. Except when I passed on the pudding… they’re only 2.5 pts :~P I might indulge another day.

I also had a little more water today.

Ow ow ow… Between thismorning’s exercise and moving furniture all day yesterday I’m quite sore.

appx 1 c special K with red berries (2) + appx 3/4 c soymilk (<2)

Grilled Cheese Sandwich 8.5

• Bread - 1pt each slice
• Cheddar Cheese - 3pts/oz appx 2 oz
• Extra Lean Sliced Ham - .5 pt each slice

V8 Splash 3pts (1.5 per serving 2 servings in a bottle)

Not gonna post it in detail … Halloween Pitfall : 26.5 Everybody was doin it! My major malfunction… Group activity. It can be a benefit as well though, when I’m at a party where nobody’s really eating, I feel weird eating so that helps me avoid stuff.

I skipped dinner. *faux slap*

This morning when I woke up I decided to revert to an exercise plan I haven’t used since I was 13. That’s also the only time I ever lost more than a couple pounds. I’m doing it with a new twist though. As a result of this I probably won’t meet my walking goal. Maybe I’ll shift it down to 100 miles instead of 500.

I have a few basic exercises, 2 types of crunches, scissor leg lifts (idk what they’re really called), cross touching toes while extending the other arm behind, and push ups. All of these but push-ups I did 31 reps of. Tomorrow I’ll do 31 as well, 30 + 1, it’s the 1st. on the 2nd I’ll do 32, In December I’ll do 60 + the date. As for push ups, I really can’t even do one, so I’m doing “desk push-ups”, they’re on an angle so you don’t have to resist your full weight. I’m not sure exactly how I’ll increment these, probably just do as many as I can stand every day. Once I get more fit I’ll put jumping jacks back in, the impact is too much for my knees right now.