Confessions of a Bulk Eater

Breakfast - Egg McMuffin - 300k

Lunch - chicken taco salad - 225, 2 f/f tortillas - 180, reduced fat cheese - tbd

Snack - homemade Pumpkin/chocolate chip muffin - ?

If I’m going to be serious about this, I better start tracking again

Breakfast: oatbran - 120k, 1/2 cup blueberries - 40k

Lunch: chicken taco salad - 225, 2 fat free tortillas - 180, tortilla chips - 140

Snack - Special K Protien Bar - 180k, 1 fat free tortilla - 90k

Supper - Tex Mex Stuffed Potatoes - 128k, frozen veggies - 45k, tortilla chips - 140k

Snack - PBJ Sandwhich (what, I was still hungry) - 330k

Total: 1618k

Not that great. I need to think about what I snack on. I tend to just snack on whatever is avaliable. However, I did a pretty tough session with my trainer in the morning, so I probably evened out to where I need to be.

Sound familiar (see yesterday’s post). Yeah, well yesterday didn’t go exactly as planned. In fact, yesterday was big horrible train derailment. BUT>>>>> I picked up the peices this morning and am starting again. That is what it’s all about, right? Picking ourselves up after a bad day and moving forward on plan instead of sitting ourselves in front of the refrigerator. Of course, I go through several days of this before I actually get it right. You know what they say though.. practice makes perfect!

I did go to the gym last night to run. I ran a mile again. It was a little easier this time, but I am running at a snail’s pace. I run the first 1/4 mile at about 5.5, then drop down to 5 for the next 1/4 mile then the last 1/2 mile was at 4.8 or something. I sure won’t break any speed records, but I’m going for distance not speed. I’ll do one more mile run this week (probably friday) and then try to boost up to 1.5 next week. We’ll see.

I’m really looking forward to tiny2b’s Chick’s Movie Night on Sunday. We are all watching Spirit of the Marathon and then chatting about it online. It’s a great idea and a great way to get us all connected more personally than just reading and commenting on blogs. I’m looking forward to watching the movie as well. The trailer gave me chills! I plan on watching it tonight while my son is at soccer practice since I downloaded it onto my ipod.

Exercise: 5k on the treadmill. Added a minute to my time today so ended at 40:40. That’s okay. I wasn’t really into it. I think my optimum workout time is an hour or so AFTER I’ve woken up. Not 20 minutes after waking up.

Food: counting calories again. trying for 1200-1400 but would be happy with less than that

Breakfast
1/2 cup cooked Steel Cut oatmeal - 140k
1/2 cup blueberries - 40k
splenda - 0k
crystal lite - 10k

Snack:
Kashi Go Lean Chocolate Turtle Roll - 190k
**have you ever had one of these?! Don’t bother! I really shouldn’t even count all the calories because I couldn’t eat it all. It tasted good, but it was so hard to chew and eat. No wonder it keeps you “satisfied” all day… it takes all day to eat it!! I didn’t plan on eating it, but I was hungry and when I went to get my prescription, I bought something. It was either that OR eat the doughnuts that were brought in for the staff meeting. I think I’ll take my chances on the hard-to-chew health food!***

Lunch:
Lean Cuisine Southwestern Chicken Panini - 280k
Peach - 68k
Diet Coke — I really didn’t want to drink this but I HAD to wake up somehow. It’s my ONE for the day though (or 2 actually since it was a 16oz) BACK TO WATER!!!

Snack:
100 cal pack — um, 100k

Exercise: I did not make it to the gym this morning. I gave it a good effort (my alarm went off and I hit snooze about 3 times) and then gave in to the fact I was just not getting up out of bed. I went back to sleep. SO, I will be going AFTER work!!

I discovered why I do better getting up first thing in the morning to go to the gym. By the time I get off work and get to the gym I DON’T WANT TO WORK OUT. I did a half-ass workout for all of about 20-30 minutes. But I went… that counts right?

Food

Total Daily Points Allowance: 26

Breakfast: Peaches and Cream Oatmeal - 4

Lunch: 1 cup taco soup - 1pt; Herbed Veggie Joe - 7pts; tomato - 0

Snack: 2 mini chocolate bars ; 1 pumpkin seed/cheddar flat bread crackerthigny - 2pts

Dinner: 2 buttermilk biscuits, 1 corn muffin, and Oven Roasted Turkey Salad with Honey French dressing from Cracker Barrel. Not the best, but of course it could have been a LOT worse eating there (lots of comfort foods, lots of fat)

Exercise: 30 minutes walk/run on treadmill. I acually ran 2 consecutive laps, ladies!! Of course, after running those 2 laps I didn’t want to run any more at all so I walked for awhile and then ran a little more right at the end. I think I need to change my music up in my ipod. I have a lot of rock, but I seem to run better to **shudder** pop music **shudder**. I think it’s the beat. Ick… but if it helps me run, I guess I need to do it. You should see me kick but to Mylie Cyrus

Food:

Breakfast: 3 bottles of water (before working out, during working out, post working out). Peaches and Cream Oatmeal - 4pts

Snack: plum - 1pt

Lunch: Buffalo Slim Wrap from Roly Poly - 11 pts; baked lays -3pts; diet coke

Snack: 1 mini milky way bar (if I eat it, I must post it ) No idea how many points, but probably no more than 2; sugar free jello - 0

It got a little dicey at home after work. I thought we were going to have my son’s first soccer practice so in anticipation of a long time until supper, I made him a turkey sandwhich and had a pita with hummus and turkey myself (4pts)

Then his coach called and said no practice due to a storm that was coming though. Okay…. well, I’m not going to cook now since he and i just ate. We’ll just find something. I ended up having leftovers from last night which work out to 7 points going by the nutritional info given in the book but they do not list fiber and that brings down the points, so whatever…

I ended up with about 32 points for the day, but that’s okay. I probably gained the 6 activity points this morning and there is the extra flex points i still have.

I didn’t? Well, I did. I gingerly stepped on the scale this morning at the gym and lo and behold, I have broken through the 208 threshold and am now at 207.5. Or something like that. It’s one of those stupid medical scales which, according to Mr. Eryn, “are the most accurate.” I hate them. I’m always like, “Is the thing in the middle? No, it’s toward the bottom so I’m too far. Move it just a tad… dang, now it’s up near the top. CAN SOMEONE JUST GIVE ME A DIGITAL SCALE?!!!”

Anyway, remember last week I had showed a 1.5lb weight gain since the last time I was on. Well, I got rid of that PLUS some!! WOO HOO!!!!!

Exercise: It was a poor excuse for a gym workout. For one, I was so tired this morning, I was moving slow. By the time I got to the gym, got my bag in the locker, got my towel and water, and got settled on a machine it was already 5:30am. I have to stop at 6 in order to shower and get to work on time. So I did 20 minutes on the elliptical (very slow because I’m tired) and then some weights. Meh.

Food:

Total Daily Points Allowance: 26pts

Breakfast: Peaches and Cream Oatmeal - 4pts
Snack: 1/2 of ww vanilla yogurt - 1pt (I’ll count the whole thing even though I only ate half); herbed tomatos - 3 (from the olive oil)

Lunch: Okay, I don’t know how many points this was, but I had the BEST lunch today. I have been craving this since the last time I had it about a month ago. There is this wrap place here in Orlando called Eden’s Fresh Co that does only wraps and salads. They are all vegetarian, but you can get “protien” added if you want. I got the Chitwood Wrap and it is SO good!! I’ve been to this place 4 times and I’ve gotten this wrap 3 times. I’m hooked. It’s a whole wheat wrap with romaine lettuce, granola, mandrin oranges, dried cranberries, gorganzola cheese, slivered almonds and a walnut raspberry vinegarette. YUM!!!. Oh, and pita chips and humus. And a diet coke. I just want to say once more… YUM!!! I could have eaten another one just because they are so good, but my wallet and my stomach wouldn’t let me.

I’m not worried about the points b/c I’ve been low on my points all week plus there is the 35 extra points each week. And I still had all of today’s. I’m good.

Exercise: 5:00am - 20 minute leisurely walk through the forest on the treadmill You should have seen all the wildlife!! 30 minute session with Personal Trainer. Why the leisurely walk today? (really, the fastest I went was 2.5mph) Well, I was thinking… usually I do a hard cardio session either on the treadmill or on the elliptical machine before my training sessions. That’s fine when we do arms, but today was leg day and I usually can’t walk for 4 days afterwards. So I figured I’d take it easy for the cardio… just get moving a little bit… and then let my workout be the training session. Hopefully it worked. My legs are tired, but they don’t feel like they normally do after a session. We’ll see what happens by this afternoon.

And to answer tiny2b’s question: Yes, I am fine getting up early, but by the afternoon I am wiped out. Actually, by 9-10 am I am wiped out. I would love nothing more than to put my head on my desk and sleep the afternoon away but that does not happen. I’m still waiting for those endorphins they say exercise gives you to kick in. This is my second week of it, so we’ll see what happens down the road

Food:

Total Daily Point Allowance: 26pts

Breakfast - Peaches and Cream Oatmeal - 4pts Today I’m using Steel Cut Oatmeal. This is my first time trying it and I really like it. I like it better than regular oatmeal. There is more texture to it so it’s not just mush.

Lunch - 1 cup taco soup - 1pt; 2 pita pockets (1 whole pita - I was just too hungry yesterday after eating only 1/2 of one) - 3pts; 2 tbsp hummus - 2pts; 2 tbsp salsa - 0pts; tomato/ raw baby spinach - 0

Total so far: 10pts. I have a w/w yogurt in the freezer to eat if I get hungry this afternoon. I am PLANNING *PLANNING* on cooking dinner tonight, but we have an appraiser and some inspectors meeting us at the house we are trying to buy, so I’m not sure how this will work out.

Snack: Weight Watchers Boston Creme Yogurt - 1pt. I put it in the freezer when I got to work so it feels decadent… plus it takes me longer to eat it.

Dinner: Swedish “Meatballs” and dilled potato casserolle - 6pts; herbed tomatoes - 1pt (guesstimate b/c of the olive oil); garlic bread - 4pts

Snack: 1 plum - 1pt

Total Points Used: 23pts out of 26

Hmmm… I’m still 3 points shy. I could eat something else. I WANT to eat something else. I’m hungry. But I really don’t have anything I WANT to eat. I’m afraid if I go try to find a snack I’ll end up grazing and totally blow my points. MUST. NOT. EAT.

Exercise: 5:00am - 5k on treadmill 42:43 minutes run/walk

Total Daily Point Allowance: 26

Breakfast - w/w yogurt -1pt; 1/2 cup peaches 1pt

Lunch - 1 cup taco soup - 1pt; 1 pita pocket (1/2 of whole pita) - 2pts I accidently picked up the “white” version instead of a whole grain one. grrrr; 2 tbs hummus - 2; baby spinach/ tomato slices - 0 pts

Snack - 1 package instant grits I found in my drawer - 3pts (this was an “unauthorized” snack. I wasn’t planning on it, but was SO hungry!!)

Dinner - 1 cup brown rice - 4pts; Garden Vegetable and Shrimp Stirfry - 5pts

Snack - 1 plum - 1pt

Total Points used: 20pts

I’m six points short of my daily point balance, but I’m not hungry so I’m not going to eat anything else. I have my lunch and breakfast all ready to go in the morning. I made my oatmeal ahead of time tonight so I will actually have a breakfast tomorrow I have a training session tomorrow at 5:30am. I will be dead at work tomorrow