I’m on a weight-loss team here at work (big organization, so there are about 160 teams), and the company-paper sent a photographer to get a picture of us this morning. Next week they’ll have a story about our team’s efforts — they’re tracking 4 teams through April, so another story then.

So that was an experience — having a photo taken to be published about my weight loss efforts. Not something I’d ever expected to do, but I’ll do it for the team!

We’re third in the rankings right now, which is hugely exciting to us.

Anyway — back to the food journal/move-that-body tracking for today:

Breakfast: warm lofat granola w/soy milk, coffee w/soy milk

No snack this morning, which is bad, I know. Bottle of water.

Lunch (12 PM): whole wheat toast with peanut butter

Snack (3:30): lofat string cheese, apple slices

Supper (6:30 PM): little bit of red wine, scrambled egg w/cottage cheese, big spoonful of Trader Joe salsa on top (yummm!), handful of little gingerbread cookies

Moving:

Lower body work this AM: 25 squats, 25 leg raises w/5 lb weights, another 25 with knees bent (argh).

Took the five flights of steps up to the office, with some zig-zags across intermediary floors.

Miscellaneous bits and pieces — wall-ups, yoga moments, etc….

Forgot to wear my pedometer today. Probably a good thing — I can get compulsive.

Breakfast (6:30 AM): berryburst cheerios w/soy milk, coffee w/soy milk

The meeting (8:30 AM): 1/4 marble bagel, cube cheese, two bites of pineapple, coffee with half-and-half

 11:45: Shaky as can be. Argh. Too much coffee? Will try protein.

Lunch (12 PM): cup of salmon, 4 hershey’s kisses

– OK, so by 1:00 I was pretty shaky AGAIN. Not sure what was going on. Hung in there to see if it would pass, but it didn’t, so I went over to the library (change of scenery, in case it was the stress here)  and had a veggie flatbread sandwich (artichoke, red pepper). Warm and toasted. Thought I might just eat half and save the rest for supper, but noooo…..

2:00: Flatbread sandwich.

Calmed down. It’s 3:00 — still a little shaky feeling, though. Hormones?

3:30: Hershey’s kiss (1!), water

Supper (9:00 PM): red wine, 2 leftover shells

 Cheers for me — sat through a very stressful Board meeting with two open boxes of cookies in front of me and didn’t eat any. I am impressed.

I did light weights (upper body) this morning. 4500 on the pedometer — not great, but it was a day of meetings.

I am not happy. What do I want? Security and affection, for starters. I want time. Reflection time, for perspective. Time to create. What am I giving time to iinstead of the things I care about?

And did I just totally distract myself from pursuing the ’security and affection’ gap?

Hmm.

Monday

Breakfast (6:30 AM): Berryburst Cheerios with ½ c blueberries & soy milk; coffee w/soy milk

Lunch (12 PM): lean cuisine spaghetti w/meatballs

Supper (7 PM): 2 turkey bologna rollups, nofat yogurt w/peach slices, ½ c. shredded wheat (dry)

Snack: herb tea w/honey

 Tuesday

Breakfast (5:30 AM): egg & cottage cheese patty w/salsa; coffee w/soy milk

Lunch (12 PM): nofat yogurt with banana slices and ½ c shredded wheat

Supper: (6:30 PM) Big Jim’s. ICLite, salad, stuffed shells/meat sauce (took some home).

Wednesday 

Breakfast (6:30 AM): warm granola w/soy milk, coffee w/soy milk

Snack (10 AM): lofat string cheese, water

Lunch (12 PM): ¼ whole-grain veggie sandwich (Wellness Fair)

Lunch, Pt 2 (1:30 PM): small bowl fruit, coffee with half-and-half

Supper (6 PM): leancuisine flatbread melt

Snack (10 PM): handful of shredded wheats, nofat yogurt [Ate this because I freaked a little bit at reading somewhere that if you don't eat enough to cover your BMR your body won't let go of the fat. My BMR reading today at the Wellness Fair was 1300+] 

Saturday/Sunday

Not a great weekend for me, foodwise. I’m a little disappointed in myself, but will need to just let it go and get back on track now. No use crying over munched french fries!Found this woman’s story interesting and inspirational: http://www.3fatchicks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=84601 .Moving:Saturday: 1 mile booster walk (some resistance work); yoga. Didn’t wear pedometer.Sunday was basically a day off.Eating:Sat breakfast: whole wheat English muffin with an egg and 1/2 slice of lofat swiss cheese, coffee with soy milk.Sun breakfast: Eat ‘n Park: 2 pancakes w/butter (no syrup), 2 bites of eggs (they were yucky, so didn’t finish them), 1/2 piece of bacon, tomato juice, coffee with half-and-halfSat lunch: leftover salmon salad.  Sun lunch: no lunch, since breakfast was late and big (big fluffy pancake big!). But this probably set me up for the potato chip incident. Sat snacks: one bottle of “vitamin water” - ~100 calories but lots of Vitamin C. Handful of tiny gingersnap cookies. Several peasnacks (these are peapods that are sort of like fake potato chips).Sun Snack: baked potato chips (about a dozen, which was about 5 more than I really wanted — I got to that point where I just liked the crunch and the salt so much that I kept putting my hand back in the dang bag); chocolate pudding cupSat supper: John Harvard’s: 10 oz beer (absolutely delicious), cheeseburger with tomato and lettuce, french fries w/ketchup. I left a lot of french fries on my plate, but I also ate a lot of them first!Sun supper: Haven’t eaten it yet. Am doing this first to try to get me back on track!Now that I’ve written this all day, it isn’t horrible-horrible. It’s not a way to lose weight, though, and it’s not healthy. Am not sure why I got so snookered on the salty stuff (french fries, peapods, chips) — that’s usually not a weak spot for me.Later: Sunday’s supper: weird made-up cottage cheese salad: cottage cheese with radish sprouts and Whole Foods salsa stirred in. This sounds and looks kinda disgusting, but it tasted v. good — tangy and substantive! Am having some herbal tea with a little honey, too.
Friday

Moving: 7100 stepsEating:Breakfast (6:30 AM): warm granola w/soy milk, coffee w/soy milkLunch (11:30 PM): yogurtSnack: waterSupper: lemongrass soup, small salmon salad

Thursday

OK, Thursday was an interesting day for me. When we first started logging our food, I was pretty confident that I was an emotional eater, that stress was a big trigger for me. What I found out by keeping the food log was that the bigger trigger, for me, is social situations. If I’m with people who are eating, I feel compelled to eat, too. (May be a result of growing up in a large family where supper time was a big deal!)I’m not sure this is necessarily bad. I think there’s something positive about eating with people. But I do need to be wary of not overdoing it in those situations.Moving: 4400 steps; light weights Eating:Breakfast (6:30 AM): oatmeal with ½ banana, coffee w/soy milkLunch (12 PM): pasta salad w/veggies, turkey (no skin) with a little stuffing and veggies, cake, ½ glass red wine [social situation — Monica’s farewell lunch]Supper (6:30 PM): UHC/PG dinner: salad, red wine, ½ roll, fish w/crabmeat, rice, green beans, choc mousse w/raspberries [social situation — Honors College/Post-Gazette event dinner]

Wednesday

Steps: 8700 on the pedometer. Walked home (45 mins.).Breakfast (6:30 AM): oatmeal with ½ banana, coffee w/soy milkLunch (11:30 AM): lean cuisine panini (chicken); waterSnack (2 PM): 2 hershey’s kisses, waterSupper (6:30 PM): red wine, whole wheat english muffin (toasted) with 1/2 slice lofat swiss cheese melted on a cooked egg w/radish sprouts.Snack (8 PM): tea with honey, handful of little ginger cookies

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