bfsk—usual (no fruit today)
lunch: 5 marinated mushrooms, 1/3 sweet potato, 3 pieces deli turkey breast slices, 5 cherry tomatos from garden, water, and a skinny cow fudge bar
snack: 2 squares dark milk chocolate, let’s say for my blood pressure and count it as medicinal also 5 almonds
dinner: ham and cabbage both small amts.
Food intake finished by 5:30pm…gonna do some sewing and weeding this evening and of course I’ll be DRINKING WATER!!!
This am: 125.5 again after 128 yesterday… I was extraordinarily well behaved diet-wise yesterday or it could have been water…argggggg!!!!
I can do this.
Forgot on my reminder list yesterday to mention NO trans fat.
Didn’t get in my reading last night like planned, had PBS station on tv and All Creatures Great and Small sucked me in, followed by an Agatha Christie mystery which I fell asleep during and missed the last half hour so I don’t know “whodunit”. I’m sleeping long hours these days, missing gym of a regular basis (not good) but I figure I’m making up for all the school year nights of 4-5 hrs. of sleep a night.
Nothing special on the agenda today (at least nothing I’ve been told about yet, the horse-crazy princess is still abed)….so I’m off for the exciting and NEVER-ending jobs of laundry and cleaning.
Neglected to mention yesterday that we had a call from one of those horse people offering dau. horse time yesterday afternoon, she’d even pick her up and bring her home….so, I said OK; I do trust this person (know her from the theraputic riding stable)—she has a dau. slightly older than mine with a horse she’s no longer interested in (maybe I should smell a plan afoot here, hmmmm, we’ll have to see)….anyway dau. was whisked off in a vehicle that probably cost half of what our house cost new and returned in a few hours walking on a cloud and muttering stuff about diagonials and collect and cross-ties and crops and all sort of terms in a language I don’t speak. She knows all kinds of stuff from reading….Horse Illustrated gets memorized every month…..see
you later,
It’s Sunday evening…..weight yesterday 125 weight today 128 this is NOT the direction to be going…..hoping and hoping it’s just water and all will be well again tomorrow….did not overeat yesterday, so we’ll see
Bfsk….grape nuts flakes, skim, lo Na v-8, tea, 1/4 cantalope about 10am—-yeah, really slept in!!!!
snack….4 marinated mustrooms, 2 pieces thin sliced turkey lunchmeat, cherry yogurt @ 1pm-ish
dinner….Arby’s French Dip w/ swiss and water @5pm—prob. WAY too high in salt
later I’ll have a Skinny Cow fudge bar maybe but I think I’m done for the day except for water
I think I need to post my list to remind myself how I got so far before I blow it…………I just call this “best advice” It’s a collection of stuff from tv shows, the internet, reading, etc. that I thought made sense and I could live with…..I don’t “count” anything—-not calories, not fat grams, not points…..that’s just not something I’m up to doing for the rest of my life; too lazy, I guess…..but I have lost almost 30 lbs doing it “MY WAY” so I must have been doing something right….
Here goes:
1 Make breakfast automatic….for me: cup of tea w/skim first, then grape nuts flakes cereal w/ skim, lo sodium v-8, usually fruit of some kind, and another cup of tea w/ skim…………..no varying, no big decision except the fruit with the plus that the cereal is rated an “Excellent” source of whole grains
2 NO soda—drink only water, lo sodium v-8, decaf tea or decaf. coffee w/ skim milk only and more WATER, WATER, WATER
3NO hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated anything
4NO high fructose corn syrup
5read EVERY label…..keep fat, esp. sat. fat low, keep sodium low, too…use only canola or extra virgin olive oil
6 exercise consistently—-this is one thing that has been NOT done lately (vacation, summer, etc.) I WAS doing 2-3 hrs. a day/3 days a week of a little of everything
7very little white bread and potatoes, cut down on red meat, increase fish and use PORTION control, put fork DOWN between bites and don’t forget to DRINK
8nothing in mouth after 6pm
9get weighed daily
10cut back on fried
11stop using extra sugar and salt at table, cut in half in cooking and baking when you can
12FRESH veg. and fruits—if canned rinse in colander to get rid of the sodium and added sugar
G’nite to me…..some reading, then bed
After 2 wks. of manic running around and professing a deep longing to get back to normal I find myself bored(?) or maybe just in the yucks; I don’t know….maybe it’s the weather, I’ve always been super-sensitive mood wise to what is going on outside and we have NO sun today and it’s very humid. Showers and thunderstorms possible every day in the forecast.
Weight this am: 125
Bfsk.@ 7:30am: grape nuts flakes w/ skim, v-8, decaf tea w/skim
Gym: ready to go when neighbor called and decided to be chatty…..did make yoga so all was not lost, new instructor and god knows I don’t do well with change (just like a toddler!!!!)…..different style, not the sports yoga I’m used to—-didn’t seem to do nearly as much…
Snack @ 11:00am: 2 pieces thin turkey and 8 cherries
Lunch @ 1:30pm: pot roast, carrots, potatos, salad with my own garden tomatos, cuc. and olives, water to drink and a skinny cow fudge bar
It’s almost 4pm now, dau. is mowing—-she wants to do something with horses SOOOO bad, not content to just volunteer with horses at the theraputic stable we go to once a week………….I’m just not willing to spend money (LOTS of money, horses are super expensive) on something that has no tangible benefit and can be so incredibly dangerous (think Christopher Reeve)….yes, I like horses, have no urge to get on one or see her on the back of one as in lessons or showing, she’s had a few trail rides but that’s it…..now she wants to do lessons or lease a horse, do English riding……..why can’t she just stay with her music???? She’s played violin for about 6 yrs. now with weekly lessons, played flute for 2 yrs. (and made 3rd chair all-city!) two yrs. ago, did all the piccolo for middle school and was the only girl in the drum ensemble for a yr. in middle school., plays keyboard………….even crossing the street carries a risk, why go out of our way to increase hugely the risk, I will NOT finance this, kids don’t realize that your life can change forever in an instant………..which brings me to the fact that this kid could sell ice to Eskimos, people are almost literally throwing horses at us; I’ve had 3 offers to let her ride their horses in the past few days…….UGH!!!!!! need a nap!!!
Wow, 2 days gone since I’ve been here—got in too late yesterday to even think of firing up the old computer.
Wed.: weight 125 usual bfsk w/ cantalope added—took dau to orchestra camp….had visit with friend who is housesitting in the penthouse on the bay; lunch at a rest. on one of the piers: hamburger, water, very little cole slaw, shared a piece of cake—made sure I had lesser part by far dinner: rest. again: bruschetta, salad w/ o. and v., and lasagna (once again shared– with dau. this time) then off to Harry Potter in IMAX–not an empty seat in the place…….didn’t get in till almost midnight; today was my gym day, needless to say I didn’t make it…….summer is really screwing me up in a big way!!!!
Thurs. weight 126 usual bfsk w/ cantalope, 11am-square of chocolate, 1oopm lunch: 1/2 grilled rib eye, broccoli and yellow squash, grilled mushrooms, garlic sauce noodles (very little), water, skinny cow fudge bar, 4:00pm handful of peanuts and another square chocolate, Wasa cracker,water
5:00 to 8:30: worked at the riding stable with disabled kids–start of July session….had the absolutest sweetest little girl tonight for the first session……took an apple and some treats to my fav. horse
It is now almost 10pm and I’m STARVING—had a little cantalope about 1/2 hr. ago but it’s just not holding me…maybe I’ll just type until this passes…….at least it wasn’t as danged HOT today as it has been…yesterday I saw 106 on the car’s thermometer; I know it registers a little high but enough with the heat, already. Today, thankfully, I don’t think it got out of the 80’s for the first in days and days and believe me, walking around that ring tonight I was happy it was a little cooler!
Tomorrow is gym and yoga day!!! Hope I make it…..g’nite to me….
125.5 today….yeah!
Usual bfsk…..took dau to orchestra camp; she teaches violin at beginner and intermediate sessions then has her own turn in the advanced session–helping teach at the first two sessions is how she earns her way….
Lunch @ 12:30…2 slices turkey breast, 1/3 sweet potato, broccoli and yellow squash mix, pasta salad. water
Picked up dau @ 2:30pm
Snack@ 3:30..f.f. cottage cheese, 6 cherries, 1 Skinny Cow fudge bar
4:00–to the races (see below)
Dinner, of sorts @ 7:00….2 skinny pieces pizza, small piece watermelon, diet coke—nothing w/o caffeine avail. Since my dau. is a runner, I volunteer during the local running clubs’ races, usually at the finish line….BUT, during our summer club races (for some reason) I’ve always worked FOOD….this evening I did registration then cleared off the tables and set up to feed 200+ people—-sliced 8 watermelons, pulled apart 2 huge boxes of bunches of bananas, set out 2 garbage bags full of bagels, and finally opened and served 40 pizzas—-all done by moi and 1 other woman—quite the work-out to get it all ready by the time the runners are done a 4 miler!!!!! I’m always amazed that we get it done. Three more races like this coming up this month so lots more practice to be had.
Now the confession—stopped on the way home and had a small Ben and Jerry’s ice cream….like pizza wasn’t enough of a transgression????? WHAT WAS I thinking???? I’m so tired and disgusted with myself. OK, all together now: Tomorrow is another day. Repeat as necessary.
Well, the clock says it’s bedtime but I’m wide awake…..that little 15 min. power nap turned into 2 solid hrs, must still be recovering from all the time in the bay yesterday evening, got off the couch at 2:30pm.
OK, food: snack at 3:30pm—2 pieces thin deli turkey, greens, 1 square chocolate, tea w/skim
Took dau. to lawn mowing job…6:30pm dinner: turkey, creamed spinach, small cornbread muffin, small mashed pots. with a little gravy, water
Spent rest of eve. watching dau. and man she mows for play catch and hit the softball until dark—it was still very humid and 85 degrees when he had to turn the lights on so they could see the ball. I stayed on screened in porch having no desire to be either a softball target again or a feast for the mosquitos.
G’nite all!
126 today
Bfsk: grape nuts flakes, v8, decaf tea w/skim
Gym: just top half machines, bruised leg still looks awful….went to lite aerobics and simply did what I could
Snack @ 11am: ff cottage cheese and 1 nectarine
Another hot, hot, hot very humid day–blah!!! Got a bunch of mosquito bites I picked up somewhere, driving me insane—some would argue, not a far trip. Feeling very sleepy too, can’t understand that at all. Maybe a nap is in order, but I know the phone will ring the minute I doze off—well, worth a try, just a little power nap.
2:30pm—1/2 can tomato soup w/skim milk, 3 oz. tuna (out of a can-waterpacked) w/ few drops lemon juice, mixed greens salad w/ olives, tomato, cucumber
Went to see friend who is housesitting…..lovely place, 4th floor penthouse with sunrise and sunset views, mega bucks but not for me in this oft hurricane battered area—not that I could ever afford it,anyway….spent time in the water….her husband visited and brought food…couldn’t refuse, would have been rude, so I had 3 pieces –small- popcorn chicken, 2 potato wedges, and a Sierra Mist–non-diet about 7pm…..so here I am, rather blowing it already……and my friend wanted to make plans to go to lunch……..
Tomorrow is another day, tomorrow is another day—should have named my blog this—-it’s becoming my mantra and my constant refrain for starting over…..bah humbug!!! G’nite!!
O.K. Vacations are over….both mine (away) and our friends (HERE)and I can get back to the business of getting healthy and lighter. I was bad and I admit it….Had caffeine, way too many french fries, too much full fat ice cream, too much salt this past week….I could go on and on. Considering all my indiscretions, I got off without too much penalty; must be cause the last two weeks have been incredibly physically active. Weight this am was 127. Up from my lowest of 123.5 certainly, but nowhere near my starting point last fall well into in the 150’s. “Just Ten More” will have to become 15, then 20, then 25—no, no ,NO!!!!! I WILL get re-motivated. Actually, my original goal WAS 125; back when even 145 seemed impossible. I found this place and started blogging when I couldn’t get the scale to move below the 125 mark for over a month. Maybe there’s something subconscious going on here. Should be going to the gym tomorrow, not sure about that as I have a huge deep bruise on the inside of my right calf due to bad pitch from dau. playing softball yesterday…OWWWWWW!!!! It Really Hurt!!! Put ice on it immediately but it still looks nasty. Note to self: playing softball at 50-something is probably NOT a real bright idea. Why, oh why do I keep forgetting how OLD I am? Must come from doing the reproduction thing at the ripe old age of 40. Also saw movie that friend made during outing last week—there I was reaching up petting a horse and the jiggly thing from behind the elbow to the shoulder was having a life of its own, a very active one, I might add!!! I was SOOOO embarressed…..and this is after 9 freaking (as my dau. would say) months of triceps exercises!!!! Is there NO hope????? Yes, my arms are smaller but seeing that after all the hard work was devastating.
Breakfast: 8am Grape Nuts Flakes w/skim, V-8 juice, decaf tea w/skim
Snack: 11:am 1nectarine, 1plum, 1 T. peanut butter w/half a multi-grain Wasa
Must keep up water intake!!!!
Good stuff: Plans today: friend who is housesitting has invited my dau. and myself over to posh condo on the bay for a swim and fun, will be later on as it’s about 95 and VERY humid here right now.
Bad stuff: Learned that schoolmate of daughter was killed in boating accident…just 15, happened in another state at their summer home. She only had one class w/him this past year but they had been together on a swim team a couple yrs. ago and he seemed like a good kid. Feel so bad for his parents….
Shouldn’t end on such a sad note but that’s just how it is today.