Nancy’s Weight loss Journey 5 Yrs & Counting

I’m divorcing coffee!! That’s it no more Starbucks coffee every morning.  We make Starbucks coffee here every day.  No more coffee treats!  No more coffee at the movies!! NO MORE!!!!!  I decided to go cold turkey.  Boy I am so waiting for the headaches to come on.

My replacement is going to be more green tea and yogi detox tea (for my kidneys) with gogi berries.  Yep, my boss supports me and I hope he keeps buying more tea! Bring it on! :) 

I went to the gym at 6am and the BOSU Kicked my behind.  I could only afford to do 100 regular push-ups on that thing because the unstable surface worked my arse off!  And I used the black side to stand on versus the blue.  Talk about INSTABILITY!  I was sweating like a pig by simply standing on it doing my weights.  Then to do squats with upper body on the BOSU oh my I was floored.  Then I did some ball exercise.  I was too tired to even attempt a run and I was running out of time.  7:15am - have to be home and ready for work by 8am.

Today I have a 3 mile break/lunch walk planned as well as kickboxing or ZUMBA.  After I entered all this info in SP gave me another warning - I have to change my goal to  meet my actual exercise.  In doing so it tells me I AM TO EAT 1800 AT MINIMUM!!!

Now I see why I was not losing weight and plateaued for so long.  I was restricting my calories too much. 

I feel like a kid in a candy store……seee child - go ahead and enjoy!!! Oh I will enjoy!!

The joys of eating but of course it will be good stuff for my body.  I’m just happy I have a lot of room to play with food.  I hope by doing this I curb my night time eating issues. 

 I wonder if I put my exercise in for tomorrow it kicks me into the 2000-2500 calorie range?

Ahhh, still not eating enough early on in the day.  I was so busy at work I could not get a lot of food in.  In the last 4 months I’ve progressively cut sugar and sodium out of my diet.  So no sugar with my coffee and oatmeals most days.  Today I had a hard time taking in regular oatmeal with no sugar.  As much as I wanted to add sugar I know it’s best that I don’t.  Perhaps one day I can get used to it and not want to vomit.  Sparks people tells me “Thai Curry chicken” which is the same as my curry chicken is full of sodium and high in cal.  Well, my home version is bland and I don’t think the calorie count should be that high because the ingredients are simple.  So I added my own in.  Same goes for my sour chicken.  They made it a high sodium dish but I know my home version doesn’t have that many in it.

Today was not a push-up day but got 100 in.  Ended up doing only 1/2 an hr of weights before going to Pilates.  I know what I did wrong, I forgot to eat that energy bar before class.  As much as I wanted to get a run in I opted out for tonight.  I can still here my baby in my ears telling me I’m trying too hard too soon.

I did my 100 push-ups before class because I felt like I didn’t get a good upper body work out in.  The instructor had us do some more but this time after we went to a high side plan position and into tri-cep push-up stance.  Not hard but just an awkward position for me.

Of course I already planned to get a run in tomorrow morning before work.  Perhaps just 3 miles?  Easy enough and I’m not going for time.  Just 3 hours at a nice pace.  Then in the evening I can do a 4 mile walk before Pilates again.  Now, if I can only get my baby to not spoil my night so I can eat and get up for the gym.

Breakfast:

Plums, 2 fruit (2-1/8″ dia) 61 15 0 1 Regular Coffee, 1 cup (8 fl oz) 2 0 0 0 Light Cream (coffee cream or table cream), 1 tbsp 29 1 3 0 Quaker Instant Oatmeal, prepared with water, 1 Packet 100 17 2 4

Lunch:

Roasting Chicken, light meat, 0.6 unit (yield from 1 lb ready-to-cook chicken) 72 0 2 13 Honey Mustard, 2 tsp 20 2 0 0 Romaine Lettuce (salad), 9 inner leaf 13 2 0 1 Red Ripe Tomatoes, 1 medium whole (2-3/5″ dia) 26 6 0 1 Bread, pita, whole-wheat, 0.65 pita, small (4″ dia) 48 10 0 2

Dinner:

White Rice, medium grain, 0.6 cup 145 32 0 3 WAI WAI, 0.4 serving 108 16 4 3 Roasted Filet Fish, 0.5 oz 165 1 1 9 Curry Chicken low soldium -homemade, 1 serving 300 0 0 0 Sour chicken soup - Homemade, 1 serving 250 0 0 0

Snack:

Coconut, raw, 0.1 cup, shredded 28 1 3 0 Mangos, 1 fruit without refuse 135 35 1 1 Crackers, regular, 6 cracker, round 90 11 5 1

			CALORIES	CARBS	FAT	PROTEIN
			1,592	149	21	39
			1,380 - 1,730	183 - 265	36 - 63	60 - 143
			0 - 138	34 - 116	15 - 42	21 - 104

I AM SO HAPPY TO BE BACK FROM MY EXERCISE BREAK!!!

Thank you Lord for a cloudy southern California morning!  I set the alarm for a 5am banana eat and 6am run, but the darkness made it all too easy to sleep till 6am eat and then go for my run at 8am.

I had every intention of doing my 4 mile run then 2 mile walk but my butt cheeks wouldn’t have it.  I did my warmup  1/2 mile, my stretch and then started jogging.   I backed off the last mile run and just walked it.  Came home cooled down, stretched and I’m all good.

All in all 3 mile run and 3 mile walk in.  I’m back baby!! OH YES!!!

No it’s time to eat, nap then off to enjoy my Saturday.  OK SUNHSHINE YOU CAN COME OUT NOW!  I’m done.

My next mini goal today is to start getting my push-ups in and do some upper body weights at home.   Just 200 regular push-ups.

Another mini goal for today is to continue eating sensibly and not be tempted by the junk my sis is going to make or bring in.  Having her visit, my nephew, Rod’s son makes this place a full house.