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 Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:17 pm
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Hi Everyone! My name is Bridget and I just joined this guild today. I am very excited to become a member of a supportive community to help others reach their weight loss goals and to reach my own.
You are all welcome to leave comments in this journal!
In this journal I will be recording my daily food intake and exercise along with thoughts and feelings about how I see myself progressing on this journey.
Exercise:
15 minutes walking/running up and down my block with 3lbs weights. My block's on an incline that isn't too bad, but I'm still getting into shape. My goal for this activity is to be able to run up at least one side of the block.
10 minutes workout video focusing on arms.
20 minutes Gold's Gym Cardio Workout for the Wii, focuses primarily on boxing.
24 minutes EA Sports More Workouts for the Wii - started the 6 week challenge on medium for a more challenging workout.
Total: 69 minutes
Food Intake:
Breakfast - small bowl of frosted mini wheats
Lunch - Lean Cuisine 3 Meat Pizza (I absolutely love Lean Cuisine's food)
Dinner - 1 dumpling, pork ribs, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes and gravy, 6 rice chips, 4 cheese quakes, 2 chocolate chip cookies, 1 lemonade cookie (Girl Scout cookie)
Evening - 1 bite of a chocolate rice cake and 3 cups unsweetened Earl Grey tea.
Review:
I'm proud that I exercised today. I was really tired when I got home from work and almost took a nap instead (a habit that also needs to be broken), but it helped that it was absolutely gorgeous outside. I was a bit nervous running around my block at first. Where I live isn't big on outdoor activities and I get nervous in front of people who see me exercising. Fortunately after I passed another guy who was out enjoying the weather I felt much better about the whole thing.
As for eating, once again dinner was my hard part. I only had one plate of food and each of those things was a serving portion. I know they aren't very healthy foods, but to be fair, this is one of my family's traditional foods that we only get as a treat. The other assorted odds and ends were me breaking and eating a bit more. My metabolism has always been slow, so the whole speeding it up by eating snacks too has never helped me. Other then the extras with dinner I feel that today was a success. Tomorrow I will be including the 8 minute ab challenge. Until tomorrow!
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 6:34 am
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Stars in my Pocket Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:07 pm
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Exercise:
10 minutes exercise video focusing on buns.
8 minute ab challenge care of Stars
10 minutes jogging Wii Fit Plus (too chilly outside crying )
10 minutes free step aerobics on Wii Fit Plus
32 minutes Gold's Gym Cardio workout (boxing - hardcore)
24 minutes EA Active More Workouts (Day 2 of 6 Week Challenge on Medium)
Total: 94 minutes
Food Intake:
Breakfast - small bowl of frosted mini wheats with milk
Snack - 1 cinnamon crunch bagel with cream cheese from Panera sad
Lunch - Lean Cuisine Chicken Enchilada Suize with sour cream (lite) and one serving sun-dried tomato flavored rice chips, one chocolate chip rice cake.
Snack - 1 popcorn rice cake
Dinner - angel hair pasta with chicken Parmesan and tomato sauce, Parmesan cheese, a handful of carrots, 2 cookies, and 1 chocolate chip rice cake with Nutella.
Snack - 1 scoop butter pecan icescream
Throughout the day - unsweetened tea and water
Today, I didn't do too hot with food. I don't want to make excuses for myself (the bagel), but when it's social eating (my boss at work bought the shipping team bagels) I'd rather stay in the loop then out of it. There's no excuse for the cookies and Nutella after dinner though. I really need to work on that. I'm not upset about the rice cakes for a snack and dessert. I seriously love rice cakes and since they're really low calorie to begin with I'm not going to worry about it.
I don't like counting calories, I've done that before and it didn't work so well. Still looking at what I ate today I did make some good decisions. I only had 2 cookies instead of my usual 4 and I ate carrots with dinner. I'm not a big veggie fan so doing this is a major accomplishment for me. Could have done without the ice cream too, but this time it was my dad offering and we're currently arguing and I wanted him to know I will still be civil with him.
On the workout side of things I had no idea that I had exercised that much today. It was a bit of a struggle, I wanted to take a nap after work again, but I was able to do it. Definitely a challenge to do all that work, especially the abs exercise and the EA part. But I have found parts of the workout that I really enjoy. My house is pretty old and not well heated and since it's still pretty cold around here my exercise clothes make me even colder. But that cold makes me motivated to move so that I will warm up. When I really get moving I warm up really well and that feeling makes the workout even more enjoyable.
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Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:03 pm
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Exercise:
30 minutes walk/jog with 3 lbs weights.
10 minutes workout video focusing on buns.
8 minute abs workout.
8 minutes cardio boxing advanced.
Total: 56 minutes
Food Intake:
Breakfast - small bowl of frosted mini wheats and a large glass of all natural orange juice
Snack - cinnamon crunch bagel with cream cheese sweatdrop
Lunch - Lean Cuisine mushroom pizza
Snack - white cheddar rice cake, 1 lemonade cookie
Dinner - 3 steak fingers, salad w/light vinaigrette, long grain wild rice, 1 scoop butter pecan ice cream, 2 chocolate cookies, 1 lemonade cookie sweatdrop I have got to stop eating cookies...
Throughout the day - water
Not too pleased with myself today on some parts, but let's start with the good parts. I had only intended to be out for 20 minutes, it turned into a half hour, not that I regret that at all because it was beautiful out and I've been inside far too much. Stupid winter. Anyway I walked up the block 3 times and I ran down the block 3 times. On the third time running down I made it down the entire block without having to stop and just walk and for me this is quite the accomplishment. smile Unfortunately I wasn't able to do all of my usual exercising today. Normally when I'm exercising and I get to the boxing part I'm revved up and totally going, but today I was exhausted beyond belief and not feeling energetic at all so I stopped after my 8 minutes of boxing. I guess that's part of listening to my body. Another thing that I was happy about today, when I got up this morning my abs, my neck, and my legs were sore. Other then my neck it felt good to be sore because I knew that that means I'm pushing myself again with my workouts.
As for food again, damn cookies and bagel. OK, I need a lesson in will power. I've been doing alright getting rid of the salty things in my diet (or at least regulating them down to something reasonable). I don't know, am I still eating too much? I haven't been binging on things like I've done before, namely eating a portion of every salty snack type thing in the house, so that's an improvement. I can't keep making excuses for myself, there will always be the foods I love later, so I can live without them. I need a lesson in will power. I heard yesterday that by doing different activities with your non-dominant hand can increase your concentration and your will power to do new things, like resisting foods that you don't need. Tomorrow is a new day, goal for tomorrow: no cookies.
Am I writing too much? smile
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Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 7:58 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:02 am
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:46 am
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Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:24 pm
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:58 pm
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:26 pm
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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 4:40 am
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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:46 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:48 pm
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Exercise:
10 min exercise video (pilates are weird...)
10 min free jog w/3lbs weights
20 min free step w/5lbs weights
23 min cardio boxing
28 min EA workout on med.
8 min ab challenge
Total: 119 min
Still trying to figure out what is the best way to increase my exercise routine for now. The 20 min of free step with 5lbs weights was a bit too much and I want to find the balance of where the workout is a challenge, but I'm not hurting my body to the point where exercising isn't going to change anything about my weight. Also, pilates video left me feeling like a noodle. A very tall, wobbly noodle. I've got mixed feeling about it. For one thing it was good to get that stretched out (I'm not that flexible to begin with and it would be good to change that), but at the same time it wasn't the type of challenge that I'm looking for. Tomorrow I think I'll try another workout on this video and see how I feel about it. Also I think I will cut the free step back to 10 min again, but make sure to use 5lbs weights. I'm going to have to buy some heavier weights eventually. smile
Food Intake:
Breakfast - 1 breakfast lean pocket (270)
Lunch - cheese chex mix (130) and beef lo mein with rice
Snack - cheese chex mix, bison stick
Dinner - 1 chicken quesadilla lean pocket w/cheese chex mix, ice cream w/rice crispies
Throughout the day - water and unsweetened tea
I didn't do so well today. I'm eating a lot more calorie wise then I did last week and that'll only result in weight gain. Probably won't weight myself until the 22nd just to work out this bit of badness. I stress ate. It's cloudy and cold out after last week's sun and warmth. I get SAD really easily so I think it was part of it. Also I got the chance to talk to my aunt who lives in Minnesota for a bit, but that just made me upset. Not because my aunt is bad, she's great, but because of how much I miss living in Minnesota. My friends are all there, I have relatives that I really care about up there, and the life I wanted is up there. And here I am, stuck in my parents' home working at Old Navy watching my life disappear. OK, getting to depressing for a food journal. The main fact is I overate, I shouldn't have done that, and I can do better tomorrow. I always have tomorrow...
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:21 am
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Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:47 am
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