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**MY**
CURRENT NUTRITIONAL GOALS:
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FAT
GOAL: = At least 65% of total calories,
but more works better - for me! Due to rising LDL cholesterol, I strive to
keep my saturated
fat consumption down.
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CARB
GOAL: NET = < 30gm but
I don't worry if I go up to 40 net occasionally.
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PROTEIN
GOAL: 120 gm minimum
(based
on my Lean Body Mass, LBM, of 142 lbs, as well as my activity level. This
information was derived from the easy to use charts and formulas in Protein
Power)
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CALORIES:
I keep track but I do not actively restrict them.
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**
Your goals may need to be different - but these are mine. ATM (at the
moment) **
DAILY
SUPPLEMENTS: that I take and consider essential, and which I highly
recommend for any LCer - (You
can buy these supps other places, of course, and I actually buy most of mine
from netrition,
these are just product links that were easy for me to create, that take you
to good descriptions of the products I recommend.)
*2
99mg Potassium/Magnesium
*1
Microhydrin
(A revolutionary antioxidant, only available from the manufacturer)
Some
things I take for cold sores and as a response to cold and flu season, I do not
consider these essential for all:
*1
500mg L-Lysine and
*1 500 mg extra 'C'
WATER:
I average 3 liters of ice cold water every day. (Cold water is purported to
raise metabolism, & I prefer it.)
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March
1 -4
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Have
been taking a break from logging every single little thing, but I will get
back to it tomorrow. TOM is here and I am currently 4.5 pounds up over my
all-time low weight.. and I'm battling a cold, too. :( Darn it.
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- March 5, Monday
- BR: 7AM Coffee with half and half cream, 830AM 1 EAS blueberry protein bar
- L: Not till about 3PM (oops), 3 Oscar Meyer weiners with some TLC
catsup, 2 cheddar string cheeses
- D: 630PM - 2 plain cheeseburgers
- Calories: 1729
- Fats:
122 gm, 67% of total calories
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(Saturated fats = 61 gm, 34%)
- Carbs:
20 gm (4 gm fiber) 16 net = 4%
- Protein: 117gm
= 29%
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Notes: Down 3 pounds this
morning (TOM left and took them with him - but they were all, of
course, recent gains due to his visit, and I am still 3 pounds
over my all-time low weight.)
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March 6,
Tuesday
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BR: 7AM Coffee with half and
half cream, 830AM TLC Blueberry muffins
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L: 1/2 oz. pepperoni
and handful of pistachios
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D: Chicken Alfredo, 1.5
servings, over top of 1 cup flash fried cole slaw mix. then 2 srv. instant
OIAB
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- Calories:
1784
- Fats:
148 gm, 74% of total calories
- (Saturated fats = 80 gm, 40%)
- Carbs:
26 gm (3 gm fiber) 23 net = 5%
- Protein:
94 gm = 21%
- Notes: Down an additional 1.5 pounds -
closing in my elusive all-time low weight again.... Hopefully, the third
time will be the charm that makes it stick for one than one day!!
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March 7,
Wednesday
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BR: 7AM Coffee with half
and half cream, 3 fried eggs, 1 oz. pre-cooked bacon, 1 piece toasted
Oroweat Lite with butter
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L: Fajita salad: bed
of Romaine topped with chicken breast strips, sauteed onion & red
pepper, cheddar cheese, sour cream, and salsa, also 1 Miller Lite
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D: Flash-fried deli roast
beef, 6 slices, with swiss cheese melted over, 1 Miller Lite, then 2 srv.
instant OIAB
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- Calories:
2543
- Fats:
180 gm, 69% of total calories
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(Saturated fats = 99 gm, 38%)
- Carbs:
47 gm (6 gm fiber) 41 net = 7%
- Protein:
139 gm = 24%
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- Notes: I am up half a pound, for
which I blame the beers, they get me every time. I might have been
okay had I not eaten OIAB in the evening on top of drinking the
beers..... it's no big deal though, I am feeling better, finally,
and will get on the treadmill today and lose it again.
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March 8,
Thursday
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BR: 7AM Coffee with half and
half cream, and here's where it gets weird - I bought a teeny container of
blackberries at the store and thought I would eat half of them for
breakfast, ever since I got sick I have been craving fruit like nobody's
business... so, I washed athem and ate one out of the colander, standing
over the sink.... all I can say is, I am glad I bought a teeney container
because I proceeded to stand there and WOLF DOWN every last one!! 5.6 oz
total, about a cup, not too bad... but then, I baked almond biscotti. I
changed the recipe thinking I could make them less fragile - haha! They fell
apart on the baking sheet and I stod there and proceeded to eat crumbs until
I had eat the equivelent of about six cookies! Then I got a grip on myself,
and skipped lunch to maybe make up for som of the berry carbs...
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L: None
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D: Here comes cravings again
- made TLC Picante and Guacamole. Ate 1 latortilla wrap with everything, ate
6 bite size Tostito chips with picante, one store-brand hard taco shell
broken up into chips (just 5 carbs each if you didn't know about those) and
another plate with just the fixings... would have probably been okay until I
made instant raspberry OIAB, too! :P Sheesh. Oh! I also drank 1 Miller Lite
with the Mexican food.
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Calories: 2308
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Fats:
177 gm, 73% of total calories
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(Saturated fats = 53 gm, 22%)
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Carbs:
95 gm (38 gm fiber) 54 net = 10% GULP!
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Protein: 87 gm = 16%
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Notes: I am up a pound, and
consider myself lucky that one pound is all it is! I don't feel too badly,
really, I think my body has been telling me for days 'hey I'm sick and I
want some fresh fruits and veggies' and so I gave it some. Wish I had
skipped the almond biscotti and the OIAB, is all... but I will do better
today! Going to make an omelette and top it with more fresh salsa, man is
that stuff GOOD! Will eat guac for lunch, too. But I hereby vow - no cream
cheese today - in any form!!!
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March 9,
Friday
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BR: 7AM Coffee with half
and half cream, and 1 srv. TLC almond biscotti - so much for the
omelette, which would have much been better for me... dang it.
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L: 6 slices pan
fried roast beef topped with my guacamole and picante sauce and a scant
bit of shredded cheese
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SN: 1.5 srv almond
biscotti topped with a tiny bit of whipped heavy cream sweetened with
Splenda
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D: Same as lunch, plus a
latortilla wrap made with seasoned ground beef and with the same
toppings. Later when I really, really, wanted OIAB I made do with 2
homemade vanilla creme sodas instead.
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Calories: 2271
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Fats:
168 gm, 69% of total calories (Saturated fats = 62 gm, 25%)
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Carbs:
64 gm (30 gm fiber) 34 net = 7%
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Protein: 136 gm
= 25%
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Exercise: 40 minutes on
the treadmill at 5% incline and 3 mph, plus 250 crunches
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Notes: Managed to forego
the cream cheese but I think I had too much whipping cream, and I need
to freeze the biscotti so I'll stop eating it, too.... No change on the
scale... Altogether, what a crappy day. First, I concussed myself by
allowing a 2 inch thick oak storage bench lid to FALL ON MY HEAD,
knocking my feet entirely out from underneath me and leaving me lying
face down on the pool room's wood floor, dizzy and nearly blind. I have
a lump the size of an egg and can't bend over without experiencing
excruciating pain but both my pupils dilate so I think I'll live. I
wasn't about to leave and go to the doctor, not with the repair lady
finally coming... About an hour later I walked into the bathroom and the
bathrobe hanging on the back of the door somehow knocked the flower
arrangement off the toilet tank, onto the soft carpet but still somehow
breaking the vase into long shards and spilling marbles all over the
room. Of course I cut myself trying to pick that up. Then I managed to
drop my dinner all over the bar and dropped the antique plate on the
floor... where it, of course, broke. Thinking 'oh no that's the end of
the guac', I went to scrape my dinner back off the fairly clean bar and
onto a new plate so I could eat it anyway and just managed to drop all
of the food onto the floor to join the broken pottery instead. I'd go to
bed early, where it is ?safe? but I need to stay up later than the
children, the horrors of not doing so are large and Mitch has been in
Nebraska for the last 3 days now, doing some electrical work for his
parents, so it is all up to me. And the 15 y.o. is going to the dance,
which lasts till 11. I did work out and I did get my washer fixed. $200
later, all for an $8 belt, due to a drywall screw that Mitch must have
been washing in the load that blew up the machine and which got into a
real bad spot. Sigh. This has been a really crappy day.....
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I tried to cheer myself
up by recounting the following story from last month and posting it
around on some LC boards:
- A month ago or so, my husband was
standing there next to the pool table talking to a couple guy friends
from work when my daughter came around the corner with a basket full of
my clothes that she had pulled out of the dryer, to get them out of her
way. She proceeds to dump them out on the couch just as I am coming
around the doorway from my bedroom, and what do I see but a whole pile
of my UNDERWEAR fall off the top of the pile to splay out across the
floor...
- I immediately started to feel sick to
my stomach, that deer-in-the-headlights kind of feeling.... and then
........ I suddenly realized ...... I WASN'T EMBARRASSED of my underwear
being seen by someone else any more! Hell, they are only size 7s, they
are just about 1/4 of the size of my old ones!!!!
- That was truly a good feeling, one
that I wouldn't trade for anything. I turned right around and
shut the bedroom door and sat down on the bed and just started to cry...
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March
10, Saturday
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BR: 7AM Coffee with half
and half cream, 11am, 2 fried eggs, 1/2 oz. bacon, and 1 slice LC toast
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L: nibbled on
fauxtato chips, an Atkins bar and had 1srv. instant OIAB
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SN: 1 srv almond
biscotti topped with a tiny bit of whipped heavy cream sweetened with
Splenda
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D: 1 small grilled
chicken breast and a small salad with romaine, cukes, and TLC ranch
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Calories: 1688
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Fats:
136 gm, 75% of total calories (Saturated fats = 56 gm, 30%)
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Carbs:
36 gm (9 gm fiber) 27 net = 6%
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Protein: 78 gm =
19%
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Exercise: off day
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Notes: Bit low on
protein, oops. Down a half pound this morning. AND IT IS SNOWING!!! so
maybe I will ski tomorrow and burn a couple thousand calories (though
that never seems to make me lose an ounce, which I do not understand).
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March 11,
Sunday
- BR: 7AM Coffee with half and half
cream, 11am, 2 fried eggs over the top of 6 slices flash fried roast
beef
- L: Fajita salad: bed of
Romaine topped with chicken breast strips, sauteed onion & red
pepper, cheddar cheese, sour cream, and my picante/salsa. YUM.
- SN: none
- D: New York strip steak, and
stir-fried veggies: 1/2 a zucchini, 1/4 of a turnip and several
rings of onion cooked slightly and quickly in olive oil. Drank half
a bottle of white wine with dinner and ate a huge bowl of instant
OIAB an hour after.
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- Calories:
2373
- Fats:
149 gm, 63% of total calories (Saturated fats = 72 gm, 30%)
- Carbs:
37 gm (4 gm fiber) 33 net = 6%
- Protein:
161 gm = 30%
Exercise: 40 minutes on
the treadmill at 3 mph and a 5% incline. Three times I revved it up to 5
mph and JOGGED for a minute at a time, this during the last 10 minutes of
the workout.... I can hardly believe that!
- Notes: Up 1.5 pounds. When I look
at my calories, I see that I ate more than half of them at
dinnertime, when I was consuming alcohol and had no chance at all of
burning them. If I want to start losing again and not just
maintaining, I need to consume the LEAST number calories in the
evening, ESPECIALLY when I drink and therefore pretty much stop my
metabolism in its tracks.... but this is life, and every once in a
while I AM gonna have a drink.... and a dessert... so I shrug my
shoulders and decide NOT to stew over the scale - it's just a number
and this is LIFE, which is much more important!
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- March 12, Monday
- BR: 7AM Coffee with half and half
cream, and an EAS blueberry LC bar in the car on the way up-valley
at 940am to ski! in the new spring snow we finally got
- L: took with: 1.5 oz. pepperoni, 2
string cheese, 1 Atkins bar
- D: Starving when I got home,
altogether I ate 1.3 oz pistachios, 1 srv. instant OIAB, 2 Carbolite
crispy bars, TLC green chili, and cheese quesadillas made with
latortillas, cheese, sour cream and tlc picante/salsa. YUM. At least
I ate the "sweet" crap early and not AFTER dinner...
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- Calories:
2619
- Fats:
181 gm, 71% of total calories (Saturated fats = 100 gm, 39%)
- Carbs:
61 gm (27 gm fiber) 34 net = 6%
- Protein:
134 gm = 23%
Exercise: skiied in the
heavy spring snow for 5 hours - a hard workout for sure :^)
- Notes: Once again I ate more
calories later in the day, nevertheless I did drop a half pound of
the gain-back. Well-worked muscle also tends to hold onto water, as
does all that fiber I ate, so I'm okay with the fact that I am 3.5
over my all-time low even today. I am okay with a LOT since I coulda
died - or worse - again - yesterday... that makes twice this week!
Thanks to God for allowing me to walk away both times! I got knocked
right out of my skis by a completely out of-control
snowboarder who I proceeded to teach a few new words to, all the
while threatening his life, telling him 'I bet you drive like that
too, you little ***hole, you know I have two snow boarders of my own
to support, at home, and how the hell would I do that with a broken
leg, huh? If you CAN'T HANDLE THE SPEED, slow the hell down - hey,
are you 18? cause if you are not a minor, I am gonna catch you and
beat the HELL out of you with my skipole... I don't EAT this much
snow without catching some MAJOR air first...." and ON and ON
and ON!!!! you shoulda been there, people, it was a real SHOW. I was
madder than I can remember being in a loooong time.... I was less
than 20 yards from the lift when this turkey came on me from behind
and ran RIGHT into me - he was actually on top of my skis for what
seemed like a long time, the first words out of my mouth were you
STUPID son-of-a-bitch, and the whole time I was whaling on him, I
know I sucker punched him in the kidneys at least ONCE before he got
away, and believe me, he wasted no time getting on the lift ... the
attendant SHOULD have stopped him from boarding but by the vehemence
of my response I suppose it was obvious that I wasn't seriously
hurt, just really pissed off...
There have been SO MANY incidents like this on the mountain lately,
one of our most famous Vail residents (Pepi Gramshammer, a former
Olympian) ended up in the hospital with all kinds of broken bones
recently and just 2 days before this happened to me, a 77 year old
retired ski instructor got his nose and ribs busted by another
hit-and-run boarder ... all I can say is, THANK YOU GOD, that is
twice this week I escaped death (or a fate much worse than that... I
keep envisioning myself sitting in the corner drooling with no brain
activity...) *shudder*
- March 13, Tuesday
- BR: 7AM Coffee with half and half
cream, 2 fried eggs, 1 oz pre-cooked bacon, 1 slice LC toast w/ TLC
strawberry jam
- L: 2 oz. TLC garlic pepper jerky,
1 TLC bran round cracker with 1 Tb. SF p-nut butter, .6 oz.
pistachios
- D: New York steak, 2 srv.
mockaroni and cheese, later 1 srv. instant OIAB
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- Calories:
2464
- Fats:
184 gm, 69% of total calories (Saturated fats = 89 gm, 33%)
- Carbs:
48 gm (12 gm fiber) 36 net = 6%
- Protein:
155 gm = 26%
Exercise: off day
- Notes: Went up a full pound. Too
much salt I think, I always salt my steak heavily and the jerky is
salty too. I am going to TRY a low fat/low carb day today and see if
I can shake things up. I looked back in Lifeform and I weigh the
exact same today as I did on New Year's Day, that is TEN WEEKS at
the same weight... and although I am not allowing it to make me
crazy, I do think some attempt to change my status quo is definitely
in order... Last night I dreamed about smoking, all night, and that
disturbs me.
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- I will NOT go back to old habits,
not smoking and ESPECIALLY not weight-wise. It it time to lose some
again. I WILL slam water all day. I WILL NOT eat any OIAB. I WILL
exercise.
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- March 14,
Wednesday
- BR: 7AM Coffee with half and half
cream, 1 slice LC toast w/ TLC strawberry jam (no butter)
- L: Taco Salad: 2 cups Romaine, 2/3
cup seasoned ground beef, 1/4 cup TLC picante, 3 Tb. sour cream (no
cheese)
- D: Prok Loin, 2 slices, abour 8
oz. (No anything)
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- Calories:
995
- Fats:
66 gm, 62% of total calories (Saturated fats = 30 gm, 28%)
- Carbs:
22 gm (7 gm fiber) 15 net = 7%
- Protein:
76 gm = 32%
Exercise: no, I meant to
but suddenly the day as gone and it was dinnertime...oops! Will do it
EARLY today.
- Notes: Lost 2.The same 2 that I
have lost at least 12 times now. I hope this time is the LAST
TIME!!!
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- March 15, Thursday
- BR: 7AM Coffee with cream and
nothing else - worked out early on the ol' empty stomach routine
- L: 1 srv. green chili, 1
latortilla filled with 2 HB eggs and 1 Tb. mayo. Had one bite of an
Optimum Nutrition toasted coconut bar and it was SO AWFUL as far as
aftertaste goes, I actually made a sm. srv. of instant OIAB just to
get the taste out of my mouth! Bleck poo-ey! YUK.
- D: Pork Loin, 2 slices, about 7
oz. , 1 srv. Mockaroni, later half a Carbolite Crispy bar - mannnn,
are they gooooood.
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- Calories:
1923
- Fats:
146 gm, 72% of total calories (Saturated fats = 64 gm, 32%)
- Carbs:
34 gm (15 gm fiber) 19 net = 4%
- Protein:
109 gm = 24%
Exercise: 200 ab crunches
(100 frontals in fetal advanced position, 100 obliques) plus 20 min. on
the treadmill at 6% incline, 3 mph, and I even revved it up to 5.5 mph and
jogged for the last 2 minutes. Jog is a word rarely to come from MY
mouth.... made sure to not eat anything for one hour after I finished
working out.
- Notes: No change, for which I can
no doubt thank the OIAB and the crispy bar... OK, I give.... no
sweets at ALL for a while!! Lower calories. More exercise. There's
something about declaring yourself to 1500 people that is sort of
intimidating, maybe that's why I blew it yesterday, but what is done
is done, and now it's time to make good on my very public
declaration. Think I will start today out with yogurt, going to try
to test out that theory about it not having all the carbs in it that
it says because they are used up in the fermentation process. Will
add raspberry DaVinci syrup and some Nutlette cereal (just like
grape nuts, but from soy). I have six new LC books on the way from
Amazon, as well, including the Go Diet, which I know includes daily
doses of live cultures and to me that says yogurt... if I keep my
calories low today, exercise, and still gain, then I will know the
yogurt theory is bogus, at least for me.. I will have to forego my
Friday cocktail to properly test this, but oh well... I am mid
cycle, there is no better time to test something... So here I go!
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- March 16, Friday
- BR: 7AM Coffee with cream, 3/4 cup
plain yogurt topped with 1/4 cup Nutlette cereal, and with some
raspberry DaVinci added... testing out the yogurt theory (the one
that says that 2/3 of the carbs in yogurt are actually "used
up" in the fermentation process so the labels are wrong)
- L: 1 la tortilla wrapped around 4
oz warm turkey with 2 oz swiss melted over it, and some jalapeno
mustard
- SN: 3 TLC Vanilla muffins modified
wtih flax seed, no SPlenda, amde with all whey - the EAS stuff works
just fine for baking...
- D: Went to the local Chinese
restaurant... we promised the boy we'd go soon, I had forgotten when
I started the great yogurt experiment... ate beef and broccoli with
no rice and no flour in the sauce. Didn't taste sweet at all...
after we got home I seemed unable to resist eating the other half of
my Carbolite bar though.. Anyway, all these numbers are just a
guess! since I had to estimate my restaurant food...
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- Calories:
2070
- Fats:
129 gm, 59% of total calories (Saturated fats = 57 gm, 26%)
- Carbs:
65 gm (22 gm fiber) 43 net = 9% - remember that 12 should be not
counted from the yogurt but I am including them in the count anyway)
- Protein:
158 gm = 32%
Exercise: 20 min. on
the treadmill at 6% incline, 3.5 mph - kicked my BUTT at that speed and
incline
- Notes: I am up 1.5 pounds, but
don't know whether to blame the yogurt carbs or the Chinese food...
I tend to point the finger at the Chinese food though... maybe I
will repeat the yogurt experiment today but I am thinking about
drinking tonight - it IS Saturday, and it IS St. Patrick's Day...
maybe I will just wait for Monday to play with yogurt any more...
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- March 17, Saturday
- BR: 7AM Coffee with cream, 2 TLC
muffins w/ 2 tsp. butter
- L: 1serving leftover Mockaroni
- SN: a Carbolite dark chocolate bar
*hanging head and feeling guilty since I just vowed to cut calories
and intend to cut AS too*
- D: Corned beef and cabbage...
really good, I finished it off in a 400 degree oven while the
potatoes (for the kids) and the cabbage (for us) boiled... also took
a cup of the broth out and added mustard, spices, SugarTwin br sugar
sub, sugar free honey sub, and boiled it down to a killer sauce that
I served over my cabbage and corned beef.. excellent!! After dinner
I decided to have a couple drinks while watching Gladiator and it
turned into 4 drinks of barcardi and Diet Rite cola. Then 1 cup of
microwave popcorn with the kids which was OK,. but I really didn't
need to go and make the humongous serving of instant oiab THAT I ATE
NEXT... ESPECIALLY AFTER THE ALCOHOL... Gosh I really BLEW IT. But I
stayed low carb so it could have been much worse!
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- Calories:
3401
- Fats:
243 gm, 79% of total calories (Saturated fats = 127 gm, 41%)
- Carbs:
44 gm (11 gm fiber) 33 net = 4%
- Protein:
110 gm = 16%
Exercise: off day
- Notes: I am up 2.5 pounds more...
putting me 6.5 above my all-time low - geesh, this is not good. But
I know what to do about it, now I just have to grit my teeth and do
it... one good thing, my whip cream machine is empty, LOL, for the
first time in ages, and I am NOT GOING TO FILL IT UP again for a
while!
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- March 18, Sunday
- BR: 7AM Coffee with cream 11AM 2
eggs plus 2 egg whites, scrambled with 2 slices Kraft Deluxe Am chz,
also 4-6oz leftover pork loin
- L: a latortilla stuffed with 4 oz.
deli turkey and some jalapeno mustard (no cheese, trying to cut
back) Then, since I was still hungry, one TLC muffin with a dab of
butter
- D: Elk meat from the crock pot
along with a salad. Then for some reason I finished my bottle of
white wine - 2 glasses. Then because I had the munchies (bad! and
because the wine makes me weak!!) I ate a Carbolite chocolate
bar! DANG. Doing good till the wine...
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- Calories:
2381
- Fats:
142 gm, 62% of total calories (Saturated fats = 65 gm, 28%)
- Carbs:
38 gm (13 gm fiber) 25 net = 5%
- Protein:
167 gm = 33%
Exercise: Sunday is
always an off day!
- Notes: Well I dropped half a pound
in spite of more calories than I planned... I note that my fat % is
lower, so I think that IS the way to go, at least for a while....
going to keep the fat DOWN there today! AND NO DRINKING!!!
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- March 19, Monday
- BR: 7AM Coffee with cream
- 11AM one hour after finishing my
workout: 3/4 cup plain yogurt with 1/2 cup Nutlette cereal and some
cherry SF DaVinci syrup in it
- L: a latortilla stuffed with
romaine and tuna salad
- SN: 4Pm - 8 slices of pepperoni
and 1 string cheese
- D: Leftover pork roast, small
salad with mustard vinaigrette and the last little bit of mockaroni,
about 3/4 of a serving
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- Calories:
1663
- Fats:
104 gm, 57% of total calories (Saturated fats = 43 gm, 24%)
- Carbs:
58 gm (23 gm fiber) 35 net = 9% except all the yogurt carbs
aren't "supposed" to count
- Protein:
139 gm = 34%
Exercise: 40
minutes on the treadmill, started at 6% incline and 3.5 mph for 8 minutes,
then dropped to 4% incline and 3 mph for 8 min, back up for 8, down for 8,
back up for 8.... kicked my BUTT....
- Notes: Well I dropped 2 pounds....
how come it comes off so much harder than it goes on.... the
"age-old question"....
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- March
20, Tuesday
- BR: 7AM Coffee with half and half,
2 fried eggs, 6 slices bacon, 1 pc. LC toast w/ butter
- L:1130AM Skiing: large salad with
pepperoni, pork loin, cheese, peppers, zuke, celery, ranch, 2 bran
crackerswith a wedge of laughing cow cheese spread, 1 Carbolite bar
- SN: when I got home I had a Pure
Delite mint bar too! Yikes
- D: Chicken Alfredo over stir fried
cabbage noodles
- SN: 2am 1 Atkins bar,
- 4am - double Diet Swiss Miss cocoa
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- Calories:
2469
- Fats:
173 gm, 67% of total calories (Saturated fats = 79 gm, 31%)
- Carbs:
59 gm (18 gm fiber) 41 net = 7%
- Protein:
146 gm = 25%
Exercise: Skiied
in the heavy spring snow, very strenuous - ouch!
- Notes: Even with the staying up
all night and eating in the middle of the night, I am down another
gained-back pound. Yippee!
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- March
21, Wednesday
- BR: 7AM Coffee with half and half
- L: 12PM - 1 latortilla with tuna
salad and 1 slice Kraft Deluxe american, 1 Atkins bar
- SN: Pure Delite mint bar with a
handful of almonds
- D: tops of 2 pc. Tombstone pizza,
2 bran rounds with 1 wedge Laughing Cow cheese
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- Calories:
1715
- Fats:
125 gm, 69% of total calories (Saturated fats = 50 gm, 28%)
- Carbs:
49 gm (21 gm fiber) 28 net = 7%
- Protein:
96 gm = 24%
Exercise: Off
day - I spent the night before and all day today transferring files from
old computer to new one, finished at 9 pm, took about 30 hours altogether.
Now if they would just hook up the DSL already ......... Can I just say -
it was worth the extra $ for the flat screen! Even if image quality IS
down a bit, you just can't beat the size!
- Notes: Whittled off 2 more pounds.
Yippee!
-
- March
22, Thursday
- BR: 7AM Coffee with half and
half, bacon pnut butter sandwich made with 1 slice Oroweat 9
grain lite, 1 Tb pnut butter, and 4 slices bacon
- L: 1PM - 2 OM weiners with `1
slice cheese, egg salad madew with 2 eggs, 1 Tb mayo, dipped up
with 3 celery ribs
- D: My favorite fajita salad:
1.5 cups romaine topped with 5-6 oz Tyson grilled chicken strips
that I flash fried with some gr. pepper and then topped with
melted cheddar, also 1/4 cup fresh picante sauce and 3 Tb. sour
cream. All we well to this point, less than 1500 calories but I
had the munchies baaaad. First, I made a yogurt smoothie with
ice water 1/4 cup plain yogurt and 2 Tb cream plus DaVinci
syrup. That just didn't cut it and at 11pm I found myself
filling the whip cream machine and making a huge bowl of instant
OIAB..... dang it.
-
- Calories:
2177
- Fats:
179 gm, 75% of total calories (Saturated fats = 82 gm,
34%)
- Carbs:
40 gm (6 gm fiber) 34 net = 6%
- Protein:
101 gm = 19%
Exercise: 250
ab crunches. The last 50 near to killed me. 20minutes on treadmill at
3 mph and 5% incline. Stopped a little early cuz planning to ski the
next day.
- Notes: My midnight snacking
brought back 1.5 pounds.... the worst part, is that I KNEW
BETTER. But it was bugging the hell out of me.... Sometime I
think when that happens, as long as it is infrequent, it is
better to have some (if it's something LC) and just get it out
of your system... or am I fooling myself... as long as I do not
find myself caving to the craving very often, I think it's
okay... I am deciding now whether to ski today or not - it is
too warm out there already and only 645am... maybe I will just
work out on the treadmill and take the motorcycle out for the
first time, instead! Dh is home (again he's driving me CRAZY) so
we could go together which is more than I can say about skiing.
GOT BAD NEWS YESTERDAY: When I called to check on my DSL order,
they said it would now be "about 45 days, at least".
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR. A month ago they said 2 weeks and a week ago
they said 1 week. This is killing me, maybe I should return to
the sattelite idea but now I spent that money for hardware on a
new digital camera instead... DAMNIT.
-
- March
23, Friday
- BR: 7AM Coffee with half
and half, bacon pnut butter sandwich made with 1 slice
Oroweat 9 grain lite, 1 Tb pnut butter, and 4 slices bacon
- L: 1PM - 1 atkins bar and
1 oz peanuts - my so-typical ate-in-the-car combo
- D: Pot roast, gravy made
with NotStarch, boiled mashed turnips, yellow wax beans.
Dessert: almond biscotti with a tad of whipped cream on top
-
- Calories:
1613
- Fats:
114 gm, 66% of total calories (Saturated fats = 31 gm,
18%)
- Carbs:
42 gm (17 gm fiber) 25 net = 6%
- Protein:
106 gm = 27%
Exercise: took
the day off
- Notes: Lost that pound and
a half - again.......
-
- March
24, Saturday
- BR: 7AM Coffee with half
and half, 2 fried eggs, 1 slice toasted Oroweat 9 grain lite
w/ 2 tsp. butter
- L: 1PM - OUT AND ABOUT on
the motorcycles! must be spring... stopped at a mexican
restaurant and had chicken fajitas over lettuce, hold the
tortillas, hold the chips and rice, please... also drank 2
Miller Lites there
- D: baked cod and steamed
cauliflower topped with 1 slice Kraft deluxe am chz, later 2
biscotti with whipped cream - it is all gone now, that may
help
-
- Calories:
2227
- Fats:
147 gm, 67% of total calories (Saturated fats = 47 gm,
21%)
- Carbs:
71 gm (20 gm fiber) 51 net = 10% (high from all the
sauteed green peppers and onions in the fajitas, and I may
have overestimated, which beats underestimating anytime in
my book)
- Protein:
114 gm = 23%
Exercise: 30
minutes on treadmill at 5% incline 3mph / last 2 minutes 5%
incline, 5 mph!! OMG, I was actually jogging - will wonders
never cease.....
- Notes: Up a half pound -
not bad, considering....
-
- March
25, Sunday
- BR: 7AM Coffee with half
and half, 2 fried eggs, 1 slice toasted Oroweat 9 grain lite
w/ 2 tsp. butter, 4 slices bacon
- L: 4 oz leftoverpot roast,
1 branacrisp cracker with 1 Tb pnut butter, 1 EAS apple
spice bar, I FOUND THEM in MY Wal-Mart, in sporting goods
next to the dumbbells! And although I usually don't like
that flavor in anything, I think I liked it the best in
these bars - how 'bout that!
- D: Roasted pork loin with
1 cup steamed zucchini topped with melted mozzarella, later
a Carbolite dark bar
-
- Calories:
2507
- Fats:
164 gm, 65% of total calories (Saturated fats = 67 gm,
26%)
- Carbs:
49 gm (13 gm fiber) 36 net = 6%
- Protein:
165 gm = 29%
Exercise: Sunday
is always an off day
- Notes: Down a full pound,
which surprised me some and is a good way to start a Monday!
-
- March
26, Monday
- BR: 6AM Coffee with heavy
cream, 9am 2 TLC muffins
- L: Busy Busy! At 3 pm I
nuked 2 oz of pepperoni and ate about 3 oz sharp cheddar
- D: 630p While
cooking: 1 large celery rib and one TLC bran round, with a
little cream cheese, then dinner - LC nachos: Lean protein
chips (this is the only way I can stand them, to cover up
the soy flavor) with 1/2 cup cooked burger, 1/3 cup shredded
cheddar (tried to be conservative w/ the cheese!), some
onions, tomatoes, sour cream and green Tabasco sauce. Pretty
good but oh boy! If I only knew someone who was rich, with
some venture capital, we would make MILLIONS making LC
convenience foods that taste GOOD. People pay 3.29/bag for
those chips and they taste like dogs***! Unbelievable!
-
- Calories:
2046
- Fats:
162 gm, 71% of total calories (Saturated fats = 82 gm,
36%)
- Carbs:
28 gm (3 gm fiber) 25 net = 5%
- Protein:
121 gm = 24%
Exercise: I
dressed in my workout clothes, does that count? Seriously, I was
busy all day processing orders and doing accounting stuff and when
I went to go work out at 330 I realized that I'd forgotten about
my newspaper column, and deadline was in 90 minutes! By the time I
finished that it was dinnertime... oh well, I am skiing today and
will get PLENTY of exercise!
- Notes: Down a half pound!
Still not losing new weight but just one more pound of
gain-back to go and THEN! .... I am going to break
200 before summer comes, I am determined....
-
-
- March
27, Tuesday
- BR: 6AM Coffee
with heavy cream, 830 1atkins bar
- L: Nice big fancy
salad w/ ranch + lil tuna
- D: pork loin 6 oz
leftovers - 2 fried eggs - 1 lc toast, later 1 carbolite bar
-
- Calories:
1833
- Fats:
118 gm, 64% of total calories (Saturated fats = 50 gm,
27%)
- Carbs:
44 gm (6 gm fiber) 35 net = 8%
- Protein:
115 gm = 28%
Exercise: skiing
for 4.5 hrs - am typing w/ 1 hand the other
in a sling - left elbow - just sprained i hope!! if swells a lot
or doesnt feel better after 48 hrs ice/immobility i'll get xray. i
skiied right out of left ski, going fast fast - made 1 turn, to
right, lol, then left - no ski-ack- fell hard - on my elbow. i
must have had clod of spring snow in ski boot, so binding let go
at first hard turn... stupid stupid unnecessary - i dont usually
fall at all... my fault duh!!!!!!
then same run matt my 9 y.o. was hit by hit-n-run adult skier...
***hole left scene - didnt ask if ok or anything - i was in front
of matt - against my usual rules - maybe good thing - i would have
chased down + bloody pulped the guy - i am a very unhappy skier
today.
-
- March 28,
Wednesday
- BR: 6AM Coffee
with heavy cream, 830 1vanilla muffin
- L: pork loin - 4
oz leftovers - 2 fried eggs - 1 lc toast
- D: salad w/ tlc
ranch, 1 hot link cut up with 1/4 cup spaghetti sauce and
1/3 cup mozzarella cheese - YUM! Later 1 pure delite
mint bar
-
- Calories:
1951
- Fats:
136 gm, 68% of total calories (Saturated fats = 51 gm,
25%)
- Carbs:
56 gm (15 gm fiber) 41 net = 9%
- Protein:
106 gm = 23%
Exercise: not
with this injured elbow, I even made an appt for an xray but think
I can live without it, now, as I write this 2 days later. Thank
God.
- Notes: down a half pound!
within half pound of all-time low - again....
:) this time I am going PAST that point, and no more
up and down.... you hear me, Whooshie?
-
- March 29,
Thursday
- BR: 10AM Coffee
with heavy cream, 1 oz peanuts
- L: 2 hot
links cut up and nuked, the grease blotted, then covered
with 1/3 cup spaghetti sauce and 1/3 cup mozzarella cheese
and nuked again
- D: Braised pork
loin (cooked the last of the huge honker, I'll never freeze
one whole again!) 3/4 c green beans, 1 c. boiled turnips,
both w / butter. Great up to this point but at 8pm TOM won
and I filled my whip cream machine and started making
instant OIAB... ended up eating 4 servings! Oh well, I know
from experience that I am bound to gain during TOM no matter
how good I am, might as well enjoy it a little. Especially
since I am up at 4am feeling like death, after tossing and
turning and writhing in pain most of the night. It's not
fair, this happens every 28 days like clockwork and I ALWAYS
think I am gonna DIE... Need to save the money to just have
all that useless stuff removed, I'm all done with it....Pain
pills just get me all wasted and stupid and meanwhile, I'm
still in just as much pain.. OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
-
- Calories:
2647
- Fats:
229 gm, 78% of total calories (Saturated fats = 115
gm, 39%)
- Carbs:
45 gm (8 gm fiber) 37 net = 6%
- Protein:
112 gm = 17%
-
- Notes: up 2.5 - so far.
Sigh. Re: yesterday's notes - I really should consult a
calendar before saying crap like that.
-
- March 30,
Friday
- BR: 8AM Coffee
with heavy cream, 2 Vanilla muffins
- L: 1Pm 1 Atkins
choco pnut butter bar, 1 oz. pepperoni
- D: 6pm - steak.
period. about 8 oz.
-
- Calories:
1560
- Fats:
119 gm, 71% of total calories (Saturated fats = 52 gm,
31%)
- Carbs:
19 gm (1 gm fiber) 18 net = 5%
- Protein:
91 gm = 24%
-
- Notes: Well, there's bound
to be first time for everything - I am down 1.5 pounds this
morning. Ate practically nothing, apparently trying to
compensate for the OIAB the night before... and it pretty
much worked, too ;)
-
- March 31,
Saturday
- BR: 9AM Coffee
with heavy cream, 1 oz (6 slices) pre-cooked Hormel bacon,
love that stuff! with 3 fried eggs and 1 slice Oroweat 9
grain lite, toasted w/ butter (WOKE UP HUNGRY!!)
- L: at the
wrestling meet, ate 2 percosets and munched on 2 oz maui
onion macs and half a Carbolite dark bar
-
When got home, made pork salad with 3oz shredded braised
loin & 2 tb. mayo, and put that on a latortilla w/
romaine.
- D: at the bowling
alley, 8 hot wings with ranch dressing, 2 Miller Lites.
Miller Lites finally set off the percosets, I guess, because
I went straight to bed when we got home and it was the first
time I didn't hurt, in days!
-
- Calories:
3001
- Fats:
219 gm, 73% of total calories (Saturated fats = 70 gm,
24%)
- Carbs:
54 gm (18 gm fiber) 36 net = 5%
- Protein:
144 gm = 21%
-
- Notes: Up just a half
pound, not bad - considering..
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