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Daily Cal–Goose

healthpact — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:20:20 +0000

Yesterday was a lot of emotional eating (a LOT) but I stayed within my calorie range. I am feeling better about today, though–for both lunch and dinner, I’m going places that feel like splurges, but where I actually get really healthy food (Chipotle, Moby Dick). I have no idea how this week’s (i.e. tomorrow’s) weigh-in is going to go, but I’m also about to get my period, so I feel like a week from Saturday is going to be a more accurate read-out anyway.

Breakfast: egg sandwich, 1 cookie (way to start the day off right)

Lunch: chicken breast, 1/2 a potato roasted, 3 more cookies

Dinner: Small Penne Rosa at Noodles and Co with double shrimp, 1 Weight Watchers Snickers ice cream bar

Total: 1442.

Slightly higher than normal, but surprisingly not by much. I think my appetite has finally caught up to my diet plan.

Today is October 1, which means today kicks off my 1000 fitness minutes in a month challenge! I took a rest day yesterday (first real one in weeks), and today it’s back on the elliptical to kick some ass. I’m planning on taking another run tomorrow morning, before our roadtrip, too.

Fitness Ahoy!

Back on the wagon by falling off the wagon…

healthpact — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:11:23 +0000

Eeep! I had an epic slide last night and blew my day and forgot to post, but here’s how it went down:

Breakfast:

- Granola Bar and Applesauce

- Coffee

Lunch:

- Falafel Pita with light yogurt sauce

- Salt and Vinegar Chips (fail)

- Low-fat fruit snacks

Dinner (prepare for epic fail):

- untold pieces of bread (ball parking a half a baguette)

- beef carpacio (this was actually probably fine, since there’s so little of it and it was with a ton of veggies)

- Scallops in some sort of cream sauce (even though this was probably no more than a fourth cup of scallops…that cream sauce was likely full of butter and…well, cream)

- 3 glasses of prosecco

I just need to buckle down the rest of the weekend. I’m still coming off of being starving from the race and I’m about to go on my voyage, so that’s definitely contributing.

I did yoga yesterday morning and taught last night, so I’m sure I probably came out pretty even on the calories scale, but I’m more interested in a decrease.

Using my bodybugg software today–will have calories to go with my meals!

Daily cal — goose

healthpact — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:47:49 +0000

Oy, yesterday was bad. Not food-wise, just bad. All that petty annoying stuff in the morning, and then finding out about Grandma. I managed to hold it together surprisingly well, though, food-wise. I broke my no-booze rule, and got almost no water, but ill hydrate like hell today to compensate.

Breakfast: .8 egg sandwich with cheese (200)
Pomegranate seeds (34)

Lunch: polenta thing (200), 2 cookies (118), 50 cal popcorn

Dinner: sushi (dragon roll, 1 cali roll, 2 salmon nigiri), 1 glass white wine

Total: 1261

Worked out at pt, all strength work, no cardio. Today is an elliptical day!

Daily Calories–Goose

healthpact — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:25:39 +0000

Yesterday was another good one–my efforts to eat more real food and less garbage/processed business is still going better than it was the last time. Efforts to keep to pescatarianism are going less well, but I’m trying to tell myself it’s a) much harder when I don’t buck up and meal plan, and b) at the moment, weight loss has to stay number one (I know that doesn’t work grammatically, but whatever).

So, yesterday.

Breakfast: most of an English muffin/Egg sandwich and five strawberries: 259

Lunch: chicken quarter (skin off), about 1/3 cup white rice, and a mini luna bar: 307

Snack: 1 small apple (63)

Dinner: Fried rice leftover (341), red peppers, and grape tomatoes (48), and a Weight Watchers Snickers ice cream bar (150 cal of ZOMG): 539

Total: 1167

Carbs: 162 (Goal: 170-210)

Fat :39 (Goal: 34-59)

Protein: 57 (Goal: 60-132)

Daily Calories–Goose

healthpact — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:30:11 +0000

Hey hey–looks like today was a pretty good day, calories-wise. I was worried because I was SO hungry earlier. I’ve been trying to avoid a pitfall I ran into last time, eating way to much junk food while still being calorie conscious, i.e. not eating nearly enough real food with vitamins. I think I’m doing better so far, but damnit those cookies are tempting.

Breakfast: Shrimp Lean Cuisine: 250

Lunch: Turkey cutlet with orzo and green beans, and one chocolate cookie: 376

Snack: 3 small apples (I was hungry): 125

Dinner: Shrimp fried rice: 535

Total: 1286

Working out was less today because of PT. I did some of the totally insane trampoline work outs, some strength exercises, and day 2 of the 100 push ups work out. All in all, no real cardio, but some good upper and lower body strength work, so I’m happy. Tomorrow is the real cardio day: me + new audiobook + elliptical. My tummy had better watch out.

Daily Calories

healthpact — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:32:39 +0000

Doing pretty well–had a higher calorie day, but I’m ok with that. Still well within where I need to be, and I actually hit my protein/carb/fat counts on Spark! Yay.

Breakfast:

4 oz smoked salmon

1/2 apple

1 Nutrigrain bar

Total: 295

Lunch:

1 Lean Cuisine

2 chocolate chip cookies

Total: 368

Snack:

1 more apple

1 bag of 100 cal popcorn

Total: 181

Dinner (iffy, because of how to calculate sushi…I guessed and added 2 tbsp mayo on there b/c I wasn’t sure how to account for Cheasapeake sauce of deliciousness): 548

Total: 1392.

No work outs really today–yesterday was enough that I wanted a break today. Back to it with PT and the push-ups challenge tomorrow.

We’re Back!

healthpact — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:19:06 +0000

Today was a great second day on for me back on the horse. To review, diet:

Breakfast:
Smoked salmon, 4 oz (133)
Raspberries (74)

Lunch:
Marinated chicken salad with caesar, feta, red onion, cucumber, and tomato: 350

Dinner:
Chop’t sandwich with cucumber, red onion, shrimp, carrots, mushrooms, and spa caesar dressing (298)
Raspberries (74)

Snack: A pita (165)

Spark nutrition breakdown:
Carbs: 117
Fat: 31
Protein: 79
Calories: 1097

I’m assuming that I under-calculated on at least some things, so we’re probably closer to 1200 or so. In any case, even with the pita snack, I’m still under on carbs and fat for what Spark wants me to have. Oh well.

I’m trying to eat more pescatarian, but it’s hard. Especially when, like today, I forgot to pick up lunch on my way to work, and when I’m trying so hard to be good…..ARGH. Frustrating.

Working out today was uber-successful. I did the first day of the hundred push ups challenge (11 push ups), 32 minutes on the elliptical (300 calories), and then came home and ran 1.36 miles with Jesse–the first time I’d ever run a mile in my Vibrams (about 140 cals). Feeling pretty awesome overall–I just need to work on getting more (healthy) carbs. Hope you had a good day, Maverick!

Yesterday’s Calories

healthpact — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:50:44 +0000

Okay, yesterday was a rough start to the calorie counting, but here it is:

Breakfast:
Oatmeal:110

Snack:
Apple: 81

Lunch:
Lean cuisine, 100 cal pack: 360 (this didn’t fill me up at all. it tasted like it was all sauce, so I doubt I even got the 360)

Snack:
Applesauce and fruit snacks: 252 (big mistake on the fruit snacks)

Dinner:
Salad and sweet flow: 725

Grand total: 1528–which is about 25 less than my cap, but I didn’t hit my burn, getting only to 2275, which is entirely my fault considering I was at the gym for a half hour, but totally failed to run. I sat on the bike, which doesn’t do much for me unless it’s a cycle class. Oh well, still over 700 calorie deficit!

Menu Planning

healthpact — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:54:38 +0000

Alright–back to the hard work of making eating right easy. This week will be rough, I expect–it’s always hard to get back on track. I’ve been semi-cheating. I suppose it’s good that I did it since I maintained weight–once I’m down to where I want to be, it’ll be easy to maintain. I think I’m going to stop at the grocery on the way out to pick Chadd up. Might as well menu plan in the mean time.

Monday: Sweetgreen with Katie (skimping on calories now to make up for that gigantic salad)

Tuesday: Chicken and Fresh Salsa (looks delicious and easy to reheat for lunch): http://www.self.com/fooddiet/recipes/2007/03/chicken-salsa

Wednesday: I bought some fresh greens at the market, which I’ll throw together in a pan with a little olive oil and some garlic (maybe truffle oil too!), toss a tiny bit of goat cheese in and have with chicken

Thursday: I picked up two buffalo steaks at the market too, so I’ll probably go ahead and marinate them on Tuesday night; and now I’m kicking myself for not picking up the fresh looking parsnips and turnips to sub for potatoes. Maybe I’ll mash cauliflower–that usually subs pretty well with a bit of cheese.

Friday: I’m not sure. I’ve pondered this and still haven’t come to a good conclusion. Probably means I have some more cookbook looking to do.

Yesterday’s Calories

healthpact — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:35:45 +0000

Yesterday’s calories.

Breakfast:
Oatmeal and coffee: 137

Snack:
Rice cakes with low fat peanut butter: 164

Lunch:
Left over eggplant thing, 100 cal pack, apple: 349

Snack:
Applesauce: 51

Dinner:
Sweetgreen salad, sweetflow, red wine: 825 (ugh)

Total: 1528

I have to start thinking about what to cut out of my sweetgreen. I know it’s the avocado that really push it through the roof. But it’s all so good together.

On the flip side, I got in morning yoga, and a run last night. So I hit my burn plus about 10 calories.