wekk 17 day 5

cal 1801
fat 63
fib 26
pro 76
sod 1930

the thing that i am most proud of for today, is that i took what i was going to make for dinner, looked at the sodium, and decided to try and make it myself. it was alright. not great, but it had a fraction of the sodium. as a result, my sodium is under, otherwise it would have been over. Plus, i was at the mall with a friend today, and we based our lunch on the healthiest desicion we could make. subway it was. the grilled chicken breast sandwich on 9 grain bread.

i am still feeling like crap. the medication to make my stomach stop hurting is giving me an awful headache. this is a side effect that should go away. fingers crossed cause i got a BUSY weekend!

week 17 day 4

after last night, i didn't want to track today. But I did. Aren't you proud of me? I also didn't want to eat, but i got hungry enough that i had to. I also had my appointment with the gastro-enterologist this morning. He thinks i have esophegeal spasms. The problem is that i am already medicated for the cause of those and shouldn't be having them. so he ordered a blood test to look for other things that could be causing my horrific pains. He also gave me a perscription and i am hoping to hell that it works because i have been in pain damn near every moment for the last 36 hours! It varies in strength which is the only reason i have survived today, but last night was rough.
This morning i thought i was being really good in getting a muffin from Tim Horton's for breakfast, something easy on my tummy and not bad for me. What a stinking joke that is! 400 calories??? 19 grams of fat??? and 660 grams of sodium?? What the hell!! as a result for dinner i was allowed 1/8 of a pizza and 1/2 cup of lentils. and a rum and honey later to keep my sanity. LOL

cal 2032
fat 71.3
fib 27.6
pro 76.7
sod 2087

i did a pretty good job of making up for it, i think.

week 17 day 3

well, i had a lovely day! and was very good with my numbers up until i went out for dinner. i deliberately kept my eating down through the day to compensate, and i have been down all week so i wasnt too worried about it. but then when i got home, i didn't how to figure out the nutritional information of what i had eaten. i used popular chain's similar food. i figure it at least gave me a ball park:

cal 2157
fat 95
fib 24
pro 100
sod 2063

not bad hey? except for the fact that i couldn't even get a ball park on my dessert. so that isn't in there. to balance that fact out? you will have to file this under TMI (Too Much Information) for certain! i had an attack of my stomach again! this was was AWFUL! and at around midnight, i puked up everything i had eaten since late afternoon. happily, as soon as i vomited, i felt better. unhappily the pains woke me up from a dead sleep again an hour and a half later. how on earth do you figure your numbers out under those circumstances? i forgave myself the cake, and figure i had to have digested some of it. :D

obviously i am writing this tomorrow, but i changed the date for consistency :P

week 17 day 2

I have been super proud of my eating lately and today was along the same lines it has been.

cal 1991
fat 60
fib 38
pro 88
sod 2033

everything was under except my protein.. and i have found a way to get that up too. lentils. 3/4 cup of lentils has 27 grams of protein. so i need to start incorporating that into my lunches maybe. it is also really high in fibre, 16g.. my fibre is already high... i think i need to up my water intake.

week 17 day one

another awesome day! i am a bit hungry, but not willing to go over my goal numbers

cal 1997
fat 58
fib 32
pro 88
sod 1357.2

see that sodium?? are you looking?? that is almost HALF of what i am allowed!! woo hoo!! as long i don't eat anything out of the house, i am good. i took my son to mcdonald's today.. the only thing i ate was 1/4 of his hamburger. i waited until i got home and i wouldn't normally have done that. even my protein is pretty close.

week 17 weigh in

OMG!! I am trying to hard not to jump around the house!!! i am down 4 more pounds!! 4!! in one week!!

my total? i am down 18 POUNDS!!!

yes, i am happy :D

i need 12 more in 9 weeks..

sun

cal 1726
fat 42.5
fib 23.7
pro 72.7
sod 2110.2

under on everything except fibre, which is good for everything except protein.. still working on it. going to pick up some canned tuna.. hope that will help me get my protein up.

sat

cal 1850.5
fat 65.7
fib 15.6
pro 58.3
sod 1802.2

i think i made up for yesterday's sodium overdose nicely.. fat was on target, fibre low, but again yesterday's was high so i feel good.. that protein is so hard to get up there..

week 16 day 5

I am posting this after the fact, so i don't know what my state of mind was :) but i think i did pretty good, except for the sodium... surprise, surprise.

cal 2092 - under a bit.. good
fat 69.5 - over 5.5 g.. not bad
fib 30.75 - over 8g.. hope i drank enough water lol
pro 82.75 - not quite high enough.. but not bad
sod 3380 - killer! over by over 1000g and all because of a mcdonald's mediterranean salad with grilled chicken. what the hell? you try and be all healthy. i think they are trying to kill us.

week 16 day 4

well, not as bad as yesterday but still over and far from what i wanted. hubby, damn him, brought me home a lindt lemon ginger chocolate bar. and, while i only had three squares of the f&*(ing thing, it killed me.

cal 2690
fat 85
fib 25
pro 83
sod 1843

on happy news, my sodium was 500 under!! trying to find positives here, people!!

week 16, day 3

alrighty.. not my most successful day.. as a matter of fact, it probably can go up as the worst day i have tracked. it is stunning that i even finished tracking because i knew i had screwed up, but i did. it was, to balance it out, my most sucessful cleaning day in weeks, though. do you think that helps?? LOL..

cal 2831 well, 700 calories over.. shit
fat 74 over 10grams... again, shit
fib 38 way over.. i better go drink a lot of water :)
pro 96.5 perfect
sod 2754 sadly, i dont' think that is the worse sodium i have had lol..

at least i can laugh about it... does it sound like i am laughing?? i am actually trying to bend my leg around the wrong way to kick myself in the ass. there is no making it up.. i will just try harder to have a better day tomorrow, and keep tracking.

week 16 day 2

i almost wasn't going to post today because i broke down and had a take out burger and it KILLED my numbers. but i figure good or bad, it's gotta be posted. *sigh* and then, last night was my quilty meeting and i had two cookies and two pieces of loaf and i there is no way i could even wing the numbers for those. so here is everything except those:

cal 1790.3 well under
fat 68.7 over 3.5 grams, not awful
fib 14, not fantastic
pro 95.2 bang on!
sodium 2796.5 *sigh* way over... by over 400 grams

week 16 day one

i am SICK people.. SICK! i am on antibiotics! lol.. i was mostly fine until last night and it really hit me. my neck and throat are KILLING me! and i went grocery shopping today, stupid. ah well.. i tracked and did pretty good, mostly due to my 2 hour nap and balanced out by hubby making dinner. i TOTALLY appreciate it! but it leaves me with no control and having to ask him very pointed questions after the fact to figure out how to track my caloires, etc. here goes:

cal 2215.4 over a bit, less than 100 calories, i can live with it
fat 63.5 perfect
fib 26 over, lovely
pro 109 finally got that up a bit
sod 2123 probably underestimated, i think i left out the marinade for the steak

week 16

I am so incredibly happy!! i weighed myself this morning and i have not only managed to undo all the weight i put on at retreat, lost some, put back on at easter and then went all premenstrual... i lost all of it and i am down one more pound!

weight -14lb

it is not quite where i am supposed to be given my timeline for the year... i should be at least three more pounds down for wekk 16, but i am very happy and i will catch up to where i should be within the next few weeks.

i need to try and lose 16 pounds in the next 10 weeks.. still sounds reasonable.

today:
cal 2098, under
fat 59, under
fib 19, just fine
pro 73, alright
sod 2059, under!

I ROCK! ;P

week 15

Alrighty.. i said this before, but getting back on track. i have roped my really good friend into tracking too, so we are now obsessively calling eachother to find out calories, and how the other is doing. It is REALLY helping! I am not yet back into the other parts of my ideals.. but i am getting there. just getting the eating back under will help alot, though.
I have also been premenstrual for over a week, which made things impossible. i had an interruption in my cycle last month, and my body is trying to sort itself out again and it has been hard on me. i have been craving everything! cranky, bloated, crampy and achy. It seems to have calmed down, fingers crossed.

yesterday:
cal 2129.7 perfect!
fat 53 under!!
fib 26 over!!
pro 68 ok
sod 2104 UNDER!! WOO HOO!!

today:
(assuming i can resist the cupcakes that my f^&king hubby decided to make)
cal 2036 great!
fat 62 great!
fib 18 good!
pro 55 alright
sod 2357 over a tiny bit.. still woo hoo!

I think next week i will try and slowly get back into some of my other objectives.

week 14 day 5

cal 1754 under
fat 69.3 over by 4g
fib 15.5 fine
pro 68 ok
sod 2401 close enough

good lordy it has been hard keeping my calories and that down. i am hungry all the time and trying to hard not to snack, and eat stupid things. my calories were under by about 4oo, but i was already over in my fat and sodium.. what the hell are you supposed to eat that has calories, no fat, but fibre and protein? i couldn't figure it out either LOL. steps were around 7,000 which isn't wonderful but i had a delicious 1.5 hour nap! it was amazing.

week 14 day 4

cal 2202 over 43, not bad
fat 105 over 40, not good
fib 16.6 under a bit
pro 96 under, but still ok
sod 2452 pretty close!!

and i had gymnastics with my son (which was a killer as usual, i was actually dripping with sweat), and my steps were 7,800. i am going to get back into the green tea in the mornings, it starts my day off mindfully.

week 14, day three

I think i need to start posting my tracking again for accountability. i took awhile, but i pieced my day together, and used my recipe caluclator to figure stuff out. things like homemade bread i find really hard to figure out and that website helps. assuming i get around to filling in the information :). so i did and here is yesterday

cal 2756.5
fat 94.3
fibre 12.1
protein 83.3
soduim 3596

i did alot of cleaning while plugged into my mp3 player, and the cleaning was incidental to the boogying that happened ;)... i put on 3,000 steps mostly thank you to 'single ladies'. my steps were 10,000 for the day.

week 14, day one

alright, i had lost two of four pounds i found on retreat, but then easter happened. *sigh* and back up two again.. so i am still -4 from where i was, which really means -9. it is still a minus, but i am unhappy.

i am back under control as of today, tracking (mostly), and i was SUPER productive in house stuff today!! 6 loads of laundry (all but one put away), stripped all beds and changed sheets, took my daughter's bed apart to clean underneath it, cleaned one of three bathrooms, cleaned my son's bedroom (he is only 2, it was pretty easy), took the kids out for lunch with friends, and entertained one of my friends and her boys. it is 8:30pm and i am at 9,000 steps.

Tomorrow's list is at least as long, plus i have some running around to do.

My house is still trying to recover from my mom's visit. i neglected all my cleaning for her entire two week visit, and another week. everything needs attention, all the laundry needs doing this week, the rooms and bathrooms are AWFUL. but it was a good visit. i hope to hell i can get all my stuff back on track this week and have a great weigh in for monday. fingers crossed.

btw, it wasn't a gall bladder attack that i had. i don't have gall stones. he thinks it might be my hiatus hernia *sigh*.. not sure, have to see the specialist.