A Day In The Life Of Me

food Friday:

breakfast: protein powder with 1% milk

snack: 1% cottage cheese with frozen blueberries and peaches

lunch: grilled catfish, grilled shrimp, side salad with ranch dressing, grilled vegetables and mashed potatoes

snack: protein bar

dinner:  trail mix

totals:  cals 1710  prot 113 g  carb148 g  fat 66 g; ratios 30/35/35

saturday was a horrible day, I don’t remember anything I ate except for dinner, I made chicken fajita tacos.  used chicken breast, light sour cream, reduced fat cheese, grilled red and green bell peppers, black olives, grilled mushrooms, whole wheat tortillas. (2)

sunday, another crappy day:

breakfast: light blueberry muffin, 1% milk

lunch: berry smoothie with protein powder

dinner: grilled on the grill bbq chicken, grilled vegetables, pringles sweet potato crisps

did jump rope for 15 mins also!! yeah! haha

totals:  cals  1140  prot 109g  carb 121 g  fat 24g; ratios: 40/40/20

haven’t really been "planning" my meals for the day, and you can see how my ratios are all messed up.  Will try harder to get back on track this week.

Well, I’ve been entering my food on the daily plate dot com just because I can select my food from a frequently eaten list and it’s easier than typing in on my spreadsheet lately… lol  and guess what?  They have an activity selector too, where I can put in my cardio/workouts etc.  They even have sex… you can put in moderate or vigorous (VIGOROUS - now that sounds scary !! ) and it figures how many calories you probably burned, based on your weight.  HMMMM.

ANYWAY, I won’t really include that for YOU, I’m sure you dont’ need to know THAT much information LOL!!!

food for Thursday:

breakfast: Fiber One bar, protein shake made with 1% milk

snack: 1% cottage cheese with frozen peaches and blueberries

lunch: salad with 4 oz grilled chicken, light salad dressing.  THEN, as I’m still hungry, someone brought a bucket of KFC with all the fixins’… i had 2 wings, 2 biscuits and a small bit of coleslaw…

snack: protein powder shake made with water (YUK!!! Rootbeer float should only be made with MILK!!!)

dinner: Michael Angelo’s Lasagna with meat sauce

I had about 40 oz of water and 1 12 oz can of diet rootbeer, and about 16 oz of crystal light.

totals:  cals 1915  prot 159g carb158g fat 77g, comes out to 1961 cals, and a 33/33/34 ratio… HMMM.  weird day.

no "official" exercise, lol, see TMI note above. haha. 

OMG, what happened… I had a complete meltdown in the afternoon.  I got seriously sad about ?? and I had a craving for black licorice.  I had to go to Walmart for work, and I had change in my pocket (which is very unusual) and the licorice was on sale…  very weak moment on my part.

no workout wednesday, unless you count carrying buckets of water and a bunch of hay… 

food:

breakfast: oatmeal, 1% milk and craisins

snack: 1% cottage cheese with sliced frozen peaches

lunch: Healthy Choice slow roasted turkey breast entree

"snack"  the whole 1lb bag of Twizzlers.  (hanging my head in shame)

dinner: turkey burger on a white bun, pringles select cinnamon sweet potato crisps

I did manage to get in 2 20oz bottles of water, 8 oz of crystal lite, and a 12 oz can of fresca. 

totals:  cals 2936 prot 117g  carb 504g  fat 49g, ratios 15/70/15 OMG….    total up the grams/cals the way Paula does it, comes to 2925 cals for the day… 

I felt horrible last nite.  Not just for being ‘weak’ and stoopid, but actually physically.  I was stuffed for one thing, and my belly didn’t feel real good.  GEE, HOW COULD THAT HAVE HAPPENED??  lol  I had already planned the burgers for dinner, Dave was grilling them and I asked him to make mine turkey, and I had been looking forward to it for several days, so I didn’t want to skip that.  But I obviously changed out my afternoon snack.  But it was only 120 cals, don’t think it was an even exchange…

Maybe this is a lesson learned… ARGH.

STILL haven’t gotten in my workout!!  This is bugging me, I feel blobby on the inside.  My weight is holding steady, and my clothes still feel great, but I miss that energy rush and feel good feeling all day long.  Hopefully this crazy stuff will settle down now and I can get back into my groove.

Food for tuesday:

breakfast: light whole grain english muffin with nat peanutbutter and SF jam, crystal light

snack: cottage cheese

lunch: HEB fatfree seafood salad on a pita pocket, salad with light dressing

snack: protein bar

dinner: two triangles of a grilled chicken and veggie quesadilla on whole wheat tortilla, light cheese and light sour cream, with a dab of guacamole

snack:  McD’s fruit and yogurt parfait with granola

totals:  cals 1005  prot 66g carb 131g fat 28g, added up Paula’s way: 1240 cals (lol), ratios 25/50/25  not great for what I like, but it was a *! I ran out of food-need to go to the store-!* kinda day.    Still either way, I’m under what I want for calories, so that makes up for Monday when I know I had 1509 cals by lunch time… BLAH.

I did get in 48 oz of water, and had NO SODA!  YAY!  Today I have a sinus headache though, I know its not caffeine because my neck is stiff too.  I might have a fresca with lunch… but I’m getting ahead of myself. haha.

Yesterday, Easter Sunday, day 14, I am just going to skip 

TODAY however, I AM GOING TO WORKOUT!!  When I get home tonite, I am going to wear myself out.  I need it, I feel like it…

I’m going to change up my routine slightly, going to alternate between the circuit routines and some lifting.  Going to specifically target my arms and my BUTT.  lol  I’m really liking the core exercises I’ve been doing, so going to keep them in there.

I feel energized, amazing what a great weekend with your honey can do for you lol. 

Will post my food tonite before bed.

I had a busy day, but I think I managed to eat right…

breakfast: Kashi Mountain Medley granola with 1% milk

lunch: subway grilled chicken breast with swiss cheese, veggies, no other condiments, on white italian bread, cheddar sun chips and diet coke

"snack" 2 small leftover pieces of pizza (they were tomatoes only)

dinner 4 oz chicken breast and a light whole grain english muffin with nat peanutbutter and sugarfree jelly.

drank water and crystal light, had a late night with church, and driving.  Got a lot of sleep though!!

happy easter!

Have off today, I’m so messed up! haha.

No workout, did some cleaning though.

Here’s my food for today:

breakfast:  oatmeal with 1% milk and craisins

lunch:  can of tuna with 1 cup of black beans

"snack" 1 peanut butter egg and a small handful of bunnie M&Ms… it’s Easter… lol

supper:  yogurt, protein powder, peanut butter and a banana smoothie.

I might have a 1/2 cup of fat free seafood salad still, if I’m hungry, and I’m going to push more water.

I’m sorry I"m slacking on my totals, hopefully next week will be normal!!

I did have an adjustment this morning, early, took care of my horse, did some cleaning…   tomorrow have some errands to run, then I am off to spend the rest of the weekend with Dave.  I’ll be bringing my food, but I’m sure we’ll be eating some "off menu" items too…  I will try to post from there.

HAPPY EASTER!!!

Sorry Paula!!  lol  Today, I had oatmeal for breakfast.  I added protein powder to it because I was in a hurry and didn’t want to fix my egg beaters.  I must be doing something wrong, I read lots of peoples’ blog where they mix protein powder with their oatmeal, and it’s MMMM !  YUMMY!  Maybe it’s just cuz mine is chocolate?  YUK!!  I ended up throwing about 1/3 of it away, I just couldn’t eat any more of it.

Snack 1% cottage cheese

Lunch salad greens, 4 oz grilled chicken breast, olive oil/apple cider vinegar, SF Jello

Snack protein bar

Dinner:  decided on a cheat meal, got pizza.

I don’t know what these calories add up to today…  I need to get in about 3 more waters before bed.  My kidneys hurt!!  I think they’re just dry lol.

I"m going to bed early, going to sleep IN tomorrow!  Hopefully I can get some kind of workout in, too.  JEESH.   At least my weight this morning I was happy with… not going up!!

This weekend is going to be busy, with Easter and everything.  But at least I will get to spend it with Dave.  As long as he doesn’t have to work… 

As if my horse stress, my "personal" stress and my back pain aren’t enough, now my boss who thinks she owns everyone, has sent me to the Houston Warehouse.  Wednesday, Thursday and Monday.  It’s not even necessary - the gal who’s taking vacation has 3 or 4 other people there, competently trained, to take over for her, and have in the past.  I was just sent there for the inconvenience, I know it… and because I’m slow in my own warehouse.

JEESH.  *grumble* *complain* *whine*

my food today:

Kashi mountain medley granola with 1% milk

a dannon i think yogurt smoothie with splenda (60cals 6prot 4carb 2.5fat)

3 oz of chicken, a protein bar, 1% milk

veggie chili, low fat sour cream, tostitos light chips.

Hmmm.  1 water, 1 soda.  Guess I’d better push more water before I crash in my bed…   I can’t even figure out today’s food…  I need sleep.  Hopefully I can plan tomorrow’s meals better!!!  At least they will let me go home at 3, so I don’t have to fight traffic.

Oh, had another adjustment today, I am feeling MUCH better.  One more tomorrow.  Took my horse to the clinic to have her drain removed, and she is doing great.  My other "personal crap" is getting better, my brain shuts down every once in a while (that’s a good thing) so I’m not constantly thinking about it.

Tomorrow is another day!!!!

I guess I haven’t done too much damage, my weight was down this morning… 156.0  This is the only reason that I would welcome the stress I’ve been in …  have some other huge personal crap going on, too, and yesterday I just didn’t feel like eating at all.

So today, not much better, but a little, I have all clean food to eat.  So far:

breakfast: egg beaters and my usual oatmeal

snack:  1% cottage cheese and an apple

lunch:  a weight watchers frozen salmon entree, with an extra can of salmon thrown in, big veggie salad with light vinagrette salad dressing.

snack: protein bar with 1% milk.

dinner:  not sure yet…

totals from what I’ve figured so far, not counting dinner:

cals:  1145  prot 106.53  carb 133  fat 22.4

I think this is coming out to 35/45/20  not great, but not bad.  I think I can pull dinner out from here 

If my back doesn’t hurt too bad, I will try my cardio kickbox tonite.