Wow! Wow! Wow!!! I am IMPRESSED with the Calorie Count website!!! I logged in today and for the first time entered my food. The first thing I like is that I can put in any recipe and it will give me a nutrition label for that recipe. Also, when you put in your food for the day it gives you an overall grade for the day--today is A- for me. Then I got a neat surprise! There is a little link that will tell you if you are missing any major nutrients. It was lit up so I clicked. First, I have too much sodium (no surprise), but then I am also short on iron and potassium! Big surprise! I'm eating a banana and also sweet potatoes. It will be neat to see if this is a trend, or if I'm just a little short today.
Today's food is not far out of the common way for me, but it IS neat to see the calories and nutrition facts as I go. Here's what the plan is for today:
Breakfast--two pieces of diet toast with I can't believe it's not butter
2 clementines
1 oz cheddar cheese
1 cup milk
1 glass diet juice (5 cal)
diet hot chocolate with light whipped cream.
Snacks
baby carrots
3/4 cup caramel cheerios
Lunch
1 naan bread
1 laughing cow wedge
black bean, tomato and feta salad
1 cup o soup
banana
Dinner
turkey burger--with all fixings
sweet potato fries with ketchup and horseradish
All this comes out to about 1850 cal. Just right. However, being the total marshmellow that I am, I will probably have a small piece of chocolate after lunch and 100 to 200 calories worth of gooey brownie tonight. STILL not bad, but I might even see if I can skip the brownie (or at least have a very tiny piece), I'm excited to have a really good day.
Also fun today--I got my book "marathon made easier!" YAY!!! It IS the one I had from before Catherine was born and at my peak I could jog for 45 minutes without stopping. That's where I want to get to again. I want to do a 5K fun run and not come in last. The first week plan has me jog for just 5 minutes, then 8 minutes then 5 again. I must email Catherine--we're going to do the Salt Lake half-marathon in April and we need to get busy to prepare. Well, at least I do. Catherine has a killer of a dance class to help her get ready.
Losing weight in spite of myself.
I began this blog in February 2011 as a way to help me not quit trying to lose weight, and to learn a few things. It's been an interesting and powerful experience. It certainly confirms what I've long suspected--that although I am a genuinely happy cheery person in the main, I am NOT a happy cheery dieter. I DETEST losing weight. I resent being overweight in the first place and I am a virtuoso in the art of self-sabotage. And YET--I'm doing it! I'm fighting and kicking and EATING all the way down, but the weight is finally going down. The plan I was following in February was a half-baked one largely based on wishful thinking. I gained a little weight and decided to get real. I knew I couldn't just join weightwatchers or count calories or do any one plan and expect to be successful. I decided if I was going to bother to make the effort to lose weight I was going to throw everything I could think of at the problem. And so I do. My real "Day One" for this blog is April 1, 2011. I joined weight watchers, I joined caloriecount.com (awesome website), I read the blog losingweighteveryday.blogspot.com religiously, I keep this blog faithfully, I joined the health programs sponsored by my insurance, I use the principles from overeater's anonymous, I use my church's 12 step program as well, I subscribe--and use--Healthy Cooking Magazine.
The result of all this? Painfully slow progress (About 20 lbs in 10 months). But it IS progress and like the little engine that could I keep on trying in my rebellious way. I have no intention of quitting. This is by far the longest sustained weight loss effort I've ever made in my life. Successful I think, because for the first in my life I've done this MY way--which I've discovered, involves a lot of pizza and restaraunt food. I'm convinced this is the only way to lose weight. For me it must be MY way. For you it MUST be YOUR way. Not weight watcher's way, not your doctor's way, but YOUR way. Any plan or idea I use is only a tool.
The latest plan to lose weight my way began on Oct 29, 2013. It really is my own crazy plan. As you'll see if you read that post. I've implemented the best ideas of all sorts of eating plans and thrown out the scale. A couple of months in and I'm definitely healthier. I'm actually enjoying myself. I won't weigh until April 1, 2014, so I'll see then if this works the way I hope it will.
There is no magic weight loss bullet. But there IS a great deal of magic in the discovery of what I can happily live with (very different from what weight watchers tells me I can happily live with) and still have the body and health I want.
Good luck to all of us on this journey. It's quite a trip!
The result of all this? Painfully slow progress (About 20 lbs in 10 months). But it IS progress and like the little engine that could I keep on trying in my rebellious way. I have no intention of quitting. This is by far the longest sustained weight loss effort I've ever made in my life. Successful I think, because for the first in my life I've done this MY way--which I've discovered, involves a lot of pizza and restaraunt food. I'm convinced this is the only way to lose weight. For me it must be MY way. For you it MUST be YOUR way. Not weight watcher's way, not your doctor's way, but YOUR way. Any plan or idea I use is only a tool.
The latest plan to lose weight my way began on Oct 29, 2013. It really is my own crazy plan. As you'll see if you read that post. I've implemented the best ideas of all sorts of eating plans and thrown out the scale. A couple of months in and I'm definitely healthier. I'm actually enjoying myself. I won't weigh until April 1, 2014, so I'll see then if this works the way I hope it will.
There is no magic weight loss bullet. But there IS a great deal of magic in the discovery of what I can happily live with (very different from what weight watchers tells me I can happily live with) and still have the body and health I want.
Good luck to all of us on this journey. It's quite a trip!
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