Hey Kristi ~

I too know about Mama issues. Mine is a "food pusher" and is one of my biggest obstacles! I too am having to make some hard choices.
Good luck!

Hey, thanks for the encourgement you gave me. I appreciate it!

Hey Grits,
Good luck with your mom too...mine won't return any phone calls and I even tried going over. She wouldn't answer the door. I'm giving up for now. :/

Breakfast: none...not feeling good.

Lunch: Kashi frozen meal= sweet and sour chicken. 18 grams of protein. 3.5 grams of fat. 320 calories. 6 g. of fiber. 2%cottage cheese, blueberries, grapes, handuful of Kashi Go Lean Cereal. Water to drink.

Snack: 1/4 cup of Kashi Go lean cereal. blueberries. whole milk (at someone else's house and that's the only milk she had.) 1 slice "cinnamon raisin Ezekiel Bread" 1 tbl. natural peanut butter.


Used my friend's exercise bike: 4 miles. 16 minutes. weight exercise: 5 pound hand weights

I loved it!! and it went by sooo much faster than the treadmill. I'm going to talk it over with hubby about saving up for one.

Dinner: 1/3 cup of cooked wheat spaghetti. 1/4 cup of spaghetti sauce(lean ground beef and sauce) 1/2 of a 2% mozzarella cheese stick. asparagus, butter, parmesan. small piece of bread from the bakery with red peppers,artichokes,eggplant. couple sips of pomegranate juice.

couple sips of coffee with 2 splenda packets and 1/8 cup of half and half.

222 lbs. this morning.

Next month I'm getting an exercise bike and Wii-fit.


Late breakfast: half cup of cooked whole wheat noodles and half a cup of tomato sauce with lean beef-sprinkle of parmesan. Half a stick of 2% mozzerella. 5 cinnamon raisin bagel crisps-130 cal. for the serving of crisps. 1 c. of 1% milk to drink.

Late lunch:Protien shake=1 scoop of powder mixed with 1 C. 1% milk. 1 piece of wheat bread with pb, 1 strawberry and a couple of blackberries. 10 almonds, 3 almonds that had dark choc. on them, and 2 dried cherries.

I joined FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal and am going to start counting calories! SCARY!!!!!!

Breakfast: 532 Calories ....AHHHHHHHHHHH! omg. wow.
30 g. Protein

Lunch: 487 calories........ eye opener....
39g. Protein

Totals so far:
1,109 Calories
46 g. of fat
112 g. carbs
70 g. protein (They must round up b/c it was 69 when I calculated..)

Anyway, big eye opener... Didn't do incredibly bad but I haven't even eaten dinner yet and it just seems like a lot when you really keep track of it!

copied from Fitday:

Weight Goal Stats
Current Weight
Your weight is 222 lb as of 07/16/2008.

Weight Goal
Your goal is to weigh 199 lb by 10/25/2008

Goal Progress
You are currently 23 lb above the target weight.

The deadline for your goal is 101 days (14 weeks, 3 days) away.

To meet your goal you need to lose about 1.59 lb per week.

Fitday totally surprises you with how much you eat. I thought I was eating like 1400-1500...but i was eating like 1800!!! I was like omg.

Exercise bike is fun! I use it sometimes to switch it up from the treadmill. I think it's good to go back and forth between running/other type of cardio. Have you tried the elliptical? I didn't think I saw it in there reading back through your diary. I loooove me some elliptical!

You're doing great and fitday helps a ton with the calorie management!

Dinner: Me and Hubby and our little boy went out to eat. We decided on Apple-bee's since they have the low calorie menu and I would know exactly how much I was eating. I ordered the Tortilla Chicken Melt= Whole Wheat chicken wrap with chicken,veggies,reduced fat cheese, and fat free ranch dressing. Grand total of 450 calories...BUT I only ate half. Go me. 225 Calories for dinner. I got a glass of ice water with lemon....I did sneak a couple of my son's fries. I was going to order him some apple sauce but forgot..:/

I know! I was totally surprised about the calories! It's def. a helpful tool. I cannot wait to get my exercise bike!! I'm pretty much working on having a home gym. I already have a treadmill and as I'm typing this I found out that my mom-in-law is GIVING us her weight machine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It has a few hundred pounds of plate loaded weights! I am sooo excited I guess the next machine I buy after the bike will be the eliptical...if I'll have the room! Maybe after I lose 20 lbs. I'll save up for one.

222 lbs. this morning. I found out today that my mom-in-law is giving us her weight machine!


Breakfast: 1/2 c. of 2% cottage cheese. 1 c. of Go Lean Crunch. Half a banana. couple grapes. handful of blackberries. spoon of flax seed. Arizona Diet Green Tea with Ginseng.

Howdy, thought I would stop in and say hi. Congrats on the weights.

Lunch: ate the rest of my dinner from last night. Diet Green Tea

Dinner: Kashi frozen dinner: Sweet and Sour Chicken- 320 calories 18 g. of protein. 6 g. fiber.
1 strawberry, 1 banana, couple blueberries, couple blackberries, 3 cherries, 1/3 cup of high fiber cereal on top.

After dinner: part of a weight watcher's ice cream bar....it was tooo sugary tasting, so I didn't finish it. I ate some almonds and a couple bites of spaghetti from the fridge...munchies! O_o




Exercise: Learned some new hand weight exercises today and did some of those-mostly working triceps,shoulders, back. Did 80 situps and 15 push-ups. Lunges.


Should have done some walking but I've been exercising my brain all day, reading through a lot of the sticky threads. Learned some great stuff. Information overload...

edco:
Thanks! I'm so excited about challenging myself with the weights.
Stop by anytime!

So I've been reading through the forum for HOURS and HOURS. I'm going to be a zombie in the morning. I'm kinda confused now. WAAAAY too much info for one night. I'll try to sort through my brain tomorrow when I'm not delirious. goodnight.

WoW, You have a lot to read! I will keep and eye on it from hear on out! Haha! Hi I'm Danny