March 2010 Blog Posts

Breakfast: Whole Wheat tortilla - 2 points 1 whole egg and 3 egg whites - 3 points Salsa - 0 points Snack: Banana - 2 points Lunch: Cereal w/ Skim milk - 3 points Snack: Go Raw Chocolate Super Cookies - 2 points Snack: Protein Shake after workout - 5 points Dinner: Workout: Run 2 miles, Strength Training (legs, shoulders, abs), 1 hour light yoga

Breakfast: Banana with Peanut Butter - 3 points Snack: Protein Shake with Skim Milk - 5 points Lunch: Black Bean Veggie Burger - 2 points Oroweat Sandwich Thin - 1 point Snack: Ice cream cone - 6 points!!! OUCH! (One of my students brought it in for me, so I couldn't say no!) Apple sauce - 1 point Handful of almonds/peanuts - 3 points Dinner:  Potato Chips - 1 point Cottage Cheese w/ cashews - 5 points   Workout - 1 hour yoga and ran 4 miles

Breakfast: Protein Shake w/ Skim Milk - 5 points Snack: Yogurt - 2 points Lunch: Odwalla Bar - 4 points   Snack: Orange - 1 point Snack: 1/2 cup low fat cottage cheese - 2 Cashews - 3 Peanut Butter - 1 Rice Cakes - 1 point   I'm going to Texas Roadhouse for dinner, but I am just going to get a chicken salad (chicken and lettuce and red onions only or something).   edit: I had grilled chicken, a sweet potato, and some steamed veggies. not bad.   Workout: Jog 1 mile, Walk 1 mile, Strength Training (Biceps, Back, Calves)

Back to school. Booooo. Breakfast: Protein Powder - 3 points Skim Milk - 2 points Lunch:  Black Beans - 1 point Brown Rice - 3 points Tofu - 2 points Snack: Banana Nut GoRaw Bar - 2 points Dinner: Veggies - 1 point Hummus - 2 points Wheat Thins - 2 points Snack: Peanut Butter - 3 points Bagel Chips - 2 points CLIF Bar - 2 points Chocolate Cupcakes - 1 point   26 points. Damnit. Binge after school again. . . I said it was Dinner and Snack, but really it was all at like 4:30. Anddd I was only barely hungry to start off with.   I'm going to go run for a while now.  I think you can...

Breakfast: Orange - 1 point Lunch: Tofu - 2 points Brown Rice - 3 points Black Beans - 1 point Dinner: English Muffin Peanut Butter Honey Junk junk junk junk - 293847238947 points.   Okay, tomorrow WILL be a good day.   I started a 12 week strength training program today though, so I'm excited about that. http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/krisgethin_guide8.htm 

Breakfast/Lunch: Oatmeal - 1 point Blueberries - 0 points Walnuts - 2 points Mid-day: 2 slices pizza - 14 points? Cookies - 9? Peanut Butter - 4   Yeah. Fail. Again.   These past couple of days have been so awful. I've got a really bad family situation going on and it is so hard to keep it from effecting my eating. It's kind of later now and I've basically lost my appetite from crying so much, so maybe I will not have it for a couple of days and make up for today and yesterday.   I'm so upset :-( 

Breakfast:  Yogurt - 2 points Cereal (for topping) - 1 point Lunch: Happy Meal at McDonalds - 13 points (oops) Animal Crackers w/ Icing - 2 points   Dang. HUGE binge eating episode. It was awful :-(   Total: 932827349238434543 points (at least it feels that way)

Definitely bein strict on what I eat today after going over yesterday! I also need to RUN today. Lunch: Healthy Choice Steamer Meal - 3 points 16 RF Wheat Thins - 2 points GoRaw Chocolate wafer-ish things - 3 points Dinner: Cereal w/ Skim Milk - 4 points Popcorn - 4 points Hummus and bagel chips - 4 points Total: 20 points About to go to the movies. . . I'm going to smuggle in a vanilla coke zero and hopefully not be tempted by any of the expensive candy on the way in!  I'm poor right now, so I think I will be able to turn it down easily...

129.2 on the scale this morning. I think I'm pretty dehydrated from last night :-/ Lunch: Chicken Salad - 4 points Oroweat Sandwich Thins - 1 point Broccoli/Carrots/Cauliflower - 1 point 1/4 cup Hummus - 1 point 8 RF Wheat Thins - 1 point Snack: Peanut Butter - 3 points Quaker Rice Cake - 1 point Peanuts - 2 points Dinner: 1 cup Cereal - 2 points Skim Milk - 2 points Hostess Cupcakes - 1 point "4th Meal:"  OOPS. WhatABurger Breakfast Taquito and Hashbrown Sticks - 8ish points (didn't eat all of it)   Total: went WAY over.   Coke Zero with Vanilla is my new favorite drink. It is soooooooo good!   Workout: Step Class (1 hour),...

This morning I got on the scale and it said 130.0 exactly! Yayyyyy. By tomorrow I should be back in the 120's! I'm so excited!!!!! Seeing numbers drop is SO motivating! Breakfast/Lunch: Oatmeal - 1 point Blueberries - 0 points Walnuts - 2 points Snack: Potato Chips - 1 point Dinner: 1/4 cup of Chicken Salad - 3 points Oroweat Sandwich Thin - 1 point Apple - 1 point Snack: Hostess 100 calorie pack cakes - 1 point Banana w/ Peanut butter - 4 points LOTS and LOTS of drinks - 293847238497 points. . . oops :-/

Breakfast: Orange - 1 point Lunch: 1/4 cup Hummus - 2 points 16 RF Wheat Thins - 2 points Broccoli/Carrots/Cauliflower -1 point Snack: 1/4 cup Chicken Salad - 3 points Quaker Rice Cake - 1 point 20 lite Lays Potato Chips - 1 point Grapes - 1 point Dinner: Popcorn with a bit of chocolate: 3 points Snack: Lemon yogurt with a bit of cereal: 2 points Total: 17 points Workout: Ran 1.5 miles and lifted (arms)   Wow, that's way too low, but I'm really not feeling good today.  Throat, stomach, and head are all killing me, which is also why the workout was quite sad!

So, I'm using the weight watcher thing starting now!  I'm allowed 24 points a day until I get back down to 130 (at which point I can have 23 points,) then when I get down to 120 it goes down to 22 points a day!  I'm really excited/optimistic :-)   I just went on a five/six mile run, and I'm about to go teach yoga. . . So there is my workout for the day.   Food: Breakfast: Slept in too late! Lunch: 1/4 cup of Chicken Salad - 3 points Oroweat Sandwich Thin - 1 point 16 Reduced Fat Wheat Thins - 2 points Dinner: 1 cup Cereal - 2 points 1/2...

http://www.meganandjack.com/points_calculator.htm (calculator) http://www.quiddity.cc/rachel/diet/wwfoods.htm#C (list)

Quick update on how I'm feeling today. . . I ate so much when I got home from school yesterday :-( AND I went out last night.  I feel NOT good this morning. . . not in a hungover way, just in a i'm-getting-really-upset-for-not-having-any-self-control kind of way.  These jeans I'm wearing today used to be so loose on me. NOT anymore. They are pretty tight, and when I put them on this morning I remembered how they used to look kind of baggy. How depressing :-( I'm really glad it's Spring Break starting today at 3. I think I can break out...

131.8 this morning.  I really want to start weighing myself once a week or once a month, rather than every morning! It's so encouraging seeing the numbers go down though. . . when that is actually happening. . . Today I had yogurt with a few almonds for breakfast with some green tea and honey.  For lunch I am having popcorn and a diet coke, and I'm not sure what I'm going to do for dinner yet. My main goal for right now is to cut out these after-school  binges.  I teach high school, and my last class of the day is...