Managing my f00dz

[annathepiper]

This past week has gone pretty well with the weight loss overall, minus one too-heavy dinner on Tuesday evening. I am in fact currently the lightest I've been all year, which is a pretty nifty realization to make.

My appetite has started to significantly adjust, just by virtue of ditching the soda and aggressively managing the snacks. I'm kind of surprised and pleased that I'm not actually missing the soda very much. And, aggressive snack managing actually gives me a little bit of a something to look forward to in the evenings, now that I've discovered that good dark chocolate and good green tea go well together.

I had my first weights workout in ages on Wednesday night, using the 10's, which was about right--I broke into quite the sweat using them, but I was also able to do quite a few reps on the various exercises, enough that I might need to bump up to the 12's in the next session. That I was able to more or less remember how all the exercises went was a good thing, too. But I did also determine that 1) my "general Celtic" playlist (which has a sampling of various favorite artists off the iPod) is better for treadmill than weights, and 2) I really need to remember to stretch and warm up properly before I do these workouts.

I can still kind of feel the ache in my right shoulder, in particular. This was of course the side where I've had the surgeries and radiation, so it doesn't surprise me that it's weaker than my left.

I'll have my next weights workout tomorrow morning. And, if I play my cards right, I might actually break into the 170's by Monday--but we'll see. That's a good immediate goal, though I'm also thinking about the longer-term goal of how far I can get with this by the end of the year. Into the 130's by my 40th birthday is definitely within the realm of possibility.

And now, a bunch of food data!


6/30/08:

Breakfast around 7:15am: 1 cup miso soup, 1 cup green tea, about 2/3 of an apple
Morning drink & snack: 1 bottle Lipton citrus green tea, 1 Clif bar
Lunch around 11:30: 1/2 sandwich from Whole Foods, 1 pack raspberries (6 oz), 1 bottle Honest Tea (16 fl oz, 34 cals)
Snack around 3pm: 1 apple
Evening drink: 1 glass Lipton iced tea mix
Dinner: Beef/onion/pepper shiskabob, 1/2 baked potato, fresh green salad with cucumber and carrots
Dessert: 1 piece key lime white chocolate tart, 1 cup green tea
During day: Green tea pear mints

7/1/08:

Breakfast around 7:15am: 2 packets apple/cinnamon oatmeal, 1 cup green tea
Morning drink: 1 bottle Lipton lemon tea
Lunch around 11:30: Small tequila lime shrimp wrap, 24 oz strawberry orange banana smoothie
Snack around 2pm: Luna bar
During day: Green tea pear mints, Tic-tacs
Dinner: Beef dip sandwich, string fries, 1 martini, 1 glass water, chocolate and banana bread pudding dessert

7/2/08:

Breakfast around 7:15am: 1 cup miso soup, 1 cup green tea, strawberry yogurt bar
Morning drink: Strawberry/kiwi drink (10 cals)
Lunch around 11:30: 1/2 sandwich, pear, bottle Honest Tea "Community Green Tea" (34 cals)
Snack around 2pm: Luna bar
During day: Green tea pear mints, Tic-tacs
Dinner: Steak and shells & cheese leftovers
Snack around 9pm: Green tea, 8 Hershey's kisses

7/3/08:

Breakfast around 7:15am: 1 cup miso soup, 1 cup green tea, strawberry yogurt bar
Morning drink: Lipton citrus green tea
Lunch around 11:30: 6 pcs nigiri (tuna, yellowtail, salmon), pear, bottle Honest Tea "Community Green Tea"
Snack around 1 or so: Luna bar
During day: Tic-tacs
Dinner: Pad thai, rice, fresh green salad
Snack around 9pm: Green tea, 8 Hershey's kisses


And, walking:

Miles since June 29th: 13.7
Miles out of Hobbiton: 2921.9
Miles out of Minas Tirith: 84.9
Miles to Hobbiton: 1540.1

Comments

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

That's a whole lotta green tea.

Green tea does funny (TMI) stuff to me...in fact, looking at your diet it would be a total TMI experience.

My Liz^tm is allowing me to attempt to shift our diets. Our eating habits are deplorable and I'm afraid I've finally hit that spot (a few years early) as a man where my metabolism is slowing down. Living a sedentary lifestyle doesn't help --- and it's cheaper to feed two on fast food than grocery shopping ---and that really doesn't help.

Must eat more leafy greens. :(

[annathepiper]

Green tea is prominently featured on the handout I got that goes into excruciating, laborious detail about what foods are good for cancer prevention, you see.

Fortunately, I really like green tea--at least, the more delicate varieties. There's this one brand solarbird buys that's very fine-leafed, and that's the stuff I have in the mornings and evenings.

Sympathies about the diet needs, and yeah, slowing metabolism + sedentary = double whammy. Plus, produce prices are full of suck at the moment. We're fortunate in that we have garden space in the yard and Dara likes growing lettuce and other veggies.

[bloody-keri.livejournal.com]

The two fitness 'gurus' whose advice I follow pretty faithfully both recommend purposely overeating one day per week, when you eat whatever you want, literally. Only the one day, of course, and then back to the regime. The purpose is two-fold: psychological, naturally, so that you don't feel deprived, and physiological, to 'fool' your body into thinking that you're NOT restricting calories so that it won't go into famine mode and slow your metabolism down. I was very wary of this at first, but it really does work. I found that I would actually lose a few more pounds than usual the following week.

[annathepiper]

Wow, that makes good sense, thanks for sharing that. It fits in well with the idea of small rewards for yourself occasionally if you continue to hold to your regimen, I'd think.

I'll have to decide which day is good for that. :)