Photo Food Blog ~ Tuesday June 1st

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Breakfast: 1 cup fiber one caremel delight, 1/2 cup almond milk - 210


Lunch: veggie chicken gyro (made with flatout wrap & morningstar chicken strips)..... 1 cup light yoplait yogurt, 1 med. apple. - 360


Snack: 1/2 super pretzle.... 1 tbls honey mustard dressing - 145


Dinner: 2 tacos made with lean ground beef, lettuce,1/4 avocado, salsa & light sour cream...... tomato, honey mustard dressing .......... 1/2 cup uncle bens santa fe ready rice......... 1/2 cup corn. - 619


Snack: 1/2 slice angel food cake..... 1/2 cup strawberries...... 1 serving light cool whip - 88


Snack: 2 wasa wheat crackers...... 2 tbls hummus - 204


Total Calories Eaten: 1627

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Food Blog ~ memorial day

Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Well I havent posted a food blog in a few days. I have been away from home at my inlaws and just really havent felt like it. I have stayed pretty much on track though... I may have been over a few hundred calories on friday and saturday .... and then on sunday I actually ended up a few hundred under my calorie range. Yesterday i did ok, I wouldent say great because Im not too happy with the fact that I started dipping sugar wafers into cool whip after dinner. I caught myself after a few though and put them away and then did not eat anything after that so I stayed within my calorie range for the day.

snack: (had to eat something before going out to jog) 1/3 serving almonds - 53


Breakfast - 1 cup oatmeal, 1/2 tbls brown sugar, 2 tbls whole milk - 225
(NO PIC)

Lunch - 12 grilled shrimp, 1 boca burger on wheat hotdog bun w/ tsp ketchup, lettuce & tomato, 1/2 cup baked beans, 1.5 servings broccoli salad, 1/6 grilled pineapple, 1/2 serving angel food cake, 1 serving light whipped cream, 1/2 cup strawberries, 1/2 tsp sugar. - 743



Dinner: 1 cup whole wheat pasta, 1/4 cup peas, 1/2 serving tomato pesto, 1 link turkey sausage, sauteed sliced onion, 1 tbls parmesan cheese...... steam fresh lightly sauced broccoli, cauliflower & carrots in cheese sauce - 477


Random Munching - 1 serving sugar wafer cookies, 1 serving light cool whip - 195


Total calories ~ 1693

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C25K ~ Update

Monday, May 31, 2010

well last week was suppose to be week 5 of couch to 5k but I totaly skipped on all my workouts for an entire week. I did other stuff, including getting out walking but I totaly neglected my walking/jogging routine. I made alot of excuses for myself. My knees were hurting last week while jogging so I used that as my main excuse for not doing my workouts. Truth is though that I could have done them, I was just not wanting to run.

I started on week 4 again this week.... because Im not ready to move on to week 5 workouts. Week 4 is still extreamly challenging.

So My 5k is this comming friday and I am only up to running for 5 minutes at a time.... Its ok though, I am just going to do it in intravals. I figure running for 3 minutes at a time is comfortable enough for me to do now so I will run for 3 minutes and walk for 2 minutes. Im sure I can finish in under an hour doing it like that.

There is a chance of rain on friday Its really gonna suck if it rains.

Im going to get all my workouts in this week and Im going to do my best come friday.

~ Jess

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My day + Food blog for wednesday (kinda long)

Thursday, May 27, 2010

well I wrote a really long blog about what happened yesterday and then I went to post it and it said that I included profanity somewhere in my post. I went back to change it and the entire thing that I spent like 45 minutes writing got errased. I was so mad I had to just shut my computer down and get off. So Im gonna try this again... lol.

Yesterday went pretty good as far as eating goes and I had a really good day activity wise too. I woke up with my husband at 6:30am because I had to make him lunch to take to work... then I desided to just stay up and make him breakfast and maybe get a little housework done before the kids woke up.

I split my breakfast into two meals because when I eat around 7am I get super hungry a few hours before lunch. I think it worked out pretty well.

I went through my day as usual and then around 4pm when my husband got home me and my sister (javagrl) left to go skating. We wanted to go on wednesday because we figured that it would be not too busy. We got there at around 5pm and relized that they dident even open untill 6:30pm. ::sigh::

So we left and went to subway. We split a bag of sunchips and a foot long orchard chicken salad sub.... I know I have been doing the vegetarian thing but what can I say.. Im weak. I love meat too much to be completely vegetarian. Anyway, it really ended up sucking... It was the first time I have tried a new sub at subway in like 10 years (I normaly get the oven roasted chicken breast) and it sucked.... oh well.

So we leave there and we still have like an hour untill the skating rink opens so we go to lane bryant and look around because my sister really needs some new clothes. When she moved in with me a year ago she weighed around 260 pounds and now she is down to 218! She is still wearing all the shirts she wore at 260 though and She is wearing my hand me down jeans. I told her she dident have to go to layne bryant anymore, that she could prob find something at a regular store but I think mentaly she still thinks she is 250 pounds.

Anyway we were shopping around and It turns out that I am way to small to fit anything there... shopping isent much fun when nothing fits.... but really even the smallest sizes were too big for her, even though she refused to see that. I kept making comments to her about the clothes and how they would looked much bigger than the size on the tag and we are always joking around about being fat in general so we make comments. On my way out of the store I thought that maybe I should not make so many comments about being fat because maybe someone that dident know I use to be real big would be offended and think Im trying to be a jerk. I thought about the comments I was making about the clothes and how a fat girl would look horrible in them and figured that it would sound really bad comming from a thin person... and Im getting to the point where I would be considered more a thin person rather than a fat person.... or at least an average size person. Somthing for me to watch I geuss.

anyway then we went to the rink.... I was so scared of falling down that I did really really bad.... I think alot of it had to do with that it was really really busy there.... turns out that the last wednesday of every month is 1 dollar admission night. It was freakin packed in there... there were wild little kids skating the wrong way on the track, skating accross the track, laying in the middle of the track. I was so nervous that I was going to slam in to a 8 year old and take him out. lol. after about an hour though I desided that I wasnet giving myself a chance and I needed to be less afraid and just do it... I got alot better after that. I did fall twice, once on my hand and my elbow (got a pretty nice buise from that) and another time I fell forward and in an attempt to not hit my knees or my face I did sort of a belly flop on the ground and then slid about 5 or 10 feet. Im sure it was quite amussing to watch lol. Me slip and slidding down the roller rink.

We left there after an hour and a half because the rental skates they gave my sister were really bad and were hurting her feet.

So it was only around 8:00 and we dident want to go home yet so we went to the park to walk around... park closes at 8 though so we drove up to the middle of our town because they have a really nice main street to walk down... lots of lighting and cute shops and really old victorian homes. We walked for about 10 minutes and came to this one building... I asked my sister if she had ever been in it before and she said no... its a little indoor mall with shops all on the inside. Everything in there was closed but as we got to the back of the building we noticed a stairway leading down and a big banner over the door that said "tanning" .... my sister asked what was down there and I told her that I thought it was a gym.... she was like OOoo lets go see how much they charge because I want to join a gym..

So we go down and there is this 60 year old man at the counter who looks like he has never worked out a day in his life.... and he ends up being one of those old guys that likes to bullsh*t with younger women and joke around. So he is going through pricing with her and aking her her age and all this other stuff. I asked if we could look around and we do and its a pretty crappy little gym... a few treadmills and ellipticals, some weight equipment and a very small little aerobics room.

The guy from the front desk spots us and says, hey I have something to show you and then motions to the little aerobics room where two other women are walking in. So here we are in this tiny little room with 4 exercise balls... if there was more than the 5 of us then it would have been really uncomfortable.... he tells the the two other girls have been comming here for 5 weeks and he gives them stuff to do every day... one of the girls said she had gone down 3 sizes or something. Then he tells us to grab a ball. Im thinking "Ooo k we are going to workout now?" but I pick up a ball because WTH I needed a workout anyway, I would play along.

The old guy starts leading us through all these exercises, like ball push ups and sit ups and planks ect.... and we did that for about 20 minutes and I have to say I never realized that you could get such a great workout from an exercise ball.... I was litterily pouring sweat by the time we stopped. It was kinda strange, the whole situation but kinda fun too.

Then by that time it was like 9pm and we needed to get home.

Was a very interesting day... and I think my sisters interested in going to the gym now so I geuss that guys little demonstration worked in some way. lol. I myself cant afford a gym but if I could I would go to the YMCA... I love to swim.

I did great eating all day too and stepped on the scale this morning and had gone down another pound :-) happy me.... Here is a rundown of what I ate yesterday

Breakfast - 7:00pm .... 1 slice double fiber toast, 1 tbls jam, zero cal butter spray, 1/2 cup canned pineapple........ 9:00pm .... 1 caramel rice cake, 1 tbls peanut butter - 325


Snack - dark chocolate square - 38


Lunch: veggie melt w/ 1/2 pumpernickle roll, sauteed mushrooms and onions, 1/8 cup mozzarella, 1 tbls honey mustard dressing, roasted red peppers..... 1/2 can progresso tomato soup..... pickled veggie mix - 442


Snack: 1 cup caramel delight fiber one, 1/2 cup 1% milk - 235


Snack: Yoplait light coconut yogurt -100


Dinner: 1/2 orchard chicken subway sub on 9 grain honey oat w/ lettuce, tomato, onions & salt & pepper.... 1/2 bag harvest cheddar sunchips - 482
(NO PIC)

Total Calories for the day ~ 1622

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Food Blog - Tuesday May 25th

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Breakfast - 1/3 serving pancakes, 1 tbls light pancake syrup..... 2 egg whites, 1 morning star veggie sausage, mushrooms, scallions, roasted red peppers, 1/8 cup 2% cheddar... 1/2 cup 1% milk - 331


Lunch - veggie chicken gyro... yoplait light coconut yogurt - 336


Snack - 1 rice cake.... 1/2 tbls peanut butter.... 1/2 tbls blueberry cream cheese... 1/2 banana - 186


Dinner- 2 veggie burgers (recipe below), 2 tbls ketchup, 2 servings alexia sweet potato fries, 1 serving steamfresh garlic cauliflower, 1 tbls malt vinegar - 652


Snack - 1 rice cake, 1 wasa wheat cracker, 1 tbls hummus, 1 tbls blueberry creamcheese - 175
..... (maybe overkill with the rice cakes but I figured it was the same calories as having another hummus cracker and I really wanted both :-) )


Total Calories for the day ~ 1679 ... I felt like I did much better today & I got my workout in


Veggie Burger Recipe - Not perfected yet but pretty good for my first attempt : http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-deta
il.asp?recipe=1092324

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