Food Journaling

    For those of you who are using a food Journal, where do you get you information on calories at? I have been using livestrong.com, which honestly is a great site that is very easy to use. Except that it has SO many options how do you choose. I bring this up because today was my weigh in date and I am still at 193.4. I only worked out twice this week but I thought I had done a great job at food journaling.  I have been trying to really watch what I eat and even added red meat back in to my diet (once a week) to help with my Iron level. 
   Here is my problem: Lets say for breakfast I eat a bacon and egg burrito, well my calorie options are any where from 210 – 1110 calories? How do you pick? So a little help , how are you guys choosing what calorie information to use.

Establishing the Basic

 

      So it looks like I might be over whatever it was that I had. No thanks to my doctor I might add. I actually started to feeling better on Thursday but of course that is when my allergies it. It was horrible my eyes were so swelled up  and red I looked like I had taken up a new past time, if you know what I mean. I could hardly breath and Claritin was doing nothing for me. I took a Zyrtec and let me tell you that is the best sleeping pill you could ever take. Problem is I took it at 8am. I honestly thought about calling my husband to leave work and pick up our son from school because I was really doubting my ability to drive our car.
   I did not work out these last 5 days but I did use my body bug to its best.  I have gotten a good idea about the amount of calories my body burns on days when I feel sick, days when I am really sick, and days when I’m feeling really tiered (see below). I feel I  am doing pretty good at adjusting my diet to fit it. I must admit I have been lenient with my diet allowing my self to have a cup cake or even fast food once. The thing is that I’m okay with that. I think it is going to be my key to really losing weight and keeping it off. If I just keep telling my self no no no to everything then I think its going to make me want to relapse and just end up eating half a dozen cup cakes.

This is a day where I was just not feeling well but just did not work out.

Example of a day where I felt okay,  did not work out, but had a very busy day. The high spike around 8 was when I realized how late my son was to school and hauled butt to get the kids ready.

And finally is an example of a regular day at home, once again the big spikes in the morning are getting the kids ready for bed, spikes around one are where i picked my son up from school. 

So current weight 193.3

Clothes

I have a question for those of you who have lost weight. When did you buy new clothes? When I started my diet I was a size 24, I had some size 22 items that fight kind of tight. At this time I am a size 18/16. The size 24 stuff just is to big and the size 22 fits with a belt or the shirts just look really baggy. The Problem is even though the pants don’t fall off with my belt tightened, they look horribly baggy. I look like I am trying to pass for a boy in these baggy shirts and baggy pants but I really don’t want to make the monetary investment in new clothes till I am a size 14/12. Hey maybe a 10? A girl can dream right? I have purchased two new pants and a four new shirts because I did not feel right going to church or fancy occasions dressed in my best tom boy gear.. the problem has arisen in the fact that I have started getting comments like: “Wow you really like that shirt hu?” and “You shouldn’t wear those you cant even tell you lost any weight.” ohh and my favorite : “Couldn’t keep the weight off hu, its okay its not for everyone.”
So what would you do? What did you do?

Where are we again?

      I’m sorry that I have not updated my website. I have been so sick this week, I’m not even sure where to turn at this point. I know I’m not contagious because no one in my family has caught anything. My doctor says that I am anemic again and they are going to rerun my blood suger test because I had eaten candy while I was in the waiting room but even then my blood sugar was borderline low. So with all that said I really need to watch my diet closer. 
     For some reason, which I guess has now been explained, I have been craving sweets and a hamburger and as you can imagine those are not the most diet friendly foods.This is what I get I guess for only counting calories. I need to do a better job of making sure to get enough milk, fruits and vegetables to my diet. Plus if I am going to cut out red meat out of my diet I need to look for other food that are rich in Iron. And no people I will not be eating trippitas (animal intestines ) no matter how rich in iron they are so please don’t suggest it!
     As many of you know I will be going back to the doctor in February would go sooner but she is on vacation… great. But I will keep you guys posted. She has asked me to keep all exercise moderate and not to get my heart rate to high till we get some more answers. Been listening to her a little to much because it has been a week since I worked out. But I’m going to start again today with light walking. 
   So another week at 194. Lets see if we can get to 192 this week!!

Day 13: Weigh in Day.

Okay so someone pointed out to me that my ticker changes on every single post when I update my info. So someone could not browse through the archive and see my progress. Sorry I did not even think about that. I am going to try to figure out how to just place it at the bottom of my blog that way its a quick reference point and I don't have to post it over and over.
So tomorrow is the official "weigh in date" but I think I should just change it cause I always end up updating about my weight on Wed. So the official weight for today is 194.0 ! thats down 2.6lbs from last week. the goal was 3lbs but hey I'll take it!
New goal is 192.0 by January 21, 2008.
Wish me luck!

Body Bug help!

This is an extended post from Sunday. I have a little question for you guys I really did not do any real exercise on this day. I went to church, then we went out to eat. Came home played with the kids, took a little nap and then went over to my brothers. Granted I did help clean a little bit but the spikes on here look like way to much for all the driving and sitting on my but I did. What could have caused all these spikes? Just being well rested ??

Day 10: Sunday the day of rest

Today I am a little ashamed to admit I was off the program. Then again its my program, I am writing it as I go. I have been so drained so tiered that I just needed a day of rest and what better day to rest than Sunday. Don’t get me wrong I did not just go out and eat what ever I wanted, I took a more logical approach. I have been shooting for a diet of 2,000 calories a day so I thought 500 calories should be enough to indulge in a little comfort food. I had a great day till I met the EVIL Chocolate Chip Muffin!!! Really how many calories would you expect a muffin to have?? I thought what 250 calories? and then lets add 100 calories for the chocolate chips: 350 calories for a muffin, yes indulgent by why the heck not! So I sit down to food journal and start looking online for the actual amount of calories in the muffin. (Because of course I could not do that BEFORE i ate the muffin!!) 620 calories in that evil muffin!!! 620 calories!!! So oppsie! Oh well I ate the muffin and its to late to do anything about that, except stay away from all evil muffins…no matter how yummy they might be.

Calories Consumed: 2,720
Calories Burned: 2, 660