The Intuituve Eater

So I am back on the wagon, but not quite so obsessed.  I'm get on the scale on  Nov 30.  My only thing i am trying to stick to is not eating out.  No more logging on spark people and I haven't looked at 3fc in more than a week.  I have cooked and have been bringing my lunch.  I am happy.  Because I took a whole week off from working out. I am behind on my min.  So I am scrambling to get it in. Tried out tae bo today. I liked it, but Billy banks makes my head hurt. Also tried the trainers edge, it was ok, but I'm not really up for floor work right now.  I might by the trainers edge for christmas.  We'll see 30 min billbanks 25min trainers edge. Now that I am typing this I am going to do drop it in 30 today. Which would get me down to 175.  We'll see.

So I got on the scale on the 15 and I was still 349.  I took a week and ate whatever....I didn't over do it except for one day, but I drank, didn't cook, and didn't workout.  By sunday, I really went over...ate a whole package of sausage and then appetizer plater at Fridays.  I was sick the rest of the day.  Also My little aches and pains were starting to come back to here I am.  I worked out this morning and once again my monthly goal has kept my going.  I wish i had something similar when it came to eating.  So I am going to try no eating out till the 15th of december.  No other rules.  No realy weight goal anything lower than 348 would make me happy at this point. 29 min Kendal, 40 min Kendal Weights

not sure what happened, but I don't have a post for monday...anyway, as of rightnow I'm up to 191 min Monday I did abs with chris 12 min, cardio inferno and kendal strength. Today I do 29 min Kendal, 8 min abs with chris (no warm up this time) and strength with Kendall(38 min) I haven't been on the scale and not really pressed. not sure I'll ever go back to weekly weigh ins again.  Eating is ok. I went out to lunch yesterday.  Ikept thinking ok I need to find something I should be eating, but what ends up happening is I'm not happy and feel like I wasted the eating out.  So I got what I wanted a hamburger, with bacon and instead of fries I got salad and only used half the salad dressing and I was happy.  My girlfriend did the usually you can eat whatever off my plate a few times and I said no thanks and wasn't pressed about it. The ex and I had another talk and I'm not happy, but rather than sprial into bad eating and not exercising I gotup and didn...

So things have been weird.  I think while I ate intuitively when I was in the hospital for daddy's surgery it wasn't the greatest food and while I did IE when I went away for halloween it was crappy food. On top of it I didn't cook so I had frozen packaged food all week.  I did ok, but I've been tracking my sodium and I would blow past 2000mg and was usually 2500+ and a big part of that is from the prepacked food.  So even though my weekend will be busy I'm going to make sure I cook. Since I did crappy last week afraid of the scale and either I get on friday or the 15, but I HAVE to get on the 15th. I think netflix is keeping me working out.  I seem to get bored really easily, so I tried self slim and lean with elen barrett. I'm used to more jumping about, but the warm up was more pilates inspired which kinda has me wanting to try it.  It was low impact and slow, but my heart rate was up.  I don't think I'll ever workout on friday, but we'll ...

So I haven't posted in a bit, but I've stayed the course.  I hit my exercise goal kind of early so I kinda of slacked off. I'm back at it this week primarily because of my work out buddy at work.  She mentioned we were supposed to work out and that got me back into the swing of things.  I was thinking I should tell her I don't want to work out anymore, but seems to be a good way to make me accountable.  I've been tracking my calories half heartedly, well mostly carbs and sodium and how much water I am drinking.  My ankles swelled up which surprised me, but I think it was due to my TOM.  I also didn't get on the scale because emotionally I just couldn't deal with seeing the scale go up.  Today was interesting I left my lunch at home and thought oh I can order something now, but I ended up running to a supermarket and picking up a smart one. Which leads me to an article on who the obesity epidemic is caused by ultra processed foods, which I totally b...

So even after my last post the eating fest continued.  I did a cheat weighin (weighing in after working out and I was 350.  So I think I gained, but i have 6 days to try and get back to where I was, also my period is due any day now. Since I did alot yesterday I went kinda of easy today 30 min kendall hogan 30 min cardio.  I worked up a sweat, but it wasn't as motivating as it once was.  I think its because I've done it so much and know the routine.  I also did just about all the 12 min abs I've been avoiding and realized its too much for me.  I'm going to switch to the chris freytag ab workout. So I feel like my diet is a big scientific experiment.  I know after I workout I am ravenous.  So I had a carb heavy breakfast and a serving of the cabbage I made.  I was fine till i got to work then I had a napa cabbage salad (Yes to Feta, no to blue chesse).  I had 2 string cheeses and then lunch.  With lunch I had 32oz of water so I'...

So I haven't worked out since wednesday and its because friday I got on the scale and it went down. Also just because it was friday.  Since it was friday, I didn't pack a lunch, ate at the whole foods buffet, went out to dinner, ate too much and generally did everything possible to screw up my one pound loss.  Rather than learn from that I then spent saturday not eat anything good for me and eating when I was distinctly not hungry. BLAH !!! I managed to stop myself and today (Sunday) I got up worked out (80min) and sweated my butt off.  I had a nice healthy vegetable omelette.  I'm full and I won't be eating anything else till I'm hungry again. When I went to work out I think I was trying to punish myself so I did a workout, I usually hate, but today seemed not so horrible.  I think its because I'm in better shape when I first started.  I actually for down and did the floor portion for the first time and since i can't do a pushup I did a 30 sec plank ...

down to 349 (without working out first) thought it should be more, but pretty sure my period is coming so nothing is going to be really accurate till it is all over. So pretty much need to stay exactly on plan Looking at myself in the mirror I think I am losing inches, but I could be wrong.  I'm going to have to measure, we'll see. Some otherstuff happened, but I want to get some more sleep in before I have to get up. Thinking about buying a food scale.  Also logging my food when i'm at work.  I would like it to be 800-1000, tue and thur and 1000-1200 mon, wed and fri.  Lets start with that and see what happens.

So things seem to be chugging along.  I figured out that the breakfast I was buying (spanish egg white omlette, with 2 slices of toast was probably upwards of 500 calories, maybe 7, not sure).  So I am buying the frozen breakfast and one slice of nature's promise bread.  I feel just as full, less calories and life is good.  so I think coupled with the eating out.  I can see how I was gaining. So I just did my wednesday work out. 27 min cadio inferno 15 min jari love. With the Jari love I think I need to go back to her first DVD and work my way up.  I like the compound exercises, but I am to weak to do most of them. There was a point on 3fc about being annoyed with the skinny minnies and I realized I don't really focus on whats other people look like I'm pretty obsessed with what I want for me. Also while I'm big, I think I'm sexy even with 2 stomachs and a bunch of cottage cheese.  When I was smaller I had low self esteem and I got better....

20 min cardio at work.

Well I finally feel like I am getting it. I seem to do IE naturally on the weekend and I lost weight and this isn't with a whole lot of exercise.  SO the problem seems to be my eating during the week.  I am going to calorie count for my food during the day at work.  I also bought some lean cuisines, but they are mind of sucky expecially after eating my own food, but I want to know whats going on during the week. I also bought a game called Walk it out for the Wii.  I am not counting it in my exercise minutes, but it is a work out.  I am trying to do 5000 steps whenever I play it.  My motivator right now is unlocking stuff as you walk, right now i am working on the music So I am at the point where I would extend my workout, but I am going to keep it 60 min mon,wed, and fri.  I think thats enough and I remember last night it seemed to take forever.  I should be done with my min way before the end of the month and I'll up my min to 600. 347 AFTE...

So I didn't work out yesterday, it was friday and combined with me gaining a pound I just wasn't motivated.  Also I ate alot yesterday, and it was nice to not have to be obsessive  about what I was eating.  Something else I joined spark people and logged what I ate and according to them I was 3000 cal + yesterday, So my binge was eye opener, and yeah thats what it was a binge, yes it was healthy food, but I had way too much.  i ate my lean cuisine AND sushi and fruit.  Anyway, now that I had the fall.  I am back, up on the wagon.  I was supposed to do a hard workout, but i did kendall and total body toner, which I love.  55 min 352 as of 10/15/2010 I usually lose weight over the weekend and reading my blog and remember last night. I was completely an IE eate on the weekend and I did calorie counting with IE during the week.  So we'll see how it goes.

So I gained a pound.  I can't think I'm eating 3000+ calories as hungry as I am. Also the weird thing is I know I"ll drop it over the weekend I was getting a little upset, but I know I can drop it over the weekend without going through alot. So I've decided to eliminate my eating out at all during the week.  I'll be buying english muffins, lean cuisine, and prepared breakfast for the week and just cooking dinner. I'm a little grumpy, but I can count calories exactly.  I think I am eating too many meals where I am guessing and while they aren't filling me up they must be higher in calories than I think.  I think it also helped ot look back and my old blog entries....again its a work in progress.  I am wondering if the egg white breakfat I buy everyday is the culprit, the margarita, ....hmmm ok so lets think about this I gained 1lb.  so it isn't like I over ate alot.  I think there are things I am eating here and there that are causing the proble...

so I read back on my old blog posts when I lost a good junk of the weight.  I realized  from sept -jan 2007 I just worked on ramping up and from jan to oct 2008 I lost weight.  So I am going to take from now to the end of the year to work out my plan.  I am pretty sure i gained, even though I've been hungry quite a bit, but I guess its a process. so i'll be grumpy getting on the scale and seeing the results, but its a process.  I also realized I was way more into IE than I have been.  On a nice note I'm 3 min away from being mid way to my 500 min goal for the month.  I saw in my old entries I was working on 600 min so I may up it next month.  I didn't work out Wed because I over slept, but I did 30 min watp at work.  I really need to find a replacement for her. blah I have been thinking I would like to reward myself with something for every 10 lbs lots.  I think it will be a WII game i can resist if I don't make a goal and it isn't...

So yesterday I didn't workout at all.  I was ok with it.  I also decided since i cook just about all my regular meals I am ok buying breakfast tue and thur on my early days at work.  Work was unremarkable(you can see I building to something here.) I went out with my girlfriend and we ended up at dinner.  I ordered the sauteed chicken, with vegetables and there was a boiled potatoe.  I had half a margarita and NO CHIPS, not one.  I picked up one during dinner to help push some food onto my fork, but I put it down thinking why have even the one.  I used my finger.  Usually I would have demolished the bowl of chips in its entirety. Usually with this same girlfriend she eat a little bit of something and then offers me whats left and I graze off her plate(blah @human garbage can).  I didn't touch any of her stuff.  I was mildly curious, and it helped that she had ordered paella and I can't eat shrimp, but i resisted trying it out to see if...

Sundays is get ready for the week day.  Since the last few saturdays I've had something to do I only have Sunday to do some around the house.  I wanted to go shopping,  but I felt that I needed to get somethings done. So I got up, got the laundry together, went to the farmers market, 2 supermarkets, cooked lunch, dinner for the whole week and my roomates lunch as a favor.  THEN I folder and put away most of the clothes.  I have toms rearranging so didn't do everything. Then I was on the phone till a lil after 12 last  night and got up, no snoozing and worked out.  I was fine getting up and getting started  but I stopped to catch my breathe a few times, but I finished. On a related note I just tried the processed maple syrup and it is horrible. Too mushy and I think I can takes the extra chemicals. So I was reading something online about how healthy food is wonderful and great. I thought about the 4 hours I spend in the kitchen yesterday a...

12 min Love kenda hogan I did the the 10 min cardio burn, but I had to stream it over the internet so it kept skipping and by the time I figured out the moves...it was almost over so only claiming 6 min of this one, but i liked it alot Then I did the first part of 6 pack abs...which is all standing and actually enough to feel like I did something.  I'll get on the floor for the rest of it on tuesday.  This with my 10 min chris freytag should get me up in the morning. I had alot of bread yesterday.  I forgot my lunch and had a foot long subway sandwish and then a turky on rye and then dinner and 2 puddings. Day one was ok.  I know it was alot of bread, but I did what I wanted ate when I was hungry and I didn't eat any fast food when I got home, came home and had the food I cooked. I wasn't going to count it as my first day of my 14 days on plan, but I'm ok with it.  hanging out today so wil be interested.  I'm going to buy some string cheese to...

So this week, wasn't that good but not horrible.  I had the chocolate issue, the eating too much because of working out. I  has food of my girlfriends plate yesterday (potatoes) and rice with dinner last night.  No big portion issues, just not what I planned to eat.  I gained a lb.  Which all things considered isn't horrible. Oh yeah and I hadn't pooped all week and I think that had something to do with it. I also realized while I am trying to do low carb I am not doing a true atkin's induction more like the OWL portion so i am going to count calories and stick to low carb food, but adding fruit back in as a snack.   Oh yeah and buying something chocolate to bring. Totally didn't want to work out today, but Kendall hogan got me going. 30 min cardio. On a nice note.  I am past my weekly goal to hit my 500 min for the month. I looked over my weight history since 9/13 when I started back again and I've actually hit my weight goal for the month. 8l...

This is a vent or rant or whatever you want to call it.  My girlfriend know I am trying to eat better, orders food and knows she can't finish and offers it to me, I didn't it all, but i ate potatoes, which I had managed to avoid for 7 days.  11 days and I had 3 more days of my 14 day goal and I missed it.  So freaking annoyed right now.  So back to the drawing board.  I'm pretty sure the scale gods will not be happy with me, blah....so grumpy right now. New 14 day goal starts tomorrow last day 10/22/2010

So I read some of my old posts when I first lost weight and realize I'm repeating my same issues with the scale and obsessing.  I also realized I stayed on plan alot better the first time around.  Breakfast was 300cals and I brought it from home.  Lunch was lean cuisine, 2 pieces of fruit and a snack(doubt I keep doing that) and dinner was low cab.  No eating out during the week and if I did it was in moderation and mostly low carb. I haven't been honest.  I don't think I've been doing horrible, but I lose and think its ok.  I was hungry yesterday but I could have come home and had some veggies and the chocolate the other day and the 2 bag of doritoes.  Blah....Blah...Blah I say again.  So I'm going to coast out of the rest of this week. Official weighin is tomorrow.  I'll record that weight and then put up a page of weekly goals. 

So I'm up 2 lbs today 352.  Yeah not suppposed to weigh in till tomorrow, but I couldn't help it. I didn't cry.  I am happy I didn't do it last night, blah that would have sucked.  Anyway, I've been cheating, not alot, but enough that it shows.  Between the chocolate, and the jr burgers from last night.  I just don't thinki've been eating 2800+ calores, but I'm low carb so maybe I'm eating to many carbs? So its a process.

So I feel fat.  I did 50+ min of exercise my body is stiff and sore and I have more energy and i feel fat.  I think I'm obsessing about the scale again.  I'm doing fine and still can't stop thinking. recipes, workouts, calories, carbs. I browse the new post on 3fc hourly.  Not really looking for anything, just obsessing...blah. Something else I think I had a micro binge, sounds weird...but not sure what else to call it.  After I work out especially not that I'm doing 2 separate workout videos I am famished about 15 min after.  I didn't have anything really ready to eat and I had to cook something for lunch and dinner, so I nibbled here and there.  it wasn't enough but it took the edge off.  I stopped at whole foods when I got to work and got some low carb stuff, but I added a half a spoonful of pasta to fill me a little more.  And I am obsess over all of that.  I know I didn't over do it. For the supposed binge I had one small lamb p...

Weird right, normally I would be wondering if I am eating too much, but I came home ravenous yesterday and was still hungry every couple hours till bed. I didn't over eat.  I also think it was because I didn't scarf down ALL the food. I ate then would wait until I could tell if I was still satisfied or was still hungry.  I ended up with a 100 cal snack right before bed. I did cardio inferno(27 min) today for the first time in a while, time flew by but I felt like i had to modify alot.  I then did then total body toner (25 min) and was like I had never done it before..   My triceps (wow I know what a tricep is) are killing me. Fri will be Kendal and the express weight workout. Nothing else really to report.  Oh yeah I am dying for loaded mashed potatoes.  the 10/10/2010 is my cheat day, so that craving will be gone.  Then it will be another 14 days on plan.  I like that I have scheduled cheat days, so I can live through the weekend knowi...

So yesterday I ate my lunch as usual and wanted some chocolate.  The candy jar was empty and the vending machine didn't have anything.   I had to go out at lunch and I meant to get a dark chocolate bar, but forgot so finally I was done running around and still wanted chocolate (3 hours later), so I ended up buy a bunch of truffles from an expensive place.  I spent like 10$ blah.....I should have just had one mini and called it a day.  In scale news I of course am a glutton for punishment and got on the scale today.  I told me self...Self...fuck the scale, lol I am not going to sit and cry if I didn't go down or if I gained. I'm 350.  I didn't whoop with joy, I smiled and came here and reported it for my pat on the back.  That was with the 2 junior burgers saturday night, a small drink sunday night and the chocolate.  I have to go out to dinner tonight and this will motivate me to stay on plan. Oh yeah and my ankles are back to normal,...

34 min walking with Chris on ETV 25 min total body toner. So I was looking for a low impact weight workout, so I pulled out one of the firm DVDs I bought but never really got into and now it is right up my alley.  I can't do all of it, there is alot of modification, but I'll stick to it for a while.  Eating this weekend.  Sat I had jerk chicken, no rice or gravy (woo hoo) but i had 4 fried chicken wings (boo), but i think the wings did something to me, (bathroom issue). Sunday I had my usual omlette, but didn't slather it in anything.  (woo hoo)  I was out shopping, got hungry and had 2 steak taco (no sour cream, chips, or extra salsa).  Cooked a decent dinner and that was it.  No major screw up.  I'm still going to wait till wednesday for my weigh in. Other than that nothing really to report...woo hoo

no working out today, I want to rest my ankle a little more.  I'm happy I'm losing, but I also want it to heal.  I'm visiting my parents today and Goal is to try and stay low carb while I'm there.  hanging out after, no real issue there. I have to drive so I don't drink. So Yesterday was friday and I realized I do alot of emotional eating on friday. One, I think its the end of the week so i get to treat myself and the treat is usually food.  Instead I went to whole foods and finally discovered a place to by the peppers I've been looking for (habanero and Serrano).  Its a different form of retail therapy but its worked.  On my way home I hate coming home to an empty house and no plans so I think I do some comfort food eating.  I was hungry when I left work so I had to small bags of doritos (300cal total ) and when I got home to low fat puddings.  not great, but better than the fast food I would have eaten. Also Tue and thur are my early days ...

So yesterday once again I just KNEW I had lost like 20 lbs...ok I'm exaggerating, but you get the idea. Anyway so stupidly I got on the scale at night after eating. Bonehead move.  I was 357.  I cried and then at 2 low fat puddings.  Then it occurred to me that in fact I was a bonehead and there should be some kind of loss in the morning. Got up this morning 354 after I worked out 353. I am claming the 353 for today.  So I lost the weight I gained.  I would like it to be more but Happy it isn't higher. So changes for next week.  Making my own breakfast and only 1 piece of bread to go with it.  No more wholefoods.  I think I did ok, but I think I have issues with what they are putting in it. Cooking Brussell Sprouts Collard green Broccoli (for my roommate) Greek Turkey patties Wings (my lunch) some other meat. Next weigh in is Friday.  I am one lb short of my 8lb goal for the month...I am not goign to make next month 9 lbs, just ...

So today we have sensitivity training at work today.  Lunch is being served.  Which is usually sandwiches and salad and some kinda of pasta.  I could run out and get something to eat, but I am going to force myself to go and make reasonable choices.  Also because of the meeting I can't workout during lunch so I am going to have to workout at home tonight, which I hate doing.   I could just say heck with the 20 min, but I worked damn hard to make that 500 min, so lets see how this all shakes out. Yes I am obsessing about this, but this is life and if I want to lose weight I need to learn how to deal with the surprised life throws you. Added later so the meeting wasn't horrible.  I took 3 sandwiches before, threw away all the bread and drank water.  After the meeting I felt like nibbling so I took 3 more and threw away the bread again.  No fruit, no sweets.  Also before the meeting my co-workers put 2 mini reese's cups on my desk and ...

So yesterday I turned down going out to the mexican restaurant so I could workout.  I think I should get a gold star for that one.  So I am 20 min away from my 500 min goal and I realized that I started from Sept 11, not the 1st which means I did it in less that 30 days WOOO FRICKIN' HOO. I REALLY want to get on the scale but holding out till friday and staying on plan.  I am hoping for 352 which would give me the 8 lbs for the month.  (goal is 2 lbs a week).  Period is just about over and I have been going to the bathroom like crazy. I didn't want to workout today and I am realizing how important it is to have something you can get into.  I did kendall hogan cardio burn and after 5 min I was into it.  I love WATP, but If I had to do it again I would have stayed in bed. Right now I am having a hard time finding a low impact, higher weight...weight program.  All the stuff on excercise TV is either light weight will a billion reps or high wei...

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So yesterday was a good day. I cooked alot and I think I have enough for the week. I am trying to do a solid 14 days eating properly. I watched excercise TV the crunch workouts, and watching from the couch is not the same as doing them. Seems like it it is hard to find a solid 30 min low impact weight workout. I have another Steve M I'm going to try on Wednesday. Other than that nothing to report. 30 min kendal hogan 17 min crunch fitness 6 min abs

So this weekend was a bust foodwise and I've noticed a patter with myself I'm focused mon-thur and then I make excuses and fall off fri & sat. Then I'm back on track Sun. So the only goal I have right now is to do a straight 14 days on plan. I will say I was focused saturday by I went to a child birthday party where there wasn't really anything healthy to eat and of course I had the high calorie fruit juice instead water. I finally got my period so weigh in day will be friday. Worked out Chris e-tv walkign and her cardio blast 59 min. On an better note I'm only 150 min from my monthly excercise goal. I don't think I've hit my goal in a while so I'm feel good about this.

(the banned atkins phase 1 foods) BEEF Brisket Jerky, unless homemade without sugar Liver Prime Rib Rib steaks Skirt Steak POULTRY Chicken, wings and legs Duck Goose Turkey, dark meat (including wings and thighs) PORK Bacon Honey-baked ham Pork rinds VEAL Breast DAIRY Ice Cream Milk 2% or whole Soymilk whole yogurt cup style and frozen CHEESE Full Fat VEGETABLES Beets Carrots Corn Green peas Potatoes, white Potatoes, sweet Pumpkin Turnips (root) Winter squash Yams FRUIT Avoid all fruits and fruit juices in Phase 1, STARCHES Avoid all starchy food in Phase 1, including: Bread, all types Cereal, all types Croutons, all types Matzo Oatmeal Rice, all types Pasta, all types Pastry and baked goods, all types Condiments ketchup cocktail sauce BEVERAGES Alcohol of any kind, including beer and wine fruit juice all types milk, full fat and 2% powdered drink mixes containing sugar soda and other drinks containing sugar soymil...

No movement on the scale, which makes me happy I did good otherwise. So I think thur or friday are my cheat days. I think i've been eating the same things all week and I need a break...but I am still making better choices. Came home last night and wasn't interested in the spinach stew I had made. So i went to baja fresh. I order the burrito with steak ( and found one without all the devilish rice and beans) and I had a mini ice cream. I still haven't gotten my period, but I feel like its coming. I think all the exercise had helped me maintain. The goal for next week is to be as low carb as possible. I'm gonna throw out the rye bread and see if I can make a salad to bring to work. No idea what but i hate doing that...blah Woke up late this morning, so no workout. I"m ok with that since I did 4 days this week. I think my ankle needs a break. -Focused.

So for the first time every...I will have worked out 5 days in a row. My ankle isn't happy about it. I'm going to ice it tonight and finish up tonight. Also I have stayed on plan. So whatever the scale says...I'm in a good place. Changes for next week. All low carb next week. Breakfast salmon cakes, scambles eggs with veggies lunch steams veggie and lamb/turkey burgers dinner....not sure yet. I am going to try brussel spouts so that will be the veggies Goal next week is no bread,pasta, rice, couscous. I might throw out the rye bread I bought...we'll see. 30 min WATP Added Later So after lunch I like something sweet (a habit I would like to break). I can't go in the candy dish (14 day challenge), so I go to the vending machine. Nothing really appeals to me so rather than settle I don't get anything. Added Even Later Well I made my way back to the vending machine. I was hungry....so I ended up getting patry or whatever (360 cals) and...

I gained 2 lbs, but I am due for my period so I am going to hold judgment till it over. Until then I am trying to stay focused. So my ex-fiance who is staying with me, bought a bunch of ice cream in addition to the stuff I replaced of his that I ate. I can't have ice cream for 21 days. I haven't touched it. I did have a little extra a dinner, but I"m ok with that. I missed my workout this morning and thanks to exercise TV I went to the training room at work and did a kendall hogan workout for 20 min (loved it and was sad when it ended. Going to see if he had a longer one. I tried Steve M, the 40 workout, but the stopping and starting got to me and I think its really an interval strengeth training which isn't my thing. So I'm going back to Chris 10lb blast on friday. Also drum roll...I worked out on a tue...at work...hoping I can continue the at work thing. I brought in a WATP 2 mi DVD and we did the first mile. I didn't count it in my min because I did...

Cook ALOT yesterday so there shouldn't be any issues with being tempted to eat out. I did Chris' walking workout today. I tried Steve M. workout and lasted about 5 min, but I think I can't do both in a row. So I'll save him for Friday when I need something different. I want to get on the scale, but only if I've lost weight, lol....So waiting till Wednesday. Not much else to report. I'm supposed to go out to the movies tomorrow, which of course I'm obsessing over. I am just getting a bottled water no snacks. I kinda want nachos (yes I want something more than 24 hours before it is going to happen), but I want to be a 24 by Christmas and that ain't gonna happen eating nachos and I cooked all this food, lol. Added later The scale is the devil...so I was so convinced I had lost weight I got on the scale...and it went up, but I had eaten and so well....I am not posting that number BUT i am more focused on getting lower by my official weigh in day. Funn...

So I got up this morning and had the usual conversation in my head about whether I should work out or not. I got up headed for the computer and the first site I went to was 3 fat chicks and happened upon a thread about all the things people could do now that they had lost weight. I remember those days and I want them back. I was convincing myself 15 min WATP was enough since I plan to do a big workout tomorrow. I think I'm bored with my DVDs so I got on my cable box which I think I pay way too much money for and browsed excercise TV. I did kendall hogan. I watched about 5 min of it to make sure it wasn't too extreme and jumped in Kendal is a beast...lol. It was mostly low impact and lots of choreography. I probably would have turned it off, but I said I am going to do this. By 10 min I was sweating, but Kendall is perky with out being annoying and by the end of it I had done the 30 min without even noticing. I will say for the moves I couldn't do or went to quick...

Didn't work out yesterday because my days changed and I am just never going to exercise at night. I did 26 min with chris freytag , and I'll do something tomorrow. Not what I wanted but i think the important thing is I am still doing something. Eating was kinda bad....I went out to lunch and had ALOT of sushi. I also had chicken satay which comes with a peanut dipping sauce. I ate the sushi and the chicken, but I managed to leave most if not all of the dipping sauce since I used it so sparingly. I kept thinking its got to have easily 1000 calories or more in that bowl. I had fruit when I got home. Heading to visit the family today. Hoping it goes well.

So some interesting things have and haven't happened. Last night I went out to dinner for the first time since starting to try and lose weight again. I had been thinking, planning (obsessing) about going to applebees and not trying to inhale everything on the menu. So here is how it went down. I ate fine all day, but I'm used to eating dinner at around 7 when I get home. dinner wasn't till 8 and even then i would have to wait for the food tome come....Not gonna happen, so I went to wendy's and had 2 orders of chicken nuggets. No sides and I drank water. It took the end off. At the restaurant I had a steak and some potatoes (not mashed potatoes) with onions and mushrooms, and Seltzer water. Oh yeah for an appetizer I had the little chicken tacos with Asian slaw. At the end of this I didn't feel full and I was satisfied. No idea what the calorie count was, but I feel like it was a step in the right directions. Usually I would have had 2 mini cheese burgers a...

So I'm still focused. My eating has been pretty good. I had a few hiccups 2 pastries on Monday and mini ice creams yesterday. They weren't whole meals or me overeating so I'm not going to pile on the guilt...It happened lets move on. I haven't been counting calories. I pack my food for the day and stick to that pretty much. If I'm hungry I eat something. I usually have 1-2 left over. I usually pack 1 lean cuisine 2 pieces of fruit and 100 cal snack(sometimes 2). If is mon,wed, or fri I pack a homemade salad and if its tue or thur I pack a frozen breakfast and ice coffee(yeah I'm not giving up the ice coffee) and I pick up toast and a croissant. If I pack 2 snacks I don't eat the second one and I haven't been eating both piece of fruit. Anyway, I think the first big test will come tomorrow when I have to go out to dinner. I don't think I'll do horrible since I'm dying to get on the scale now and I don't want any issues friday morni...

So I didn't work out yesterday and I felt lazy. Nothing got done. Not horrible, just an observation. Anyway, out of boredom, I played around with my cable on demand and found exercise TV. I think of my issues is getting bored with me DVDs, anyway, so I found out they have a Chris Freytag work out. Its walking, but she kicked my butt for 30 min. I didn't do any of the floor work. I also discovered they have another DVD of her which has a workout plan. So I may do that. I was also thinking its funny from April to September its hard to be motivated, but as soon as it starts to cool off I'm up and at it. Not sure what to make of that. I got on the scale yesterday and I'm back up to 360, but I am going to lay that squarely on the fact that I couldn't work out for a month. I am not supposed to be working out now, but I just couldn't wait anymore and the rest of my body was having issues. While I still wrap my ankle to work out I think the working out seems...

Well summer is over and from my last post till now. I partied alot and also sprained my ankle so no movement on the weight front. I am supposed to stay off of it, but my knees are starting to hurt and I can feel the aches and pains creeping back in. So I am doing walking and weights, all low impact stuff. We'll see how it goes. 23 min drop it in 30 20 min total body toner.

So things are moving right along. I get on the scale friday. I don't feel any lighter, but my body seems alot happier. Some of the issues was huffing and puffing up a small hill I have to work to work in the subway station, my ankles and feet swelling, back hurting, no energy. All of that has changed. Ankles have gone down, feet are good. Its even easier to put on sandals because they aren't so swollen. I can see the difference walking up steps. I mean I running, but I am not sitting wondering if my heart is ok or not. Me eating for the most part has been pretty ok. My eating plan is eat like I have some damn sense. So breakfast at home, which mean I'm not eating the really high calorie and expensive breakfasts I was. Right now there isn't anything I want to bring for lunch and I'm tired of frozen meals. So I have given myself 10 bucks a day to eat lunch, and preferably no fast food. So I think alot more about what I'm eating. I think I'll end up ...

25 min cardio inferno. I tried to do a weight dvd as well, but was sweating SOOOO much and felt nauseous. I figures no need to collapse. I am going to try and get it some weights tomorrow we'll see. Weekend eating was.... Friday was ok, I stuck to salad and grilled chicken. I had 2 pieces, but couldn't really finish. I went to the movies Friday night and didn't eat anything. I think I had a 6in subway sandwich Friday as well. I need to keep better track of this. Saturday was horrible, but I think I am just going to have one day where I eat something bad. I think i need to do a full confession though. I went to Friday (the local applebees closed down and I had gotten to the point where I could go in have just an appetizer and that was it) Anyway. I had potstickers, small steake, half rack of ribs (sounds bigger than it is) loaded mashpotatoes, broccli and a choclate peanut butter pie dessert. Drink Seltzer with lemon. What do you think 4,000 calories easily. I guess I...

So I fell off the wagon right after my last post. Alot of it was due to having a bunch of events to go to and not wanting to cook in the heat. So I did 25 min with weights of walking and still going to try and hit my goal....we'll see who it goes. I think I can make up alot this weekend. 25 walking with chris.

WOW can't believe I have posted anything since Jan.... Well here is a quick recap. I'm not engaged and I've tried on and off half heartedly to get back on the wagon, but nothing has really stuck.... I think I'm probably 360 right now, but we'll see. I 'am going to get on the evil scale on the 1st. Anyway what got me motivated is my ankles swell if I sit too long...and I say a picture of someone much bigger than me and realized if I didn't do something it was just going to get worse. At first they would swell and then go down once I put them up like when I got in bed. Now they just stay swollen. Also I'm going to an event in a week or two and I don't want swollen ankles. So back I am So here are the rules. No eating out Mon-Fri No Soda No french fries No popeyes no white castle no burger king Count my calories. So lets start with that and see where I go I started working out and the goal is 500 min between now and Aug 1. 6/27/2010 - 20 min walk fi...

So I've been dreading getting on the scale all week and rightly so I gained a pound. Im not sure if its because of my period or what. I was thinking before that no matter what I'm not giving up. I have more energy, my house is cleaner as a result and I feel better. So maybe I'll just be this weight forever...who knows. I would like to say no eating out next month, but I have alot going on, so maybe we eat out responsibly. We'll see. Next weignin is on the 15th I think. Not working out today. Blah.

So I made a monthly resolution with a girlfriend to do 100 min of excercise a week. I've stuck to it and I left my debit card at home so I actually ate what I was supposed to when I was at work. Things seem to be ok I'm at my highest in a weight in a while, but I'm not beating myself up. So I was 348, as of 1/22/2010 before that I was 351 So I am doing ok and I feel like I am back on track. normally I would say ok I did 100 min I need to move it up to 120 or something else or whatever. Nope, we're going to sit a 100 min and see how I feel. Some other things have happened. My love life has settled down and my warcraft playing has cut down . So seems like I need to be in a good place to lose weight. So Monday Cardio inferno 25 min mens fitness 20 min Wednesday Cardio Over drive 41 min mens fitness 20 min Total 106 min I could stop now, but I really want to work out fri and sat. and I'll weigh in Sat and the goal is to just be lower than the previous week. So li...