Aching Feet

My feet are aching along with my ankles. I think it is time I bought some really good exercise shoes. Traci suggested "Runners Corner" so tomorrow I will go shell out money for good shoes. Never thought I would exercise enough to have to pay more than $10 bucks for a pair of shoes. Kinda exciting.

Eating more for less

Since I am a vegetarian I have to use a lot of tofu and egg whites for protein. Unfortunately I love carbs and fruits better. SO I need to get a bit more creative with my recipes so I can get full instead of using all my servings/calories that my body needs on carbs.

Seriously! Answers Required.

Serious discussion here folks..... I hate people who can loose weight! (Not really - I am excited for all who are loosing - I am just frustrated)

I talked to a lady today who is my age. She said she got a trainer and by working out and eating healthy she has lost 10 lbs in 2 weeks. WHAT IS UP FOLKS??? I am not doing that. I may joke about my food and how "bad" I am being but I am doing pretty good. I have cut out a lot of foods that I used to eat and I eat a lot less so..... why is my scale just creeping down ounce by ounce? Do you know how many ounces are in a lb? Then many of my friends are on the HGH Diet and are loosing tons of weight. It is so tempting not to join them.................... Ok I vented

I Have Returned!

St. George is HOT! Yuck!

Nice thing about heat is that you are not very hungry.

I left for St. George on Thursday. I ate healthy Thursday and Friday and Saturday until about noon. It was downhill from there. Several reasons - I overate around 3 pm and for some reason felt like I had blown it so continued bad eating the rest of the day. Today is not so bad. I drank a lot of cold coffee drinks on the way home because I was trying to stay awake. So I will eat healthier the rest of the day.

I exercised Friday and will exercise tonight. That way I only missed one of my regular exercise days (Thursday).

Back to reality tomorrow - it was good to spend several days with my mom and her friends in St George.

Food Diary

So.... todays food (so far)

BREAKFAST

Oatmeal

Boiled Egg (just the white part)

1/4 cup frozen grapes

LUNCH

1/2 cup bananna squash

1 cup Cottage cheese

1 1/2 cup raw brocclli, carrots, califlower, sunflower seeds and black beans

SNACK

2 Morningstar Spicy Bean Patties

NOW - lets see what tonight brings...

Be strong Michelle - you can do it - you can do - you can do it!!!

Sweating to the Oldies

I remember Opera stating that she never sweated when she exercised UNTIL she started working out on a regular basis. I am drenched by the time I get through exercising. Has anyone else noticed that they sweat more now than when they started?

Food Food Love My Food

OK - so I have no clue who else reads this blog besides the few who respond to something I have written. It could be all of the Intermountain employees. SO................

I will blog what I eat - OUCH

I was hungry this morning - so I had the following: 1 cup oatmeal, 1/4 cup raisins, 1 boiled egg, 1 yogurt with 1/4 cup granola on top.

Mid morning i was bored because i was in a video conference meeting. I ate 3 small "fun size" Butterfingers (my favorite) I also ate a whole roll of lifesavers throughout the day. Lunch was a baked potato with 1/2 cup Marinara sauce and broccoli. Supper was 2 pieces of toast, 1 TBS peanut butter and 3/4 cup yogurt. That was my calories today. If I had left out the sugar treats I could have eaten 300 extra calories.

I did exercise 1 1/2 hours and burned 600 calories.

Victory Dance

Contrary to popular belief - I do not know how to do a victory dance.

Contrary to popular belief - I am not sure I will every learn how to do a victory dance.

Contrary to popular belief - I do not have a handle on this food thing

Contrary to popular belief - I think I may fail at this 100 day healthy heart

challenge

I am reading the book "Intuitive Eating" Not sure I get it.

I do believe that:

Victory comes one bite at a time

Victory comes one refusal of a bite at a time.

I have reversal victory syndrome -

So instead of crying in my milk (does everything have to do with food?) I will make a eating menu for today and stick to it. Let me grab the Oreo's while I decide what to eat today - - - just joking. I will sip on my coffee.

You gotta be kidding me!

Ok - my sis-in-law buys this awesome treadmill with all the bells and whistles. Has it two week. Walks 1/2 hour every other day and says she has lost 6 lbs. She is older than me by the way.

I have worked for weeks and not lost over 2 lbs.

Maybe my scale is broke. Maybe I need to change my bodies set point - HOW?

Maybe if I cover the scale numbers with a paper with my desired weight written on it my body will just loose the required weight. So if I weigh 5000 lbs and want to weigh 1000 lbs I will see that number every time I weigh and my body will automatically loose weight - sound to far fetched?

You gotta better idea??

I am hungry - hungry - hungry

I love my carbs - I do not get that full unless I have my carbs.

So healthy carbs are - - - - okay whatever they are I eat too much of them and the not so healthy carbs.

It takes energy and effort to stay away from so many of them. Since I do not eat meat carbs are my main source of food. In order to eat less I have to cook. I come home and just fix for me because everyone has their own eating schedule. So... time that I quit procrastinating and do my menu and cook a little.

I got the exercise part almost down but I am way behind on the food thing and we are almost half way through this thing. That is a bit scary to me!!

Back on Track

I have been under the weather. Stressed and sick. I didn't weigh, only made it 1/2 hour with my trainer because I felt terrible. Didn't write down what I ate - didn't turn in my logs.

So - need a quick turn around and a restart for tomorrow. I feel like I have blown the whole thing. Weird games play the tunes in my mind.

You have missed days - messed up with the food thing so you have failed again.

Not going to listen (at least that is what I am trying to convince myself of) New start tomorrow????

That is ALL I have to say about this past weekend!

Am I Judging?

I have struggled with weight all my life so I would hope I would never judge anyone. Yet I find myself looking at what people are eating and thinking to myself "If they just knew how many portions they are eating they would just freak out!"

Okay - so I can eat a whole pie in a day (berry or pecan). If I made it last through the whole day and didn't eat too much else I am sure it is okay and it all evens out. That it is until now I realize that 1/20 the of the pie is a serving and that serving has 350 calories in it!!

So - I don't think I am judging........ am I?

You Are What You Eat

I know there are no "good or bad" foods and that we can eat our favorite foods ect. BUT what foods do you no longer eat on a regular basis and what new foods have you added?

I am not sure what I have added that much. Maybe more celery and bell peppers. I have stopped eating as many breads and treats as I use to. I like to eat foods with lower calories so I can eat smaller meals through out the day.

V8 juice also helps me get the veggies I need. I am afraid I like fruit a lot better! I have decreased the number of bananas I eat especially after finding out what the size of one serving is!

I had 2 stress days - stress days often mean I eat carbs and sweets. When logging my food yesterday I really didn't want to write down all the stuff I had eaten but I did. I ate 560 calories of junk food. I didn't even want to look at the fat grams! After I choose to eat that way I am always a bit down on myself. I also had a HUGE headache add those two together and I did not want to exercise. I did though. When you do that you feel like everything is under control again. I ate better today. I did have a small amount of desert but not 560 calories worth. Just 120.

I think I will be a fruit head and not a cabbage head!

Munching on down

As I shared in our class this morning I had a meltdown with stress yesterday and reverted to my habbit of stuffing my face - by the way did you know the fatter your face is the less wrinkles you have? Sorry I diverted - One of the items I choose was Mentos. I ate the whole roll. So..... I go to the site where I log what I eat "Livestrong.com" and type in Mentos. Guess what the serving size is?? ONE - yes just ONE!!! Then why the heck do they sell it in a loonnnggggg roll? That was a killer in the calorie department. Kinda went down hill from there.