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Rachael M
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 # Posted: 7 Apr 2008 18:34


Well, I've been feeling bad about myself all morning. I did terrible this weekend and I'm really mad at myself (I'm also in a bad mood because I slept horribly last night) I'm really disappointed in myself for eating so much this weekend. I mean yes I'm doing better than I was doing before I started trying to be health, but I'm just so close to the tri that I really need to be putting good stuff into my body. I'm 2 weeks out now, and I'm getting nervous. Anyways, I'm back on the healthy path today.

Breakfast: Aunt Jamima whole wheat pancakes with cool whip and 8 ounces of apple juice (400 Cal)
Snack: 2 pieces of deli meat, 3 cheese cubes, and 10 baby carrots (100 Cal)
Lunch (whenever I quit feeling so nauseous): can of tuna + 1 Tbls lite mayo + 2 heaping Tbls dill pickle relish + 4 jalapeño slices and 1/2 slice whole grain bread (400 Cal)
Glenobo .
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 # Posted: 7 Apr 2008 18:40


Everybody falls off the wagon sometimes, and a weekend will not hurt you! Trust me, its so easy to get demoralised after something like this, but your attitude of getting right back into it is so much better than "I can't do this."

I'm sure if you ate that much anyway, it was what your body was craving. Especially if you are training for an event, your metabolism is totally revved, and maybe that extra food was just what you needed to keep you going strong.

Also, your body does something called 'calorie averaging' over a space of about 4 days rather than a count-off everyday. So if you eat less than maintenance over, say 4 days, you will lose, if you eat more over this time you gain, if you eat more for 2, less for 2 you maintain. I'm sure if you have put on weight (from what you see on the scale) it will soon disappear after a few days of good diet and exercise.

Keep going!
Rachael M
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 # Posted: 7 Apr 2008 18:57


Thanks Glenobo, I just seem to keep doing this weekend after weekend. I really feel like I need to break this unhealthy cycle, but it is so hard. People keep asking me why I overeat on the weekends, and well, I guess it could be that I do really need the food, but I feel like it's mainly a social thing. I feel like letting loose on the weekend and that includes my diet. It's just so hard and then I get frustrated and I want to just kinda crawl in a hole or something. Sorry to be so negative and whiny today.

Thanks again for the encouragement Glenobo!
Joe Weierke
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 # Posted: 7 Apr 2008 19:16


I tend to eat more on the weekends as well. Then get back on the wagon come Monday. I have found that I loose more weight if I keep my body guessing the calorie intake one day a week.
Rachael M
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 # Posted: 7 Apr 2008 19:30


That's a good thought Joe. Unfortunately, my pattern has gone towards being good 4.5 days per week, and eating like a horse the 2.5 days. That's not a very good ratio.


Joe Weierke
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 # Posted: 7 Apr 2008 19:37


So far I have eaten today is Fiber One Bars, Fiber One Cereal, Soup, Steamed Veggies, and Yogurt. I am trying to eat more during the day and have lighter meals at the end of they day. I tend to feel a big sluggish working out if I don't eat enough beforehand.
Glenobo .
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 # Posted: 7 Apr 2008 19:58


I definitely wouldnt say you're alone on that one Rachael! Come Friday evening everybody wants to let loose after a hard week...myself included!

I always eat more on the weekend too, but if you keep up with the exercise it should be no biggie! Being totally strict and disciplined and uptight all the time is just as bad as being completely reckless and not giving a hoot about what you do to your body. Remember healthy = balance. I understand where you're coming from though! Don't beat yourself up about it, you're human!
Stacy F
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 # Posted: 7 Apr 2008 22:00


Rachel one thing that has helped me a bunch.....Increase breakfast to 600 calories. cut that mid morn snack to just the vegies.....and add 500 to your lunch.
Samantha Cordell
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 # Posted: 7 Apr 2008 23:08 - Edited by: sammiaaron


Hey Rach..I find the weekends a little harder to stay focused...not so much with the exercise side of things but eating proper.....hubby and the kids are home, and I think my reason is a comfort thing...I feel cosy n comfy when they're around and I associate that feeling with eating more...its mainly larger portions not so much junk food...I just want more LOL...but that comfy cosy feeling is what got me to the weight I once was - thats what I kept reminding myself about.

The positive thing is you have identified WHY you do it...just keep plugging away at what you are doing best...

PS) You mentioned you're feeling nauseous - could it be the pitter patter of little Rachels LOL ;)
Rachael M
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 # Posted: 7 Apr 2008 23:11


Thanks Glenobo. Yeah I know I need to balance. I guess I'm really just starting to feel the stress of the tri getting so close. My original goal back in Jan was to be down to 150 by now (from 186), but I'm still at 178 even though I really feel like I've been doing quite well. Yeah, I go over on weekends some, but I still am doing *way* better than I was before I started being healthy. So there's frustration from that too. Then my goal after I started getting closer was to be down 10 lbs by the tri, and I'm still only down 8. Anyways, yes I need to balance and not flip out if I screw up over the weekend. I also need to stop screwing up so much over the weekend.

Stacy, are you saying that I should up breakfast and lunch and take away from dinner? I'm always hungriest at night so I'm not sure that would work as well for me. Or are you saying just to up my calories?

Snack: spoonful of peanut butter (100 Cal) oh and I forgot to mention the coffee with creamer and sugar earlier this morning which was probably about 100 Cal
THE NEW ME
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 # Posted: 8 Apr 2008 00:35


rachael-glad you are back on track-thats the way to do it!!
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 # Posted: 8 Apr 2008 00:38


break-oatmeal, cottage cheese, banana, almonds
lunch-salmon, broccoli, potatoes
dinner-salmon, cauliflower, potatoes with 1 T butter
-pineapple
Glovia L
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 # Posted: 8 Apr 2008 05:49


Rachael, me 2! I trend to overeat in the weekend also. Sometimes, it is frustrated that I have been good girl for 5 days and failed at the weekend!

Friends in Traineo provides good tips and help you get back on track.

My tips now is "balance". My nutritioniest has asked me to eat protein everytime when I have carbs. Say if I have an apple for snack, I must eat some protein, such as cottage cheese or hard boild egg. I have been practising for last few days. I feel I can control myself better over the weekend.
Glovia L
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 # Posted: 8 Apr 2008 05:59


Breakfast: Apple 1, Strawberry ~ 100g, low fat chocolate soy milk 1 cup
Snack: Dannon yogart - 1, baby carrot - 10
Lunch: Grilled salmon salad 1/2 serving, veggie soup 1 cup, decaf coffee in skim mlik, apple 1, sample bites of tomato basil bread
Snack: Strawberry ~200g, hard boiled egg 1
Pre-workout: raw oatmeal 1/2 cup, applesauce 1/2 cup
Post-workout+dinner: grilled chicken 2 oz, beef 2 oz, pineapple 300g

I gave myself A-. If I did not sample the tomato basil bread in lunch, I would grade myself A.
Joe Weierke
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 # Posted: 8 Apr 2008 13:14


So Far today:

Breakfast - 1/2 cup egg subsitute with a small can of mushrooms (100 Cal)
2 non fat yogurts (120 Cal).
Dean Grimshawe
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 # Posted: 8 Apr 2008 13:16


Am feeling under the weather today so I am tucking into a Chicken Tikka Masala for lunch.

I am a simple machine. When I'm not running right I either need to eat more or sleep more.

Am at work at the moment so the former it is!!
Rachael M
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 # Posted: 8 Apr 2008 13:43


Yesterday:
Dinner: bowl of Grandma's vegetable soup (YUM!!), green beans, sandwich on whole grain bread with 3 pieces of deli meat, 1 T lite mayo, and 2 large slices of tomato. (650 Cal)
Total: 1750 Cal

Today:
Breakfast: Aunt Jamima pancakes with lite cool whip and 8 ounces apple juice (400 Cal)
Stacy F
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 # Posted: 8 Apr 2008 14:58


Rachael by no means am I am expert but from what I have read our bodies get use to our intake and output. Just looking over your posts you eat 400 cal every morning and 400 for lunch. My thought is if you eat more to start the day maybe it will hold you over better so you can taper off at night. Who knows I am in the same boat as you I lose a few pounds and gain a few pounds but I do know I am in much better shape physicaly so I know I am making a difference.

( My scale is about to find a new home it lies to me daily )


Rachael M
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 # Posted: 8 Apr 2008 15:24


Yeah, I see your point, but sometimes I'm forcing down the 400 Cal at breakfast. The 400 could be more at lunch, but then I feel like I don't leave myself room for error when it comes to dinner. Plus I eat 300 Cal worth of snacks over the course of the afternoon (most days). And I'm just hungrier at dinner time. I think it has to do with the fact that I just worked out and my metabolism is all revved up. I have taken calories from dinner and put them earlier in the day. Used to I had 300 Cal breakfast, 100 Cal snack, 500 Cal lunch, 100 Cal snack, 7 to 800 Cal dinner. So I'm improving!
Joe Weierke
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 # Posted: 8 Apr 2008 16:27


Anyone else drinking tea as part of their diet? I have for two weeks now and seem to enjoy it more than just plain water or diet soda. I have mostly drank green tea varieties (Both hot and cold).
Samantha Cordell
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 # Posted: 8 Apr 2008 23:53


Hope you are feeling better today Dean and how was the Chicken Tikka? YUM!!!

Breakfast was one coffee, one banana and some weetbix, drizzle of honey and ½ cup of skim milk....
Samantha Cordell
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 # Posted: 9 Apr 2008 03:13


Lunch was ½c brown rice mixed with fresh steamed green beans and beautiful broccoli...and I mixed some parmesan in with it, so it melted and became alomst risotto like - it was divine....

Had a couple of cubes of cheese, carrot sticks, sultanas as well...
Glovia L
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 # Posted: 9 Apr 2008 05:31


Quoting: wayofthewarrior
Am feeling under the weather today

Dean, I can understand that,...you have lost to the US team. You will get have to get used to it because you will be losing all the way to the end.


Glovia L
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 # Posted: 9 Apr 2008 05:35


Quoting: novellahub
Anyone else drinking tea as part of their diet?

Joe, tea is my normal default drinks. I have multiple cups of green tea daily. My favorite is Dragon Well and Onlong.

I love Indian tea also. The darker, fuller body one with soy milk. I am not quite sure if it is as good as green tea though.

Samantha, your dish sounds so beautiful looking and healthy also. You must be a good in culinary art.
Glovia L
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 # Posted: 9 Apr 2008 05:46


Pre-workout: raw oatmeal, applesauce - 1/2 cup each
Post-workout+breakfast: pineapple 150g, 2 fried egg with 1 low carb tortilla
Snack: Dannon yogart 1, baby carrot 3 oz
Lunch: Griled salmon salad 1/2 portion, black bean soup 1 cup, decaf coffee with skim milk, sample bits of multigrain bread
Snack: 1 apple, 1/2 cup of low fat milk
Pre-workout: raw oatmeal, applesauce - 1/2 cup each
Post-workout+dinner: pineapple 300g, spinach 2 cup, tuna 3 oz, low carb tortilla 1, yellow bellpepper 1/2cup, pot roast 1 bite
~1500 calories.

I gave myself C today. I think I have too much starchy carbs today. I found a low carb tortilla from Trader Joe's. It has 11g of carbs and 6g of protein each. It is much better than rice, bread. But, I still think I should get carbs primary from veggie. I will show it to my nutritionist and hope she would approve it.
Glovia L
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 # Posted: 9 Apr 2008 05:51


BTW, does any of you believe decaf coffee without sugar/cream is 0 calories? I search some food calorie counter in the internet. They show 0 in calorie. I thought all coffee are roasted in butter. How could it be 0 calorie?
Rachael M
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 # Posted: 9 Apr 2008 14:18


Yesterday:
Morning snacks (spaced out 8:30, 9:30, 10:30): Tbls PB, apple, Tbls PB (250 Cal)
Lunch: Mexican stuff (400 Cal)
Snack: multi grain bread with PB (200 Cal)
Pre work out snack: 2 slices deli meat, 4 cheese cubes, 10 baby carrots (100 Cal)
Dinner: hand full peanuts, green beans, salad with 4 hard boiled eggs, lots of romaine lettuce, 2/3 of a large tomato, about 1/2 cup fat free cheese, and lite olive oil based vinaigrette dressing (700 Cal - oops)
Total: 2050 Cal. I was really hungry yesterday for some reason. I didn't mean to eat that much, but it was food that was good for me so I guess it's okay.

Today:
Breakfast: 2 cups Kashi cereal, 1 cup fat free milk past it's expiration date (400 Cal)
Joe Weierke
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 # Posted: 9 Apr 2008 15:32


I too overate a bit yesterday. For some reason my wife likes to get ice cream (Dairy Queen) while watching the "Biggest Loser" show.

No matter, I will just work out harder today.

So far today:

Liquid Eggs / Mushrooms: 135
Yogurt - 120
Cereal - 120

Snack:

Fiber One Bar 140
Minu ~
The Master
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 # Posted: 9 Apr 2008 15:37


I just enjoyed 6 high-fiber Wasas, (2.5 grams per wafer, YES!), topped with a grazing of light cream cheese and natural prune spread. Followed by a lovely decaf macchiato espresso with a little honey. Yummy in my tummy.
Dave Nicholson
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 # Posted: 9 Apr 2008 16:23


break- some new kashi-ish organic cereal with blueberries!
at work...
orange
carrots
pork sandwich....
... I'm still a little hungry, time to go refill the quart water bottle


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