Rocky - Journal for 2006

Ok, I will do a fresh start too.

So far, the beginning of January sucked - I ate too many cookies and truffles and all that bad Holiday stuff... but today I haven't eaten anything yet - so it's as good a day as any to start.

I've had about 5 ounces of water so far. I drink more water in the middle of the night it seems...

My start weight is approximately 195. I gained a few over the Holidays.

My first goal weight is 170.

25 pounds sounds a heck of a lot easier to lose than almost 60.

I'm going to make an effort to go to the excercise room today. Even if it's only for 10 minutes of biking / treadmill... that's 10 minutes more than usual. I'm still feeling a litle sick.. so hopefully 10 minutes isn't going to get me exhausted! lol

I'm planning on salad wih tuna for lunch, with italian dressing.

Great Plans!!!!!

I had the salad yesterday, I skipped on the tuna - I wasn't feeling in the mood for tuna.

For dinner, I had a chicken finger, some oven baked fries, and 2 homemade hamburger patties, with ketchup.

Later at night - I got such a HUGE craving for chocolate... I had a small bite of it.

Then another... and soon, I had eaten 4 strips of 5 pieces... I guess the size of 4 Aero bars.... I felt so sick afterwards. I felt like such a pig. To make matters worse, I had a pepsi too.

At least I got my 10 minutes in at the gym....

I'm up early today - I've got a meeting with the person whose job I'll be taking over when I go back to work part-time in march... and then I'm stopping at the gym - and I'm going to stay there for a while, Naomie will be in the bodycarrier, so I'lls tay until she's REALLY fussy. She'll love the bouncing around, I'm sure... it's what we do here.

I pigged out last night... bread is a killer to me. Believe it or not.. I had EIGHT toast.

i shouldn't eat for like 3 days now... lol

good thing i'm drinking loads of water.

I have NO self control. Zip. Nada. NONE!!! DH bought ice cream sandwiches and cheddar sun chips... what a butt head. OF COURSE, I had to have some. DH said he wouldn't have any in front of me - but they're still HERE!!

Mooooo.

Anyhoo - last night I had some cross rib steak foir dinner... I shared my 4x4x1 piece with the kids.... so I had about 4 or 5 ounces of steak, with some sour cream & chives pasta.

I did have some fruit yesterday though - 2 clementines, half an apple and a handful of grapes. I had 3 3-cup glasses of water during the day, and a hot chocolate while I took a hot bubblebath.

Today - dh came home for lunch, so I had a bowl of the Kraft dinner he made, with some coffee. I'm gonna go to the gym around 4:30pm - anmd dh is going to walk by and "pick me up" so we can walk home together around 5. It's only up some stairs, through the overpsas and down some stairs... lol so it's not like i have very far to go.... no excuses.

I said no excuses... but I had a good one. I was online here all day - then when it came time to go to the gym, I had a meeting with the new sitter for Naomie.



Well I could have gotten off my butt to go to the gym... but I didn't feel like it. I'm the only one to blame there. Will try again today.

For dinner last night, since we got home so late from the meeting and pickingn up the kids etc... dinner wasn't alreayd made, so we stopped at McDicks. I had 2 bigmacs and some fries - I sharecd the fries with the kids.

2 big macs. I feel sick just thinking about it...but boy were they good.

To make things worse - I had like 30 smarties last night. Then I had a pickle and cheese snadwich.

I hope today is better.... I've drank about 2 cups of water so far, and I had chili macaroni noodles for lunch with some corn and dried beans (cooked of course) mixed it - kinda like a chili. It was pretty good.

Off to chug-a-lug more water. I haven't GAINED any weight since last week, just haven't lost any yet.

Keep up the good work, remember you are still a nursing momma so you need to lose slow and steady so you can continue to nurse. It will come in time.

yup - one of the reasons i'm doing this only half-4$$ed.

Well fir dinner I had about 2/3 of a 5 ounce steak again. Yum!

With pan fried vegetables and some parmesan noodles.
Then I had 3 sugar cookies, and snacked on about 6 chocolate cookies since then...

But i drank about 60 ounces of water today.



I'm having a coffee right now, cuz i havben't had one today and needed my fix.

oh - i took down my christmas tree, picked up all the toys in the toyroom and rearranged my furniture to close the gap where the tree was. That's gotta count for something, right?

Ok - I had 2 bowls of salad for dinner..... i put a bit of garlic, cheese, peach chunks and raisins in it, with balsamic vinaigrette.... sound weird, but it was yummy. Even dh said so. HE and the kids had spaghetti.

then at like 11pm - i got really hungry - I had 4 slices of bread with light cheez whiz. and a peppermint patty.

Today - so far I haven't had much - a coffee and a plum. I had a meeting at 11am to discuss my job tasks... and I got up late (10:30) so i didn't have time to eat, what with showering, dressing me, getting the baby ready to go etc...

and so I got home at 12:30, thought DH was coming home for lunch... Naomie fell asleep so I put her down and started painting in zach's room... next thing i know it's almost 2... so i call dh and ask him when he's coming home - he tells me he went to burger king around 1...

now i'm hungry. I could have some salad - but i was keeping what's left for dinner.... maybe I'll make tuna casserole for dinner and just make myself a small bowl of oatmeal, with an apple for now.

Yep - that's what I'm going to do.

Oh - ETA - I stopped at the gym an my way home... I only did 7 or 8 minutes of cycling - but it was at a resistance level of 4/4 (the hardest) and at a constant speed of over 15 miles per hour. (between 15 - 20)

it's a start...

This post has been edited by ZEN Mommy on Jan 12 2006, 11:17 AM

I ended up npt having the oatmeal or apple... I just got into doing other stuff to keep distracted until dinnertime, since it was not far anyways. Since I had the casserole made by 4pm, when dh got home at 4:15 I had a bowl of it. He had one after... then we went grocery shopping and picked up the kids.

Later that night, I had 2 peanut butter and nutella sandwiches... the second one also had sliced cheese on it.



this morning - I'm drinking a Pepsi. Not the greatest thing, but lately I can't control my cravings. I just...gotta have it - or I get to be this raving lunatic.

I'd better not be pregnant - cuz I'm gonna shoot myself.... well not really - just in the "catch phrase" type of way....dh said, jokingly: well it would be fuuuun

idiot

Yesterday for lunch I had 2 small pork chops (very small - both together was like a normal one) and some cooked beets, with some salad and a bun, and 2 cookies. For dinner, I had 4 chicken fingers and a few bites of noodles. Later on at night, I had a tomato sandwich and some mini meat pies.

Hey - I don't have breakfast... so my meals are at 12:30, 5:30 and 11pm

gotta cut that last one out and bring it earlier!!!

Today for lunch I had a small bowl of vegetable and noodle soup, with some Boeuf bourgignon, half a boiled potato, some cooked carrots and a bun. To dip in the leftover sauce.

I don't know what to make for dinner tonight... I really have no idea.

I've been drinking more coffee though... I have to get up earlier - like 8am earlier... i usually get up close to noon!! This is tough. So i drink a pot of coffee. Granted the pot only makes 2 1/2 mugs worth... so I have 1 1/2 in the morning, and 1 after dinner. Mugs that is, not pot. It's thermal.

Ooh Rocky, is that coffee decaf? How does Emilie handle that? My girls would have been wired to the next planet with that much caffeine at once.

Nope... and NAOMIE (lol!! ) handles it just fine. It doesn't prevent her from sleeping, doesn't keep her up, no reactions... lol

I don't make it very strong though, so it might as well be decaf.

Last nigh for dinner we had macaroni with sauce - no meat though. I had something else late at night, I just don't remember what. Probably meat pie.

Today for lunch I had Smoked Meat sandwich and fries, with a pepsi.

For dinner, I had some salmon, some mushroom rice, and some green beans with cooked pieces of onion. It was so goooood... that I had a secomd SMALL helping.

I made plain muffins with peach chunks in them today, so I had a few bite sized onews and a regular sized one with some icing on it.

I drank a pot of coffee, and 3 big 3 cup glasses of water, mixed at 2/3 water to 1/3 cranberry-raspberry juice.

Oh and I re-weighed myself a little while ago... scale said 195.4 Figures it goes down after the weigh in... lolol

I had a plain muffin with peach chunks in it this morning at 7am... I haven't gotten up that early in months!!!

Then I went to get my hair cut. What a mistake.

Then I came home, had a coffee and 2 slices of bread with Peanut butter.

I don't know what lunch is yet, I don't think I'm going to the dining hall today... and I think I'm going to make Potato Soup for dinner. Yum. With bacon.

Good job Rocky and by the way you look mar-ve-lous.

Aww thanks Terri!

I ended up not havig lunch yesterday - had 2 bowls of potato soup though.

Today for lunch I had 2 hotdogs and fries... and for dinner a small piece of teriyaki chicken, a small piece of stewing beef with onions, some rice and green beans. Off to cut up some fruit for a chocolate fondue - the outlaws are here.

Had some KFC with the trimmings for lunch today... having macaroni with meat sauce for dinner.

Hey Rocky...do you mind some constructive criticism?

go for it!



(lemme guess - the bread? )

Well, I did notice a lot of carbs in your diet. I know you want to lose weight and I just saw a few ways to help you.

For instance: They make fat free hot dogs and whole wheat hot dog buns. I buy these b/c I happen to LOVE hot dogs. And, they really do taste good. I also love potato soup (which is loaded with fat and calories), but I have a low fat version that I make and you really can't tell it's low fat.

I'm not sure what kind of bread you are eating, but wheat is always the best choice. You want to get as much fiber in your diet as possible. TRY to avoid anything fried. And, be sure and check the fat and calorie content on everything you put into your mouth.

How are you doing your diet currently? Are you watching calories? counting points?

carbs are my weakness... especially toasted bread.

we buy white and whole wheat, we mix it up...

wanna share the recipe for low fat potato soup? lol

I try not to eat too much fried food.. but it's sooo easy and takes sooo little time... it's hard not to.

I'm not counting points, since I'm practically clueless about WW... but I sort of check calories. If it's a snack and it's over 150 cal, I won't eat it. Meals I don't check.

I'm trying to lose a little - but I'm not REALLY trying that hard, since I don't want to compromise my miks supply. It's a big deal to me - I've never gotten this far with my other kids. So she comes first... but I am toning up slowly, I bought a new tighter pair of pants today.

I don't have the self-discipline NOT to eat snacks. I'm trying though, I really really am. We have more fruit around the house and less crackers etc... so now my snacks are usually grapes or an apple... I'm good all day until the late evening around 11pm... then I go nuts.

I think we all fight the same battles. I will get that recipe to you and if you need anything else or have any questions just don't be afraid to ask.