Food Log: 11th–17th January

I’ve decided it will be a lot less ‘blog clutter’ if I just post a weekly summary of my food log!  I am fairly sure it will be a lot easier for anyone who visits if you don’t have to wade through too many food log posts to get to the interesting stuff!

Start Weight: 57.7kg:

Wednesday:

Calories In: 1500

Calories Out: 1500+ 400 (boxing)

Deficit = 400

Thursday:

Calories In:

Calories Out: 1500+

Deficit =

Friday:

Calories In:

Calories Out: 1500+

Deficit =

Saturday:

Calories In:

Calories Out: 1500+

Deficit =

Sunday:

Calories In:

Calories Out: 1500+

Deficit =

Monday:

Calories In:

Calories Out: 1500+

Deficit =

Tuesday:

Calories In:

Calories Out: 1500+

Deficit =

 

Total Deficit =

Food Log: 10 January 2012

Mantra:

I feel happy and alive now that I am living a healthy lifestyle and have my weight down below 50kg.  I love running and I love the days I get to spend building my strength in the gym.  Eating healthy food comes  naturally to me, my first choice is always some fruit or vegies and I always make sure I get enough protein and good carbs to fuel my body.  The best thing is, I feel like I have balance now that I also commit to the hours required for my PhD and ensure the time I spend with my children is quality time!  Just by spending 20mins a day on the housework and establishing basic routines, my house is also clean and fresh, and my budget under control so I feel really good about shopping for new home that will suit our needs better.  It feels so good to be in control of my life and steering myself toward my goals!

Food: logged on Calorie King..

1400

Exercise: 5km run planned for tonight – too smokey and got home from uni too late.

Sleep last night: I ended up being really late home last night and decided to spend a bit of time tv watching before bed as well.. result = midnight bedtime!  Woke at 7:30am this morning so probably 7hrs sleep.

Business:  On computer until 9am, housework, then off to uni at 2pm to work in the lab until 6pm!

TDEE =1500 + ? exercise =  1500 calories used up =  100 deficit!

Food Log: 9 January 2012

This year seems to be going so fast already!  Here I am at 7.30am in the morning, sipping my tea and planning out my day, honestly feeling the best I have in quite some time!  I actually got some sleep last night!  It also feels good knowing that I put in a good afternoon’s work at university yesterday!  So here are today’s stat’s:

Weigh-in: 56.45kg; 27.7% fat

Food Diary: as logged in Calorie King

• Sultana Bran w/Milk
• 2x cuppa tea
• handful of grapes
• regular kfc popcorn
• 1pc of pizza (mcCain supreme)
• 2 large wedges
• 1 glass of coke
• 3/4 box of Favourites chocolate
• Fish cake

Exercise Cals:

TDDE = 1500 + x =

Deficit =

Sleep:  I was in bed at 10.30pm and woke around 7.30am so that is 9hrs!  I did wake a couple of time during the night, once to swap beds and also JD came in for cuddles around 6am.  Still, my best sleep in a long time!

Business:  The plan is to get up and dressed, get some housework done, take kids to the park, pop into the shops, and bring kids home for lunch.  I’ll do a bit more housework before heading into university and skyping with the kids while I do some lab work!  I will finish up around 6ish and come home to do a bodyweight circuit and TKD practice with the kids!

So the plan went wonderfully until I got to university and got side-tracked in the lab!  I didn’t get a chance to eat and was given a big box of favourites chocolates as well which became my dinner!  I will have a go counting the calories tomorrow – I am so not looking at it right now!

The Plan:

• 8am:  Shower and Dress
• 8:30am:  Housework
  • Put on load of laundry
  • Empty dishwasher
  • Breakfast
  • Pack morning tea for park
  • Get kids dressed and teeth brushed
  • Wash dishes
  • Hang out a load of laundry
• 9:30am:  Go to park
• 11:30am  Pop into shops for:
  • worming tablets; dog food
  • night pants; bin liners
• 12 noon: Home for lunch (at the table)
• 12:30 pm:  Housework
• Dinner prep (fish cakes)
• Get all the clean laundry folded in the cupboards
• 2pm:  Head into uni – clean up of Mala IL6 for direct sequencing
• 5pm:  Home – bring in load from washing line, fold and put-away
• 6pm: Dinner (at the table)
• Clean-up after dinner; shine sink!
• 7:00pm: circuit/tkd practice
• 8.00pm: Finish up the Day
  • Kids washed and teeth brushed (screens off at 7pm)
  • Food diary, blog, emails and budget checks!
• 11:30pm: Get ready for tomorrow
  • Brush teeth
  • Pick an outfit
  • Plan the day
  • Get to bed!

Food Log: 8 January 2012

This food log thing is going quite well!  I’m beginning to think about what I eat and my energy in vs energy out!  My scales rewarded me this morning.. 56.6kg and 27.9% fat – a good kilo down from yesterday.  It just goes to show how much of that was just water weight and a backed up digestive system.

Mantra:

I feel happy and alive now that I am living a healthy lifestyle and have my weight down below 50kg.  I love running and I love the days I get to spend building my strength in the gym.  Eating healthy food comes  naturally to me, my first choice is always some fruit or vegies and I always make sure I get enough protein and good carbs to fuel my body.  The best thing is, I feel like I have balance now that I also commit to the hours required for my PhD and ensure the time I spend with my children is quality time!  Just by spending 20mins a day on the housework and establishing basic routines, my house is also clean and fresh, and my budget under control so I feel really good about shopping for new home that will suit our needs better.  It feels so good to be in control of my life and steering myself toward my goals!

Food: logged on Calorie King.. 1300
Exercise: Rest Day

Sleep last night: I went to bed around 11pm last night, woke up at around 9am, so about 10 hours sleep. It was not good quality sleep though, I woke up a few times during the night and didn’t drift off easily. I get frustrated with my nose getting blocked up!

Business:  On computer until 10am then off to uni to sit at a desk at a computer until 6pm!

TDEE =1500 + ? exercise = 1500 calories used up = 200 deficit!

Food Log: 7 Jan 2012

I am starting this log at 10am, I’ve just finished breakfast and really not happy with myself.  I feel like my ass is indented into the bed where I sit with my lappy.  Heck, my husband even cooked my breakfast and made my tea (two already).  The kids don’t want to hit the beach so there goes my plan for a family morning trip.  I just need to break this cycle!

Breakfast: Egg on toast (no butter) – 250 cals

Snack: 3/4 Mango - 100 cals

Lunch: Salad and about a cup of chopped left over chicken with salsa, in a wrap – 350 cals

Snack: yogurt – 70 cals

grapes plus a bit of watermelon – 100 cals

multigrain crackers – 80 cals

Dinner: cujan couscous! – 150 cals

Supper: hot chocolate – 70 cals

Drinks: cups of tea x 2 (cals included in breakfast);

water 1-2 500mL bottles

Exercise: 7k run in pm = 450cals

Sleep last night: I went to bed around 2am last night, woke up at around 9am, so about 7 hours sleep.  I was quite hyped up on tea so needed a valium to sleep.

Business:  On computer until 2pm then off to uni to sit at a desk at a computer for a few hours!

 

Total: 1200 cals eaten…

TDEE =1500 + 450 exercise = 1950 calories used up = 750 deficit!

 

Happy

Food Log: January 6

This week’s challenge is to keep a food log for the week. I’m starting a bit late with it being Friday but seven days should be enough for me to see any trends!  I will post each day as we go for the next seven weeks with a general log of what I have eaten, the exercise I have done, an account of my sleep the night before, and my general mood and business.
Breakfast: Sultana Bran with Skinny Milk
Snack: Handful of grapes
Lunch: Meat Pie (Angus style!)
Snack: beetroot (6 slices)
Dinner: Chicken salsa with green vegies and corn, Turkish Delight and 1/4 jelly for dessert
Supper: multigrain crackers (12), tiny tin of baked beans, peice of bread, glass of milk
Drinks: cups of tea x 5 (natvia sugar plus milk in small coffee cups)
Exercise: 5k run in pm = 300cals
Sleep last night: I went to bed around 3am last night, woke up past nine am, so about 6ish hours sleep
Business:  I’ve mostly spent the morning on the computer with just a couple of cleaning tasks done. I hosed out the back verandah too.  But yeah, pretty much on my ass all day! 
The things marked in Purple are already done, the black titles are ‘projected’ and need to be updated tonight!

Preparation for Season 3: Week Two

This first week didn’t go to plan, probably due to a significant lack of planning!  I had my confirmation presentation on Wednesday, and public speaking is a big deal for nearly everyone.  I think I can forgive myself as I hadn’t had to time to begin the good habits I really needed to be in place for times like these!  So that is my goal this round… to get those habits firmly in place so ‘red flags’ are easier to deal with!

The week didn’t go too bad really, well, until Wednesday night when I decided to celebrate.  A little too much celebration has taken place – late nights and alcohol, take out as well.  I don’t feel too great to be honest, tired, and my belly just feels.. off. I had a huge shock this morning when I weighed in at over 54kg – I was 53kg on Wednesday! But I know how to make this program work.  I just need to JFDI, so today I did.

• Breakfast: egg on toast (220cals)
• Morning tea: Bodywise bar (125cals) and berry muffin (150cals)
• Lunch: Beefy Salsa and couscous  (350cals)
• Afternoon tea:  Yogurt -Tamar valley (150cals)
• Dinner:  Jen’s lasagne (300cals)

And if I get hungry later.. I have my small tins of baked beans.  I’ve had three cups of tea as well.  It is nearly 5pm and I am not yet hungry for the lasagne so I think my couscous meal is a good filler!

110g of lean beef, 1/4 jar of doritos salsa dip, a pinch of taco seasoning, 1/4 cup of couscous (w/ 1/4 cup of water and a pinch of a stock cube) – very easy, very yum, and around 350cals I think.  I know I have gone over 1200 calories for the day, but I have made good choices about what I am eating.

The best thing is though, I cleaned out the fridge and got my shopping done for my meal plan!  That means I actually have half a chance of following it! I’ve just started with planning my dinners – lunches tend to be a bit erratic and although I have ‘options’ I don’t want to be confined to certain meals on certain days.  I can have either  leftover Lasagne, an egg and lettuce sandwich, a nicoise salad, or whatever other leftovers I have!  Snacks shouldn’t be too much of an issue either…  have my vita wheat biscuits and Cruskits, Bodywise bars, yogurts, and baked beans.  And breakfast will be my standards oats or special K with fruit.

I am feeling really positive about this week – but for now, tonight is what I need to focus on.  Tonight I will do my best to set up myself for great hot body for summer!

Food Diary Week 9/10

Doing a daily food diary didn't work for me.  I slacked off putting it in calorie king so I don't know what I ate!   So here I go again!  I am making some big changes this week - I need to get the family healthy so that is what I am doing!  My poor family are in for a shock!

Weigh-in: 54.5kg 
Goal:  To get under 54.0kg.

Wednesday
In: 1450cals  (blueberry muffin was not a good idea calorie wise!)
Out:  Strength (lower) - 450 cals in 1 1/2hrs


Thursday:
In: 1300cals
Out: 0 (TaeKwon-Do for kids!)

Friday:
In: 1300 cals
Out: - 475 cals Kickboxing

Saturday:
In:
Out: Combat and Pump

Sunday:
In:
Out: Rest Day

Monday:
In:
Out: Strength training (upper) and cardio

Tuesday:
In:
Out: Boxfit and strength training (lower)

Food Diary 17/7 (Sunday)

This mornings weight: 54.3kg
Goal Weight: 49.0kg

Breakfast:
Cuppa tea w/natvia and 80mL Skinny Milk
Weightwatchers Oats w/125mL Skinny Milk
Morning Tea:
Bodywise Bar (Omega 3 Boost)
Lunch:
Sizzler:
half a cup of Pepsi Max
Apple crumble with custard
2x 1/2 parmesan bread
prawn salad (1/2 plate)
spicy chicken salad (1/2 plate)
1/2 bowl of pumpkin soup
couple of smarties and a few after dinner mint choccies
Afternoon Tea:
see above!  I don't think I need to eat for another week or two
Dinner:

Exercise:
Quick run on tready -50cals
Body Balance -100cals

Food Diary 16/7 (Saturday)

Today's weight: 54.5kg
Goal Weight: 49.0kg

Breakfast:
Weightwatchers quick oats with 120mL Skinny milk
Cuppa tea made with natvia and 80mL Skinny milk
Morning Tea:
Bodywise Bar (Omega 3 Boost)
2 strawberries
Lunch:
half a mini quiche, spring roll, cheese and bacon puff
2 timtams, 2 mint slice
cuppa tea x 2 (1st with 1teaspoon of sugar and 30mL of milk, 2nd with natvia and 60mL skinny milk)
Afternoon Tea:
Dinner:
Dominos Chicken and Mushroom good choice Pizza.
Small slice of cheese burst Ham and Pineapple as well.
Followed up with quite a few Peanut m&m's and another cuppa tea
Yet I was still starving later on and needed a small tin of baked beans to let me sleep!

Food Diary 14/7 (Thursday)

Current Weight: 54.8kg
Goal Weight: 49kg

Thursday:

Breakfast:
golden syrup flavoured oats w/~125mL of Skinny milk
cuppa tea w/natvia and ~80mL of Skinny milk

Taking to Work:
Bodywise bar (Omega 3 Boost)
Forme no fat (Strawberry)

Afternoon Tea:
cuppa tea (natvia and ~80mL Skinny milk)
egg on toast (no butter, spray of oil)
1/2 lamington
5 peanut m&m's
10 chicken crimpy biscuits

Dinner:
Way too many M&M's
chocolatte (no milk)

Supper:
small tin of baked beans

~1200 cals (shame about those m&m's! I should have had my steamed fish fillet!)
Exercise:
Strong Man Training and 2km run (-500cals)

Food Diary 13/7 (Wednesday)

My food diary was working so well.. but when I let it slide I put on weight!  My exercise was not as consistent either, and it was TTOTM.  But a new week begins!

Today's Weight: 55.0kg
Goal Weight: 49.0kg

Wednesday:
Food:
Breakfast
Honey flavoured Instant Oats (prep with ~125mL skinny milk)
2x cuppa tea (prep with ~ 80mL skinny milk and natvia)
Morning Tea:
Bodywise Bar (Omega 3 Boost)
Strawberries (2 large)
500mL Water
Lunch:
Chicken (Baked with Roast capsicum Salsa) 80g
10g of light n'tasty cheese; 10g baby spinach;
Afternoon tea:
forme strawberry yogurt
Strawberry (1 large)
1x cuppa tea (prep with ~80mL skinny milk and natvia)
Dinner:
Red Rooster: chicken breast meat (100g); peas (100g); chips (50g); gravy (60g) = 400cals
Supper:
Chocolatte (~80mL Skinny milk)
~1200cals

Exercise:
Pump + 3k on the tready (-330cals)

Food Diary: Week 7/8

Start Weight:  54.6kg

Wednesday:
(54.6kg)
In:  1300cals
Out: -285 (strength training -back and arms)

Thursday:
(54.6kg )
In:  1530cals  (not good.. the satay chicken for lunch was a bit heavier on cals then I thought!)
Out: -350 (strong man training!)

Friday:
(54.8kg)
In:  2000cals  (had a huge peice of battered fish - feeling sick and yuk)
Out:  total blow out... both food and exercise.

Saturday:
(55.0kg)
In: 1300
Out: -350 (1/2 of next weeks SSS)

Sunday:
(n/a)
In:  OMG... I didn't do my food diary!
Out: Rest Day!

Monday:
(54.9kg)
In:
Out:  (strength training)

Food Diary for Week 6/7

Weigh in: 55.4kg

Wednesday
In: 1380
Out:  580  (Strength plus RPM)

Thursday
(55.0kg)
In: 1350
Out:  430 (Strong Man Training - loved it!)

Friday
(54.9kg)
In: 1450
Out:  -350 (Kickboxing - loved it!)

Saturday
(54.8kg)
In: 1400-1500  (Dave prepared roast lamb and vege for dinner so had to guestimate the cals!)
Out: -520cals  (Mish's SSS -1hr 30mins) 

Sunday
(55.1kg)
In: 1700 (maybe more - total blowout on cupcakes and M&Ms
Out:  Rest Day

Monday
(54.6kg)
In:  1400
Out: -300 (strength)

Tuesday
(54.7kg)
In: 1300
Out: -500 (boxfit and strength)

Weigh In
54.6kg
(Goal: 54.9kg)

Week 5 Food and Exercise Log

Weigh in: 55.8kg

Wednesday
IN: 1250
OUT: -350 (Zumba + L&S indoors program)
Perfect!

Thursday
IN: 1600
OUT: -200 (run - had DOMS in back.. couldn't do todays L&S program)
Not so great choices today!

New Mantra.. failure is not an option!

Friday
IN: 1600
OUT: -250 (fitball plus cardio- no hrm so just a guess)

Saturday
IN: 1500
OUT: -750+ (body attack, body pump, plus 20mins cardio - no hrm so just a guess )

Sunday
IN: 1300
OUT:  went go-carting and to the beach!  Lots of fun, not many cals!

Monday
IN: 1300 -1400  (was doing great but munched on a few handful of Chex)
OUT: -250 (strength training - no hrm so just a guess)

Tuesday
IN: 1000 (wow.. a bit low!) I might adjust this tomorrow as I am sure I will end up having a midnight snack!
OUT: -250 (boxfit + strength training - no Hrm so just a guess)

Weigh In: 55.4kg  Yey!  I lost weight!
(Goal: 55.3kg)

Finding my way.

Breakthrough today at the gym!  No tears lower body and abs workout purely because I accepted where I am now.  I need to concentrate on form, learning how to do the exercises, learning where I am at now.  Pushing yourself is all well and good, but pushing too hard will mean you won't be working your target muscles effectively!  I also learnt a very important lesson in self-talk and how it affects our actions.

Today I learnt that I can do squats.. and do them well.  I can even do sumo squats!  I can do hamstring curls on a fitball, and I am learning to do lunges!
I can already see massive improvements in my abs.. I can do side crunches so easily now - I want to do the twisties though so I am doing a bit of research on how to build up the right muscles!  But omg!  I can do proper side planks!  I could only hold for 10secs but by golly I reckon I will be doing full minute ones in a couple of weeks!

Food wise I have been doing a lot better.. still getting caught out with midnight snacking but I am keeping it protein based (gotta love baked beans!).  I did eat some fantales and a freddo frog yesterday much to my disgust but I learnt something very important about how I talk.  I met up with a colleague as I was walking up to my office and she commented that I had lost weight.  Happy face!  I said yup, given up chocolate, I am such a chocolate addict I can eat a whole family block without thinking!  I went on to say that I was doing some strength training .. really sore (she is an instructor at the gym so I wasn't gabbling for no reason! lol) blah blah.  Anyways, a few hours I went to a library session and there was chocolate out ready for us.. so I grabbed one.. and another with my chocolate 'personality' coming out full force.  I went back to being that chocolate addict instead of the person who says no to chocolate.  I really think that if I hadn't of had that conversation earlier then I would not have indulged!

So today I have had my weightwise oats and cuppa tea with natvia sweetener, yogurt (forme) after my workout with a cuppa tea with half a sugar, and then made up the broccoli soup (took a lot longer then it said it would mind you!).  I accidently used twice the parmesan I should have .. weighed out 30g as a single serve without thinking that it is meant to be two serves but I reckon it's okay as I didn't have any bread to go with it!  Very filling I must say.. I will have to sit and rest while my stomach processes all those healthy vitamins and minerals!

Today.. 27th April

Breakfast: Oats (single serve bag) with milk and cuppa tea.
Skipped morning tea
Lunch: chicken deluxe burger with small chips and coke zero from Maccas. (only ate half of chips)
Afternoon tea: small tin of baked beans, cuppa tea, 1 pce of chocolate
Dinner: spag bog??

No exercise today, just hung out at uni in office.

Feeling a bit blah - need to get my act together!

15th Jan Saturday

60.4kg  ARgh.. I know why the scales are not moving!  I am eating crap!

7am wake up time which is great
had a cuppa tea

8am Swimming
650m - I was pretty happy with that given I spent time helping with the kids as well.  My aim is now 1000m in the hour I am there.

9.30am Oat Flakes Cereal w/milk for breakfast and a cuppa tea
Taking some time to blog and do the list for the Challenge on EB.

11.30am  Magnum icecream - evil stuff
Still sitting around on the computer.. I should do something!

1.30pm  Went shopping for a Mills and Boon and grabbed six chicken nuggets from Maccas

5.30pm Went for a run.. 5.6km, not including the cool-down walk home.

6.30pm Sausage in a piece of bread, grabbed a little bit of cake (only a bite though)

7.30pm Magnum icecream (again!) and coke zero

Planning my Exercise

60.7kg

Yes, I am creeping up again and mostly due to food - yesterday involved cookie and cake making in which I consumed far more then was required for taste testing!  Far far far more!

I need to set out my exercise schedule as a do or die activity list so here goes:

Monday
AM: Day 1 Bootcamp
PM: Running

Tuesday
AM: Day 2 Bootcamp
PM: Walking

Wednesday
AM : Day 3 Bootcamp
PM: Running

Thursday
AM: Day 4 Bootcamp
PM: Walking

Friday
AM: Day 5 Bootcamp
PM: Yoga and Running

Saturday
AM: Day 6 Bootcamp and Swimming
PM: Long Run

Sunday
AM: Day 7 Bootcamp
PM: REST


That looks like a pretty good weekly schedule for losing weight.  I'm not sure how the morning bootcamps will go but hey, it's worth a try!

Tonight I will do my run followed by a Yoga session and then tomorrow morning I have my swim lesson first thing and I will do my run in the afternoon - I will do the week 6 run for the first time... once I finish the ease into 10k program I will re-do my running schedule to a training one (depending on the 12wbt).

So far today..

One peice of wholemeal toast with butter
2x cuppa tea
one small peice of chocolate cake

3rd January 2011

60.1kg  (ouch, creeping up!)
Bedtime.. 1.30am
Wake up 7.30am

I had such a shit day with food yesterday, of course I should have put on a bit this morning!  I also have to remember that everyday weighing will have its ups and downs (pardon the pun! lol)

Breakfast:
2x cuppa tea (need to wake up! lol)

2x spagetti toasted sandwiches
Pile of KFC
Pepsi
handfuls of choc chips and lots of other bad crap,

Not happy Jan!

Exercise.. NONE!