A pretty good day today

So, we ate well and stayed under the amounts allowed. We also went for a walk which is great - it looked cloudy outside, but usually that doesn't mean rain (or much of it) unless they are quite grey and these ones were light grey. So, we decided to take a chance and go for it. We walked hard because we only had 20 minutes, but it was better than nothing in our minds.

Breakfast
2 pancakes
1 tbsp maple syrup
1/4 cup yogurt

Lunch
chicken and tomato sandwich

Supper
2 egg omelette
salad with croutons
1,000 island dressing
1/2c milk

Snacks
165g apricots
granny smith apple
fruit and oat granola bar

oops

Well, I thought today was a good day, but when I input what I ate, it turned out that I had very little left for dinner. Luckily for me, I am not counting tonight's dinner (chicken pesto pasta) or dessert (pavlova) as it was our anniversary dinner - so there was zero calories. :-)

I am really going to have to start inputting my information ahead of time so that I can tweak things. I think part of the problem might be that I am having three snacks on top of my three meals - I will have to take some time tomorrow to check this out.

For today, I ate..........

Breakfast
Smoothie
OJ
Applesauce oatmeal muffin

Lunch
Chicken Noodle Soup

Snacks
fruit and oat granola bar
apricots
banana

Oops - a little off :-)

So, today I thought I was doing well - I had put all my food into the Sparks People program and realized that I had some space to finish up my fruit for today (apricots). Then, I read my list of taco ingredients out to Mike, he reminded me that I had not added the hamburger in - eek! So, after putting that in, I found out that I had gone over by 242 calories, although everything else is within the ranges, so that's a good thing.

Breakfast
2 pancakes
1/2c frozen fruit
1tbsp maple syrup

Lunch
tuna sandwich

Supper
2 tacos

Snack
1/2c orange
165g canned apricots
1/4c yogurt
1 granola bar

We also did a 45 minute bike ride - 6km - which felt good - hard work - but, really nice to be doing it with Mike - having a chance to talk while we biked.

Hopefully, I can find a way to keep within my ranges better as we go along in this 'becoming healthy' journey.

October 18, 2010

So, today I did fairly well although I went over on carbs. This is what I ate today.....

Breakfast:
3/4c Just Right cereal
1/2c milk
1/4c apricot/mango yogurt
1/2c OJ

Lunch
85g penne
1/2 c spaghetti sauce

Supper
2 mini meatloaves
1c mashed potatoes
1/2c peas
1/2c corn

Snacks
8 crackers
1 laughing cow
165g apricots

We did a 40 minute walk today. We were supposed to do our strength exercises, but they didn't get done. That will happen on Wednesday.

Starting again ................

It's been ages since I last wrote in this blog and everything I am reading about today speaks of the importance of writing everything down that I eat and the exercise which I do. I will start all that tomorrow. For this blog, I want to talk about how I am going to keep better track of what I am eating. I also want to have to write down what I do for exercise because that part of my healthy plan has been very lacking lately. Between feeling tired and feeling stressed (from teaching full-time again - if only for five weeks), I find myself slacking off the exercising and Mike is okay with not going as well so he doesn't encourage me to get out and get moving. I know that it will make me feel better and so I want to make a pact with myself (and I will talk it over with Mike) to make sure that I do some kind of exercising every day (but Sunday, my lovely day of rest :-) Having to keep track of my eating and my exercising again will be really helpful, especially since we are going back to Canada in a month. I would really like to be down at least three pounds by then (to 185lbs). It's hard to believe that a few years ago, I was down at 152lbs. and I felt and looked great. I know I can do it - I just need to make that commitment again. I find it easier to lose weight when I have a goal like 'I want to look good for this or that' and right now, there isn't anything like that to spur me on. So, I am just going to make a commitment to eat healthy, exercise, and keep track of both.

Oops - missed yesterday

Yesterday started out well - egg and cheese on toast (sandwich) with ketchup of course :-) I did discover that a whole sandwich is too much (although it was so yummy, so I did finish it) and so next time I decide to have this for breakfast, I will haved one slice of bread and half the cheese. Lunch was vegetable soup and yogurt. Then, we had a busy day and by the time we got home for dinner, it was late and so we decided to have something fast and easy - it was pizza. Yummy, but not exactly healthy (although it does have parts of all four food groups :-) We did go for a walk, so that was something. Today was Fast Sunday and so no meals 'til supper. We decided to eat leftovers and so I had mashed potatoes and baked beans and an egg on toast. Not too bad I think. We like to have a little dessert on this day and so today we had low cal chocolate pudding. :-) Not exactly fabulous, but I love chocolate, so it's all good. :-)

Not as good as I could have been

Today, at home, I did very well with my eating. For breakfast, I had granola with milk and orange juice. Since we ate breakfast so late, I didn't have a snack. Lunch was half a package of Kraft Dinner with ketchup of course. :-) After a hard day's work (I mowed the back and front lawn today), we went for a date night out. We went to Swiss Chalet and I was still good re: the eating. First, we ordered the spring rolls for an appetizer (we shared it) and then I ordered the chicken quesadilla with a salad. As soon as it was delivered, I could tell that I wouldn't be able to eat all of it and so I asked the girl right away to bring me a doggie bag and I put half the quesadilla into it right away. So, I figure that I was still not doing too bad. Then, Mike asked me if I wanted to bring something with us to the movies to eat. I really should have said 'no', but I didn't. We shared peanut butter cups and Starbursts and I checked out the calories and fat content and it wasn't too bad. But still, I shouldn't have eaten them. I found afterwards that I wasn't feeling so well - I think that I ate too much sugar with eating the Starbursts - I am not really a candy person, so I think that between it being sugar and my body not being used to it, my body was probably just rebelling. Then, we had to do a lot of work when we got home (garbage, recycle, compost, bring a bed from Jennifer's old room to outside, measure rooms for painting) and so I wanted something to eat just to wind down. I chose a low cal chocolate pudding and a freezie. So, all in all, not TOO bad a day, but I must stay on track a bit better in the future.