Breakfast: 1 cup of coffee
Exercise: I haven't yet, but I'm planning on going to the gym and working back and chest and doing some cardio.
First, let me brag on my daughter. Kaelyn is 7 months today! Holy cow!
Okay. Now to the nitty gritty. As you can see, I woke up at a lighter weight than usual! YAY! Goodness gracious. This certainly has been a long waiting process. Funny thing is I totally oinked out on some Reese's peanut butter minis yesterday. Big tip: Don't grocery shop when you're starving!
You might be wondering why I didn't post yesterday. Things have been kind of (that's an understatement!) crazy with Kaelyn and her teething these past few days. She's been super duper clingy and she's been crying A LOT. I even took her to the doctor yesterday thinking something HAD to be wrong...oh...it's just a tooth coming through on the bottom. Well, I'm okay with that as long as it comes through soon! And I hope she gets some relief for a little while.
I bought a tape measure yesterday. The only thing is I want to check online where exactly is the best place to measure before I start to have David measure me. It seems obvious - around the waist, but is it at the belly button, below, above? I'll have to see.
Last thing for now. David suggested that I take a serious look at the calories I'm consuming every day since I've been having trouble losing the weight with all I've been doing. He suggested that I make a list of all the foods I eat, and then when I eat them I can easily keep track of my calories, etc. Well, I really like the idea. So I created a spreadsheet! I'm going to paste what I have so far below so you can see in case you'd like to do the same. A couple of years ago I tried Weight Watchers, so I still have my little calculator thing and I thought I'd also keep track of the points so I can also see where I fall at within the Weight Watcher guidelines. Please note that I'm NOT doing Weight Watchers technically. It's just that it's hard to find online a good number of calories you should eat based on weight, etc, to lose weight, so I figured that WW is probably the best way to have something to go by since their points plan is created to help you lose weight.
Here is what I have so far:
| Note on points: based on 163 weight - 23 a day plus optional 35 extra a week | |||||||
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
| Coffee w/ sugar & creamer (142.5 cal, 5 fat, 28 carb, 0 pro, 0 fiber) (3 points) | 1 | ||||||
| Nutz over Chocolate Luna Bar (180 cal, 6 fat, 25 carb, 9 pro, 4 fiber) (3 points) | 1 | ||||||
| Fiber One Yogurt - Strawberry (50 cal, 0 fat, 13 carb, 3 pro, 5 fiber) (0 points) | |||||||
| Success 10 minute brown rice - 1 cup serving (150 cal, 1 fat, 33 carb, 4 pro, 2 fiber) (3 points) | |||||||
| Banana (105 cal, 0 fat, 27 carb, 1 pro, 3 fiber) (2 points) | |||||||
| Apple (80 cal, 0 fat, 22 carb, 0 pro, 5 fiber) (1 point) | |||||||
| Turkey patty (???) (4 points) | 1 | ||||||
| Reese's PB cups minis (king size) (360 cal, 22 fat, 41 carb, 6 pro, 2 fiber) (9 points) | 1 | ||||||
| 1 tbsp Ranch (70 cal, 7 fat, 1 carb, 0 pro, 0 fiber) (2 points) | 1 | ||||||
| 1 tbsp Girard's Italian dressing (65 cal, 6.5 fat, 1 carb, 0 pro, 0 fiber) (2 points) | 1 | ||||||
| Spring Mix lettuce (20 cal, 0 fat, 4 carb, 2 pro, 2 fiber) (0 points) | 2 | ||||||
| 1 tbsp ketchup (no HFCS) (20 cal, 0 fat, 5 carb, 0 pro, 0 fiber) (0 points) | 1 | ||||||
| 28 Blue Diamond Almonds (salted/roasted) (170 cal, 16 fat, 5 carb, 6 pro, 3 fiber) (4 points) | |||||||
| 28 Great Value Almonds (salted/roasted) (170 cal, 15 fat, 5 carb, 6 pro, 3 fiber) (4 points) | |||||||
| 1/4 cup Wonderful brand shelled pistachios (roasted/salted) (160 cal, 14 fat, 8 carb, 6 pro, 3 fiber) (4 points) | |||||||
| Thomas' English Muffin - Multi-grain (100 cal, 1 fat, 25 carb, 5 pro, 8 fiber) (1 point) | |||||||
| La Tortilla Factory Large whole wheat tortilla (low carb/high fiber) (80 cal, 3 fat, 18 carb, 8 pro, 12 fiber) (1 point) | |||||||
| 3 tblsp Great Value 100% liquid egg whites (25 cal, 9 fat, 1 carb, 5 pro, 0 fiber) (1 point) | |||||||
| 1 Sunny Meadow large egg (70 cal, 4.5 fat, 1 carb, 6 pro) (2 points) | |||||||
| 1/2 cup Great Value low fat (1%) cottage cheese (90 cal, 1.5 fat, 6 carb, 14 pro, 0 fiber) (2 points) | |||||||
| Ground turkey (???) (4 points?) | 1 | ||||||
| Total | 27 points/1218 calories (approx) | ||||||
I don't know how many calories, etc, are in the ground turkey and the turkey patty that I ate, so I just guessed 170 calories for each and considered them to be 4 points just to be safe. This is a really cool way to keep track of what you're eating because the list is already made up, so instead of having to write down every single day how many calories, etc, are in each thing you eat, you can just easily add it up on this already made list. Then you can see about how many calories you're consuming on a daily basis and evaluate if you need to lower those if you're having trouble losing weight. 1200 calories is pretty low, and I'm wondering if I may have left something off, so we'll see as the days go by and I keep this up.
Have a great day!
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