First Food Friday

Welcome to Food Friday. This is where you get to see everything I have eaten for the past week.

This week is just Tuesday through Thursday – since I just started.

Breakfast: ¾ cup Honey Nut Cheerios, ½ cup 2% Milk, medium Banana. 280 Calories

Snack #1: Cutie California Clementine. 40 Calories

Lunch: Ham and Cheddar Cheese on a Kaiser Roll with a side of Carrots and Celery. 465 Calories

Snack #2: Yoplait Light. 100 Calories

Dinner: Skillet Lasagna (2 servings). 673 Calories

Snack #3: Gourmet Mixed Nuts. 170 Calories

Day Total: 1,728   ~I went over by 200 calories this day.

Breakfast: ¾ cup Honey Nut Cheerios, ½ cup 2% Milk. 171 Calories

Snack #1: Medium Banana. 109 Calories

Lunch: 2 Taco Bell Fresco Crunchy Tacos. 300 Calories

Snack #2: Rocky Road Bar and Clementine. 220 Calories

Dinner: Healthy Choice Fire Roasted Tomato Chicken. 320 Calories

Snack #3: Yoplait Light. 100 Calories

Day Total: 1,210

Breakfast: 1 cup of Apple Dappers Cereal and ½ cup 2 Milk. 171 Calories

Snack #1: 1 cup carrots, 1 cup celery and 1 wedge of Laughing Cow Cheese. 105 Calories

Lunch: Progresso Split Pea Soup, Baby herb salad with cheddar cheese and light raspberry vinaigrette, Yoplait light. 480 Calories

Snack #2: Oreo Cakester. 120 Calories

Dinner: ½ serving of Hungry Girl Chicken Cordon Bleu and Oven Roasted Potatoes. 246 Calories

Snack #3: Monster Cookie. 207 Calories

Day Total: 1,329

Before you say it – Yes, I know I need to get off of the prepackaged food. One step at a time.

What did you eat this week?

Confessions of a Carb-a-holic

Urgh! This is a HUGE problem for me! Since I have been back in the swing of monitoring and logged everything I eat I have noticed I get most of my calories from carbs and I am lacking big time in the protein department.

Let’s look at carbs first. Here are my pie (hmmm pie) charts for the last two days.

Tuesday

Wednesday

See all those carbs? It’s crazy…last night (or almost every night) I craved bread. I allowed myself one slice of whole-wheat bread, but I could have eaten an entire cake (more about that tomorrow).

Sparkpeople recommends that I have between 60 to 136 grams of protein a day. Tuesday I hit 41 grams and yesterday I only got up to 31 grams. It’s not that I don’t know how to fix this; it’s that I really really really love carbs. I love carbs almost as much as I love sleep-ask JAG…he will tell you how many time I say “I love sleep.”

I guess this is my way of saying I am aware of it and I need to work on it and by tell you it means I have to come back later and tell you that my carbs and proteins are all in line.

As I was typing this post I got an email from sparkpeople entitled The Truth about Carbohydrates – I know it’s like they were reading my mind. Here is there simple advice.

How do you include carbohydrates in you diet in a safe, effective, and controlled way? The “Please KISS Me” (Please Keep It So Simple for Me) plan for carbohydrate control is a wonderful tool that only contains 3 simple rules:

RULE 1: Include the following in your diet:

• Fruits: 2-4 servings daily
• Vegetables: 3-5 servings daily
• Whole grain breads, muffins, bagels, rolls, pasta, noodles, crackers, cereal, and brown rice: 6-11 servings daily
• Legumes, beans and peas: 1-2 servings daily
• Low-fat and non-fat dairy products: 3 servings daily

RULE 2: Limit the following to less than 2 servings daily:

• Fruit Juice
• Refined and processed white flour products (bread, muffins, bagels, rolls, pasta, noodles, crackers, cereal)
• White rice
• French fries
• Fried vegetables

RULE 3: Eliminate the following from your diet or eat only on occasion:

• Sugary desserts, cookies, cakes, pies, candies
• Doughnuts and pastries
• Chips, cola and carbonated beverages
• Sugar, honey, syrup, jam, jelly, molasses

Here is a cute cartoon I found while searching for carb pics.

After post edit or thought: I really need to watch that fat too. I am in range, but dang!

What I'm Eating...I actually know..

What is this you ask?

This is what I ate yesterday. Why am I am showing it to you?

Because I stayed in my calorie range! Yay! Oh, I hear you judgy judgers (heehee) making comments about my fast food junk. All I have to say is one step at a time. Let me get back into tracking everyday, and then I will change another habit. Yesterday was busy, but today is a lot better. I also am aware about my protein...I am a carb junky. 

Last night I planned out my “menu” for today, packed it all up and have some great with it today!

haha...gold star for the first person to point out all the words I misspelled!

I got on the scale this morning I was down to 182.5, but that is not official until next Tuesday.

I Told Them They Were Not Invited to The Wedding.

Yeap! I did it. I looked right into the mirror and told these flabby, flapping arms they were to not come within a hundred mile radius of my big day.

I mean they have already made an embarrassing appearance at Kim’s wedding.

Yikes. What kind of funky dance move was that? I think that maybe that was a too many glasses of wine move.

Seriously, though this is the picture that I untagged of myself on facebook. It was just too much. I couldn’t stand thinking people would see this.

So, how am I going to do it? I gotta set some major goals. I don’t want to set a weight goal. I don’t want to say “I have to lose 25 pounds before the wedding.” Nope I want to set some weekly nutriotion and fitness goals.

Ok! Stop LAUGHING! Yes this is me the girl who dropped Tennis last year because I really didn’t want to run to chase a ball. And this is the girl that could knock back two big macs in one setting because McDonald’s had a 2 for offer. That is why I am sitting here today typing this…obese and unhealthy.

Here is my plan!

Food!

1. I plan to eat between 1200 and 1500 calories a day. And track every morsel that gets put into my mouth through Spark People.
2. I plan to eat out (fast food and restaurants) no more then twice a week. This is huge for us…if there is one thing JAG and I have in common it is our love for food.
3. It’s not just the calories it is the type of foods. I need to keep fats at a range of 27-60, Carbs at a range of 135-252, and protein 60-136. I didn’t come up with this on my own, Spark People helps with this.
4. WATER!!! I drink diet soda A LOT. Diet soda, wine, and coffee. Water needs to be up to eight 8-oz glasses a day. I have known this since I was 18 and teaching other people to do it. It can be done and will also do wonders for my face.

Fitness!

1. Cardio everyday! I know it is extreme, but for right now I need it. I need to do atleast 45 minutes everyday. I will alternate between the treadmill and allowing Jillian Michaels to kick my butt.
2. Oh I am going to dread this, but resistance training (muscle building and toning) especially in those flabby arms everyday! I plan to do bridal bootcamp everyday.

Don’t worry…you will keep my accountable. I will come and tell you how it goes. Especially will Jillian. That broad kicks my booty and I usually quit mid-way through, so my ultimate goal is to make it through an entire 45 minutes with the same intensity she puts out.

What is Spark People?  It is awesome and I will definitely share with you my experience tomorrow. Or you could be proactive, click the link or click the icon on my side bar and get directly to my page. I post daily (well almost daily) video blogs for my spark friends. Just fyi I am not being paid my Spark People and I just think it is cooler then cool!