Alison the Accountant's Accountability Journal (Feedback Welcome)

[goodeats]

I'm not really 'low carb', just trying to be balanced about it. So I definitley have no aversion to whole grains.

Saturday -
Took today as rest today pretty much. Did walk to Pepe the Tailors, but it's so close that I'm not going to count it in the exercise challenge. Food wise I was decent
B-Leftover Chicken Fajita
S-Triscuits/cheese
L/D - BBQ party which was a lot of food, but kept fairly in check. Had a bit too many desserts, but was reasonable with food over all.

Sunday -
Exercise - Pilates (20 minutes) and Running (60 minutes), it felt really good to get out and sweating. I feel so strong when I run .
Food -
B-Huevos Rancheros with two tortillas - great Sunday morning breakfast
L- Ham/Turkey Sandwich with carrots
S- Cheese/Triscuits
D-Roast Chicken, mashed potatoes, broccoli

Going into the week my goals are to keep exercising, and to challenge myself to lift as heavy weights as possible in my sculpt classes. I'm also going to try to eat as 'cleanly' as possible by bringing healthy snacks from home and stay away from the bad stuff at work. Although the number on the scale has not really moved down, I know I'm heading in the right direction. My clothes are fitting better, and there's less jiggle in certain areas! Hooray!

 

[goodeats]

Well as usual Monday was good. Why is Monday so easy to stay on track? Anyway, I brought protein laden snacks, and made sure my lunch was large enough. I think it helped me in the afternoon!

Food -
B-Kashi cereal, banana, and milk / coffee & milk
L-Chicken breast, Broccolli, leftover mashed potatoes, Diet Coke
S1-Apple, cheddar cheese
S2-Lite Yogurt
S3-Triscuits/carrots (this one was unplanned as dinner took longer to cook than anticipated)
D-1/2 sweet potato with a little butter and brown sugar, and 1/2 chicken breast

I feel good about today. I should have had one snack before my lunch workout instead of in the afternoon, so I will try that tomorrow. I think I didn't work out as hard at lunch as I should have, but overall my food choices were good. Lots of healhty things on that list!

Workout-
Pilates Video 20 minutes
Circuit Training 45 minutes
I've updated my Christmas Exercise Challenge numbers, right now I'm at 865 minutes, and we still have like 7 weeks until Christmas, so I'll defnitely get to 3,000 by then!

Water-
Excellent! Had 70 oz at work plus an herbal tea, and I'm still drinking!

I give today (I love that guy!)

 

[lovinaz]

You are doing great! I'm glad the extra healthy snacks are helping curb your appetite. You are definitely going to meet your exercise challenge at the rate you are going!

Keep it up!

 

[goodeats]

Whoop Whoop! Today was a great day!

Food:
B-Eggs, WW Toast w/ PB, Orange, Coffee/Milk
S-Apple, 1 oz Cheddar Cheese
L-1/2 Chk breast, 1/2 sweet potato incl a little butter and brown sugar
S-WW Tortilla, Sliced Turkey breast, Avacado
D-Bowl of pesto pasta and 1 glass of white wine
Over all I think today was good. I probably should have had more veggies at dinner and less pasta, but when you balance it with everything else I ate I think today was pretty good.

Exercise:
Body Sculpt (45)
Step Class (45)


Water:
I had 96 oz at work, so anything I had after my workout and tonight will be bonus.

Seriously, having more protein and the balanced meals really help with my cravings. In my head today I thought "I want a chocolate right now", but my
stomach told me no we don't need it! That's a step in the right direction!

 

[lovinaz]

Awesome job!!! Great that your tummy talked you out of chocolate. If I were in that situation, I'd force my stomach to make room so my mind was happy... Still working on that one

As always, you're really doing wonderful on your workouts. Keep it up!

 

[goodeats]

Only 30 days left until my sister and I leave for WDW! I can't wait, but I know it will derail some of my efforts. I'm not going to deny myself on vacation, but I'm going to be reasonable too. I can't believe how fast the year as gone by. Soon it will be Thanksgiving. I just can't believe it!

Anyway, today was pretty good.

Food
B-Kashi, milk, banana, coffee/milk
S-Plain LF Yogurt, 1/2 cup of granola
L-Salad with hardboiled egg and tofu, Orange, Diet Coke
S-Apple, cheddar cheese
D-Low carb tortilla quesadilla and some triscuits (yeah, I know, I had some ground beef for tacos, but it was a little old and smelled funny so I threw it out)

I had no temptation at all today. Having the protein with the snacks has helped a lot.

Water-
Got busy at work, so I probably only had 80 oz all day. Not bad.

Exercise-
45 minutes step
20 minutes pilates

Somebody today told me I looked like I had lost weight. So, I guess that's good. I don't know why, but I don't consider that a compliment. It's like, well how big was I before?! But if I feel that I need to lose weight, than obviously I have something to lose. Hmmm, maybe I need therapy.

 

[lovinaz]

What a great compliment! I used to think the same thing, but I haven't heard that in years, so I think I would welcome any comment like that right now!

I am so glad you are not being tempted with snacking. I wish I were in that frame of mind! I will take your suggestion about the rice cakes. I should probably eat a bigger lunch (maybe add a 1/2 turkey sandwich to my salad) so I stay fuller and am not tempted to nibble while making dinner... Thanks for the advice!

Keep up the good work!

 

[goodeats]

Thanks Amy!

Today was decent overall, but some of my food choices could probably have been better. My workouts were good, but my muscles are feeling tired, so I'm going to take it easy tomorrow and maybe Saturday too. I can always go for a walk instead of being 'hard core'. Heh, somebody said that I was hardcore since I've been going to the gym twice a day. It's only on Tuesdays and Thursdays that I do it, but I suppose it does make me 'hard core'. Hee!

Food:
B-Eggs, Toast/pb, orange, coffee/milk
Sugar free hot chocolate
S-Lite lemon yogurt
L-Bought some pasta with meatballs and veggies from the cafeteria, but only ate half and will have the rest tomorrow. Also 1 chocolate kiss
S-Low carb tortilla, turkey breast, avacado
20 oz Gatorade at the gym
D- Alright, DH and I have been really busy and stressed lately because we're buying a 4 unit apartment building. It's our first home purchase, so it's very nutty around here. Anyway, I had a quesadilla and some triscuits. Tomorrow I will make a real dinner, I swear!

Water:
Tons, I think the pasta was kind of salty, so I was very thirsty. Including the gatorade I'm probably at 140 oz for the day. I may float away

Workout:
Very hardcore today
Body Sculpt- 45 min (lots of legs and abs)
Step Class - 60 min

Going into the weekend I know Saturday will be tough as we're Tailgating at a football game. I will have some light beer, and I will have a burger and some treats. But that means I should eat well on Friday and Sunday to mitigate it and I should run on Sunday too!

 

[lovinaz]

Great plan for the weekend! They are always SO tough! Good luck with the 4-plex. I used to own a duplex and we lived in one side and rented out the other. It was a lot of work!!!

You ARE very hard core with your workouts! But that's something to be proud of!

 

[goodeats]

I've got a big problem guys - my pants are falling down! Heh, well I guess that's a good problem, but I bought these pants a month ago, so it's a tad annoying. So while the scale isn't really going down (which may be due too TOM), there's definitely a difference in my physique. This is good progress !

Anyway, this was weird eating day. I've noticed my portions have gotten smaller, but I defnitely do eat often. They say that's good for your metabolism, but if I don't see more results I'm definitely going to start counting calories after New Years.

Food
B-Protein shake - 1 scoop protein powder, 1 cup milk, frozen berries, 1/2 banana, and some NF/FF Jello powder. Yummy!

Coffee with some low fat milk at work

S-I was expecting the consultants to bring bagels in around 10, but they never showed so I had an apple and an ounce of cheese at 11. I was still hungry so I had a dinner roll thing from the cafeteria (smaller than a bagel).

L - Salad with hardboiled eggs/tofu with minimal dressing & Diet Coke

S- Rest of pasta and veggies from yesterday (no meatballs, ate them all yesterday) , not too big

S- Lite Yogurt

D-DH and I were lazy and went out to dinner, but it was fun so I think we needed a 'date' night. Anyway we walked over to a BBQ place, and we split an appetizer and an entree and there were still leftovers, so it couldn't have been too bad:
1 Peach Martini
3/4 of a large Crab Cake - gave rest to DH
1 Biscuit with apple butter (this was probably the 'worst' thing)
several ounces (4 or 5 maybe) of pulled pork with some BBQ sauce
1 Babyback rib (seriously, just one!)
a couple bites of mashed sweet potatoes and beans
And that's it! Going in the advertised dessert looked really good (marshmallow chocolate pie in a graham cracker crust), but I was full so we didn't get it.

I think today was pretty good!

Exercise -
Walked at lunch and DH and I walked to dinner and to buy a lotto ticket (hee!) so I'll say 60 minutes. It was probably more, but don't want to overestimate.

Water-
Probably around 90 oz, but with the martini I should have had more!

Alright, lets keep eating healthy and exercising. Today I'm not going to exercise save for just regular activity, but I'm going to try to be moderate bout what I'm eating.

 

[goodeats]

Ugh I don't think I'm going to get to workout this weekend. Life just gets in the way, but that's Ok, I'll get back on track tomorrow and try to eat decently today. We're busy this weekend, so it's not like I'm just laying on the couch all weekend.

Here's Saturday's check-in

Food:
B-rest of leftover mashed sweet potatoes, coffee milk
Plain LF yogurt with 2/3 cup of granola

BBQ Damage-
Lite Beer - Probably about 4 over 4 hours
1 cheese burger
2 devilled eggs halves
Tortilla chips
Several Crackers and crab dip
Some redvine licorice
Some pumpkin bars (small pieces)
1 oatmeal cookie

Pretzel at the football game

1/2 leftover biscuit, triscuits at home

Boy, am I a grazer! Lots of snackies today, and not a lot of good healthy food. Will definitely eat some good healthy food today!

Exercise:
None official, but lots of walking and activity at game

Water:
Probably pretty low - maybe 40 oz

 

[frogmommy]

Your workouts look great. I'm glad adding protien is working for you.

Congrats on the loose pants!

 

[goodeats]

I really wanted to workout today, but as I said in my post yesterday life just got in the way. I'll try to workout a little harder this week. Anyway here's how I did:

Food:
B- Biscuit with apple butter (last one from leftovers)
Slice of watermelon
B2 - Tortilla with butter and scrambled eggs/egg whites (YUMMY!)
S - A couple of free samples grocery shopping and a slice of swiss cheese from the deli (I did pay for it!)
L - Tuna/Avacado sushi roll with some soy sauce (About 8 pieces)
S - 1/2 a PBJ sandwich on WW bread
D - Small bowl of chicken veggie stirfry (I wasn't very hungry after all my snacking).

Water - Low again probably 40 oz, I get way more during the week.

Exercise - Sigh, I went Christmas Shopping and my weekly Grocery Shopping, but I'm not going to count it in the challenge as I didn't work up a sweat.

The weekends are so hard for me to get my water in, and as you notice I definitely snack more. If we don't go out it's not necessarily bad stuff, just kind of grazing all day. The scale still hasn't moved, but my clothes are looser and I feel better, so hopefully the 'whoosh' fairy will visit me next week after my TOM . I will work hard this week. I have to, next weekend is going to be a disaster. We leave for my in-laws next Tuesday for Thanksgiving, and they have a way of treating us to good food a lot. I'll definitely bring my workout clothes, though.

Here's to a good week !

 

[Jane E.]

Great job on the double workouts on Tues/Thurs! No wonder your clothes are fitting better. Weekends are tough for me too. I feel like I start building a momentum during the week and then the weekend knocks me off my feet. Fortunately dh wasn't feeling well this weekend so we ended up not going to a sportsbar for the football games. I always eat better when we stay at home.

 

[lovinaz]

Ahh, the weekends... They are so good, yet so bad, aren't they?!?!? I think all the exercising you do during the week counteracts all the bad stuff you do on the weekends!!

Congrats on the loose pants! Remember, your weight is just a number there to torment you. It is how you look that really counts!

You are doing great!!!

 

[goodeats]

Thanks Amy! You're doing great too!

Here's check-in for Monday-

Food-
B-WW Bagel with 2 eggs and a little butter
S - 1 cup plain NF yogurt with some granola
L - Serving of Chicken veggie stirfry with 1/2 an apple and a Diet Coke
S- 1 WW tortilla and some turkey and swiss
D-1/2 glass of wine (didn't care for the type) and 2 small pieces of homemade pizza with veggies and sausage

Today was very carby and I felt like I ate a lot. I was never really super hungry so that's good. No temptations!

Water-
A lot, probably 100 oz. I woke up really thirsty, though so I think I should have had more.

Workout -
Took a new class at lunch today. It was Pilates with some jazz work. It was OK, but I don't think I'll be back. It was later than my typical workouts are and I don't like to be gone so late. Anyway 50 minutes

Let's keep it up!

 

[goodeats]

Today was really good. The extra protein and bigger lunches are really helping me avoid temptation. I'm still kind of hooked on the Diet Coke, but maybe it's not so bad. You can't drop everything cold turkey at once or else you're bound to fail.

Tuesdays numbers:
Food -
B-Kashi, milk, banana (no coffee today )
S-This is my little concoction that I used to eat a lot, but haven't in awhile:
1 tbsp peanut butter heated
1/2 cup LF cottage cheese
1/2 cup all bran cereal
It sounds really weird, but it's so good! Plus it's really healthy, lots of protein, healthy fat and fiber. So it's filling too.
L-Red snapper, veggies, and rice (small portion) from cafeteria, diet coke, one strawberry
S- Orange and lite yogurt
D-small bowl of jambalaya and sausage

Water-
Good, at least 100 oz

Workout-
Body Sculpt - 45 minutes
Elleptical - 40 minutes

Overall I feel really good. I have a sinus headache from our weird weather, but it hasn't affected me too much. I'm bloated from TOM, and hopefully that's why the scale hasn't moved this week!

 

[lovinaz]

I'm sorry, but that snack sounds really gross!! How on earth did you come up with something like that? It does have good foods in it though...

I don't think there is anything wrong with a can of Diet Coke a day. That's probably because I do it too It's not like you are drinking a whole 12 pack or anything and you still get all your water in, so I wouldn't beat yourself up about it!

Great job on the workouts, keep it up! Your trip is right around the corner!

 

[goodeats]

Actually, I read about it on a fitness board. Everybody raved about it, so I decided to try it even though I detest cottage cheese. It was really good. It kind of tastes like peanut butter cookie dough. Sometimes I'll add banana to it too! My DH always asks if I'm preggo when I eat it because it's so weird!

I really recommend it though. I couldn't eat it every day, but once in a while it's really yummy.

 

[goodeats]

Who's that healthy girl? It's me! It's me!

Sorry, I'm just really pleased with myself today. I'm not tempted by anything, even the pumpkin pie in the cafeteria! Plus I got my workouts in even though my sinuses were sort of bothering me. Plus I made a healthy dinner! Yay!

Food-
B-2 eggs/egg whites, WW toastw/PB, orange, coffee and milk
S-Apple, 1 oz cheese
L-1 cup jambalaya and sausage (note- NO diet coke)
S-WW tortilla, turkey, avacado
D-1/2 glass of white wine, steamed green beans, brown rice, salmon


Workout-
I went jogging at 6:00 this morning for 45 minutes, and I did pilates this afternoon for 20 minutes. I'm getting much better at my pilates video, I can actually stay up for the entire T-stand position now!

Water-Tons. It's really dry here today so I've been drinking a lot.

Keep it up! Keep it up!