Cruise's (Chris) Accountability/Sap Journal :) (comments welcome)

Congrats on the one pound loss!!!!

Hope you are feeling better soon. Maybe the doc can give you something to clear up whatever it is that is bothering you.

Hope you are having a great day!

Keep up the good work, you are doing great :maleficen
 
11 pounds is great!! You are an inspiration to everyone who read your journal!!
 
Cruise04 said:
8/2/05 #1

Well got on the scale this morning and it said I was down one more pound. TOM must be departing - thank goodness!!!!! :maleficen

Stayed on track pretty well yesterday, hope to stay on pretty well today. Work is stressful right now and that helps my metabolism. I went ahead and scheduled a doc appointment on Friday for a physical and to talk about my weight loss with him (plus I cannot shake this whatever in my face so I'm sure it's a sinus infection - two weeks of face pain usually is a good sign). So we'll see what he says. I'm going to have a full bloodwork up done too so I can see how my cholesterol is in a year (or maybe before I go to Disney in December). My blood pressure wasn't bad before - pretty steady 120/80 unless I was sick and then it jumped up so I'm confident it will be good or better on Friday. Although I'm going to go workout before I go but I'll be cooled down a good half hour before my appointment. I think he'll be pleasantly surprised with the 11 pounds gone so far. I know I am.

Hope everyone has a good day and I'll try to get to you all tonight!!!!! Or maybe this afternoon if I get all my work done, which it's getting there :)

Keep on :banana: :banana:
Chris

Hi Chris,

Hope things go well at the Doc! And huge congrats on one pound down!! You rock!!!!! :cheer2: :cheer2: :cheer2:

Have a great night!
Mike :maleficen
 
8/2/05 #2

Well today went pretty good. Before I went home for dinner I was sitting at only having consumed about 450 calories. I thought I was going to be in for a struggling night but I ended up doing okay. I was able to have some mac and cheese which I had been hungry for and didn't feel guilty having it.

Boss comes back tomorrow and I am NOT looking forward to it!!!! Oh well - will get through it.

Here's how I did today:
breakfast very berry fruit and oatmeal bar

lunch ham sandwich on Wonder light wheat
1 TBSP fat free mayo
2 pickle slices
2 cups mixed melons
1 tomato - medium sized
fat free yogurt

snack cheese stick

dinner 1 ham steak
1 cup mac and cheese
1 cup green beans

snack 1 cup frozen yogurt
1 TBSP carmel topping
1 TBSP choco topping
2 TBSP light cool whip

Totals are: 1479 cals, 35 fat grams, 230.9 carbs - not bad but carbs a bit high

So I think I did pretty good today. Got a bit light headed in the afternoon because I hadn't eaten enough but I wasn't really hungry. The good things so far in the last two days - boss brought in salt water taffy she brought back from Colorado and left it in the lunchroom over the weekend - haven't touched it and I LOVE salt water taffy; had taken a bag of chips to eat with lunch but I told myself I wouldn't eat them until I had eaten all my healthy foods first - ate the healthy foods and was stuffed by the time I could eat the chips so they went back in my desk drawer. So my self-discipline that I have never had is doing well these days. I really want this weight off and I'm bound and determined to do it.

I was deeply depressed (well maybe not so bad) when I looked up what a turtle sundae was for cals, fat and carbs and I had some left to gain - just not THAT much. I LOVE turtle sundaes and haven't one since June. So dd and I went to go get some frozen custard at the local place and I guess this was a sign - it was packed, line wait was probably 15 minutes just to get to the window to order. So we headed back home and I had my fat free frozen yogurt here at home. Much better for me but OHHHHH how I wanted Ollie's!!!!! I'll feel better tomorrow for it.

Everyone have a good night - I AM going to read some journals tonight. Got started this afternoon and got interrupted with a thing called work - darned. DD has her appt tomorrow with the nutritionist. She had no fruit today and I had to ride her about it. Her totals today were 1455 cals, 51.5 fats, 167.2 carbs - just like her mother a bit high in the fats and a bit low in the carbs but good on the cals. Can't wait to see what the doc scale says!!!!

Keep on :banana: :banana:
Chris
 

Hi Chris,

I just wanted to congratulate you on your self discipline at work (and home!) Great job! I definitely think the universe was sending you a sign when the ice cream place was too crowded. hehe! I hope that DD's appt tomorrow goes well!

Have a good night!
Mike :goodvibes
 
Hi, Chris! :wave2:
I just started reading your journals...VERY interesting! It's nice to see what you have been eating, it gives me some good ideas! You are doing a great job and are very motivated! Thanks for visiting my journal! Have a great evening! :cheer2:
 
Hi Chris!

Congratulations on 11 pounds lost so far! :cool1: That is wonderful!!! :Pinkbounc Keep up the good work! :cheer2:

I hope you have a healthy and happy Wednesday! :flower: Take care!
 
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Wow Chris, you are the self-discipline master! Could you please :wizard: some of that my way? I know it is hard to resist the goodies, but you did get a frozen treat and I bet today you are GLAD you didn't cave in!

Keep it up, you are doing great. You have the motivation to make it work!
 
Great job on the 1 pound loss. You are doing wonderful. So is DD. Let her know. You are her main support. Give her hugs and use each other. When you are giving out the hugs though remember to send one my way also. There is always room for a hug. Even if they are total strangers :rotfl2:
 
8/3/05 #1

Afternoon everyone - thanks for the support. I deeply appreciate it especially since I have yet to make it to many journals in a few days and looks like I won't make it to many until Sunday. Boss is back and we are going camping this weekend - lots of stress right now with everything. The world just needs to slow down a bit (or I do). But I'll get there and it will be okay.

DD's appt with the nutritionist was this morning (main reason I'm checking in right now while I eat lunch). It was pretty much like I thought it would be. She was surprised Britt has lost 15 pounds already (but only 12 on their scale). I told her beginning July 1 we started working out 4-5 days a week and she wants her to increase that to 5-6 (so on nights we can't get to Jazzercise, it will be the treadmill; might need to look into some exercise DVD's too). She said we are doing everything right at home now. But dd still has to write everything down base on what she was told today - not counting calories but counting amounts of things she eats - like how many fat foods she eats, how many fruits and veggies and to make sure she eats balanced meals every day. Which I had told dd she would say that. It was a very overwhelming appointment for dd but I told today I want her to sit down and write out how many of what foods she can have and then this weekend we will make some time while we are camping to sit down and figure out when to eat what foods so she makes sure she gets everything in. I know it will be harder for her once school starts as she only has 20 minutes for lunch. But nutritionist also told her how very important it is to eat more during the day and not wait until the evening to eat the most food - which is what she's been doing the last couple of nights. Makes up for what she hasn't eaten during the day. I have to say I've been bad about doing it too. So I'm trying to eat more at lunch and during the day at work but it's so hard because I get so full. She said she also should eat around 1700-2000 calories a day and dd and I both were like - NO WAY!!!! She's luck she can hit 1500. So she said to start eating more foods with more calories but to watch the fats. Oh dear - this is gonna be interesting.

She has homework to do over the next month - write down what makes her eat and what foods she eats when she things make her eat and write down what things she does in place of eating (hobbies, etc.). We go back in a month and see how her weight is and then she will think about doing another blood draw. She's just off by a few points for her triglycerides, HDL, and LDL - she wasn't off that much. But she was happy that she had lost that much weight already and she said she wants her to lose .5 to 1 pound a week. Today she was down another .5 pounds already.

For me - well not much news since I've not really gotten a chance to eat until now. Boss didn't notice my weight loss which is fine. Not going to get to go to Jazzercise tonight because we have to go get the camper for the weekend and that would mean I can't eat until 8;30 or 9pm and I just can't do that. So I'll get on the treadmill at least 30 minutes and we'll just have to go to Jazzercise on Friday AND Saturday mornings. That's okay.

Don't really know when I'm going to get to journals. I'll try as I can so I just wanted to say that everyone keep up the good work and keep on working!!!!!! And...

Keep on :banana: :banana:
Chris
 
Hi Chris,

You and Brit are doing a great job. With your help, I am sure that Brit will be able to write every thing down. Maybe she should create a journal here....that might help. Just a thought.

Hope you have a good time camping....remember to take the sun screen !!!!!

Hope you have a great, healthy day!
 
Chris - I'm glad the nutritionist was happy with dd's loss. I agree totally on the amoutn of calories she needs, she still a growing girl, but fitting them in healthily is the challenge. I sure you two can come up with some yummy low fat foods. If I don't see you around before the weekend let me tell you to have a great time camping =)
 
8/3/05 #2

Well went and got the camper and got it set up in the driveway so we could get the frig cooled down before we go. Had pizza tonight for dinner. I have a confession -

I am really feeling down today. I, for some reason, really feel like I'm bloated and have gained weight. And I don't know why - I have done so good lately and I did REALLY good today. I just am just feeling like I'm not getting anywhere. I know - you all have been there and now I sympathize even more than I have. I'm going to get on the scale tomorrow because I have to see if I'm justifying the way I'm feeling. I sure hope not because I'll be very upset. I'm not even going to have a snack tonight because I just feel blah. I put on some shorts to go workout on the treadmill (because I didn't make it to Jazzercise tonight) and they were a bit snug, more than they had been. My TOM is gone. I only drank 56 ounces of water today. Maybe that has something to do with it. I don't know.

Anyway, here's what I had today:

breakfast very berry fruit and oatmeal bar

lunch ham sandwich on Wonder light wheat
1 TBSP fat free mayo
2 pickles
2 cups mixed melons
1 tomato - medium sized

snack 2 celery sticks
9 carrots
2 TBSP dip
cheese stick
medium green apple

dinner 2 pieces of pizza

Here's my totals: 1027 cals (and not on purpose), 24.8 fat grams, 160.8 carbs. As you can see I'm really low on everything. I just don't have the desire to eat anymore tonight. I had a very stressful and hard running day today at work so it was hard for me to think about eating but I did. I did have a hard time getting time to go to the bathroom today - maybe that's why I'm feeling so icky. I mean I drank 40 ounces of water at work but I had to slow it down because I couldn't guarantee I could make it to the bathroom by just cutting out of what I was doing (boss was back today after 2 1/2 weeks gone). Tomorrow I'm going to try and do better. We sat down tonight and mapped out what we'll eat this weekend when camping. I'm coming home on Friday to go to Jazzercise and we're taking the bikes this time so we can ride on Saturday - weather is suppose to be awesome.

I hope tomorrow is not as bad as I'm feeling like it will be. And I have cheated in writing anything down - I just don't get why I feel so blah. Tomorrow I will begin writing down fiber grams so I can track how much fiber we are getting.

Hope everyone had a good day - I'll try to check in at least once tomorrow!!!!

Keep on :banana: :banana:
Chris
 
Hi Chris...I am feeling the same as you right now... - you know you are doing well as do I but I think it is that instant gratification thing....why oh why can't our hard efforts be seen more quickly? It seems our bad efforts show rather quick right?

Sorry you are down...it will turn around - and it's almost the weekend!! :)
 
Hi Chris!!

Ok, I label this as advice, so it is yours to do with as you wish, I will not be hurt either way. :goodvibes I don't know if getting on the scale tomorrow is the best idea. You know you are not feeling good about your progress right now so if the scale is bad news that could just make you feel worse. I think it could help to use the 5 min you'd take to weigh in tomorrow to make a list for yourself of all the things you have done to make yourself healthier and ways that you feel better all ready. Then if you still feel like you want to weigh in, hang that list over the scale so you read it everytime you get on. That way you can't look at the scale number and say, I am doing something wrong, I am doing all of these things for myself! If you stay true to yourself and your actions, you will see the progress. I have read that the human body can fluctuate weight wise 5lbs or more normally throughtout the day, so if you are bloated it might just be some water you are holding due to sodium, or something of that nature. The next day it could be gone!

Ok, I am down off of my advice box! I just hope that you can find a way through your bad feelings to a place where you can see again that you are putting yourself on a path to a healthier you, regardless of what detours that path takes!

Have a great day tomorrow and know that we're pulling for you out here in WISHville!
Mike :goodvibes
 
Hey there, Chris. I have to say, Mike has a lot of good points (hi, Mike. :wave2: I'm Erin). There are bound to be these days you feel "blah" and even "big." Less water. . .cheesestick. . .pizza. . .pickles. . .ham. . .you might just have a little sodium thing going, honey. Add that to the stress of your boss being back and that adds up to a BIG BLAH if you ask me! :p

The scale is only a tool--its number doesn't really mean all that much. What matters, Chris, is if you're walking the walk. As Mike so eloquently put it, "if you stay true to yourself and your actions, you will see the progress." You'll see it, you'll feel it, it'll happen. Just ride the wave. :boat:

Erin
 
8/4/05 #1

Thanks guys - unfortunately I didn't stay on after I wrote that last night as I had to get dd's log done too so I didn't see your advice.

I got on the scale this morning and got on it several times to make sure it was right. It said I was up .5 pounds, which I'm satisfied with. I think you are right - having all that stuff that will hold salt in is probably my downfall. But I had been out of lettuce and I really needed something else on my sandwich. The ham is low salt so that is one good thing. Today I'm going to drink 62 ounces of water here at work (I have it in the frig and I WILL drink it) and see how my body reacts. If I don't go to the bathroom as frequently, then I know I'm retaining due to the salt and I'll talk to the doc tomorrow about that. If I go like I have been going, then I'll know that I just needed to compensate that salt intake yesterday by drinking more water and I just didn't do it and hopefully today will flush it out.

I woke up feeling a bit better - not as depressed. I like being busy but right now, I'm over busy and sometimes that gets to me - both at home and at work. I can't wait to go away this weekend and spend some relaxing time away.

Have a great day everyone!!!!
Keep on :banana: :banana:
Chris
 
Hi Chris!

Sending you a :hug: and some :wizard: for a much better day today. Keep on keepin' on and don't forget to drink lots of water! :goodvibes
 
Chris, I hope you are feeling better today! I know exactly how you feel, I get that way sometimes. You think that you will gain weight no matter what you do, so why bother? But just keep doing what you are doing and eventually it will pay off. You have come so far, you are obviously doing something right!

Keep it up and I hope you are feeling better about things today!
 
Hi Chris,

Sending losts of :grouphug: for you.

I hope you are having a better day. Keep your head up. You are doing a great job.
 













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