Breakfast:
1 cup cottage cheese
1 cup peaches
2 whole wheat english muffins with a pat of butter for all four slices.

Lunch:
Two veggie hot dogs with buns and relish.

This the problem with so much protein (I'm already to 82 grams and I have at least two more times to eat today). I'm not terribly hungry!!!

Snack, post abuse with trainer, pre-yoga relaxation
Pria protein bar.

Dinner:
4 egg whites

Snack:
Two whole wheat muffins with grape jelly

Calories: 1524
Fat (g): 22 (13%)
Carbs (g):243 (56%)
Protein (g): 117 (31%)

Exercises today:
30 minutes of hell with Mark doing cardio/weights combined.
Needless to say I didn't visit the elliptical after this. Here I was all proud of myself to get my 400 calories from 30+ minutes in college to 29:45 this past weekend to 28:07 yesterday. I may as well have just flopped off the couch for the way I was breathing today. Ugh. Great workout. I'm going to kill him next week, or he's going to kill me, but great workout. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right? No pain no gain?
1 hour of yoga with nice aromatherapy and candles burning and a full 10 minutes of corpse pose at the end. So much nicer than paying someone to abuse me. LOL

Ok, today.

Breakfast:
A few bites of cottage cheese and peach. Most went back into the fridge (I just CAN'T eat so soon after waking, I get nauseous)

Lunch:
Avocado roll
Tamago
Miso soup

Snack:
Strawberry banana smoothie with protein powder

Snack/Dinner:
Raw veggies
Tzatiki dip (just a little)
1 1/2 bagels with cream cheese
Grapes

Snack:
Cottage cheese
peach

I'm likely going to finish my cottage cheese and peach in a little while. (I didn't include it yet since I literally ate three bites).

Calories: 1711
Fat (g): 47 (26%)
Carbs (g): 253 (57%)
Protein (g): 74 (18%)

Exercise:
400 calories in 28:07. A full MINUTE off from last night's time. I think my total was 3.34 miles or so and about 420 calories including my cooldown.

Tomorrow I'm going to keep up the good eating. Since we'll be home most of the day I can focus on eating right and enough times.

I meet with my trainer tomorrow afternoon, so I'm going to be doing upper body weights, and then some cardio. Not sure if I'm going to do a light 20 minute cardio on the bike or elliptical (I'm going while Piper is at Little Gym, so I get about 50 minutes total and Mark takes up 30 of those minutes) or if I'll take it easy for a bit and watch Piper at Little Gym, then bring her back to the childcare, which she really doesn't like at that gym.

Looking at the gym's schedules I think I may do my weights, then 20 minutes of cardio, then come home (get home around 6) have a bite to eat and head to a different gym for yoga.

I'm trying to knock one more pound off before the end of the month. Wish me luck!

A sign you've had a tiring workout.

Besides being tired.

Your wrists are sore from hanging from them on the elliptical.

Both of my wrists, right on the carpel area are sore. Wouldn't surprise me to see bruises there in the morning. Course, it wouldn't surprise me to see bruises anywhere on me come morning, but especially there.

Yesterday was not a good day eating wise, but today's a good day scale wise. :-)

Breakfast yesterday:
1 1/4 cup quiche with spinach, onion, and cheese
1 cup grapes
1/3 cup apple
1/2 orange

Snack yesterday:
Slice of cake, plus some leftovers from other pieces of cake

Dinner yesterday (told you it was a bad day, only two meals and one snack):
Portabella mushroom sandwich with provolone cheese
2 cups french fries

Calories: 1645
Fat (g): 92 (50%)
Carbs (g): 174 (40%)
Protein (g): 38 (9%)

Exercise yesterday:
I was running late (forgot my music and had to turn around for it), so I only did
10 minutes on elliptical (1 mile, 130 calories)
1 hour yoga. I so needed that.

My goals for today are to get better on the eating, go to the grocery store to help that goal, and to go to the gym and burn 400 calories on the elliptical. I need to check out the weight machines at the gym in Fuquay so I'm not intimidated by using them, since now that Piper's Little Gym camp is over I won't be going to the gym in Cary as much.

Breakfast:
Four egg whites
Two slices whole wheat bread (with just enough butter that I don't choke on them)
Apple sauce
Chocolate milk

Snack:
A few carrots with peanut butter

Snack:
1/2 of a pretty disgusting protein shake

Snack:
Potato chips
Soda (we went to a baseball game and there was nothing vegetarian)

Dinner:
Two veggie hot dogs with ketchup and relish

Calories: 1665
Fat (g): 29 (15%)
Carbs (g): 264 (59%)
Protein (g): 110 (26%)

Exercise today:
418 calories, 3.5 miles on the elliptical (400 calories in 29:10, 35 seconds shaved off of last time)

Ok, I'm back, I'm doing this again. I've been kicking ass now for a month at a gym with a trainer and yoga and weights and cardio and all that good stuff. I'm eating right, aiming for a 1600-1800 a day calorie goal and 40%-60% carbs, 20%-40% protein, and <20% fat.

In one month I've lost a grand total of two pounds. But I'm over my discouragement. I looked back on this blog and saw that I only lost 4 pounds in over three months the last time I did this, and that was doing it very nearly wrong (too few calories, wrong foods). So after the three months here I should start dropping weight like anything. And I'm starting to notice slow and reluctant changes already in my body. I can see veins in my hands and wrists popping out more, watching my hands type (while disorienting) is very cool, everything moves, I feel better about myself, my butt is smaller, my calves are smaller. I'm ready to get fit. Piper's Fit Mama!!!!! :-)

So every day I'll put what I've done here. Food and exercise.

Let's start with today. I did ok on calories and nutrients, but I only ate three times. I'll do better tomorrow (though Sunday night dinners are out with the a cappella group, so rarely healthy or laden with protein since the only vegetarian foods are cheese saucy pastas or salads).

Breakfast:
Cup of vanilla lowfat yogurt with 1/2 cup lowfat granola

Lunch:
Two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches (going overboard on neither the PB or J or the bread) on whole wheat.

Dinner:
Two veggie burger patties, buns, ketchup and relish

Calories: 1644
Fat (g): 51 (28%)
Carbs (g): 232 (52%)
Protein (g): 80 (20%)

Exercise today:
None, day off (which conveniently fell on a day I didn't want to get out of my pajamas until later and I needed to clean the house on. LOL Though I did the same thing yesterday and DID go to the gym.)

Tomorrow's exercise plan:
400 calories on the elliptical (in college that took me 30 minutes plus a little of the cooldown. I did it yesterday in 29:45. Go me!)
1 hour of yoga

OY! I pulled a pec!

Right over my sternum I am SO sore it's not even funny. I did 40 pushups today, which I've done every day since Sunday, but today instead of doing four sets of 10 spread out over my workout I did 20 and then 10 and then 10, right together. DAMN! It's hurt to BREATHE today, pick up Piper, turn the steering wheel, everything.

No pain no gain, huh?

Tomorrow I need to do my workout relatively quickly. I have to help Nathan take his car to the dealership, so we'll be home about 9:30 a.m. and Piper and I need to leave at 12:30 for Little Gym. Plus we're expecting a bobcat dropoff about noon, so I need to get dressed before that. Only 2.5 hours to do everything! Maybe I'll get up early and do my yoga by myself. I was so stiff this morning I honestly NEEDED it.

I don't get this

Using a calculator I find that my body needs 1810 calories a day for a sedentary life style to maintain 151.5 pounds. If I reduce my calories a day to 1200 that's 4270 calories not eaten a week. If I do 45 minutes of weights, 2 minutes of jumping jacks (about 100), and 40 minutes of yoga a day then that's 381 calories a day burned, or 2667 a week burned. That's 6937 a week either not eaten or burned. If it's 3500 calories per pound, then I should be losing two pounds a week.

Why am I not?

Even if I calculate for a sedentary life style for 125 pounds, that's 1671.25 needed every day, so if I do 1200 that's 3298.75 a week not taken in. That's 0.9 pounds a week simply by reducing my food intake. With the exercise that's 1.7 pounds a week. Both of these weight loss per week numbers are FINE by me! Why am I not?

My B12 is fine, my thyroid is fine, I had them checked at my last doctor's appointment in October. I'm drinking my water and working out every day. Why the fuck isn't the scale going down?

Granted, last night I jumped off my diet and ate my weight in sugar cookies. They were so good. That was fine, I choose to do that. But still, it's SO frustrating.

Busy morning so far

I woke up and did my AM yoga. Piper was quite through most of it, so it was even relaxing.

Then I did 50 jumping jacks.

Then my weight routine and my 200 crunches.

20 ounces of water so far.

I feel tired, but good.