1. Track calories (Fitday or otherwise) twice a week. Did not meet goal (only tracked 1 day).
2. Do at least one home cardio workout per week. Exceeded this goal--did 2 home cardio workouts.
3. Eat lowfat frozen meal 1-2 dinners per week. Met this goal--ate 1 frozen meal.
4. No more than 1 meal out per week. Met this goal--ate out once, on Friday.
5. End November @ 154 or less. Not gonna happen. My weight has been all over but nowhere near 154. I still have over a week left in November, but Thanksgiving falls in the middle of that week.
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I gotta say, I think having this accountability journal thread is helping! The goals are starting to become a bit more ingrained. Okay, so it's Thursday and I forgot about Fitday again, BUT I definitely am keeping the cardio goal and the eating out goal more present in my mind.
In fact, last night, I had scheduled an hour-long massage right after work. I knew I'd be starving by the time I got home, so I ate a piece of cheese right before I left work. I was driving home from the massage all relaxed and melty and I thought "WENDY's!" That thought was immediately followed by two other thoughts: 1. You're hardly even hungry! 2. You've got lunch plans to eat out on Friday and you can only eat out once each week!
I kept on driving and went home. Once I was home, it was late and I was tired (and too relaxed to stand and cook) so I just had something light and quick. Turns out, I really WASN'T that hungry and I'm so glad I kept driving!
I'm also starting to consider whatever my mid-week hair-washing day is as "cardio day." Figuring that, if I'm going to sweat like a pig, it makes sense for it to be on a day when I have to wash my hair anyway.
It's nice...and even exciting...to see these things become part of my psyche when I was struggling SO much the first 2 week to even remember that I HAD goals.
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I too must give props to the Nutrition Action Health Letter - very informative reading! I recently used their ratings to choose lunch meat.
Exercise-wise, I haven't been doing so well. For about a week now I've had a very minor health issue that has been keeping me from exercising. But now it's nearly resolved - so back to it!
Tuesday: 2 hours of excavating the front swale. Owww... I'm sore.
I also measured the backyard. Which wasn't hard, but since my mental retention is so bad, I had to keep walking from each segment back to my clipboard to write down each number.
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Originally posted by GoingSkiing: There is an article in the December Prevention magazine about frozen dinners. Reserchers had one group of dieters eat frozen dinners twice a day. The other group was taught how to eat healthier. The frozen dinner group lost 16 lbs in 8 weeks adn the other group lost 11. They thought it was the built in portion control. But it is a bummer about the sodium.
Portion control is not often a big problem for me, especially at dinner. I actually PREFER a smaller meal for dinner. That study is really interesting, though!
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I think that the Nutrition Action newsletter had a Froz. dinner comparison. SheltieGuy calls them the food police. They really are the salt police... and if they say something is low sodium... it is.
I just started getting this newsletter about 3 months ago and it does have amazingly helpful information.
I have been doing really well food wise. I'm quite pleased with myself.
Not so good exercise wise...
The band teacher at the Jr. High (who my students feed into and he is also my son's band teacher) is covering the bari sax part in a concert I'm playing in on Friday... I've never played with him before... he plays professionally... and I'm having to practice extra and and having performance anxiety and hoping that I don't botch anything...
Also we have gotten no rain to speak of and there is no snow and won't be any next week when we are off from school... so I'm not going skiing next week... so I sort of have this, "I can exercise after I get this performance out of the way on Friday."
Originally posted by SheriaVa: I put eating the lowfat frozen dinners for some weeknight dinners on my goal list for November...
There is an article in the December Prevention magazine about frozen dinners. Reserchers had one group of dieters eat frozen dinners twice a day. The other group was taught how to eat healthier.
The frozen dinner group lost 16 lbs in 8 weeks adn the other group lost 11.
They thought it was the built in portion control.
But it is a bummer about the sodium.
I think that the Nutrition Action newsletter had a Froz. dinner comparison. SheltieGuy calls them the food police. They really are the salt police... and if they say something is low sodium... it is.
This is the only article about froz dinners I can find on-line but I'll look thru my stuff...
Originally posted by Sandy: I think that some of the lf meals are low sodium too- not sure, but might be worth checking out.
I hope so! I didn't think the sodium numbers on most of the ones I had eaten were THAT bad (I mean, I'm always expecting prepared foods to be relatively high in sodium). I will definitely have to pay more attention to that before I buy any more.
I put eating the lowfat frozen dinners for some weeknight dinners on my goal list for November because, while I am very consistent in eating healthy for breakfast and lunch on weekdays, I am not consistent at dinner. I don't eat HORRIBLY for dinner, but I NEVER get enough veggies at dinner, so my dinners aren't usually as well balanced as my lunches and are wildly inconsistent. I thought eating the lowfat frozen dinners once or twice a week would help me get a more balanced dinner that was also controlled in terms of fat and calories. And, most importantly, they would be something fast and easy for me to prepare when I walk in the door after an 11-hour work day.
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Also, I am almost sure you do this, but do you drink lots and lots of water? When I go below 8-10 glasses I start retaining fluid too.
I always have a water bottle next to me, whether at work or home. The problem is that how much I actually DRINK out of the bottle can vary a lot at work depending on how busy I am. If I am really stressed out or I'm on the PC a lot (i.e., my hands are occupied), I drink less water. On weekdays, I'd say I average 40-48 oz. a day at work and perhaps another 8 to 24 oz. in the evening when I get home. So, at the top end of my range, I'm getting 72 oz. a day which is 9 glasses. At the bottom end of my range, I'm getting 48 oz. a day which is only 6 glasses.
What complicates matters is that, ever since I was diagnosed with hypertension about 10 years ago, my body has held on to fluid like there is no tomorrow. Without Dyazide (a diuretic that helps my body flush out the fluid), I don't think I would be alive (I was almost in heart failure when I was originally diagnosed because of the fluid build-up around my heart and lungs). Even one day without Dyazide and I will weigh 2-3 pounds more from fluid retention.
I need to do better when I'm super busy at work about staying fully conscious about my water intake, but most days I do pretty good with it.
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Sheri, I think that some of the lf meals are low sodium too- not sure, but might be worth checking out. Also, I am almost sure you do this, but do you drink lots and lots of water? When I go below 8-10 glasses I start retaining fluid too.
I have not posted here because I had a VERY bad food day on Monday. (Bad reason not to post, I know.) Today has not been perfect, but much improved and generally on track. Yesterday I went to a conference on OCD (my nephew has recently been diagnosed and I felt I needed to know more- it was helpful but I did not handle the stress well- ate too much pizza at lunch.)
Anyway- here I am the next day and back on track. My goals for this week are: 1. log all my food for remainer of week. (I have been writing it on paper.) 2. do back and core work 3 times 3. Cardio at least 3 times
I met my goals last week and even did more cardio than I posted. My food got a little sloppy on the weekend, but I held it together and managed a good week. Now I do it again this week.
1. Exceeded goal--tracked 3 days of calories on Fitday. 2. Exceeded goal--did 2 days of home cardio. 3. Met goal--had 2 lowfat frozen dinners. 4. Met goal--had only 1 meal out (take out).
Weight was looking better at the end of last week but is back to looking really bad this morning. I missed a day of meds on Friday which means the fluid didn't get flushed out of my body PLUS I ate way too much salty food over the weekend (that Lean Cuisine Lasagna made my head spin--I may need to rethink this lowfat frozen meal goal due to the high sodium content of many of these meals). The result was a higher-than-ever weight this morning. (sigh) I'm hoping hoping hoping that at least some of it is temporary (fluid retention).
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