Monday, April 19, 2010

Back to tracking my food. Seem to not eat as much when I have to share it with the world, literally.

Breakfast:
Cappaccino Delight Slim Fast Shake
8 oz. pineapple juice

Lunch:
1 cup broccoli with a little bit of butter
can of chicken noodle soup
salad with ranch

Snack:
6 ritz crackers
2 Tbsp. Peanut butter
1/2 cup pineapple pieces.

Dinner:
Steak Filet
Corn Cobbette
Boiled Cabbage
Salad

Exercise:

Diet Plan: The shopping list

So I can stand to have the same things for breakfast and lunch. I'm all about quick and easy for those meals. So I do typically eat the same things.
1 cup cornflakes, 1/2 cup milk, half a banana.

Lunch: 2 cups salad greens, one tomato, quarter of a medium onion, 2 TB ranch. I use the real stuff. Tastes better. and half a can of chicken noodle soup.

Dinner: I am a basic kinda gal. A meat/protein, 2 Veggies, and a starch.

So here's my list:

2 boxed cornflakes
2 gallons milk
bananas
3 bags salad
tomatoes
onions
ranch
4 cans chicken noodle soup
6 meats
12 veggies
6 starches.
There you have it. All meats are baked or broiled, or now that it's getting warmer, grilled. Why not 7? We ALWAYS get pizza on friday nights. it's a treat for the kids, and a break for me. But I limit myself to 1 slice with a salad. Or maybe two if me and bike are getting along fairly well that day, LOL

Notes to Self

Maids' Pattern McCalls 5094
Flower Girls, Book/Program Attendent/Junior Pattern: McCalls 5795
Men and Boys Ties:(to be worn with Khaki's and white shirt)

Brown Paper Rack 24, Slot 39, Pecan 119305
Pink Paper Rack 23, Slot 34, Baby Pink 108449
Paisley Paper Studio

Pink Eyelet (Flower Girl Skirts) 950030 5.99
White Plisse (Flower Girl Bodice) 473876 4.99
Classic Cotton Pink (Junior) 110908 2.99
Classic Cotton Brown (Maids) 293308 2.99
Paisley for Ties and Book/Program Attendents 126953 5.99

Weight loss update

Still no budge on the scales, but I did lose inches. That's what matters most.

an inch on my chest band, 1 3/4 inches on my waist and 2 1/2 inches on my hips. That's definately a "stand still" I'll take.

The dress I'm trying to get into!

It's by Alfred Angelo and the price is just as gorgeous as the dress. Seriously. It's so below my budget. I need to order it no later than December of this year, so that leaves me with 9 months to get to my goal size. Initially, I was going to order in July, but I'll give myself a few more months.

Great weigh loss this week

I weigh in on Wednesdays. Typically not on other days because I don't want to stress my self with day to day fluctuations. The only time I weigh on and off day is when I've over eaten the day before and need to know how to make up for it.

So, today, I step on the scale. I'm very surprised to see it tell me that I have lost 4.4 pounds this week.

I'm ecstatic this morning. Everyone is asleep here, so i can't jump and holler, but I'm happy. Tonight is suppose to be mine and Brian's date night. Not sure what we're doing. We can't decide on anything,.

Well, I'm off to make my rounds in cyber-ville, and then to start my day.

Take Care!

~Kana

A snow Day

The kids just got out of school because it's snowing. It's the south, so it's not "that bad" but down here we shut down for everything.
I'm sitting here enjoying a break at the computer with my frappe'. I didn't use the sugar today and saved me some calories. Actually, I forgot to use the sugar, didn't omit it on purpose. It's JUST AS GOOD!

So I've been imformed that people don't want to read my dietary journal unless it's interesting stuff, so we won't do that today. (Thanks, honey!)

Yesterday, Gabe (the nine year old) bet me that I couldn't walk eight miles at once. He bet me "dollar for mile, I bet you can walk eight miles. Loser pays". So my competitvity came out and I shook the childs hand and said, "I bet I can, boy. It's on. It's on like Donkey Cong". So, assuming the snow isn't too bad, and it isn't too cold, we'll be hitting the pavement tonight. Too cold? we'll do it tomorrow. Poor kid doesn't realize I'm training to do 26 on my birthday in 4 months :-) I'll keep that to myself. He might surprise me, LOL.

Last night, I put in 45 minutes on the bike while I watched Law and Order. Love that show. I was into the show so much that I didn't realize I had rode that much. My precious children broke my odometer on there, so I don't know how fast or how "far" I rode, but I will be getting another one later on. My first ten pound goal is an mp3 player. My old one broke, or died, should say. It won't hold a charge anymore. So when I reach my first ten pound goal, I will be getting a new one. This time, I'm getting one just like Gabe's. It's just a cheap $15 one from Dollar General. But it's survived baseball practice, football practice, the floor board of my car, and needless to add a nine year old in general. I'm sure it will be perfect for me. No more $100 mp3s for me.
My second ten pound goal reward is a new odometer for the bike. After that, I don't know. Although I mentioned to B about putting the amount of my weight loss in dollars into an envelope and when I reach my goal (just over 50 pounds total) buying me a new "COOL" outfit. I never buy new clothes. I'm a goodwill shopper through and through. I've never paid more than $3 for a pair of jeans. That's sad, but true.

anyway, I've got some work to do, so I must go, but take care, my blogger family.

~Kana

A couple of recipes

First, my chocolate syrup. My grandmother used to make this for me for her homemade biscuits. She was a very large lady. I always assumed the chocolate didn't keep her from being that way. I discovered today, (when I was out of chocolate syrup and wanted a mocha frappe {recipe follows}) that it wasn't the chocolate syrup, gosh darn it, it was those good ole bicuits. (or Bickets, we called them)

Okay, so here's the recipe
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
dash salt
1/2 cup water

combine all ingredients in a 1 qt. pan, mix well and bring to boil, stirring while it boils for a minute or two. Allow to cool and put into a refrigerator safe container and store refrigerated.

Total Calories: 30 calories, 0 fat!


Now, the mocha frappe' recipe: (I got this from this month's Good Housekeeping, and it is soooooooooo good. And so much cheaper than Starbucks ($3+) and a little lower cal and fat, too. (Starbucks 8 oz. mocha frappe' is 150 calories and 2.5 grams of fat. In this recipe, I found it to have 103 calories and 2.5 grams of fat, so the calories aren't that much different and the fat isn't different at all, but it's quick, conveinent and cheaper. That's what sells me these days. and besides, do you realize how many jello cups you could eat with those extra 47 calories? LOL. (that's 4 1/2 if you're wondering, b/c sugar free jello is 10 calories a cup!)

Okay, so the recipe, sorry, I got sidetracked:
1/3 cup strong coffee (I use espresso)
1/3 cup 2% milk
1 Tbsp chocolate syrup (from above recipe)
2 tsp. sugar (you could probably omit this if you wanted, would save 15 calories)
1 cup ice cubes

put into blender and blend until smooth

Okay, y'all, my drink is gone and the dryer is done. Time to get off here for a while!

Monday, March 1, 2010

I can't believe March is here already. WOW!

So, here's the plan for the day!

Breakfast: Corn Flakes and Milk 165 calories

A.M. Snack: Cottage Double (pineapple) 140 Calories (Total: 305 Calories)

Lunch: 60 Calorie Progresso Soup (Total: 365 Calories)
Michalina's Zitti Meal 300 Calories (Total 665 Calories)

P.M. Snack 10 Calorie Jello cup. (Total 675 Calorie)

Dinner:
Ham 3 oz. 90 calories (Total: 765 Calories)
Green Beans 1 Cup 4o calories (Total: 805 Calories)
Rice 1/2 Cup 106 calories (Total: 911 Calories)
1/2 cup Mixed Fruit 60 calories (971 Calories)

*That will give me 61 calories to do whatever with. I might enjoy me a cup of coffee. Not sure. *

Exercise: walking is not burning enough calories in *my* head, so I'm going to start back with the shred today. I cannot bring myself to doing the entire workout yet. I just can't. So I'm going to have to do it the way I did back when I first started it. I'm going to shoot for doing the first 1/3 circuit of level one. In case you're not familiar with the shred, it's by Jillian Michaels. I hate her so much I love her. She's a great trainer. Her workout on this video is 18 minutes long (not including warm up and cool down) and is divided into three 6-minute circuits. 3 minutes of cardio, 2 minutes of strength, and 1 minute abs. I'll do circuit one, level one today and tomorrow and will add circuit two the the routine on Wednesday. Then, add the third circuit to the routine on Friday.

That's about it for today, guys. thanks for hanging out and reading my plan and goals.

~Kana

Weekend Review

On saturday, we were suppose to go out to eat with my mother in law, but plans changed and we didn't. We ended up spending the day with our cousins and going out to eat with them. We went to a mexican place, and I went WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY overboard with the chips and the margaritas. But it was okay. Once in a while never hurts anyone :-)

Sunday, we did go out to eat with my mother in law. We took her to Fletchers. Great place. I immediately boxed half of my meal when they brought it. We had leftovers for supper last night. Brian had sonic leftovers (I knew not to eat the whole coney Friday night), the kids ate their leftovers from fletchers, as did I.

I walked 2.5 miles at the track last night while Brian and the boys played on the playground. Then, we took the boys and his mom home and she watched them for us to walk her "block". Mind you, she lives in the country, so it wasn't your typical 1/2 mile block. It was a 2.5 mile walk. It was great though. We definitely enjoyed it.

Guess that covers it all. Besides the fact that I've almost demolished that terrible "landmark" in my laundry room, "Mnt. Washmore". It's slowly getting smaller, and is actually contained to two laundry baskets now, instead of my laundry room floor!

~Kana

Saturday, February 27, 2010

I'm not putting anything on my to do list except to buy batteries for the GPS and my Camera.

Food Plan: (probably won't update, so no color change today)

Breakfast:
1 Cup corn flakes, 1/2 cup milk

Snack:
Strawberry Cottage Double

Lunch:
Side Salad with 70 cal. dressing
1 cup progresso light soup
Michelina's Meatloaf and Potatoes

Snack:
10 calorie jello cup

Dinner:
Going out with mother in law to celebrate her birthday.

Exercise: Going to track. ALONE!!!! Putting in at least 6 laps. That's my goal.

Water: 3 down, 6 to go.

Enjoy the weekend, y'all!

Kana

PLAN: February 26, 2010

need to do= black: finished: purple

When I weighed this morning, the scale told me I weighed 154 pounds even. Now, two days ago, I weighed 157.4 so it has amazed me at the amount of water weight I was holding. I'm addicted to these sweet little drinks called diet mnt. dew. and apparently all the sodium and caffeine had me holding a minimum of 3.5 pounds of water weight. It doesn't matter if it's water weight or fat weight at this point. I'm in an unhealthy place for my height, my age, and just any person in general. No 25 year old woman that's five foot tall should weight what I do. I don't care how many kids you have. Here's the deal, and I'm asking you, my readers, whether I know you're there or not, hold me accountable. This october, Brian and I will be celebrating our 9th anniversary. We will also gear up into "wedding planning" as we are renewing our vows on our ten year anniversary. I will begin my dress shopping this fall. I would love to walk down the isle to my wonderful husband and be that sexy little "thang" he met. I was wearing a size 7 jeans and a small top then, and weighed 115. It's also my goal for Brian and I to go back to where we went on our first date. Caesar's Head State Park and me wear, for him, the same sweater I wore back then. I no longer have the jeans, but I can buy a pair of 5/7 jeans anywhere from the dollar store to the mall. that's not an issue.
Okay, time to start this day jumpin!

Breakfast: 280 (remaining: 975)
Fit and Active Cherries Jubilee Yogurt: (100)


Lunch: 260 (remaining: 715)
Side Salad with lite western (70)
4 pc. chicken nuggets (190)
diet coke

Afternoon Snack: 10 (remaining: 705)
Jello snack cup (10)

Dinner: 355 (remaining: 350)
Southwest chicken salad (320)
Apple Dippers (35)

After dinner snack: 10 (remaining 340)
Jello snack cup (10)

TO DO LIST
Up, dressed, check BGL
Gabe up and ready for school, take to school
Breakfast for little guys
Reboot laundry
Brian to work
Bank
Walmart
Aldi
Dollar Tree
Quality Foods
Stop and pick up lunch
Home to eat
Clean out car
Reboot laundry
15 minutes in bedroom
Exercise: walked .6 of a mile around Erskine this a.m. was going to walk the whole mile, but the cold was too much to handle. Also went to Chris Taylor Park and walked their track. The full track is 2 miles and the smaller loop is 1.5. I done the mile and a half. Felt GREAT!
Pick Brian up from work
Rent a movie for movie night. Ended up donating movie money to a fundraiser for a local child that was accidentally shot and killed last weekend to help with funeral expenses. He went to school with Gabe.
Mail/pay bills

It's friday. that means it's the weekend. if you don't see me until monday, I'm probably out searching for tiny boxes with dollar store treasures inside (aka: geocaching) it's our new hobby. If you do see me, it's that I'm at home, not doing what I should be doing, LOL.

Scripture that's been on my mind today: Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart. Proverbs 22:6

Meal/Exercise Planning for 2/25/2010

AWESOME!!!! SO PROUD OF MYSELF FOR STAYING SO CLOSE TO PLAN TODAY. THINK I MIGHT SPEND A FEW EXTRA MINUTES IN THE SHOWER RELAXING TONIGHT. TAKE CARE, YOU GUYS! LOVE AND HUGS!


this is the plan for today, February 25, 2010. As I check things off, I will change the font color to PURPLE. Those remaining in black have not been accomplished yet.

Breakfast: 7:30 a.m. 195 calories. (880 Calories remaining)
1 cup apple jacks
1/2 cup 2% milk

Lunch: 11:30 a.m. 300 Calories (580 Calories remaining)
Salad (lettuce and Onions) with Light Western Dressing
1 c. Progresso Soup
Michaelina's Pepper Steak and Rice

Snack: 3:30 p.m. 160 Calories (420 remaining)
1/2 cup Sugar Free Jello
1 Blueberry Martha White Muffin

Dinner: 7:00 p.m. 350 Calories (70 remaining)
1 cup spaghetti noodles
1/2 cup spaghetti sauce with meat
Salad with Light Western Dressing

Snack: 10:00 p.m. 10 calories (60 remaining)
1/2 cup Sugar Free Jello

Water: loving my new water bottle. it's a red aluminum one. It's 24 ounces. I'm suppose to drink 64 oz. daily, but since it's 24, I'll at least shoot for 72 instead, LOL
24 oz finished @ 9:50 a.m.
24 oz finished @11:00 a.m.
24 oz finished @ 12:45 p.m.

Exercise: Ran/walked an 11 minute mile at Bridwell tonight while B and the kids played on the playground. Walked first lap, Ran second, walked third. My hear-rate upon completion was 136. Not sure if that's good or bad. Will check into it tomorrow. It's a 3 lap equals a mile place, so tomorrow, I'm shooting for 4 laps. Walk-Run-Walk-Run(1/2)-Walk(1/2) unless we go somewhere else, then we'll just have to see what we do. :-)


Onto the to do list for the day:
Gabe to school
Breakfast
take brian to work
main house work
15 minutes in my bedroom
exercise
lunch
write out bills, grocery list, etc.
15 minutes in closet
2 loads laundry (load one: FINISHED ) (load two: STARTED )
help gabe with homework
pick up brian
fix dinner
pickup house
watch idol (Hoping Crystal Bowersox and Casey James stay!!!!)

Diabetes, Obesity and Life

For various reasons, I've been trying out various medications. None of them worked. They were anxiety meds. Obviously, that was the first thought when I was complaining of agitation, shakiness, headaches and slight disorientation. (Like a kid on a subway, I knew where I was, but everything was streaming by so fast I couldn't catch up.) Especially with having just lost Bailey and everything.
So my nine year old, bless his soul, told me that I remind him of my mom. I'm cranky the same times of day she is, and I act like she does then. He also was kind enough to point out to me that I'm fat. :-) (God Love Him)
So, the next time I felt that way, instead of popping a pill, I stuck my finger. (I have blood sugar problems during pregnancy, so I've always had a glucose meter) To my surprise, it was 229. It was eleven thirty at night, and it'd been nearly 6 hours since I'd eaten anything. It was valentines day, and we'd had spaghetti and meatballs, garlic toast, salad, and chocolate marshmellow hearts. Maybe I'd overdone the sugar/carbs. NOT the case. Connie reminded me that six hours was plenty of time for my body to process that sugar. Her instructions: test fasting and before and after meals. I eat breakfast within 30 minutes of getting up, so it took out the before breakfast. So, I stuck my finger six times a day for two weeks. My fastings were always elevated, some of my afters were, but all of my befores were LOW. Yesterday, she done an A1C. that's where they test your blood for an average of what your blood glucose has been over the past three months. I'll get those results on Friday.
her other instructions:
64 oz. water daily.
1,075-1,200 calories daily
15-20 minutes walking daily
only test when I feel bad, to cut costs of test strips (which are EXPENSIVE) and to save my poor little fingers.
I have 40 pounds to lose, and we're comfortable in assuming that by losing the weight, it may work itself out on it's own. Even if it doesn't, this weight has to go. It's not healthy. Not for me, my husband or my kids.
So how did I do yesterday on my first day of these instructions? (afterall, it was 9:00 a.m. when Connie gave them to me, so I started yesterday)
Breakfast: Sausage Patty and Diet mnt. Dew. (no wonder, LOL) 267 calories
Lunch: Salad with light western dressing (lettuce, onions only) 1 c. Roasted Chicken and Vegetable Noodle Soup from progresso, Marie Callendar's Manicotti Marinara. 410 calories
Snack: 1/2 c. cottage cheese, 2 TBS strawberry topping 115 Calories
Dinner: 3 oz. cube steak, 1/2 c. scalloped potatoes, 12 asparagus spears 359 calories
Snack: Pepperoni poppers 200 calories (was suppose to share these with brian but he was outside while I was cooking supper and I got distracted)
bedtime snack: 1/2 cup cottage cheese, 2 TBS strawberry topping 115 calories
Total calories: 1, 446. I think I done pretty good considering the bad start and not taking my half out of those poppers first.

I drank all of my water.

I did NOT exercise.

Today will be better. It's a new day, it will be wonderful.
Take care,

~Kana