Weigh to Wellness.

I have been sick for a couple of days.  I thought my head was going to explode but I survived it.

I am participating in a Weight Management program offered by my Health Insurance.  So far so good.

Wednesday mornings @10:00 is my weigh day (self-imposed)

I have to fill out a food and activity tracker every day.  I journal my food intake. 

Calories 1800  Fat Grams 60 per day. 10 minutes of activity for 5 days first 2 weeks.

October 20 calories 1560  fat grams 18  no activity to track.

October 21, calories 1769  fat grams 37.5  no activity to track.

October 22, calories 1127 fat grams 50 no activity to track.

I think the calories are low because I still am having sinus problems and I really cannot smell food that well and I feel like something is in my throat but that is acid reflux bothering me again. 

I must start with the activity soon. 

This weekend will be a challenge  going to watch the Steelers fight the vikings and I am sure food will be involved.

 

Keep moving!

Add comment October 23, 2009 flowerschi
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non exercise day

Today it was important to eat right. 

Breakfast was 1 slice of quiche

1 brownie

hot tea plain — the brownie was the sugar

lunch 2 slices of chees pizza

water to drink

snack 3 peppermint hard candy

I am proud of no pop at this point

dinner

subway spicy italian hoage 1/2

potato chips bbq 1 oz

1 16 oz coke

Total calories calulated by fitday 1,754 

Total grams of fat 81.2

Total carbs 214.3

Total prot 47.7

not to bad for a first day.  Will be taking pain meds tonight for the exercises in the morning.

Tomorrow day one WII Active.

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Numbers only nothing more.

From now on I only have this blog.  This blog will just have posting of numbers only.  Sometime a receipe or two.

The numbers will be the exercises that i did that day example:

walking, moderate speed  40 minutes

situps   45

wii active day 1 or what ever day.

I guess I will include  my food journal as well.   I am better at writing a journal with entries every day but for whatever reason I don’t do well with blogs.  I said I was going to do this before but now its done.

I will start this tomorrow because I just decided this today.

The numbers for today are :

current weight 291.   current goal 286 in 2 weeks.

Add comment October 9, 2009 flowerschi

www.fitday.com

I recently started using Fitday to journal everything I was eating.  This  has help me to be more aware of what I am eating.  The same was true of weight watchers I did better keeping the journal than when I did not.

Once i see what I am eating regularly it helps me to make better choices .

I am down 1.6 lbs and have a goal of 2. lbs per week.  So far so good.

Add comment September 24, 2009 flowerschi

Dinner time was family time.

I misplaced my Journal.  This will be found shortly.  My hubby was looking at it so I am sure he put it away somewhere.

Growing up Dinnertime was family time, my mother made sure of that.  When she was home full time she made all our meals. 

Breakfast  was some cereal (hot in winter, cold in summer) with sausage, ham or bacon.  Lunch was sandwiches; usually apple butter and peanut butter.  I did not like peanut butter and jelly.  And dinner was always grand. 

When she called us for dinner we came in, cleaned up, changed our clothes for dinner.  Nothing fancy, our clothes had to be clean not full of dirt from playing outside. After dinner we could put our play clothes back on and go back and play.

At dinner each of us had to turn to tell about our day and how we were feeling.  Mom and dad, at that time knew what was going on with us. 

In time she went to work parttime and then full time.  We were often left to find breakfast and lunch for ourselves.  Since I was the oldest I was to make these meals.  Sometime I would, most time I would not.  The youngest two would just go to dad and he would give them something. 

Dinner I loved to cook. I would use receipes from different magazines in the hopes that I could make it grand like my mother. 

We would sit at the dinner table and have conversation just as if Mom had cooked the food.  Of course if my sisters did not like what I made they complained.

Eventually we grew up, got jobs and Dinnertime remained family time.  Whoever was home had to fix dinner.  One time my mother decided that she would cook the night before.  She fried chicken and had it in the refrigeration with a note on it that said. ” Chicken, don’t eat Joe.”  She meant for my dad not to eat the chicken.  When she came home and saw the dinner was not on the table she looked in the kitchen for the chicken and saw the note on the empty plate. 

She looked at my dad who smile and said ” I showed that chicken.  I ate it.”  then he laughed.  She was so mad.  We went to Mcdonald for dinner without dad.

The next day dad cooked dinner and it was grand.  We sat and laughed, talked as usual.

Since my hubby works at night I usually eat dinner alone. No conversation no laughter just me and the TV.  Sometimes I would wait for him to get up for work and eat dinner with him at that time.  But that really made my reflux flare up.  So I eat dinner alone except on Monday Night.  He is off from work and we can have dinner and family time then.  

I usually do my best to make it grand and we do laugh and talk and enjoy our family time.

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Weight loss Journery to restore the flower energy

I FINALLY HAVE A NEW COMPOSITION BOOK AND I WILL USE TO RECORD MY WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY.

It has a beautifully butterfly on the cover so I guess this will be me changing into a butterfly.

Weight loss has been a goal of mine and usually I put a lot of pressure on myself and when I see some minor improvement I sabotage myself by going back to bad habits. I have been flip flopping on my food choices so I think it my weight loss journey recorded in the book will enable me to see bad choices and make the necessary changes.

Monday August, 10, 2009

7:30 am Cheerios with fresh blueberries and 2% milk. I used one cup of milk which means I can refill the bowl because there is milk left in the bowl so I guess I will have to change that to ½ cup of milk. Need better portion control here.

10:00 am Sweet Mesquite Barbecue Reduced fat Pringles. 6 of them is a serving but I know there was more than that left in the can. French vanilla Cappuccino coffee. Next time I will just have the coffee.

1:00 pm 1 slice cheese pizza, small fruit salad, small broccoli and cauliflower salad (drown in creamy Italian dressing) it was already prepared by the caf so I could not change this however if ever I make it at home much less dressing. Also need to eat broccoli much more to prevent the gas that I can get with fresh veggies. 

 Work for the rest of the day was pretty uneventful. The clinic was finish much too early of course had I know this I could have come in early and then left early. GREIF! 

 At 4:00 pm I got another coffee. After 2 hours I was able to leave to go home. SIGH!

My hubby, whom I was not speaking, was late in picking me up from work and then to make up for last night and being late today took me to eat at Red Lobster! I love Red Lobster but that should be an apology.

Grilled Shrimp Jambalaya! So good! so not diet! so not caring!

 I will not snack tonight because this is enough for the whole night.

I did drink 5 bottles of water so I am well hydrated This was not a successful eating day tomorrow will be better.

I will endeavor to make the posting tomorrow more entertaining. 

Keep moving!

Add comment August 11, 2009 flowerschi
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FAILURE

I woke up in the morning and felt sick.  I think my acid reflux came back full force.  It felt like I was having a heart attack.  But I think I know the difference.

There is the feeling of thickness in my throat.  It does not go away regardless of how much water I drink.  The tightness and slight burning in the chest and my stomach feels full.  So i did not exercise at all.  I tried to eat breakfast but I felt like I was gong to vomit so by  the time I left for work food was not on my mind.

I got to work to find that I had left my purse at home.  I had also left my lunch at home which was sitting by my purse.  GREAT!  I had no lunch and I had no money.

By lunchtime I was hungry and all other symptoms were gone.  Thanks for friends.  WC brought lunch meat and with the purchase of some buns and fries we shared her meat and both had lunch.

Now its 5:30 and I feel the same way I did this morning.  Which proof that i was right.  So when I get home I will be taking the little purple pill.  Hopefully tomorrow morning will be the better day.

Add comment August 6, 2009 flowerschi
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Back to working out!

I have a thousand reasons excuses for not working out.  None of them are valid.  So I won’t even waste your or mine time telling you about them.

I am creating a new goal list.  I will not list them all just one until I achieve that goal and next time I will add a new goal until I achieve that goal.  However my overall goal is to get back the energy and IMG_0288 of health that I had when I was younger.

I am 47 years of age so I am not trying to feel like I am 17 or 27 not even 37.   I want to feel healthy, I want to be able to run a mile and not feel like my heart is going to explode.  I want to be able to walk up the steps carrying bags of groceries and not feel like I cannot breathe.

I have join a Step study.  My first appointment is August 26th at 6:30 in the morning for 2 hours of testing.   This is the only time the change in my work schedule comes in handy.

This is the first study that I have been able to participate but then the requirements are a BMI of 30 or greater and that’s me.  I am looking forward to receiving all the information about it and what it will teach me about my struggle to lose weight by any means necessary, except bariatric surgery!

My goal is to complete one week of the 30 day workout on the Wii game Active!  I start tomorrow.  I know that is Wednesday and usually Isay I will start Monday!  I need to start now and for this goal one week is 7 days.  Wednesday day one  Tuesday day seven.

I have a new journal book to chart my food intake and to write my feeling for the day.  At the end of the day I will post all information in the journal.

Keep reading it helps to know that someone cares enough to watch this whole process. 

Thanks and keep on Moving.

Add comment August 5, 2009 flowerschi
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Back to working out

 I was in  car accident on 7/8 and now the stiffness in my neck is much less of a problem for me.  So tomorrow morning i am back to working out.   I guess I will have to reset my 30 day workout and start again. 

You are right Betty I will be doing this for me.  I have to be fit so I can run and play with Nieces and Nephews!

TIME TO MOVE IT MOVE IT

3 comments July 15, 2009 flowerschi

Day 4 of 30 day workout

This morning on the way to work I had an accident.  The accident was my fault there is no doubt about that but I felt terrible about and I am still replaying it in my mind.

I did my workout day.  A total of 16 exercises!  I hate the walk/run (long) warm up.  I don’t have a good reason I just do.

The rest of the workout was very good.  Mostly upper body and after the workout I felt better having worked off some of the frustration from the car accident.

Breakfast was and egg mcmuffin sandwich but  I never got to eat that.  I don’t really know what happen to the sandwich.  My tea was still in the cup holder not a drop of  it spilt.  So for breakfast I had tea.

Lunch was after 2:00 when we left the er.  1 hot dog with mustard and relish and 1/2 of small fries and small drink.  Dinner was Chicken chow mein.

Tomorrow I really should cook!

Keep moving!

1 comment July 9, 2009 flowerschi

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