Yup, the counter is correct. 481. That's 8 pounds in 10 days. None too shabby!
I ran an errand first thing this morning, so I only had time for a bar. When I got back I checked my blood sugar: 115. Not shabby either - "controlled" is a good word!
So, I did some chores, then got on the treadmill. Did that for about 45 minutes - burned about 400 calories. Before my shower, I checked my sugga again for a giggle - 90! Control is good!
I've been good with food and everything.
I'm hoping to see 475 next week, but that's a lot to ask. Two weeks is good enough.
I'm so glad this is working. I want to see 400 by the end of the year!!!
Monday, May 25, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Subway? D'oh!
I'm double worried. Since I have lost my job, it seems to be taking forever for my insurance paper-work to get processed. I'm running low on my meds, running out more precisely.
However, since I've been pretty strict on my low carb, I've started having more moments of dizziness and light-headedness. Nothing severe, just know my sugga is low. I think my meds might be a tad too high. Once all of this insurance mess gets sorted and I've taken my weight down a little more, I'm going to see the doc, see what she thinks about lowering my meds.
Of course, to counteract this - I cheated. Didn't want to, ran out of options. I'm helping my friends by going to their place and letting their dog out. I was running late for letting the poor thing out, but wanted to get food so I didn't pass out! On the way to their place is a PCC. These stores are exactly where the hippies meet the yuppies - over priced, pretentious "natural" foods. Silly. But, I thought I'd have a better time there finding food on my diet than at the pizza place in the same strip mall.
No dice! Everything was bread or pasta. Their desserts were certainly tempting. The cold beverage isle was either water (I don't pay for water!) or bottled drinks so loaded with sugar as to be laughable. Not a normal diet drink to be found.
Gave up on them, running out of time on the poor dog's bladder, I went to Subway, got a double meat Club on wheat. First, that's a freakin' expensive sandwich, I never really paid attention before. The way I'm currently eating, I could have eaten for two days for the price of that sandwich. Second, could they put out a few more chips and cookies? Could they torture we carb cheaters just a bit more, huh?
I wanted the chips but passed. I oh so REALLY wanted the cookies. I don't know how I got out of there without them.
So, phooey on PCC and Subway and the Teriyaki place that was closed on Sunday - I could have made an easy choice there! The whole world is out to make me fat! Well, fatter!
However, since I've been pretty strict on my low carb, I've started having more moments of dizziness and light-headedness. Nothing severe, just know my sugga is low. I think my meds might be a tad too high. Once all of this insurance mess gets sorted and I've taken my weight down a little more, I'm going to see the doc, see what she thinks about lowering my meds.
Of course, to counteract this - I cheated. Didn't want to, ran out of options. I'm helping my friends by going to their place and letting their dog out. I was running late for letting the poor thing out, but wanted to get food so I didn't pass out! On the way to their place is a PCC. These stores are exactly where the hippies meet the yuppies - over priced, pretentious "natural" foods. Silly. But, I thought I'd have a better time there finding food on my diet than at the pizza place in the same strip mall.
No dice! Everything was bread or pasta. Their desserts were certainly tempting. The cold beverage isle was either water (I don't pay for water!) or bottled drinks so loaded with sugar as to be laughable. Not a normal diet drink to be found.
Gave up on them, running out of time on the poor dog's bladder, I went to Subway, got a double meat Club on wheat. First, that's a freakin' expensive sandwich, I never really paid attention before. The way I'm currently eating, I could have eaten for two days for the price of that sandwich. Second, could they put out a few more chips and cookies? Could they torture we carb cheaters just a bit more, huh?
I wanted the chips but passed. I oh so REALLY wanted the cookies. I don't know how I got out of there without them.
So, phooey on PCC and Subway and the Teriyaki place that was closed on Sunday - I could have made an easy choice there! The whole world is out to make me fat! Well, fatter!
Saturday, May 23, 2009
It's Saturday? Really?
Just another day in The Land of the Lost for me!
Hung out with a friend last night, we saw "Angels & Demons" - very close to the book, BTW - and the book was good so good have fun! I only had a Coke Zero - and a tiny bladder. I think there is something about dieting that shrinks up my stomach capacity and my bladder capacity as well. I almost never have to RUN to the bathroom in the middle of a movie. I sure did last night. Dinner was at a Thai place in the mall - I had steak and steamed veggies. The steak was incredible! It was marinated and very flavorful, plus the lime-chili-soy sauce that came with it just boosted the flavor party. In case I'm not being clear, it was really good!
Breakfast was more like lunch today - left over chicken that I baked the other day. Dinner is pictured; pan-seared petite sirloins over spiced stir-fried peppers, mushrooms and onions. Pretty darned tasty! I bought a pack of these petite sirloins the other day. For six, it was $10. Didn't seem like a bad price to me. I knew I'd make one meal and freeze the rest. I figured I'd get at least 3 meals out of the pack - $3 for a steak dinner sounds like a value to me.
Only one problem - my portion control issues. Well, my shrinking stomach stepped in and reminded me. I got through about one and a third of the steaks in the picture and only half of the veggies - that's a whole bell pepper and not a small one! Plus a whole onion, a large portion of mushrooms and four cloves of garlic! (Yum!) Anyway, the rest of the plate above is in the fridge for lunch tomorrow and I'll get another four meals out of that pack of steaks - making six $1.50 steak dinners! I feel so frugal!
I'm getting antsy about weighing in on Monday. Not nervous - I just want to have lost some weight! Over all I'm aiming at 200. I want to see 400 by the end of the year. But, I'd love to get to 475 soon - that's where I started when I began Adkins four years ago. Hitting 475 will make me feel like I'm really on track. But, immediately, hitting 485 will feel pretty good - that will be the lowest I've weighed this year. I hope to get there this week or next!
Hung out with a friend last night, we saw "Angels & Demons" - very close to the book, BTW - and the book was good so good have fun! I only had a Coke Zero - and a tiny bladder. I think there is something about dieting that shrinks up my stomach capacity and my bladder capacity as well. I almost never have to RUN to the bathroom in the middle of a movie. I sure did last night. Dinner was at a Thai place in the mall - I had steak and steamed veggies. The steak was incredible! It was marinated and very flavorful, plus the lime-chili-soy sauce that came with it just boosted the flavor party. In case I'm not being clear, it was really good!
Breakfast was more like lunch today - left over chicken that I baked the other day. Dinner is pictured; pan-seared petite sirloins over spiced stir-fried peppers, mushrooms and onions. Pretty darned tasty! I bought a pack of these petite sirloins the other day. For six, it was $10. Didn't seem like a bad price to me. I knew I'd make one meal and freeze the rest. I figured I'd get at least 3 meals out of the pack - $3 for a steak dinner sounds like a value to me. Only one problem - my portion control issues. Well, my shrinking stomach stepped in and reminded me. I got through about one and a third of the steaks in the picture and only half of the veggies - that's a whole bell pepper and not a small one! Plus a whole onion, a large portion of mushrooms and four cloves of garlic! (Yum!) Anyway, the rest of the plate above is in the fridge for lunch tomorrow and I'll get another four meals out of that pack of steaks - making six $1.50 steak dinners! I feel so frugal!
I'm getting antsy about weighing in on Monday. Not nervous - I just want to have lost some weight! Over all I'm aiming at 200. I want to see 400 by the end of the year. But, I'd love to get to 475 soon - that's where I started when I began Adkins four years ago. Hitting 475 will make me feel like I'm really on track. But, immediately, hitting 485 will feel pretty good - that will be the lowest I've weighed this year. I hope to get there this week or next!
Friday, May 22, 2009
Bring on the weekend ...
... and why not? It's not like it matters to me. Being unemployed, the weekend is just like any other day. The major difference is that all of a sudden your friends are very willing to do activities. Hmmm! :)
I'm still being good. Looking forward to getting on the scale on Monday - how weird is that?
I baked up a ton of chicken yesterday - so that served as yesterday's breakfast. And I have about three or four meals of left overs - total cost was about $7. Dinner was steak and salad (I apologize for the poor pic quality - took it with my cell phone. I was bragging to a friend!) I found a T-Bone in the Reduced for Quick Sale section of the grocery store's meat department. The steak was thick and quite the value. I have a cast iron grill pan - I used that to cook the steak in the oven - thank you Alton Brown! I thought I had ruined it, turned out it was nearly perfect. I used VERY little of that A1! Didn't need it. Sure, a real grill would probably have given me better results, but the pan did an amazing job! Not a bad meal for cheap(er) meat!
Breakfast this morning was fresh fruit. (Those black bowls of mine do get around, don't they?) A friend of mine over the weekend expressed her fears that I wasn't getting enough fresh fruit. As a low carb person and as a person watching his sugga and sugar intake, fresh fruit is often a no-no. However, I've been eating a lot of canned fruit recently as a replacement for candy and other sweets. So, going to fresh fruit didn't seem like such a jump. Besides, the fresh fruit with soy milk I had for "dinner" the other night was really good! The weight seems to be coming off, maybe a little fruit isn't so bad? We'll see. One of these days I need to check my blood sugar! Haven't checked in in more than a month.
But, let's think about what I actually ate here. I have:
2 Bananas
1 Pear
1 Cup Grapes
1 Cup Soy Milk
Ton of Splenda (Darn my sweet tooth!)
All told it's about 550 calories, give or take. It's also about 65 to 70 grams of sugar. So, yeah, it's a lot of sugar, but it was a lot of fruit and a good deal of protein. It's been three or so hours since breakfast and I'm still full. As per always, I need to watch my portion control, I could have had just one banana, and been 110 calories lighter and 15 carbs less. I'll probably have a decent dinner with a friend tonight and still come in well under the 2000 calorie mark.
Hopefully, the fruit was a good trade off. The scale on Monday will tell the tale. I'll let you all know!
I'm still being good. Looking forward to getting on the scale on Monday - how weird is that?
I baked up a ton of chicken yesterday - so that served as yesterday's breakfast. And I have about three or four meals of left overs - total cost was about $7. Dinner was steak and salad (I apologize for the poor pic quality - took it with my cell phone. I was bragging to a friend!) I found a T-Bone in the Reduced for Quick Sale section of the grocery store's meat department. The steak was thick and quite the value. I have a cast iron grill pan - I used that to cook the steak in the oven - thank you Alton Brown! I thought I had ruined it, turned out it was nearly perfect. I used VERY little of that A1! Didn't need it. Sure, a real grill would probably have given me better results, but the pan did an amazing job! Not a bad meal for cheap(er) meat!
Breakfast this morning was fresh fruit. (Those black bowls of mine do get around, don't they?) A friend of mine over the weekend expressed her fears that I wasn't getting enough fresh fruit. As a low carb person and as a person watching his sugga and sugar intake, fresh fruit is often a no-no. However, I've been eating a lot of canned fruit recently as a replacement for candy and other sweets. So, going to fresh fruit didn't seem like such a jump. Besides, the fresh fruit with soy milk I had for "dinner" the other night was really good! The weight seems to be coming off, maybe a little fruit isn't so bad? We'll see. One of these days I need to check my blood sugar! Haven't checked in in more than a month.
But, let's think about what I actually ate here. I have:
2 Bananas
1 Pear
1 Cup Grapes
1 Cup Soy Milk
Ton of Splenda (Darn my sweet tooth!)
All told it's about 550 calories, give or take. It's also about 65 to 70 grams of sugar. So, yeah, it's a lot of sugar, but it was a lot of fruit and a good deal of protein. It's been three or so hours since breakfast and I'm still full. As per always, I need to watch my portion control, I could have had just one banana, and been 110 calories lighter and 15 carbs less. I'll probably have a decent dinner with a friend tonight and still come in well under the 2000 calorie mark.
Hopefully, the fruit was a good trade off. The scale on Monday will tell the tale. I'll let you all know!
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
No treadmill yet.
I hurt my ankle on Monday. So, I'm taking extra ibuprofen in the hopes that I will get my ass on the treadmill next week. The ankle is better, but I'm cautious. Limping into a job interview - if I ever get one - doesn't look too good for the fat guy.
The diet is still fully on. Filled the fridge yesterday with all kinds of goodies. Chicken and little steaks and salad and sugar free Jell-o for snacking, etc. I bought fresh bananas and pears and grapes. Looooooow carb!
Today was bacon and eggs for breakfast. Lunch was left over roast chicken. Dinner ended up being two bananas, sliced, with the end of last week's grapes, Splenda and soy milk. I had Jell-o pudding for a snack. Being unemployed means having no structure and meals are starting to get fuzzy for me. I've been going to bed late, which means getting up late, so by the time I check my email and goof around, "breakfast" is actually closer to eleven or noon. Everything just migrates from there.
Did something last night I haven't done in years: played D&D with friends on a school night! It was pretty fun, except for one little issue. The DM used candy to represent the monsters on the board. So, when you killed a monster, he offered the candy to you! I think next time I'll bring some sugar-free stuff so I don't sit there and drool over the Rolos and Gummi Bears! Don't even get me going about the ice cream everyone ate after they finished their pasta! Oy!
The diet is still fully on. Filled the fridge yesterday with all kinds of goodies. Chicken and little steaks and salad and sugar free Jell-o for snacking, etc. I bought fresh bananas and pears and grapes. Looooooow carb!
Today was bacon and eggs for breakfast. Lunch was left over roast chicken. Dinner ended up being two bananas, sliced, with the end of last week's grapes, Splenda and soy milk. I had Jell-o pudding for a snack. Being unemployed means having no structure and meals are starting to get fuzzy for me. I've been going to bed late, which means getting up late, so by the time I check my email and goof around, "breakfast" is actually closer to eleven or noon. Everything just migrates from there.
Did something last night I haven't done in years: played D&D with friends on a school night! It was pretty fun, except for one little issue. The DM used candy to represent the monsters on the board. So, when you killed a monster, he offered the candy to you! I think next time I'll bring some sugar-free stuff so I don't sit there and drool over the Rolos and Gummi Bears! Don't even get me going about the ice cream everyone ate after they finished their pasta! Oy!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
I left my diet around here somewhere ...
I'm in the new apartment. My soon to be ex-wife is in her new place. My job is gone, lost that a month ago now. My life has certainly taken a turn.
I'm hoping to find a new job fairly quick, but I know with the market and my (rusted) skill set, that won't happen soon. I have a shot at a job in California, I'm just not looking forward to moving to Cali.
So, I'm watching every penny. Since I'm watching my money so close, I might as well watch what I'm eating, too, right? For about the last three weeks I have been mostly on my low carb diet. Yeah, I cheated, but it's been way more on days than off.
This past weekend, I knew I would be hanging out with friends, going to the movies, etc. - I fully intended on cheating to high heaven. It's depressing being broke and out of work, I deserved a little comfort food, right? So, Friday night I'm chatting with a certain other blogger that shall remain nameless. As we are chatting, I get curious and go plug in my scale. I weigh 489 - not bad for a guy that wasn't trying too hard, not exercising and cheating like a bandit. Where could I be if I actually tried?
Dammit! There goes all my fun for the weekend! :)
I did have one seriously carb heavy cheat meal, but I was good the rest of the weekend and I have been good since. I'm especially proud of the movie excursion. I brought peanuts and cashews from the drug store (why don't they sell nuts at the movies?) and I got a Coke Zero at the theater. A little high in salt, but on my diet.
Right now I'm writing out my grocery list. I've been a dumb boy and left myself with no food in the house and now I have to go to the store hungry - mistake! However, if I stick to my list, I'll be fine. I will most likely be coming home with a roast chicken, though!
Oh! That reminds me. For you low carbers out there, I love the new "grilled" chicken at KFC. It's pricey, but for fast food it's pretty good stuff. It's an answer to the drive-thru dilemma.
I'm hoping to find a new job fairly quick, but I know with the market and my (rusted) skill set, that won't happen soon. I have a shot at a job in California, I'm just not looking forward to moving to Cali.
So, I'm watching every penny. Since I'm watching my money so close, I might as well watch what I'm eating, too, right? For about the last three weeks I have been mostly on my low carb diet. Yeah, I cheated, but it's been way more on days than off.
This past weekend, I knew I would be hanging out with friends, going to the movies, etc. - I fully intended on cheating to high heaven. It's depressing being broke and out of work, I deserved a little comfort food, right? So, Friday night I'm chatting with a certain other blogger that shall remain nameless. As we are chatting, I get curious and go plug in my scale. I weigh 489 - not bad for a guy that wasn't trying too hard, not exercising and cheating like a bandit. Where could I be if I actually tried?
Dammit! There goes all my fun for the weekend! :)
I did have one seriously carb heavy cheat meal, but I was good the rest of the weekend and I have been good since. I'm especially proud of the movie excursion. I brought peanuts and cashews from the drug store (why don't they sell nuts at the movies?) and I got a Coke Zero at the theater. A little high in salt, but on my diet.
Right now I'm writing out my grocery list. I've been a dumb boy and left myself with no food in the house and now I have to go to the store hungry - mistake! However, if I stick to my list, I'll be fine. I will most likely be coming home with a roast chicken, though!
Oh! That reminds me. For you low carbers out there, I love the new "grilled" chicken at KFC. It's pricey, but for fast food it's pretty good stuff. It's an answer to the drive-thru dilemma.
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