Pauline, great pictures! How did you decide how much pumpkin to use in the pancakes? (I just posted this question in Paula's log because it says a can of pumpkin, but not how much pumpkin.) And it made six big pancakes ?!?!?!
Edited to add: nevermind, I see it's 425 grams, duh, right ?
Compliance to nutritional program: 100%
Today's meal was a fantastic pick for me. It was easy to prepare and more importantly easy to eat. I had my first check in by phone with Leigh which answered some of my nutritional questions. You do realize how awesome Leigh Peele is, don't you? I'm feeling a little more confident in the whole "make all your meals for the day at one time" approach. The "one gigantic batch" method I've been using for the first 4 days certainly simplifies things, but I may try the "plan different meals/snacks and prepare all at one time" approach out to add some variety.
Compliance to training program: 100%
I went to bed at 8:30 last night and slept until 6! I felt fantastic this morning!! Training is going well. I did deadlifts today for the first time in a while. What is it...stage 4 that has wide grip deadlifts from box? I was happy to find I could still dl 85#!
Looking good Pauline! So what did you have for today's meal? I've been doing the "plan different meals/snacks and prepare at one time" for the first two days, but I'm looking to do more of the "make one gigantic batch" thing. I made chicken w/ salsa in the crockpot last night to have for lunch the next few days, but I don't think I could eat it for breakfast!
Way to go on the sleep... that's DEFINITELY something that I need to work on. The 5-6 hours I'm getting is not enough.
"As far as (healthy) eating, either do it, or don't. Same issues repeated over and over is just insanity. We either commit to the endeavor or pay lip-service to it. This is the hardest part of the whole process, and it needs to be practiced more than the actual physical training. It's mind training." ~ Matt Thorne
"The reason that most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment."
I made a Chicken Spinach Feta with ww pita and fresh tomatoes. You can see my food log on SparkPeople if you like.
I know it's odd to eat "supper" at breakfast. I was thinking about it and my husband and I were kind of broken of the idea of eating certain foods at certain times when we lived in Japan. We often traveled across numerous time zones and had to eat odd things at odd hours depending which airport we were in when. We developed a saying, "well, it's breakfast (or lunch or dinner) somewhere in the world, so why not?" We'd eat yakisoba for breakfast or eggs and bacon for supper or whatever... So now I'm used to it.
Today, I'm eating my regular breakfast cereal with milk and blueberries for breakfast, 6oz sirloin steak, sweet potato, and steamed broccoli, cauliflower, carrot for lunch and having a chocolate protein shake with banana for supper. Kind of like a delayed dessert from the big lunch. All measured out and ready to go, of course!
"As far as (healthy) eating, either do it, or don't. Same issues repeated over and over is just insanity. We either commit to the endeavor or pay lip-service to it. This is the hardest part of the whole process, and it needs to be practiced more than the actual physical training. It's mind training." ~ Matt Thorne
"The reason that most people fail instead of succeed is that they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment."
Compliance to nutritional program: 100%
Today's meal was another good choice. It was a hodge podge day because I was tired of eating the same thing all day long. I had my normal high protein, high fiber breakfast cereal with blueberries and milk, for lunch a 6oz sirloin, plain baked sweet potato, and steamed broccoli, cauliflower and carrots. Supper was a simple chocolate protein shake accompanied by a banana.
Compliance to training program: 100%
As I said, I was feeling tired yesterday. Part of it is from waking up to go to the bathroom - too much water, I guess. It was a very busy day schedule-wise and activity-wise. I took a little nap after supper. Then I went to a late movie with my husband and son. We had to go to the 10:20 showing because my husband sleeps during the afternoon and early evening (third shft schedule).
Today's weight: 106
30 Day Challenge Day 6 (1/5 of the way!) October 22, 2008
Compliance to nutritional program: 100%
Today's meal was a desperation meal. I was so tired when I got up this morning, I just didn't even feel like thinking. Fortunately, I had made a chicken veggie taco recipe up with correct measurements before starting the challenge. It only had 4 ingredients, so I just made it. I only ate a half portion for breakfast because we were running late to a field trip for the girls. When I got home from work in the evening, I decided not to eat the last half portion and subbed the calories for a piece of homemade ww toast, 1 Tbsp peanut butter (which I'm craving for some reason), 20g of banana my grandson didn't eat, an apple and a tiny glass of milk. It all fit within my calorie range and macros, so I'm happy to have an unexpected, unplanned treat.
Compliance to training program: 100%
Tired...yes, TIRED until this evening when I got my second wind! I went to the gym anyway and pushed through my workout. It was a good workout and then I walked on the treadmill for 40 minutes. I'm planning to go to bed early tonight!
Thanks, Jane! I was having a "I don't know if I can do this" moment and your comment really encouraged me!
30 Day Challenge Day 7
October 23, 2008
Compliance to nutritional program: 100%
Today I made the stirfry recipe Leigh posted. Mine was 1250 cal. It was good and I will probably make it again but will switch some veggies. I'm not a big fan of bell peppers. Red, yellow and orange are much better than green, but 300g is a lot of pepper! I almost didn't get my water in, but I managed to make up for the first half of the day in the evening. I have a HUGE wok.
Compliance to training program: 100%
Felt better today. Was glad to have a day off of lifting. I was running around like a crazy person at work. I must've walked 3 miles in the few hours I was there. Whew!
Today's weight: 106
Today is the first day I prepared my food for tomorrow the night before. I'm so glad I did. I'm pretty happy with my tweaked lasagne recipe for several reasons, but I also made a big blunder, too. I'll have to drink a ton of extra water tomorrow to make up for it. First, the picture:
I'm really happy with the quantity. This was the third meal besides the pancakes and chicken spinach feta that I didn't think, "How in the world am I ever going to eat all of that in one day?" It smells absolutely wonderful. I can't wait to eat it tomorrow. Now to my goof up. I didn't even look at the sodium levels when I was making this. Mozzarella, parmesan, and cottage cheese all have a LOT of sodium. I didn't realize how much. On top of that, I usually use Muir Glen low sodium crushed tomatoes but Muir Glen chunky tomato sauce was all I had on hand so I used it without thinking about it. As I was putting the sauce together, I realized I didn't write add salt because I usually put some in my sauce. I added 1/2 tsp. After I was done picture taking, I went to SP and added the salt. I was flabbergasted to see that with 1/2 tsp salt added, I had something like 3,999 mg total! I'm going to eat it anyway since I put all that effort and lots of ingredients into it, but I will be very careful to omit the salt and use low sodium tomatoes in the future AND to drink a lot of water tomorrow! And to take my check in pictures BEFORE I eat.
Pauline you are doing great! I just wanted to stop in and say thanks for sharing your recipes and meal ideas. I haven't done the one big meal yet, but am thinking its a perfect amount of food for DH and I for dinners if I portion it out right - him getting more then half, me getting less then half.
Pauline, don't feel bad about that. I had to do my check-in pics and measuring last night since there was no real other time during the day. Guess that means they might come out all the better next time, right ?
You are doing so well on this challenge--one week down already and it's gone by so fast! You're such a help to everyone else, too. Keep up the good work!
Compliance to nutritional program: 100%
The lasagne was simply fantastic for an all day meal. I didn't have to think about whether I could eat another bite of it all day! I figured out when loading my meal into SP that I didn't make all the noodles in my original calorie plan. That left a lot extra so I added an apple with some peanut butter to use up the calories. A nice pre-workout snack. I drank way over on water today - more than 1 1/2 gallons, so hopefully that will help with the sodium goof. Oh, and I think I've reached some kind of weird water equilibrium. Pretty much what goes in comes out and not too long after. It's different than feeling like you have to pee all the time (tmi). I've definitely noticed that output = input almost exactly. Oh, one other thing on the OBMs. I figured out that I do better if I eat more early in the day and not so much for the evening meal. On most meals, I cut the meal in half and eat 1/4 in the morning, 1/2 at lunch, and then 1/4 in the evening and I do much better. I'm still not hungry.
Compliance to training program: 100%
I woke up rested this morning because I put an extra blanket on my side of the bed so I was warm enough. I've been wondering why I've been so restless at night. I think with the weather dipping the house is just colder. I had an incredibly busy day and then went to see Romeo and Juliet at my cousin's college. He was Lord Capulet. Anyway, I was behind on my exercise a little and actually finished flexibility stuff at 12:11 AM, but I'm still counting today as 100% compliant because I did it before I went to bed. I know I shouldn't stay up late because I have been feeling more fatigued lately. I can't tell if it's because of the deficit or because psychologically I think I'm going to feel fatigued! I know, I am absolutely crazy. I push myself through the tiredness and give it my all anyway.
You are doing fantastic! I'm really enjoying your pictures of your food. It seems like the 30 day challenge is awesome because the deadline and short time period makes you realize you have to stay on track every single day.
Keep up the good work! Oh, on the water - I'm exactly the same. I try to drink 1 1/2 gallons because I think that's where I look and feel my best. But I'm up every hour all night a lot!
You are doing fantastic! I'm really enjoying your pictures of your food. It seems like the 30 day challenge is awesome because the deadline and short time period makes you realize you have to stay on track every single day.
Keep up the good work! Oh, on the water - I'm exactly the same. I try to drink 1 1/2 gallons because I think that's where I look and feel my best. But I'm up every hour all night a lot!
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Look at you go, Pauline!!!! Tremendous!
Thanks, Leah and Jane! I was really happy to weigh in at only 106 this morning. I had way too much sodium yesterday.
I'm pretty excited about how today's meal choice turned out. It's a Chicken/Prosciutto Turnover in wine sauce with steamed snap peas, brown rice, and fresh grape tomatoes. I even have a banana for "dessert"!
Here's a picture of my lunch. It's a little larger portion than the other two meals because that's what works best for me.
I had a cooking creativity streak today. 2 new recipes! Tonight, I took my 2 girls and my grandson to our neighborhood Halloween fundraiser for the swim team. The kids had a ball. I brought my banana (planned for dessert today) in case all the food and candy was too tempting. Didn't have time to eat it, so when I got home I decided to make a cup of Celestial Seasonings English Toffee tea because it was cold toward the end of the evening and eat the banana with the hot tea for dessert. Then I had a brainstorm. What if I sauteed banana slices in a little bit of the English Toffee tea and made a hot dessert? I started with only a few slices because if it looked yucky, I didn't want to waste my banana. It turned out great! Here is my new creation:
English Toffee Banana Compote
100g of banana at 92 calories! The herbal tea adds 0 calories.
Hi! Just stopped by to say that all of your food pictures look so delicious. I am hoping to make the pumpkin pancakes tonight.
Keep up the great work on the challenge! (I'm slowly building up the push-ups also! Especially since my version of a chin-up is still a hang/lower thing. lol And the pistol makes my version of a single-leg DL a joke. haha)
Pauline, that sounds great! I love the idea of the water balance! I've been close before, but I've slacked on water lately. I'll get better about it, though.
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Compliance to nutritional program: 100%
I was close on my water yesterday after sloshing around with over 1 1/2 gallons the day before!
Compliance to training program: 100%
I've simply got to do my stretching exercises earlier. I was doing them at 10 again last night. Good thing was I listened to a podcast at the same time so at least it was interesting.
Pushups: Finally did 10 at one time today! Last one was a little shaky, but I did it.
Today's weight: 106 (very happy with that after such a high sodium day yesterday!)
The meals look really good, and seeing you do it makes me think I could do this big meal thing. I might find it a little odd at breakfast, but it looks like so much food. Still not sure, but you're definitely inspiring me!
Thanks, Jes! It's getting easier as I gather meals and recipes to use over again.
The Chicken Pepperoni Calzones I made today turned out so well. I was surprised at how good this meal was even with the humongus salad. Here it is in case you aren't following the FLTS challegne thread:
Oh, last night I made an English Toffee Apple Compote just like the banana one. It was a nice hot "dessert" for a cold evening.
Now I have to figure out what I'll make tomorrow...
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I'm feeling a little more confident in the whole "make all your meals for the day at one time" approach. The "one gigantic batch" method I've been using for the first 4 days certainly simplifies things, but I may try the "plan different meals/snacks and prepare all at one time" approach out to add some variety.
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