Does this log make my ass look fat?

[LisaS]

all of reality outside the weight room disappearing into nothingness ...

[kfisherx]

Nice log so far. Welcome to the challenge and the forum. I wish you great sucess. Stay far away from Burger King though.

[dillytl]

Nice reading combo!!

[fengshway]

welcome nutbar! you are going to kick ass on this challenge!

[nutbar]

Today's my rest day from workouts and from schooling (I homeschool my kids on a Monday through Thursday schedule) so I've been ignoring the housework and looking over my eating.

I'm a creature of habit, doing the same thing over and over for most everything but dinner, when I'm on the wagon. Here's what I have (on my current wagon):

Breakfast (160 cals, 2g fat, 42g carbs, 13g fiber, 5g protein):

Fiber One Honey Clusters, 1 cup (160 cals, 1.5g fat, 42g carbs, 13g fiber, 5g protein)

Lunch (326 cals, 16g fat, 38g carbs, 11g fiber, 13g protein):

Field Greens salad, 8 cups (51.2 cals, 0g fat, 12.8g carbs, 6.4g fiber, 3.2g protein)
Mushrooms, 1 can (31.55 cals, 0.381g fat, 6.52g carbs, 3.16g fiber, 2.46g protein)
Black Olives, ¼ cup (35.37 cals, 3.22g fat, 2.05g carbs, 1.01g fiber, 0.297g protein)
Fat-free Mozzarella Cheese, 2 cubic inches (47.95 cals, 0.259g fat, 4.34g carbs, 0g fiber, 7.29g protein)
Dressing, 8 tablespoons (160 cals, 12g fat, 12g carbs, 0g fiber, 0g protein)

Pre-workout Snack on Tues, Thurs, Sat (371 cals, 37g fat, 8g carbs, 4g fiber, 9g protein):

Walnuts, 2 ounces (370.82 cals, 36.97g fat, 7.77g carbs, 3.8g fiber, 8.64g protein)

Snack (572 cals, 5g fat, 78g carbs, 8g fiber, 59g protein):

Fat-free plain yogurt, 1 cup (136.64 cals, 0.441g fat, 18.82g carbs, 0g fiber, 14.04g protein)
Banana, 1 cup (138 cals, 0.72g fat, 35.15g carbs, 3.6g fiber, 1.54g protein)
Frozen Strawberries, 1 cup (77.35 cals, 0.243g fat, 20.18g carbs, 4.64g fiber, 0.95g protein)
GNC unflavored whey, 2 scoops (220 cals, 4g fat, 4g carbs, 0g fiber, 42g protein)

Bedtime snack (164 cals, 2g fat, 6g carbs, 0g fiber, 28g protein):

Lowfat Cottage Cheese, 1 cup (163.62 cals, 2.31g fat, 6.15g carbs, 0g fiber, 28g protein)

Which gives me the following daily totals (non-workout days - workout days), not including dinners which vary:

Cals: 1222 - 1593
Fiber (g): 32 - 36
Carbs (g): 164 - 172
Fat (g): 25 - 62
Protein (g): 105 -114

Which gives me rations of (carbs/fat/protein) 35/36/29 on lifting days and 45/19/36 on easy days.

None of the above includes my dinners, though. Dinner favorites that I repeat most every week are homemade veggie soup with lentils, black bean soup with cottage cheese, and chicken breasts with broccoli & cauliflower.

So there it is. I just wanted to gather all of the data of my usuals and slap it up here to ponder on and refer back to as I tweak things.

[Victoria]

How have I not stopped in here yet?!!!

Hi, Diane! Good stuff in here! Those dreams sound very interesting! Keep up the good work!

[adgey1006]

Stopping by to wish ya the best of luck! Love the blog so far!

[sveta]

Hi- and thanks for stopping by!
Very reasonable meals! If you keep at it, you'll do just fine!

[nutbar]

So last night, I was feeding some more logs in the woodstove when my leather-gloved fingers got pinned under a couple of logs inside the fully fired-up stove. My fingers and lower hand were nicely protected by the gloves but the pinning pulled enough of the glove off of my wrist and the top of my hand to expose it. What do I do as a reflex? Jerk it right against the burning-hot cast iron inside of the stove and hold it there. It takes an hour-long couple of seconds for my genius self to register what exactly is wrong with this picture. Hmm. Maybe I should pull my hand OUT of the stove? Sure, but first let me re-reach in further to get the glove because, while I may heal, the glove won't, and who wants to fork over the money for new gloves? Not me, says my rocket scientist self. By the time I finally get my hand (and glove) out of the fire, I'm smelling pork chops and the back of my wrist/top of my hand, where the skin wrinkles up each time it bends, is now crispified. Yeah, I figure MENSA will be calling, just begging me to join any day now.



Today's workout with toasted, not-very-bendy left wrist:

NROL4W, Stage 1, Workout A, 2 of 8

Warmup: What? The stove wasn't warm enough??

A) Squats: 45# barbell, 2 sets of 15.

B1) Push-ups: 45 degree, 2 sets of 15. Hurt my wrist pretty bad so tried to do one-handed. *snort* That didn't work out as planned. Don't ask. Just know that I got 2 sets of 15 somethings-resembling-45-degree pushups done.

B2) Seated row: 65# (per BowFlex), 2 sets of 15.

C1) Step-ups: 10" step, 45# total dumbbell weight, 2 sets of 15 each leg.

C2) Prone jackknife: Swiss ball, 2 sets of 8. Did a harder version this time and, while it was harder, I still did fine. Wrist was numb by this point. LOL (Did butt-down tuck one for 1st workout. Butt-up tuck for this one.) Might try for the full V one next time.

Still tweaking my eating. I love being able to constantly improve things, tinkering with this and that, until I find something that fits. Let's hope perfection is never reached because I'd be so stinkin' bored then.

[Victoria]

Youch!....good for you for still getting a workout in!

[dillytl]

OUCH - take care of that hand!!!

[LoriAnne]

Every word you have typed (especially the name of this log) just cracks me up. LOVE the quick wit and enjoy reading your recollections described with such flair.
I hope your medium-well hand heals quickly, and way to Woman Up and workout despite the injury! Fierce!!
Thanks for posting on my thread, I do love it when entertaining people pop in unexpectedly, you're welcome back any 'ol time.
I was reading your protein quest and didn't fully scour all of the replies (due to the fact that I'm on my 3rd cup of nitrogen-strength coffee, but I digress. . . .) and have had a hard time finding something palatable myself. I'm not too finicky about sweeteners, what gets up in my crawl are the powders that won't break down even if you were to put them inside a paint shaker! Of course trying to find one that doesn't taste like sweaty ape on a hot day can be a challenge too. To me, the better tasting and easier-to-mix proteins have been soy proteins, but with that comes a loss of protein grams per serving. To hell with powders--keep some elk in the backyard and anytime you need protein, just wander out back and take a bite out of a beefy hip. By the time you spend all the money trying to find the right powder, the elk would probably be a thriftier deal!
Stick with the push-ups--you're doing great! I think push-ups are one of the hardest things to master doing easily. They have been the bane of my existence and only through sheer hell and daily torture have they now become groan-inducing versus me being balled up in the corner sobbing.

[nutbar]

Average eats for the week, 1/7 through 1/13. Not too shabby but I need to knock off a few cals, I think. I'll wait, though, to see how the ol' bod responds through next week before I do too much about it. I'm down 0.6 pounds this week which I consider decent for restarting lifting, knowing I'm going to retain a bit of water plus a case of the oinks whenever I first start up any form of exercise. Thankfully, that part wears off pretty quickly!

LoriAnne, I don't thinnk elk would fare well down here but we do keep hogs and, in a week, goats again, plus chickens in the spring. MUCH easier on the fencing! I wonder what the kids would say if I were to start chomping on live hog butt? Hmmm... Ya know, I'd be tempted to actually do it if I could be sure that the neighbors would be driving by at the right time.

[gregl515]

You have truly named yourself well! Welsome to the board!

[sveta]

Originally Posted by nutbar

Yeah, I figure MENSA will be calling, just begging me to join any day now.

Hope your wrist heals quickly... you're too funny...

[Littlemermaidklb]

Thanks for checking out my log :-) I read through yours and have to agree with the others... you're hysterical! Gotta love those with a knack for humor, love it!
Hope your hand feels better!
~K

[ToniL]

hey chica, what is 'generic oinkage' ?? haaaa haaaa checked out your fitday and cracked up.

How do you get your foodies posted so nicely from there? Mine gets all garbled up.

Toni