Hm, that is a bit pricey. Though not unlike some of Dogfish Head's I suppose. We spent $8 on a 12oz bottle of one of theirs a couple of years ago.... 120 minute IPA I think. Not something I'd do often though.
Anyway... Operation Gluttony is officially over. I'm going to work on 100% compliance this week (or at least for a few days), just to make myself feel better... I feel rather gross today, after eating pretty poorly for a week. It sure was decadent though!
Croissants or crepes for breakfast, beer and pizza for lunch, beer and mussels for dinner!
And can I just say, it felt good to just eat. I ate until I felt full. Not just satisfied or to my caloric guidelines, but I Ate with a capital A. I love that feeling and I know that not having that feeling is a large part of my struggle with trying to lose weight – I really like feeling full (not to discomfort). I don’t know if it’s a rush of dopamine or what, but it just FEELS good. I missed that. A lot.
I'm not even going to bother stepping on the scale for at least a week, to let my body kind of 'reset'.
I'm taking myself off the beer for a while. I drank a LOT last week (averaged about 3 a day I think) and REALLY enjoyed it as much as I could. I remembered how much I love, love, love rich, flavorful beer. If I could find a calorie-free, alcohol-free beer that tasted like a Brutal Bitter or La Fin du Monde, I'd buy it by the case.
John read Lyle MacDonald's Guide to Flexible Dieting which I hope to read here in the next week or 2. John's in Lyle's stage 1 and i believe I'm in stage 2; I won't know more about it till I do some reading, though. We'll still be doing PN for our meals, we'll just be doing a few refeeding periods here & there according to Lyle's book. I'm going to try to get down to 140 by my birthday (~2 months) and it's going to take some hard work. I can't half-ass 5-6 pounds of fat loss in 2 months. I know I can do it, I just need to work a bit harder at the fat loss than I have been lately.
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I'm taking myself off the beer for a while. I drank a LOT last week (averaged about 3 a day I think) and REALLY enjoyed it as much as I could. I remembered how much I love, love, love rich, flavorful beer. If I could find a calorie-free, alcohol-free beer that tasted like a Brutal Bitter or La Fin du Monde, I'd buy it by the case.
Good luck with that... the more reasonable alternative would be to enjoy one or two beers a week, and really savor them.
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No "happy hours" makes for a lot of miserable days. - Mahler
Good luck with that... the more reasonable alternative would be to enjoy one or two beers a week, and really savor them.
yeah, I know... everything in moderation right? My problem is managing "moderation creep"... one a week turns into two a week turns into three a week etc... I just need to manage that well and I'll be ok. This week at least, though, no booze. I did enough damage last week.
Yesterday's workout - 30 minutes of cycling; after 2 mins warmup, the rest was on level 6 at a moderate pace.
I've been reading several things in people's training logs that they've cut out intervals and cardio to manage their appetites. I'm considering doing that but I don't know... I keep going back & forth. I hate being hungry all the time, but when I cut out cardio/intervals before, my fat loss didn't progress as much as it does with it in. But perhaps that was coincidental because i also started PN (and ended TNT) at the same time I started up the cardio/intervals again.
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My problem is managing "moderation creep"... one a week turns into two a week turns into three a week etc... I just need to manage that well and I'll be ok.
I hear ya' on that! That's why I'm trying to lose weight when I was supposed to be in a permanent state of maintenance! Damn creeping moderation!
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I've been reading several things in people's training logs that they've cut out intervals and cardio to manage their appetites. I'm considering doing that but I don't know... I keep going back & forth. I hate being hungry all the time, but when I cut out cardio/intervals before, my fat loss didn't progress as much as it does with it in. But perhaps that was coincidental because i also started PN (and ended TNT) at the same time I started up the cardio/intervals again.
Try to eliminate variables one at a time... For me, I'm REALLY becoming more aware of appetite and the effect of lifting and higher intensity cardio... I WILL return to higher intensity work - but not til I get rid of fat and change my focus to eating more (clean) food and building muscle... For example, I lifted yesterday and then ended up over-eating last night
Negative Chin-Up I couldn't do a single one today.
3x1x13lb pack on my back + 20s descent
Underhand-grip Lat Pulldown
4x2x110
3x2x115
3x2x120
Barbell Split Squat
3x4x95
Push Up
3x4
Did these with my feet raised on a swiss ball, hands on floor. Harder than it looks, but I did it!
I was going to do more stuff, but I was really exhausted after this workout. It didn't seem like I did very much at all... It is probably because I haven't eaten very much at all today.
B: omelet (220kcal)
L: beef patty + salad (350kcal)
S: cottage cheese + fruit (150kcal)
PWO: protein shake (100kcal)
that's it... so yeah. not a great day. I'll make up for it with dinner - mancakes, comin' up!
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I miss my dad a lot today. Totally random, and I have no idea what prompted it. He died 6 years ago (Lou Gehrig’s disease) at the ripe old age of 51. Anyway, so I’ve been meaning to get this VHS tape he made for me converted over to DVD. When I went off to college, my family moved to Germany and my dad sent me home videos a couple of times. I think my mom has one he made for me, but I have the best one (which he named “Cheezy Winter Scenes”). I can’t even really remember what was on it, but I do remember that he set it to his favorite album at that time, Alice in Chains’ “Jar of Flies.” So, I downloaded the album today. It’s making me feel better. I’ve wanted to pick this album up for a long time but just never got around to it.
I think maybe the travel was it. My dad loved traveling and being in a European-style city reminded me of him. I remember him dragging us all over the place, map and videocamera in hand, just wanting to see “one more” thing. We’d walk around cities for like 12 hours, rarely stopping for a rest.
He never got to see me lose my weight (I was around 200 when he died) or get my MBA, not to mention get interested in weight lifting (an occasional hobby of his – I remember him taking me to the gym with him on several occasions while he lifted weights). It took me years to stop feeling like my sense of self-worth was tied directly to his approval/pride in me, and the remnants are still there. I still want to tell him about my accomplishments and share them with him.
Bleh. *sniffle*
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Well, I don’t believe in life after death (or god or heaven etc), so I don’t really believe that. But, I appreciate the notion and thank you.
I’m feeling better. I think I mostly got it out of my system. I looked outside and it’s completely sunny and nice out and that helped. Good thing it’s not all stormy.
Sometimes I think I should keep a journal to write down stuff like this but I don’t know if I would keep up with it. I probably should though; I do like going back & looking at my old journals to see what I’ve dealt with in the past (I’ve even done that with this log just to see where I started, and it’s only been a few months!). At the least, it is a good exercise in self reflection.
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Reverse Lunge w/Dumbbell
1x4x40
1x4x45
2x4x50 ... i obviously underestimated the weight I could hold on this one
2-point dumbbell row
1x4x40
1x4x45
2x4x50 ... same here.
Barbell push press 4x4x75
Good Morning (instead of back extension)
3x4x95
Reverse Crunch
3x4
I was pretty wiped out after this workout and I'm not sure why since it's pretty short. My shoulders have been feeling warm ever since Tuesday - a new kind of post-workout "soreness" for me. My legs & glutes are still pretty sore from Tuesday's workout (damn lunges!) and I'm thinking about doing some foam rolling... I'm not sure I want MORE pain at this point though. I'm sore ALL over.
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Chin-Up
3x1
I was able to do all three chin-ups today, with just a tiny, tiny hop to help give me momentum (nothing more than an inch or two). So it's cheating. I'd rather do that than the negatives.
Underhand-grip Lat Pulldown (AMRAP)
1x5x120
Barbell Split Squat
2x10x75
Push Up (AMRAP - feet on 6" step)
1x16
1x12
I added deadlifts to the end of this workout, but not many. They wore me out very quickly and my arms feel like jelly now.
Deadlifts
1x5x135
1x3x155
i'm tired now.
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I'm in Connecticut this week for work & staying at a Marriott. It has the BEST hotel gym I've ever seen. Dumbbells up to 50 pounds, which is a first. And, two swimming pools (one inside, one out) so I'm going to do swimming for my rest cardio the remainder of the week. FUN!!
Stage 6, Workout B5 - last one!
Reverse Lunge w/Dumbbell
2x10x40
2-point dumbbell row
2x10x40
Dumbbell push press 2x10x25e
Good Morning (instead of back extension)
2x10x30 behind head. These were super-lame but I didn't know what else to do.
Reverse Crunch
2x10
extras:
push-ups with feet on bench 1x10
1x8
*phew*
There's a Hammer Strength machine in the room that I thought I could use to do some sort of squats... so I attached the bar to each of the pulleys... then wondered how on earth I was going to get the bar onto my shoulders since it was only about a foot from the ground... so after sitting there for about a minute I gave up & went back upstairs to do some work.
It was this contraption:
See the pulleys at the top (with the dangling handle thingies)? You take the straps off and slide the pulleys down, then attach each end of the bar to each pulley. I could have put the pulleys in the middle of the gliders, but then the bottom of my squats would have had no resistance. I couldn't figure out how to get under that bar without having someone else lift it for me. *dunce*
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Breakfast - egg white scramble with mushroom/onion/ham/spinach, 200 cals
Snack - Pure Protein bar, 200 cals
Lunch - romaine salad with grilled chicken & FF dressing, 300 cals
Dinner - steamed vegetables and chicken breast over sauteed spinach. The chicken had a slice of pancetta on top of it, then mozarella baked on top. I ate about 25% of the cheese & picked the rest off (there was maybe 2oz on it). I'm guessing 400-450 cals.
post-workout - shrimp cocktail (I ate maybe 1 tsp of the red sauce) & diet coke at the lounge while I did some work. 100 cals
post-shrimp beverage - gin & tonic 200 cals?
Note to self: No alcohol tomorrow.
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No exercise today. well, I walked up two hills in heels - does that count?
Breakfast: egg white omelet with mushrooms, onions, cheddar, ham, green pepper, and tomato. 4 strawberries, 3 pieces of pineapple. 350 calories? 400 maybe.
Lunch: salad... it was about 4 cups of romaine lettuce topped with about 2oz grilled beef, 2oz grilled chicken, about 1/3 cup each of eggplant, carrots, zucchini, bell pepper, and 3 thin slices of mozzarella (maybe 1/8" thick, 3" in diameter). Pretty tasty and I only used about 1Tbsp of herb vinaigrette. Probably about 400 calories.
Dinner: buffalo burger & salad & sierra nevada pale ale (I know, I know...). I picked about 80% of the bun off and mostly just ate the burger (plain with a slice of tomato). I'm guessing about 500 calories.
Snack: half a muscle milk light bar. 85 calories.
I'm not totally sure I got the calories about right, but I focused on getting meals high in veg & protein and think I did a pretty good job at that.
Bah. It's 10pm, I'm tired, and I just finished up some work. I think it's time to hit the hay. I forgot how much you work when you're on the road!
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How do you like traveling for work? I have some friends who do often and I think it would be nice for a change. One in particular is gone every Monday -Thursday and stays in hotels. I think eating would be my biggest challenge. She said its hard because the team usually goes out to eat together and its not really up to her what and where.
Heels! I am a chronic wearer of heels. For some reason I am too lazy to get my jeans hemmed. The jeans in question are awesome, but come in one length and cost an awful lot so I hate spending even more on them. My husband often comments on my overuse of impractical heel wear-age. I think its harder to walk in them especially up stairs and hills.
I really don't like wearing dress shoes, but that's mostly because my feet are wide (D-width) and I refuse to wear granny shoes. So I get C-width shoes and bear it. Most of the time at work i wear my Keens or Sketchers but when I visit clients I wear my (one pair of) heels. When they fit, though, I LOVE wearing heels. I used to have a pair of boots that I wore with my pants all the time - they were perfect, comfortable, and stylish. I eventually wore the heels down though & had to get rid of them. *cry* I've looked for another pair but just can't find one that meets my expectations.
As for the travel, I used to travel a LOT when I worked in sales and I loved it. Most of my travel from '00 to '05 was in Asia-Pacific so I got to go to some pretty kickass places (Dubai, India, Hong Kong, etc). When I did domestic sales, I spent a lot of time in Chicago for some reason... I love that city, though, so it wasn't a bad thing.
For this job, I travel intermittently (so far it's been 2 times since Feb). I don't mind flying at all, I don't mind airports, I don't mind hotels, etc... and I get to see a lot of places I wouldn't otherwise see. Some are interesting, some are not. Fairfield CT not so much. My client is GREAT to work with though. I'm enjoying the trip in that regard.
Our consultants (i'm a business analyst) travel M-Th every week. If I were single with no pets, I'd take that job in a heartbeat. I love being on site, traveling, meeting new people, training people... not to mention accruing all those airline & hotel points! When I lived in Sydney, I flew my mom out for a 3 week visit with my accrued miles alone (well, and $60 in fees). Between my BF and I, it looks like we'll get our hotel in SF for free on our honeymoon because of our hotel points. So that is a definite plus for travel
Exercise for today: 20 minutes of swimming.
Good lord. My arms are SO sore! Sometimes I still feel SO out of shape. (one reason why I want to get into crossfit). It was nice to swim though.
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Breakfast: 1.5 protein bars, 275 calories
I really wanted to go to the restaurant downstairs & have an omelet, but I knew that I would just end up eating more than I should... so I stayed in my room.
Lunch: they ordered lunch for us & the training group today (about a dozen people), all sandwiches. I can't believe how much BREAD was on those stupid things - giant kaiser buns. I put the entire top of the bun (about 2" thick and 6" in diameter) back in my lunch sack and ate the rest of it. The bottom bun was about 1" thick and I ate about 2/3 of it. White bread, of course. Then there was about 3 ounces of turkey breast and a tomato slice and that was it. I'm figuring what I ate was about 250-275 calories. Then I had a cookie... I left my almonds in my hotel room, damn it, and I was pretty hungry. I didn't eat the bag of chips that came with it. Totally crappy lunch but I did the best I could with what I had...
Snack - I just ate an ounce of almonds and am ready to go out for dinner. I hope to get some sort of seafood thing. We're going to the beach to this place called Captain's Cove, which is a seafood restaurant. Maybe I'll get cioppino; there's such a big Italian population here that it seems every other restaurant is some family italian place. I'd think the cioppino would be pretty good... depends on if they put pasta in it or not.
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We're back. OMG what a letdown!! The client talked this place up like it was THE place to go in the area and that it was at the beach, blah blah blah.
Turns out it's a marina with a walk-up "restaurant". More like fast food stand.
I should have searched for their website before we left!! The Restaurant
No cioppino, that's for sure. Instead, I got shrimp cocktail (with all of 6 shrimp), a salad, and a diet coke. That cost me (well, the client) $16. Totally disappointing & I'm still rather hungry. Almost everything else on the menu, though, was deep-fried or came with something fried. Yuck.
My 2 coworkers with me were disappointed as well - we were all expecting a seaside restaurant overlooking the ocean with nice food (you know, like grilled halibut or steak and the like). crazy. It was weird that our client was talking this place up like it was SO fabulous and that we'd all love it.
We drove over to a state park a few miles away and watched the sailboats in Long Island Sound for a while then headed back...
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I know... the bar downstairs is calling me. They have tanqueray 10 and a dirty martini sounds SO good. I'm trying to behave, though.
I bought a power bar at the hotel snack bar (it was that, or pop tarts or chips or honey-roasted nuts) and I didn't realize until I took a couple of bites that it was a "C2 MAX higher-octane carb blend" <_<
First 3 ingredients? cane juice, maltodextrin, dextrose. 45g of carbs and 8g of protein. Grr. Maybe I should go drown my sorrows in tonight's failures?
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Turns out it's a marina with a walk-up "restaurant". More like fast food stand.
I should have searched for their website before we left!! The Restaurant
I saw the menu board and realized you were in trouble. I'd have trouble ordering from that menu myself. I guess no steamed veggie sides.
lol - no... well, they did have a 'mixed veg' side for $2.99 but I figured I'd rather have a salad given that I'd likely get a $3 bowl of microwaved or boiled veggies. blech.
I ate my powerbar. I was going to go down to the bar but told myself I didn't need that drink and needed to cut back on my drinking. So then I was sitting here thinking about eating my last protein bar but thought I should save it for tomorrow (my flight is at 5pm so I'll probably have it for a late-afternoon snack). And there was my nearly-whole power bar in all its sugared glory.
I figured, fuck it. So I ate it. I was hungry and had only eaten just over 1200 calories today anyway; how much harm could it do, really? mmm, 230 calories of sugary goodness. PowerBar: Performance Bars Flavors
Talk about a super-carb day. Bottom of a kaiser roll, chocolate chip cookie, and power bar. At least I'm not hungry anymore & obsessing over what to eat or drink, and that matters more to me right now than my ratio of carbs:protein today!
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I totally relate to your pain today. I went through that a couple weeks ago while I was in Odessa for business. The only things that weren't fried were the cole slaw, the ranch beans, the ice cream, the pecan cobbler and the strawberry bananas.
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I started a job the beginning of last month that has me travelling too. It's so hard to eat on the road, especially when you're trying to hit certain macros (or if you have food allergies!). Plus, I drink considerably more on the road then I do at home. Like you, I'm trying to get it all in check; it's hard.
DM, it sounds like we have very similar jobs! Are you in IT?
Kind of - I work for a software company in the professional services dept. I'm a business analyst, meaning that when we get a new sale, I do all the process analysis for the client's department(s) deploying our software and design all the configuration for the solution. Then I give that design to the consultant who goes on site & implements it.
I love my job and could see doing this for a LONG time. Maybe eventually getting into product management; we'll see! I started in software back in '98 and have been in software for all but 1.5 years of my working career and absolutely love it.
What do you do?
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I'm a Business IT Consultant in the telecom field. I also do a lot of BA work, similar to what you do. A lot of A&D, processes, testing, deployment and training. I've been doing it for about 15 years now.
15 years! That gives me hope that my enjoyment of my job won't wane any time soon (given the job itself and/or the company don't dramatically change).
I'm getting back on the stricter-eating bandwagon... As you can see from my log, I've been relaxing my standards more & more... yesterday I ate 2 cookies (on midwest airlines - mmm who can resist their warm, fresh-baked cookies?!) & 2 glasses of beer. tsk tsk.
So, here we go... today:
1. egg white omelet w/ham & veg (~200 cals)
2. leftover salad with chicken breast (~250 cals)
3. cherries (~75 cals)
later today I'll probably have some shrimp cocktail and another salad. And maybe a burger patty or something.
I'm starting stage 7 tomorrow... I have no idea yet if I'll do it twice, so I either have 2 weeks in NR4W or 4. Today I did some general gardening and will probably take a walk later.
Our tomato plants are doing fabulously! The brandywine has 2 tomatoes on it and the cherry tomato plant has about a dozen little guys. I can't WAIT to have fresh garden tomatoes... so delicious...
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If I don't post here for a couple of weeks, it's because I died doing stage 7. You guys weren't kidding.
Stage 7, Workout 1
Workout drinks: water and a protein drink: 47.5% protein + 47.5% maltodextrin/dextrose + 5% creatine. Post workout - 2 slices turkey breast
I have lost 3 pounds in the past week, I believe most of it just water loss from all my damage in Quebec. So I'm back down to 145.4 today and should be under 145 in a couple of days. Hell, with these workouts I should be down to 140 in no time.
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Damn creeping moderation!
I couldn't do a single one today.
200 cals?
tsk tsk.
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