Kicking Butt and Taking Names: jesca's NROL4W log

[missjane]

I do 2x a day -- just the PB8 -- morning and night.

[jesca]

For yesterday

Rest: This was a little tough because I had to work late. The later hours of the day were more stressful and I stood and paced a lot, but otherwise it was a standard day.

Food numbers: I ate three meals out yesterday!, but I logged. Of course, who knows if I'm right. I did the best I could with guessing and logging.
1749 calories
60g fat
192g carbs (Tortilla, rice and bread for starch)
111g protein

Sleep: 7ish hours and not good. Hubby kept flopping like a fish and waking me up. He finally got up at 4 and came back at 6:30, but by then the night had been ruined!

Water/sodium: Terrible on both. Not enough water and too much sodium. I'm soo bloated today!

Probiotics/enzymes: Endeavored to take as directed. They both look alike and one you take before you eat and the other after. I'm not sure if that's going to work out, because I have a terrible memory. I may have to compromise and take both before or after until I get in the swing of taking them with meals all the time.

Quality of Food: Um, awful. That's all I'm going to say.

Emotionally: Feeling ok. Was kind of in a bad mood (probably from lack of sleep ) but I snapped out of it. Working late last night was tough and stressful so when I got home last night I just showered and crashed. I am better today.

Weight: 167.6
Waist: 36

I'm not sure what happened, but I was just craving fatty foods and could not seem to stop myself. I was able to control the portions by remembering how many calories were in the foods, but I craved them like crazy, which is unusual. Also, I could not convince myself to order a salad anywhere. Two of the places we went to have good salads with good protien that I like, and they just grossed me out yesterday. When I say I was bad, I mean I had 1 onion ring, 4 fries and 4 chips. I also had some regular fat cheese and sour cream, so it's not like it was a huge binge, but it was weird because I really hadn't even wanted any of that stuff in the last couple of weeks, and it just rushed me all of a sudden. I'm thinking the mentality of "eat" got to me. It's only 163 calories more that I can eat, but it actually feels like tons more food, if that makes sense. If I was right on my logging (which I tried to be fair over and under - historically I will pick foods on the daily plate that have more calories than I think and undereat a lot), then I came in 40 calories under. Apart from some serious chocolate cravings last night, I managed to control it pretty well. Maybe I'm getting better at this whole food thing?

[jesca]

Originally Posted by missjane

I do 2x a day -- just the PB8 -- morning and night.

See that's what I was thinking it was going to be, but it has things about taking it around meals. After I think? If I could take the probiotics in the am and pm and then the enzymes around the meals, then I could totally manage that. I have morning and evening meds for my allergies, so I'm in that habit. I dunno since I have no experience in this area.

Marty - any opinions?

[Bytsi]

Originally Posted by jesca

I was just craving fatty foods and could not seem to stop myself. I was able to control the portions by remembering how many calories were in the foods, but I craved them like crazy, which is unusual. Also, I could not convince myself to order a salad anywhere. Two of the places we went to have good salads with good protien that I like, and they just grossed me out yesterday. When I say I was bad, I mean I had 1 onion ring, 4 fries and 4 chips. I also had some regular fat cheese and sour cream, so it's not like it was a huge binge, but it was weird because I really hadn't even wanted any of that stuff in the last couple of weeks, and it just rushed me all of a sudden. I'm thinking the mentality of "eat" got to me. It's only 163 calories more that I can eat, but it actually feels like tons more food, if that makes sense. If I was right on my logging (which I tried to be fair over and under - historically I will pick foods on the daily plate that have more calories than I think and undereat a lot), then I came in 40 calories under. Apart from some serious chocolate cravings last night, I managed to control it pretty well. Maybe I'm getting better at this whole food thing?

I think you're doing great! We all have craving days, and don't always know why... but you didn't go overboard, so that's GREAT!

[jesca]

Originally Posted by Bytsi

I think you're doing great! We all have craving days, and don't always know why... but you didn't go overboard, so that's GREAT!

Thanks! Today was another fattening food craving day. I think it has to do with me being tired. It's been a rough week for sleep because my husband has been tossing and turning due to the heat. Also, it's been an exhausting week in general, and when I'm tired I'm hungry and all my good habits go out the window. Tonight would have been a good night to catch up, but wouldn't you know it, I'm wired. It's 1:22 am and I should be fast asleep, but I'm not. I finally caved and took half a sleeping pill. I probably wouldn't have bothered except that I have Pilates in the morning and if I start on Friday with a screwy sleeping schedule, I'm likely to be messed up the rest of the weekend. I hope this pill kicks in soon, I want to be in bed!

[marthand99]

Originally Posted by jesca

See that's what I was thinking it was going to be, but it has things about taking it around meals. After I think? If I could take the probiotics in the am and pm and then the enzymes around the meals, then I could totally manage that. I have morning and evening meds for my allergies, so I'm in that habit. I dunno since I have no experience in this area.

Marty - any opinions?

Hmm. I usually just take the probiotics with the enzymes before meals - but only before two of my six meals. (Morning and night). I try to remember to take the enzymes before every meal, but I find that challenging.

[marthand99]

I hope you got some sleep, Jes!

[jesca]

Originally Posted by marthand99

Hmm. I usually just take the probiotics with the enzymes before meals - but only before two of my six meals. (Morning and night). I try to remember to take the enzymes before every meal, but I find that challenging.

Yeah, I only take the enzymes 3x a day, because I eat three slightly larger meals and 2-3 snacks. It seems nuts to eat enzymes before a couple of cups of water melon and a string cheese. I dunno. I'm going to shoot for 2x with the probiotics, after breakfast and dinner, and 3x with the enzymes. I guess if I don't feel improved in 2 weeks like Leigh says, I will up the anty.

[jesca]

Ack! I have two days to log. Guess I better get it together. Below is the info for Friday

Rest: Pretty good. Did some running around to various offices in the most spread out building, but not too bad. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Food numbers: Better today, but the pizza called my name. Carbs were high, protein was low. Fat surprisingly spot on.
1785 calories
67g fat
218g carbs (english muffin and pizza dough for starch)
90g protein

Sleep: A better night of sleep since hubby turned on the AC. Apparently all the flopping was because he was too hot! It was good sleep, but not enough. Still felt tired most of the day.

Water/sodium: Better. Chugged a lot of water to make up for Thursday. Then I ate pizza and commercial salad dressing with dinner and went over the sodium again. I never learn!

Probiotics/enzymes: Did better. Not perfect, but since it's new to me, this taking pills with meals, I'm not too stressed.

Quality of Food: Great until dinner. Then it kind went out the window.

Emotionally: I was in a really good mood. I had a fairly good day on Friday, even if the afternoon was incredibly boring. I was wired at night tho, could not get to sleep again!

Weight: 169.2
Waist:35.75

[jesca]

For Saturday.

Rest: Pretty good. I went to Pilates today, but there was a girl in class who hasn't taken advanced before, so we kind of started over with the "new" exercises, which was fine by me. We didn't get to the ones that kill me, which is good for the program. I was jello when I was done, but it didn't suck the life out of me like last time. Amazing what 163 calories can do for you!

Food numbers: Pretty much perfect! Finally!
1979calories (1800 without the 179 extra I included to account for Pilates exertion)
66g fat
201g carbs (english muffin for starch. A little short on that I guess!)
153g protein

Sleep: 7 hours. Could not sleep! I wasn't even tired. I finally took half a sleeping pill at 1:30 am. Nutso. I forced myself up for class then took like three naps. It's almost 1 am and I'm still up. I'm going to have to take an early sleeping pill on Sunday night at this rate to try to get back on schedule. I have no idea what happened this weekend.

Water/sodium: Pretty good on both. My sodium is still around 1700-2000mg a day. I guess I should figure out if that's bad or not!

Probiotics/enzymes: Did much better today. Got 2x probiotics and 2x enzymes. I missed dinner with enzymes because we ate out and I forgot to bring them. Still, much better overall.

Quality of Food: Pretty good.

Emotionally: Was in a pretty good mood all day. Allergies have been rough and that's starting to wear. Not sure what the deal is, but it's getting old. I might have to go back on Claritan D for a little while, because this will make me grumpy fast!

Weight: 169.2
Waist: 36

[jesca]

Rest: Not so good. I started out good, but the day devolved into me cleaning the better part of the house. Sometimes I get out of control like this. It starts with a couple of loads of laundry and ends up with sweeping, scrubbing, mopping and general exhaustion. I haven't gotten like this in awhile, but I got totally out of control. I felt like crap after I was done.

Food numbers: Pretty good to start. I hit my numbers but felt sick most of the afternoon and ate kind of crappy foods. At the end of the day, I still was almost perfect with my macros, and that was with ice cream!
1796 calories
73gfat
174g carbs (crackers, chips and corn for starch)
110g protein

Sleep: Terrible. Wasn't tired again to go to sleep and then I kept waking up over and over at night. I woke up feeling like crap.

Water/sodium: Not enough water, but still way under on sodium.

Probiotics/enzymes: Pretty good. Still having a hard time remembering enzymes before meals

Quality of Food: Good breakfast and dinner. Not good snacks.

Emotionally: Miserable. I imagine it was because I was tired since I didn't sleep right most of the weekend. When I get tired I get depressed and hungry for junk food. Then it was 98 degrees here and I was outside shopping for part of the day. I didn't hydrate enough and it ended up making me sick to my stomach. Then, eventhough I didn't feel good, I decided to clean the house. My emotions were all over the place by the evening and my temper was short. I finally gave up and took a sleeping pill so I could get back on track. Hopefully that worked and I can stop needing the pills. Allergies are also much improved, so that should help with the sleeping too.

Weight: 166.2
Waist: 35.75

[Bytsi]

Sorry you had a rough day. I don't really go on cleaning/scrubbing jags (I think my DH wishes I would!), but I imagine it'd be very tiring. And I feel AWFUL on the rare occasions I get dehydrated... hope tomorrow's better for you.

[jesca]

Originally Posted by Bytsi

Sorry you had a rough day. I don't really go on cleaning/scrubbing jags (I think my DH wishes I would!), but I imagine it'd be very tiring. And I feel AWFUL on the rare occasions I get dehydrated... hope tomorrow's better for you.

Thanks! I don't usually get dehydrated because I drink so much water, so I guess there was a bigger backlash to it than many people who just don't drink water. I dunno, could have been a lot of things along with dehydration. Either way it sucked!

[jesca]

Rest: Better today because of work. Did about .75 miles of city walking in 98 degree heat! (that part sucked) and then a lot of standing tonight. I keep thinking I should wear my pedometer, but the battery is dead and even though I remembered to get a new rechargeable batter at radio shack for our phone I couldn't remember that one. Oh well.

Food numbers:I would have been spot on if Burger King hadn't given me the fried sandwich instead of the grilled one. I didn't realize until I got home and since it was already 9pm, I just took off the mayo and half the bun and ate it. It wasn't even that good
1796 calories
68gfat
182g carbs (2 rolls and a couple of fries for starch (and probably the damn breading on the chicken!)
109g protein

Sleep: Took a sleeping pill last night, but kind of had a hangover in the morning. I slept well but I needed more. I stayed in bed an extra hour and went in a little late, but I don't think it helped much. I need to be sleeping now!

Water/sodium: Good on both, but a higher on sodium today. I hope it doesn't make me retain water, because I just got rid of a bunch. My hands and feet hurt this morning (probably due more to dehydration that too much sodium) and I don't want to go back there. I hate that feeling and it's even worse with this heat.

Probiotics/enzymes: Did pretty good today. 3x on the enzyme and probiotics. Enzymes are finally before or right at the beginning of meals. She can be taught!

Quality of Food: Good except dinner. Still drinking about a half to full protein shake a day, but it's usually take up for not eating enough during the day. I really need to learn to get more in earlier.

Emotionally: Ok here. I am still tired, but the better part of today flew by, which helped. Today was long and tomorrow is going to be longer, so I might be a grump by tomorrow evening. I really hope not, but long days with no down time in them get me that way. Thankfully it's only 2 nights in a row instead of 3, so there's a light at the end of the tunnel. I'm so tired of working late and it's not going to improve until the beginning of August.

Weight: 167.8
Waist: 36.25