Okay, so I weighed myself this morning, and I did deviate
slightly
from my maintaining standard. I was exactly 220.0 – last Monday I was
219.6 lbs. So, I gained .4 lbs – which is no surprise. Last week was
my delightful monthly visitor. Yesterday I ate a whole bag of David’s
sunflower seeds – oh, how I love those! So salty and delightful… but I
know that salt and I don’t get along well. I got a nasty headache
because I didn’t have much to drink yesterday, and today I’m puffy and
lethargic. Lesson learned. I have a feeling that if I hadn’t had those
yesterday, I would be closer to my weekly average for the last month –
possibly 219.8 at the most. Oh, well. I find that I can’t be so hard
on myself about this sort of stuff, because I end up discouraging
myself and getting off the wagon completely and depressed.
One thing I have noticed in doing weight watchers is that I’m actually
cutting myself off on my own with serving sizes now. I seem to have
adjusted to the lower calorie ratio due to my points, and as long as I
pace myself while eating, I feel fuller faster, and it is a longer
lasting feeling. Even when I horf something (yes, that is a valid
medical term), I usually find that I’m not hungry even hours later. I
might mention that when I horf, it’s usually something that I
shouldn’t be eating. Like fast food. Icecream. Or a burritio. Eff you,
menstrual cycle. When I have higher point values in the morning for my
breakfast or early morning snack, it will be hours before I need to
eat again. I’ve been trying to balance that out so that I’m eating
every few hours – currently I have a yogurt or a protein shake at
around 6 when I roll into work and get settled. Early morning snack is
usually a yogurt or a piece of fruit around 830. Lunch is at 11. I
have a small snack when I get home around 3 (or pack a small afternoon
snack if I’m not going to be home at 3), and then dinner is usually
between 6 and 8pm, depends on how much I’ve had to eat earlier in the
day and how soon Tyler wants to eat.
We’re a bit closer on revamping our eating. As I mentioned in my last
entry, we are stocking up on frozen veggies. I try so hard to eat
fresh, but they almost always go bad. So, frozen it is – I figure at
this point, it’s better than nothing. We also have lots of lean meat.
No milk in the house, only coconut milk – which is a pain in the ass
because I used milk for cooking occasionally… but when I think about
that, all of those foods were prepackaged or boxed, high in sodium,
and I shouldn’t be making them anyways. So, it’s not a total loss.
Plus, the fats in coconut products are more easily digested and
processed by your liver. Double bonus. Currently we have no bread or
even tortillas in the house, and I have replaced all of the remaining
pasta with high fiber whole wheat and quinoa. Tyler still has his
“stash” (our broken lazy Susan where we put all of his junk food –
country gravy, ramen, canned nacho cheese, Doritos, etc). I’ve stopped
drinking soda almost completely – when I do have it, it’s only diet…
and I hate diet soda, so it’s pretty easy to avoid. They have a really
crappy selection in the machines here at work – it’s either Diet Mt
Dew or Diet Dr Pepper. I could drink gallons of each on my own if it
were the regular version (and be ultimately cracked out, natch), but
the diet just doesn’t do it for me. If I do buy ‘em, its because I am
extra tired, and won’t be able to make it through my daily 2 hour
meeting without it.
I am taking vitamins and supplements daily as well – here’s a list of
what I take in the AM and PM (including my meds…)
AM: Prozac, Ritalin, Flax Seed Oil, Milk Thistle
PM: Ibuprofen, Fish Oil, Milk Thistle, GABA (2 capsules), and either a
multivitamin or a Vitamin D 50,000 IU capsule depending on the night
of the week.
I had been taking more stuff previously – I was taking a
kidney/liver/gallbladder mix in the AM and PM as well as a probiotic
in the AM, but I ran out of those, lol. Right now I’m just sort of
cycling through the supplements I currently have until they are gone.
What I will definitely stick with though will be my meds – the Prozac,
Ritalin, and Vitamin D, and the flax seed and fish oil and
multivitamin. I have been eating Activia for the probiotic/fiber
benefits as I seem to have issues with my stomach, but I may switch
back to a probiotic. I’d been taking Align before, but it’s kind of
spendy - $30/month for one capsule a day – but I guess it’s probably
around what I’ve been spending on Activia. I don’t know. Does anyone
else have digestion problems, and how do you treat them? My glorious
antidepressants and make-me-awake pills seem to cause my digestion
problems, but I can’t really give up either at this point. I read in
the Paleo Diet book and also heard from my nutritionist – we don’t get
enough Omega 3’s in our diet, so that’s why I will stick with the fish
and flax oil. The reason I do both is because although they are both
omega 3’s, they act in different ways.
On my final note, since this is reaching novel size – I NEED TO START
TRAINING FOR BLOOMSDAY OMGWTFBBQ!!! Seriously. It’s February 13, and
Bloomsday is on May 6. That’s only slightly less than 3 months away. I
need to couch to 5k it or something. Maybe I’ll start doing that when
I get home, and make Tyler do it with me as a warmup to the p90x I
need to start doing again, lol. Have you started training yet? I don’t
want to die! I walked it just fine last time, but about halfway
through my oxygen levels went down – the only reason I know this is
because my fingers puffed up so bad that I couldn’t even bend them,
and when I asked my doc, she said that was the likeliest reason. So, I
won’t actually die or anything, I’ll just look like a sausage when we
cross the finish line. =/
from my maintaining standard. I was exactly 220.0 – last Monday I was
219.6 lbs. So, I gained .4 lbs – which is no surprise. Last week was
my delightful monthly visitor. Yesterday I ate a whole bag of David’s
sunflower seeds – oh, how I love those! So salty and delightful… but I
know that salt and I don’t get along well. I got a nasty headache
because I didn’t have much to drink yesterday, and today I’m puffy and
lethargic. Lesson learned. I have a feeling that if I hadn’t had those
yesterday, I would be closer to my weekly average for the last month –
possibly 219.8 at the most. Oh, well. I find that I can’t be so hard
on myself about this sort of stuff, because I end up discouraging
myself and getting off the wagon completely and depressed.
One thing I have noticed in doing weight watchers is that I’m actually
cutting myself off on my own with serving sizes now. I seem to have
adjusted to the lower calorie ratio due to my points, and as long as I
pace myself while eating, I feel fuller faster, and it is a longer
lasting feeling. Even when I horf something (yes, that is a valid
medical term), I usually find that I’m not hungry even hours later. I
might mention that when I horf, it’s usually something that I
shouldn’t be eating. Like fast food. Icecream. Or a burritio. Eff you,
menstrual cycle. When I have higher point values in the morning for my
breakfast or early morning snack, it will be hours before I need to
eat again. I’ve been trying to balance that out so that I’m eating
every few hours – currently I have a yogurt or a protein shake at
around 6 when I roll into work and get settled. Early morning snack is
usually a yogurt or a piece of fruit around 830. Lunch is at 11. I
have a small snack when I get home around 3 (or pack a small afternoon
snack if I’m not going to be home at 3), and then dinner is usually
between 6 and 8pm, depends on how much I’ve had to eat earlier in the
day and how soon Tyler wants to eat.
We’re a bit closer on revamping our eating. As I mentioned in my last
entry, we are stocking up on frozen veggies. I try so hard to eat
fresh, but they almost always go bad. So, frozen it is – I figure at
this point, it’s better than nothing. We also have lots of lean meat.
No milk in the house, only coconut milk – which is a pain in the ass
because I used milk for cooking occasionally… but when I think about
that, all of those foods were prepackaged or boxed, high in sodium,
and I shouldn’t be making them anyways. So, it’s not a total loss.
Plus, the fats in coconut products are more easily digested and
processed by your liver. Double bonus. Currently we have no bread or
even tortillas in the house, and I have replaced all of the remaining
pasta with high fiber whole wheat and quinoa. Tyler still has his
“stash” (our broken lazy Susan where we put all of his junk food –
country gravy, ramen, canned nacho cheese, Doritos, etc). I’ve stopped
drinking soda almost completely – when I do have it, it’s only diet…
and I hate diet soda, so it’s pretty easy to avoid. They have a really
crappy selection in the machines here at work – it’s either Diet Mt
Dew or Diet Dr Pepper. I could drink gallons of each on my own if it
were the regular version (and be ultimately cracked out, natch), but
the diet just doesn’t do it for me. If I do buy ‘em, its because I am
extra tired, and won’t be able to make it through my daily 2 hour
meeting without it.
I am taking vitamins and supplements daily as well – here’s a list of
what I take in the AM and PM (including my meds…)
AM: Prozac, Ritalin, Flax Seed Oil, Milk Thistle
PM: Ibuprofen, Fish Oil, Milk Thistle, GABA (2 capsules), and either a
multivitamin or a Vitamin D 50,000 IU capsule depending on the night
of the week.
I had been taking more stuff previously – I was taking a
kidney/liver/gallbladder mix in the AM and PM as well as a probiotic
in the AM, but I ran out of those, lol. Right now I’m just sort of
cycling through the supplements I currently have until they are gone.
What I will definitely stick with though will be my meds – the Prozac,
Ritalin, and Vitamin D, and the flax seed and fish oil and
multivitamin. I have been eating Activia for the probiotic/fiber
benefits as I seem to have issues with my stomach, but I may switch
back to a probiotic. I’d been taking Align before, but it’s kind of
spendy - $30/month for one capsule a day – but I guess it’s probably
around what I’ve been spending on Activia. I don’t know. Does anyone
else have digestion problems, and how do you treat them? My glorious
antidepressants and make-me-awake pills seem to cause my digestion
problems, but I can’t really give up either at this point. I read in
the Paleo Diet book and also heard from my nutritionist – we don’t get
enough Omega 3’s in our diet, so that’s why I will stick with the fish
and flax oil. The reason I do both is because although they are both
omega 3’s, they act in different ways.
On my final note, since this is reaching novel size – I NEED TO START
TRAINING FOR BLOOMSDAY OMGWTFBBQ!!! Seriously. It’s February 13, and
Bloomsday is on May 6. That’s only slightly less than 3 months away. I
need to couch to 5k it or something. Maybe I’ll start doing that when
I get home, and make Tyler do it with me as a warmup to the p90x I
need to start doing again, lol. Have you started training yet? I don’t
want to die! I walked it just fine last time, but about halfway
through my oxygen levels went down – the only reason I know this is
because my fingers puffed up so bad that I couldn’t even bend them,
and when I asked my doc, she said that was the likeliest reason. So, I
won’t actually die or anything, I’ll just look like a sausage when we
cross the finish line. =/
