NIKKI8's CalorieKing blog
Wednesday, Jun 27 2007 - Good day
View NIKKI8's food & exercise for this day
Food Report
So far it's been a good day with food. But I feel like I'm about to enter the danger zone. (I just had the theme from "Top Gun" enter my head
).
B-1 waffle and eggbeaters
S-protein bar
L-apple, salad w/deli ham and light dressing, grapes
S-protein bar
D-Bratwurst, baked potato w/light butter, corn on cob, coke
I usually don't drink pop.
I've picked at my kids' food today and I need to stop that. My son had some icecream and I had a few bites. I swiped some peanut butter when I was making a sandwich. And I can't remember what else. But the picking needs to stop.
Actually, looking at my food above, my dinner was not the healthiest. But I'm happy that I didn't eat snack and the good thing is I didn't eat any triggers today. I do plan to have a little bit of icecream later, but I am going to limit it to one serving.
I have no idea what my calories are and that's slightly bothering me. But I'm trying to make healthy choices. And looking at the list above I can see where I need to make changes without looking at numbers.
Exercise Report
I didn't get to blog yesterday, but I did do spin class yesterday. Finally!!!
Today I did BFL Lower Body and I also did Windsor pilates fat burning workout, which does some cardio and pilates. I used my HRM for the video, but not the other workout. And the calorie burn was so low. Only 229 for 45 mins. That just doesn't seem right. I watched my heartrate get into the 130s and 140s several times during the 30 min. cardio portion. Maybe tht was still not enough.
I have more to write as I had an interesting "ah ha" moment yesterday, but my son is begging me to type letters on the computer, so I better let him before he messes something up.
I will update after he goes to bed.
I think I'm taking my computer in to get fixed tomorrow so I'm afraid I may not have access again for a few days. ARG!!
Okay, I'm back.
So yesterday as I was talking to a friend (
) about food issues. we were discussing why BFL didn't work for me. I was saying that I felt deprived and that things were difficult and emotional at the time that I was attempting the challenge. As I was saying it, I thought, gee, it sounds like I'm making excuses. And you know what, that's exactly what I was doing.
Then I was talking about how I am trying to figure out if I can have certain foods or not. And that I keep testing over and over again to see if I can have small servings of trigger foods. And that I keep discovering over and over again that no, I can't. I over do it almost every time I eat these foods. In fact, I was saying that just that morning, I opened the door with something small and it led to overdoing tons of other food. So if I know this, why do I keep doing it.
I think I just haven't been wanting to face this fact. I've been clinging to these foods not wanting to give them up.
So I sat down and did some journaling (the old fashioned way-with a pen
). And I wrote about this issue with trigger foods and what I should do about it.
And I decided that certain foods are like alcohol or drugs for me. I simply can't handle these foods in moderation and I've decided to give them up.
It scares me to say I'm not going to have them forever. So I won't say that. But for a while I want to stay away from these foods:
chips
candy
cereal
I'm not ready to say this about icecream yet. But I think I can control portions there and not go crazy.
The thing is, I had to give up a lot of foods when I discovered I had Celiac disease. And I grieved the loss of those foods. It was really hard at first--especially at social functions (and I found out around the holidays). But I got used to it. It took some time and some grieving but I'm okay with it now. Once in a while it will bother me, but most of the time I just focus on the fact that not eating gluten just helps me be all the healthier.
So I plan to adopt the same attitude towards these foods. I will grieve the loss and it will be hard at first, but I will get used to it. It will get easier. And these choices will keep me healthy. While these foods don't make me ill that way gluten foods do, they do make me sick when I eat too much and do damage to my body. So I need to look at it that way.
Two things to help me do this: 1. Turn to God for strength and guidance through this. 2. Be mindful of my emotions and what is going on inside my head. Awareness is a major tool I need to use.
Tough road ahead, but I feel ready to do this.
So far it's been a good day with food. But I feel like I'm about to enter the danger zone. (I just had the theme from "Top Gun" enter my head
).B-1 waffle and eggbeaters
S-protein bar
L-apple, salad w/deli ham and light dressing, grapes
S-protein bar
D-Bratwurst, baked potato w/light butter, corn on cob, coke
I usually don't drink pop.I've picked at my kids' food today and I need to stop that. My son had some icecream and I had a few bites. I swiped some peanut butter when I was making a sandwich. And I can't remember what else. But the picking needs to stop.
Actually, looking at my food above, my dinner was not the healthiest. But I'm happy that I didn't eat snack and the good thing is I didn't eat any triggers today. I do plan to have a little bit of icecream later, but I am going to limit it to one serving.
I have no idea what my calories are and that's slightly bothering me. But I'm trying to make healthy choices. And looking at the list above I can see where I need to make changes without looking at numbers.
Exercise Report
I didn't get to blog yesterday, but I did do spin class yesterday. Finally!!!
Today I did BFL Lower Body and I also did Windsor pilates fat burning workout, which does some cardio and pilates. I used my HRM for the video, but not the other workout. And the calorie burn was so low. Only 229 for 45 mins. That just doesn't seem right. I watched my heartrate get into the 130s and 140s several times during the 30 min. cardio portion. Maybe tht was still not enough.
I have more to write as I had an interesting "ah ha" moment yesterday, but my son is begging me to type letters on the computer, so I better let him before he messes something up.
I will update after he goes to bed.
I think I'm taking my computer in to get fixed tomorrow so I'm afraid I may not have access again for a few days. ARG!!
Okay, I'm back.
So yesterday as I was talking to a friend (
) about food issues. we were discussing why BFL didn't work for me. I was saying that I felt deprived and that things were difficult and emotional at the time that I was attempting the challenge. As I was saying it, I thought, gee, it sounds like I'm making excuses. And you know what, that's exactly what I was doing. Then I was talking about how I am trying to figure out if I can have certain foods or not. And that I keep testing over and over again to see if I can have small servings of trigger foods. And that I keep discovering over and over again that no, I can't. I over do it almost every time I eat these foods. In fact, I was saying that just that morning, I opened the door with something small and it led to overdoing tons of other food. So if I know this, why do I keep doing it.
I think I just haven't been wanting to face this fact. I've been clinging to these foods not wanting to give them up.
So I sat down and did some journaling (the old fashioned way-with a pen
). And I wrote about this issue with trigger foods and what I should do about it.And I decided that certain foods are like alcohol or drugs for me. I simply can't handle these foods in moderation and I've decided to give them up.
It scares me to say I'm not going to have them forever. So I won't say that. But for a while I want to stay away from these foods:
chips
candy
cereal
I'm not ready to say this about icecream yet. But I think I can control portions there and not go crazy.
The thing is, I had to give up a lot of foods when I discovered I had Celiac disease. And I grieved the loss of those foods. It was really hard at first--especially at social functions (and I found out around the holidays). But I got used to it. It took some time and some grieving but I'm okay with it now. Once in a while it will bother me, but most of the time I just focus on the fact that not eating gluten just helps me be all the healthier.
So I plan to adopt the same attitude towards these foods. I will grieve the loss and it will be hard at first, but I will get used to it. It will get easier. And these choices will keep me healthy. While these foods don't make me ill that way gluten foods do, they do make me sick when I eat too much and do damage to my body. So I need to look at it that way.
Two things to help me do this: 1. Turn to God for strength and guidance through this. 2. Be mindful of my emotions and what is going on inside my head. Awareness is a major tool I need to use.
Tough road ahead, but I feel ready to do this.
2 comments so far.
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a decade ago
Awesome job journaling and deciding to give up your triggers for the time being!
:y: I am the same way. There are some foods I just can't start in on. Actually, for me, it's more time of day (I just can't allow myself to snack at night - it never ends well) or occasion (at parties it's easier to eat nothing than to limit myself). Candy and cereal are biggies for me, too. Just say no! LOL Actually, the business is the kind where my schedule is so tight that I don't have time to take a breath and if one thing doesn't go perfectly, it throws the whole day off. I feel like I'm running non stop from morning til night without a break. Not fun.
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a decade ago
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