Ang’s Rants and Raves

This has been more of a struggle for me these days when it comes to food than I have had in the past.  I think it really is the bit about going out of your bubble and into the public when food starts becoming a little harder to turn down!:).  Anyway, I had some sinus pressure going on a little and was not feeling like working out. Steve and I were headed to a movie last night and I told myself if I went to the gym, I’d spoil myself with some popcorn.  Once I get to the gym, I’m fine and try to push myself, but its the 3pm hour when I start dragging down at work and not feeling like doing anything afterwards.  But I managed to get an hour in on the eliptical, hoping it gets a little easier after another week so I can bump myself up to a higher resistance–as it is now, my body starts making me feel like i’m going into an asthma attack mode.

Breakast: special K with rice milk

Mid-morning snack: serving size of peaches

Lunch: Small plate of Nachos

Afternoon snack: serving size of yogurt

Dinner: Special K with Rice Milk

Dessert: 2 cups of popcorn.

8 glasses of water drank

60 minutes on eliptical, 10 min. of level 2

Breakfast:  Special K cereal and rice milk

Lunch: Calzone with small salad

Dinner: Special K cereal and rice milk

Dessert: 3 gluten free vanilla waffers.

Water: 8 glasses drank

Exercise: 1 hour on eliptical (15 min. on level 2)

Exercising kicked my butt last night.  I wanted to stop after 50 minutes, but kept on going.  Noticing side pain when going backwards on eliptical at level 2, so decreased resistance and was ok.  (not sure whats going on with that).  Inteneded on going to good time charlies for salad lunch, but place is closed for remodling and pizza house was closest thing available on timed lunch hour :(.  Oh well. As long as I’m doing 2 meals of cereal and one big meal of not really counting what i’m doing, I should be ok.  Not sure next time I’ll be able to weigh myself.  Probably not until the weekend of the 23rd when going  home to saginaw ugh!

Here I am again.  121 pounds and counting.  I’m not quiet sure how that happened seeing that when I went to the doctors office 3 weeks ago I was 117.  But, thats how my body is in the last two years.  I can gain and lose 5 pounds like a yo yo.  I have seen myself gain 3 pounds in a matter of a week, which is just completely annoying.  I’ve had this blog for quiet some time and its really interesting to read my ups and downs. It looks like this time of year last time I was complaining about my winter choices of food.  Why does the winter do this to us?? Because its Michigan and its so flipping cold outside I don’t ever feel like hoping in the car, going to the gym, and coming out sweating and freezing at the same time.  This year unlike my past years, I haven’t had many bites on having someone else take a class or go with me.  I miss my pilates class tremendously, but time and money has seemed to have got the better of most.  I do have a Pilates DVD on my Netflix que, as I have had a friend tell me thats all she does now at home and doesn’t even go to the gym anymore.  So! I’ll try that.  I”ve also got my grocery list started for the things I ate the last time I was watching what I ate back in September.  Lots of fruits and veggie’s! small portions of meat, and NO bread.  Bread is my #1 gain weight factor and have had this problem since i gained 30 pounds when I was 20 years old.  When I went on Atkins and lost 24 pounds, I realized how fast you can drop when you ditch the bread.

So tomorrow’s blog will reflect my eating habits from today, etc.  If you scroll down to August and September 2006 entries you can see what my eating pattern was.  Luckily, with BF now moved in, I think we’ll both be able to ween off fast food and make things a little easier on the calories!