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I am not having a good day. It turns out that the HR dept. at my work is not going to offer me a good situation. I've been off work a month due to FMLA. I guess it's not so bad - I still have a job, I will still have excellent health insurance, and I will get to work in the daytime and have a life after 4pm. So that's good. I applied for a more senior job at my agency but I doubt they will give it to me. I don't know, I've been so psyched that I was really going to be able to break through and make a change, and it turns out that not much is changing. This whole thing has really affected my exercising, I was so pumped, thinking that my situation was going to get better. I have been running like you wouldn't believe. My doctor's appt. went okay, I have gained a pound and half since my last visit, and she wasn't too harsh with me. I have to go back and see her in a month. I really hope that I can lose some weight in a month. I reset my RDI to 1400 calories - I was not losing on 1500, but getting back to 1300 seems like total deprivation. Maybe a compromise on 1400 calories will be the magic pill. I ate all the food I can eat with breakfast, lunch and snacks, and I can't eat again until dinner. I don't want to eat dinner too early, because I get totally hungry at night. I have some stuff I need to do - drop off my dog at my parent's house so he can get a teeth cleaning tomorrow, and go see some basketball with my favorite basketball player James Harden while I drink some diet coke at the Sportsbar. So I don't plan on eating until 9:30pm. I have a steak all ready to go, and I am going to have it with broccoli and a sweet potato. All I have to do is make it until 9:30 and then I can have this awesome meal. It's hard to sit in the sportsbar when everyone around you is having po' boys and buffalo wings, but I make do. I have also walked 5 miles today. I feel like I've made a deal with myself - if I am not going to the gym to run, or to take a hard class, then on my "days off" I need to be walking. So I walked 4 miles myself, down by the river and it was very nice. Then I came home and immediately walked the dog for one mile. I feel like I got some really nice exercise. Just walking the dog for 30 minutes is no big deal at this point, but let me tell you, walking 5 miles in one day IS a big deal. For anyone who says that walkers don't get the kind of quality exercise that runners or other athletes do, they are full of it. Yeah, a 30 minute walk is probably not going to raise your heart rate or do a tremendous amount for you. But if you walked like this every day, or at least 5 days a week, it would be really good exercise. I like walking a lot, especially since I rarely venture outside. I tried running outside yesterday and that was a disaster. For some reason, I am really attached to the treadmill. I keep telling myself that I am going to try the indoor track. We'll see. But anyway, I did a lot of walking today and I can see how people who are dedicated walkers are also very fit.
Diet Calendar Entries for 28 November 2012:
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1746 kcal
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Fat: 95.17g | Prot: 76.98g | Carb: 167.21g.
Breakfast: red delicious apples. Lunch: Kraft Light Mayonnaise, Sara Lee Delightful 100% Whole Wheat Bread, Oscar Mayer turkey bacon, romaine lettuce, tomato. Dinner: feta cheese, balsamic vinaigrette, romaine lettuce, cucumber, black olives, tomato, broccoli, croutons, chicken. Snacks/Other: baby carrots, HUnts sugar free vanilla pudding, Atkins Endulge Nutty Fudge Brownie, reduced fat string cheese, Hunt's sugar free chocolate pudding, no sugar added fudgesicle, Atkins Endulge Nutty Fudge Brownie. more...
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2679 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Driving - 2 hours and 30 minutes, Sitting - 4 hours, Desk Work - 4 hours, Walking (moderate) - 3/mph - 2 hours, Resting - 3 hours and 30 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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