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Arrow going wrong direction!! A couple of days of too high carb percentage can throw me off-track -- need to concentrate on keeping it in balance. I am doing fine on total calories, but it's really easy to let the percentages get away from me. I do find it difficult to balance a low-fat heart-healthy diet with the low carbs I need for other problems. (Getting old is sooo much fun!! Yeah, right!) I think I'm also affected by not being able to sleep well the past several nights. It's too easy to "zone out" in front of the TV and then not be able to sleep when I go to bed. ('Cause late nite TV is sooo good!! lol) I still have 2 months before the next set of labs, so I have time to make a difference, just gotta' work on it! On the other hand, I'm wearing a pair of size 10 jeans I couldn't get over my hips a couple of weeks ago, so I have proof I'm doing something right!! Back to tweak the menu for the next several days!
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154.6 lb
Lost so far: 10.4 lb.
Still to go: 24.6 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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Diet Calendar Entries for 18 May 2016:
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1065 kcal
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Fat: 63.02g | Prot: 60.72g | Carb: 74.89g.
Breakfast: Coffee with Skim Milk. Lunch: Cottage Cheese (Nonfat), Fresh & Easy Pineapple Chunks. Dinner: Fresh Express Garden Salad, Newman's Own Lite Italian Dressing, Green Giant Hass Avocado, Nature's Harvest Sunflower Kernels, Sweet Onions, Cucumber (Peeled), Salmon Loaf. Snacks/Other: Jell-O Sugar Free Black Cherry, Watermelon, Blue Diamond Whole Natural Almonds. more...
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2578 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Grocery Shopping - 30 minutes, Cooking - 15 minutes, Walking (moderate) - 3/mph - 16 minutes, Yard Work (gardening) - 15 minutes, Watching TV/Computer - 8 hours, Sleeping - 8 hours, Resting - 5 hours and 24 minutes, Reading - 1 hour, Driving - 20 minutes. more...
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gaining 1.4 lb a week
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You got this, panda! Are you recording your meals after you eat, or pre-planning and then eating. What I mean is that I find I do way better with my fat/protein/carb numbers if I go into my food journal BEFORE I eat and enter my planned meal. That way I can tweak it before I eat it and make the numbers just right (take out a little of this and add a little of that). Congrats on the well fitting size 10!! You are doing it!!! Keep going....:)
18 May 16 by member: ImLaura
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Panda!! Your size 10's fit!! Need I say more?
18 May 16 by member: smartygirlCA
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Thanks, ImLaura. I do pre-plan my menus, usually for several days in advance so I know what I need to have on hand, and so the percentages are where they need to be. My problem comes when I end up not eating some of my planned snacks or something (like almonds, which are higher in fat), so my carbs ends up being a higher percentage than they should be, even though total calories are lower. If my fat percentages were planned higher, it would give me more flexibility. However, with a completely blocked carotid artery and Afib, the doctors have all said to watch the fat closely (especially the saturated kind), so it's difficult to balance everything. But who said life was easy, right? (lol)
18 May 16 by member: pandasmom
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