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24 January 2012

OMG this is so tough. Fell off the recording wagon again. Finished up my Wii Active 1 30 day challenge, and my Wii Active 2 is broken still, and I don't have the money to replace it yet... and so, I'm stuck doing the Wii More Active, which I was playing for like, a year... it's boring. I guess I could try a DVD but I like the interactive-ness of the Wii.

So, I'm going to try to do that tonight. Also, my dad had surgery and is in the hospital, hopefully he'll get out tomorrow - but he sounds like he's doing okay. They're in Michigan, and I just can't get away without ditching a shit-ton of responsibilities, and my family is #1 in my book but my mom keeps insisting that it's not necessary for me to come up there... I dunno. I may try to go up this weekend.

So, now I'm trying to get back and record and workout. Still have been trying to hit my steps. My boyfriend and I dance through dinner and kitchen cleaning now. It makes cooking more fun for both of us, and I get lots of steps in, usually aerobic steps which is great.

Anyway, just feeling a little... stressed again. Money is tight as usual, food in the fridge is there, but it's to the point where we need to try and use what we have and make the most of everything... probably good for my diet, not a lot of snacks... lol... UGH.

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19 January 2012

So, I'm sitting at school on campus right now, trying to figure out what my issue is - I don't feel like I've been losing much weight, and maybe I haven't been good about recording my food like I should, but I really don't think I'm going over my calories or anything.

We did start eating more natural food - we cut out the use of splenda and sugar, and use honey now. We cut out using butter and margarine by using olive oil. Now, my boyfriend was getting a little carried away with the olive oil - using it like, all the time, trying to "fry" in his cast iron, but I told him to knock that shit off and measure the amount of EVOO he uses in each meal - so, now I'll have a better idea of how much of that.

But I've also been basically snacking on our home-made granola. It's not really granola, we just take oats, mix them with chopped almonds and for like 1 cup of oats (2 servings), we mix in... maybe max 1/4 cup of honey, usually less - just enough to get it lightly coated and sweet - then we bake it. The oats don't stick together, there isn't that much honey, but it's a nice snack food - and I think it'd be EXCELLENT with some milk - like a toasted oat cereal, but literally, it's three ingredients - whole oats, raw almonds and raw honey. Bam - done. So I've been eating a lot more fiber with the oats. We also have been opting for cheeses - good cheese, which I know has alot of calories in it, but Wasa crackers and goat cheese are amazing. So, now I'm just trying to use as little cheese as I can and still get the effect. Today I will NOT forgot to record anything.

And I don't know if anyone will read this, but I have one issue with today: My mom made some homemmade split pea soup. I think, she just boiled down the ham bone we had for Christmas dinner in water, then added the peas, carrots, celery and onions. From what I've read - something like chicken stock, made from boiling down a chicken and then straining it, has very few calories. I wonder if it's the same for "Ham stock"? I'm trying to make sure I recorded my soup right - I want to be able to eat recipes that someone else made without it messing up my whole day. So anyway - I don't think my mom strained the ham stock for the fat because we were freezing it and whatnot - but honestly, when it settles out, there seems to be very little fat on the surface. So if anyone has an idea of how to record this better - I'd be game to hear it.

I hope I get to finish my Wii Workout 30 day challenge tonight. I've still been getting my steps in, except for the day after our 10 mile hike... that day I only got 8000... but, yesterday I was a little bummed cause I only got 19 minutes of aerobic steps in. I guess it's just getting adjusted to the whole school-workout schedule again after being off for so long. I just don't feel myself losing anything lately. I feel like I've been a lot better about sticking to my calories... but... damn. I'd like to see myself get back to my stupid goal weight, I'm a bit frustrated. Makes me wonder if all the junk in diet food makes you shed weight because your body just can't incorporate it or something... Ugh.

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17 January 2012

Okay so I've noticed at the end of the month, when we're broke and eating the 'scraps' of what we have left in the fridge and pantry, that sometimes I don't use this site like I should. One of my big hang ups, is that my dad makes this amazing meat spaghetti sauce... and it's like his secret recipe - and I have no idea what all is in it, but we have lots of it in our freezer... so when those types of food comes out in the meals, I don't know how to record them really.

We hiked like... 8.7 miles on Sunday. Monday I didn't hit my steps, I was at like 8000 or 8500 and I just didn't make it. We made home-made crepes, it was super fun - we didn't use any sugar or splenda in the recipe, and just used greek yogurt mixed with mashed real fruit and real cocoa powder to make the fillings... So, yeah, that was kind of hard to record yesterday too.

School started today. If I'm up to it, I'm going to try to record my lunch for tomorrow tonight, since I've already made it (tuna sandwich with horseradish) and then I have no excuses.

Tonight we sacrificed two of our chickens - we have three baby chicks growing and believe one is a rooster, so another rooster had to go (one that causes trouble anyway), and one of our older hens who wasn't producing eggs anymore. Let me just say, I understand where the phrase "tough old bird" comes from. Our birds are basically free-range. They have an enclosure, but it's a large enclosure where they live with our goats, so they run around in there all day, and then sleep in a locked coop for the night, so I consider them free-range. If our neighbor wasn't a psychopath, they wouldn't even be in an enclosure, except to protect them from hawks and eagles.

ANYWAY. We have 2 duck eggs in the incubator that I really think might have a chance at hatching. It's our first try, and we're using an old fashioned, manual, zoo-grade ostrich egg incubation unit, so, we have to hand rotate and monitor humidity, etc... It's not like the fancy-pants new ones. But if we can hatch even one, I'll be so excited.

Going to do what I like to call, "Stepping it out" later - which is listening to music, while I watch TV and dance. Yes, it's my equivalent to using a treadmill, since I don't have one. Was supposed to get one, but apparently the thing was kinda finicky in working, and I wasn't going to buy a treadmill that dies the first time I use it. That's a big piece of equipment to deal with getting rid of when it doesn't work, so I'll just save up for a mediocre NEW treadmill sometime. But dancing is fun until then. As long as I'm moving.

I was kind of stressed about it being the first day of classes, no reason really, just... been off on break for a while, gotta get back into it, so I'm not sure I'm going to have the energy to workout-workout with my Wii tonight, I want to make sure I go to bed at a reasonable time because I'm trying to set my 'body schedule' to be up early in the morning and ready for classes...

Okay so I got my steps in (14000+) may try to update my exercise log on here...

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14 January 2012

Okay, this isn't a big loss, but it's the first time in a few days that the scale has moved at all... so yeah, I'm going to record it. I fell back a few days when my phone started acting up and I couldn't use it to record food right away, but I tried to go back and record what I could remember. Back on today since I'm around the computer.

The eating natural thing is going well, haven't had too many processed things but, we have to finish up what we have in the fridge before we just, buy new things - like the last of the margarine and some frozen meals, etc. So, once all that kind of food is gone, we'll be able to move foward.

Stressed about money, it gets tight between paychecks, my bf just got a new contract this month so, we're trying to get back on track with his new stuff, by Feb we should be just fine, but it's rocky this month. We did good over Xmas though, didn't use a credit card ONCE the entire month. I'm trying not to less stress dictate my eating. Since it's more whole foods, and requires more prep work to eat, I seem to eat less. I guess "quick snacks" aren't the best option to have in the house...

Feels like a lazy Saturday. Still hitting my steps each day. Gotta get better about recording them on here, I have been lax about recording my exercise on here because I feel good hitting my steps each day and usually it's 30+ minutes of aerobic steps and then 4 days a week I do a Wii Workout, so, I feel like I'm being pretty active and don't need to record like, "sitting", "driving", etc...

Weigh-in: 138.7 lb

lost so far: 41.3 lb

still to go: 3.7 lb

Diet followed reasonably well

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09 January 2012

So, now that I've started trying to journal again and use this site and be on top of what I'm eating... I'm slowly seeing changes. Not down much, but honestly, I was up to 141, not just 140, though I couldn't bring myself to put that up there, so at least now I'm at 139.1.

My boyfriend and I have been trying to make a new diet change - we're going for more "one ingredient" foods - natural foods. So, it's going to be slow trying to get all the processed foods out of our diet, because, I love Pretzel M&Ms and Splenda...

But I'm trying to eat more good "fats" too - like Olive Oil and Real Butter. Yes, I said REAL BUTTER. The body can't process that fake margarine stuff, everything in it is basically a foreign "toxin" to your body that your liver has to stop burning fat in order to kick into it's other function, which is removing toxins from the body - so, while it's worrying about removing all the weird stuff they put into fake butter, it can't be burning fat. So, when you eat real butter, your body can burn that fat, instead of "cleanse" it from your body.

We're also trying to eat more grains and get away from whole wheat. I know right? Another "healthy" food, but not really. When you eat whole wheat, your body turns that into sugar, the kind of sugar that it really likes to hold on to, instead of the kind of sugar that it likes to burn for energy. What we are trying to find, and haven't yet - is bread made of rice or spelt. NOT flax bread. I HATE that stuff, it tastes like cardboard. So until I can find that kind of bread, I'm trying to substitute other grains, some very low ingredient tortillas and crackers like Wasa are working so far.

Also trying to stay away from Vegetable Oil, Corn Syrup and Processed Soy Products. My boyfriend was so upset when I started bringing home Almond Milk to drink - he wanted nothing to do with it, so when I told him that Almond Milk was out and Real Skim Milk was back in, he was happy.

I learned that with these natural foods, I can actually eat a lot more calories than I was consuming when I was eating "junky" foods. So, I had my diet set at 1600, and I may try to get closer to that with eating these natural foods. My only issue is protein again, we bought a large tub of plain greek yogurt, and have a mango and some frozen raspberries, bananas, chopped almonds, etc - so I think I can mix those into it and get a higher protein meal (not all at once, or maybe all at once!)

So that's my new plan. I've been really surprised at how quickly my boyfriend has been like, on the band-wagon for this change. The natural foods ARE costing us more money, but we're going to try to combat that by buying grains such as millet, rice and quinoa in bulk and using them for multiple meals and multiple preparations.

My one major issue is where to find MEAT without anything preserving it. We are in farm country, so of course, we could slaughter our own chickens, but until the spring season comes, there aren't a lot of chickens for sale down here... and I'd much rather slaughter someone else's birds than the birds we've raised by hand - so, that can be an option for chicken. We are also trying to hunt down a beef cow, and potentially buy it and split the cost with someone for it to be taken to the slaughterhouse and processed - we don't have the kind of tools to slaughter a cow here. We've slaughtered a goat, and half feel like we want to get another male goat just for the purpose of breeding our females and then eating him... I just get such a quick attachment to any animal that is not a total douchebag (as in, our last male goat, was a COMPLETE piece of work... dangerous, mean, smelly, nasty... he HAD to go.) So, I'm trying to find stuff at Kroger that is "more natural" but again, cost is something we're battling with this change.

If anyone has any good insights on this stuff, please - post. I'd love to hear them, this is kind of a new endeavor of really being conscious about some ingredients within food, and trying to move away from packaged food. But, I'm not sure I can give up my M&Ms and Fresca quite yet... I suppose, everything in moderation, right?

Weigh-in: 139.1 lb

lost so far: 40.9 lb

still to go: 4.1 lb

Diet followed reasonably well

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