Monday - BOTT Cafe & Cardio

Hi BOTTers,

This weekend I read an excerpt from Melissa Gilbert's new book that talks about her life and includes her alcoholism.  One of the things she said about her drinking really hit with me about my eating.  She said that "Drinking was the calm from the daily storm inside my head."  Emotional eating and overeating did the same thing for me.  It helps to silence those negative messages of that running tape we have going on that never seems to stop.

Here's my check-in:

CARDIO:  Treadmill

FOOD:

Cottage cheese
Vegetable strips
Morningstar soy sausages (4) with side salad and light dressing
Cinnamon Toast Pretzels
Egg Beaters with peppers and onions
Jalapeno Mustard Pretzels
Power Crunch bar

Have a marvelous Monday as all of us BOTT!!

Cathy

Morning Cathy and BOTTers...

What a weekend!! I got SO much physical exercise, helping my brother move his house a half hour away to his new place on Saturday, then just endless rushing around and errands on Sunday. I got 17,000 steps in Sat, not to mention all the heavy lifting in the heat, and sunday I got over 14,000 steps in. I feel good, if sore and tired, but I'm hoping all this physical activity will help on the scale later. I know I have to give it a few days to level out and show any kinda difference, since I'm sure I'm retaining water. I sweat like a pig Sat.

Cardio - Get at least 10,000 steps in. Seems like a cakewalk now. I may up the number soon.

Food -
B - Fiber choice 32% fiber english muffin with 1 morning star blackbean burger and 3 "cracker barrel slices" cheddar. Sooooooooo good!!! and filling.
L - Chicken and green veggies
S - apple slices and rasins
D - BLT's (mine on flax wraps)

Good Morning everyone! I finally received a diagnosis from the doctor on Friday, he is saying hypoglycemia. He had me do a glucose tolerance test Friday morning and 2 hours in I passed out again. The lab my blood sugar was dangerously low but would not give me a number, she said the doctor would call me today with the results. The doctor did call on Friday and said I was hypoglycemic and he would call today to talk about diet and exercise.

Cardio: 30 Minutes on treadmill
Food:

B-Ham & Egg Beaters, Whole Wheat Toast
S-Dry Roasted Edamame, Light String Cheese
L-Low Carb wrap w/chicken & cheese, Broccoli w/hummus
S-Babybels w/turkey on WASA Crispbread
D-Ham & Cheese stromboli, salad
S-Light soy milk

1247 Calories, 104 Carbs (75 Net), 43 Fat, 110 Protein
100 oz water and vitamins

Hope everyone has a great Monday!

Jennifer,
I'm happy that they figured out the problem.  Hopefully you will be able to get this under control soon.

Take care,
Deb

I am quite sure I would not "tolerate" a glucose tolerance test well. May get a second opionion as my Dr. thinks I ok even though I have not had the test. A1C is like 4.8. Guess I am successfully controlling my symptoms with diet most of the time. Will look forward to hearing what your plan includes.

Jennifer - I'm so glad they are finally getting to the bottom of what your problem is.  I guess if you have to pass out, the lab is a fine place to do it LOL

I had a great weekend.  My husband and I rode recumbent three-wheel bicycles with some friends on Sunday.  That's always fun.  Saturday didn't go quite as planned as all of a sudden I had a huge energy drain so did not do the walking I had planned to do.  Hated to miss it because I have a new walking GPS that's supposed to work even in a forest or around (not in, but around) tall buildings.  I think the problem was that it was way too long between my morning snack and my lunch.  At any rate, I'm fine now.

Am having a good BOTT day and have already climbed 4 flights of stairs.  Plan to walk after work if it isn't raining.  Right now we have some rain and a lot of thunder.  At the very least, I will climb 6 more flights of stairs.

Am eating a perfect BOTT 1320 calorie diet.

So, as you can plainly see, all is right with my world - as I hope it is with yours

Hi Botters!
I had a pretty active weekend.  With the beautiful weather we had lots of gardening and outdoor things to be done.  I plan on working out this afternoon.  My food:
Breakfast - fage w/b.n. fit granola
Snack - almonds
Lunch - 1/2 chicken and cheese roll
Snack - fruit and cheese
Dinner - T.J.'s buffalo burger on Healthy Life roll
Snack - protein ice cream
Have a great day!
Deb
L

We had a great 4th!  We sat up on the roof of my work parking garage and watched the fireworks over downtown Houston.  Plus if you tuned into the arrow 93.7 there was sychronized music to go along with the fireworks.

Exercise:  Don't know what cuz I don't have the new YMCA schedule but I am headed to the gym in 15 min. Hopefully mat pilates but if not I'll hit the elliptical.

Food:
B- apple with Naturally More Peanutbutter
S- 1/2 Atkins Mocha Latte Protein shake
L- 1 Shrimp and Avocado Spring roll with a light smear of peanut sauce
     Village style Greek Salad (tomotoes, red onions, 1 olive, cucumber, banana pepper)
S- Half of a yogurt with 5 blackberries and a pinch of pecans
S- Village style Greek Salad (tomotoes, red onions, cucumber) mixed w/
     2 tbsp Edamame pureed with wasabi
S- 1/2 Atkins Mochal Latte protein shake
D- 4 oz baked tilapia with Teff flour crust
     topped with mango peach salsa
     Vegetable medley (whatever's in my freezer, hopefully brussel sprouts)

I have already had 5 glasses of water so I'll do one after the gym and one after dinner and that'll have to do.  Already did my vitamins.