Tuesday, October 8th, Cardio & Cafe

Good Morning Botters:

I am loving the chilly mornings and the sunny afternoons, my kind of weather.  My boss is out of town this week so the cat is playing around some.  My eats for today are:

Breakfast:  Coffee & Miralax

Breakfast #2:  Oatmeal

Snack:  Vitatop Brownie

Lunch:  Quest Protein Bar

Snack:  Vitatop Brownie

Dinner:  Steak & Cheese Lean Hot Pocket 

Snack:  NSA Ice Cream Bar

Exercise:  I will be running around the office today and I have two meetings at the school tonight, It is College night, so that will be about all the exercise that I get.

I hope everybody has a wonderful Tuesday and remembers to take their vits and fluids.

Have fun while you can, 

With my last week business trip, and then 3-day wedding - my drinking was out of control... (way too much -not getting completely drank = but drinking a lot during - along the later part of the days...) 

Even with great food choices (I know better than to eat carbs - severe RH) , I ate a lot of food while drinking... (alcohol allows me to eat and eat and eat..).  Of course the scale was not so nice to me today... I am up and really up there.. 5-6 lbs... And some is probably water weight- (my poor swollen liver) but some is just pure fat... 

So back on the  program.. I do want to get rid of the puffiness and swelling.. and I do need to give my liver a break... . 

Eats: 

 coffee and some more coffee

SF jello
​protein shake

protein shake
jello
tuna and tomatoes

dinner: not sure: but some proteins and veggies.. 

You will knock that weight right back off.  Probably, only 2 lbs. is actual gain and the rest is water weight.  Two days eating that way and you will be back on track.

Saw a great quote this morning  "Nothing ruins a good Friday like realizing it''s only Tuesday!" Yep, that's my morning. Raining and blowing like crazy here this morning. Yikes!! It would have been so easy to call in sick this morning and just curl up on the couch for a Netflix marathon today.

Today is weigh in day at WW. I've not got a good feeling about this at all. Way too much stress eating last week and over the weekend. Feeling quite bloated this morning.

The plan for today looks like this:

commute:  Coffee

Breakfast:  Cheerios & FF lactose free milk

snack:    apple

Lunch:    1/2 Panera Bread Salad leftover from yesterday

snack:    Greek Yogurt

Dinner:  Chicken & Rice Soup

Lots and Lots of Decaf tea throughout the day. Exercise is going to hopefully be some Wii Fit tonight.

- Iris

Hi Iris.  Some times we have to face the mirror (scale).  Is your chicken and rice soup homemade or bought.  I was just thinking if it is store bought to watch out for the sodium for it will make you retain water like crazy and show up on the scale.  I would have been lucky if I could have remained the same after the weekend you had.

Homemade ---I can't handle the salt in the canned ones. The lower sodium options just don't have enough flavor for me to justify the added expense. At home I overload it with garlic, onions, black pepper, celery and carrots. And lots of chicken. A very small amount of brown rice that's been cooked to death is about all of the rice my pouch will tolerate.

Morning Ya'll

I am on day 2 of the 5DPT and I am dragging, a little tired. I had a migraine last evening making think it is the caffeine I have been drinking daily getting back at me.

B Shake

S Shake

L Shake

D Warm broth with protein

PS - I have a cool 24 oz bottle that had a battery operated spinner, much easier than bringing my bullet to work.

Yep!  That caffeine can be a real b*tch!  Good luck today!

Good morning BOTTs.

I'm on Day 2 of the 5 Day Pouch Test today.  Yesterday was not as bad as I was expecting, so there's a chance that I may go ballistic today with carb crashing.  I'm not giving in tho.  I brought an extra protein shake, just in case I get "that carb feeling".  If I feel too tempted to blow it, I will instead have a protein shake.  That way I know that it will buy me some time, and by then, I will have satisfied my head hunger without doing any damage to my plan this week.  There, now that it's in writing, it's a done deal.  : )

Breakfast:  protein drink

Lunch:  protein drink

Snack: protein drink  (carb cravings usually kick in at about 3pm)

Dinner: protein drink

I didn't get much water in yesterday so I will have to make a point of it today.  We are in a Santa Ana here which means that hot wind is blowing from the East (Desert).  Makes the skin super dry, lips chapped, cuticles ragged, and tons of static in the air which makes for interesting hair styling in the mornings. I think I will see if I can counteract some of the effects of the weather with drinking extra water today.

Have a great day, friends.

Gaby

Good luck today Gaby.  Y'all have the static and we have the humidity.  On those days, hair in a bun with lots of hairspray!