December 2009
1 post
Continuing my journey with a new focus. =)
New “year”, a new focus, new goals.
I know that I must learn to be organized and have a balance in my life, but I never end up taking the steps to really do it! I always put my health behind and succumb to the worldly pleasures, particularly junk food and laziness.
I have a trip planned for next year. I will fly to Canada to meet my niece in person, visit my sister and my brother-in-law. This...
October 2009
6 posts
Day 1 of 74 - 218.4 - 1400 Calories - Estimate...
Breakfast: 261.5 calories
Two Whole Grain with Raisins Bread Slices (154), 1 Tbsp Light Margarine (30), Turkey Breast Ham (75), 2.5 Cups Water
Snack: 60 calories
Two Small Apple Bananas (60)
Lunch: 517
2 Cups Boiled Yucca (272), 2 Deep Fried Chicken Frankfurter (175), 1/3 Tomato and Lettuce Salad (20), 2 Bubble Gum (40), 2.5 Cups Crystal Light (10)
Snack: 72
6 Soda Cracker squares (72),...
October 19, 2009 - Back on Track - 1400 Calories...
Hello Guys,
I’m back, ready to continue my journey. I’m on a 1400 calorie plan this time, under the guidance of a nutritionist (no, not that other crazy b——-). My goal is to be on 210 by my birthday (5 weeks) and 200 by the end of the year (10 weeks).
It is really doable; I only have to be organized and disciplined. Will do exercise in the following pattern 2 days - off -...
Lab Test Results Arrived! :)
My lab tests results came in today.
I’m happy to know that:
I’m not prediabetic.
My thyroids are fine.
I’m not anemic.
I’m perfectly crazy! :)
I’m having problems managing lipids
My sister and I inherited the genetics which cause us to not manage lipids correctly from our mother and she from her father. This is treatable with medicine, but I will give the...
“ It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop. ”
– Wisdom of Confucius
I'M BETTER OFF ALONE! - (regarding diet and...
After my hiatus I went to a new nutritionist. She is a doctor and says she also studied nutrition and such. A friend of my husband recommended her and I was feeling really positive. But by the second day it just went wrong. This experience just taught me to continue doing my stuff alone.
I had such a bad experience! Let me tell you what I can remember…
First appointment with her was on Monday at...
“They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them...”
– Carl W. Buechner (via quotewhore)
September 2009
38 posts
12 Day Hiatus + New Nutritional Program...
I had to again put work as priority, my boss wants to do some stuff and he doesn’t care if you are already busy… but okay. This will end this month for sure. Will give a last effort this weekend and everything to a point that day by day I can continue providing the results to my boss.
This Monday 28 I have my appointment with a Doctor, specialized in Weight Loss and Metabolic...
Results Week # 4: IDEM - 223.0
Scale says I’m still in 223.0, although if I’m not wrong I think the fat % went up.
The end of last week has been crazy and this week will be the same. I guess I have to finally get organized, as on Monday, September 28 Im going to a Weight Management Dr., no, not a nutricionist. A General Medicine Doctor specialized in Weight Control and Metabolic Syndrome.
So I guess I will finish...
Menu - Day 26 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Not from the best sources… I’m tired. I hope to be able to finish responding the 150 emails I have at the office. This is so tiring and depressing.
I took a nap in the afternon for 3.5 hours, and I felt like I didn’t slept at all. I’m feeling like blue. I have stress. I need to organize myself better.
Tomorrow I’m going to work…thiking about the food…...
Scale Progress Days 25, 26, 27
25: 221.0
Had to wake up early work till late, didn’t had a chance to cook, guess I knew what was coming.
26: 222.4
27: 223.6 :( Aghhhhh!
Lesson learned? I hope so.
Note: Keep healthy stuff near and work on my willpower.
Menu - Day 24 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Scale: 222.2
Day by day it is becoming easier to keep within my calories and with so much work I have right now I don’t have time to even think about junk food. I guess that is good, right? :)
Breakfast - Total Calories: 310
Lunch (x 2) Total Calories: 660
Dinner Total Calories: 265
No exercise.
Menu - Day 23 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Ate correctly, but not in a timely fashion. Got bloated due to this. Stressfull day.
Exercise: 45 min / fasted.
Feeling good, just tired due to the bad sleep / going to bed late / waking up early. Haven’t had chance to recover, hopefully tomorrow! :)
Menu - Day 22 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Scale: 223.0
Breakfasts x 2: 286 calories each
Milk 1/2 cup - 58 calories
Cinni Minis 30 grams - 125 calories
Pineapple - 60 Calories
Cheese - 43 calories.
Lunch x 2: 275 calories each
Homemade Chilli 3 onz - 100 calories
Spaghetti - 85 calories
Carrots 3 onz - 30 calories
Cookie: 60 calories
Snack + Dinner: 265 calorise
Snack: Organic Cheese Puffs: 130 calories
Dinner: Fried...
“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s wheter you get up.”
– Vince Lombardi
Results Week # 3: Down 1.8 pounds! :)
Scale: 223.0 (According the scale I started in 44.x fat %, went down to 41.x% and up again 44.x%)
Guess I will do exercise 3 days this week, Tuesday, Thrusday and Sunday, at least for 30 minutes.
I will keep my “cheat” meail to only 2 this week (between Monday and Friday). My big problem is the weekend. Need to cook every day. -_-
If I eat correctly (good food), the 1400 calorie...
Menu - Day 21 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Scale: 222.8
I’m not going to enter into details. I just know that, Subway is no longer an option. My stomach hates it, to much calories, you can say X instruction to the sandwich person and they will do what they want.
Going to stay in the 1400 this week. Already did my menu for tomorrow.
Let’s see which will be the official weigh in tomorrow.
:D
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that...”
– Wiston Churchill
Food / Weight Loss / Exercise - Current Status
My New Food Parameters FOOD: I have decided to make a small food catalog of the food I’m currently using/eating. I think It might help some people and myself when I’m not near them to see the nutritional facts. It will take some time to build it up. I really hate when I want or have to eat stuff that I have no idea of the nutritional facts, so in this case I search the internate and assign...
“Once you’ve met someone, you never really forget them. It just takes a while for...”
– Zeneba, Spirited Away (via movieoftheday)
Menu - Day 20 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Scale: 222.4 (this is so surreal!) (220.6 16 de Mayo de 2007) It has been 2 years and 4 months, since I had this weight. OMG. I’m so HAPPY!!!!! =) I know it is not the official weigh but still I’m really thrilled! :D Hmmm 2 and 4, 24! HA! My lucky number.
HELLO GABY! =) Thanks for the cheer! It really meas A LOT for me!
I’m starting to “hate” weekends, it is so...
Menu - Day 19 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Scale: 223.0
Breakfast 1 (300)
Lunch 1 (264)
Lunch 2 (240 m&ms + 286? popcorn + carb blocker)
Dinner 1 (310)
No exercise.
Gotta go to work tomorrow…. :(
Six meals per day? Could that be possible?
If I pretend to wake up at 6am, going to sleept at 11pm (7 hours of sleep, I feel 8 don’t work for me) that means I will be eating every 3 hours…
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
I can’t be without eating until 10pm, now imagine 11pm or 12am. I guess I will need to make some changes.
9:pm
Until this week I’m realizing this as I was waking up late and not eating the first...
Menu - Day 18 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Breakfast 1: 267 calories
Breakfast 2:224 calories
Lunch x 2: 300 calories
Oven chicken breast, rice, arepa, plantain.
Dinner: 400 calories
Snacks: 90 calories
Popsicle (45), Candy (25), Hershey (20)
Exercise: 45 minutes
Slept from 5pm to 8pm. Feeling really tired. I hope to don’t have problems to sleep now.
Menu - Day 17 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Scale: 223.8
Breakfast: 300 calories
Fried Egg (PAM) 100
Slice of Whole Grain Bread 90
Pineapple 60
Marmelade 2 Tbsp 50
Lunch x 2: 306 each, total 612
Grilled Chicken 3.25 onz, 155 cal
Rice 1.75 onz, 65 calories
Arepa 1/2, 35
Plantain 1.33 onz, 48 cal
Dinner: 587, cheat meal, used Natrol CI.
Kachitos 168
Vainilla Cookies: 150
Malt: 109
Chocolate Chip Cookie 80
Oatmeal Cookie...
Menu - Day 16 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Scale: 224.8 = Same.
Didn’t sleep well, was waking up every hour and just remembered the word “Blackberry”… sh*t. hahaha. I guess I need to get it all set up and working ASAP. I took pictures today but in the end the camera stoped working and it all went down the drain..
I’m above the 1400 for about 600 cal maybe? I don’t feel like doing exercise. I feel...
Menu - Day 15 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Scale: 224.8
Hmmm.. blame it on my BlackBerry. I0m trying to remember what I ate yesterday and got no clue…. I know I was a bit above…
I have not slept well for 3 days now, going to bed quite late. Trying to get used to my bed again. :)
Monday’s are off. No exercise today.
RESULTS WEEK # 2: Down 2.2 pounds! :)
Hello all!!
I lost 2.2 pounds this week. I’m sure it was a bit more but I’m starting my period so that affects.
I only did exercise on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. (40, 50, 60). The other days I slept late and felt without energy. Finished my pills on Saturday.
Not drinking enough water by the end of the week, I’m having problems with cold water, will have to take fresh...
“No time like the present.”
– Mrs. Manley
Menu - Day 14 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Scale: 224.0 !!!!!!!!!
Sorry guys, I’ve been busy with some errands and my new toy (BB).
I had to eat today at Subway, I ate a Spicy Italian, just found out it is 530 calories. Guess I will not eat it again! lol.
Hectic weekend. It is going to be a crazy week.
Menu - Day 13 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
HECTIC DAY. There are days when you are not in control.
Breakfast: 296
Lunch: 440
Lunch: 435
Diner: 336 (took carb pill)
Snack: 385 (took carb pill)
No exercise.
“The belly rules the mind. ”
– Spanish Proverb
Menu - Day 12 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Scale: 225.2 - I LOVE THOSE FAT AND CARB BLOCKING PILLS.
Yeah, good breakfasts. My lunches where the same soup and plantains. I took the pills for the first lunch (I remembered on time) but just now I ate the other and forgot the pills, tonight will end eating lettuce and lentils, will take the pills to be sure.
This type of food is so delicious but such a pain in the a** to count calories,...
Menu - Day 11 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Scale: 225.2.
My parents are here. I followed my menu and I’m sure I was in my 1400 calories.
BUT
I asked my mom to make me a lentil soup with drowned fried plantain (tostones). I took the fat and carb pills yesterday night before eating it.
SO DELICIOUS, there is nothing like your mom’s or grandmother’s (R.I.P) food.
Taking some for my 2 lunches, might be above my 1400...
“It’s all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.”
– Mick Jagger
Menu - Day 10 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Scale: 226.0 Breakfasts - Total Calories: 562 Cinnamon Toast Crunch 3/4 cup- 130 cal Milk 1/2 cup - 58 calo Banana 2.5 onz - 63 cal Cheese Slice - 30 cal Lunches - Total Calories: 584 Tuna 1/2 can - 62.50 cal Pasta Shells (1 onz dry) - 100 cal Mayonaise 1 Tbsp - 49 cal Carrot 1.5 onz - 17 cal Chocolate Cookie 1/4 - 22.5 cal Pineapple Chunks: 34 cal
Dinner - Total Calories : ????...
Menu - Day 9 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Scale Update: 226.2 - YAY! =)
Breakfast: Total Calories: 281. Same as yesterday.
GOSH I keep forgetting to take the photo!
Lunch (2): Total Calories: 269.50 x 2 = 539, Chickhen sausage 78 cal, Boiled Potato 3onz 74 cal, Carrot 3 onz 35 cal, 1/4 Chocolate Diet Cookie 22.5 cal, 1/2 Tbsp Olive Oil 60 cal.
Snack - Total Calories: 25, : (I had to leave the office late, so I had to eat...
RESULTS WEEK # 1: Down 2.4 pounds! :)
Hello all!!
I lost 2.4 pounds this week.
Conditions: Did 3 days 10k bike riding cardio (Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday), Woke up late, around 9am to 10am each day. Taking the pill. Doing experiments with the card and fat blockers. Not drinking enough water by the end of the week. Had to wake up early one day, sleep was altered. Flu/cold.
Lessons:
Water: Drink at least 2.5 liters per day, that...
Menu - Day 8 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Breakfast Total Calories: 281 - 3/4 Cinnamon Toast Crunch, 1/2 cup milk, 2.5 oz Banana, Fat Free Cheese slice.
Lunch (2) Total Calories: 531 (Sorry about the bite, I was hungry :p) - Tuna with Mayo Sandwich and 3 oz of Romain Lettuce
Snack Total Calories: 80 (I’ve notices I usually need to eat something sweet in all meals, no clue why). - Lollipop
Dinner Total Calories: 307...
August 2009
26 posts
Menu - Day 7 - Total Calories: Goal: 1400 -...
Ever heard of carb blockers and fat blockers? I recently learned about them. Today I bought a fat blocker. NOW HERE COMES THE TEST.
Weight today: 227.2, same as yesterday.
I’m not going to detail the calories… just watch the pics and you will know I was way over.
UPDATE: TEST RESULT - THEY WORK.
Breakfast was the usual, balanced…and then…
I used the pills first...
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Hair treatment results...gorgeous hair with OCD...
A week ago, I got a hair cut, relaxer, and a keratin treatment. It was really painful.
I have the bad habit of picking my hair scalp, that would really be a “Skin Picking OCD”. Sometimes I also pick my face too. I tend to scratch my head always, specially when watching tv or in my car (I’m usually the passenger). I thought that fighting against it for a week will help my scalp...