I dislike the notebook I've been writing all my weight and performance stuff in. Well...I dislike that it's defective and doesn't close correctly. So I bought a new one today. I've been transferring all the information this morning and decided to have my cheat day today. I'm going to eat squash and corn chips and maybe some coconut ice cream and whatever else sounds good in the house, but I'm not going to go buy anything. I don't really care about cheat day this week and there aren't any big cheats I want. I'm just doing it today to get it out of the way.
I want my weight to go back to normal—whatever that is. I want my hormones to stop messing with me and I want to not be so sensitive to food. I can't control those things though, so I'm taking my cheat day today (because I can control that) and maybe in a couple days when my hormones even out, the effects of the cheats will have worn off too. In the meantime I'll concentrate on the other things I can control—sleep and performance, which I feel really great about this week.
eta:
I won't be documenting my food intake here today. The pictures will still be posted to flickr as usual.
Showing posts with label cheat day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cheat day. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Tempting Tuesday.
It's much harder to keep a running log of my food intake on a Tuesday, then a Saturday. So I didn't even try. Suffice it to say that I had a pint of ice cream, a small slice of homemade cheesecake that needs more than a little work, 6-7 slices of deli salami, a tablespoon of Craisins that made my throat hurt, a super small bite of chocolate that wasn't very good, a shared bag of Food Should Taste Good olive tortilla chips, the single best sushi (all gluten-free, eel and bagel roll) I've ever eaten, and then a small amount of the normal everyday things I usually try to eat.
Aside from the sushi, the day was mostly uneventful. In fact, if it wasn't for my earlier lightbulb moments, I would have called today a wash in the food department. It's almost a sad day when sushi is your best cheat. It barely feels like a cheat at all. Back to normal tomorrow.
Oh, and this was the last cheat day of month one. There should technically have been four, but I was already reserving my last weekend cheat day for a Groundhogs Day feast. Gotta celebrate those cute little buggers!
Next Monday I'll post my official inch/pound loss for the month.
Aside from the sushi, the day was mostly uneventful. In fact, if it wasn't for my earlier lightbulb moments, I would have called today a wash in the food department. It's almost a sad day when sushi is your best cheat. It barely feels like a cheat at all. Back to normal tomorrow.
Oh, and this was the last cheat day of month one. There should technically have been four, but I was already reserving my last weekend cheat day for a Groundhogs Day feast. Gotta celebrate those cute little buggers!
Next Monday I'll post my official inch/pound loss for the month.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Treat Day Saturday.
I've decided to make my cheat day's relatively clean. Okay, not clean clean, but cleaner. No gluten at least. No HFCS. No partially hydrogenated oils. No artificial colors or flavors. No frivolous dairy. These things notoriously make me sick and it takes days to recover from them. By the time I'm feeling 100% again, cheat day has come back around again. So, today is going to be calculated cheats in hopes of this next week being more tolerable than last week.
I've also hit that low phase where my energy is lacking and I generally just feel blah, as my body acclimates to the food I'm eating again. So I'm just trying to chug along and stay strict to my routine and wait for it to pass. And it will pass. Eventually. Silver-lining girl has been hard to summon this week. Some days I've had to just trust in the routine and ignore all else.
Today, I'm trying to enjoy the little things. Like seeing the look on my sweet girl's face as I sneak her a bite of my Häagen-Dazs.
8:30am
glass of grapefruit juice
9am
three eggs scrambled*
three gluten and dairy free pancakes
2pm
hamburger*
lentils with kerrygold
sauteed cauliflower and broccoli
olive tortilla chips (I bought these on a whim. The bag is smallish compared to regular chips and I liked that they were pretty clean. They are phenomenal!)
3pm
bowl of Häagen-Dazs chocolate peanut butter ice cream
4:30pm
corned beef and cabbage*
bowl of ice cream (C'mon! How else will I finish the pint today?)
8:15pm
5 dates (I was impatient with my huge-ass sweet potato that took forever to cook. I went through the ingredients of all the Halloween candy and everything had things on my "no" list, so I opted for these instead.)
8:30pm
two burgers*
lentils with kerrygold
sweet potato with kerrygold
9:30pm
rest of the Häagen-Dazs
1am
cottage cheese with a tiny amount of coconut extract
1/2 of a small banana (I would have eaten the whole thing, but it wasn't that good.)
1/2 cup of a raisin and dry roasted peanut mix**
Yep. It's 1am. Yep—I'm still awake.
I could not eat. But hey, where's the fun in that?!
**Apparently there would have been a lot of fun in that. After three or four peanuts I came to see the peanuts have MSG in them and so I didn't eat anymore; I tried to substitute it with something—anything—else that sounded even remotely good, yet nothing actually tasted good. Even the "clean" cashews tasted of rancid cottonseed oil. My sense of taste has become that keen. So I've given up. We had a good run, Cheat Day. Apparently Sunday did not want to lend itself to more food.
I'll drink some more water, put my sick kid back in bed and then go to bed myself.
eta at 2am:
Oh my gosh, I feel awful. Those one bites of five random foods really did me in. I felt great all day and now this. Ugh. Something else to learn and do better on next time. See you next week.
*super enzyme x4
I've also hit that low phase where my energy is lacking and I generally just feel blah, as my body acclimates to the food I'm eating again. So I'm just trying to chug along and stay strict to my routine and wait for it to pass. And it will pass. Eventually. Silver-lining girl has been hard to summon this week. Some days I've had to just trust in the routine and ignore all else.
Today, I'm trying to enjoy the little things. Like seeing the look on my sweet girl's face as I sneak her a bite of my Häagen-Dazs.
8:30am
glass of grapefruit juice
9am
three eggs scrambled*
three gluten and dairy free pancakes
2pm
hamburger*
lentils with kerrygold
sauteed cauliflower and broccoli
olive tortilla chips (I bought these on a whim. The bag is smallish compared to regular chips and I liked that they were pretty clean. They are phenomenal!)
3pm
bowl of Häagen-Dazs chocolate peanut butter ice cream
4:30pm
corned beef and cabbage*
bowl of ice cream (C'mon! How else will I finish the pint today?)
8:15pm
5 dates (I was impatient with my huge-ass sweet potato that took forever to cook. I went through the ingredients of all the Halloween candy and everything had things on my "no" list, so I opted for these instead.)
8:30pm
two burgers*
lentils with kerrygold
sweet potato with kerrygold
9:30pm
rest of the Häagen-Dazs
1am
cottage cheese with a tiny amount of coconut extract
1/2 of a small banana (I would have eaten the whole thing, but it wasn't that good.)
1/2 cup of a raisin and dry roasted peanut mix**
Yep. It's 1am. Yep—I'm still awake.
I could not eat. But hey, where's the fun in that?!
**Apparently there would have been a lot of fun in that. After three or four peanuts I came to see the peanuts have MSG in them and so I didn't eat anymore; I tried to substitute it with something—anything—else that sounded even remotely good, yet nothing actually tasted good. Even the "clean" cashews tasted of rancid cottonseed oil. My sense of taste has become that keen. So I've given up. We had a good run, Cheat Day. Apparently Sunday did not want to lend itself to more food.
I'll drink some more water, put my sick kid back in bed and then go to bed myself.
eta at 2am:
Oh my gosh, I feel awful. Those one bites of five random foods really did me in. I felt great all day and now this. Ugh. Something else to learn and do better on next time. See you next week.
*super enzyme x4
Saturday, January 8, 2011
(Counter)productive Saturdays.
So I started Tim Ferriss' Slow Carb Diet. It's basically Paleo except I have to eat legumes and I have to have one cheat day every week. I'm posting all the pictures at my flickr account. Posting them here would be too much of a tempt to add comments and I want to keep it as simple as possible.
I will be documenting my four cheat days this month though. I'll also post a separate write up of what my other days look like in regard to food. Otherwise, I doubt I'll post much else about it until my month-end stat results.
Cheat Day #1
10am
three eggs* and two pieces of bacon
11am
small bowl of popcorn with palm oil
12:30pm
sinful chocolate glazed donut plus a chocolate glazed munchkin
1:15pm
8oz of grapefruit juice
1:45pm
1/5lb burger* with coconut oil and cinnamon
medium sweet potato with kerrygold
1/2 cup blueberries
3:45pm
5 forkfuls of sauerkraut
bowl of tostitos
4:20-5:20pm
walked 4+ miles in the 19° (windchill 7°) awesomeness
5:45pm
fun size Halloween candy (whoppers, peanut butter M&Ms, snickers)
6:30pm
hamburger patty*
tostitos
fun size almond joy and 3 musketeers (I seriously need to throw away that Halloween candy now...)
9:45pm
Whopper Jr* with 1/2 order of small onion rings
10:15pm
Moon Pie ice cream with 1/2 banana and crushed pecans
I had coffee with minimal heavy whipping cream until 2pm-ish and then only had water the rest of the day.
I feel pretty okay, all things considered. I definitely feel bloated for the first time all week. The thing I ate today that I wish I could change would be the candy, but for no other reason than I ate it mindlessly. Even the Whopper I ate over a half hour period and took my time and ate consciously.
It was a good day and I took full advantage of my cheats. Tonight I bought a beautiful three and a half pound top sirloin roast and I'm super excited to get back to normal tomorrow.
*took super enzyme with meal
I will be documenting my four cheat days this month though. I'll also post a separate write up of what my other days look like in regard to food. Otherwise, I doubt I'll post much else about it until my month-end stat results.
Cheat Day #1
10am
three eggs* and two pieces of bacon
11am
small bowl of popcorn with palm oil
12:30pm
sinful chocolate glazed donut plus a chocolate glazed munchkin
1:15pm
8oz of grapefruit juice
1:45pm
1/5lb burger* with coconut oil and cinnamon
medium sweet potato with kerrygold
1/2 cup blueberries
3:45pm
5 forkfuls of sauerkraut
bowl of tostitos
4:20-5:20pm
walked 4+ miles in the 19° (windchill 7°) awesomeness
5:45pm
fun size Halloween candy (whoppers, peanut butter M&Ms, snickers)
6:30pm
hamburger patty*
tostitos
fun size almond joy and 3 musketeers (I seriously need to throw away that Halloween candy now...)
9:45pm
Whopper Jr* with 1/2 order of small onion rings
10:15pm
Moon Pie ice cream with 1/2 banana and crushed pecans
I had coffee with minimal heavy whipping cream until 2pm-ish and then only had water the rest of the day.
I feel pretty okay, all things considered. I definitely feel bloated for the first time all week. The thing I ate today that I wish I could change would be the candy, but for no other reason than I ate it mindlessly. Even the Whopper I ate over a half hour period and took my time and ate consciously.
It was a good day and I took full advantage of my cheats. Tonight I bought a beautiful three and a half pound top sirloin roast and I'm super excited to get back to normal tomorrow.
*took super enzyme with meal
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