Monday, February 25, 2013

Ugh, auuugh, Ugh!

OK so this weekend was not the best, no idea what my problem is.  I've gotten to this point in other weight loss journeys and I cant get below!  Sigh. Need to figure out what my mental reason is for stopping.

On plan today, so far.  Will blog some more tomorrow as I try and answer my internal questions so I can move forward.

Hang in there with me!

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Re-Attack Day 2

CW - 239

Daily Totals

Calories
1046
Fat
26.6 g
Fiber
7.4 g
Carbs
41.6 g
Sodium
2238.5 mg
Protein
155.6 g
Water
102 fl oz
Daily Calorie Composition: 16% from carbs, 23% from fat and 61% from protein.
Breakfast: Coffee, egg beaters and turkey meatballs, oat bran with a bit of ff yogurt
Lunch: salmon and tuna
Snack: ff cottage cheese
Dinner: Creamy tarragon chicken

Ok so the badness of the weekend has caught up with me, ugh. up again. But not gonna hold too much to it and just move forward.  Made really smart decisions today and will keep going.

Had another session of PT this morning and he did harder exercises with me, and wow it hurt.  But amazingly after the ice pack, my ankle has been super fine today.  I really honestly feel like I am finally healing!

This afternoon, one of my tasks at work required to read a LOT.  And honestly, I was getting sleepy time, so I did 5 sets of shadow boxing (20 sec each with 10 sec break) and then 2 sets of 10 leg lifts for each leg.  I'm positive that burned some nice calories!

And because I had PT, I am working later, which means home later, which means I'm beat.  Probably to bed at a decent hour tonight.

Hope all is going well with my readers!

Attack Revamp

CW 237.4
Down .2 from yesterday
Total lost since January 1st: 14.5 lbs


Breakfast: Coffee, gallette, turkey deli meat (oscar meyer is actually one of the lowest is sodium...who knew!), cheese
Lunch: salmon filet with dill, lil salt and pepper, turkey meat balls and ff cottage cheese
Dinner: piri piri chicken


(forgot to write more last night, but overall good day) will write more today ;p

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Yikes - Vday extended Celebrations

CW- 237.6  (WOWOWOW)

Considering how bad and off plan I have been since Thursday night, I'm truly amazed at that number!  Going to take it with grain of salt tho, because last night I had fried badness....so it may not be showing up on the scale yet.

Our Valentines Day date night was a huge success, one of the best dates EVER with my husband.  We had so much fun that we both called in a personal day on Friday and extended it! ;p  And I was staying sorta on food plan until yesterday and caved in and had blueberry pancakes, subway sandwich and ugh clam strips, fries and onion rings....ugh ugh ugh!  Most of that food settled ok, but the last the dinner, that made my body ache and I felt so damn awful for giving in. And my tummy is def letting me know about it this morning!

So, going to hit a mini attack, at least 5-7 days.  No more alcohol - at least not for a long time.  

Today I am home with lil one since she is on school vacation, so we are going to clean house, laundry etc this morning.  Then I may take her to get a pedi/manicure this afternoon.

Take care all, remember we all falter, we all give in at some points.  Some bigger then others, but the question is....what are you going to do now?!?!!?

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Cruise Phase Day 43 - PP


Daily Totals

Calories
1369
Fat
74.5 g
Fiber
8.2 g
Carbs
51.5 g
Sodium
4312.7 mg
Protein
125.8 g
Water
53 fl oz
Daily Calorie Composition: 15% from carbs, 49% from fat and 36% from protein.
 
Breakfast: Coffee, egg beaters and chicken sausage, muenster cheese and oat bran cookie with a bit of ff yogurt
Lunch: 1 piri piri chicken thigh
Snack: ff cottage cheese and two slice deli turkey
Dinner: sausage

Had my second session of PT this morning.  Was somewhat painful but then ended on a good note.  Last time my pt guy electrocuted me (overreaction? slightly) and this time took out these knife like (dull albeit) tools and dug in and then beamed me with lasers....I think he likes his toys!  Over all though my ankle is feeling pretty ok, but then again I am still in the boot.  So I guess the real test will be when I am out of the boot and done with PT.  My dreams of using the hospital stairs as my personal gym will be fulfilled!  *blinks rapidly* Ok back to reality!

Food: doing great here.  Love the PP days, how odd is that.  I mean I do love veggies, but on PP days I dont have to think too much about what I am packing for lunch/breakfast etc.  And that makes it easy for me, easy is good in my busy schedule:)  Oh and finally back to logging food in Fitbit.  While food wise this last weekend I was on plan, I just didn't have the gumption to log everything, even tho seeing the stats excites me!  Wow, I'm sounding like a nerd today! (yikes on the fat content today, so not dukan but at least carbs are low!)

Ok moving on, Vday plans are in motion!!  My hubby and I plan on feeding kids early, and sending to bed, then I'll change (think cute sexy short black/white dress) with heels (um, no boot for this, pray I don't trip ;p), making some steaks, asparagus, and baked potato for him.  Romantic music and candles, and awwwww dinner date @ home:)

Super long day, as I had to stay late to make up the time missed for PT guy to play with my ankle. So its almost 8 pm and I'm just home and gonna eat a bit, watch a bit of the tube and then I am crashing.

Monday, February 11, 2013

Cruise Phase Day 39-42- PV

Hey there, so sorry lack of posting this weekend.  New England got slammed with almost 3 feet of snow this weekend.  Was just amazing to see it keep piling up and up and up.  Took my husband many hours to dig our cars out. 
 
So did I stick with Dukan over the weekend....pretty much....yes.  I did have a few gin and tonics and maybe some wine too ;p  Am I upset about it,beating myself up, telling myself what a loser I am?  Nope not one bit.  I did get on the scale this morning and I am exactly the same.  I wont get on scale again until Thursday morning.  Seriously doubt I will see the three pound drop I was hoping for, but I am ok with that.
 
I did do some stretches/yoga/Wii fit plus games this weekend.  And Hubby and I played some board games.  Over all, good family time this weekend.
 
I'll start again tomorrow with the food journal etc.  But at work today and will probably be a longer than this morning commute home, so to bed early.
 
Take care all! 
 
PS what are your plans with your special people for Valentine's day?!

Friday, February 8, 2013

Cruise Phase Day 38 - PP

CW 239     WOO HOO
Total Loss: 12.9 lbs

Daily Totals

Calories
1381
Fat
53.9 g
Fiber
13.5 g
Carbs
47.6 g
Sodium
2950.2 mg
Protein
178.1 g
Water
94 fl oz
Daily Calorie Composition: 14% from carbs, 35% from fat and 51% from protein.


Breakfast: Coffee, egg beaters and ground beef patty, gallette
Lunch: baked chicken breast 2x with jalapeno mustard and horseradish
Dinner: diet cola chicken and 2 eggs and some turkey meatballs
OK per advice of a fellow dukaner, I am cutting dairy significantly today and probably tomorrow as well. Only having the skim milk in my coffee and the two tablespoons required to make the gallette. I will weigh in tomorrow morning, but I wont on PV days, which are still Fri-Sun.  And I did an amazing 100 ounces of liquid yesterday (tea, coffee, lots of water) so am going to attempt to do that again today.
Sonia also pointed out what I was noticing too, that my sodium intake is ridiculous!  Going to have to work on keeping it at least below 2500 mg, we will see.  Hopefully those three things will help move stuffs along at a maybe quicker pace.  I have some 18 pants that I can zip/button up, but still a lil too tight to wear comfortably at work.  How exciting is that!?!?!!? 
I am thrilled wtih being in the 30s, but again, I looked at myself in the mirror this morning and I just dont see it.  Maybe I will when I hit 20 lbs lost?!?!  Or maybe I just wont ever see it.....

Had my first session of PT today - ankle was already in excrutiating pain and it did not feel well during session.  But at the end he did this electrical pulse thingy that actually numbed it very nicely for about an hour.  Enough for my commute home:)

Was super hungry tonight so after dinner baked up some turkey meatballs as a snack, yummo!  Dipped them in mustard and some in horseradish.  Boston is supposed to get a wicked blizzard tomorrow so heading into work super early so i can leave in time get trans home.  Not looking forward to it in the boot LOL. 

(sorry for delay posting, went to bed and forgot to publish!)


Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Cruise Phase Day 37 - PP

CW Still 240 - blah!

Daily Totals

Calories
1400
Fat
43.9 g
Fiber
10.6 g
Carbs
43.6 g
Sodium
3705.2 mg
Protein
184.1 g
Water
103 fl oz
Daily Calorie Composition: 13% from carbs, 31% from fat and 56% from protein.


Breakfast: Coffee, egg beaters and center cut bacon (less fat than reg), gallette
Morning Snack: shrimp
Lunch: baked chicken breast with ff yogurt and cajun spice dip and ff cottage cheese
Dinner: ground beef patty
Dessert: a concoction of plain yogurt, ff/sf chocolate pudding and a bit of ff cream cheese - yummo! and a cup of espresso:)

My coworker is soooo good to me, she brought me some lovely large shrimps to share as a snack this morning.  MMMMM - so good, and so low in fat and super high in protein, but expensive, which is why this was such a lovely treat!  THANK YOU!

Kinda mad about the scale this morning, but I wont focus on it and just look for good news tomorrow right?!?!  I WILL hit a new decade (go from 40's to 30's) this week dagnabbit!  I did leg lifts at my desk this morning and some shadow boxing...should prob close my door next time so I don't have to keep stopping whenever someone passes by LOL!

I know I said I would do the Wii a bit this week, but haven't yet.  Thinking will start small and do like 15 or so min a couple mornings a week (still in boot remember).  Once boot is off (March 11th!) then I will commit to do more, maybe Jillian's 30 day shred like 3x a week. I know from past experience that along with diet, exercise is key to losing weight for me.

I've talked with my mom and sister via text and email this week and really had to bite my tongue not to tell of success I have had on this diet so far.  But I am hanging in for the element of surprise!  :)

I did really good food wise today. This weekend I will make a few different flavored batches of the oat bran cookies. They freeze really well and I put them in individual serving sizes in baggies and then in morning plop in toaster. Love the crunch on the outside! Will let you know how my experiment pans out!

Tonight was craving chocolate, so had some sf/ff chocolate pudding and mixed it with the ff yogurt and a bit of cream cheese, it was thick and decadent!  Will def be making this again!

Wonder if there are any other Dukaners out there having success?  I would love to hear from you!

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Cruise Phase Day 36 - PP

Daily Totals
Calories
1472
Fat
40.3 g
Fiber
4.4 g
Carbs
42.2 g
Sodium
3587.2 mg
Protein
136.9 g
Water
61 fl oz
Daily Calorie Composition: 16% from carbs, 33% from fat and 51% from protein
 
Breakfast: Coffee, egg beaters and smoked salmon with a lil ff cream cheese, plain yogurt w sugar free vanilla syrup and the oat bran mixed inMorning Snack: Chicken sausage
Lunch: can of red crab meat w a lil bit of light mayo and a packet of sweet n spicy tuna (2 oz) 

Dinner: pork loin with turkey bacon beer gravy
Dessert:gin - ugh (no will power, but at least no carbs!)

Late afternoon I was craving a snack, not really hungry but was wanting something.  Unfortunately, I had eaten everything I had brought!  The salmon was scrumptious this morning, although a bit salty! 

I think I am getting a pretty good routine down with this diet, so that is good news.  And I think my tummy situation is back to normal now that I have the oat bran and fiber solution.  Will jump on the scale in the morning.  Been a long day at work, so hitting the sack early.

Pork recipe was found on a dukan forum, posting recipe and possible pic on recipe page:)

Night all!

Monday, February 4, 2013

Cruise Phase PP (Day 35)

No weigh in
CW: 240 lbs

Daily Totals

Calories
1218
Fat
41.5 g
Fiber
8.5 g
Carbs
51.7 g
Sodium
3189.4 mg
Protein
152.2 g
Water
71 fl oz
Daily Calorie Composition: 17% from carbs, 32% from fat and 51% from protein.


Breakfast: Coffee, egg beaters and chicken sausage, plain yogurt w sugar free hazelnut syrup and the oat bran mixed in
Lunch: can of tomato and basil tuna and ff cottage cheese 

Afternoon snack: custard
Dinner: stuffed chicken, 2 almonds, 1 oz pepper jack cheese

Dessert: Cheese cake pudding (sf/ff)

Didn't make it out yesterday to get my 10 lbs reward of an eyebrow waxing.. .maybe will get to it this weekend!

I am very full today, that's what I love about this diet, I am never ever hungry!  And if I am, I can simply go get something to eat.  There is no deprivation on this diet, but the list of what you can eat is somewhat short.  Oh well, its working ok for me for now.  And hubby and I do get pretty creative with dinners! 

I love salmon, but the rest of family doesn't really care for it, so I don't get it very often.  Especially since we aren't going out to eat lately, mostly because of my diet.  Well, on one of the forums I found a smoked salmon frittata and I splurged this weekend and got some to make it!  Think I will tomorrow morning before work, I'm so excited!  LOL - I know kinda dorky;/

I meant to bring a couple bags of tea to work today, but I forgot and now I'm craving it!  I'm also craving (weirdly) asparagus today, but today is PP day so will have it Friday night heh!?!  Yes!

Verdict on the Dukan custard, pretty good, but like all custards, its pretty "eggy" tasting....doih!  Will look and see what other desserts I can make, that don't use the oat bran, well I like my "cookie" in the morning!  Ohhhh, but I did try the gallette yesterday, and I did like it....even hubby had one and said it was alright.

Hi5! for me staying away from the wine and gin tonight!  I can do this!

Take care all:) Tricia

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Cruise Phase - PV (Day 34)

No weigh in
CW: 240 lbs

Daily Totals

Calories
1430
Fat
30.9 g
Fiber
14.6 g
Carbs
98 g
Sodium
3691.8 mg
Protein
115.6 g
Water
64.9 fl oz
Daily Calorie Composition: 35% from carbs, 24% from fat and 41% from protein.

Breakfast: Coffee, egg beaters and an egg, gallette, shaved beef
Lunch: can of lemon pepper tuna
Dinner: chicken sausage chili

Dessert: custard - my first attempt!
again more: gin and diet tonic


Was a pretty good day today, grocery shopping, big breakfast cooking, laundry done (finally) and the Super Bowl.  I'm writing this mid morning so will report later on my thoughts on the game!

Grocery store was somewhat of a challenge with the big honkin boot!  But we were there super early (to avoid the super bowl last min shoppers!)  Think we will def try to make it early next time as it is so much more enjoyable without the aisle traffic jams! LOL....although in line some pushy woman was literally trying to push me out of the check out with her cart.  I nudged back a bit thinking maybe she didn't know she was on top of me with it, but she KEPT PUSHING!  Grrrrr.   

Later: Game was a bust, well so far.  There was a frickin 30 min delay because the lights went out!  I work tomorrow so cannot stay up late just to watch a game when my team isnt even in it!

OK, I'm getting a bit carried away with the gin and tonics!  I vow to steer clear of them for a few weeks!  And carbs are pretty high, scared to see what the scale will tell me tomorrow.  Oh well, in this for the long haul right!   

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Cruise Phase - PV Day 33

No weigh in
CW: 240 lbs

Daily Totals

Calories
1360
Fat
52.3 g
Fiber
9.7 g
Carbs
57.7 g
Sodium
2283.8 mg
Protein
111.6 g
Water
60 fl oz
Daily Calorie Composition: 20% from carbs, 41% from fat and 39% from protein.

Breakfast: Coffee, egg beaters, turkey bacon
Lunch:Italian Turkey (or beef) and Spaghetti Squash Pie
Afternoon Snack: ff yogurt and oat bran w sugar free chocolate syrup 
Dinner: chicken stuffed with sundried tomatoes and olives, salad and wine
more: gin and diet tonic

Today was a good day.  Nice and relaxing.  Hubby and I did a bit of the Wii, dinner at my mother in laws.  Nice call from my brother, he has wedding date set ...finally:)  So darn happy for him.  I haven't told my mother, sister or brother that I am on the diet.  They live across the country and I rarely get to see them:(  So kinda hoping for a big surprise when I do.  Its been many years since I haven't been obese and while they love me unconditionally (as my husband does), I still would like to see the welcome surprise on their faces!  My mother and her husband are supposed to visit in July, while I hope to be almost done losing weight by then, I think I would be just thrilled to be at least in onerderland by then!  

Tomorrow is the super bowl.  And usually for football and especially the big game I like to have a big spread.  But i think this year since my team is not in it, we will just do a normal dinner plan, and maybe some special dessert, like a custard or the dukan cheese cake.  I cant decide.

I did a no no and didn't wear the boot today, but my activity was so minuscule I don't think it mattered much.  Will def wear tomorrow.

I feel bad because hubby wanted to go see a friend of his play tonight after dinner at mom's and I was too bushed to join him.  he went, and I'm glad he did.  He deserves a lil time out with the boys.....oh he called must be some sort of mix up because his friends aren't playing....sad.  He needs more guys night outs!  

Well tomorrow is a super busy day, so heading to bed.  Take care all!
Tricia

Cruise Phase - PV (day 32 of Diet)

No weigh in - tummy not happy
CW: 240 lbs

Daily Totals

Calories
1348
Fat
45.5 g
Fiber
14.4 g
Carbs
59.5 g
Sodium
1822.9 mg
Protein
126.8 g
Water
64 fl oz
Daily Calorie Composition: 21% from carbs, 35% from fat and 44% from protein.

Breakfast: Coffee, egg beaters, spinach, mushrooms, ff feta cheese
Morning Snack:  sugar free raspberry syrup over Greek yogurt
Lunch: left over beef and broccoli and lil bits of carrots
Afternoon Snack: ff cottage cheese
Dinner: slow cooker pork loin in romaine lettuce wrap
Tsk Tsk: gin and diet tonic

I got my huge order of oat bran last night, yay!  Made cookies for hubby and I for dessert, super yummy.  had the last two (one has one tablespoon of oat bran) this morning as a cookie sandwich with ff cream cheese.  So yummy.  I ran out of my fiber and oat bran, hence why I think tummy is not on schedule.  But I found another bottle of the fiber in my cupboard this morning, so hopefully that and the oat bran will get me back on track.

Yikes, woke up with a lil wine headache this morning, booooooo!  LOL, but it is gone now.

Hubby got the Wii set back up with our new TV, so we are going to play on that tonight.  Very excited, we used to do it a lot more before we got cable, so I'm looking forward to it for sure! Plus, I plan on doing some of the exercises on the Wii Fit Plus - whatever I can tolerate with my ankle.
Was a hectic day at work, huge monthly meeting coming up on Monday and I have to do all the prep work for it.  Things always change last min so I try to be as prepared as I can.

Ok yes, I am skipping over the drinks....they are no carb tho. and no sugar...so technically they should be allowed!!!!  I haven't had a gin and tonic in ages....so refreshing!

PS did you notice the background change....Happy Love Month!  LOL

Sorry day late - had PC weird issues yesterday.  Hopefully all set now!