Sunday, January 30, 2011

Something's fishy

I added salmon to my diet this past week. First off, let me tell you, I cannot stand fish or seafood. I want to like it, because apparently I'm missing a mouth orgasm, judging by everyone else who eats it. But it all tastes just plain fishy to me.

The only fish I actually like to eat are freshwater fish caught and prepared that day. Doesn't matter if it's baked, grilled or deep fried, I like it any way. Crappie, catfish, bluegill, trout, bass -- if it was caught and prepared that day, there is no fish taste to it, in my experiences. But, if it's not, I can't stand it, it makes me gag. There's a lot of catfish places around here, and their fish sucks. I have ordered trout at Red Lobster before, and it tasted god awfully fishy.

Anyway, a coworker suggested salmon from Walmart. I figured I may as well try it, and if I didn't like it, I'd just give it to him. It was only $5, so no big loss if I didn't like it.

Turns out, it's tolerable. Just an ever-so-slight fish taste (some bites I nearly gag, but most are actually good). Super easy to prepare as well. I just throw it on the George Foreman grill and slightly salt and pepper it, and it's good to go in about five minutes.

So I may have a nice little regular week of meals planned out. I generally cook dinner on Sunday and have enough leftovers for dinner on Monday and Tuesday. I can eat fish on Wednesday and Thursday (there are four fillets in each package, so it comes out to $1.25 per fillet!) and Fridays, my weigh-in days, I always eat at Subway. 

Speaking of weigh-in days, I weighed Friday and lost six more pounds. That's 43 total so far. 85 pounds from my goal, i.e., one-third of the way there. Here's to another great week!


Monday
Breakfast
Smoothie
1 cup oatmeal with 11 oz skim milk

Lunch
Two ham sandwiched

Dinner
Leftover taco "salad" -- ground turkey, beans and rice

Snacks
2 nonfat yogurts

96 oz of water throughout the day


Tuesday
Breakfast
Two egg omelet with ham and cheese

Lunch
Two ham sandwiches

Dinner
Leftover taco "salad" -- ground turkey, beans and rice
8 tortilla chips

Snacks
2 nonfat yogurts

128 oz of water throughout the day

Wednesday
Breakfast
Two-egg omelet with ham and cheese

Lunch
Salmon filet
1/2 cup rice

Dinner
Two ham sandwiches

Snack
1 nonfat yogurt

128 oz of water throughout the day

Thursday
Breakfast
Smoothie
1 cup oatmeal with 10 oz skim milk

Lunch

Salmon filet
1/2 cup rice

Dinner
Two ham sandwiches


Snack
1 nonfat yogurt

64 oz water throughout the day

Friday
Breakfast
Smoothie
1 piece toast with peanut butter
8 oz skim milk

Lunch
Two PB&J sandwiches

Dinner
6-inch oven-roasted chicken breast sandwich with pepperjack cheese on jalapeno cheese bread with jalapenos and banana peppers

Snacks
Two nonfat yogurt
1 cracker (12 calories)
Some mixed nuts (2 peanuts, 6 almonds, 2 cashews)

128 oz water throughout the day

Saturday
Dinner
About 30-40 tortilla chips and salsa
Chicken breast smothered with salsa
A few grilled veggies -- bell pepper, squash, zucchini

Snacks
Four crackers with cheese spread

64 oz of water throughout the day

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Crappy week

This week flew by. I exercised every day, continued to run. Up to 2.28 miles now, going for 2.5 or 3 miles tomorrow.
When I weighed on Friday, I had gained two pounds. Totally disheartening. Not much else to add; pretty pissed about that.

So here's last week's food rundown:

Monday
Breakfast
Smoothie
1 cup of oatmeal with 8 oz skim milk

Lunch
Two ham sandwiches

Dinner
Leftover pork and peppers
1/2 cup white rice

Snacks
Two nonfat yogurts

128 oz of water

Tuesday
Breakfast
One cup oatmeal with 8 oz water

Lunch
Two ham sandwiches

Dinner
Leftover pork and peppers

Snacks
Two nonfat yogurts


128 oz of water
 
Wednesday
Breakfast
Smoothie
Two eggs with ham and cheese

Lunch
Two pieces of cheese pizza

Dinner
Two pieces of cheese pizza

Snacks
One package of sunflower seeds
One fiber one bar

128 oz of water

Thursday
Breakfast
Smoothie
Two-eggs with ham and cheese

Lunch
Two ham sandwiches

Dinner
One can of chunky soup (260 calories total)

Snacks
17 wheat cracker thingies
1 chocolate chip cookie

128 oz of water

Friday
Breakfast
1 cup oatmeal with 1 cup water

Lunch
Two PB&J sandwiches

Dinner
Six-inch oven roasted chicken breast sandwich with pepperjack cheese on jalapeno bread from subway

Snack
1 nonfat yogurt

128 oz of water

Saturday
2 PB&J sandwiches

Sunday
Taco salad, which consisted of turkey meat with beans on top of tortilla chips (32 total).
32 oz of walmart sugar-free, salt-free, zero calorie flavored carbonated water
64 oz water

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Weekend pigout

Good news: I finished the c25k program with a great run Friday.

Bad news: I still am not running an entire 5k. I'm up to 30 minutes running, so I will keep adding three minutes at a time until I get to three miles. Starting tomorrow, I will run 33 minutes.

Even worse news: I ate like a pig this weekend. Family went out to eat yesterday at a mexican restaurant. I pigged out on chips. I ate about 30 probably. And then I got chili verde, with beef instead of pork. It was a big sized plate and also came with rice and refried beans. I didn't eat it all at lunch; I saved about 1/4 of it and ate it for dinner. And then today, I had an enormous sweet tooth. I ate a chocolate yogurt, hoping it would subside, but it didn't. I ate a soft serve vanilla ice cream later and I just had 32 ounces of skim chocolate milk.

I hope I'm not subconsciously getting content with my progress, which is 39 pounds now. I still can't tell a difference, and my clothes still are tight. But people keep saying they can tell, so I hope it hasn't nestled its way into my brain thinking I can slack off now.

Here's my last five days worth of food diaries. Falling behind on it yet again.

Wednesday
Breakfast
1 cup of oatmeal
12 oz skim milk
Smoothie

Lunch
2 ham sandwiches

Dinner
6-inch oven roasted chicken breast with pepperjack cheese on jalapeno cheese bread

Snack
1 chocolate chip cookie
1 nonfat yogurt

128 oz of water throughout the day

Thursday
Breakfast
Smoothie
2 egg omelet with ham and cheese

Lunch
2 ham sandwiches

Dinner
6-inch oven roasted chicken breast with pepperjack cheese on jalapeno cheese bread

Snacks
1 nonfat yogurt
2 tiny sugar cookies

128 oz of water throughout the day

Friday
Breakfast
1 cup oatmeal with 12 oz of skim milk
Smoothie

Lunch
2 PB&J sandwiches

Dinner

6-inch oven roasted chicken breast with pepperjack cheese on jalapeno cheese bread

Snack
1 nonfat yogurt

96 oz of water throughout the day

Saturday
Chili verde con carne
refried beans
rice
A shitton of corn chips with salsa, guacomole and queso
Three small flour tortillas

48 oz unsweet tea
48 oz water

Sunday
Lunch
One package of beef jerky
1 nonfat yogurt

Dinner
Pork chops simmered in rotel and green chiles

Snacks
One softserve vanilla ice cream
32 oz chocolate skim milk

64 oz of water throughout the day

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Holy balls, it's cold

What a deceiving day. Super sunshiney. But a chilling 18 degrees. I had two choices: Put off running to tomorrow and then run again EARLY on Saturday, or run today and Friday and sleep in just a tad on Saturday. We have a birthday lunch Saturday afternoon an hour away. I chose the cold.

It was cold Monday as well, but not this cold. Only 29. Anyway, I'm not sure if it's because my body is adjusting to working out for two months now, or if it was the cold, but the last two runs were my best runs to date. And not just time-wise. Usually I feel terrible from about the five-minute mark to the 20-minute mark. Last two days, I felt GOOD for the entire workout. So refreshing for it to be that way. I may get to the point where I don't dread running. Right now, I still hate it. Almost as much as I hate the Patriots.

Also, yesterday marked two months since I first started working out. I took a topless picture when I first started. I meant to take another one one month in, but I forgot. So I took one again yesterday. I'll spare you the vomit-inducing picture, unlike last time, when I posted it. But I don't see a difference. Gut and moobs are still massive and the same size. I've lost more than 30 pounds, and I have no idea from where. People say they can tell a difference, but I can't, because my clothes still fit the same.

Anyway, here are the last two days' food diaries.

Monday
Breakfast
Smoothie
1 cup oatmeal with 12 oz skim milk

Lunch
Two ham sandwiches (cutting the cheese out of those now)

Dinner
Bowl of chili

Snacks
2 nonfat yogurts

128 oz of water throughout the day

Tuesday
Breakfast
Smoothie
Two eggs with cheese, ham and jalapenos

Lunch
Two ham sandwiches

Dinner
6-inch oven roasted chicken breast sandwich from Subway with pepperjack cheese

128 oz of water throughout the day

Monday, January 10, 2011

Snow on the ground

It won't stop me. I am about to start the last week of the c25k training program, and I'll be damned if the snow and cold will stop me. It's currently 28 degrees. We've had a really, really mild winter since I started this thing on Nov. 11, and I've been fortunate enough to not have the "it's too cold/raining/snowing" excuse to stop me. Today is the first day, and I just can't let it get to me after eight weeks of great weather.

I once again am behind on my food diaries, so here are three days worth of em again!

Friday
Breakfast
Smoothie
Two-egg omelet with ham and cheese

Lunch
2 PB&J sandwiches

Dinner
Footlong oven roasted chicken breast on jalapeno bread with pepperjack cheese and jalapenos and mustard.

128 oz of water throughout the day

Saturday (wasn't very hungry all day)
Lunch
PB&J sandwich

Dinner
One can of healthy choice minestrone soup

Only about 16 oz of water throughout the day

Sunday
Lunch
One package of beef jerkey (240 calories)

Dinner (In honor of the cold weather)
One bowl of turkey chili
5 appetizers I threw together: Toasted garlic bread topped with cream cheese and buffalo chicken

101 oz of water throughout the day

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Chugging along

Surprise! I'm behind on the blog again. Again, it's because of work.

I have yet to miss a workout since I've started the c25k plan. Also, I am five days away from the two-month mark. And tomorrow is weigh-in day. I feel like I've had a pretty good week. Only downside is I haven't been drinking as much water, and I'm not sure why.

Yesterday's run was a good one. Despite feeling like crap for the first 20 minutes, after the 20-minute mark, Everything went super smooth. I even ran an extra minute because it actually felt kind of good. I set a new pace record for me, dropping under the 15-minute-mile mark. Hopefully I'll continue to improve.

And here's five days' worth of food diaries crammed in here now:

Saturday
Lunch
PB&J

Dinner
Three pieces of tri-tip
Two chicken breasts
Two small red potatoes
Ear of corn
Three stuffed mushrooms
Small tangerine
Tiny serving of strawberries, cream and nilla wafers dessert.

About 70 oz of water

Sunday
Lunch
Small chicken sandwich from BWW
Side salad with wing sauce instead of dressing from BWW
23 oz of shiner bock

Dinner
Chicken stir fry -- chicken, bean sprouts, celery, etc.

Snack
15 pieces of taffy (all the xmas taffy is finally gone!)

About 64 oz of water throughout the day

Monday
Breakfast
Two-egg omelet
Smoothie

Lunch
Two PB&J sandwiches

Dinner
Six-inch oven-roasted chicken breast sandwich from Subway with pepperjack cheese on jalapeno bread

64 oz of water throughout the day

Tuesday
Breakfast
PB&J sandwich
8 oz skim milk

Lunch
PB&J sandwich

Dinner
Footlong oven-roasted chicken breast sandwich from Subway with pepperjack cheese on jalapeno bread

Snacks
Packet of sunflower seeds
2 nonfat yogurts

64 oz of water throughout the day

Wednesday
Lunch
Two PB&J sandwiches
8 oz skim milk

Dinner
Chicken breast
One can of refried beans

Snacks
1 cracker

100 oz of water