Its a fun day. This is my little doodle. Just playing with a new application on my tablet.
I went to Curves today and signed up. I'm not real happy with my weight...its even 3 lbs higher than it was at the doctors office last week if that's possible.
She took my measurements and I was happy for that because when I take my own measurements I can pretty much make them whatever I want within reason. Its like if I feel like being nice to myself that day then I just squeeze the tape a little harder. Its funny but I didn't even look to see what they were.
We went over some goals. She said that my goals couldn't include for health reasons or to look better...hmmm. That was kinda hard. Eventually I came up with 2 pretty good ones.
1) I would like to wear more bathing suits and look good in them this summer (and many summers to come!!).
2) I would like to go shopping for new clothes.
Both of those are true, so there we go. As far as weight goes I said I'd like to lose 20 lbs in a month and she said that was unrealistic. She said I should go with something like ten lbs in a month. Of course I'm still gonna shoot for the stars. I told her that I do an hour of water aerobics everyday too, so that combined with my new workout at Curves should add up.
She put me on a 1200 calorie a day diet. I'm really not sure how much food that entails since I've never counted calories. The thought of it doesn't appeal to me at all either but nothing that I've done on my own had worked, so I don't wanna be dumb. I will listen to her. I told her that she was really gonna have to break this down for me. So she did. She says if I get up at 7am that I should eat breakfast then and then dinner at 7pm. Then that makes lunch at 1pm with snacks at 10am and 4pm. I should get most of my calories at lunch and snacks should stay around 100 calories. For dinner I should eat a salad. She says to go ahead and figure out what I'm going to have for breakfast and dinner and snacks then eat the remaining calories for lunch.
Here's what my plan boils down to...protein shake for breakfast. This is because I still want to make sure I get my 30 grams of protein in within 30 minutes of getting up and I have 2 huge things of whey protein shakes in the back room, both chocolate and strawberry. This is gonna be about 200 calories with 8 oz of skim milk. Then off to an hour of water aerobics, then off to 30 minutes of Curves workout.
I will have to bring a snack with me to eat in between so i'm going to get those big rice cakes and put some peanut butter on it...this will snag another 100 calories. Also 12 almonds will equal about 100 calories. Come to think of it, I will take the almonds with me to eat as a snack and then eat the rice cakes at home.
For lunch I'm going to go for the 6 inch sub from subway. No cheese, or have them use only shredded. So I'll buy a 12 inch then I'm set for 2 days or I guess I could share with bill:) My sub of choice (after researching the subway site) is the oven roasted chicken with roasted garlic bread, natural cheddar cheese, light mayonnaise. This will suck up another 320 calories. I think I might need more calories for my lunch because just by doing a little basic math I've only eaten 620 calories for breakfast, lunch and both snacks. I will add a protein shake for lunch too. So that will give me 520 calories for lunch. Then I will have 820 calories under my belt, leaving me with 380 calories for dinner. That should be pretty easy to do with a salad. Especially since she said all veges are free, so is coffee. As with any diet I have to drink my 64 ounces of water a day and that's really easy for me to do.
My dinners will always be a salad she says. So I want to have grilled chicken available at all times for my salads. I will make them with lettuce, red onions, avocados, radishes and chicken with 2 tbls of ranch dressing. I have to keep it as simple as possible. She said that I could have a dab of low fat shredded cheese and I just prefer to forget it altogether. I'm not into low fat and if I'm gonna have cheese...I'M GONNA HAVE CHEESE!!
All of this comes down to a pretty basic and easy shopping list! For me anyways...
lettuce (3 heads)
red onions (2)
avocados (2)
ranch dressing
radishes (1 large baggie)
chicken breast in strips (1 bag)
skim milk (2 gallons)
peanut butter (1 jar)
cardboard cracker thingys (1 package large)
almonds (1 bag)
WOW, really? That's all? This is gonna be so much cheaper than low carb. I'm gonna have to talk to Bill about making his own meals because that will be my downfall...making my salad and then having to turn around and making him a meal. He is also gonna have to keep his hands off my salad stuff or I will have to go shopping every few days and that will get to be a drag.
Of course I'll have to double check all of these calories because I don't want to get off track and I can do that pretty easily at Sparkpeople.
She also wants me to get a step meter thingy so that I can track my steps everyday and all the exercising I do doesn't count. She wants me to take 550 steps a day beside my exercise. I think that's gonna be hard to do but I will try. I will have to get off my ass more often during the day. In this small house I will have to walk around in circles to get that many steps.
I went to Curves today and signed up. I'm not real happy with my weight...its even 3 lbs higher than it was at the doctors office last week if that's possible.
She took my measurements and I was happy for that because when I take my own measurements I can pretty much make them whatever I want within reason. Its like if I feel like being nice to myself that day then I just squeeze the tape a little harder. Its funny but I didn't even look to see what they were.
We went over some goals. She said that my goals couldn't include for health reasons or to look better...hmmm. That was kinda hard. Eventually I came up with 2 pretty good ones.
1) I would like to wear more bathing suits and look good in them this summer (and many summers to come!!).
2) I would like to go shopping for new clothes.
Both of those are true, so there we go. As far as weight goes I said I'd like to lose 20 lbs in a month and she said that was unrealistic. She said I should go with something like ten lbs in a month. Of course I'm still gonna shoot for the stars. I told her that I do an hour of water aerobics everyday too, so that combined with my new workout at Curves should add up.
She put me on a 1200 calorie a day diet. I'm really not sure how much food that entails since I've never counted calories. The thought of it doesn't appeal to me at all either but nothing that I've done on my own had worked, so I don't wanna be dumb. I will listen to her. I told her that she was really gonna have to break this down for me. So she did. She says if I get up at 7am that I should eat breakfast then and then dinner at 7pm. Then that makes lunch at 1pm with snacks at 10am and 4pm. I should get most of my calories at lunch and snacks should stay around 100 calories. For dinner I should eat a salad. She says to go ahead and figure out what I'm going to have for breakfast and dinner and snacks then eat the remaining calories for lunch.
Here's what my plan boils down to...protein shake for breakfast. This is because I still want to make sure I get my 30 grams of protein in within 30 minutes of getting up and I have 2 huge things of whey protein shakes in the back room, both chocolate and strawberry. This is gonna be about 200 calories with 8 oz of skim milk. Then off to an hour of water aerobics, then off to 30 minutes of Curves workout.
I will have to bring a snack with me to eat in between so i'm going to get those big rice cakes and put some peanut butter on it...this will snag another 100 calories. Also 12 almonds will equal about 100 calories. Come to think of it, I will take the almonds with me to eat as a snack and then eat the rice cakes at home.
For lunch I'm going to go for the 6 inch sub from subway. No cheese, or have them use only shredded. So I'll buy a 12 inch then I'm set for 2 days or I guess I could share with bill:) My sub of choice (after researching the subway site) is the oven roasted chicken with roasted garlic bread, natural cheddar cheese, light mayonnaise. This will suck up another 320 calories. I think I might need more calories for my lunch because just by doing a little basic math I've only eaten 620 calories for breakfast, lunch and both snacks. I will add a protein shake for lunch too. So that will give me 520 calories for lunch. Then I will have 820 calories under my belt, leaving me with 380 calories for dinner. That should be pretty easy to do with a salad. Especially since she said all veges are free, so is coffee. As with any diet I have to drink my 64 ounces of water a day and that's really easy for me to do.
My dinners will always be a salad she says. So I want to have grilled chicken available at all times for my salads. I will make them with lettuce, red onions, avocados, radishes and chicken with 2 tbls of ranch dressing. I have to keep it as simple as possible. She said that I could have a dab of low fat shredded cheese and I just prefer to forget it altogether. I'm not into low fat and if I'm gonna have cheese...I'M GONNA HAVE CHEESE!!
All of this comes down to a pretty basic and easy shopping list! For me anyways...
lettuce (3 heads)
red onions (2)
avocados (2)
ranch dressing
radishes (1 large baggie)
chicken breast in strips (1 bag)
skim milk (2 gallons)
peanut butter (1 jar)
cardboard cracker thingys (1 package large)
almonds (1 bag)
WOW, really? That's all? This is gonna be so much cheaper than low carb. I'm gonna have to talk to Bill about making his own meals because that will be my downfall...making my salad and then having to turn around and making him a meal. He is also gonna have to keep his hands off my salad stuff or I will have to go shopping every few days and that will get to be a drag.
Of course I'll have to double check all of these calories because I don't want to get off track and I can do that pretty easily at Sparkpeople.
She also wants me to get a step meter thingy so that I can track my steps everyday and all the exercising I do doesn't count. She wants me to take 550 steps a day beside my exercise. I think that's gonna be hard to do but I will try. I will have to get off my ass more often during the day. In this small house I will have to walk around in circles to get that many steps.
