Archive | December, 2010

Late Lunch = Unhappy Tummy

3 Dec

Now, it’s not like I sit there with a clock and time out every morsel I am going to eat. I know that I am supposed to eat small meals every 3 hours or so but really, who can do that? Not people who have to work that’s who! lol.

At work I tend to eat brekkie around 8:30am, have a mid morning snack of fruit around 11am then lunch at 1pm and finally dinner at home. It works. 🙂 Today however, that did not happen. I got my breakfast on time but wasn’t really feeling my mid morning snack of a banana – which is all good cause while I normally eat a morning snack it’s not a big deal if I don’t. I really should have eaten the banana. I didn’t get lunch till 3pm, 3 pm!! I thought I was gonna die I was so hungry! What, in all my brilliance did I do when I finally got my lunch? I practically inhaled it. Ugh.

We all know by now that eating fast is bad, sigh. You tend to over eat if you eat too quickly and eating fast causes digestion issues. By the time I was done eating I was already feeling a bit uncomfie in my tummy, about ten minutes after I was at a tummy ache level, ugh. Nobody likes a tummy ache! It kinda sucks when you know what caused it and it’s your own fault, lol, cause really, who ya gonna blame?

I thought it would pass relatively quick but it didn’t, I was left feeling achey and uncomfie the rest of the day. By the time I got home, around 6pm or so it seemed to have past and I was quite hungry. This struck me as odd, I thought I wouldn’t be hungry until later since I ate lunch later, but meh, if my tummy is hungry at it’s normal dinner time that’s cool with me. So I ate and what happened? As soon as I had food in me the uncomfie sensation was back, wtf?! I of course indulged in my cure-all, which means I had a cup of tea lol, it didn’t help, sadness. 😦

I don’t know why my tummy is so achey today, I blame it on the late lunch and eating it way too quickly, shrug, so it’s my own fault – which I think makes it suck more. lol. I have one more point of food today and I s’pose I could eat a one point werther’s chocolate but my tummy is so unhappy I really don’t want to put anything in it, shrug. Guess today will be a 1 point under day. 🙂

Oh, so tomorrow is weigh in day…nervous! I really want to do well since if I do well that will mean I have hit the 20lbs lost mark, so think good thoughts for me! 😀 😀 😀

I was watching a weight loss show the other day and the lady trying to lose weight started at, hmmm, crap, I can’t remember the starting weight but by the end she had lost like 17lbs (in 6 weeks! bitch. 😛 ) and I was kinda cranky that it only took her 6 weeks to lose 17lbs and it took me waaaaaaay longer to lose that much. So, when she was at her lower weight she is of course crazed happy and exclaiming about it and I realized, that yeah, she lost 17lbs but I actually weigh less then her, how weird is that?! I never weigh less then anybody is seems but on weight loss tv shows lately I will think “oh, I weigh around what that person weighs” but then I stop and think about it and realize I don’t…I weigh less…wow. It’s such an amazing feeling. I know I still have a long way to go to get to my goal but seeing that I weigh less then a bunch of people who are on tv to lose weight, well, wow.

Oh, btw, the tv shows I was watching are Bulging Brides and The Last 10 Pounds Bootcamp…if you haven’t seen them, watch ’em! They are good! They are hosted by Tommy Europe and Nadine Somebody-Or-Other. He is the trainer, she is the food person. Together they whip people (mostly women) in to shape. 🙂

The Bulging Brides get 6 weeks, the Last Ten Pounds people get 4 weeks…they get amazing results…well, as long as the person does what they are told! lol. It’s never an extreme plan either, it’s watching your calories and exercise and each show Tommy tailors the exercise regime for that person. I like watching it cause I get ideas of different exercises I can do and what benefit they will have for me. 🙂  Well, that and it’s fun to watch someone else suffer, lol. 😛

Today I ate:

50 grams shreddies = 3 points

1/2 cup 1% milk =1 point

1 Italian Sausage and Penne Bowl = 5 points

1 triangles light laughing cow cheese = 1 point

1 Activia yogurt = 2 points

mixed raw vegg = 0 points

1 cup Maple Baked Beans = 4 points

2 pieces toast = 2 points

1 tbls light peanut butter = 2 points

Total points eaten = 20.

So, yah? I am gonna count it as a win, lol, since I was worried I’d go over my points today cause of messing up my eating schedule. I think being 1 point under is way better then being over – some people might argue against that, and yes, I know why going over isn’t the end of the world, what with flex points an all. But the night before weigh in, what can I say, I prefer to be under eating by 1 point then going over, so sue me. 😛

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Another Meal of Cat Food, yuch!

2 Dec

So, remember waaaaaaay back when I posted about my first experience eating tuna? I hated it and compared it to eating cat food – not that I have eaten cat food (ew!) but the smell and texture were so cat-food-like that I swear it’s the exact same thing! Well, at some point in my grocery shopping I was an idiot and bought canned flaked turkey meat…I don’t know what made me think this was a good idea?? Oy!

I was stuck for dinner ideas this evening so I figured “open the canned turkey, how bad can it be?” the answer to that is WAY BAD!! Horrific! Who eats this crap? *rolls eyes*

can you say "epic fail"?

I drained it, mixed it with some light miracle whip, stuck in on a weight watchers hamburger bun with a cheese slice, some baby spinach and mustard…all of those ingredients but the turkey mix was good. Blech. I suppose it might have been better if I had some onion or something to put in the mix but I didn’t and really, all that would have done was slightly disguise the icky flavour that is canned turkey. 😛

It was a very gross dinner that was non-enjoyable, sigh. Since I have to be so careful with what I eat and how much I try to make sure the food I eat is something I really enjoy. Obviously not rich-calorie-dense-all-my-fave-foods level of enjoy but things I am happy to be tasting and eating. The lists I write down showing what I eat generally look really boring, and repetitive and probably a lot of you wonder what the hell I am doing eating such un-entertaining foods so often…and no wonder I get so excited about subway when I eat baked beans all the time (which actually, I haven’t eaten in a while but was planning to take tomorrow for lunch, lol) but for me, I find that eating the same thing often works best for me, I know what the points are going to be, I know how filled I am going to feel and for how long…it is predictable – which, yes, can be boring, but for right now on this journey seems to be just what I need.

 Well, that and I am kinda poor so it’s not like I can buy ingredients I don’t normally have to make one dish that I may or may not like. shrug.

I try to eat something new every week…it’s not always a completely-new-to-me food item but maybe a lower calorie version of something, or a new way of cooking something…just something! It not only gives me something different to eat and attempt to cook but it gives me something to write about. lol. Sometimes it’s a new frozen dinner flavour, or a light hot dog or mini breton crackers…it can be anything! 🙂

The new thing I ate today was a new flavour of Lean Cuisine, it was Mango Currey Chicken, one of the Lean Cuisine Spa meals. It was…ok. I mean, there was nothing wrong with it exactly but there was cauliflower in it and I really don’t like that vegetable…altho, you couldn’t taste it cause of the currey flavour, lol, but also, there were raisins in it. Ack! I don’t eat raisins! Ever! I can’t stand the little buggers! They are worse then the canned turkey…which I just realized is a new food to me so hey, two new foods in one post…neither one of them getting a positive review…oooh, bad food week! haha. Anyways, raisins, in the currey. sigh. I picked the raisins out and managed to eat the cauliflower which may not sound all that impressive but trust me, it is. 😀 Thing is, it’s crazed busy at work so I ate at my desk today instead of taking an official lunch break but the office rule is you can’t eat anything smelly at your desk. Uh, hello, currey is smelly…way smelly! So I had to scarf it down in the kitchen and then go back to my desk and eat the rest of my lunch there (raw veggies, yogurt and cheese). Not the ideal lunch situation but hey, it could always be worse!

My lesson today? Always read the ingredients list cause you never know what is hidden in your food! Today it was cauliflower and raisins, who knows what it could be tomorrow! dun dun dun…teehee

Today I ate:

54 grams Fibre 1 = 3 points

1/2 cup 1% milk = 1 point

1 banana = 1 point

1 timbit = 2 points

1 Lean Cuisine = 5 points

1 Activia yogurt = 2 points

2 triangles light laughing cow cheese = 1 point

1 weight watchers hamburger bun = 2 points

1 cheese slice = 1 point

1/6 of the can flaked turkey mixed with 1 tbls light miracle whip = 1 point

baby spinach, mustard = 0 points

20 mini breton = 2 points

Total points eaten 21! 😀 Yah!

Now I know, I kinda snuck that timbit in there but they were brought in to work and oh man I love timbits. lol. I usually (if I’ve been good) get one on the weekends but I go through the drive thru (I know! so lazy) so I can’t (1) be tempted to buy more cause I can see all the choices and (2) once I have eaten it I am away from the Tim Horton’s and can’t buy a second…see, a method to my seemingly lazy decision! 😛 These ones however were just sitting there, near my desk and after I had my one I sooooo wanted a second! I didn’t take one (obviously!) but I sure wanted it. On the weekends when I get one, I am always content with the 1 and never want a second so I think it was cause they were close at hand, that’s why I wanted a second. That’s so not cool. Does that mean when the really tempting stuff is around I am always going to be fighting to not cave in? I somehow thought it would be easier by now…I wonder where I got that dumb idea from? lol.

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I Hated Today, Grr!

1 Dec

Today was such a crappy day at work, ugh, it felt like it was never going to end and it was one disaster after another. Argh! I can’t really go in to deets about what was goin on cause (1) it’s a specialized industry and unless you are in it you won’t understand the terminology and (2) I more then likely signed some kind of document saying I can’t gab. *rolls eyes*

By the end of day, hell, not even the end of day, about 2 hours in to it I was dreaming about throwing my boss out the window (we’re 24 flights up!) or banging my head against a wall so many times I could have the next day off work. 😛 Neither of which I have done…yet! lol. This week is just a crap fest and today was one more pile to add to it.

Lunch was catered today, I had forgotten that so I took a Lean Cuisine, oops. Normally I would have said no to the catered food and just eaten my lunch but I was cranky and decided to eat the free food. It wasn’t too bad – which is part of why I figured it’d be ok, not like it was pizza or anything! There were fresh made sandwiches, pasta salad, gourmet green salad (I swear that’s what they called it! lol), cheese n cracker platter and a selection of cookies brownies and tarts. I had half a sandwich (egg with raw veg, grilled veg, pesto sauce on a grainy bread), 4 penne noodles (yup, I counted) there was some kind of crumbly cheese in the pasta salad and a tomato based um, not sauce but flavouring I guess you’d call it. I also had some cheese, some garlic crackers, some raw veggies and a bite of what turned out to be a very dry not all that flavourfull brownie. So, it sounds like a lot but you have to take in to account the portions I ate. I didn’t think I ate too much but when I was estimating the points after I got home, uh yeah, I was over my points for the day by 1 point. Oops. I may have counted wrong but I always prefer to count high then low so, shrug, I am over. Luckily I didn’t feel hungry so I figured the higher pointed lunch filled me up…I think tho that is flawed cause it is now almost 9pm and I am hungry. sigh.

It’s too late in the day to eat a meal, and I don’t want to have some mindless snack, shrug, so I figure I’ll do the unthinkable and go to bed way early. I know, bed by 10pm – weirdness! But this way I will be unconscious and not aware I am hungry, lol. I really don’t want to go even farther in to my flex points like I know I probably should be doing in this situation and frankly, I am to tired and cranky to really care. *rolls eyes* Ya know, I thought this week was going to go so much smoother cause it started off so well! Ah well, maybe it’ll start getting better from here…cross your fingers for me! 😀

Today I ate:

54 grams Fibre 1 = 3 points

1/2 cup 1% milk = 1 point

Catered Lunch

    – 1/2 sandwich = 3 points (?)

       ( – grainy bread, 1/2 hard boiled egg, veggies, pesto sauce)

    – 4 penne noodles = 1 point

    – 6 garlic crackers = 2 points

    – 4 pieces of cheese = 8 points

    – 1 small bite brownie = 0 points

mixed raw veggies = 0 points

1 Activia yogurt = 2 points

1 medium slush = 2 points

Total points eaten = 22.

Keeping in mind today is all about estimating numbers so I could be counting too high or too low, shrug, no real way to know. I know I shouldn’t of had the slush but I had to stop to buy skytrain tickets on the way home and again, in a cranky mood, I figured screw it. shrug.

It’s not a good mind set to let myself get in. I used to over eat when stressed or way upset, I think a lot of people do, and while I didn’t do that this time I also didn’t control myself as much as I normally do. I have decided to look at it as progress though. I mean, there once was a time I would have stopped at McD’s or gone and gotten a donut or come home and made Kraft Dinner or…well, you get the idea, but this time, I didn’t. Sure, I drank the slush but that’s 2 points compared to the 15 points and higher I could have eaten…so, that’s progress right? Just nod and smile so I can pretend you agree with me, k? K. 😀

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