i'm hungry.
today i had a small blueberry muffin for breakfast and a couple bites from a banana that wasn't ripe yet. had it been ripe i would have been allowed to eat the whole thing.
my morning snacks were 2 small nutrition bars.
for my early lunch i had a baked potato with some sort of broccolli/cheese filling, it was pretty good.
then i went to lunch with an old college buddy whereby i had a chef salad but didn't eat any of the cheese, and didn't use hardly any dressing. sort of on plan because i was supposed to make my own garden salad to go with my potato; i'll call it even.
for dinner i had fish and chips = two small fish stick type things and literally 4 or 5 fries. i bet they weren't fries but when you are on a diet if they look like fries and kind of taste even remotely like fries, they are fries.
after dinner snacks include a few crackers and i added a cup of non-fat yogurt. yogurt not on plan but i left a few other things off, i think i'm ok.
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even after just a few days of this i can see immediately that i was snacking way too often before. all those extra calories add up. few hundred here a few hundred there. i also realize it was needless snacking...stressed at work, ok i'll go get a candy bar and i'll feel better for a little while. or i'm bored ok lets go get a freakin' whole box of cookies yeah thats the ticket.
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gotta get some more solid running goals written down. i'm still thinking about how to structure that plan. i don't like running at this weight and i keep repeating that mantra in my head therefore i hardly ever run. stupid. i love running. just run a couple miles at a time for now at a bare minimum, get the blood flowing. thats what i'll do. pretty soon i'll run more and more and more and more. just writing about it makes me want to run.
today i had a small blueberry muffin for breakfast and a couple bites from a banana that wasn't ripe yet. had it been ripe i would have been allowed to eat the whole thing.
my morning snacks were 2 small nutrition bars.
for my early lunch i had a baked potato with some sort of broccolli/cheese filling, it was pretty good.
then i went to lunch with an old college buddy whereby i had a chef salad but didn't eat any of the cheese, and didn't use hardly any dressing. sort of on plan because i was supposed to make my own garden salad to go with my potato; i'll call it even.
for dinner i had fish and chips = two small fish stick type things and literally 4 or 5 fries. i bet they weren't fries but when you are on a diet if they look like fries and kind of taste even remotely like fries, they are fries.
after dinner snacks include a few crackers and i added a cup of non-fat yogurt. yogurt not on plan but i left a few other things off, i think i'm ok.
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even after just a few days of this i can see immediately that i was snacking way too often before. all those extra calories add up. few hundred here a few hundred there. i also realize it was needless snacking...stressed at work, ok i'll go get a candy bar and i'll feel better for a little while. or i'm bored ok lets go get a freakin' whole box of cookies yeah thats the ticket.
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gotta get some more solid running goals written down. i'm still thinking about how to structure that plan. i don't like running at this weight and i keep repeating that mantra in my head therefore i hardly ever run. stupid. i love running. just run a couple miles at a time for now at a bare minimum, get the blood flowing. thats what i'll do. pretty soon i'll run more and more and more and more. just writing about it makes me want to run.
posted by brent at
7:10 PM
3 Comments:
Yeah, man - you're making me want to run too! You can do it. You're doing awesome -- figuring out how to still meet college buddy for lunch but follow the plan...nice work! You're off to a great start.
Have you been filling the monster 'thermos' of water and guzzling it down everyday?!?! That's supposed to be your work-out buddy... :-)
Have a great finish to Week #1!!
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Anonymous, at 8:03 PM
Go run. You're right, about the extra weight making it harder to do. Go do it anyway. It's righteous when you lose weight and you run even farther and faster. I remember thinking, dang! (except I curse like a sailor, so it probably wasn't *exactly* "dang", but anyway...) "dang! These people, these healthy little slip-of-a-things. They are total amateurs! I'd like to see THEM strap and 75 pounds and hit the treadmill or the streets for 30 minutes." It is unbelievable fun to have the hard runs to compare to!! - Mia
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Mia Goddess, at 10:59 PM
I agree with Mia. Go run!
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Megan, at 8:36 AM
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