Finally – Today’s Foods

Today I really really really wanted to eat after dinner so i had some hershey kisses.  in addition to the piece of chocolate i had at lunch.  i’m starting to stress out about various things – work, hula, etc., and i need to figure out another outlet other than eating… i mean, i did okay today, especially in comparison to what i could’ve eaten, but still… oh yeah, and i ate after 9… i had a frozen fruit bar when i got home from hula.  that doesn’t really count though, does it?

orange juice, special k, banana, tuna sandwich

strawberry special k bar, meatloaf, parsley potatoes, garlic green beans, milk

deformed grape all natural frozen fruit bar

portions: all

activities of the day: work, visited tutu who was asleep the whole time, hula

I’m behind on my blog posts!

Ugh! I’m pretty terrible this week – I haven’t been updating like i should…

Tuesday’s foods were fine.  I had a great 5 mile run, doing 11 minute miles the whole time and only walking for 1 minute every 10 minutes instead of every 4.  it was super cold was the only problem!

orange juice, special k, and chicken fettucini lean cuisine

tuna sandwich, apple & string cheese, banana

strawberry special k bar, milk

portions for the day: all of it (foods not shown: 100 calorie pack of cheezits)

activities for the day: ran 5 miles, work, visited tutu in the hospital

Disneyland on a Monday Foods!

today was pretty straightfoward – no binges, no major cravings, no terrible foods eaten, and all within my daily caloric intake!

english muffin with peanut butter, orange juice, chocolate power bar (1/2), turkey avocado sandwich

baked lays, grapes, spicy honey chicken thighs, parsely potatoes, & green beans (not pictured)

chocolate special k bar, milk

portions for the day: 1/2 power bar, 1 3/4 chicken thighs

activities for the day: cleaned, disneyland, hula, monday night stories!

Today’s Foods!

I was bad today and forgot to take a picture of dinner which was a homemade turkey ranch burger w/low fat cheese and lite mayo and brown sugar carrots.  the buffet made today kind of hard, especially after last night, but the workout today made up for all of it and more (i hope!)

my workout today was to run 10 miles.  michelle and kat helped me out.  kat started the run with me and michelle met us after a mile or so and ran with me to the halfway point and back.  then kat and michelle walked for a bit while i ran ahead and then michelle dropped of kat so that i’d have someone to finish with.  poor michelle fell on the sidewalk, tripping over a crack as we neared the 5 mile marker and kat got blisters on both of her feet from her new shoes!  i felt terrible.  the run itself was okay. i went a little slower than i might have liked otherwise but the different terrain of running on woodchips and my new running buddies were definite factors.  i got super hungry in like the 8th mile and ate a little bit of power bar.  it was super hot out too – maybe 80 degrees – which may not seem like a lot except when theres no breeze and full sun.  ugh!  but i made it to the end and that’s all that matters!  maybe next week i’ll actually sign up for the marathon…

brunch at onami’s: beef teriyaki (5 slivers), chicken teriyako (3 chunks), california roll (3 pc)

inari (1/2 pc), green tea ice cream (1/2 c.), mini chocolate chip cookies (1)

ice cream cone, crab cake (1/2 pc), squash tempura (1/2 pc)

chocolate special k bar, milk

portions for the day: stated w/the foods since there were too many…

activities for the day: ran 10 miles, secret santa exchange at onami’s with the lomita library gang, hula

Foods for Saturday, Jan. 9

Today I ate terribly.  Very, very terribly.  and this whole weekend i was terrible about taking pictures!  from today, my souplantation pictures are missing.  i had 1 piece of cornbread, 1 whole wheat buttermilk biscuit, 1 c. asian salad, 1 chocolate muffin, 1/2 c. soft serve, and 1 c. of chicken noodle soup.

special k, bucca di beppo deliciousness: green beans, chicken carbonara (i didn’t have any of the spaghetti & meatballs or ravioli) – foods eaten at bucca but not pictured: garlic mozzarella bread, pepperoni pizza, tres leches cake, garlic mashed potatoes

banana & sangria

portions: its hard to say when u go to bucca’s… but i had 1.5 pieces of pizza, maybe 2 cups of chicken carbonara, 3 pieces of garlic bread, 6 green beans, and maybe 2 cups of mashed potatoes and also 3 glasses of sangria

activities for the day: hula with the family, hung out with bob, lunch at souplantation, nap, dress shopping, dinner for melissa & michelle’s bday

Foods for Friday, Jan. 8

Today was a pretty good day for food. I wasn’t craving sweets too much, but i also didn’t feel like making anything to eat which only became problematic around dinner.  my run today was good.  an easy 2 miles. my thigh muscle is pretty sore still, but i think thats primarily repurcussions from yesterday’s treadmill fiasco.

naked orange juice (no added sugar) & peanut butter on an english muffin, turkey & avocado sandwich, 1 oz. baked lays

strawberry special k bar, apple, special k cereal

english muffin pizzas with turkey pepperoni, chocolate special k bar (in lieu of bday cupcakes at hula – so proud of myself!), pocky

foods not pictured: 1 teensy bit of chocolate cake (and i mean teensy) and 1 sm. sour worm (only 2 colors)

portions of the day: 1 small pack of pocky – not the whole thing!, otherwise all of everything

events of the day: ran 2 miles, disneyland, got a 2nd job interview (yay!!!!), hula

worst run ever

so food wise today i was okay. i really wanted chocolate but settled for a small cookie at work. when i weighed myself this morning after my workout i’d lost 2.5 pounds since last week, so that was really awesome and a nice silver lining in an otherwise shitty morning. My run this morning was so terrible at the gym. I’d been dreading 7 miles on the treadmill all week and after a bad night at hula i definitely wasn’t mentally prepared to do it and even tried switching treadmills to help in the middle. I ended up getting off the treadmill after 5 miserable, slow, horribly run/walked miles and will try to make up those two by the beach tomorrow on a nice, leisurely, enjoyable run.

maple & brown sugar instant oatmeal, chicken fettucini lean cuisine, carrots

gatorade (i actually drank orange, not lemon lime but whatever), cereal bar, and even though it doesn’t look like it, that’s oven fried chicken, rice, and katsu sauce

milk

foods not pictured on account of wordpress acting stupid: banana, string cheese, and a small cookie

portions for the day: 1.5 katsu chickens (shown is the 1/2 serving) and otherwise all of everything

activities for the day: ran 5 miserable miles, work, costco run

Same old same old

i need to start eating some new foods.. i’m starting to get bored looking at my own food blog! maybe thats why i was jonesing today for cookies and pizza and katsu chicken… mmmm

special k, banana (not shown), turkey & avocado sandwich, apple and string cheese (not necessarily eaten in this order)

turkey dog with mustard, milk, cookies n cream ice cream

if you can’t read the box, four cheese pizza by lean cuisine because i didn’t want to cook and knew i shouldn’t order dominos…

portions: all of it!

activities: work (turtle storytime day), watched drag me to hell (two thumbs down), hula practice

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Today I was starving all day!  I don’t know what it was – maybe my body was just yearning for the calories its been missing since i was probably eating twice as many before I started or maybe the 5 miles i ran jump started my metabolism and i burned them like crazy.. i dunno, but i do know that even though i ate all this (i forgot to take a picture of the lonely banana) i still came in far under my calorie allotment according to Lose It so i’m not complaining.  The good thing about healthy foods is that u can eat larger quantities, but the downside is they’re not always as filling.  I won’t get into the taste factors, although as I drove home STARVING every fast food place and billboard for pizza made me salivate.  thankfully I had calories to eat when I got home or i might’ve gone crazy!

my run today was okay.  i didn’t have my watch, so i timed my running breaks according to the songs that were playing and took longer runs and less walk breaks.  i want to be able to run the 10K next month without walking and looking like an idiot…

special k with berries, turkey & avocado sandwich, gala apple and string cheese

raw carrots, shrimp pasta (i didn’t eat the mixed veggies today – i used an old picture), japanese chocolate peanuts

turkey dog w/mustard, chocolate pudding, milk

portions: all of everything – again

activities of the day: ran 5 miles, worked at lomita

Sunday Funday Foods

so today was the first day that Christian and I really gave this new diet our all.  Trying new foods – cottage cheese – which is still pretty gross, counting calories, not eating after 9pm and trying to hit all of our recommended food groups with the appropriate servings.  i did pretty good, surprisingly and was just a tad short on protein and surprisingly starches.

in the exercise world, today I ran 6 miles along the san gabriel river with my buddy john.  it’s been so long so i really ran with anyone I forgot how easily an intended 11-12 minute/mile run can turn into 0:10:45 minute/mile run.  it was nice having someone to run with though and it was also great to get some motivation back.  talking to someone who has run marathons and trained by himself really made me feel better and replenish my spirit.  body wise, the run felt pretty good although around 4.5 miles i started to feel the pace and my muscles started to tighten up a bit.  i’m pretty stiff right now and my inner thigh hurts a lot, but hopefully that is just a symptom of the speed and not a real injury. I’m sure it’ll be okay though.  nothing too serious… LA Marathon, here I come!

special k red berried with non-fat milk

these are the pizzas i forgot to take a picture of yesterday but thankfully i ate them again today…

garlic shrimp with marinara sauce and noodles and mixed veggies

its a glass of non-fat milk!

portions: i ate all of everything today and still came in under my calorie goal.  tomorrow i need to eat more though.

activities: cleaned, did a load of laundry, read women’s health, ran 6 miles, saw Up In the Air (not so great)