Did you guys see this over at the DailySpark?
The Obama inauguration three course lunch was more than 3000 calories!!! That doesn’t even count the champagne and wine served with the meal.
I guess it’s good thing they only do it every four years!
An update, should anyone be interested;
I’m back up to 14 stone 5.6 pounds, but not mega concerned as my body fat is down to 26.7% (from 26.9%), muscle up to 36.2% (from 35.5%).
I get the feeling last time I weighed I may have been close to naked, usually (as I did today) I just take of my trousers and socks, and leave boxers and t-shirt on. I’ll be making sure this is the case from now on, though I realise my T is unlikely to weight a whole pound, though I dunno, I’m not exactly sure how much a pound is in terms of something I could visualise, unlike a kg which equates to a bag of sugar.
Also started a bi-weekly workout with 3 of my friends, martial art based. We warm up, stretch, do a bit of fitness work, pad and bag work (technique based, and for the others, to learn how to do the techniques), then at least two 3-5 min sparring rounds.
Works well, proper tiring, but interesting enough that i don’t notice how much effort it’s taking. I can see it being made a regular thing, though I suspect one of the girls (there’s 2 girls, 2 boys inc. me) will probably drop out.
Hopefully, in time I’ll be back up to a reasonable level of fitness, but already I can get through the warm up stage without being too out of breath.
As for the diet side, breakfast and lunch are still fine, though at dinner I’m starting to get a little hungry afterwards sooner now. Also gotten worse with late night snacking, went from nothing, to an apple, to one slice of toast, to two slices…gah!
I’m buying some healthy snacking food tommorow, sultanas and nuts and the like.
Also going to sit down and work out a menu for the week, based on recipes from a calorie counted recipe book, so i can easily stick to my calorie allowance.
I made Slow Cooker Chicken Taco Stew for dinner. This is the second time I’ve made this recipe and it’s so easy. Even twice the serving size (1.5 cups instead of 3/4 cup) is only 230 calories, leaving plenty of room for a bit of cheese or sour cream or tortilla chips. My family likes it too, making it a healthy filling meal that everyone will eat.
Hmm, hmm, no impulse control La, La. My new song.
Having my parents in town was no good for not snacking, and both were injured so I didn’t exercise as much as I’d planned.
I’ve only bumped back up to where I was the week before, but it’s thanks to having mostly rice cakes and low-cal ice cream sandwiches in the house. (Nevermind the prime rib roast and chocolate silk pie we had for one gathering.) Nosh, nosh, nosh.
I expect it’s cyclical (though not the usual ‘cycle’), but it’s annoying to feel like I have to keep chewing on something.
Winkie and the box of Colon Blow
So there I was in the cereal aisle, browsing boxes and perusing nutrition information and ingredients. I have tried Fiber One in the past and haven’t been able to get past the artificial sweetener taste. (That annoys me, because so many other people aren’t bothered by it / get used to it and can eat the low-cal treats and darn it I must not be trying hard enough to like it … but I digress.)
I picked up a box of Kashi GoLean. 140 calories and 10 grams of fiber per cup - that sounds good. No artificial sweeteners, that’s a good sign. So, I bought a box and ate a cup that evening. It’s tasty enough, a little rough (hee) on the texture side but with 10 grams of fiber per serving that’s to be expected.
I had another cup the next morning. Then around noon started the worst flatulence I have ever had. There was reverb. There was stench. Cats ran from the room in horror. WinkieHubby, who is normally quite impressed by such things, commented “Gross, honey.” It continued through the next day. I looked at the box again. 10 grams total fiber, of which 9 are insoluble so they pass through undigested. Hhhm, I think I understand. So, I’m eating about half a cup per day as part of a snack, which boosts my fiber nicely while allowing me to continue to live in my house. Once my intestines are used to the exercise I’ll work up to a cup. Or just continue to enjoy the Kashi Heart-to-Heart I also bought and really love 
The moral of the story: ease into that high-fiber diet!
And I’m off to find the nutritional info for Kashi stuff! Mwahahahaha!
That’s what has me wondering about that high high HIGH fiber pasta linked to upthread. Can a person eat 72% of their daily RDA in one bowl of pasta and live to tell about it?
I have no trouble getting all my fiber in through fruits and vegetables and beans…but imagine the poor person who is used to only hitting about 50% during the course of a day. :eek:
- Still heading in the right direction, though eight up on my best.
I’m back to making regular Monday reports after the month-long holiday in England.
I put on 2kg while there and have lost 1.2 of that since getting back two weeks ago. I am going to a women’s convention the 20th February and my current goal is to be in the 60’s by then. I am at 71.2kg today.
Unfortunately, I’ve lost 3 pounds from being on the my-husband-and-I-separated-eight-days-ago diet. Glad to see the 3 pounds go, not so much my marriage. Sorry for the hijack. I should just start another thread if I feel the need.
Weigh-in day: 207.6 (missed last week-209.2)
Total weight loss: 9 pounds.
I’m so sorry that you’re going through something so rough. I don’t think that it’s off topic because stress and sadness affect our ability to gain or lose weight in a big way and getting support is part of that.
I don’t weigh in until Tuesday but I’m not too worried this time. I may not show a loss but I’m eating right and exercising every day so it will show up sooner or later.
I neither gained nor lost this week. It could have been worse!
5 pounds lost in January so far.
I’ve lost a pound this week. I’m pretty psyched about it, and feeling good.
We are such a bunch of losers.
I’m not. I’m a plateau-dweller!
123 again this week.
Oh well. I didn’t show a loss this week but I know that it will catch up eventually. It’s motivating me enough to cancel going out to lunch with a friend this week and go for coffee instead.
I’m starting to need a harder workout but I hate going to the gym with a passion. I get so bored doing the same motion over and over so I do weights at home listening to music I like, I have a recumbent bike and do I dance aerobics. Having to learn and follow complicated steps keeps my mind occupied but it isn’t the ‘work it till you drop’ kind of workout anymore because they don’t get harder as you get in better shape. Running is a pain up here because so many people let their dogs roam that you can’t go a quarter mile without them chasing you and then you have to stop and pet them and send them home again. Driving 15 miles to run at 7:30 in the morning isn’t appealing to me. I’m also (illogically) scared of coyotes at dusk and dawn. I love seeing and hearing them but after seeing what they can do to a deer it makes me nervous.
Does anyone have good, hard workouts that they do at home that aren’t boring and don’t require expensive equipment? I have no more room for large machines. We have cable exercise channels and I tried out the Biggest Loser ones this week. They’re hard but I didn’t like them much. All of that motivational yelling at you takes all the fun out of it. I wish that someone whould make an aerobics video using old classic rock music instead of all of the pop music.
Funny, Karyn, I was just going to write about this. I just hooked up digital cable so I’ve been doing the exercise shows. There’s one I did today that was tough but really good. It was a workout with Cindy Whitmarsh, who’s from www.exercisetv.tv, which apparently is the source for exercise videos on Comcast. Apparently, you can also exercise On Demand from their website. I don’t remember what the workout is called, but she was very upbeat and nice–no yelling. My thighs are killing me.
I’ve also ramped up the working out. I’m feeling sore all over, but good. Apparently, I was just not working out hard enough.