80% done
Day four done. One more to go. You know your jealous of my fancy dinner.
Lunch.
Dinner. Fancy huh.
RESET
Yesterday I started the 5 day RESET program.
Designed to reset my glycemic index and my metabolism.
Three shakes, two bars, two packs of vitamins and 64 extra ounces of water.
Well I got through day one. I didn’t eat anything besides what you see in the picture. Boring. It helps that I waited until I had very little food left in my house. I added up the calories, and it only totals 1045 a day which doesn’t make any sence for resetting metabolism as it is too few so I will go ahead and add in an apple and a veggie this evening.
But I figure I can do anything for 5 days! Even drink these shakes. I could live with the chocolate one. But the vanilla which is never a flavor I like in shakes, was more difficult to get down. Strawberry which unless your seven why would you want strawberry I am having those for breakfast because well at 5:30 in the morning, my senses are still asleep and therefore I figure I wont notice.
The plan is called RESET. I am hoping it works to reset my state of mind if nothing else. Since being on first shift again for a month, my workouts have completely fallen off and the nearly 20 pounds I had taken off this year are already starting to creep back up. Some how, some way, I will fit in a workout on each of these five days as well.
Yesterday was a divine walk around Greenlake with Char. It was beautiful, the weather was mild, the color’s popped, there were ducks and turtles and life around us and the conversation was stimulating as always.
Heres to a week of RESET, as it is I have 3 posts in draft mode from last week. Clearly something needs to push the reset button and this will be it!!!!!!!!!
Food/Sleep/Heartburn
Ready, OK> I am going to do this again today because I know for a fact the only and I do mean ONLY thing that kept me from eating my house through the house last night due to stress was the fact that I was in no way shape or form putting a binge in my blog.
I am lacking sleep today having to be up before the crack of dawn (on the EAST COAST) hours in fact of being at work before the sky even lightened. That put breakfast off because 3am, too early for food.
I went to Starbucks about 6:30 and got a turkey bacon sandwich and coffee to get me going. I took the supplements for the 2nd day in a row and I have had heartburn and burping (nice huh) the taste of vitamins for two hours now. blech. I went ahead and had my banana to see if that would help but it did not.
Food today (so far):
Turkey Bacon breakfast sandwich: 350 calories
Small banana: 90 calories
Supplements
Coffee and lots of water.
Lunch: 11:30 a.m.
Salami sandwich: 392 calories
12 almonds: 85 calories
Daily Grub
The posting of my food seemed to help yesterday however all the calories and grams was a bit much.
Today I’ll just post my actual grub.
5:00 a.m.
Kashi & Soymilk : 250 calories
Supplements
Small banana: 90 calories
10:30 a.m. snack
Cantelope 5oz: 48 calories
Cottage Cheese 1/2 cup: 90 calories
12:30 lunch
Sandwich: 392 calories
2 pieces whole wheat bread
1 oz dry italian salami
mayo and lettuce
4:30 snack
Peanut butter pretzels: 171
6:30 dinner
4oz fish: 280 calories
satuee’d mushrooms and onions: 90 calories
Suplements
Supplements
Vitamins, Minerals and Bio Oil, Oh My.
My supplements and RESTART arrived yesterday. But since I was told I had to go to dinner with visiting employees from Hong Kong and the regional President on Wednesday night, coupled with the fact that I got fresh groceries this weekend I will not be starting RESTART until later in the week or this weekend.
Instead I took the vitamins and such this morning and this is only half for one day and this is more vitamins in my hand then I have taken cumulatively in a decade.
I’m so not used to this and the vitamin smell at first makes my stomach turn. But I did it, and will again tonight! It seems like a lot but we”ll just go with it for now.
Putting it out here
Ready OK! clap clap clap!!!
I am going to start posting my food journal here for a few days. It will be boring and not really worth reading but I do better with tracking food/calories/nutrition. Hopefully this will serve as my conscious, perhaps inspiration and in the very least will help me keep it real. Perhaps I will make a separate section on the blog for these but for now I’m just gonna start with this mornings breakfast and update throughout the day as things enter my pie hole temple.
Oct 12:
5:30 am breakfast
1.25 cup Kashi Go lean; 175 calories; 37.5 g carbs 1.2g fat 16.2 g protein
.75 cup soy milk; 75 calories; 9.7g carbs 1.5g fat 3.7 protien
Coffee
9:00 am
Small banana; 90 calories; 23.1g carbs .3g fat 1.1g protien
12:00 noon
| Salad | Calories | Carbs | Fat | Protein |
| 3 cups mixed greens | 9 | 5.3grams | .4grams | 2.5grams |
| Tomato (1 whole small) | 16 | 3.6g | .2g | .8g |
| Avocado (1/2) | 138 | 7.4g | 12.7g | 17.g |
| Cucumber (1/2 cup) | 9 | 1.5g | .1g | .3g |
| Bell Pepper 1/4 pepper | 7 | 1.7g | .1g | .3g |
| Tuscan Dressing (2 TB) | 80 | 5g | 7g | 0 |
3:00pm snack
Tortilla chips, 1 oz; 140 calories; 19g carbs 6g fat 2g protein
6:30 pm dinner
Roasted Garlic and Portobello Mushroom pizza; 460 calories 60g carbs 14.0g fat 20g protein
Pumpkin Pie; 316 calories 40.9g carbs 14.4g fat 7g protien
1535 calories for the day. (now to just stay away from the rest of the pie)
If I have help can I claim success
It is a really weird dichotomy I have. If I can lose weight, be healthy without any help then I can claim success. If I have help, say its a trainer, or supplements, or fasting, or weight watchers support group, basically anything that is not hard and sacrificial then for some reason the success I do have I fail to claim.
Like, Yes I did lose weight BUT I was on a schedule that almost forced me to the gym because I was dropping someone off at work, was a half mile from the gym and had six hours before my shift. Therefore allowing me uninterrupted time at the gym on a daily basis. (HELLO YOU RETARD, YOU STILL HAD TO GO)
-retard in a completely self loving and respectful manner-
Same with my running the marathons in the last year. Yes I went the 13.1 miles, yes I cut time off my first one, yes I did it alone even though it would have been more “fun” with a friend. But when people ask the first, the very first thing I say is. Oh I didn’t run the whole thing. (HELLO, YOU WENT THE DISTANCE, TAKE SOME FRIGGEN CREDIT)
-yes I am yelling-
I lost 90 pounds by working out and tracking my calories. NINETY. That is a whole person, or 3 toddlers. I am still in smaller clothes than I was in. I am actually currently down 55 pounds from my highest weight ever 8 or 9 years ago. So what do I focus on, the 35 pounds I am up from my lowest adult weight. (It really is sad, how I don’t give myself credit)
I went to a health and wellness seminar the other night and while I was at it decided to buy supplements and a nutrition RESET system. It will basically be five days of balanced nutrition shakes and bars. I also bought vitamin supplements and will start taking those. (My first thought was well I can’t take credit for the success if the RESET works, why because I had help) I know its irrational, and sad that its my first thought.
I’m sure anyone who really knows me is surprised by the vitamins. I do not take anything, I barely take ibuprofen or pain relievers. I also do not use any skin products because I don’t want to absorb all the chemicals into my body. I have always been a “your skin is your largest organ” person and when Sarah said this at the seminar I think I actually listened more because that is exactly my thinking. Besides not taking supplements of any kind, I am also the healthiest person I know (just jinxed myself didn’t I) not having the flu but once in my life, having two colds in the last twenty years, one right on top of the other about 3 years ago when a co-workers kids kept getting them and he brought the germs into the office. I have always contributed that to lots of fruits and veggies, organic everything that I can get. What does this say about the RESET and the supplements.
For today, I am just going to view them as tools. Like dumbbells or my elliptical trainer, for some reason I don’t give away my success to those inanimate objects.
I am excited that my supplements and nutritional RESET package and yes skin care products have shipped. I will let you know how it goes and try and take some credit for my success and more importantly view it as my success. I sure as heck accept the failures as my own.
The products are by USANA and focus on nutrition on a cellular level. If you are interested in them I will get you connected with my friend Sarah. You can find my email on my main blog – V-Lo’s View.
October is my new “new year”
UNCLE!!!! I give.
I thought I would try the not tracking calories, not weigh in every day method. Be mindful, be healthy, exercise and just live in my new improved mindset. Not let the tracking and over-analyzing be such an ingrained part of my day. Try and just you know “live”
Today, I am back up to 197.2 pounds. That is 10 pounds since the end of August. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
I know I haven’t been getting as much exercise, but I really did think my food was pretty good, you know 85% of the time. Cause hell no one can be perfect and if they are what fun is that. OK, maybe you (reader) are perfect but I sure as heck am not.
I am going to start tracking my calories again today and keeping a fitness log, both of those things worked for me earlier this summer and I seriously need to turn this train (freight variety) around. For one reason I feel fat and uncomfortable and sluggish and blech, for another I friggen kept getting rid of clothes this summer as I shrank out of them and quickly am having nothing to wear.
is 9am to early for lunch
I have been in a PMS fatigue, like sucks funk the last couple weeks.
Eating to much garbage and not enough good fuel.
Also not getting nearly enough exercise and days and days in a row of getting NONE.
Today I had to be at work at 5:30 in the morning. I ate my cereal and soymilk at 4:20 in the morning. I ate my banana at about 7 and here it is almost a whopping 9am and my stomach is growling.
I know that if I ignore it, drink a big glass of water it will buy me a little time. However I do have a yummy cheese sandwich in the fridge I could eat. hmmmm.
Choices.
Routines and such
Lookey lookey that two weeks just flew by. I can see the wake of crumbs I left behind.
Just a quick update. I’m pretty much maintaining status quo.
Still eating too much, but working out almost daily which is just keeping me in the same place weight wise, and frustrated with my lack of progress.
It is what it is.
When I’m not working out regularly I can tell. I don’t sleep as well, and I certainly don’t have as much patience. The last week I had a couple cake projects, family graduation and company in town so 4 days in a row I really didn’t get much movement and ate too much. It just feels gross.
The good thing is I can feel the difference when I get right beck into a routine. It feels good to be working out the last few days, even if my calories are too high.
Here comes fall and a schedule change again and I feel much more ready to handle it then before this stint on second where I could get my workouts back in order. Soon I’ll be getting up at 4:30 in the morning again and working out in the afternoons. But I have faith in myself and my determination.
