10 posts tagged “diet”

Ok, on June 2nd I killed my diet.

The wife and I celebrated our 15 years of marriage and so I ate out (unhealthy), went to the movies (did not eat anything), went to Maggie Moos (Yum Yum Sooooo Unhealthy) and then Pizza for dinner... (Yes, unhealthy).

What movie did we see? Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Hank Azaria absolutely owned that movie. 'Nuff Said...

The next day, Ahhhh crap.. what did I eat? I know I had Curried Chicken the wife made for dinner. Oh yes, breakfast I had whole wheat biscuits, milk gravy with sausage.

I want to look up the GL on all of that... but I do not have the time this exact moment.

This morning I had the rice with the full grain on it along with sausage. I would prefer to have my Cheerios, but we are out and have to shop tonight.

Tea Time

New Day...new tracking. Did our intrepid hero start off on the right foot? Did he scarf down massive amounts of chemically induced, pre-packaged and greasy foods?

I had a bowl of Cheerios and had Strawberries chopped into it.

Cheerios - (103 Calories, 21g Carbs, 3g Fiber, 12 GL)
Milk - (146 Calories, 13g Carbs, 0g Fiber, 9 GL)
Srawberries - (49 Calories, 12g Carbs, 3g Fiber, 3 GL)
Stash Spiced Chi Tea - (Pink Packet) - (0s across the board)

298 Calories/1600 Calories
24 GL/100 GL

Nice start... time to get some water, going to keep tanking down the H2O.

Turkey/chicken breast, ham & swiss and salami sandwiches

It is now time to back over my previous day and talk about what I had for lunch and dinner and see what the Glycemic Load was.

So for lunch I ended up going to this great sub place called Sub Depot. As there is only one of this place I am going to need to break this down into its core ingredients and attempt to figure this out.

I had a Turkey on Oat bread with tomatoes and red onions and had a light mayo on it.

Turkey - (66 Calories, 3g Carbs, 0g Fiber, 3 GL)
Oat Bread - (140 Calories, 24g Carbs, 2g Fiber, 12 GL)
Tomato - (4 Calories, 1g Carbs, 0g Fiber, 0 GL)
Red Onion - (11 Calories, 3g Carbs, 0g Fiber, 1 GL)
Romain Lettuce - (8 Calories, 2g Carbs, 1g Fiber, 1 GL)
Iceberg Lettuce - (10 Calories, 2g Carbs, 1g Fiber, 1 GL)
Light Mayo - (45 Calories, 1g Carbs, 0g Fiber, 0 GL)
Unsweetened Tea - (6 Calories, 0g Carbs, 0g Fiber, 0 GL)

In Total
Calories: 284
Carbs: 36g
Fiber: 4g
GL: 18

A load less than what I had at Starbucks and overall since this was my lunch this kept me full for many hours... this was worth it.

So at this point in the day I had a total GL of 71 and I had 712 Calories left over I could use.

So let's head for dinner time when my wife wanted to make me a nice salmon salad, which in hindsight is awesome. Instead we went the hamburger, potatoes and corn route cause I am a whiny bitch. I am almost afraid to figure this out.

Hamburger - 2 patties (NO bread) - (392 Calores, 0g Carbs, 0g Fiber, 0 GL)
Mashed Potatoes - 1 Serving - (174 Calories, 37g Carbs, 3g Fiber, 16 GL) *Whimper*
Corn - 2 Servings - (192 Calories, 44g Carbs, 4g Fiber, 18 GL)
Water - 16 Ounces (Not even worth putting here since it is all 0s and look at me I am still wasting time)

So I surpassed my daily intake by: 52 calories
My Glycemic Load by: 5

I succeeded in a different way however. Had I not been tracking, I would have surpassed this by an even greater amount and I see I should have gone with the nice salmon salad the wife offered to make for me. However, I do not feel guilty as I was careful during the day and was able to splurge on what I really loved at dinner time. With some fine tuning I can stay on target.

Also I succeeded in that on a sandwich I added something other than lettuce and mayo. I generally am NOT a fan of tomatoes or onions and I went ahead and added them...and then absolutely fell in love with the taste they brought to the sandwich.

Clean clock

I need to eat healthier today for lunch and I am in the Opry Mills area for lunch. I am surrounded probably by 100 places to eat.

I would like to eat out healthier and cheap.

Any suggestions?

Coffee Cup Isolated

As a new diabetic I was wondering what the snot is this Glycemic Load stuff is. Now I do not fully grasp everything about it yet, however I do understand that it is how foods affect your blood sugar.

I also read that the typical person should not exceed a rating of 100 in a day and that diabetics should shoot lower.

So let us analyze the glycemic load of what I had today:

Banana: 10 (Cool)
Cheerios: 12 (Still Good)
Milk: 9 (Very Cool)
Starbucks: 22.... (DEAR LORD)

I am over my halfway point simply because of Starbucks.

Oh Starbucks, how I love thee...let me count the ways....  Caramel Light Frappachino....
Ok, so that is my only reason.

From here on out... I am cutting myself off from Starbucks. I am sorry Starbucks, I would send you a "Dear John" letter, but I am too busy.

Breakfast cereal

EDIT: Oink (who appreciates fine thighs) pointed out I was way off on bananas and I went back and checked and I screwed up the type and serving information. So I have readjusted the numbers... thank you!

So I might as well start recording what I ate. Might as well place it here and tag it foodjournal.

1 - Bowl of Cheerios (103 Calories, 3g Fiber, 21 Carbs, 3g protein)
1 - Pink Packet of Sweetener (No Idea)
1 - Medium Banana (200 Calories, 6g Fiber, 51g Carbs, 2g protein)
1 - Medium Banana (105 Calories, 3g Fiber, 27g Carbs, 1g protein)
1 - Cup of Milk (146 Calories, 0g Fiber, 13g Carbs, 8g protein)
1 - Venti Skinny Caramel Frappachino (250 Calories, 4g Fiber, 51g Carbs, 9g Protein)

I swear those Frappachinos are Kryptonite.

Ok, so looking over this...what did I learn? Dear God... a Banana is as bad as a Light Frappachino in terms of Carbs and as I am diabetic... I should be staying away from the Frappachinos and be wary of bananas.

Now the banana has awesome fiber in it... and so that takes away from the Carbs as well as other nutrients. As long as I do not go overboard, I can eat a banana. I have to make sure I eat it in the morning when my blood sugar is at it's lowest and I have a chance to burn it off. I am thinking that Starbucks needs to be culled totally from my diet and not bananas. Bananas offer potasium and other nutrients which I can justify as long as I only eat 1 in a day.

I could also offset those carbs by taking in some Benefiber or some other fiber additive.

I think I am going to restrict my calories to 1600 per day for now. That is what the Doctor told me to begin with, now I will listen.

So, how many do I have left and how many have I consumed?

Consumed: 699 604
Remaining: 901 996
Likelyhood I will surpass this: Pretty Good Chance.
Mood: I was in a neutral mood this morning, sick yes, but not sad about it. However when I went to Starbucks I did it cause I really thought I needed the caffeine. I need to buy a new coffee press and make my own sugar free coffees at home.

I am just being honest with myself, I had no idea how many calories I had consumed until now.

I always knew my metabolism is awesome in the mornings and craps out at night. Perhaps I need to eat most of my calories through the day up until 1pm'ish. Then around dinner time, I stick with a nice salad, some baked fish... that kind of stuff and not eat past 7 PM so that it gets burned up before I go to bed... or mostly burned up. I did it in the past and it really worked out for me then. I am reminded that that is probably the way I should go. 
 
I also need to replace the whole milk in my diet with perhaps soy milk, which I do enjoy or perhaps skim milk.
Must research.

I got the nutritional values from this cool site: http://www.nutritiondata.com/

I am a meat and potatoes kind of a guy. I love starchy foods and greasy foods, however I am not much into junk foods such as chips, candy, ice cream or sodas. I am very conservative with those kinds of foods. So lets run down the foods I come into contact with.

Sodas
I may have one single one a week. I tend to stay away from them because of my stomach, I have issues and the carbonation makes me want to yack. When I do partake of the goodness I tend to go with a Coke Zero or similar. I mostly stick to unsweetened teas and use the pink packets or water. I am a water addict... I absolutely love water.

Candy
I will occasionally have one of those "fun sized" Halloween sized candy bars. Those tiny things... my boss has an entire bag and I tend to stick to 1-2 of those per week.

child in sweet shop

Ice Cream
I mostly go for the sugar free cherry vanilla and that is probably 1-2 times a month.

Chips
This is probably my biggest downfall. Now I do not go out and actively pursue buying a bag of chips, however the wife and I do our grocery shopping (The bulk of it) every 2 weeks on a Thursday and on those days we will pick up some shredded BBQ and a massive bag of BBQ Chips and if those chips are not kept away from me, I will consume the entire thing. Absolute no self control if I get my hands on the bag.

Some Other Pitfalls
Every two weeks my department has a meeting and my boss brings food....generally unhealthy food and there are times I feel pressured to partake. Take yesterday for instance... we have an intern whom has worked for us for several years and she is leaving us soon as well as Monday being her birthday. She brought cake and I kindly declined and co-workers and boss said "Oh come on, its got whipped frosting" and I was literally the only one who turned any down. So I took a small sliver and I cannot tell you how absolutely sick I got for hours on end.

Another two employees had birthdays the week before and she brought cheesecake in.

Let me tell you something about me and cheesecake... I have no self control there either. Oh I am not going to eat an entire cake... no, that is too rich and nasty. However, my lack of self control is in the form of "I will never say no to a slice", I have enough control to make it a small slice... but I can NEVER say no. It has never happened yet.

Wow... already finding this really hard to do.

lol... I am sooooo hungry but I ate my lunch. I had 2 hamburger patties and used lettuce as a bun basically and a single serving of those Triscuit crackers.

If I can control this with diet and exercise and lose weight... then this is exactly what I am going to do. Last year when I was working on doing this I lost 30lbs and was only really hungry for a very short period of time before my body adjusted itself.

So I can do this again.

But I really really really wanted something else. Best if I did not though.

I mean, am I really hungry? Or am I just craving? Let me stop a second and think.

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Ok, it is official I am only craving something, my stomach is not experiencing any hunger pains.

I am however rather excited, sure I am in a bit of misery now, but my long term goal. Something I am seriously looking forward to? I can share part of it with you now...

Right now I wear 2x and 3x shirts and my waist is a 46-48 depending on the fit of the pants. The shirts at a typical Wal-Mart are at the very back of a row of clothing and the pants all the way at the bottom of the shelves. My goal, my dream is to grab pants and shirts in the middle... the 38 waist, the Large and 1x shirts.

To go into those stores and just buy what I desire instead of hunting for my size.

That... that is my goal.

Choices

So I saw the doctor today.

I was in severe pain in the calf and I am really sick and just feeling like crap.

I have to have some stuff done this week and Friday I have an ultrasound done on my calf. He wants to make sure it is not a blood clot.

And he is introducing me to one of his friends he hangs out with... the guy sells shoes, shoes especially made for people that hurt when they walk or are over weight. Right now I am both. I have to do this....

The doctor is also taking a full interest in seeing me lose weight. He knows I can do it, I did it before... but I injured myself and then surgery and again with that laziness thing that settled in.

In the past I would jump into something with both feet. Instead of swimming and over coming an obstacle, instead I would drown myself and give up.

My weight and this giving up would cause me to fall into a kind of depression. Right now, I am pretty depressed...

This weekend really topped it off for me. I did laundry sure, but with the wife doing a yard sale and the kids playing with their friends I was all alone and instead of doing something I needed to do or should have done I played World of Warcraft.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the game I really do...  but I have 2 things working against me right now.

1) My addictive personality

2) My depression

I really and honestly did not think I was depressed. If you know me from work, do I act depressed? Nope, I am cutting up and having a ball...

But inside me right now if this funk and I need to rise above it. I cannot do it all at once... I have to make life altering lifestyle changes. Small baby steps...

I cut out milk from my diet and that helped me breathe easier with my Asthma... just recently started taking Calcium supplements. Going to add a multivitamin in there as well.

While my diet is not horrible, I have targeted areas for improvement. I am going to start using tortilla shells instead of bread to make wraps instead of sandwiches. Add more fruits and vegetables as well... My wife does so much baking and I have so much fish in my diet that I am doing ok.

I have to stop playing World of Warcraft, if I were not so addicted to the game and I could play in moderation, then everything would be fine. But I fall into things so strongly and I need to back away and work on my writing... maybe help start a garden and build some shelving and stuff. Really get out there and enjoy life more.

But I have to do this in baby steps....

Sorry Potty Mouth, I have to stop playing.

So... anyone wanna buy an account with a level 60 Night Elf Priest on Aggramar? Also has a 39 Night Elf Warrior, 31 Hunter and 33 Rogue same server and over on the Blackwing Lair Server there is a 28 Undead Mage that really kicks butt in Frost.

Give me best offer... even take a good used laptop for it. =D

lol

I have weight to lose. I have said this time and time again...but this morning I was pretty frikkin shocked at what I saw in the mirror.

If I don't get up and move... I will die. Sure not now...but too damned early.

So, I have devised a plan to use TheDailyPlate to track my food and exercise. Thanks to Captain Potty Mouth for that link. I am going to start by picking up Dance Dance Revolution again. Why DDR? I lost 30 lbs playing it before.

I also bought a bike, but I cannot ride it... yeah I am THAT out of shape. So I need to get my stamina up a bit and then I can ride that bike... (Well also once I replace that seat. Blasted thing is too thin... )

While the only meal I have eaten today has been breakfast, I am shocked at how much of my daily intake of Sodium, Fat and Cholesterol is just SHOT out of the water... well over 100% of daily intake. I know because of lunch it will be much worse... I will just ask the wife to make a nice salad tonight for dinner. I like this in that I can see with my own eyes what I am doing.

There are also some trails in the woods down the street from my house. I think I will take a couple of the kids and go exploring. Take the camera with me and see what is back there.