Breakfast: 8 oz. all natural vanilla yogurt with two teaspoons of flax seed. One cup of coffee with 3 tablespoons of Coffeemate Natural Bliss vanilla creamer.
10 a.m. snack: string cheese or a hardboiled egg.
Lunch: 2 oz. lunch meat, 2 oz. cheese, an apple. Or leftovers from dinner the night before.
3 p.m. snack: a handful of almonds, or string cheese, depending on what I had for morning snack.
Dinner: 4-6 oz. of animal protein, veggie, and maybe a starch. Usually I leave out the starch.
If I'm feeling frisky I have 4 oz. of ice cream or a bowl of granola for dessert.
Weekends I have a pastry one morning for breakfast, and eggs and bacon or something similar the other morning. The rest of my diet is the same on weekends as it is on weekdays. Although I usually tend to allow myself a hamburger, or Mexican food, or something else way over my usual calories on the weekend. I consider it my treat.
I walk at least 3 miles a day. I also work out beyond that four days. I do two days of cardio, and two days of weights. When I don't get to do this I feel sluggish. The last two weeks my routine has been off. I'm starting back up with it next week and I am looking forward to it.
I monitor everything I eat in a My Fitness Pal app. I tried not to do it for about 6 months. I operate far better when I do. It's part of my anxiety stuff and I stress way more when I don't do it. I don't necessarily think it's all that healthy, but it's part of who I am.
I have not lost any weight in the past few weeks, and I'm okay with that. I would like to drop some pounds, but it isn't necessarily a goal I care about. I'm eating healthy, and living healthy, and being happy. That is the most important thing to me.
For right now, life is good and I'm happy about my diet. I just got a huge lot of loot from the farmer's market so I'm fresh in peppers, Chinese long beans, corn, apples, eggplant, beets, and all kinds of other goodies that I love.
Happy picture of the day: Mitch Hedberg. He was one funny emm effer. I miss him.
I too, have a rather 'different' diet than the 'norm' of what our culture accepts as 'food'. I CAN'T STAND IT when people draw attention to my food choices or make a big deal of it. They tend to at work -'oh we got the gluten free this and that!!' (announced loudly....) Good grief. I know the intent is very thoughtful, but let me eat my veggies in peace. This month has been a bit different as I am doing a fast of sorts and my diet is modeled after the poorer of those in Nicaragua...very eye-opening...and I have been amazed at the gratitude I also feel when I look down at my simple tostada smothered in beans - and I've eaten that every day for weeks...
ReplyDeleteI am with you on the exercise as well - need to get back to it. I hope to settle back into a routine now that summer is ending and a schedule is at hand. We shall see!
Wow Carrie, that was fast! :)
ReplyDeleteI often think the reason the women at my work draw attention to my food is they can't fathom that a fat girl, eats and lives healthily. But the ones who comment are generally the ones eating diet meals out of boxes and talking CONSTANTLY about how fat they are. It's sad really.
I am excited to hear about how your diet makes you feel and your experience with it while you are doing this fast. It sounds like something I would do.
Next week I will be getting up at 5, four days a week to get back in the groove. I look forward to it.
Have I told you lately how much I know we are going to meet one day and talk for hours on end? I adore you. And I am going to get that book you talked about and probably not be able to put it down.
I too live a very healthy lifestyle consisting of a wine dinner and a couch workout nightly. I'm way too unstructured to adhere to your careful schedule. Wish I had the discipline. Have a great week.
ReplyDeleteHahaha! I love that comment Blondie. I have a shitty metabolism so I'd be a 500 pound immobile lady if I didn't eat healthy and exercise like crazy. I'm overweight as it is.
ReplyDeleteAlso, my anxiety disorder makes it so that I crave structure and systems. It's the only thing keeping me off meds. It's not really that I'm such a great person as that I have to live this way or I wouldn't be able to function.
The thing that struck me most is that you list things in ounces! It doesnt surprise me, but wow you are organized :) Believe me, I have no clue how many ounces of something I eat, even though I know I should! That is awesome how well you eat. I tend to fluctuate a lot in what I eat. I find women to not generally be supportive of each other to eat healthy, which is sad. If im eating a huge plate of just vegetables for lunch, its because its what I want to eat, and it annoys me when people tell me I should be having protein or that I wont get filled up on that. Im a grown women and fully capable of regulating my diet, thanks! But if I eat something clearly unhealthy, no one ever comments, It's so strange.
ReplyDeleteI would take it a step further and say that commenting on what others eat, at all, is totally unacceptable. We need to respect differences. I don't like when I see people eating out of boxes every day, but I would NEVER make a comment about it. That's weird. It strikes me as very insecure behavior telling someone else, how they should live.
ReplyDeleteIt's all a matter of preference.
I make a conscious decision about portion sizes but in all honest I've been very lax this summer on food choices. So I might be following the recommended serving size for ice cream instead of say...veggies. I have been kind-of bleh about being healthy lately. I'd chock it up to being in a funk but really? Isn't that just avoiding being responsible. I am always amazed at people who can eat structuredly (I think I made up that word) because it takes an amazing amount of willpower...something that I completely and utterly lack.
ReplyDeleteI have at least one day a week where I "don't pay attention." But really I do pay attention, I'm just a little more lax. I have to allow myself that because I don't ever want to be an "I'd never eat _______" person. Eating can be for enjoyment sometimes instead of nourishment.
ReplyDeleteWhen I feel bleh I will eat an extra serving of something sometimes. But I really try and avoid it. I try to call or text a friend instead.
It never ceases to amaze me how nosey people can be at times, getting all up in your diet...how rude. I think your discipline is fantastic! Mine is horrible. I don't eat terribly but we could do much better as a whole family.
ReplyDeleteI was so sad when I heard Mitch Hedberg had passed away - he was hysterical!
Isn't it weird and disrespectful? I keep telling myself, "Stop trying to understand the crazy people. It will just drive you crazy."
ReplyDeleteRight???? I loved him so much. To this day I watch YouTube stuff of him and cry laughing. He was such a talent. Damn you heroin! You have taken so many of my talented folks away!
I was just watching him like two weeks ago because my son told me he died and I was like, NO WAY, and I had to Google it to find out and ended up watching him on YouTube...so sad...yep - that heroin got a family member of mine. It sucks.
ReplyDeleteI used to do a lot of drugs and drinking. I've been to a lot of funerals for someone my age. I am glad I got out of that lifestyle when I did.
ReplyDeleteThe people at my work are like that too. We have a team morning tea once a week, kind of a bonding thing, and guaranteed that within five minutes someone will bring up how fattening everything on the table is and it'll all be downhill from there. Jeez, all I want to do is gossip about that weird librarian on level 3!
ReplyDeleteI eat the same stuff all the time too (and it's also been commented on, but I don't give a shit). I don't care about food except that I have to eat it, and I want it to be reasonably healthy and super easy to prepare. The majority of my meals are a bunch of raw vegetables with some protein. I rotate veggies and protein sources to get a full range of nutrients.
ReplyDeleteI once had a work situation where a boss forbade anyone to bring in shared treats because she couldn't stop herself from eating them and wanted to lose weight. A couple of us brought chips and desserts the next day.
@Reanna,
ReplyDeleteI need to work in way more raw veggies. Thanks for the reminder.
And the lady at work is the kind of person I want to slap. It's no one else's fault if you lack self control. You can't forbid treats. How 'bout you just don't grab one? Geesh!