Weekly Wednesday Weigh-In: Starting Week 7

Idea borrowed from Josey. Layout by, ...well...me!


OK, I'm a little frustrated that my weight isn't shifting. I've actually done very good this week. I worked out 4 times. I let my husband train me twice, I took a yoga class, and I ran my mile in the time I shot for. I also had the runs all day yesterday which didn't help at all with weight loss. I guess I could have done more, but we also at at home all week except for lunch on Friday when I had a salad.


I guess I just need to keep it up and create more of a deficit to actually lose the weight. On a high note though, my weight did stay pretty stable as I weighed myself throughout the week (rather than swinging wildly each day making my WWW totally unpredictable). I hope to see 140 by next Wednesday so that I actually have something to show for all my work.


We are also shutting off our cable TV this week. They are raising our rates and we only watch a few shows regularly anyway. I figure that at $75 a month, we could buy all the shows we want to watch on itunes if we can't get them on the network's website. This will save us the $90 a month they are raising our rate to, the $15 a month we pay for tivo and also motivate me to go to the gym, walk the dogs and work on my fish system. 

1. Reiterate my goal and where I stand in reference to this goal. (BMI info from this website)

Starting weight: 145        
Last Week's Weight: 141
Current Weight: 141 (no change from last week and -4 overall, 16 lbs to goal)   
Goal Weight : 125       

Starting BMI: 26.5
Last Week's BMI: 25.8
Current BMI: 25.8 (still "overweight")
Goal BMI: 18.5-24.9 or exactly 22.9 for goal weight

2. Discuss what I am going to do to achieve my goals.

Progress on last week's activities:

1. Time my mile and get it down to 12:00 that means a pace of 5.0 miles an hour: I did this, Yay!
2. See if I can go 3.75 miles in an hour with a combo of walking/running: probably could have kept going after my mile run to see where I got to on this one
3. Find an alternative for drinking soda at work: I have been taking a bottle of Lip.ton Diet green tea with citrus to work each day and after the tea is gone, I fill it with water and drink that. Since last Wednesday I have only had 2 sodas, time to make that none for this week.
4. Try a new vegan recipe: I want to try Donor Diva's Lentilleekie soup, it sounded so good!
5. Allow Nate to train me for 2 days at the gym: Yay, Accomplished!

 

Activities for this coming week: (the more activities I attempt, the more I am likely to achieve)

 

1. Time my mile and run it at 12:00 that means a pace of 5.0 miles an hour

2. See if I can go 3.75 miles in an hour with a combo of walking/running: following the mile I run for #1

3. No soda for an entire week
4. Try a new vegan recipe
5. Allow Nate to train me for 2 days at the gym.

3. Try to motivate others to join in on trying to lose weight

We got a new one!!!!!

Jenn @ Adventures of The Nomadic Housewife who is post partum

Bloggers I follow that are participating:
Josey (of course) @ My Cheap Version of Therapy who is post partum
Gee @ GeeBaby who is relatively new to blogging
Bridget @ The Lost Stork who is post partum
Donor Diva @ Donor Diva: Mother via Egg Donation who is trying for #2
Holly G @ Holly G and Co. who is post partum after #2

4. Post a (reasonably healthy) recipe that I've tried, a cooking tip, a new idea for working out for people to try, a photo update of my weight loss, or anything else I feel like sharing.

OK, I found this recipe on Pin.terest and it was soo good, in fact I'm making it again tonight.

In a crockpot, mix one can of Ro.tel, one can of drained and rinsed black beans, one can of corn (or the equivelant in frozen corn) one block of cream cheese (low fat), 4 chicken breasts (can be frozen but will take longer to cook), cook in crockpot for 4-5 hours if chicken was thawed, more like 6 hours if chicken was frozen. Stir occasionally, or add cream cheese later if you can't stir it occasionally. 

 

When done cooking, pull out chicken and use 2 forks to pull it apart, in essence shredding it. Add it back to the mixure, add the cream cheese (if you didn't before). You can melt the cheese a bit in the microwave or simply cover the crock put and it will melt in slowly, make sure it is combined with all of the ingredients.

I find that frozen chicken makes the mix more soupy, so I like to use thawed chicken if possible.

Serve over brown rice, or with brown rice in a wheat tortilla as a burrito.

I think I might be in love!

The diet that bites back

I wouldn't say that I'm dieting right now, persay. I'm simply watching what I eat, portion controlling and whatnot.

However, last night I decided that I wanted to break rank and have a treat. It was probably too late at night to really be snacking, but for some reason I had a craving for a banana with chocolate.

You heard me right, a banana with chocolate syrup on it.

No, I'm not pregnant.

So, I slice up a banana into a bowl and cover it with chocolate syrup and proceed to eat it with a fork. It tastes a little funny, like sour or something. As I continue eating, I realize that it is the chocolate syrup that is sour.

With one bite left, I get up and go look at the bottle of chocolate syrup and realize it expired in August!...August, 2010!!!!!! two thousand and TEN!!!!! Shit :(

I guess this is the universe's way of telling me to stay on my "diet".

BTW, I've had the runs all morning and have to go to the gyno today for a pap smear.

PS: If you haven't already, now would be the time to look through your condiments in your fridge and dump the stuff that's expired. Especially things that have been expired for more than a year!

Weekly Wednesday Weigh-In: Starting Week 6

Idea borrowed from Josey. Layout by, ...well...me!

I was busy this week with work and non-functioning computers at work all week. Staying at work until 8:30 PM one night. In general this doesn't work well with trying to get to the gym, but I did make it twice. 

 

The weekend wasn't very gym friendly either, but I did get a lot of other stuff done. We are building an aquaponics fish system in our garage so that we can grow our own vegetables. It's fun and produces a lot of veggies fast. It's a good problem solving hobby for me too so it has really kept my mind off TTC. 

 

I did, however, find out this week that I do in fact have Lupus. I am positive for anti-thyroid antibodies and anti-histone antibodies. Basically, I now have a good reason for why we haven't become pregnant, I have auto-immune problems. So it now looks like intralipids for us with IVF. Probably in Las Vegas at the She.r I.nstitute. Dates unknown. We are saving up money to be able to pay outright for it instead of going into debt to be able to afford it. Hopefully it won't take too long. In the meantime, I have an appointment with the rheumatologist in late February.

On with the weight loss, or lack thereof:

1. Reiterate my goal and where I stand in reference to this goal. (BMI info from this website)

Starting weight: 145        
Last Week's Weight: 141
Current Weight: 141 (no change from last week and -4 overall, 16 lbs to goal)   
Goal Weight : 125       

Starting BMI: 26.5
Last Week's BMI: 25.8
Current BMI: 25.8 (still "overweight")
Goal BMI: 18.5-24.9 or exactly 22.9 for goal weight

2. Discuss what I am going to do to achieve my goals.

Progress on last week's activities:

1. Time my mile and get it down to 12:00 that means a pace of 5.0 miles an hour: I didn't run at the gym at all this week
2. See if I can go 3.75 miles in an hour with a combo of walking/running: see #1
3. Find an alternative for drinking soda at work: I wasn't in the mood to give up soda this week, but a patient just told me today about a football coach that refused to let his team members drink soda all season and all members who complied lost at least 30 pounds, now I don't play football, but I thought it ironic that a patient would bring this up.
4. Try a new vegan recipe: Does eating at Qu.izno's count?...no you say...well maybe next week
5. Allow Nate to train me for 2 days at the gym: Only goal accomplished

 

Activities for this coming week: (the more activities I attempt, the more I am likely to achieve)

 

1. Time my mile and get it down to 12:00 that means a pace of 5.0 miles an hour

2. See if I can go 3.75 miles in an hour with a combo of walking/running
3. Find an alternative for drinking soda at work
4. Try a new vegan recipe
5. Allow Nate to train me for 2 days at the gym.

3. Try to motivate others to join in on trying to lose weight

Bloggers I follow that are participating:
Josey (of course) @ My Cheap Version of Therapy who is post partum
Gee @ GeeBaby who is relatively new to blogging
Bridget @ The Lost Stork who is post partum
Donor Diva @ Donor Diva: Mother via Egg Donation who is trying for #2
Holly G @ Holly G and Co. who is post partum after #2

4. Post a (reasonably healthy) recipe that I've tried, a cooking tip, a new idea for working out for people to try, a photo update of my weight loss, or anything else I feel like sharing.

We've decided to do an aquaponics system in our garage this year to try to save money on the organic vegetables that we currently purchase at the store including: lettuce, basil, tomato, cucumbers, chives, broccoli, and a few others that I can't think of. It gives me a project and something to focus my mind on. 

 

I'll post some pictures in the next day or so, I hope some of my readers are interested in this project because it's really exciting for me. 

I'll be getting some fish in a few days.

The website I primarily used for my design can be found here http://theurbanfarmingguys.com/

 

Design specifically found at:

http://theurbanfarmingguys.com/wiki/knowledgebase-2/aquaculture-aquaponics/aquaponics-system-plans/40-gallon-tote-basement-system

I even built my own bell siphon just as a personal challenge found at: 

www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/BIO-10.pdf