Phase 5 starts tomorrow. New food, new exercise and some prizes as carrots in addition to a healthier us. I'm pulling for a couple of people to win these as i think they would really enjoy them and never get to do anything like the trip on their own. I'll be trying to do the exercise starting tomorrow. I looked over the food and there are a few days that i will only need to modify a little so i expect i will be eating them over and over. I will have to go shopping next weekend for the food so i'll get as close as i can with what i have in the house now. I'll have to show them to my doctor and i can already kind of guess what she will say about some of the days. I am wondering about almond milk...what effect it has on blood sugars, how lactase def people do on it and if it can be used. Soy milk turned out not to be any better for me than regular which surprised me. Ron just said that he might want to go shopping tomorrow night....which is both good and bad. I won't have time to get her input by then and I won't be able to buy some things, but i can at least get some salad things as i am down to a few soft tomatoes, baby carrots, and a few dried out looking green onions.
On the exercise front..I told her that Allan says it will get intense and we have decided that a visit to the cardiologist is in the near future for an echo and treadmill test. I had planned to get one this year due to my family history, but was hoping to be able to move better first but it has been decided to do it sooner.......wonder if i will be able to walk/run enough or whether he will make me do a chemical one...it will probably be nuclear so I wonder how much my part will be.
And it didn't snow today but they are saying it will wed so i think i need to move my hair and toes to next week if possible. I did take a pic of the scale today and will see if i can get it in here one day. Also will get help re changing out the phase.
PS my spell check won't work tonight so i hope its not too too bad.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
More? Snow
Snow...we we're supposed to get snow today, but guess the snow didn't listen. We have more than 4 inches of snow and its still snowing. The car and driveway are covered again. Glad i didn't try to work as i would not have been able to get down my driveway and would have just hated it if i made my girls drive in and then i couldn't get there. Our driveway is a steep incline and it has to be clear or you just slide down picking up speed. My friend decided to work and called to say a pickup truck almost came through their window when he couldn't stop.....came up on the sidewalk and just barely missed. I've already had a car come through a window at work in the past....don't need it again.
I'm so glad i had decided to add frozen vegetables to my diet, it has allowed me to have plenty of healthful things to make. Knowing what the weather was going to be like all week i spread out the fresh vegies so we still have a little left.
The knee's less sore today so will try to exercise some.
Sent my weight to Allan to start phase 5, we want to go to Dallas for presidents weekend but i need to look at the new diet....i know that i can keep to 1200 cal if i avoid alcohol and pick where we eat, but can i meet the limitations on what i need to eat will be the question. Salad and steak, salad and fish, salad and chicken...fresh fruit, eggs, wheat toast and bars i take with me...plus bottled water. No Mexican, No French, No Italian. I'll look Sunday and then decide.(we would leave fri and rtn mon.....3 dinners out, 3bks/lunches and snacks) The good part is that i get to shop at Central Market before coming home...so some different foods that i can get there...rapine, colored cauliflower, fish.
I'm so glad i had decided to add frozen vegetables to my diet, it has allowed me to have plenty of healthful things to make. Knowing what the weather was going to be like all week i spread out the fresh vegies so we still have a little left.
The knee's less sore today so will try to exercise some.
Sent my weight to Allan to start phase 5, we want to go to Dallas for presidents weekend but i need to look at the new diet....i know that i can keep to 1200 cal if i avoid alcohol and pick where we eat, but can i meet the limitations on what i need to eat will be the question. Salad and steak, salad and fish, salad and chicken...fresh fruit, eggs, wheat toast and bars i take with me...plus bottled water. No Mexican, No French, No Italian. I'll look Sunday and then decide.(we would leave fri and rtn mon.....3 dinners out, 3bks/lunches and snacks) The good part is that i get to shop at Central Market before coming home...so some different foods that i can get there...rapine, colored cauliflower, fish.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
The good, The bad, & The Biggest Loser
Yesterday was a weird day. I was feeling really good as i had walked, done the current exercises...who knew i could still do jumping jacks(not quite like when i was 16 but still I'm jumping some) and then did the ex from the 1st week. Being at home i started drinking water and crystal light early and got plenty of water down and the food was good. No thoughts even about making brownies or a cake which is a common snowed in activity. We listened to the TV about the weather and i played some games on facebook. Watched TBL and wondered why the twins had bothered to apply for and take up space when they didn't want to be away from home. To gain 9 lbs one week and 6 the next just eating a lot of salt and drinking liquid before weigh in wont do it....they had to have eaten a ton extra since they were exercising. Trying and not succeeding is one thing but not trying....I thought they should have let others gotten their slots(twins, cops, dead son and estranged son....good back story for a reality show)......of course someone has to leave and the others were probably glad they were around for that. So i come to read some blogs ...and...
The bad. Allan is stopping phase 4. I had been worried that something was going on in the morning and apparently some people went after him for saying what he had told us he would do when we signed up. No one held my hand and made me send an email asking to do this.....and i knew that by doing it i was putting myself out in public to be patted on the back or called out, harassed or dropped.
I knew that there were somethings i could not eat, and doing the exercises meant starting slow and working up to getting them, and was hoping that i wouldn't be weeded out. But just like this is public, and what i write is open to view, by choosing to enter an open public group what is said to me is open to public comment. Just like the twins why bother to sign up for something and then complain when what it is happens. Just like TBL isn't right for everyone neither is Allan......but what he does is open and we know what we are getting into.
The good again, maybe. Allan is setting up a phase 5. It will be 1200 cal choosing from the choices and exercise. If he lets me i will join. I will try my darnest to do all the exercises and I will plan my meals using that as my guide.
And a funny thing. Last night i fell out of bed. I don't know what i was dreaming about but i think i rolled over and off the bed bruising my knee and striking my elbow on the nightstand. At least having lost some weight i was able to untangle the blanket and get myself up as Ron wouldn't wake up.
The bad. Allan is stopping phase 4. I had been worried that something was going on in the morning and apparently some people went after him for saying what he had told us he would do when we signed up. No one held my hand and made me send an email asking to do this.....and i knew that by doing it i was putting myself out in public to be patted on the back or called out, harassed or dropped.
I knew that there were somethings i could not eat, and doing the exercises meant starting slow and working up to getting them, and was hoping that i wouldn't be weeded out. But just like this is public, and what i write is open to view, by choosing to enter an open public group what is said to me is open to public comment. Just like the twins why bother to sign up for something and then complain when what it is happens. Just like TBL isn't right for everyone neither is Allan......but what he does is open and we know what we are getting into.
The good again, maybe. Allan is setting up a phase 5. It will be 1200 cal choosing from the choices and exercise. If he lets me i will join. I will try my darnest to do all the exercises and I will plan my meals using that as my guide.
And a funny thing. Last night i fell out of bed. I don't know what i was dreaming about but i think i rolled over and off the bed bruising my knee and striking my elbow on the nightstand. At least having lost some weight i was able to untangle the blanket and get myself up as Ron wouldn't wake up.
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