Today's Food and Exercise Log

This was one of my medium days- foodwise. Calorie count is pretty low,
but the food I ate was not exactly healthy.


Breakfast: 10:00 - One egg on 1 slice of whole wheat bread with a
dallop of mayo. Water calories-190

Lunch: 3:00- Buffalo Shrimp with all the bread scraped off, rice
pudding. Water cal- 600

Dinner: 7:00- 2 pieces of pizza Diet Coke cal- 500


Total Cal- 1390 (under 1500)


Exercise- I worked out everything today, plus did cardio before and
after. This was a hard work-out day.

1 hour of weight training including planks, push-ups, ball
bridges(core), shoulder reps, bicep reps, tricep reps, back reps,
adductor thighs, abductor thighs, love handle machine, crunches,
reverse crunches, quadmill

40 minutes of hard cardio- burned 540 calories

On Aug 17, 11:39 pm, Shauhnathan wrote:
This was one of my medium days- foodwise. Calorie count is pretty low,
but the food I ate was not exactly healthy.

Breakfast: 10:00 - One egg on 1 slice of whole wheat bread with a
dallop of mayo. Water calories-190

Lunch: 3:00- Buffalo Shrimp with all the bread scraped off, rice
pudding. Water cal- 600

Dinner: 7:00- 2 pieces of pizza Diet Coke cal- 500

Total Cal- 1390 (under 1500)

Exercise- I worked out everything today, plus did cardio before and
after. This was a hard work-out day.

1 hour of weight training including planks, push-ups, ball
bridges(core), shoulder reps, bicep reps, tricep reps, back reps,
adductor thighs, abductor thighs, love handle machine, crunches,
reverse crunches, quadmill

40 minutes of hard cardio- burned 540 calories

Well, as you said, not the greatest food choices. You'll certainly
lose weight with this level of calories and exercise; though I think
it's rather too little food for the amount of exercise you were
doing. If you don't mind me asking, what's your age and gender? And
what are your goals?

I don't recall seeing your logs here before. Are you just starting to
post here? Hope you'll continue!

Chris
262/130s/130s

I did lose a pound when I checked today.

Yes, I am a newbie here. I don't mind at all for you to ask; I
am a 23 year old, 5'6 female. My goals are to lose weight and fat (I
want to be 130 and am currently 146) and tone up. I want my Body Fat
percentange to be 20 or less and it is 24 now. My goal is December to
meet everything. I have been working out since school let out out in
early May and have went from 160 to 146, so I am getting there,
slowly. I do the exercise that I posted above about 2-3 times a week,
spaced out, and the other couple days I go, I do cardio for about an
hour. My body fat has dropped from 28- 24 so that should be where I
want it by December, hopefully. I am not nearly as toned as I want to
be. I had a baby in May 06 so my stomach is still like jello. I am
REALLY hoping to lose that by December.

I have a really hard time eating healthy because I am no good at
turning down food that us around me. I could eat healthy if I stayed
at home all the time, but I have a hard time in the evening when I
pick up my son from my mother's house and she is cooking. I also have
a hard time at lunchtime at work because I want to go out to eat with
other people that are going and want me to go. So, I saw how you keep
your log here and I thought that was a good idea because I will have
someone telling me "man you had a crappy day of eating" and maybe that
will drive me to be more conscientious about my food choices.

Thanks for the comments.




On Aug 18, 8:00 am, Chris wrote:
On Aug 17, 11:39 pm, Shauhnathan wrote:



This was one of my medium days- foodwise. Calorie count is pretty low,
but the food I ate was not exactly healthy.

Breakfast: 10:00 - One egg on 1 slice of whole wheat bread with a
dallop of mayo. Water calories-190

Lunch: 3:00- Buffalo Shrimp with all the bread scraped off, rice
pudding. Water cal- 600

Dinner: 7:00- 2 pieces of pizza Diet Coke cal- 500

Total Cal- 1390 (under 1500)

Exercise- I worked out everything today, plus did cardio before and
after. This was a hard work-out day.

1 hour of weight training including planks, push-ups, ball
bridges(core), shoulder reps, bicep reps, tricep reps, back reps,
adductor thighs, abductor thighs, love handle machine, crunches,
reverse crunches, quadmill

40 minutes of hard cardio- burned 540 calories

Well, as you said, not the greatest food choices. You'll certainly
lose weight with this level of calories and exercise; though I think
it's rather too little food for the amount of exercise you were
doing. If you don't mind me asking, what's your age and gender? And
what are your goals?

I don't recall seeing your logs here before. Are you just starting to
post here? Hope you'll continue!

Chris
262/130s/130s

On Aug 18, 10:22 am, Shauhnathan wrote:
I did lose a pound when I checked today.

Yes, I am a newbie here. I don't mind at all for you to ask; I
am a 23 year old, 5'6 female. My goals are to lose weight and fat (I
want to be 130 and am currently 146) and tone up. I want my Body Fat
percentange to be 20 or less and it is 24 now. My goal is December to
meet everything. I have been working out since school let out out in
early May and have went from 160 to 146, so I am getting there,
slowly. I do the exercise that I posted above about 2-3 times a week,
spaced out, and the other couple days I go, I do cardio for about an
hour. My body fat has dropped from 28- 24 so that should be where I
want it by December, hopefully. I am not nearly as toned as I want to
be. I had a baby in May 06 so my stomach is still like jello. I am
REALLY hoping to lose that by December.

I have a really hard time eating healthy because I am no good at
turning down food that us around me. I could eat healthy if I stayed
at home all the time, but I have a hard time in the evening when I
pick up my son from my mother's house and she is cooking. I also have
a hard time at lunchtime at work because I want to go out to eat with
other people that are going and want me to go. So, I saw how you keep
your log here and I thought that was a good idea because I will have
someone telling me "man you had a crappy day of eating" and maybe that
will drive me to be more conscientious about my food choices.

Thanks for the comments.

On Aug 18, 8:00 am, Chris wrote:



On Aug 17, 11:39 pm, Shauhnathan wrote:

This was one of my medium days- foodwise. Calorie count is pretty low,
but the food I ate was not exactly healthy.

Breakfast: 10:00 - One egg on 1 slice of whole wheat bread with a
dallop of mayo. Water calories-190

Lunch: 3:00- Buffalo Shrimp with all the bread scraped off, rice
pudding. Water cal- 600

Dinner: 7:00- 2 pieces of pizza Diet Coke cal- 500

Total Cal- 1390 (under 1500)

Exercise- I worked out everything today, plus did cardio before and
after. This was a hard work-out day.

1 hour of weight training including planks, push-ups, ball
bridges(core), shoulder reps, bicep reps, tricep reps, back reps,
adductor thighs, abductor thighs, love handle machine, crunches,
reverse crunches, quadmill

40 minutes of hard cardio- burned 540 calories

Well, as you said, not the greatest food choices. You'll certainly
lose weight with this level of calories and exercise; though I think
it's rather too little food for the amount of exercise you were
doing. If you don't mind me asking, what's your age and gender? And
what are your goals?

I don't recall seeing your logs here before. Are you just starting to
post here? Hope you'll continue!

Chris
262/130s/130s- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Thanks for the added info. I actually thought you might be a guy,
because you do some more interesting weight work than the average
woman :-). Given your gender and size, you probably aren't
undereating as much as I'd thought. But you're right, you do need to
work on the nutrition. A couple of thoughts:

a) Re going out to lunch with colleagues: I used to do that too and
it really makes it harder to lose weight. At some point I noticed
that all the folks I was going out with were overweight. (This
probably isn't as likely in your case, since you're so much younger
than I am, but they'll probably get there in time :-) .) Anyway, I
started bringing my lunch to work -- generally a large salad with some
grilled protein (salad from a stop at the supermarket the night
before, and fish or meat grilled on my George Foreman grill).
Bringing lunch saves you a lot of money and allows you to have a
healthy meal. It's also good to have some healthy snack stuff at the
office to nibble on during the day -- some fruit or mini-carrots or
whatever. (If your workplace has a refrigerator that's particularly
nice.) You might want to think about set aside just one day a week --
say Fridays -- for lunch out with colleagues, and eat in the rest of
the time. I also got into taking lunchtime walks several times a week
with one of my colleagues. You might find that some of the folks you
work with prefer a healthier alternative like this.

b) Re eating at your mom's when you pick up your son: That's fine, in
principle, but why is your mother making pizza for dinner? This seems
like an odd choice. Does she usually make healthier meals? Can you
talk to her about possibly doing so? You will want to think about
your son's nutrition, and the example that's being set for him.

Chris
262/130s/130s

Ha, nope, I'm a girl, but I'm used to people thinking I am a guy
because my name's Shauhn. I do a lot of weight training because I'm on
a workout plan from a personal trainer and then I also do other stuff
that she didn't include that I need to tone up.

Taking lunch to work and then taking a walk at lunch is a good idea.
Or I could go to my gym, which is down the street, which I have done
on occasion. I'm just not sure how I feel about walking in 100 degress
or working out and getting sweaty for the rest of the day while I'm at
work. My office-mate might kick me out for stinking. Haha. But, I
think the eating out problem will be getting easier because I start
back to school next week and I will be working less and my days will
be split up and stuff, so I won't be there a full 8 hour day at all,
so I won't be leavin for lunch. I'll probably just pack a lunch to eat
in the car between school and work.

Well, this day when I had pizza, it was not at my mother's house. I
had that somewhere else. Typically, she does cook healthier, but she
is definitely not a health but of anything. She is not aware of the
calories she's packing into some of the things she cooks. She makes
lots of casseroles, which are really good, but have mayonnaise and
stuff in them. She also makes macaroni and cheese alot. She makes
rolls and high-carb sides like that, also. When she makes steamed
vegetables, I am good to go, but I always tend to have too much of the
other stuff she has cooked also. I have a hard time keeping with
regular portion sizes when she cooks because it's usually really good.
She is also big on dessert, so she makes that almost every night. So,
these things are hard for me to resist, in effect, going to her house
definitely has a negative impact on my weight loss.

On Aug 18, 9:06 pm, Chris wrote:
On Aug 18, 10:22 am, Shauhnathan wrote:



I did lose a pound when I checked today.

Yes, I am a newbie here. I don't mind at all for you to ask; I
am a 23 year old, 5'6 female. My goals are to lose weight and fat (I
want to be 130 and am currently 146) and tone up. I want my Body Fat
percentange to be 20 or less and it is 24 now. My goal is December to
meet everything. I have been working out since school let out out in
early May and have went from 160 to 146, so I am getting there,
slowly. I do the exercise that I posted above about 2-3 times a week,
spaced out, and the other couple days I go, I do cardio for about an
hour. My body fat has dropped from 28- 24 so that should be where I
want it by December, hopefully. I am not nearly as toned as I want to
be. I had a baby in May 06 so my stomach is still like jello. I am
REALLY hoping to lose that by December.

I have a really hard time eating healthy because I am no good at
turning down food that us around me. I could eat healthy if I stayed
at home all the time, but I have a hard time in the evening when I
pick up my son from my mother's house and she is cooking. I also have
a hard time at lunchtime at work because I want to go out to eat with
other people that are going and want me to go. So, I saw how you keep
your log here and I thought that was a good idea because I will have
someone telling me "man you had a crappy day of eating" and maybe that
will drive me to be more conscientious about my food choices.

Thanks for the comments.

On Aug 18, 8:00 am, Chris wrote:

On Aug 17, 11:39 pm, Shauhnathan wrote:

This was one of my medium days- foodwise. Calorie count is pretty low,
but the food I ate was not exactly healthy.

Breakfast: 10:00 - One egg on 1 slice of whole wheat bread with a
dallop of mayo. Water calories-190

Lunch: 3:00- Buffalo Shrimp with all the bread scraped off, rice
pudding. Water cal- 600

Dinner: 7:00- 2 pieces of pizza Diet Coke cal- 500

Total Cal- 1390 (under 1500)

Exercise- I worked out everything today, plus did cardio before and
after. This was a hard work-out day.

1 hour of weight training including planks, push-ups, ball
bridges(core), shoulder reps, bicep reps, tricep reps, back reps,
adductor thighs, abductor thighs, love handle machine, crunches,
reverse crunches, quadmill

40 minutes of hard cardio- burned 540 calories

Well, as you said, not the greatest food choices. You'll certainly
lose weight with this level of calories and exercise; though I think
it's rather too little food for the amount of exercise you were
doing. If you don't mind me asking, what's your age and gender? And
what are your goals?

I don't recall seeing your logs here before. Are you just starting to
post here? Hope you'll continue!

Chris
262/130s/130s- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Thanks for the added info. I actually thought you might be a guy,
because you do some more interesting weight work than the average
woman :-). Given your gender and size, you probably aren't
undereating as much as I'd thought. But you're right, you do need to
work on the nutrition. A couple of thoughts:

a) Re going out to lunch with colleagues: I used to do that too and
it really makes it harder to lose weight. At some point I noticed
that all the folks I was going out with were overweight. (This
probably isn't as likely in your case, since you're so much younger
than I am, but they'll probably get there in time :-) .) Anyway, I
started bringing my lunch to work -- generally a large salad with some
grilled protein (salad from a stop at the supermarket the night
before, and fish or meat grilled on my George Foreman grill).
Bringing lunch saves you a lot of money and allows you to have a
healthy meal. It's also good to have some healthy snack stuff at the
office to nibble on during the day -- some fruit or mini-carrots or
whatever. (If your workplace has a refrigerator that's particularly
nice.) You might want to think about set aside just one day a week --
say Fridays -- for lunch out with colleagues, and eat in the rest of
the time. I also got into taking lunchtime walks several times a week
with one of my colleagues. You might find that some of the folks you
work with prefer a healthier alternative like this.

b) Re eating at your mom's when you pick up your son: That's fine, in
principle, but why is your mother making pizza for dinner? This seems
like an odd choice. Does she usually make healthier meals? Can you
talk to her about possibly doing so? You will want to think about
your son's nutrition, and the example that's being set for him.

Chris
262/130s/130s