The Beginning....

Trying something new today. Not having any kind of "dessert" after lunch at work. We'll see how that goes. Good thing I'm just not hungry right now.

Breakfast: 2 big scoops of chocolate chip cookie dough, 3 Oreo's, 1 20 oz. bottle strawberry melon drink, 1 bag of m&M's

Lunch: 1 roast beef and provolone sandwich on light rye bread.

I'm really going to try to increase my water intake. I'm going to try the half your body weight in ounces thing.

I fell off track with the training to be able to run 5K. It's been almost 3 weeks. I may have started the first day of week 6. I can't even remember. I'm going to have to get back to the gym and see how much damage has been done.

Back to the Bloat

I get a giant dessert bar almost every day at work to eat after lunch. They always make me feel bloated. When I get home I feel extremely tired because the sugar rush has ended. Why do I always do this to myself?

I think I may have last exercised on Thursday. At this rate, I'll take forever to get through C25K.

Breakfast: juicy mango, M&M's, strawberry melon drink

Lunch: rice, chicken curry, dal

Snack: giant S'mores bar. Had a can of Mt. Dew after work. I believe I've had a can of Mt. Dew 4 days in a row now...or something to that effect. This is not good. I look forward to the aftermath.

Dinner: vegetable mixture (potato, cabbage, carrot), chicken curry, white rice, dal

Exercise: went to gym, attempted to do Day 3 of Week 4. Failed. I did the first 3 minute run and then the 90 second walk. About 1 minute into the 5 minute run I really had to pee. Came back and ran about 6 minutes on an incline...so not a total fail I guess.

I had really strooong sugar cravings after dinner, but since we have nothing in the house I didn't give into them.

Not making any progress at all. I really got to get the show on the road.

Gotta Love That Skinny Feeling

I woke up this morning and felt skinnier. I think it was because I sweat a lot during my run last night and I didn't eat a bunch of crap after work as usual.

Breakfast: 20 oz strawberry melon drink, 1/2 big blueberry muffin, 1 bag M&Ms

Lunch: salami sandwich, bag of puppy chow

Snack: 1 oz bag of Doritos

Dinner: little bit of white rice, chicken curry, potato/cauliflower curry, 1/2 slice of tiny piece of cheesecake....can't remember what else. Oh...a little piece of cheese pizza (very little) and maybe 5 peanut M&M's

Hello and Goodbye Vacation Day

Yesterday, I felt like crap. I felt like I was a major loser and I had a big headache and didn't want to do anything.

Lunch: flour tortilla with cheese and hot sauce, some baked potato thing, breaded chicken kiev with some poisonous butter sauce inside

Snack: oodles of buffalo blue cheese chips

Dinner: white rice, chicken curry, potato/cauliflower curry

Dessert: small piece of cheesecake

In other words, nothing of nutritional value whatsoever.

Today:

Breakfast: strawberry melon Tropicana drink, M&M's

I feel good today. I really think Taco Bell gives me hangover symptoms.

Lunch: 3 small pieces of Bellatoria Southwestern pizza

Snack: 2 bags of M&M's !!! 1 oz. bag of cool ranch Doritos

Dinner: white rice, chicken curry, potato/caulifower curry

Dessert: miniscule bite of cheesecake

Exercise: The husband and I put this wooden edging around some landscaping in the front of the house and added some mulch. We walked to the gym and I did my first day of week 4 for Couch to 5K. It was really hard, but I feel good that I actually survived.

Complaints

These are some things that I would like to remove from my life. Mind you, this is just a list of my physical complaints...heh. The mental complaints could fill a novel.

• Stiffness in the morning. My whole body feels really stiff when I wake up in the morning. It also takes me a really long time to wake up in the morning and get going. This sucks.
• Fatness. I've gained over 40 pounds since getting married. I feel gross.
• Headaches. I suffer from headaches...mainly in the morning. I feel like I'm hungover. Even feel kind of nauseous. Not every morning. Mostly Monday mornings and some weekend mornings. These are probably due to overindulging in something.
• Severe sugar cravings. I have to eat about 15 pounds of sugar a day.
• My feet hurt when I walk on them after sitting for awhile. I think I have plantar fasciitis. Or however you spell it.
• Fatigue. Particularly after work. I just don't have the energy to do what I want to get done.
• Some sort of irritable bowel syndrome. I think really fattening, greasy food gives me diarrhea. And I think some sugary food gives me gas. haha

I have a theory that all of this stuff is due to my unhealthy diet. That is why I am going to be more accountable to myself and actually record all the crap that I eat.

Tribulations of Ice Cream

Well, I bought ice cream over the weekend. Oops. I have today off from work. I told myself I was NOT going to touch the ice cream all day. What did I eat first thing this morning? Too small bowls of the stuff. Not a good start to the day.

Recapping of the weekend:

Saturday started out great. I had a green smoothie which consisted of spinach, frozen strawberries and mango. The husband and I went to the gym where I completed week 3 of Couch to 5K.

I had maybe about 6 flax chips from Trader Joe's before we headed off to a party in the park in the afternoon. At the park I had a bowl of fruit. Too bad there was salt or something on the fruit. These people just can't eat plain food. Then I had some rice, some sort of meat kabob, oily vegetables, chicken curry and dal with egg in it. I really didn't have that much food. I thought I was going to make it through the day without having any pop, but I got nervous and just poured myself a glass of 7up. It gave me a headache almost immediately. Then I had a headache in the morning the next day and I have a headache this morning. I really have to figure out what gives me headaches in the morning.

Dinner on Saturday night was Combo meal #5 from Taco Bell, which is Nachos BellGrande, a Supreme soft taco and a giant glass of drink. I had lemonade. This meal is well over 1000 calories. To top it off I had two small bowls of ice cream. Go me!!

Sunday morning, I'm sure I had several bites of ice cream in the morning. I made myself and the husband a pepper, onion and cheese omelet. I had a slice of peanut butter toast with mine. We went on a one hour bike ride in the hill country of Edina and looked at really beautiful houses.

For lunch, all I had was one...or was it two? little pieces of southwestern Bellatoria pizza. Not recommended. I also had maybe one tiny pita pocket filled with hummus, grated carrot and a spinach leaf.

For a snack I had two little pieces of cheese cake and then chicken curry, fish curry and vegetables. Totally failed before going to bed though. I had another little piece of cheese cake and lots of ice cream while watching the Tudors.

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I'll see how the rest of the day goes...

Stomach of the Rumbling

Woke up at 6:40 AM. Feet were very stiff as usual. Body kind of stiff, too. Got to work at 7:45 AM.

Breakfast: 20 oz. Strawberry Melon Tropicana drink, half of large chocolate chocolate chip muffin

Snack: 10:45 AM M&M's from vending machine for absolutely no reason. Was even feeling kind of full. The reason I left my desk at this time was to check out the healthy recipes from the healthy snack contest we recently had at work. I was not impressed with the healthfulness of any of the recipes. There were hardly any fruits or vegetables in any of them. The recipe that won was for vegan zucchini muffins. The other recipes consisted of things like pretzels, popcorn, coconut cake and feta and olives. I took a recipe for "Beany Bites" which is mainly chickpeas mashed into a little patties with Indian spices. It was seriously the healthiest recipe there.

Lunch: quinoa salad and half a tuna sandwich. The quinoa salad was quinoa cooked in chicken broth, red, yellow and orange sweet peppers, green onions and black beans. I don't really like peppers or raw onion for that matter. I'm trying to learn to like red bell peppers. I did NOT visit the vending machine after lunch. This is very unusual for me. My mouth is watering right now because I know there are chips in a drawer here at work. But I am resisting.

(Editing the rest of this post Monday, June 28 morning)

I did not resist when I got home. I had a single serving bag of Doritos when I got home from work. We weren't sure where we wanted to go to eat, or if we should go to the gym. Suddenly, it began to storm. Unknowlingly to me, the husband had gone outside to do something in the garage. (probably smoke). I didn't know it at the time. It started getting really windy and hailing. I ran all over the house calling for him. Finally he came inside. I was really mad. haha

Dinner: 6 inch chicken breast sub from Subway. I can' t remember what else I ate. Oh yeah, probably another very large muffin.