What Have You Done Today That Is Healthy
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I sometimes go low on calories to align carbs, sat fats, etc. Yesterday was easy. Today was too, even ate an extra Hershey Hug!
Monday
Calories 1000
Carbs 100
Sat fats 12
Cholesterol 1290 -
Tuesday
Calories 914
Carbs 99
Sat fats 13
Cholesterol 253 (had an egg!)0 -
Wednesday
Calories 1029
Carbs 98
Sat Fat 12
Cholesterol 1640 -
Well, I blew the carbs today! I made spaghetti, then ate a piece of angel food cake for dessert. Oh well, tomorrow will be a bad day and the carbs are my only problem today.
Calories 1031
Carbs 122
Sat fat 12
cholesterol 90
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Walked some and ate well. I found that the Elderberry chews I've been taking have guava in them and I think that has been causing some of my headaches. It's the last ingredient listed, so I don't think there is a lot of it in there, so I don't get a headache every time, but after eating them for a couple days in a row - bang, headache! Boohoo. I'm going to head to Amazon to find another something to help bolster my immune system.0
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Bill's surgery went well, but I am so nervous with him. He is doing great, but not being able to put any weight on that foot is very hard. He is behaving himself, but he has been sitting in his recliner since he got home. He hasn't tried to get up at all.0
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Bill is doing very well today. He has gotten up for the bathroom and came to the dining room for dinner. His brother bought dinner and it was hard on my sat. fats and cholesterol...grilled chicken, egg and bacon. Oh well. It fit in the calories and carbs and it was sooooo good!
Saturday:
Calories 1071
Carbs 72
Sat fat 15
Cholesterol 358!!!!!!0 -
Sunday:
Calories - 1016
Carbs - 100
Sat Fats - 13
Cholesterol - 1210 -
Had a fairly good day. I was just under 1000 calories and other priorities in line.0
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I try to eat healthy, but haven't been counting calories, carbs, etc. My main focus at the moment is to start back walking and try to drink more water.0
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I miss my walks, but not enough to start them again in the heat. Shame on me, I do have a dreaded treadmill.0
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I never could do the treadmill thing, Connie. Recumbent bike, yes. Elliptical, okay. We live on a quiet street and people walk a lot. Our front door has a storm door and my cats love to lie there, watching people go by as they walk their dogs. The days are still hot, but morning and evening is very nice.0
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Okay, you inspired me to start walking again, Connie - tonight instead of waiting until tomorrow! It was still rather warm, but not unbearably so, and I walked for 20-25 minutes. Best of all, I have beautiful mountain views to enjoy. I would earn an "F" on the water drinking, though. Only 2 glasses today.
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Carole - Bill uses the recumbent bike but the seat is hard to adjust, so he uses it and I use the treadmill. That's all the room we have in our tiny little exercise room that we sectioned off from the furnace room in the basement. If Bill will do the recumbent bike, I will walk the treadmill. Of course now, Bill can't even get down the stairs, so I would have to do it alone.
I have no problems getting my water, and can track my food without issues, but I hate that "dedicated" exercise. When I was working, I wore a pedometer for a while and walked between 7-9 miles a day. One time I had an 11 mile day at work. I am glad to be retired, but being active was good for the waistline.0 -
We had some exercise equipment in the basement of our house back in Atlanta, but there's no storage space at all here. That's a good thing in order to not accumulate "stuff," though. It's funny ... when I was working, I used lunch and break times to walk around the church parking lot and did real good at that. Now that I have plenty of time and opportunities, the habit is hard to continue. Do you have places where you can walk outside, Connie?0
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I have places I can walk outside, just not the desire to walk in the heat, or the cold. I will get back to it sometime, but right now I am just not caring. I know that isn't the right attitude, but honesty counts for something.
Tuesday
Calories 861
Carbs 100
Sat Fats 13
Cholesterol 740 -
Honesty counts for a lot, Connie! For the most part, I've just stopped doing the things that I need to do - tracking, etc. My focus now is to start with one thing, then gradually build from there. Kim, do you remember back when you led us in a plan kind of like that? One thing for a week or two, until we got used to it, then you would add on another. I don't think I ever got good at doing everything, but the basic idea worked well for me.
Tuesday:
No walking because I had a full day of activity.
Water - 4 glasses0 -
I sure do remember. We have a goal page on our other team. We set long term goals, then mid-term goals, then short term goals to get us to those other goals. Mine weren't working so I started this work to really limit my calories and try to shock my weight into moving, and it's working. I have lost three pounds in as many days. I want to finish out this week in that 800-900 range and then do 1000-1200 on a regular basis. The 800-900 hasn't been difficult for me, so the slightly higher should be good. I was doing 1200-1500 before this and allowing too much in between meals knowing I had the calories to spend.
I'm struggling to get my walking in as well, although I do mine in laps around the house. I just haven't felt well and my energy has been so low lately. I am going to challenge myself (again) to do some walking around the house every day, even it it's just one or two laps, it's movement. I need to take my dumbbells along too and do some arm exercises while I'm walking. I need to walk to keep the blood flow in my legs good! Okay, hold me accountable, ladies!0 -
Oh my - I am so diligent in watching Bill's sodium, and I realized that something I didn't think about is really high. I would have never thought about angel food cake being high in sodium, but I have been buying them and making strawberry shortcake with it. A serving is a large piece of cake, so I will definitely be cutting the cake myself and doing skinny slices. One serving is 1/3 of his daily allotment. Whew! I guess that I thought since it was low on sugar (for my BIL), it would be low in sodium.
Well, I guess I see why I didn't worry so much about it. I bought it for pick-up and the website's nutrition information isn't anywhere close. Also, the MFP tracker has all kinds of sodium contents on WalMart angel food cake. I actually just fixed one of them, so that it was correct.0 -
Accountability is everything! I'm so glad we can encourage and support each other.
I don't have access to exercise equipment at home, but even if I did, walking would still be my choice. We're in the middle of what's been the hottest week of the summer, but the mornings and evenings have been comfortable enough for walking up until now. According to the long-range forecast, it's only 6 days until temps start dropping.
Connie, I've been mainly focusing on carb level for Dwight and would probably be shocked to know what his sodium levels are. He enjoys sugar-free angel food cake with fresh strawberries and a spoonful of Cool Whip lite.0 -
Thanks for the accountability, Kim and Connie. That's what made me decide to walk late tonight.
Wednesday
Walking - 23 minutes (about half was uphill)
Water - 4 glasses0 -
Wednesday:
Calories 911
Carbs 100
Sat Fats 11
Cholesterol 98
Sodium 959 - If this is mine, Bill's should be okay.
Either tomorrow or Thursday, we will probably have eggs (1/2 egg white, 1/2 whole egg), so that will really mess with the cholesterol. I need to keep it low while I can. I am anxious to see if watching the sat fats and cholesterol will help in the blood work this October. Right now I have no active prescriptions and I want to keep it that way.
I do have an asthma inhaler, but don't have a prescription for a refill when this one expires. I need to get one from my primary care doctor because the one I have will be expiring soon. I never need to refill a prescription....they always expire first, but I would hate to have an attack and not have one.
Kim and Carole - I am feeling guilty. I will see what happens tomorrow. If the weather cooperates and Bill is still doing well, I may take a walk. If not, maybe I will do Kim's trick and walk the house. I am getting some exercise pushing Bill's wheelchair over carpet
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Don't feel guilty, Connie! You're already doing a lot, just with tracking nutrients. For me, it's going from doing almost nothing to starting with something, no matter how small the effort.0
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I set a challenge for our other team:
Movement - choose some type of exercise that you want to do for the next month. I am going to do house walking. The first week I will do five laps (about 350-400 steps) five days; week two seven laps; week three 10 laps; week four 15 laps. The second part of the goal is to reassess your goals and make changes. I wasn't finding success on my modified THM diet staying at the calorie range I was at. This week I have gone down to 800-900 calories a day. On Sept. 1 I will be doing 1000-1200 calories a day. I've lost four pounds doing the calorie cut and hope adding a wee bit more won't make much difference. I needed to shock by body out of it's complacency! LOL! I haven't really struggled with this calorie count either, it's been rather easy, but I know it's not enough. I'm hoping that with the walking I can counter the extra couple hundred calories. Now I just have to figure out what to eat to add those! LOL!
My next door neighbor friend (pastor's wife) likes to have frozen cherries with whipped cream for her dessert. I don't like the frozen cherries, I can't taste the cherry, so I nuke mine and then add the whipped cream - yummers.
Stayed within my calorie range today even though we had McDonald's for lunch. I had the crispy chicken with half the bun.0 -
Today I was a bit higher on calories, but easily within range.
Calories 1107
Carbs 98
Sat fats 8
Cholesterol 183 - most in ground turkey. I need to check this out a bit. Hmmm.
We eat a lot of ground turkey right now with trying to limit red meats to once a week and beef to only on very special occasions.0 -
Friday:
Calories 943
Carbs 97
Sat Fats 7
Cholesterol 206 (ground turkey and whole egg)0 -
Too hot to walk, but I'm doing better on water. Not as much as I should be drinking, but definitely an improvement. I do not enjoy hot weather and was glad to notice that by next Tuesday or Wednesday, our temps drop by about 10 degrees.
Water
Thursday - 4 1/2 glasses
Friday - 4 1/2 glasses0 -
Saturday:
Calories 984
Carbs 95
Sat Fats 9
Cholesterol 118
Well, tomorrow's cholesterol won't look nearly as good. I made tuna salad for lunch with whole egg. Oh well, it will be easy and taste good. The calories and carbs will be good, too.0 -
Tuna salad sounds good, Connie. Light lunches like that work great on Sunday.
Most of my time was spent in preparing for tomorrow, but I ate healthy. I'm playing at a church about 15 minutes away where Beth's seminary friend preaches.0 -
I may not have made it to church, but I did make it on a short walk. About 6/10 of a mile. It was humid, but not hot yet.
Calories 1039
Carbs 96
Sat Fats 13
Cholesterol 238
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