Over 200 Club New Year New Body Part 5

Afternoon ladies.

02.05.10
Calories: 1382
Exercise: 20 minutes stationary bike and lots of jumping/running in place trying to keep warm
Water: at least 10 cups
Sodium: 1803mg
Proud: Woohoo?

Was I the biggest loser this week or are we waiting for more folks to check in?

Ok gals I need some help here!!! I know everyone has different ideas on eating exercise calories.Some of you eat them and some of you don't I am not seeing results like I was before when I was losing big time (like you jbl) .So give me ideas on how you guys are losing 3-4 pounds a week.Are you eating exercise calories are you working out harder? What't the deal?I am trying to eat healthier and stay away from junk and exercise for at least an hour every night but I feel like I am stuck.I was down to 229 yesterday and I am back up to 235 this morning.I know I shouldn't obsess about the scales but I like weighing myself everyday to keep me accountable.So you gals that have been losing steadily each week give me some tips.(jbl,jenn,coloradogirl,momma,bluenote,etc) I want to get back to losing completely and not gaining and losing the same 5 or 6 pounds.HELP!!!I should say that MFP has me at 1370 calories a day without exercise cals

I know you weren't asking me, but just my two cents- I was losing the most when I was eating most of my exercise calories. That being said, I am careful to only enter the exercise calories I am pretty sure I burned through real aerobic exercise (breathing hard and sweating) rather than the misc activities I might count as exercise because it's activity like cleaning, shopping or walking at lunch if I don't break a sweat. I found out that MFP WAY WAY WAY over-estimated my calorie burn on the elliptical machine so now I am faithfully using my heart rate monitor for aerobic exercise- to count calories burned.

Hope that helps!

awestfall -- I promise I'm not ignoring you. I've had a really rough day (not health related) and I haven't had a chance to sit down to really think about how to answer the question but I promise I'll let you know what I'm doing as soon as I have a few spare minute (should be later tonight). But for now, I've gotta get my run in (which, I think, is a big part of my progress/success ).

this week has been so bad for me I just feel so emotionally and physically drained. Between rough patch with BF, a sick 1yr old, and my friend's death I am really surprised that I havent jumped off the wagon.

here is my check in for today:
2/6/10
calories- over by 99...which kind of puts a damper on my plan to under eat today since I was going to eat/drink poorly during super bowl
water- will get it all in by end of the night
excercise- shoveled snow, that def made me sweat (we got over 2 feet)
sodium 2300+
proud- that i only drank one beer when normally I would have drank a lot more, and proud that I have stuck to my program overall

good night ladies!!

cris

awestfall - stress plays a HUGE part in weight loss, better yet, the lack thereof. I know that you and cris are really stressed right now - this could be hindering your numbers. :flowerforyou: Just a thought...

check in:

cals: about five cals under - going to get pizza with some friends - I have it planned out for three pieces
water: will get there
exercise: my old 40 bike routine plus after the pizza I am going to do 10 mins of rigorous bike! Woohoo!
proud: I planned my day out food-wise early so that I can enjoy the pizza! I LOVE PIZZA!

Alright bluenote -- I made my chili today. I made a double batch so I could take some to my friends' house for Superbowl eats. It's super good and I'm completely stuffed. Here's what I used:

# *Hunt's Tomato Sauce, no salt added, 4.25 cup (5 8oz cans)
# *Kroger Kidney Beans Light Red, 1.75 cup (15.5oz can)
# *Bush's Best Reduced Sodium - Dark Red Kidney Beans, 3.5 cup (2 15oz can)
# *Black Beans Bush's Reduced Sodium, 1.75 cup (1 15oz can)
# *Onion - Yellow - 1 med. (2 1/2 dia), 2 serving (so, that's 2 medium onions)
# *Roma Tomato (1 medium - 148 Grams), 2 serving (about 300g roma tomato)
# 93% Lean Ground Beef, 32 oz (2 pounds)
# *McCormick 30% less sodium chili seasoning, 8 tbsp (2 packets)
I also added cayenne, cumin, garlic, black pepper, all to taste. The more spices I add, the less I miss the salty taste.

Okay, so what I do (lazy) is brown the ground beef, chop the onions & add it to the beef. Meanwhile, open all your cans & drain the beans. Throw everything in a slowcooker and cook on low 6-7 hours (more or less will be just fine -- really the longer it goes, the better it tastes!).

The nutrition information below is assuming the double batch equals 16 servings. So, if you halved the ingredients (which I usually do), it serves 8. This is just a guestimate, but based on the level in my 6 quart slowcooker, I think a serving of my current batch is a little less than 1.5 cups. If you really wanted to be sure you were portioning correctly, you could weigh it all and then divide by 16, or however many servings you wanted to make. That's what I do most of the time but there's just too much chili this time to bother (sorry). As you can see, even just getting 8 or 12 servings out of the double batch would still be acceptable (calorie wise; but you may explode if you try to eat that much!).
I added a pinch of salt to mine -- about 1/4th of .25tsp which is an extra 125mg of sodium. If you made it with reconstituted dry beans, you can get the sodium much lower. I was planning on using half dry, half canned but my dried beans had gone bad.
I also added cheddar and sour cream to my bowl which increases the calories quite a bit (added 95 calories). :embarassed:
But, anyway, YUM!

Here's the nutrition per serving in the batch I made today:
Calories 213.8
Total Fat 4.2 g
Saturated Fat 1.5 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.0 g
Monounsaturated Fat 0.0 g
Cholesterol 32.5 mg
Sodium 353.9 mg
Potassium 281.8 mg
Total Carbohydrate 27.0 g
Dietary Fiber 7.8 g
Sugars 7.3 g
Protein 20.2 g
Vitamin A 10.0 %
Vitamin C 5.0 %
Calcium 5.5 %
Iron 16.1 %

ENJOY!

jlb123 - oh how I love thee for thou's chili recipe! I shall endevor to do it justice this week with venison of course! You rock!:bigsmile: :glasses: :flowerforyou:

Checking in!

Calories - way under, but since I've been over for the last two days I don't need to worry about going into starvation mode!
Water - bad...
Exercise - 90 minutes walking on the treadmill (just 4 miles).

Proud - today is my "endurance" day and I didn't want to do it! But I made myself go for the minimum of 90 minutes! I wasn't passing out or throwing up so I could keep on keeping on! I only walked between 2.8 - 3 mph but my goal was to be over 65% of my max heart rate for the 90 minutes which i managed to do!

We're reading the 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' series... Yeah - no kids in the house so we're just dorks - not only that but I'm reading it out-loud at night to Ken (DH) and Beth (House-mate) while we drink wine and enjoy the fire. When I'm done reading (or near the end) Beth toasts a few marshmallows over the fire. While I was reading tonight Mrs. Fig (our black mastiff) was sleeping by the fire and in a weird turn of events - our older cat "Malcolm" decided that he would lick Figgy's ears (usually when she catches the cats they get their ears cleaned mostly against their will). It was cute/funny.

I cleaned out my closet yesterday. Oh boy was it a mess. I had to give a ton of clothes to the good will because........................... They were just too huge for me. Wow that felt good. I am usually giving away clothes cause they are too small. That felt really good.

Congratulations!! That is good!

Thanks Bluenote :-D My husband and housemate both like to giggle when I miss-pronounce Greek or Latin words but will they take a turn reading? NO. :grumble: When Beth left for a Superbowl party she said "And DON'T finish the book without me!" - she's read it before...

I gave in to tradition today and made 'conductor's stew' - a lentil stew made with sausages, onion, garlic, tomatoes, carrots, and a bottle of beer... My husband's ex-wife made it every Superbowl weekend for years, and I made it for the first few years we were married. My husband shoveled the snow off of my parents roof today, and cleaned off all the cars, and trudged through the snow to check the horse water. Thus the stew. I put the polish sausage in our smoker and boy did that work nice! Then I used "real" pork sausage and added it to the lentils I cooked with lots of onions, garlic, tomatoes (canned chopped tomatoes) chopped fresh carrots and some fresh thyme. NOT HEALTHY. To top it off I toasted some of the homemade garlic rosemary bread Ken made and served it with the stew.

On the upside it was home cooked with quality ingredients - locally grown organic carrots, onions and garlic... yeah - I'm rationalizing it! :laugh: I only had a cup- it's the bread that kills me!

What does my husband say when I serve it? I forgot you started this tradition. Me- "No, this was started by Carolyn - I just kept making it for you". Him - Oh yeah... I remember when you made it at the cabin in Canada. Me "NO... that was Carolyn..." grrrrr:grumble:

So to check in!
Calories - Over by a couple hundred (but way down yesterday)
Water - still working on it
Exercise- today is my recovery day - but I did do crunches

Proud - that I didn't kill my husband when he kept confusing me with his first wife... she's awesome but still!

Check in:
Calories: under but not by alot
water: under but im still working on it
exercise: does chasing after 3 kids count? or bench pressing my 18lb baby? lol none if the answer is no :laugh:
proud: that i didnt give in and eat the icecream I really wanted



Why is it so hard for my to drink my water and watch my calories on the weekends? :grumble: Oh well, I already have my lunch ready for tomorrow and dinner planned out. I hope tomorrow is going to be a good day!