Exercise: Yes, a run between thunderstorms
Calories: Yes
Tracked: Yes

Sweets are my downfall and are often the reason behind my falling off the wagon. I'm getting better though. I don't deprive myself, but I'm learning to make healthy decisions when attending to my cravings.

I love how everyone is so honest and open about their journey. You are all so inspiring!

Exercise? Yes; 62 minutes of strength training, 30 minutes of running, and an hour hike
Calories? Yes
Tracking? Yes

I have been very anxious and have been feeling out-of-touch lately. Exercising and eating healthy has been my staple and has curbed my anxiety quite a bit. I'm not sure how I managed before getting into this healthy routine, but I'm certainly happy that I did.

Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes?yes...took Maggie to the off leash park...and actually ran up 80 of the 100 stairs they have there...couldn't do that last year...

Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? I did...

Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank?
The good, the bad, and the sour patch kids...

Hugs

I made it to LA with my son in a little over 7 hours. Of course work was crazy today and we left later than I wanted, but we are here! Oh and yeah, we couldn't have left much earlier because he was at the dentist, who came in on a Sunday (!) to repair a tooth that he broke off last night. This is an important front tooth that he already broke previously, along with 7 others at once in a sports accident several years ago, so she knows us and his teeth very well. Many, many procedures. Two others are loose but nothing has come out this time. Is that enough? Nah. The tooth broke off because he hit it with his knee while doing a backflip on a trampoline, at a friend's neighbors house, in the dark. So, last night he was getting his knee sutured up where he had lacerated it with his own mouth. Just a normal weekend for us.

I am reading everyone's posts on the treadmill at the hotel and so incredibly impressed with you all! We have so many helping hands reaching out to pull those who need it back on to that wagon!! And of course, we all need that hand sometime.

Stress eating is a big thing I have had to work on. Now I do tend to recognize it and say to myself, you are stressed, just wanting to eat your stress. Is that really the choice you choose to make? It helps me keep to make the better choice.

Hard to walk type so done now

Yes x 3
Walk x 50 min treadmill

srufus wrote: »

First, how do you all manage to log your home cooked meals accurately ? I make breakfast, lunch and dinner fresh everyday. Breakfast is easier to log, just a few choices. But when it gets to lunch and dinner, I just cook instictively . Till I started UAC I have never measured anything I cook. Even if I am making the same dish again, quantities are different and the calories vary. Now that I am measuring, I find that I am spending much more time in the kitchen. I haven't found a way out of this yet.

Second, I go over the sodium limit very easily, even if I don't go over it I am almost at the limit. I had no idea I was eating this much salt. So this week's goal is to actually reduce my salt intake.

I kind of track the ingredients. I have the same breakfast mostly everyday. My oatmeal is measured, 1/3 of a cup, raisins, 1/3 cup, yogurt, 1 cup.

I guess I don't really cook instinctively that much. Bean pizza, I read the label and try to approximate a serving size. The flatbreads have labeled calories, shedded cheese, I am not perfectly meticulous but I bet I am within 50 cals or so for a prepared meal. I am not real meticulous when it comes to condiments. If it is going to be mayonaise or sour cream I look for a serving size and either multiply or divide.

But I kind of leave it to MFP to know what kind of sodium is in there. Things I don't eat because of sodium. Canned soup and canned vegtable juice and a lot of canned vegtables. I used to think that stuff was healthy. Well maybe it is for young guys that don't have to care about sodium.

I don't really like preparing fresh vegtables. Chopping and peeling. I buy frozen. I often make a stir fry out of frozen. Put some chicken nuggets in for protein(frozen). That stuff is all nutrition labelled. Chicken nuggets ain't exactly health food but it ain't like I switched to unsalted butter and considered that the mainstay of my dietary improvement.

I am sometimes kind of an instinctive cook. But I also kind of instinctively know what I am putting in my meals. I also try to not prepare more than a meal or serving size. Leftovers are kind of a weakness for me. If I make a full size pizza can I stop eating when I get to a serving size? Not really. That is why I make individuals pizzas out of flat breads.

Chicken nuggets ... I count them. I usually get 4. They aren't they same size so the measuring of that isn't going to be perfect. I don't use a gram scale or anything. I think my tracking is pretty close. 25 oz Foster beer hasn't got a nutrition label on it but MFP knows how many cals are in it.

I eat a lot of pitas. I get these chicken of the sea salmon envelopes. My wife don't like them because they are a dollar each. But I make a salmon pita sandwich and I know right off the top it is 70 for the pita and 90 for the salmon. That is one of my mainstays. Salmon = protein, pita = carb. I can have 2 easy, more if I been burning.

For a snack sometimes I will slice tomatoes into my pita and or cucumber. If I put sour cream I count it.

Oh yeah, and grilled cheese pitas. Grab a pita, peel it open. Grab a pinch of shredded cheese (1/3 cup). Stick it in the pita. Stick the pita in the toaster and walla! Grilled cheese sandwich. (1/4 cup Cheese = 160 cal)

I used to make a lot of bread in the bread machine. That didn't pan out. It is too good. I gained weight. That is 4 cups of flour. I would eat that in like a day. If I was lucky I would have help from my wife but really it was too much for the both of us. How many cals in a cup of flour? 500? Bread sneaks up on you.

Cold cuts have a lot of sodium and fat. I eat them sparingly. They are also my weakness. If I got cold cuts I eat them too fast. I don't buy them very often.

Anyway, here is me talking like I know more than I do.

Cheers.

Pass day#2.

I made it .. Yes x 3

@pribud.. Thank you! Right back at ya!

Pass #1