Week 8 Weigh In - March 4
cxwhit3
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Challenge Start Weight: 176.4
Challenge Goal: 160
Week 1: 174.9
Week 2: 175.4
Week 3: ...
Week 4: ...
Week 5: ...
Week 6: ...
Week 7: 179.4
Week 8: 179.2
A positive thought for the week: Life if full of opportunity for great choices!
Healthy snack or meal: fruit
Best workout this week: none - I really need to get on this!
Comments: Last week I shared that I have been interested in World War 2 rationing in Britain. The rationing had two purposes, address potential food shortages when the Germans interfered with the incoming supplies (England imported 40% of their food) and also to improve the health of the population.
Anyway, the butter ration was 2 ounces per week per person. This morning my husband was fixing his breakfast and said, jokingly "I just used a whole month's worth of butter!" (at least I hope he was joking)
The ration for sugar was 8 ounces per person per week, which seems like a lot, but since there was relatively little processed food, this had to be for all cooking, canning and baking. 8 ounces of sugar per week is 26 pounds per year. Compare this to today - a typical American consumes between 150 and 170 POUNDS of sugar per year. The majority of that is hidden in all the processed food we eat. Yikes!
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Goal: 128
Week 1: 132.2
Week 2: 132.2
Week 3: 132.2
Week 4: 131.6
Week 5: 131.0
Week 6: 130.8
Week 7: 133.6
Week 8: 131.0
A positive thought for the week: Deciding to choose accountability and posting even though I weighed after breakfast! Choosing accountability makes me feel a bit more responsible and in control.
Healthy snack or meal: Cabbage and eggs with low-sodium soy sauce.
Best workout this week: Dog walk!
Comments: Wow, that is some horrifying sugar math!
We need some serious nutrition counseling and education available for all socioeconomic groups. And also to make junk and fast foods not the only thing lower income families can afford. Cheaper and less nutritious than dirt...
Edit: No judgment for choosing convenience though, I've definitely eaten just boxed cookies for dinner on more than one occasion.
Unrelated: I read a self-help book this week which turned out to be covering issues of psychological abuse! I bought it thinking it would be more of a healing from past negative experiences, but it turned out to be about identifying if you are facing abuse from psychopaths, sociopaths, and narcissists and how to reconstruct your life. It was not at all what I needed, but quite interesting. Watch out for people who try to isolate you from friends and family and make you feel like you are walking on eggshells, ladies!0 -
Challenge Start Weight: 129.4
Challenge Goal: 115-120
Week 1: 127.4
Week 2: 126.8
Week 3: 126.2
Week 4: 125.6
Week 5: 125.0
Week 6: 123.8
Week 7: 123.8
Week 8: 124.4
A positive thought for the week: A little bit of fluctuation after some heavier foods but still happy with my progress! I’m going to really work on sticking to my goals this week
Healthy snack/meal: Grilled chicken
Best workout: Recreational volleyball at my gym!1 -
Goal: 128
Week 1: 132.2
Week 2: 132.2
Week 3: 132.2
Week 4: 131.6
Week 5: 131.0
Week 6: 130.8
Week 7: 133.6
Week 8: 131.0
A positive thought for the week: Deciding to choose accountability and posting even though I weighed after breakfast! Choosing accountability makes me feel a bit more responsible and in control.
Healthy snack or meal: Cabbage and eggs with low-sodium soy sauce.
Best workout this week: Dog walk!
Comments: Wow, that is some horrifying sugar math! We need some serious nutrition counseling and education available for all socioeconomic groups. And also to make junk and fast foods not the only thing lower income families can afford. Cheaper and less nutritious than dirt...
Edit: No judgment for choosing convenience though, I've definitely eaten just boxed cookies for dinner on more than one occasion.
Unrelated: I read a self-help book this week which turned out to be covering issues of psychological abuse! I bought it thinking it would be more of a healing from past negative experiences, but it turned out to be about identifying if you are facing abuse from psychopaths, sociopaths, and narcissists and how to reconstruct your life. It was not at all what I needed, but quite interesting. Watch out for people who try to isolate you from friends and family and make you feel like you are walking on eggshells, ladies!
Do you have a recipe for the cabbage and eggs? Not a combo that would have occurred to me, but I’ll give it a try. I want to try a red lentil soup recipe that I saw on tv this week.
The other things that were heavily rationed in WW2 were fats and meats. 2 ounces of butter per week (1/2 a stick), 2 ounces or margarine (that we now know if full of nasty trans fats) and 4 ounces of lard. I know why Grandma fried everything in leftover bacon grease! Meat was rationed at 4 ounces of ham or bacon per week and what would be the equal of $2.85 worth today of beef. 1 egg per person a week unless you kept your own chickens. Apparently nobody was eating chicken - they kept them for the eggs. I remember my grandma saying “that’s one for the stewpot” meaning the chicken was no longer a good layer.
Have a great week!
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Start Weight: 260.0 (Dec. 2013)
Challenge Start Weight: 238.4
Challenge Goal: 226
Week 1: 238.0
Week 2: 238.0
Week 3: 237.2
Week 4: 237.6
Week 5: 235.6
Week 6: 235.6
Week 7: 236.6
Week 8: 237.6
A positive thought: Cutting myself some slack in those trying times.
A healthy snack/meal: Turkey tacos.
My most effective workout this week was: Body cycle.
Comment: Grueling workload hitting Sunday school and job application deadline. Did not even have time for body cycle every day.
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gesundundmunter wrote: »Start Weight: 260.0 (Dec. 2013)
Challenge Start Weight: 238.4
Challenge Goal: 226
Week 1: 238.0
Week 2: 238.0
Week 3: 237.2
Week 4: 237.6
Week 5: 235.6
Week 6: 235.6
Week 7: 236.6
Week 8: 237.6
A positive thought: Cutting myself some slack in those trying times.
A healthy snack/meal: Turkey tacos.
My most effective workout this week was: Body cycle.
Comment: Grueling workload hitting Sunday school and job application deadline. Did not even have time for body cycle every day.
Mental health is really important too!!0 -
Mental health is really important too!![/quote]
I know, cxwhit3, working in the field.
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Start Weight:200.8 (January 2018)
Challenge Start Weight:196.0
Challenge Goal Weight:186.0
Week 1: 194.2
Week 2: 193.0
Week 3: 192.0
Week 4: 191.8
Week 5: 191.2
Week 6: 192.0
Week 7: 190.4
Week 8: 194.8
I KNOW I am retaining all KINDS of water. But UGH. Next week will be better and back on track!1 -
Lol the recipe is pretty much just what it sounds like:
I saute some shredded cabbage and onions (sometimes bell peppers, mushrooms, carrots, just whatever hits my fancy that day. I imagine some kind of sausage would be good in this too) in whatever oil (switched to avocado oil recently because my roommate is allergic to nuts and soy) I like that week until they are edible, then plate the vegetables.
Add soy sauce to vegetables to taste.
I then fry two eggs over-hard (I hate runny yolk) and stack them on the vegetables.
And it's ready! Great for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or all 3!
On some days I'll eat it over rice, because why not?
If you try it, let me know what you think! I never claim to have a refined palate, so it's good to have other perspectives on my meals lol
Did you try the TV soup yet?0
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