I was just not hungry today so I took advantage of it and didn't eat much. I had a 12" cheese and veggie sandwich, half of which I ate in my car at the park. The other half I ate around 5 with Doritos and a chocolate milk.
One large glass of wine.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Kate's log 11/13/11
Well, I ate in the middle of the night. I got up at 3am and ate the rest of the box of strawberries. There were probably 10-15 in it. I'm not happy that I ate in the middle of the night but I'm also not going to be too hard in myself because I could have eaten something carb-filled. I limited breakfast because of my middle of the night mess up and also because I wanted to drink as much.coffee as I wanted because I got new creamer (yum!).
3 cups (at least they were small).
1/4th cup milk and a little less than 1 cup of multigrain cheerios for breakfast.
I ate this at about 3:00. Just not totally hungry today. Tried to finish it all but there was a little left.
Dinner. A zucchini, half of a bell pepper, celery, 5 mushrooms, onions, broccoli. Cold salad with cucumber, tomato, half a cheese stick and salt/pepper. About 1/4th cup soy crumbles.
3 of these. So, 6x8oz..6 cups. Not terrible. Also finishing off my diet ginger ale tonight.
3 cups (at least they were small).
1/4th cup milk and a little less than 1 cup of multigrain cheerios for breakfast.
I ate this at about 3:00. Just not totally hungry today. Tried to finish it all but there was a little left.
Dinner. A zucchini, half of a bell pepper, celery, 5 mushrooms, onions, broccoli. Cold salad with cucumber, tomato, half a cheese stick and salt/pepper. About 1/4th cup soy crumbles.
3 of these. So, 6x8oz..6 cups. Not terrible. Also finishing off my diet ginger ale tonight.
Karen's weekly blog
This first week of logging everything I eat, has certainly made me think twice about what I put into my mouth.
It's been challenging. Living in the same house with my husband after calling it quits, has made the atmosphere odd, to say the least. The kitchen situation is especially awkward. Guilt, anger and resentment make it difficult to eat. If it wasn't for this blog and having to take pictures of what I eat, I probably would not be eating or I would be eating fast food.
I eat too many carbs when I'm depressed. I'd like to set big goals for next week but I'm afraid to. I think it's better to have small expectations right now.
Goals for week #2
*Do weight exercises 3 days
*Eat more fruits and veggies
*Drink some water everyday
It's been challenging. Living in the same house with my husband after calling it quits, has made the atmosphere odd, to say the least. The kitchen situation is especially awkward. Guilt, anger and resentment make it difficult to eat. If it wasn't for this blog and having to take pictures of what I eat, I probably would not be eating or I would be eating fast food.
I eat too many carbs when I'm depressed. I'd like to set big goals for next week but I'm afraid to. I think it's better to have small expectations right now.
Goals for week #2
*Do weight exercises 3 days
*Eat more fruits and veggies
*Drink some water everyday
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Kate's log 11/12/11
Kate's food log for November 12th.
Coffee, as usual. Used a smaller mug today. 2 cups.
Breakfast. Faux sausage patty. 3 slices tomato. 1 cup multigrain cheerios with 1/4th cup milk and 1/2 banana.
This was lunch. Kind of. I ate around 4:00 because I napped. This meal is really embarrassing and doesn't represent what I want to be eating or what I usually eat at all. 1 slice buttermilk bread with 1 and 1/2 pieces of faux bacon, 1 half slice American cheese, tomato and about a teaspoon of light mayo. I also cooked 2 small heads of broccoli. I will NEVER buy 6 heads of broccoli at a time again. I feel obligated to eat them every meal and today I steamed them..until they were over cooked. So they stunk and weren't even good. Also, I never buy white bread (I know I haven't since I've been living on my own), same with American cheese. I don't know why I bought either of them and won't be doing it again. So, this meal was kind of nasty and I felt guilty about it too.
My middle son and I shared this. Dinner was 17 grapes, 1 medium banana, about 7 baby carrots, 1 cheese stick and 6 strawberries. I just wasn't in the mood to cook after lunch.
I also had about a litre of diet ginger ale. No water.
Coffee, as usual. Used a smaller mug today. 2 cups.
Breakfast. Faux sausage patty. 3 slices tomato. 1 cup multigrain cheerios with 1/4th cup milk and 1/2 banana.
This was lunch. Kind of. I ate around 4:00 because I napped. This meal is really embarrassing and doesn't represent what I want to be eating or what I usually eat at all. 1 slice buttermilk bread with 1 and 1/2 pieces of faux bacon, 1 half slice American cheese, tomato and about a teaspoon of light mayo. I also cooked 2 small heads of broccoli. I will NEVER buy 6 heads of broccoli at a time again. I feel obligated to eat them every meal and today I steamed them..until they were over cooked. So they stunk and weren't even good. Also, I never buy white bread (I know I haven't since I've been living on my own), same with American cheese. I don't know why I bought either of them and won't be doing it again. So, this meal was kind of nasty and I felt guilty about it too.
My middle son and I shared this. Dinner was 17 grapes, 1 medium banana, about 7 baby carrots, 1 cheese stick and 6 strawberries. I just wasn't in the mood to cook after lunch.
I also had about a litre of diet ginger ale. No water.
Saturday (Karen)
I was a little depressed today. I really just wanted to eat mashed potatoes and gravy all day. I didn't but if I still want to tomorrow, I can if I want!
I had a medium potato, fried and a poached egg. I topped the egg with dill butter. I saw the recipe on a blog yesterday. I'll never eat a poached egg without it again, fabulous!
Two of these...
This...
Subway salad with ranch AND sweet onion sauce.
Dinner. Boring. My dog ate some too.
Kate's big weekly update.
Kate:
We decided to do a larger update on Sundays about how we are feeling about our eating and other relevant things.
My goal with starting this blog with my mom was to have a way of holding myself accountable for what goes into my mouth and really, how I'm taking care of myself. It's been less than a week and there are several things that I've noticed about my eating.
1.) I eat without thinking.
2.) I eat all day (graze).
3.) If I'm preparing food for my kids, I always have some.
4.) If I'm out and about I feel compelled to stop and get at least a coffee, if not a whole meal.
5.) I use food as a reward, not just for myself but for my kids.
I have absolutely changed 90% of those habits by just knowing I have to take a picture of what I eat. I don't want to have to take a picture of a handful of goldfish crackers, a string of string cheese, 1 bite of pancake, an extra bite of faux sausage, a bite of a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich that one of my kids didn't finish or a spoon I've licked clean after making the aforementioned sandwich.
I wanted this to be an honest account of what my diet looks like...and it is (to the bite!). But my diet has changed dramatically since I started this blog. I want to be honest with the fact that more often than not my diet didn't have any fruits/veggies in a day. I rarely drink water (still dont). In an average day I'd eat some sort of potato product (I refuse to count a processed potato product as a veggie). Frozen tater tots, fries, whatever. Sometimes I'd eat six frozen waffles or a Pyrex serving bowl full of cereal.
I am just done with being gross. Feeling gross, looking gross, doing gross things (like eating five servings of something). I was just using food as something to do, a way not to have to deal with anything else.
I feel great about the progress I've made because while its drastic compared to where I was it isn't completely health-nutty and I'm not setting myself up to fail like so many times before. If I were eating rice crackers and egg whites, I'd probably already have failed by now. I'm doing what I can, when I can and being conscious of the things I would like to change.
Some of the things I'm paying attention to, but not necessarily changing yet are as follows:
- Phase out sugar-free things from my diet.
- Stop drinking soda, which goes along with the fake sugar thing. I won't drink sugary soda, so soda will be eliminated totally.
- Drink at least 6 glasses of water a day.
- Buy more local food.
- Be more conscious of how much I spend on food.
- Find holes in my diet, whether it be protein, certain vitamins, whatever.
- Exercise whenever I can.
In closing, I do feel good about the fact that I forced myself to go for a walk on Friday when my dad was in town, even though its such a hassle. With a 3 year old, 20 month old and 7 week old its extremely hard to get motivated to get them all dressed, in the car, get the double stroller in the car, have the diaper bag packed, all of them fed and content and THEN still want to walk (while one or all of them are cranky). But, I was aware of the problem (too little exercise), found a way to make the problem better (have my dad help on Fridays, the one day a week he's in town) and then I DID IT. So, just recognizing the problem can lead to action. If I can only walk once a week, that's all I can do. That's okay. I will find other ways to correct the problem in addition to walking.
Until next week,
Kate
Here's a picture of my boys on our walk yesterday. It was all downhill from there.
We decided to do a larger update on Sundays about how we are feeling about our eating and other relevant things.
My goal with starting this blog with my mom was to have a way of holding myself accountable for what goes into my mouth and really, how I'm taking care of myself. It's been less than a week and there are several things that I've noticed about my eating.
1.) I eat without thinking.
2.) I eat all day (graze).
3.) If I'm preparing food for my kids, I always have some.
4.) If I'm out and about I feel compelled to stop and get at least a coffee, if not a whole meal.
5.) I use food as a reward, not just for myself but for my kids.
I have absolutely changed 90% of those habits by just knowing I have to take a picture of what I eat. I don't want to have to take a picture of a handful of goldfish crackers, a string of string cheese, 1 bite of pancake, an extra bite of faux sausage, a bite of a peanutbutter and jelly sandwich that one of my kids didn't finish or a spoon I've licked clean after making the aforementioned sandwich.
I wanted this to be an honest account of what my diet looks like...and it is (to the bite!). But my diet has changed dramatically since I started this blog. I want to be honest with the fact that more often than not my diet didn't have any fruits/veggies in a day. I rarely drink water (still dont). In an average day I'd eat some sort of potato product (I refuse to count a processed potato product as a veggie). Frozen tater tots, fries, whatever. Sometimes I'd eat six frozen waffles or a Pyrex serving bowl full of cereal.
I am just done with being gross. Feeling gross, looking gross, doing gross things (like eating five servings of something). I was just using food as something to do, a way not to have to deal with anything else.
I feel great about the progress I've made because while its drastic compared to where I was it isn't completely health-nutty and I'm not setting myself up to fail like so many times before. If I were eating rice crackers and egg whites, I'd probably already have failed by now. I'm doing what I can, when I can and being conscious of the things I would like to change.
Some of the things I'm paying attention to, but not necessarily changing yet are as follows:
- Phase out sugar-free things from my diet.
- Stop drinking soda, which goes along with the fake sugar thing. I won't drink sugary soda, so soda will be eliminated totally.
- Drink at least 6 glasses of water a day.
- Buy more local food.
- Be more conscious of how much I spend on food.
- Find holes in my diet, whether it be protein, certain vitamins, whatever.
- Exercise whenever I can.
In closing, I do feel good about the fact that I forced myself to go for a walk on Friday when my dad was in town, even though its such a hassle. With a 3 year old, 20 month old and 7 week old its extremely hard to get motivated to get them all dressed, in the car, get the double stroller in the car, have the diaper bag packed, all of them fed and content and THEN still want to walk (while one or all of them are cranky). But, I was aware of the problem (too little exercise), found a way to make the problem better (have my dad help on Fridays, the one day a week he's in town) and then I DID IT. So, just recognizing the problem can lead to action. If I can only walk once a week, that's all I can do. That's okay. I will find other ways to correct the problem in addition to walking.
Until next week,
Kate
Here's a picture of my boys on our walk yesterday. It was all downhill from there.
Friday, November 11, 2011
My (Kate's) food log.
Large cup of coffee and then 1 smaller one.
Breakfast - 1 medium banana, 1 cup multi grain cheerios with 1/4th cup milk, one faux Morning Star sausage patty.
Lunch - 1 head broccoli, 1 bell pepper, 4 green beans, 1 zucchini, 1/2 carrot and about 1/4th cup soy crumbles. Cooked in olive oil. Eaten over the course of about 3 hours.
Small local apple for a snack.
Dinner - this is rather embarrassing, but its what I wanted and what hit the spot.
I also drank a considerable amount of diet ginger ale. No water. Again. I'll work on that tomorrow. I am starting to get full on smaller amounts and that's why for lunch I ate it over the course of a few hours. It was just a lot of food. I'm making a mental note to cook less, even if its healthy stuff.
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