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EAYGWC – Day 2 – SUCCESS

Feb 28 – EAYGWC – Day 2

	Goal	Actual
Calories	1540	1210
WW Points Plus	26-29	27
Carbs (net)	<50	66
Fluids/Water	120 oz	128 oz

A much more typical week day for me. Monday to Friday when I’m working, I tend to have a protein shake for breakfast because I get up so early and my endocrinologist has instilled in me that I should eat something within an hour of getting up.  I just can’t stomach food so early in the morning or so soon after waking, and I don’t want to get up earlier to take time to eat something either. So I make the shake the night before and normally drink it on the way to the train station.  My carbs were a bit high as I had three servings (1/2 cup each) of fruit compared to 0 or 1 for the past few weeks so I need to make sure rising carbs don’t become a habit again, the Thai chili sauce also is high in sugar. The good thing since I started counting carbs though, is that I actually measure out fruit. It is 0 points on WW - that doesn’t mean unlimited, all you can eat – so there was no real difference if I had 1/2  cup of strawberries or a whole cup to my points at the end of the day but the carbs add up quickly so measuring is definitely important for me when it comes to fruit.

Reducing the carbs so drastically has definitely cut down on the “hungries”. I did have an attack of the sugar monster the other night which resulted in eating a box of Junior Mints (they are truly my weakness and after that box I have decided I can’t keep them in the apartment or my desk), but that was mostly related to PMS and I am confident that as time goes by on a low carb diet, even those attacks will diminish. Although they were empty calories (albeit delicious) they did fit into my calorie budget  and because I did stop at the one box of Junior Mints and not use it as an excuse to go into a sugar frenzy – it also didn’t snowball into hours or days of sugar cravings as has happened in the past.

We had a little bit of the roast left from Sunday so I made a hearty soup for the boys with some fresh crusty bread and I had some beef stir fried with  broccoli and red onions used 1 tbsp of Thai chili sauce (really high in sugar, hence the tiny bit) to spice it up a bit. I always said I would never cook two sets of meals, but really when the base of the meals is the same, just prepared differently, it’s not so hard. I’m in the kitchen anyway, I’m already chopping the same vegetables for the soup (I added potatoes and carrots to the soup) – it’s not that hard to throw mine in a skillet and stir fry while the soup simmers.

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Exercise

Fibre 1 Chill Challenge tomorrow night. Although I did register, it starts at 6 p.m. and the train schedules have been whacky because of a rail disaster on my train line so I am not sure I can make it there by 6 p.m. but I’m going to try.  I want the toque to match my running shell and it’s 20 minutes of good exercise – I’ll most likely run and will wear my heart rate monitor and Garmin so I can have a calorie burn reading to put into My Fitness Pal.

Running Room Clinic starts next Friday and I am getting more and more excited about it as the day comes closer. Leigh and I are going to be running rock stars. It will also help me train for the Round the Bay 5k at the end of March.

A look at progress

250 + lbs New Years 2009	202 lbs Feb 2012

Other Randomness

Thanks for all your input on the heart rate monitor, BodyMedia, BodyBugg and FitBit. I’m definitely leaning towards a FitBit especially since I found out it syncs with My Fitness Pal.