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Tuesday, 09 February 2010

  • Meal Plan/ 251.0 -- Whew!

    Since my weight went down again on the scale, I'm assuming that the weight loss was real and not me standing on the scale crooked.  Yay!  I felt good enough today to push through 20mins of hard cardio.  My side still hurt a little, but I just tried to ignore it and keep exercising.  I feel better now after my workout, so I think it was a good decision. 

    I made a gyno apt. for a pap -- but the closest date was May!  And that was my 2nd choice dr.  My first choice dr. didn't have an opening until late june, early july.  I'm assuming it's b/c they're either really good dr.'s or b/c they're some of the only female dr.s.  Until may I'm just going to tuff out when my side hurts.  I need to get off my ass today and clean the house!

    So I didn't make lentil soup yesterday, instead of made a seitan quesadilla, oh so good and about the same cals and protein, so a good swap.  I'll try to make the soup again tonight. 

    MEAL PLAN:
    • Strawberry banana smoothie.
    • 3/4 cup cornflakes w/1/2 cup whole milk (*get best choice corn flakes.  Unlike Kellogg, they don't have hfcs and only have 3g sugar!)
    • bagel w/2tsp butter
    • Salad with cheese and seeds for protein, making my honey lime poppy seed dressing again.
    • Another seitan quesadilla b/c they're so forking awesome.
    •  1 1/2 cup lentil soup w/7 crackers.  
    1914 cals.
    Because they are so delicious, healthy, and low cal, here are the recipes for the dressing and the quesadilla:

    HONEY LIME POPPY DRESSING:

    1 tbsp honey
    1/2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
    1 tsp lime juice
    1 tsp balsamic vinegar
    1/2 tsp poppy seeds
    1 tsp Dijon mustard 

    whisk together and dress salad.  If you're vegan, use maple syrup.  If evoo is too expensive, use canola oil.  This has 137 cals but it's full of healthy ingredients.  The fat from the olive oil will help you feel more full (useful when eating a salad), the vinegar, lime juice, and turmeric in the mustard are all great for blood sugar, and some studies suggest weight loss.  It has 17g of sugar, all from honey, so cut the honey in 1/2 to reduce cals and 1/2 the sugar (105 cals and 9g sugar). 

    Spinach Seitan Quesadilla (you can use turkey lunch meat instead).

    1 cup spinach
    1 whole wheat tortilla
    1 ounce cheese
    2-ish ounces of seitan, sliced very thin

    Heat a skillet med-med high, no need for oil, I've never had a wheat tortilla stick to the pan. Fold tortilla in 1/2 and stuff all ingredients inside.  Shred or dice the cheese so it melts even.  Cook on both sides until tortilla is golden on each side.  This has about 259 cals but is crazy filling b/c of all the protein.  (about 30g, that's over half of what most girls need in a day).  Using 2 ounces of turkey instead will have less cals and less protein, but it'll still be filling.  It also sneaks a green veggie into you lunch.  Kale works just as well as spinach and is usually cheaper.  For lunch I eat this by itself, for dinner I add 1 serving of fat free re-fried beans and 1 tbsp full fat sour cream (yeah, it has more fat and cals, but I don't trust all the scary ingredients in the low fat stuff).  (the fat free re-fried beans I think and hope are vegetarian, they ingredients don't show any meat or fat, but sometimes I worry all the same.) 

Monday, 08 February 2010

  • Meal Plan -- 251.8

    I hope that weight loss is real and not some trick of the scale or lack of water weight or something evil like that.  Although I haven't been able to exercise I've been trying to eat really healthy, so I hope I really am loosing the weight even with my side hurting.  Called the dr. today, but their office is closed due to snow so I'll have to try again tomorrow. Found 2 female gyno's working in the same office, so that makes me feel better.  I'm already nervous about getting a pap, didn't need to add a male dr. into it.  WTF, I'm talking like I'm 16 and I'm 28, it's pathetic, but I HATE GOING TO THE DOCTOR! 

    MEAL PLAN
    • oatmeal w/raisins and 1/3 tbsp of butter
    • chickpea salad wrap
    • strawberry banana protein smoothie
    • lentil soup w/crackers
    CALS/PRO/SUG  1900/97/79

    If I follow this plan I'll have a good protein day thanks to lentils, chickpeas, and oatmeal (and the protein smoothie of course).  Again, the sugar is barely w/in goal, but I didn't add sugar to anything in my meal plan -- not even the oatmeal and that was hard.  So the sugar is coming from the raisins and fruit in the smoothie and vanilla soy milk in the smoothie. 

Sunday, 07 February 2010

  • Intake

    • banana
    • chickpea "tuna" salad wrap (w/xtra veggies)
    • strawberry smoothie
    • salad with apples, grapes, nuts, and that blueberry cheese and a honey lime poppy seed dressing I tossed together myself
    Almost everything I'm eating today will be fruits and veggies, but the cals are really high, it's crazy.  It's b/c of the eggs and mayo in the chickpea "tuna" salad, and the nuts the the regular salad.  Even trying to portion them can't hide the fact that they're calorie dense.  Especially the chickpeas, good grief. 

    Cals/pro/sug -- 1863/83/104

    The sugar is high, but it's all from dairy, fruits, and veggies, the only "added sugar" is the 1 tbsp of honey in the dressing, nothing else has sugar added to it so I'm not going to worry about that insane sugar number b/c i'd rather go high on sugar and get 12-13 servings of fruits and veggies then be low on sugar b/c i'm eating carbs and fats.  I don't know if I'm craving veggies b/c I'm craving spring, or if I need some sort of vitamin found in dark green veggies, in any case, I could hardle wrap up my salad wrap b/c of all the lettuce and spinach in it, and my salad is going to be the same way.  



Saturday, 06 February 2010

  • Meal Plan?

    I'm going to try and plan my intake today, but I'm not promising I'll follow it. 

    • 1 cup cheerios w/whole milk
    • seitan and spinach quesadilla
    • strawberry-banana smoothie
    • chick pea cutlet w/mash potatoes and gravy and roasted brussel sprouts.  
    cals/protein/sugar:  1841/101/71  A good day if I follow through.  The only thing I might not do is the big dinner.  Depends on if I can stand up long enough to make all that. What a pain.  I think monday I need to look up a doctor in my area. 

Friday, 05 February 2010

  • Intake

    • apple-celery juice (fresh from whole fruit strained through a juicer)
    • whole wheat crackers
    • wheat bagel with the blueberry cheese
    • 1/2 cup skim milk
    • angel hair w/tomato sauce and mock shrimp
    • 1 slice black berry pie
    • yogurt-peanut butter dip and an apple and some grapes
    cals: 1788

    Scale said 253.6 today.  still can't wait until I can start exercising again!

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