by Nova » December 31st, 2006, 9:51 am
I've been having fun with my christmas presents, which is why I haven't been spending much time on my computer lately. It's been nice.
It's been a week without scales, and I think I'm starting to relax a bit. I really needed a vacation at home to just chill out from all the stress at work. Too bad I couldn't make it 2 weeks. Not having a scale is good and bad. Good because I'm not obsessing about gaining 2-3 pounds, which is what happened right before I put my scale away. Bad because I have no idea if those pounds went away or brought back some friends.
I'm exercising every day, alternating cardio with weight lifting. As for meals, I keep a list in my head of broad categories to eat, and I track everything I eat in my palm pilot. Daily, I aim for:
2 L&G (lunch and dinner, usually)
2-3 MF meals
1 dairy
1 fruit
1 grain
4 bottles of water
I'm finding that my favorite meal is the fruit and the grain, and I'd happily have 2-3 servings of grain if I could. Unfortunately, they have lots of calories, especially the whole grains that I eat. Depending on the grain and dairy that I have, it's hard to stick to 1500 calories. But on days when I do a lot of cardio, I try not to stress if it goes up to 1700 calories. My BMR is supposedly around 1800, and every day I have a net negative calorie intake. Theoretically, I'll lose weight. I hope.
I have a lot of recipes that I'm adapting for maintenance, but I'm so scared of calories, it's hard to adapt them sometimes. For instance, last night, I made crockpot oatmeal, with steel cut oats, an apple, 2 cups of milk, and the recipe called for 1/2 cup walnuts. Nuts are good for you, and the recipe makes 6 servings, so that's not a lot of nuts per serving, but when you add them in and think about the calories...ack.
Still trying to sort out my calorie/exercise ratio. I was doing cardio a couple days ago, and I felt awful. I mean really bad. No energy, breathing hard. I wasn't feeling faint or dizzy though, so I kept going. Finally it occurred to me to bump the resistance down a level and that made it much easier. But was it overtraining? Doubtful. Just starting training. Too few calories? Maybe, but I don't want to bump it up yet. I just don't know the answer. *sigh*
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Would you rather eat what you want, or wear what you want?