Status Update – Wins and Losses

So, it’s been eight days since my last post: -1 point for me.

I started a workout routine, based on the bodyweight exercises in nerdfitness with a friend of mine: +1 point for me

I have eaten well most days: +1 point for me

I have eaten poorly most nights: -1 point for me

My points equal 0.  I also feel this way.  I am really struggling with eating or lack thereof at night.  This screwing up any progress I make during the day with my nutrition and/or exercise.

I don’t know why I am being so self-sabotaging.  I am really upset at myself and feel like a failure. again.

I need to do better.  This is a huge sticking point for me. What I think I’m going to do, is focus on not eating too much at night, aka binging, for the next thirty days, and I’m not going to focus as hard on the other changes I’m making, since this is absolutely the biggest challenge I deal with in relation to lifestyle changes.

If you guys can offer any tips whatsoever, please do so.

I have tried, brushing my teeth after dinner, only drinking water, etc.  I can’t seem to get any of these tricks to stick.  I’m so frustrated and disappointed in myself.  I’m capable of so many other things, what is so hard for me about this?  I can’t even narrow down the emotion or though process that is triggering this.

Any ideas? support?

Quest 8 – Eat Your Calories, Don’t Drink Them

Since I’ve successfully completed Quest 7 – Part 1, I’m now moving on to Quest 8.  Quest 8 is about eating and not drinking calories.

Since liquid calories don’t fill you up enough and are usually loaded with sugar, the idea is to cut them out.  This is not really a big issue for me, personally, since I mainly drink water, seltzer, tea (in the winter) and coffee.

The challenge here is to drink 3 liters of water for 5 out of the next 7 days.  This equates to about 13 cups of water.  This is a very big amount of water and is not something that will be continuing indefinitely.  This is to kickstart a good, water-drinking habit.

I will start tomorrow, Wednesday, September 10, 2014. 

Toilet, here I come 🙂

Nutrition Update – September 8, 2014

Breakfast – My daughter wanted eggs with cheese, which in our house means Daiya, so I made it.  It smelled so good, I had to have my own.  If you’re wondering why there’s a picture with only half a portion, it’s not because I had self-control and only ate half, it’s because it was so good, I scarfed down half before I remembered to take a pic.  I also had coffee.

Breakfast – Monday, Sept 8 2014

Coffee

Lunch – chicken broth with vegetables.

Lunch – Monday, Sept 8 2014

Dinner – Roasted chicken thigh with vegetables.  The vegetables are onion, potato (I know, not a vegetable), pepper, tomato, zucchini, and cauliflower.

Dinner – Monday, Sept 8 2014

Snack – cut up melon.  Same bowl as Saturday, just less fruit left over 🙂

Snack – Monday, Sept 8 2014

 

Nutrition Update – September 7, 2014

Breakfast/Lunch – Quinoa with Vegetables.  It was late breakfast/early lunch.  Oh and coffee, of course.

Coffee

Lunch – Sunday, Sept 7 2014

Dinner – Tuna salad with tomatoes

Dinner – Sunday, Sept 7 2014

Quest 7 – Creating My Food Log – Part 1 Complete!

This is now pat on the back, love myself, WOOOOOOHOOOOO time!!!

I have fully logged all my food for a complete 7 days.  Not only that, it was almost completely paleo, with the exception of my Monday night binge.

I haven’t binged at night for the last 6/7 days.  I deserve the metal of honor, purple heart, etc etc.  Cause if anyone doesn’t think a battle of will is not a battle, they are mistaken.  Not only did I battle my will, I also became a warrior.

YAAAAAY ME!

 

Nutrition Update – September 6, 2014

So as promised, I snored my way through breakfast… it was AWESOME!

For lunch I had the same as Friday’s dinner, except I also added a little bit of cooked quinoa (about 2 tablespoons).

Lunch – Saturday, Sept 6 2014

For snack I had some grapes, and some cut melon.

Snack – Saturday, Sept 6

Snack – Saturday, Sept 6 2014

For dinner, I went off the paleo for a minute and ate nine chicken nuggets (homemade) with sweet and sour sauce.

Dinner – Saturday, Sept 6 2014

For second snack I was craving chocolate chip cookies, so I attempted to make some paleo ones, which were sugar free.  BLEEEEEECH!  I won’t even dignify it with a picture.

If anyone has any good chocolate chip cookie recipes, please let me know, I’d love to have one.

Nutrition Update – September 5, 2014

I’ve been totally bogged down with school work these last few days, so I haven’t had a chance to blog, although, I have logged my food intake.

Anywhoooooo….

Breakfast – was Shakshuka and coffee.  If you’ve never had shakshuka, a Middle Eastern egg breakfast dish, you should definitely go ahead and try it.  Here’s one great paleo version of the recipe – http://paleoleap.com/shakshuka/. 

Breakfast – Friday, Sept 5 2014

Lunch was skipped over, since I ate breakfast late.

Snack was some green grapes – Yum!

Snack – Friday, Sept 5 2014

Dinner was roasted chicken with sweet potatoes, tomatoes, and fresh green salad.

Dinner – Friday, Sept 5 2014

 

Nutrition Update – September 4, 2014

Breakfast – 1 egg + 2 yolks sunny side up with mushrooms and coffee.  In case you are wondering what happened to the two other egg white, it’s as follows….  I am a parent.  As such, my daughter views me as her food garbage can.  She asked for sunny side up eggs, ate the white and benevolently shared her garbage, the two yolks, with me.  I expanded on that with an additional complete egg.

Breakfast – Thursday, Sept 4 2014

Lunch – I had the leftovers of yesterday’s dinner, minus the mixed vegetables.  So that was roasted chicken with jerusalem artichoke.  I’m re-using the picture from yesterday.  Ignore the vegetables, I did too.

Lunch – Thursday Sept 4 2014

Snack – I found fresh lychees at the store, which are almost out of season here, so I had six lychees and 1 peach.

Snack – Thursday, Sept 4 2014

Snack – Thursday, Sept 4 2014

Dinner – I had the 4 tablespoons leftover liver from Sunday night.  It didn’t smell bad and as you can tell, I’m clearing out the food garbage in my house, with me serving as the garbage can.  A paleo garbage can, that is.

More tomorrow….

Nutrition Update – September 3, 2014

OK…. I feel like I’m back on it now, I haven’t binged at night for two days running.

I got kinda distracted in the morning, reading some school papers and didn’t end up eating until lunchtime.

Lunch – I had the leftovers of my Tuesday night dinner; steak, sweet potatoes and of course coffee.  I only had the half of steak left over from the day before, NOT the total amount in the pic.

Lunch – Wednesday, Sept 3 2014

Coffee

Dinner – I had this awesome balsamic herb roasted chicken, some steamed mixed vegetables, and roasted jerusalem artichoke.

Dinner – Wedneday, Sept 3 2014

As a note on dinner:  I know the mixed vegetables wasn’t entirely paleo since it contained legumes and corn niblets.  However, I am not up to cutting out all legumes yet and that will happen in a the next few weeks. 

I have never had jerusalem artichoke and wanted to try out a new tuber.  Someone should let NASA know to harness the jerusalem artichoke rocket power and develop alternate sources of space travel.

Quest 7 – Creating My Food Log

The next official quest in the nerd fitness academy is the quest to log your food intake.  The goal is to be honest with yourself and log the food you eat.  There are two parts to this quest in order to complete it.  The first is to log your food for 7 consecutive days and the second is to log your food for 30 consecutive days.

At this time, I’ve logged since Sunday and with pictures since Monday, Sept 1, 2014.  As such I’m on day 4 (Wednesday) of part 1.

It’s not about judging your food intake, just keeping an honest log in any which way I can.  This is to raise awareness to myself about what goes into me each day.  It’s much harder to go on an extended binge, if I have to photograph my food before I eat it, like I did on Monday night.  It makes me not want to do it again.

Just to sum up where I am with the nutrition quests – I am in the middle of the Level Up Nutrition Quest where I am working on going from Level 3 (logging food and no caloric drinks) to Level 4 (where I’ve successfully ate a carb-free/protein and vegetable breakfast for 14 days).  I am also in the Creating my Food Log Quest – Part 1, where I’m logging my food for day four of seven now.