I realized today that I want to track. I'm feeling weird about doing it. I keep forgetting that I am supposed to be doing this for me instead of anyone else.
I need a running icon. And a picture of me with short hair.
Monday, April 16: rest day
Breakfast: French toast, three slices of processed potato bread. Mmmmmm. Syrup, not a lot—maybe a tablespoon or two? Glass of milk, I think only 6 oz. Gummy vitamins.
Snack: oranges I only had a couple of slices.
Lunch: ramen
Skipped snack
Dinner: pasta (this really extra thick ridiculously long stuff I found at Cost Plus—it’s neat; whole wheat) about a cup? Partially home made partially jarred tomato sauce with about 1.5 lbs of grass fed beef (meatballs and some just loose in the sauce) I ate ~cup of vegetable matter and 3 meatballs. There were 15 meatballs from a pound of meat. A large green salad, around 2 cups. Maybe two tablespoons of Caesar dressing on the greens.
Second dinner: two soft chicken tacos on corn tortillas. They were fairly small. A handful of sweet potato fries with sauce. Two glasses of wine.
Dessert: half a cup of Americone dream
I'm trying to get to a place where I have a better understanding of how the food I eat affects my body. Stands to reason that I should keep track of what I'm eating for a while. I'm not "calorie counting" in the sense that I want to lose weight. From where I am this morning I could be ten pounds lighter (Easter candy happened right after I all but stopped running. Excellent.) just so my pants are more comfortable. I have recently gotten a lot smaller in the legs and bigger in the waist. It's interesting. My thighs generally rub a lot but they don't seem to any more. I've been wearing these same jeans for a while. They used to be tight in the thighs and loose in the waist. Now I have muffin top and the thighs are baggy. Bodies are weird.
When I’m being good I find this helpful for tracking:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/
I’ve been tracking and been doing some different things – fried things are right out except perhaps once a week as a special treat.
Greens and veggies are in, all the avocadoes I want, meat, cheese, milk, but limited on the tortillas, bread, rice, blah blah blah.
Very little on the sugary crap (that’s a category that includes all sweets from a sourball to cake to cinnamon rolls.) Wine, now and then.
I’m down three pounds in three months, and it appears to be stable loss.
For me, it works. I want less fat and more muscle. YMMV.
Given that I’m doing long distance running I *need* the tortillas, bread, rice, etc. 🙂 Long-distance running is a very different load on your body. 🙂
Makes sense. We are doing different things!
I bet that if my mileage goes up, I will need to add them back in.
Right now I’m trying to get a large amount of protein in a smallish amount of calories, and the math is just that carbs are what gets limited, along with sugars.
I suspect that if I run more, my rate of weight loss may increase unless I add the carbs back in.
It’s weird how finely controlled it all is. Two pieces of toast a day or not = loss or equilibrium for me.
I have been wanting a lot of protein. I either eat huge mounds of protein or I eat sugar compulsively.
I am not focused on loss and I haven’t been in a lot of years. It does bad things to my self esteem.