Fast Day 2

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My second day of fasting was a little harder than the first, but honestly, I think it’s just because I wasn’t as busy. Still the hunger came and went, so it wasn’t like a hunger was gnawing at me all day, but I was getting a little squirrely by 4pm.

The kids coming home and making toast definitely did not help. Toast smells super amazing when you haven’t eaten for 8 hours. LOL

Instead of making my salad at home, I had the Strawberry Poppyseed Whatever salad at Panera. It was actually 350 calories, so technically I was over by 50. But, I only had one cup of coffee (cream) instead of 2, and I put a little less feta in my eggs, so I think maybe I was closer to target than that. It was delicious and filling and physically satisfying. What I really wanted was that baguette, though. I took a big smell of it and threw it away. That was definitely harder than fasting the whole day. I love that bread!

I spent the rest of the evening obsessing about food and joking about whether or not I was allowed to set an alarm for 12:01am and eat a cupcake. The whole thing was silly, because I was NOT physically hungry. It is my emotional relationship with food that is the issue, for sure. I wanted to eat everything, but for no good reason other than comfort, I guess. I suppose one doesn’t get to be 100lbs overweight (only 20lbs currently) by having a healthy relationship with food. One step at a time.

I’m officially done fasting for week 1, and I will say THAT is a good feeling. Now I have to try to not eat back all the calories I cut over the next 4 days. I totally could, I know.

As of this morning, I was down 5lbs since Monday. Sadly, most of that will bounce back today. But, it was still nice to see that number, even for a fleeting moment. I will only count my Monday morning weights as “official”, but I’m still going to weigh in every morning because I’m a rebel like that.

I am sitting here typing this having been up for 90 minutes, and all I’ve had was my coffee. So even after all the dramatics last night, I didn’t hop out of bed and run straight for food. I plan on making a protein shake once the kids leave in 45 minutes. B

All in all, it’s going well I think!

Day 2

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So, day 2 was an eating day. I expected to wake up ready to eat the world, but surprisingly I didn’t. It just seemed like any other day. Although I weighed a lot less (like 3.5lbs less). I knew much of it would come back the next day, but it was still encouraging. I guess from now I will just have to only count the Monday morning weight as “real”, since I’ll likely be fluctuating around quite a bit surrounding the fasting days.

I went about my business and didn’t eat breakfast until I’d been up for 2 hours, and even then I just had a Fiber One bar because I knew I was headed to the coffee shop to study. They have *the best* peanut buttery homemade granola bars, and I wanted one of those!

All told, I ate fairly ‘normally’. I didn’t go to BW3, even though I wanted to, but I did go out for Mexican with my son (I had fajitas) and Panera for dinner with my husband (my fave: Chopped Chicken Cobb with Avocado Salad). I had snacks throughout the day, and a couple pieces of chocolate covered toffee from Costco, and had no trouble staying around 2000. Yay.

I decided I’d target between 2000-2400 rather than trying to stick to one number or the other. That seemed to work well back in the day when WW gave you a range like that, so lets run with it.

I did start to wonder how wise I was to only put one eating day between my 2 fast days, but on the other hand, I like the idea of being free from Thurs-Sun, so we will see how it goes. Looking around the internet, I see that many people do Monday and Thursday, but my Friday run is too important to me to fast on Thursdays. And I WAS weakish yesterday. I tried to lift some weights but it was meh. Or maybe my heart just wasn’t in it. Could have been either.

So, today I fast again. Planning to eat the same meals I ate on Monday. Next week on Monday I’m going to replace the breakfast with a protein shake and see if that makes a difference. Seems like more protein would keep me full longer. But food is more emotionally satisfying. So, it’s hard to say.

Planning to run 3 miles this morning. Not sure how smart it is to burn off all the calories I eat, but I have to run some time. LOL

Day 1 in the books!

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I didn’t die.

I’m not even lying when I say this: It wasn’t NEARLY as bad as I thought it would be.

I ate my breakfast around 8:45 and went about my day. I dropped my car off at the shop and walked home 3 miles. Later I walked another mile to pick up the rental. I drank a ton of water. I had a soccer game at 6:30pm. I was worried about how I’d be able to run, so I offered to be goalie. I ended up only playing goalie for half and field the second half, and actually felt fine (other than having to pee something fierce!).

I didn’t get home until 9pm to make my salad. So a full 12 hours between meals.

I’d say 2-3 times the hunger hit me a little, but within a few minutes (10 or so) it passed. I wasn’t even really that hungry for the salad. I could have gone without it. I forced myself to eat it, though.

Here it is, for 300 calories:

Romaine, cucumbers, strawberries, pecans, 1.5oz of rotisserie chicken, low fat bleu cheese and Kraft raspberry vinaigrette. I may have gone a bit overboard on the lettuce. LOL

All in all, it was an easy day. I think it was actually easier to just not eat all day than to try to figure out what I could have or couldn’t have, how many calories I had left, how many calories were in this or that and so on. I was barely hungry, and my energy level was fine. As an added bonus, I kept the water flowing, so I’m good and hydrated. I liked it! I’m actually looking forward to the next one – HOW WEIRD IS THAT, Y’ALL?

5:2 / The Fast Diet

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It’s been a long time since I’ve posted. Geez.

I figured now was a good time to get back into it as I’m starting a new diet this week and I know people will have questions. So, I’ll get them all down here, as best I can.

Up until now, I’ve been following (or not following, as has been the case the last month or 2) a 1600 calorie a day diet. If I worked out, I allowed myself to eat those calories, as well. It was working, and it was pressuring me into exercising more, but I was miserable. I always felt like I wanted to eat more, and that I couldn’t have what I wanted. Which is what led me to eventually throwing in the towel and just eating whatever and not keeping track. I still kept the fact that I’m fat in the back of my mind, and tried not to go all in and still make halfway decent choices, but you can imagine how that went.

A friend of mine from the running group, Dan, posted that he was doing a diet where he fasts 2 days a week and eats whatever the other 5. I gave it a “hmm” and then didn’t think too much more about it. I saw him the other day, eating a big ass Panera cinnamon roll, and asked him how it was going. He said he’d been at it 3 weeks, and was down 3 pounds, and he was currently eating a big ass cinnamon roll, so I became a little more interested. Especially as he doesn’t appear to have 3lbs TO lose. I’ve got a good 30.

Long story still long, I ordered the book. It’s a quick read, so I had it done in 2 evenings. It would have probably been one, but I read in bed and I’m old and fall asleep easily. At any rate, the science behind the fasting was interesting – it goes back to the days when we were always feast or famine and how our bodies aren’t made to be fed non-stop. Cell regeneration begins when the food stops, etc. I do like the idea of being healthier.

Here’s a site that talks about it a bit more than I have here.

But, what I really like, is being able to eat ‘normally’ 5 days a week. I did a lot of math that I won’t bore you entirely with, but here’s the gist of it.

At 1600/day, I was consuming 11200 per week (not including exercise calories consumed or burned)
My BMR (calories I burn naturally doing nothing) is 1555
So my daily calorie intake to maintain my current weight (ain’t nobody got time fo dat!) is 2410 (I used ‘moderately active’).

2410×7 days = 16870 calories per week. In order to lose 1 pound per week, I would cut that by 3500, giving me 13370, or 1910 per day. Side note: This might explain why I was miserable. Although, on exercise days, I DID eat 1900+ and still felt like I wanted to EATALLTHEFOOD.

If I were to change that around to eating 500 on Monday and 500 on Wednesday, that would leave me 12370 to eat the other 5 days, or 2474 per day.

Notice, the weekly consumption is the same. But with 2474 calories per day, I can actually eat, and eat well, and eat what I want. If I can manage to keep that at 2000 with the fast days and all the exercise, I’d probably be closer to 1.5 per week. With 30 to lose, I think that’s reasonable enough.

The big question becomes: How will this effect my running. That was the first question I asked Dan, who runs 3478x more than I do. And better. He said the day OF the fast, it goes ok because he runs in the morning before the fast would have had any impact. It’s the day after that is the problem. Since I normally run on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, I decided Monday and Wednesday would be my days to try it.

And that today would be an even better Monday to try it, since I don’t intend to run today anyway.

I decided, as the book recommends, a small breakfast and dinner to spend my 500. There are other ways to spread it out, but that felt like the best fit. I’m going to try to keep the breakfast around 200, and dinner 300.

Today I made this:

1 egg, 2 egg whites, 1 cup of spinach, 1/8 c low fat feta with 1/2 cup strawberries. I also had 1 tbs cream in both of my 2 cups of coffee. Grand total: 206 calories.

Mental note to self, pick a not yellow plate to make eggs look more exciting.

Now I keep myself busy until dinner.

I might be going to bed at 5pm. Ha.

May ’13 DigiScrap Parade / iNSD is here!

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I am crawling out of the woodwork with this blog post because – it’s freebie time!

I got to participate in The DigiScrap Parade blog train this month and I’m super excited about it. I loved the colors, and I think you will, too!

Here is the mini kit I created as my portion of the train. If you like it, just click the image to scoot on over to my Facebook page to download it!

If you’re not already my Facebook fan, definitely consider that. I have this freebie there currently, but there’s always one available. I try to switch it out once a month or so.

And if you’re doing any shopping when you’re done riding the train, hop on over to The Digi Chick! They’ve got a great sale going on for iNSD and I’ve got some fun journaling cards up this week.




If you love them all, I even have them as a bundle at an absurd price. :)

That’s all I have for now… see you in 3 months. Ha.

DST Blog Train – March 2013

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I can’t believe it’s been 2 months already since the last blog train, but I won’t complain that the winter is flying by. BRR here in the Midwest!

Hopefully, you arrived here from Digiscraptions at: Digiscraptions

This is the next on the train!

This time I made a little mini kit using the gorgeous swatch. I tried to stay within the confines of the “Size” of offering, even though I was tempted to keep going. I’m so ready for spring!

You can click the preview to download my portion of the blog train.

Then you can hop on over to the next stop on the train, which is Graphics by Polka Dot at: Graphics by Polka Dot

If for some reason you get derailed along the way, you can find the whole list here: DST Master List

The train starts today, but remember this is international, so some folks might have gotten turned around with the time zone conversions and not have theirs up yet. They’re all coming! :)

One more thing before you go… make sure you are one of my Facebook fans! I always have a freebie up under my exclusive tab. Here’s the current one:

So, go grab that if you don’t already have it! The more freebies the better. :D

Thanks for stopping by! Hopefully you’re having a blast building up a kit with all these freebies.

Coach’s Corner: Cold Pop

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I thought perhaps I’d put on my coach’s hat and give you (mostly myself) a lecture. About Cold Pop.

Hopefully you’ve all seen the lovely and fabulous Sweet Brown talk about Cold Pop here, forever cementing me calling it Cold Pop until the day I die. And then, of course, the autotune remix.

And oh Lord Jesus, I love me some cold pop as much as Sweet Brown. An 32-ounce, icy cold fountain Coke* after a long run is a small piece of heaven.

It’s also about 80+ grams of sugar. Or 26 teaspoons. If you’re drinking a 32-ounce soda with your lunch, you are basically sitting there spooning 26 teaspoons of sugar into your mouth. Sugar, as you well know, is delicious has no redeeming nutritional value.

“But Angie, I drink DIET soda!” Ahh, no calories. No sugar. No problem?

WRONG

Even Diet soda can harm your kidneys, cause depression, stall your weight loss, tear up your heart, ruin your teeth, and lead to bone loss.

Read up for yourself:

http://healthyliving.msn.com/health-wellness/7-side-effects-of-drinking-diet-soda

http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/4-health-side-effects-of-diet-soda.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/038686_diet_soda_depression_aspartame.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/031398_diet_soda_stroke.html

Should I go on? I could literally post about 100 of those links without even having to dig. Soda is bad, y’all. Diet/Regular/Zero/all of it. Drink some water. Flush your kidneys. Hydrate your body. It’s the only way!

*I still love french fries. Yes, that’s related. I like to get a Coke and fries after my long run. I crave the salt because I sweat like a whore in church when I run.

I hope Coke Zero doesn’t sue my ass off.

Diet Bet Day 29 / 1

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One of my 2 Diet Bet games ended today, the other tomorrow. Round 2 of this starts today. Once I weigh out tomorrow for the other game, I’m probably going to stop this every day blogging of it. First off, I’m sure everyone is sick of my plates of food. And secondly, I haven’t even written up my Goofy race report because it’s been all focus on doing THIS every day. Maybe I’ll do weekly highlights, or something.

ANYWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY…

Today I weighed OUT for one of the games and… EXACTLY 4% down. YAY. So, I win part of that pot. Now I need to hold on until tomorrow for the other game, and I’m golden.

Here’s what it took for me to lose 4% in a month – I’ve run 114 miles including a back to back half and full marathon. I set my base calorie goal at 1200, which I think would have killed me, except – I did some form of cardio almost every single day (Not the day before / after Goofy, etc) for extra calories. Some days, I ate all the calories I burned, and others I left 100 or 200. But I only left exercise calories, I never ever ate under my 1200. Because I’m not sure I can, I love to eat. I’ve eaten exceptionally well. Lots of fruit and veggies, not a ton of bread, mostly healthy stuff. When I ‘slipped’, I still never went more than 200ish calories over for the day. I spread my calories out over the 3 meals as fairly evenly as I could, and left room for snacks because I snack. I made an effort to have protein at every meal, as well as a fruit.

It took a lot of focus, but I can see a difference, even in the baggy shirt and bad photos. Aside from the fact that I just look more tired in the after.

Ran 5 miles @ 10:30 – Really it was 1 mile at 11:30 through the slush and grass until we moved to the road, then it was 4 miles @ 10:ish. Fun run. Saw a coyote. In the neighborhood.

Breakfast - Egg beaters, spinach and feta and a pear

Lunch - Turkey/Cucumber/Laughing Cow Swiss light wrap, carrots with hummus. Pics are getting sloppy on the last day.

Dinner - Broiled Parmesan Tilapia, Broccoli cheese potatoes, Steamfresh mixed veggies

Not shown: A ridiculous amount of Dark Chocolate Chex Mix. *shakes fist* Damn you, free with coupon Chex Mix. Lucky for the run today and the Egg Beaters breakfast that left me some extra wiggle room.

Diet Bet Day 28

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Ran 9.25 (snowy/icy/YakTrax) miles @ 10:12 average – Feeling great! Back at my old pace and miles are flying by. Whew. Helped that my old training pal was back with me. The run is over before I know it when we run together. Been too long!

Breakfast - Trail Mix bar on my way to the run.

Brunch - Big ass pancakes with Phil after the run. Mine were berry, his were peanut butter. His were better. I had buyer’s remorse. But they were still delicious.

Dinner - Date night with my hubby. Man, 2 dates in one day. How lucky am I? Mjadrra and lebanese salad at La Kabob. Took 2 bites before I took the photo SO SORRY. Was delicious.

Pretty sure I went over calories today even WITH the 9 mile run. Oh well. Living a bit large over here so close to the deadline. Weigh OUT for one of my games in the morning. Hope I pee a lot when I wake up.

Diet Bet Day 27

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Homestretch now! I can’t believe how well I’ve done both with the diet and with the blogging! Go me!

Run 4 miles @ 11:10 average – Saturday run with the people I’m training (and my dog!). Very snowy and beautiful. Ready for spring.

Breakfast - Oatmeal with pumpkin, pecans and Craisins and I added some soy milk this time. Perfect. Loved it. I didn’t even sweeten it this time since the soy milk was vanilla.

Lunch - Taco Soup leftovers and a Gala apple

Dinner - – Running club banquet. Had a couple Bud Lights and then whatever the dinner was. Pasta, chicken, salad, cake, whatever. Kept the quantities small. Probably not the best meal I’ve eaten all month, but I’m at peace with it. I had lots of calories left to spend. Gotta have fun sometimes. :)

Weigh in for round 2 is tomorrow, I think. I’m hoping that weight can also count for my weigh OUT for round 1 but I’m not sure. Cross your fingers for a good number in the morning!