Thursday what I ate...and weight

Training

Yesterday I trained my client, land up doing a workout with her most times.

Taught a fitness class to the ladies in the next town, first class in 6 weeks as they have been away on summer holiday

Burned 850 calories

My breakfast

30g cereal

100g yogurt

fruit

Coffee

Lunch

A smoked salmon with creme balsamic sandwich

Dinner

Tuna salad

Didn't drink enough water

Drank 3 cups of coffee

Ate block of dark chocolate

30 g crisps

Ate 36 points and only allowed 29

Got 6 Activity points so went one point into weekly points

Weight 63.6kgs ~ 140.2 lbs

Goal weight 62 kg's ~ 136lbs

Weight in Day

For some reason I could not get myself to weigh in this morning...

I ate so much yesterday

Felt like I was not able to control myself..

Everything I could find got stuffed into my mouth

Chocolate, chips, bread, sweets ~ you name it I ate it.

I knew I was losing control, but told myself to just go with it as tomorrow was a new day.

That is TODAY

and yes, its a new day.

I am back tracking my foods today, and will be keeping busy so that I cant think about food.

Will weigh in tomorrow.

I did run for 7.7 km last night...and burned over 700 calories.

I knew I had to run..or else

Beautiful Blogger Award

Thanks to Lisa from

MY VERSION OF MY LIFE

for nominating me for this blogger award

I have to nominate 7 bloggers and mention 7 things about myself.

1. I hated school...I found reading, writing and maths difficult so struggled for years.

2. I was incredibly shy ~ my mom said she would drop me off at a party and when she returned I would be standing in the same spot.

3. I grew up eating everything ~ loved my food and never had to get told to finish my plate

4. I danced from the age of 5 years but was so shy I never wanted to compete like my sisters

5. When I fell pregnant at 15 years old I was so nervous to tell my mom I asked my sister to break the news..as you can imagine ~ NO one was delighted ~ once baby arrived all changed.

6. I started teaching modern dancing at a school at the age of 18 years ~ that was my first job

7. I met my husband on a dating site....the best thing I ever did.

As no one knows about this blog they wont see me nominating them. I did this in my other blog and did nominate 7 other people...so hope thats okay.

Oh there is someone I can nominate, a new blogger...*Eat to Run*

Blog update

I have an online group where I kept my journey while losing the weight...

As the group was going to close down I transfered all my blog entries to this new blog so my blog ends with me at my lowest weight..

Since January I have been maintaining my weight which in itself is a journey as I cant for a moment *relax* as the weight comes back on.

I will continue blogging my journey here as from NOW...after 6 months of maintaining my weight lost and share the daily struggles I have trying to never gain the weight back.

Weigh In After Hospital

This morning I decided to brave the scale.

Not too concerned as I know I have tracked and walked stairs, but the worry about the effects of the cortisone did play a bit of a worry on my mind as I climbed on the scale, I also didn't feel fatter!!

My weight was 59.9 kg's ( 132.1 lbs ) the day I entered hospital - 9 days ago.

Today my weight is 60.3kg's ( 132.9lbs )
I GIVE MY BODY THANKS FOR THIS..WHAT A WONDERFUL BODY I HAVE!!

My maintaining weight is 64.4kg's ( 142 lbs )
So am still in the safe area.

I will not be training till next Monday, by training I mean, walking on the treadmill.
I have sensed since home that I still have a long way to go to be better, the way I was.
My balance is off and so is my eyesight, I need my body to heal...
I am going to allow my magnificent body the time to do the healing it needs.

Hospital ~ Day 5 on cortisone

So today I found out why I'm not sleeping too well....HORMONES affected by the cortisone!!! Not only Doris the snorer keeping me awake.

I didn't sleep too well last night...in my blog I have written more about that and the laughing fit I had which felt so good afterwards.

Took my calcium and magnesium with banana soon after waking. ( have to take when on cortisone )

Breakfast
1 slice rye bread
1 tsp honey
Coffee

10am snack
Muesli and seeds
Yogurt
Mixed fruit salad

Lunch
Paste filled with cheese in tomato base
Didn't eat the tomato base but enjoyed the pasta
Pudding...scrapped the cream off and only ate vanilla section


snack
Apple
Block of the last Xmas Lindt chocolate

Dinner
2 slices Rye crackerbread
1 Slice cheese
Coffee
Yogurt mixed with last fruit salad

Snack
Kit Kat chocolate balls - about 8, Heinz brought to hospital and made him take it back home as I don't want to be tempted here this evening.
Hot chocolate

Walked 2562 steps today
Not better than yesterday
But after DR told me to take it easy for a while and I was experiencing the affects on my skin I decided 2 trips up the stairs was enough for today.

Hospital ~ Day 4 on cortisone

Over all I had a good day today...

Woke up early again...found the light shining into the room to bright to sleep...anyway, no good complaining after all this is hospital life.

About an hour after waking I ate a 1/2 WW bar with my calcium and magnesium pill which I need with taking cortisone.

Went and had a shower...

Breakfast
Coffee
1 Slice rye bread
Banana and tsp honey
( all hospital food )

Walked up and down the stairs a few times

Lunch
Chicken leg - asked to have no gravy, they listened
Carrots and rice, only ate some of the carrots
Sweet potato Heinz cooked me last night at home.
Yogurt and fruit salad Heinz made at home

Went for a walk up and down the 9 flights of stairs....

Snack
3 blocks of Lindt Diet chocolate.

Dinner
1 slice rye bread
1 slice cheese
Tuna salad Heinz made at home for me
Pudding from home
Hot chocolate

Walked up and down the stairs

Total walked today and a huge improvement from yesterday as my goal is to slowly add more and more steps daily....was 5228 Steps and 3 litres of water.

So over all am feeling good about today....ate 30 points...

I am seeing some of the signs on my body from the cortisone, did some reading on google this afternoon..also know as soon as the session is over my weight and water retention will return to normal so not worried as feeling I am doing all I can from my side...medication I have no control over...but want to be healthy again...so will accept whatever comes my way to get there.

Hospital ~ Day 3 on cortisone

Had a bad nights sleep again, had to have 2 sleeping pills, so hoping tonight will be better for me...

Okay now to update on my eating and training...lol if I can call it that.

Went to shower and shave my legs, under arms and fanny area...( lol ) you never know who has to look down there....

Breakfast
1 thin slice wholewheat bread
smeared banana on bread and ate the rest, banana came from home
Muesli of 30g and 1Tsp seeds
Yogurt
Coffee

I watched tv programs Heinz recorded for me onto dvd

10am the last of the cortisone drips arrived....so sat online for two hours while drip did its think making to heal the inflammation on my brain..

Lunch arrived
Small dry chicken breast with no flavor
Boiled potato
Carrots
And ate a pudding from home.

After lunch I did a walk around the hospital, up to the 9th floor from ground floor 2x, walked a few passages and came back to bed...walked 1 900 odd steps that trip.

Snack
I ate the last sandwich Heinz made at home, told him to stop as am eating far to much bread and can see how bloated my stomach is looking compared to normally
Sandwich has cheese, chicken slices and avo on...

During the afternoon I munched on grapes, apple and 3 blocks of diet Lindt Christmas chocolate

Dinner
1 slice of wholewheat bread
1/2 slice cheese
One sweet potato Heinz made at home and brought which was nice and warm.
Yogurt mixed with fruit salad Heinz made at home.

Had a hot chocolate with Heinz after walking the steps again...

Did a total of 3849 steps today, more than yesterday...tomorrow I will aim to do this trip 3 times as I start cortisone via pills tomorrow.

3 days have been on 1000 mg's via drip
Tomorrow it will be 80mg's..
I will be in hospital one day longer now, till Tuesday.

Am gaining weight....but am trying to do as much as I can in the situation.

I ate 35 of my 35 points to maintain...as I say with each entry, would love to only eat 29 while here but all the bread adds up to 10 points or 12 in day...so no more home sandwich for me and have asked for only one slice and not two for the meal times.
Also eating my low cal puddings and yogurt and not the hospitals.
have told them I don't want dinner tomorrow night and asked Heinz to bring me a Tuna salad from home rather.

Keep those prayers coming...am seeing an improvement...and thats such a positive sign for me.

Hospital ~ Day 2 on cortisone

I only got 3 hours sleep last night even with taking a sleeping pill...have no idea what my problem was...I sat up at 5.30am and started watching the Dr Phil shows Heinz put on DVD for me to watch on my laptop...till breakfast arrived.

On waking and taking my pills I ate a banana
Went to shower...put make up on my face as decided it was New Year and hate looking sick when I dont feel sick...but..clever me got base in my one eye so it was sore the whole day, it ran, it weeped, it felt so sore...
So although I looked better I didn't feel better as with sore eye my nose ran..

Breakfast
1 slice wholewheat bread
Tsp Honey
Coffee _ the above was hospital food
30 grams muesli
1 Tsp seeds
Yogurt
Fruit salad mixed in - food from home.

I refused the cheese spread as has 28g of fat
The mushroom spread as has 30g fat
Plain yogurt as has 3.5g fat
Now u see why Heinz needs to bring me food.

I went for a walk around the hospital...climbed from the ground floor to the 9th floor 2x....I need to move my body as I am just sitting all day...now I know why I'm getting a daily injection to keep my blood thin...

Lunch
I ate the sandwich Heinz made me
2 slices rye bread
Avo

Cheese
WW chicken slices

Hospital food arrived as I finished my sandwich
Horrible dry piece of chicken breast with NO flavor
Carrots and carrots and carrots, so ate half
Vanilla pudding with cream, scraped the cream off and ate the pudding.

3 hours later had the left over fruit salad from snack

Dinner around 5.3ppm
2 slices of wholewheat bread
butter thinly spread over bread...but so thin
One piece of cheese from the cheese platter ( has about 5 slices of cheese ) I cut in half and used on both slices
One tomato I cut up and put on bread

Pudding Heinz brought from home.

Later Heinz arrived with a clean pillow slip for me as have my home pillow here, my freshly washed gown and a slab of diet Lindt chocolate - and my breakfast for tomorrow in a cooler bag with more tv shows for me to watch...
I ate 3 blocks of chocolate...

So have ended my points on 35 out of 35 to maintain today
I so want to keep to 29 points while in hospital but finding with bread being around 3 points a slices and eating so much of it here I cant.

Went for another walk up and down the stairs with Heinz tonight...he has huffing and puffing while I was keeping ahead of him...so my fitness level is still up there...will make sure I add a bit more steps to my day tomorrow..did 3 124 today

My stomach is not as flat as it was but am a few days away from a period, thats if it comes as I havent had one in 3 months now.
But as long as I keep to my points daily, eat fruit and drink water and do as much as I can in this situation 'm happy.

In Hospital ~ 31 December 2009

Well where do I start...this is my food blog and not about my current situation, have done enough writing about my health in my other blog which most of you have read and commented on...thanks!!!

I brought my WW tracker book and pen with me to hospital and have been writing down everything I'm eating. I have to also add I'm missing vegetables like crazy....have asked Heinz to put a sweet potato in the oven and bring it for me as it's the one veg I can eat cold.

Everyday when Heinz visits he brings a cooler bag, inside is....my yogurt, 30grams of muesli, 1 Tsp of seeds, tupperware of mixed fruit salad which he has cut up for me and an apple. Oh and a pudding. Yesterday he bought diet lindt chocolate as well...

So I'm been taken good care of by Heinz food wise...and of course in other area's. I could not get through this time if I'd not had Heinz by my side the last few days, he has been a rock of strength to me...I feel totally blessed having him in my life as he shares this journey with me. He gives me such hope and makes me feel so positive that I will be okay, that we will be okay. He has said he will stand by me no matter what, he felt he needed to reassure me on this.

Breakfast in hospital so far has been bread and bread...then lunch I have had some vegetarian dish with potato's and dinner time bread and cheese again!!
The bread blows me up so have refused to eat it - tonight getting a Fish platter, lets see what that looks like.
I'm watching my portion sizes, if I have jam on my bread I use a little instead of the whole tub.

Remember this before you start thinking I'm crazy to be worrying about my diet in hospital but this to me is my NEW lifestyle, its not a diet anymore. I've learnt so much the last 11 months about my eating habits, my triggers etc....I'm more aware now.

I'm currently on a cortisone drip, will be for the next 3 days...so pray after 3 days there is improvement in my eyesight or else will have to be on drip for 5 days....

Am struggling to read posts, but am trying my best...my eye sight gets very tired and I cant focus....but know I'm here with you all....