Exercise and eating right

[€uroMeinke]

After commutting for almost a year, I find myself about 10 pounds heavier despite the increased walking I've been doing. I guess I have to lay the blame on Union Bagel (my sometime breakfest stop) and Cowboy Burger, the unfortunatly only food place within walking distance from my new office, so I must find a way to easily avoid those venues - or at least reduce the visits.

My other option is to go to Paris, I seem to loose about 5 pounds a week when I'm there without denting myself anything.

[katiesue]

I have a hard time getting into any kind of routine. I have my munchkin every other week. So one week I have plently of time to exercise after work. Then the next week by the time we get home, do her homework, get her dinner, pratice piano, I'm out of time.

I snack too much. So I've been trying to substitute better snacks. Sugar Free Jello, lowfat cheeses, nuts. I try to read lables more and get lower calorie foods when I can.

[Gemini Cricket]

Snacks do me in all the time, too. I love ice cream. I also love Nutella.

[katiesue]

Mmmmmm Nutella

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by katiesue

Mmmmmm Nutella

Psst, katiesue, I had some this morning on a toasted wheat bagel. I could barely taste the wheat part. It was overpowered by Nutella goodness.

[LSPoorEeyorick]

We're pretty conscious. We generally restrict eating at restaurants or ordering in to once a week. We're vegetarian and I've limited my cheese to occasions when I have been thinking about it and really want it. (That's my rule for any 'craving.' I have to have it for a week before I really respond to it.)

We plan our weekly menu on Sunday morning, go to the farmer's market for produce, to the store for other supplies, and stick to it pretty well. Our main meals are typically things like steamed veggies (w/ a veggie protein for me), stir fry with greens and brown rice, balsamic corn and bean salad, baked okra with pomegranate reduction... it's very healthy stuff. No butter (only cholesterol-free Earth Balance). No bad oils, only olive and sometimes canola.

I eat the same thing every morning-- teaspoon of peanut butter before vitamins, then fat-and-sugar-free-yogurt/bran/berries once I'm at work. I eat leftovers of our dinner food for lunch. I eat salad at night (and a few bites of whatever I'll be having leftover.)

I drink four ounces of juice with my vitamins in the morning, water for the rest of the day. Sparkling non-sweetened juice or iced tea (Izze and Pom Tea, primarily) as a special treat perhaps once a week.

We're exercising (or, our goal is) every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday morning. Swimming laps during the week, water aerobics on the weekend.

Haven't lost a pound. It it my metabolism, my stress level, my PCOS? My occasional desserty-type snack? My portion size? I dunno. But I'm being pretty damn healthy and that's what really matters. Not that it isn't effing frustrating.

[Matterhorn Fan]

I had veggie stir-fry over brown rice for lunch.

The world doesn't want me eating healthy today. First, I burned the rice and had to start over again (the pot's still soaking). Then, I heated the oil in the wok too fast and it smoked and burned to the wok and I had to start that all over again (the wok's still soaking).

Now I'm snacking on fudge Reese's. That seems to be going quite well.

[scaeagles]

So you basically suck as a cook, then?

[Matterhorn Fan]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

So you basically suck as a cook, then?

No, actually I don't.

Today's mishaps were a combination of a typo in a cookbook and my computer being too far away from the kitchen. The eventual meal(s) were quite good (and healthy), and I'll get a nice upper-body workout getting the wok clean.

See? That's exercise AND eating healthy.

And fudge Reese's.