Food blog 5/29

So I had to retire a pair of jeans today. They no longer fit. Which just means that this food blog is just not working at me losing weight. I have to go to the gym 4-5 times a week and get my sweat on.

Breakfast:
Yogurt 8 oz = 200 cal

Lunch:
Lean Cuisine Roasted Potatoes, Broccoli, and Cheddar Cheese Sauce = 220 cal

Dinner:
Peanut butter & jelly = 400 cal

Activity:
Running = 35 min, 3.62 mi, 396 cal
Elliptical = 20 min, 1.95 mi, Level 10, 236 cal

820 - 632 = 188 cal

Categories: calories

Food blog 5/28

Breakfast:
2 cereal bars = 260 cal

Lunch:
2 chocalate bars (640 + 320) = 960 cal

Dinner:
Panera Bread soup (120 cal) and 3 pieces of french bread (240) = 360 cal

Activity:
Running 4 miles = 405 cal

1,580 - 405 = 1,175

Categories: calories

Food blog 5/27

So apparently keeping a food blog on the weekends just doesn't work for me when I don't have internet at home. Plus since this was a holiday weekend I splurged quite a bit.

Breakfast:
2 cereal bars = 260

Lunch:
Fatty's Gardenburger, fries, ranch, & Diet Coke = 720 cal

Dinner:
Peanut butter & jelly sandwich, leftover Ranch Doritos = 500 cal

Activity:
None

1480 - 0 = 1480 calories

Categories: calories

Food blog 5/23

Breakfast:
2 cereal bars = 260

Lunch:
Diet Cherry Coke = 0
Scalloped Potatoes = 540

Dinner:
Diet Mt. Dew = 0

Activity:
None

Categories: calories

Food blog 5/22

Breakfast:
1 cereal bars = 130
Tropicana Cranberry juice = 270

Lunch:
Lean Cuisine 4-cheese pizza = 360 (Fat 8g; Carbs 55g)

Dinner:
Gardenburger riblet = 240
Scalloped potatoes = 270

Activity:
Biking on stationary bike (16.5mi, 60min, Level 13 & 12) = 620 cal

1270 - 620 = 650cal

Categories: calories

Food blog 5/21

Breakfast:
2 Cereal bars (130 each) = 260

Lunch:
Lean Cuisine Santa Fe Beans & Rice = 290 (Fat 5g, Carbs 49g)
Diet Mt. Dew = 0

Dinner:
2 handfuls of stale tortilla chips = 200
Bowl of Shells & Cheese = 600

Activity:
None :-(

XXX - 0 = 1350

Categories: calories

Food blog 5/20

I saw on someone else's blog how they keep track of their calorie intake. I think I want to start doing that. I read a website to make sure that my daily caloric intake averages between 9 and 11 times my body weight (so between 1242 and 1518 or so).

Breakfast:
2 Cereal bars (130 each) = 260

Lunch:
Lean Cuisine 4 cheese pizza = 360 (8g Fat; 55g Carbs)

Snack:
2 Granola Bars (110 each) = 220
Peanut butter & jam sammich = 400

Dinner:
Leftover veggie burrito = too many 400?

Activity:
Biking on recumbent bike 50 min level 13 = 13.28 mi 520 cal

Total:
1420 - 520 = 900

Categories: calories

Sunrise Rotary 8k

I really should not go on a Mtn Bike ride days before planning on wearing a skirt. I stopped at this ravine that crossed over a creek. I paused there, took a break, deciding if I should continue. I saw this family cross and then a biker went down and back up opposite of the way I was going. I figured that since he was able to do it, I should too. So I backed up so I could get speed to go down and back up. Bad idea. I kept my left foot down and my right leg up so my left food got totally soaked and then as I was trying to peddle back up, my shoe slipped off my and I nearly fell on my left which would have been into bushes. I scraped my thigh and calf a bit. I only biked some 6 odd miles but some of those hills were awesome and got my heart beating! Also found a small place that Brent & I will be able to do a picnic!

Whoever said that it's better to go into a race undertrained than overtrained should be shot. For the Sunrise Rotary 8k: My legs were dead by the 4th mile. I ran 4 minutes slower than the race last year. But then again, the wind gusts were insane and coming from west to east so the first part was going north. Yuck. The second part was going east so that was pretty nice. Then back south, yuck. My hair is NOT aerodynamic at all. It kept going over my shoulder when I wanted it to stay behind my back. Good thing I'm getting it cut soon. I walked in this race. I've never done that before. I walked through the first water station. And then walked after the second station before the third. I felt horrible but I had to. Then once I reached the 4th mile, I vowed not to walk the last .97 miles but man was that ever hard to do. I came in at 47:33. Last year was 43 something. I also came third in my age group last year, sixth this year. :-( But still the food is still totally great there. Strawberries were so huge!

Categories: Kishwaukee Sunrise Rotary 8k, races

Bi-training

I did something unusual today. I ran from Hopkins Park but then before that I biked down to the park! It was only 2 miles. Then I ran 4.25 miles. And biked the 2 miles back. I was cold on the way back though since I was all sweaty from the run. It was a tough 2 miles back though.

Yesterday I biked for 45 minutes on the recumbent bike at the Y. I ended up going 16.5 miles too! I have to cross-train like crazy because of the bike ride I'm doing in a few weekends!

Tonight I'm also going for a NITRO (Northern Illinois Trail Runner's Organisation) seminar on endurance. I also joined them too. It was only $5 so I think it's worth it.

Categories: NITRO

West Frankfort run

I ran from my other brother's house today. He lives in a bigger town but luckily, I ran in his city before so I have a few routes. But it happened again. I got the same cramp. Luckily, it came right before I ran back by my brother's house and I ran inside and sat down on the toilet. I again didn't go. Very weird. Once I got back outside, I felt fine and ran a total of 3.45 miles.

Later on that day, John and I went on a 9.6 miles bike ride around Rend Lake. That was fun! We both got to use our CamelBaks too. :-)

Categories: southern illinois, West Frankfort