Friday morning (mom)

Hmmm. This isn't working too well. I feel like I should be setting an example for R., and I'm not doing a very good job. Guilt. 

Well, when you fall off the horse, you just get back on. So, starting with last night, because that's how far back I remember, here's my food diary:

dinner: 4 cheese tortelloni with goat cheese and chives. Sauteed green beans, onions, and tomatoes. Amount: perhaps a cup of tortelloni, same of green beans. Feelings: I was mad because I made a nice dinner and Homero took the kids to the store and didn't eat with me. I was angry and sad. R. said "I'll eat with you mom," which helped, but it wasn't what I wanted, which was a family sit down dinner. I've been getting fewer and fewer family sit down dinners lately. 

Later I had a cup of cocoa and two thin cinnamon cookies. The cocoa was watery and I was annoyed at myself. 

Breakfast: Leftover tortelloni and a quad shot, sitting at the computer. Feel a bit guilty as this is a crappy breakfast. Still have to get the kids some breakfast, they've just had slices of melon.

Scale: didn't check. Scared to.

Day 6 (mom)

Ooops. Well, if I was on a diet, which seems sort of a stretch, I fell off it. R., you're right, I have to carry a notebook and write down what I eat when I eat it. Or I just completely forget. Yesterday is a total blank, except I know I had a tuna melt on whole wheat for dinner. 

Today (what I remember):

breakfast: raspberry/rhubarb pie and a quad shot with cream. 

Lunch: Giant Thai food extravaganza - pad thai, Tom Kha, red curry chicken. Far, far too much food, and not very healthy either.

Dinner: small piece of papa's torta (turkey, avocado, cheese, tomato, chiles on french bread). Still full from lunch.

Snacks: handful bing cherries

dish vanilla ice cream with cajeta

Exercise: jumping on trampoline with kids, about ten minutes, chasing a chicken with papa, about ten minutes. Will do some elliptical too as soon as I get off here.

scale right now said 121.

What could I be doing better? Eat a better breakfast, with protein in it. Swear off the cream. Drink my coffee black? Really? Try!! It would cut about 100 calories a day! Just that one thing!

Okay, I'll try.

HEART ATTACK (Daughter)

Woah, So it just took me probably only a minute to do 60 buttbounces on the trampoline (Ha ha ha!) with ease, but as soon as I stopped, my heart suddenly felt like somebody shoves a fork through it. It really hurt, and it was beating fast, but then it went away immediately. I really need to exercise more.

Day Eleven (Daughter)

You're right, mom, it's totally unpreductive to just put a pic of my fat on here....
Sorry I havn't been posting, I'm just working on a couple of my own projects.

To update my food log:
cereal
yesterday: more raspberry/cream/ect (the problem with that is that i use way too much maple syrup as a sweetener, and whipping cream instead of yoghurt.. Your Cajeta is a way better idea.)
Zucchini Stew
and two pieces of cheesecake.

This morning:
a bowl of cereal with soy-milk and maple syrup
beef with A1, and rice.

I'm going to just swear off maple syrup all together. I'll use Cajeta on berries, and my cereal can go unsweetened. Period.
My weight is hovering around 170. It's usually 168 before I eat in the morning, and around 170 or 171 in the evening. I didn't realize that a person's weight fluctuates so much throughout the day.
I'm going to go bounce on the trampoline, and if I see Annie today I'll be sure to do a ton of walking/biking/whatever. No wonder Annie's so thin. She's doesn't even do conscious exercise, she just walks/bikes farther than most people drive. Last time i hung out with her we biked what must have been fifteen miles. My mother almost didn't believe me when I said we went from Portal Way to Birch Bay. (And mom, don't freak out about the specifics here. I'm positive we don't live in the only city with those street names.)

ANYWAY, I'm going to go do fifty butt bounces on the trampoline. My record is 156, but that's utterly exhausting.
And mom, you're right, my diet the other day was pretty healthy, I was just very full so I felt like I'd eaten a ton of junk food.

Day 4 (mom)

Add to yesterday's food log:

2 beers, one slice of cheesecake with raspberries.

Also, I didn't do the elliptical, but I did spend 15-20 minutes pulling weeds out in the pasture, which made me sweat.

Today so far: Breakfast, whole wheat pretzel sticks and goat cheese (what a healthy breakfast!) plus a quad shot of espresso with cream.

Lunch: Rice with tomatoes, steak sauteed with onions.

I'm about to go gather hay. 

Hey R., what's up? No posts? where's your food log?

Day 3 (mom)

Lunch (okay, several snacks all eaten within two hours of lunchtime):

Handful whole wheat pretzel sticks dipped in herbed goat cheese.

Handful raspberries

2 oz, give or take, roast mixed nuts

tall glass water (R., I noticed we aren't writing down water. We should.)

1 sugar cookie

Dinner, which I'm starting now, is going to be chicken enchilada with yellow zucchini and white rice.

Exercise:

Farm chores, regular plus watering the garden and trees (I have to lug jugs of water all over the property, so it counts as exercise) but that's it so far. I'd jump on the trampoline, but I'm afraid my little toenail will come off (it's hanging by a thread). So I guess I'll make a pledge to do 12 minutes on the elliptical! How about I add 2 minutes every night until I get up to 30?

Day 3 (mom)

Scale this morning showed 217. Weird. Maybe we need a better scale. 

Breakfast: 1 cup whole wheat cheerios, quad shot of espresso with cream. Probably I should eat some fruit. 

Note to daughter: About the pic you posted: pictures should show progress. Let's not let this degenerate into a flab-fest (by which I mean, let's not post any pictures for the purpose of showing how icky our fat is. That's not the point here.). Let me take some pics of you on the elliptical, or jumping on the trampoline, or doing weights, or something like that, okay?