OWLERS "Stepping Back" thread

[*Wendy*]

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10/03/2007:

B/S: Flax Snax
L: Crab Cakes, Mixed Greens Salad
S: Choco Perfection Bar, Instone Banana Cream Pudding
D: Grilled Chicken w/ Mushrooms & Swiss, Broccoli, Green Beans w/ Bacon

Calories: 1830; Fat 70%, Protein 25%, Carbs 5%; 40 grams Fiber; 21 Net Carbs

Gonna go check out what my BMR is now!

[mitzimarie]

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Breakfast - Atkins Chocolate Royale Shake

Lunch - MUP with almonds

Snack - 1/3 cup jicama, a few bites of the egg salad that I made for Barry; it contained eggs, mayo, and mustard (I ate an egg! )

Dinner - Went to my favorite Mexican restaurant! I always get the ultimate fajitas and toss the tortillas. They contained steak, chicken, shrimp, bell peppers, onions, jalapenos, cheese, sour cream.

I didn't enter the dinner into Fitday... I've tried before and it is just too much of a pain in the a$$ to find all of the individual ingredients and I can't be accurate on the amounts, so I just usually blow it off on the evenings that we eat there. I've had it lots of times and do fine with them. So, no Fitday totals for today.

I was very glad that although Barry didn't have to work today, I did get to go on a 4 mile walk this morning and that means that I was back into my routine of exercising in the morning. All of my eating times went smoothly today, and I had finished eating for the day at 7:00. And I am full enough that I won't want anything else, so everything's cool.

And, Jen! Here is an update just for you... I did eat my pumpkin at about 10:00 last night. It was good, and this morning I *pooped*.

See ya!

[gonnabskinny]

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I am not sure how to count things today because of the Dreamfields pasta that I had. I am counting it as it is written, which is a full 37 net carbs for 2 oz. but apparently it only acts like 5g carbs net. So my numbers are going to be way over and that ratios off by quite a bit.

Anyway, here is what I had today.

Breakfast
Cheese omelet with 3 xl eggs and 1 oz of mexican blended shredded cheese
4 oz of cottage cheese
1/2 cup strawberries
3 slices Hormel bacon

Lunch
6 oz of dark meat chicken with skin on
2 cups of romaine lettuce
1 roma tomato
2 tbsp of jalapeno ranch dressing

Dinner
Spaghetti: 4 oz of ground beef, tomato sauce, tomato paste, whole canned tomatoes, onion, orange and yellow bell pepper, and 2 oz of dreamfields spaghetti noodles
7 oz glass red wine

1942 calories, 145 grams of protein 29%, 82 net carbs (really only 50) 28%, and 92 grams of fat 43%.

[BLAZING IN FL]

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Average Calories

gramscals%totalTotal: 2088
Fat:118 1058 53%
Carbs:93 235 12%
Fiber:34 0 0%
Total carbs 61
Protein:172 689 35%

Cheese, natural, Cheddar or American type ( 1 slice (1 oz) ) 114907Chewing gum, uncoated, sugarless ( 1 piece ) 5020Beans, snap, green, frozen, all styles, unprepared ( 0.5 cup ) 20051Egg, whole, cooked, NS as to cooking method ( 3 medium ) 22216216greek yogurt ( 8 fl oz ) 26020614Spinach, raw ( 2 cup ) 13022Walnuts ( 10 nut ) 2622656creamer ( 1 serving ) 4010Leavening agents, baking powder, low-sodium ( 0.4 teaspoon ) 2010Seeds, Flax seed ( 0.4 cup ) 305212112Olive oil ( 0.5 tablespoon ) 60700Pepper, sweet, red, raw ( 3 oz, raw, yields ) 19041Blueberries, raw ( 8 berries ) 6020Chicken, breast, with or without bone, broiled, skin not eaten ( 2 medium breast (yield after cooking, bone and skin removed) ) 530110100no fat greek yogurt ( 3 oz ) 40037Pumpkin, raw ( 0.5 cup, (1" cubes) ) 15041Cheese, processed cream cheese product, nonfat or fat free ( 1 tablespoon ) 15012Jicama, raw ( 1 cup ) 490111Salty snacks, corn or cornmeal base, tortilla chips ( 12 chips ) 1086142Tomato sauce ( 0.4 cup ) 29071Coffee, NS as to type ( 2 mug (8 fl oz) ) 9020

[BLAZING IN FL]

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And, Jen! Here is an update just for you... I did eat my pumpkin at about 10:00 last night. It was good, and this morning I *pooped*.

See ya!

You are so cute mitzi

[mitzimarie]

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You are so cute mitzi

[hopejoy]

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okay: here was my day:
Lunch: chile reano... (can't spell that!) and taco without the shell...
few chips and salsa, iced tea. (the chile reano... had alot of tomatoes and veggies on it and the taco... was like a salad... quite a bit of lettuce.
Dinner: Italian casserole made with mushrooms and sliced squash, apple, 9 almonds
midnight snack: califlower casserole
I'm jealous of you smarties and your fit day know how! that's cool...

[*Wendy*]

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10/04/2007:

B: FlaxSnax
S: Instone Banana Cream Pudding
L: Steak & Cheese Sandwich Filling w/ Mayo; Salad w/ Bleu Cheese
S: Choco Perfection Bar
D: Grilled Chicken w/ Cheese & Bacon; Salad w/ Buttermilk Ranch; Green Beans

Calories: 1651; Fat 69%, Protein 27%, Carbs 4%; 32 grams Fiber; 14 Net Carbs

[mitzimarie]

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Breakfast - Atkins Chocolate Royale Shake

Lunch - MUP with almonds

Snack - 1 cup jicama, 1 serving sugar snap peas, 1 ounce cheddar cheese

Dinner - hamburger patty topped with provolone cheese/cup of mushrooms, 1 whole small cucumber, 1 whole medium tomato

Fitday Totals:
1497 calories
41 net carbs, 28 of those veggies (73g carbs - 32g fiber = 41 net carbs)
60% Fat
12% Carbs
29% Protein

[gonnabskinny]

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Yesterday

Breakfast
4 oz greek yogurt
1/2 cup assorted berries
1/4 cup of soy milk
1/2 cup of fiber one cereal
3 xl eggs

Lunch
Spaghetti: 4 oz of ground beef, 2 oz Dreamfields spaghetti noodles, whole tomatoes, tomato paste, sweet peppers, onions, tomato sauce

Dinner
Chef salad with 4 cherry tomatoes 1 1/2 servings of blue cheese dressing, 3 cups of salad, 1 oz cheddar cheese, 1 egg, and 3 oz of sliced turkey breast, and 3 oz of ham
7 oz of red wine

Snack
1 oz macadamia nuts

2074 calories, 112 grams of fat 49%, 120 grams of protein 24%, and 140 grams of carbs, minus 39 fiber, (but really only 68 net because of the way the pasta is calculated) 27%

[Sweet Strudel]

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Snack...1 hb egg, 1 slice muenster cheese.

Breakfast...2 cups coffee, 1 with cream and splenda, 1 black...omlette with cheese and bacon, 3/4 cup cottage cheese, 3 slices tomatoe.

[julirama723]

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B: 4 oz. yogurt, 5 large strawberries, 1/2 kashi whole grain puffs, 1 oz. almonds
L: grilled chicken breast, 1 oz. colby jack, 1 large red bell pepper, 2 cups celery with dill dip
D: ??

[Mickkey]

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QUOTE: Hi, Mickkey [img]images/smilies/smile.gif[/img]

The BMR figure is the amount of calories we need to "exist"... it doesn't take into account any activity. It is what it takes to carry on, if we are at rest all day. I am afraid that if I continually eat under that number, I will go into starvation mode and stop losing. That's why I consider it a minimum and try to eat over that number. I'd be happy if I could average 200 to 300 above that number. And everyone is different as to how many calories they can handle... gender, age, and the amount and intensity of exercise are all factors in how much you can get away with eating.

Here is the link for BMR calculations. Read through the whole page and click on "Harris Benedict Equation" and read that page, as well. It explains it pretty well.

http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/

About veggies... yes, most of our carbs should come from veggies. I look at it this way - take your total carbs for the day and divide that number in 2... you need to strive to have at least that number of carbs plus one come from veggies, to make "most" of your carbs from veggies. For example, if you eat 24 net carbs in a day, at least 13 net carbs should be veggie net carbs. You were in the Veggie Challenge last April, right? Remember that the minimum required in the Challenge for Induction was 12. For any phase of OWL, the minimum was something like 17... can't remember right off the top of my head, but I can find out. Before the challenge, I never paid attention to whether I was getting more than half of my carbs from veggies, but since then I have been paying attention and I attribute my success to the abundance of veggies that I eat. I usually get a lot more than half of my net carbs from veggies. They really seem to help me lose weight and feel good. END QUOTE

Mitzi, thank you, thank you, thank you. Ok, now I see what I'm doing wrong.. . I hope. I've been trying to stay WAY under my BMR, even when I'm intensely exercising. No wonder my hair is falling out like rain. I'm stressing my body. I'm starving myself on some days, and then when I get discouraged because no weight is lost, I over eat out of frustration. It's up and down and all over then.

I'm now tracking on Fitday, and today so far and what I have planned for supper I'm at exactly:

Fat: 64
Carbs: 5
Protein: 30

with 1620 calories and my BMR is 1705.. is that good?

[*Wendy*]

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10/05/2007:

B: Skipped
S: Instone Chocolate Pudding
L: A little Salad
S: Choco Perfection Bar
D: Skipped


Calories: 335; Fat 67%, Protein 28%, Carbs 6%; 16 grams Fiber; 4 Net Carbs

Today the last thing I made priority for was eating. Am trying to cram 101 things in to one short weekend while husband is out of town & haven't stopped hardly to even use the bathroom let alone eat. Will try harder tomorrow! I'm off to move all the furniture out of my daughter's bedroom now so that we can paint it out tomorrow morning.

[mitzimarie]

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Mitzi, thank you, thank you, thank you. Ok, now I see what I'm doing wrong.. . I hope. I've been trying to stay WAY under my BMR, even when I'm intensely exercising. No wonder my hair is falling out like rain. I'm stressing my body. I'm starving myself on some days, and then when I get discouraged because no weight is lost, I over eat out of frustration. It's up and down and all over then.

I'm now tracking on Fitday, and today so far and what I have planned for supper I'm at exactly:

Fat: 64
Carbs: 5
Protein: 30

with 1620 calories and my BMR is 1705.. is that good?

Hi, Mickkey

Ok, when you plugged in your height, weight, age, and gender, it told you that your BMR is 1705... that's what it takes if you stayed in bed all day. Did you click into the Harris Benedict equation to find out how many calories you need to maintain your current weight? (this varies according to frequency/intensity of exercise) Technically, eating at an amount between your BMR and that number it takes to maintain your weight should make a person lose weight. How far under that maintenance number you go, should determine how fast you lose it. Different people take different approaches to this. You can shave off as many calories a day as you are comfortable with... I'm sure that there are some on the board who do eat under their BMR. I've heard some say that they eat right at their BMR, and some say some they do best when eating about 200 to 300 over their BMR. You will have to experiment and see which of these work best for you. Personally, I try to eat about 200 to 300 over mine. I don't make it on a lot of days... but I try to never go under it. My BMR at 47 years old, 5'2.5" and 135 pounds is 1317.45 - I would like to eat between 1500 and 1600 a day. Like I said, sometimes I don't make it... but I try to never go under 1317... I think that would put me in starvation mode. Lately I've been getting in between 1300 and 1500. It was easier to get more calories in when I was eating from the higher rungs. Since I have gone back to Rung 1 (plus 1 ounce of almonds), it is harder to keep my calories up. I will start adding those foods from the higher rungs that slowed me down earlier, when I start pre-Maintenance and my calories and carbs will go back up some because I don't want to eat less veggies.

So, your BMR is 1705 and you had 1620. While that figure is still under your BMR, it is pretty close and is a lot better for you than going way under. You will eventually determine how close to your BMR you need to eat and still lose weight. All of this takes time and patience...