I have come a long way so far and so close to completing my goal! Counting down to my 30th birthday where I want to start the next decade happy and healthy! Please feel free to add comments! They can be words of encouragement, helpful tips or a little banter like "hey, that snickers bar isn't going to help you to your goal"!! This blog is really for me but support is always welcome and if I can inspire someone else to get off the couch and get healthy then that is great! I know first hand how fast the pounds can creep up on you and how hard it is to first decide to make a change, find a routine that works, commit to it and accomplish it! Once I complete the goal it doesn't end there. It's time to get healthy and stay healthy!

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

June 8th in/out

Well today seemed to be a good day on the health front! Had almost the exact number of calories I am shooting for. I am starting to wonder though if I should be eating just a touch more. At least 1200 calories. I am going to do some research on it tomorrow and see if I am doing okay! I tried planning my day out in the morning as far as food and workouts so that I was sure not to go over! I think that really helped! Still it's pretty hard. If it wasn't for the fun livestrong.com my plate thing I probably couldn't do it! Or at least it would be harder. Its such a great little tool. 

Tomorrow if there is time I also want to do some research on Sugar! After yesterday's McDonalds milk shake I was talking to Steve about it, and then we wondered how much Sugar was in a Coke. He is a huge fan of coke. He has been trying to cut back forever now but he is addicted. In one can of Coke there are 140 calories and a whopping 39g of sugar. 39g or sugar is more then my daily allowance. He has about 1500 ml a day (today he cut it down to 800) Anyways 1500 ml is about 4.5 cans. Which is 592 calories, and 164g of sugar! WoW.. and he has this everyday. Man I kinda wish I had something like this in my diet that I could just cut out and have 600 extra calories to eat in good food! :o)  It's insanely unhealthy to eat this much sugar in a day.  The very first time I gained weight I got up to almost 170#s and went down to 130#s or somewhere in there maybe even less. When I had gained so much weight the first time from 112pounds to 170 pounds it was surely about pop! I was drinking on average 10 cokes a day. I would have 1 on the way to work, 1 when I got to work, 2 at lunch, 1 in the afternoon, 1 on the way home from work, and at least 4 more throughout the evening. 10 cokes is 1510 calories in 1 day- all in pop. Its also 400g of sugar. This times 7 I was drinking over 10,000 calories a week. And consuming 2800g of sugar a week, only in pop. 10,000 extra calories is almost 3 pounds a week. And this was just pop. I had worked in retail so every night that I closed the store I would go through McDonalds. Big Mac, fries and chicken nuggets every time. Probably did this 3 times a week.

I had started taking exendrine with ephedra! Greatest stuff for losing weight. They don't sell it anymore and I am glad they don't. That way of losing weight is wrong. It's not healthy and it teaches you nothing! That is why I fell right back into my old ways along with other extremely bad habits like drinking every weekend and eating tons of fried food which resulted in getting up  to 210 pounds. Anyways... I was really talking about pop. Tomorrow I am going to hopefully have a new post about sugar! I hope that for the sake of my husbands health we can finally get him down to only 1 a day or at least switch to diet.

So here are my numbers for the day!!


Calorie goal: 1,107; calories consumed: 1,102; calories burned: 1,104
Net calories: -2
Percentage breakdown:   Protein: 19.23%  Fat: 21.21% Carbs: 59.57%

ran 6.01 mi on 6/8/2010 at 2:34 PM with a pace of 9'31"/mi
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Food Item Servings Cals Fat Cholest Sodium Carbs Sugars Fiber Protein
Honey Bunches Of Oates Almonds 1.33 173 3g 0mg 200mg 33g 8g 3g 4g
Raw Strawberry 0.25 11 0g 0mg 0mg 3g 2g 1g 0g
Bannana (medium) 0.25 26 0g 0mg 0mg 8g 0g 0g 0g
Generic Spaghetti Noodles 1.00 210 1g 0mg 0mg 41g 2g 2g 7g
Canned Whole Peeled Tomatoes 1.00 25 0g 0mg 0mg 1g 0g 5g 0g
Prezel 0.50 40 1g 0mg 0mg 1g 0g 0g 0g
Orange 1.00 50 0g 0mg 0mg 12g 9g 2g 1g
Grilled Skinless Chicken Breast 1.00 120 2g 70mg 0mg 0g 0g 0g 24g
Price Rite Shredded Mozzerella 1.00 80 6g 15mg 170mg 1g 0g 0g 8g
Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing 0.75 105 11g 8mg 195mg 2g 1g 0g 1g
Tomatoes 0.25 6 0g 0mg 0mg 0g 0g 0g 0g
Sweet Red Peppers 0.50 7 0g 0mg 0mg 1g 0g 0g 0g
French Bread 1.00 115 2g 0mg 345mg 29g 0g 0g 5g
The Daily Plate Generic Calorie Dole popsicle no sugar 24.00 24 0g 0mg 0mg 0g 0g 0g 0g
Power Bar Gel Green Apple 1.00 110 0g 0mg 200mg 27g 10g 0g 0g
Water :-) 2.00 0 0g 0mg 0mg 0g 0g 0g 0g
Fitness Minutes Calories Burned
Running: 6 mph (10 min/mile) 50.0 -715.0
Circuit Training - general, minimal rest 45.0 -389.0
Totals: -2 25g 93mg 1,110mg 159g 32g 13g 51g
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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 9, 2010 at 8:21 AM

    Wow! that is a lot of coke... I'm a huge health nut and never been a soda drinker... I have always heard if you cut soda out of your diet it's crazy how many calories you are saving.
    Your doing great... I was reading my Woman's Health Mag and you should send your story in... so inspiring!

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  2. Amanda DumouchelleJune 9, 2010 at 10:13 AM

    Thanks Jina! Sometimes I feel kinda silly about it because I should have never allowed myself to get like that. I think people who stay fit and healthy their entire lives are more inspiring.

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  3. pascaleJune 10, 2010 at 9:41 AM

    wow scary how coke can be so high in calorie... I love coke I am totally addicted... now I drink coke zero and lots of people tell me it's just not the same and ask me how I tolerate the taste. Yea, it's different but now I am used to it. I don't have much choice do I?

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  4. Amanda DumouchelleJune 10, 2010 at 10:55 AM

    Once you get used to diet/zero, regular coke is nasty! It's worth the switch over if you continue to drink soda.

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