Daily Post - Jan 24 2011

Weight –381.6 Creeping ever downward
Mood –Annoyed that it's Monday, burned out from work, worried about hubby's back.
Pain Level -Surprisingly not high today.  Woke up around a 5 but that was due to soreness possibly from doing yoga yesterday. 

Breakfast 

Silk Soy Milk - Light Chocolate, 1.5 cup

Slim Fast 3-2-1 - Milk Chocolate Powder, 1 scoop

Red Grapes - Red Seedless Grapes, 1 cup (151g) 

Snack1

Slim Fast - 3-2-1 Double-Dutch Chocolate Snack Bar, 1 Bar 

Lunch

Slim Fast 3 2 1 - Chocolate Peanut Caramel Meal Bar, 1 bar

Red Grapes - Red Seedless Grapes, 1 cup (151g) 

Snack2

Quaker True Delights - Cafe Squares Raspberry Mocha With Chocolatey Drizzle, 1 bar

Dinner

Chicken Fajita in Crock pot, 2 serving(s)

Meijer - Soft Taco Size Flour Tortilla, 2 Tortilla

Aldi Foods - Happy Farms Finely Shredded Mexican Style Four Cheese, 1/4 cup 

Dessert

Dole - Fruit Crisp - Apple Cinnamon, 1 container 

Drinks -3 liters of water, 2 with crystal-light faux tea and 1 with wal-mart-brand crystal-light knockoff (grape flavor) drink mix stick.

Exercise -10 minutes of standing yoga poses.  Started tinkering with a sitting/laying program for about 5 minutes that I hope to incorporate over the next week or so.

Vitamin taken?  *sigh* Not yet.  Will take soon.

Meds taken? Yes.  But still no BP or muscle relaxer.

This diet stuff is hard work.  Temptation has been high today.  Been worried about hubby's back (he's still having pain and spasms.  I told him to take a day off and rest, it's not like he couldn't have gotten a sub and it's not like he doesn't have time off allotted so does he listen to me? Noooo.. He has to be a typical male and soldier on anyway...*sigh*) Work has had me a bit stressed (what new?) and I still haven't had time to get my nails done.  Bleh. 

Tonight's dinner was crockpot fajitas (Yet another link from the awesome blog "A Year of Slow Cooking") and instead of using beef I used 1.5 pounds of chicken and 1/2 of each of a red, orange, and yellow bell pepper that I'd had from previous weeks and had cut into strips and put in a freezer bag and had in the freezer.  I also added 1/2 of a red onion (I dislike white and yellow onions), and I used chicken broth instead of water.  I made my own seasoning mix from paprika, garlic powder, cumin, and black pepper.  I refuse to use pre-made seasoning mixes because they are WAY too high in sodium. I have a really awesome spice cabinet with LOTS of spices and I make my own salt-free blends.  If you're not like me and can handle some heat, throw in some hotter spices like Cayenne pepper or crushed red pepper.  Me? I can barely handle mild salsa, so I'll pass.

The biggest problem with making crockpot fajitas is that you almost always end up with too much liquid.  To solve this little problem, I cleaned up my wok (which is kind of my all-purpose sautee and frying pan since we don't have many pans) and dumped the contents of the crock into the pan and simmered it on high heat until all the liquid cooked away.  It was a bit more work, but it was better than wasting food.  I measured 1/4th cup of cheese and used two of the soft-taco sized tortillas (too small!) but even after that I'm still hungry.  This is annoying.  I haven't actually eaten today's dessert yet and I'm considering eating it after I make this post.  Hopefully that and more water will shut my stomach up.

I'm liking the yoga app I have on my iPhone, though I had some issues with getting my own music to play on it.  I think I'm going to do a bit more tweaking with the programs I'm making but I think by next Monday I should have a good routine going.  My hope is that by the end of February, I'll be doing 10 minutes in the morning and 15-20 minutes in the evening.  Standing poses in the morning to get the blood flowing and sitting/laying poses in the evening to calm my butt down.  Though I need to remember that when I'm doing the evening routine I need to find a way to occupy Ranger so he doesn't sit on my iphone and block my view of the pose routine.  (goofy dog.)

Tomorrow is my typical Tuesday day off of work.  I WILL get my nails done tomorrow dangit!

Daily Post - Jan 22 2011

Weight – 385.2 lbs Wow, I lost .4 of a pound. *sarcasm* Wow I'm moving right along. *grumble*
Mood – Woke up feeling crabby and spent a good portion of the day napping and generally being a lazy-ass.
Pain Level - Started out at 6 when I woke up which probably contributed to the crabby mood. After the long nap through most of the afternoon, it dropped down to 4.

Breakfast – Slim fast shake made with 1 scoop powder and 8 oz light chocolate soy milk (Silk brand), 1 small ready-to-eat container of unsweetened applesauce.
Lunch - Slim fast shake made with 1 scoop powder and 12 oz light chocolate soy milk (Silk brand), 1 small ready-to-eat container of unsweetened applesauce.
Dinner - 2 servings of taco soup* re-heated from freezer with about a half-cup of oyster crackers

Snacks – 1 slim fast snack bar, 2 raspberry mocha cafe squares, 1 small ready-to-eat container of unsweetened applesauce

Dessert – Dole (not Del Monte as I thought yesterday) Apple Cinnamon Fruit Crisp cup
Drinks - close to 4 liters of water. Some with Aqua-full and most with crystal-light fake tea with lemon

Exercise - None :( Too cold and in too much pain. Also, too freaking tired.

Vitamin taken? No, forgot again.

Meds taken? Mostly. I took everything but my BP med and the new muscle relaxer because I found out this morning that we cannot afford to pick them up until I get paid on the 28^th. *head desk*

Let's face it. Today sucked. I woke up late, was cranky, hadn't lost any real weight to speak of, was so tired I fell back to sleep for a good 3 hours and then spent the rest of the day either doodling around on my iphone or playing Final Fantasy 13. I've been depressed, though I feel okay now. Managed to keep calorie consumption to 1748-ish calories. Just under 1800.

*EDIT: Forgot to link the recipe that inspired dinner.  Sometime last week or the week before I made taco soup based off of this recipe from the blog A Year of Slow Cooking which is totally awesome and everyone who owns a crock pot needs to look at this blog.  (And if you don't own a crock pot, you should. And then you should read this blog.)  I made a few tweaks.  I used frozen corn instead of canned (lower in sodium since I'm hypertensive), and I used a mix of random dried beans we had in the house. (Trying to use them up.) and I used mild organic salsa instead of the canned tomatoes.  It turned out really well but was more like a stew than a soup becuase the beans soaked up almost all the broth.  Whoops.  It was still good though.  It's very filling.

I did some looking around the App Store and I found a Yoga-pose app that allows you to make your own program of poses with as many as you want. I may try to play with this and see if I can start doing some of the poses that don't require kneeling or standing on one leg.

Edit: I should add that I've been using the app MyFitnessPal on my iPhone to track my calorie intake.  You can make a profile online at http://www.myfitnesspal.com and if you download the app (The app is free for iPhone and iPod touch) and sign in with your profile any data you enter on the mobile device will sync with your account. (as long as you can connect to the net.) One of these days I'll write a post about the various food-tracking apps I've tried and how I feel they are helpful and not-so-helpful.

Going to bed now.  Goodnight.