Monday, October 31, 2011

Food Log (31 October 2011)

This afternoon I was hungry. I don't know why, but maybe it was from going on a walk or from having medium to high GL foods lately. I haven't gone for a walk in a week, because of the weather.

I've tried to stay really good today. I ate dinner and I didn't feel full from dinner. I feel like I can still eat way more. But I'm not going to. I know I ate enough and I should be full.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, cinnamon, raw honey and soy milk.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Lunch: 1 slice of rye bread with peanut butter and jam.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds and a peeled apple. Also a dl of soy milk.

Dinner: BBQ ribs, quinoa, and spinach tomato cucumber salad.

Exercise: 27 minutes long walk, pushups, crunches, and 30 minutes of yoga.

Sunday, October 30, 2011

Food Log (30 October 2011)

OH made lunch today, it was sausages cooked in ajvar, chickpeas, onion and garlic wrapped in multigrain tortilla. It was actually pretty good. He's gotten really good with helping thinking of new ideas to eat low GL. He's also lost about 10 lbs now, without even trying. He was normal skinny before, but now he's going back to his super skinny weight when we first got together.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with black berries, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, flaxseeds, cinnamon, raw honey and soy milk.

Snack: A few crisps.

Lunch: 2 small wraps, multigrain tortillas, sausage, chickpeas, onion, garlic, lots of ajvar.

Snack: 2 pieces of dark chocolate, and one clementine.

Dinner: 2 small wraps, multigrain tortillas, sausage, chickpeas, onion, garlic, lots of ajvar.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Food Log (29 October 2011)

Had a medium to high GL food day. Today we went to my brother-inlaws birthday at my inlaws. I didn't think we'd be eating dinner so early, so I ate lunch at 14:00 at home. We ended up eating dinner around 16:45, so I wasn't hungry. They had Kräftskiva (Swedish crayfish party). I ate about 4 crayfishes, and had a slice of Västerbottenpaj (West Bothnia pie). For fika (Swedish coffee time) we had some kladdkaka (Swedish brownie type cake) with Polly candy in it with whipped cream and raspberries.

I got hungry around 20:30 since I didn't really eat dinner and it was really early. So I ate the leftover piece of quesadilla, and half a Japanese persimmons.

One of my sister-inlaws really made my day today. She said to me that my pants are loose now, and that I looked great. She also said that she notices it alot in my face and neck too. It really made my day that she noticed it and said something to me about it Especially coming from a Swede it means a lot, since they don't easily throw compliments around. She's also going to start doing yoga

Breakfast: Oat porridge with blackberries, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, cinnamon, raw honey and soy milk.

Lunch: Quesadilla made from multigrain tortillas, cheese, tomato, spinach and ham.

Dinner: Swedish style crayfish, and Västerbottenpaj.

Snack: A slice of kladdkaka.

Snack: Leftover piece of quesadilla, and half a kaki (Japanese persimmon).

Exercise: Pushups, crunches, and 30 minutes of yoga.

Friday, October 28, 2011

Food Log (28 October 2011)

I did a lot of snacking on the grapes today. I know it's still a fruit, but I probably ate 250g of green grapes>_<. I also ate dinner later than I wanted to tonight. We had a late lunch so we weren't hungry until later

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, raw honey and soy milk.

Snack: 1/2 of Allévo bar.

Lunch: Schnitzel salad.

Snack: Half a kaki (Japanese persimmon) and grapes.

Dinner: BBQ spicy ribs, quinoa, and spinach tomato cucumber salad.

Changing Weekly Weigh In Date!

My OH has been asking me for a long while now if I could change my weigh in day to the weekend, so that we can enjoy weekend foods together. Since Tuesdays were my weigh in days, Tuesday nights and Wednesday nights were like my weekends for food.

Last night he mentioned that it'd be nice if we could enjoy weekends together. So I finally gave in and decided to change my weigh in days to Friday or Saturday. I think it's better to change the weigh in day, since I have at least another 4-5 months left of dieting at the rate I'm losing.

I am leaning towards having Friday as my new weigh in day. So on Tuesday I will be skiping over it, and next Friday will be my weigh in Can't have a weigh in today as it's only been 3 days since I weighed in.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Food Log (27 October 2011)

Mmmm Fajitas!

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, raw honey and soy milk.

Snack: 2 slices of melon, and some crisps.

Lunch: Last night's Chicken fajita leftover with 2 multigrain tortillas.

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds, peeled apple and a satsuma.

Dinner: Leftover Chicken fajita with 2 multigrain tortillas.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Food Log (26 October 2011)

I wasn't planning to do exercise today, but I thought to myself "why not!?!". So I did do my yoga and felt alive soon after I love my yoga!

I took some pictures yesterday to mark my new weight, and to keep track of my progress. It's hard to see exactly how you look just by looking in the mirror everyday. A lot of times pictures will show things that we don't want to see. I emailed the pictures to my parents, and they gave me a lot of compliments They said that I look more like 150lbs instead of 160lbs, so that really made my day. They were shocked at how far I've come from the last picture they saw of me which was from early August. They say I look much younger than my age and from earlier this year, my skin looks great and it glows, and I look much thinner and healthier. So it really made my day, and it made me realize just how far I've come

Dinner plans didn't go well tonight. The freezer downstairs seems broken and everything was room temperature. Luckly I had some frozen seasoned chicken in the freezer upstairs. I was going to cook my family's old recipe for calabasas (squash, onion, garlic, tomato and cheese on top), but when I cut open the squash it was firm and oozed slime. Very strange, since they weren't old and were still firm and crisp, just had clear slime. So of course I tossed them out, and had to change dinner plans again. Luckly I had some bellpeppers in the fridge and made fajitas instead Woot for improvising.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries, flax seeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, raw honey and soy milk.

Snack: Handful of crisps.

Lunch: Leftover Broccoli and ham pie.

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds, peeled apple and a piece of dark chocolate.

Dinner: Chicken fajita, pinto beans, and multigrain tortilla.

Exercise: Pushups, crunches, and 30 minutes of yoga.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Food Log (25 October 2011)

Tuesdays are like my weekends when it comes to food. I tend to eat the most naughtiest things on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so I have the rest of the week to burn them off. My OH has been wanting to make dessert since Saturday but I asked him to wait until Tuesday night to make it. So tonight we ate his baked pineapple thing, it had pineapples, walnuts, sliced almonds, and dark chocolate. It was really yummy

I probably went a little over board on my naughties today. Tomorrow I will not be as naughty with the sweets. I still have the Xmas Challenge goal to meet

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, raw honey and soy milk.

Snack: Chocolate covered marshmellow fluff ball thing.

Lunch: Last night's leftover Broccoli and ham pie.

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds and a peeled apple.

Dinner: Last night's leftover Broccoli and ham pie.

Dessert: A handful of crisps, and some baked pineapple with walnuts, dark chocolate and ice cream.

Exercise: Pushups, crunches, and 30 minutes of yoga.

Christmas Challenge Update 3!

I had a loss this week, so I can finally get closer to the goal for the Xmas Cranberry Challenge.

Now I have 10 lbs to lose in 8 weeks. That's 1.25 lbs a week if everything goes right. But since we all know the dreaded totm isn't calculated in, I'll take away 2 weeks just to be on the safe side. Which means I must lose 1.66 lbs a week. I've become a little obsessed with the Xmas Challenge
Lose 13 lbs by X-mas:  (3/13)

Seventeenth Weekly Weight Update!

It's been a rough food week with lots of high GL foods.  I was good the last three days, and luckly my monsterous cravings were gone by then.  Amazing how the hormones can make foods that you normally can turn away so easily into something you must have. 

I'm glad that the weight came off the last 3 days.  I was starting to think I was going to be stuck in the 161s for awhile.  Thankfully it was only for about two weeks.  It's great to see the scale go down again, after all that is the reason why I am dieting :)  So today I'm going to be walking on sunshine all day long, even though the weather outside is dark and cold :)

Here's the 17th weekly weight update:


-1.8 lbs (-.82kg) 


Total amount since started: -18.8 lbs (-8.55kg)

Monday, October 24, 2011

Food Log (24 October 2011)

Dinner is still in the oven, it took a lot longer than I thought to put the pie together. So tonight I'm going to have to eat dinner alot later than I want, right before weigh in day >_< I am making broccoli and ham pie (quiche), though I decided to try making the crust from wholegrain spelt flour and oats. It was a lot of playing around with how much butter, spelt, oats and water to get the pie dough just right. Wholegrain spelt flour and oats are really dry and absorbs a lot of moisture to get it into a dough.

On a happy note, I was able to go on a walk today The weather was beautiful but cold (9-10 degrees Celsius). I have to enjoy these walk days while I can. Soon it'll be way too cold for me to go out there for walks.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, raw honey and soy milk.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Lunch: 1 slice of rye bread with peanut butter and jam.

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds, and a peeled apple.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Dinner: Broccoli and ham pie(quiche), with plenty of onion and garlic, and crust made from oats and wholegrain spelt flour.

Exercise: 27 minutes long walk, pushups, crunches, and 30 minutes of yoga.

Sunday, October 23, 2011

Food Log (23 October 2011)

Today was a much better day for me, thankfully. Had way less cravings today, and was able to keep myself pretty good all day. I did have one non low GL snack, but ate it during the early part of the day.

We had good weather here, so I was able to go on a walk I also felt much better today and got to do my yoga Just about two weeks of this harder yoga, and I'm starting to feel that it's not as hard as the first 5 days. It's still tough, but I'm getting stronger.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with blackberries, strawberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, raw honey and milk.

Snack: Handful of salt and vinegar crisps. Half a kaki (Japense Persimmon).

Lunch: Last night's leftover baked cauliflower, falukorv with 3/4 slice of rye bread.

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds, and a peeled apple.

Dinner: Leftover baked cauliflower, falukorv and 3/4 slice of rye bread.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Exercise: 26 minutes normal walk, pushups, crunches, and 42 minutes of yoga.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Food Log (22 October 2011)

Another not perfect low GL day. Though I did pass up on McDs McFlurry.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with blackberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, raw honey and milk.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Lunch: Leftover pot roast with barley/oat/basmati rice.

Snack: Handful of japanese rice cracker and peanut mix wasabi flavor.

Snack: 1/2 Kaki (Japanese Persimmon), handful of salt and vinegar crisps.

Snack: 1 Chocolate covered marshmellow coconut ball.

Dinner: Baked cauliflower, falukorv and a slice of rye bread.

Friday, October 21, 2011

Food Log (21 October 2011)

I was really hungry all day, the little monthly monster was just too hungry. I did eat naughty things today, but I did keep the portions in check. So it wasn't the best low GL day, but it's way better than eating whatever I want and as much as I want. I could have totally went for some milkshake, cookies, donuts, cake, french fries, and a lot of other stuff.

I really dislike dieting and totm, it's when you get tested the most. The worst is you crave it, and really can't help it. It's a fine line of just giving in a little bit to your cravings and making sure it doesn't go out of control.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with blackberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, raw honey and milk.

Snack: 2 pieces of dark chocolate.

Lunch: Leftover korvstragnoff with barley/oat/basmati rice mix.

Snack: A peeled apple with peanut butter.

Snack: A handful of japanese rice crackers with peanuts wasabi flavor.

Dinner: Leftover pot roast with barley/oat/basmati rice mix.

Dessert: Vanilla ice cream with baked apple cinnamon dark chocolate thing.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Food Log (20 October 2011)

I've been hungry all day, hints the more than usual snacking today. Though I am keeping it to a little bit and not huge amounts of snacking.

Got some sunshine today so I was able to go on a walk Felt lazy though, but I had to take advantage of the sun while it lasted. I'm getting better at the new level of yoga, but not quite ready to do a whole hour of it yet. At least I'm not waking up stiff and sore this week

Breakfast: Oatporridge with blueberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, raw honey and milk.

Snack: Handful of crisps, and a satsuma.

Lunch: Last night's leftover Korvstroganoff with barley/oat/basmati rice mix.

Snack: 2 pieces of dark chocolate.

Snack: Cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds, and a peeled apple.

Dinner: Pot Roast with lots of carrots, parsnip, bellpeppers, leek and garlic, and barley/oat/basmati rice mix.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Exercise: 27 minutes long walk, pushups, crunches, 30 minutes of yoga.

Food Log (19 October 2011)

This is yesterday's (Wednesday's) food. I did pretty good even with the cravings. I wonder if guys have to deal with bad cravings like we do? But then again their hormones don't go haywire once a month either.

Dinner last night was really good, my OH was craving Korvstragnoff again. So I made some with lots and lots of veggies. Maybe it was a bit too much of veggies in it, since it was a bit souplike. Also I got a little crazy with the Sriracha sauce and chili sauce, so the food was a bit spicy even for us.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, raw honey and milk.

Snack: A piece of dark chocolate and a handful of crisps.

Lunch: 1 slice of rye bread with peanut butter and jam.

Snack: A peeled apple with cottage cheese and pumpkin seeds.

Dinner: Korvstroganoff made with alot of veggies and barley/oat/basmati rice mix.

Snack: A handful of chocolate covered wheatpuffs.

Exercise: Pushups, crunches, and 40 minutes of yoga

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Christmas Challenge Update 2!

Noooo, I had a gain! So now I just took a step backwards on the challenge Darn you totm!!! I think that's the worst thing about the gain was I kept thinking about the Xmas challenge. Now I'm going to have to make up for the gain.

Now I have 11.2 lbs to lose in 9 weeks. So that is about 1.24 lbs a week. I can still do this!

Food Log (18 October 2011)

I didn't get a chance to write my food yesterday (Tuesday). My food was pretty good mealwise, though totm is close by and causing the Hulk inside me to rage for bad things. I've been snacking throughout the day here and there on naughty things. Also since Tuesdays are my food weekends, I usually allow myself some slack.

I didn't really care what the scale would say today, since for 5 days it didn't move. But low and behold this morning the scale actually went down! Go figure I'm naughty and the scale goes down >_<

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Snack: 1 satsuma and a piece of dark chocolate.

Lunch: 1 slice of rye bread with peanut butter and jam.

Snack: A peeled apple with cottage cheese and pumpkin seeds.

Snack: A couple of crisps.

Dinner: Fried Calamari with homemade marinara, spinach salad, oat/barleybasmati rice mix and lots of lemon juice.

Snack: A handful of chocolate covered wheatpuffs, and a handful of crisps.

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Sixteenth Weekly Weight Update!

I didn't start off the week on a good start with several days of eating too much corn bread.  I gained a little weight, but for five days now the scale hasn't moved.  Usually the scale goes down, but this time it hasn't.  I've been behaving on my portion sizes and food.  But unfortunately I feel like a water buffalo right now, and the scale shows it.  Gotta love totm with it's water retention :(

My OH reminds me that every month it's the same situation so I shouldn't be upset with the scale.  Though I do hate when the weight gain from totm lands on weigh in day >_<  



Here's the 16th weekly weight update:


+0.8 lbs (+.36kg)  totm


Total amount since started: -17.0 lbs (-7.73kg)

Monday, October 17, 2011

Food Log (17 October 2011)

Food was really good today, and I made sure to keep an eye on portion sizes today.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with blueberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Lunch: Hummus, chicken, falafel, tomatoes and spinch.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate, a peeled apple and cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds.

Dinner: Hummus, chicken, falafel, tomatoes and spinch.

Exercise: 27 minutes long walk, pushups, crunches, and 40 minutes of yoga.

Food Log (16 October 2011)

I didn't get a chance to update yesterday, so here it is now

Yesterday's (Sunday's) food was good, and portion sizes were good too. I've been a eating good for days now, though I feel like a bloated water buffalo and the scale shows it. The scale hasn't budged in days. I will most likely have a gain tomorrow on weigh in >_<

Not only do I feel like a bloated water buffalo, I also feel very slow and lazy. Yesterday I almost didn't do my yoga, but I told myself "that's how my bum will get bigger." So I did my yoga I hate when totm is getting near.

For dinner, I decided to try Ashie's falafel recipe. I've never made homemade falafels before. They tasted really good, but they weren't sticking together right and kept falling apart. I probably needed two eggs, since I had more onions and lots of parsley in it. So it's more like falafel rice now instead of an actual falafel patty My OH never ate falafels before and enjoyed the taste alot, I told him next time I'll get the shape right too

Breakfast: Oat porridge with blueberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Snack: 2 pieces of dark chocolate, and a couple of crisps.

Lunch: Leftover chicken salad and half a slice of rye bread with butter.

Snack: 1 piece of chocolate, and 1 satsuma

Dinner: Hummus, chicken, falafel, tomatoes and spinch.

Exercise: Pushups, crunches, 30 minutes of yoga.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Food Log (15 October 2011)

Today felt like a salad day. For some reason chicken salad sounded really yummy My food was pretty good today, though I had a slice of Kladdkaka, it's a Swedish gooey cake. It is similar to American brownies, but it's really gooey. My OH and I admit it used to taste so much better, but today we found it to be way too sweet. I ended up putting extra mashed raspberries on my plate and mashed the kladdkaka into the raspberries so it wasn't so sweet. I don't think I'll be having kladdkaka for a long while, as it wasn't as enjoyable as it used to be.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with blueberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Snack: A handful of red grapes.

Lunch: Chicken, bacon, feta cheese, tomato, cucumber, radish, carrot, green onion, spinach, and rucola salad with half a slice of rye bread with butter.

Snack: A small slice of Kladdkaka (Swedish gooey cake) with whipped cream and mashed raspberries.

Dinner: Chicken, bacon, feta cheese, tomato, cucumber, radish, carrot, green onion, spinach, and rucola salad with half a slice of rye bread with butter.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Food Log (14 October 2011)

I've been really good today compared to the rest of the week. We went over to the inlaws to visit tonight. They wanted to eat Chinese take away, and there's no way I'm eating that stuff. Don't get me wrong, I really love Chinese food, but real Chinese food, not this fake stuff that they try to pass off as Chinese food out here. They make Panda Express in the US seem authentic. The quality of Chinese food here is horrible, in my opinion it doesn't taste Asian at all, and too expensive for the horrible quality. If I can make it better and cheaper than the restaurant, then there's no point in me eating there. Sorry about the rant.

Anyways, so I told my OH that I'd rather eat Schnitzel salad than fake Chinese, as I know exactly what's in the salad. He lets his parents know we're getting schnitzels and so they decided that sounded much yummier too We took the take away to OH's parents place, I made sure I packed a slice of rye bread with me for my good low GI/GL carbs. My inlaws had margarine (can't be too picky away from home), so I used that on the bread.

I was able to go on a walk today, yippie! Though a cold walk, where my nose felt like it would fall off. When I got home I felt cold and hot >_< I didn't feel like doing yoga, so I had to warm up, and then later on this afternoon I was in the mood to do yoga


Breakfast: Oat porridge, strawberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Lunch: 1 slice of rye bread with peanut butter and jam.

Snack: About 1/3 of Allévo bar.

Dinner: Schnitzel salad with 1 slice of rye bread with margarine (they didn't have butter).

Snack: 2 pieces of dark chocolate.

Exercise: 27 minutes long walk, pushups, crunches, and 35 minutes of yoga.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Food Log (13 October 2011)

I am so not going to bake cornbread for a long time now. It's too yummy to pass it up, and the worst is that I made it GI/GL friendly so I feel that it's ok to eat. Thankfully there isn't any more left It's not the cornbread that's bad, it's the portion I had at dinner time which is naughty. The next time I make cornbread I will only make half the amount, I made a double batch this time, and it was a lot.

So looks like the rest of this week I will have to make up for my bad cornbread habit I had for the past 3 days >_< Noone to blame but myself. I guess I decided to splurge on cornbread

At least on a somewhat better note, today was a sunny day again Which of course means I was able to enjoy my walk, which is always refreshing. Though the winds are getting really chilly. I also did yoga today, though I'm still struggling with the new routine. It's really intense for me, and 30 minutes seems to be my limit for the non-beginners yoga. My legs and arms were wobbling and shaking on some of the poses. I think my new nemesis is the side plank pose, I can hold a modified version of it for only a couple of breaths.

Practice makes perfect, and I know eventually I will be able to do these new yoga poses without problems

Breakfast: Oat porridge with raspberries, sunflower seeds, flaxseeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate

Lunch: Leftover chili beans with a small piece of cornbread.

Snack: A peeled apple and cottage cheese with pumpkin seeds.

Dinner: Leftover chili beans and a too big of a piece of cornbread.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Exercise: 27 minutes long walk, pushups, crunches, and 30 minutes of yoga.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Christmas Challenge Update 1!

So it's been over a week since the Christmas challenge began.  I'm so happy it began on a Tuesday since it's my weigh in day.  I now have 11 lbs to lose in 10 weeks.  That means I need to lose 1.1 lbs a week to reach my challenge weight. 

I hope to get to 150 lbs in 10 weeks.  It'll be really nice to get to that weight and also to reach the challenge weight goal.  I guess I better my corn bread eating, since the past two days I've been eating way too much corn bread >_< 

Food Log (12 October 2011)

Today started out being really cold like winter with ice on the roads and frost on the cars. The sky was clear and the sun was shining it actually got up to about 16 degrees Celsius, left like summer compared to the past couple of days. I was able to enjoy a wonderful walk

I did take a break from yoga today. I woke up stiff and sore, and after taking the walk I decided not to overdo it and injure myself. I have to give my body a break for a day or so. Or else push myself too far and injure myself and then can't do yoga for a week or two. Amazing what 30 mintues of harder yoga can do.

I had corn bread 3 times today, but I had much smaller pieces than yesterday. I'm hoping that since it's a bit friendlier recipe it won't be so bad for me >_< We'll see tomorrow.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate, a small piece of corn bread.

Lunch: Chili beans with corn bread.

Snack: A peeled apple with peanut butter

Dinner: Chili beans with corn bread.

Exercise: 27 minutes long walk

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Food Log (11 October 2011)

I started off with a good day by having a really great weigh in. The rain finally stopped this morning, so I was finally able to go for a walk. Though it was really chilly, still wet roads and windy, I could feel that my thigh muscles felt tight in the beginning of the walk from the cold.

I only did 30 minutes of yoga as my body was a bit sore today, and I find the Improvers dvd much more difficult so I get worn out from it. My muscles were still a bit shakey but not as bas as yesterday, and I think doing only 30 minutes helped alot too.

Dinner didn't get done on time, as I started making it a little late. I soaked the beans overnight and used stewing pork so they the chili had to be boiled for about two hours to be ready. I made sure there were a lot of tomatoes, bell peppers, onion and garlic. I baked corn bread tonight, I tweeked the recipe out to make it a little more GI/GL friendly. I switched out the flour for whole grain spelt flour, and used brown sugar instead of white sugar. I didn't get to eat dinner until 20:00, way past the time I like to eat.

I did eat corn bread, though I think I ate way too much, as I was really stuffed. I was really bad with the corn bread. I couldn't resist it, as it's my favorite and fresh. Though next time I will eat way less of it.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and milk.

Snack: 2 pieces of dark chocolate.

Lunch: Last night's leftover Beef with bell peppers and barley/oat/basmati rice.

Snack: A peeled apple with some peanut butter.

Dinner: Homemade pork chili beans with cornbread (made with spelt flour).

Exercise: 27 minutes long walk, pushups, crunches, and 30 minutes of yoga.

Fifteenth Weekly Weight Update!

So, this has been an interesting week. I really didn't think I would lose any weight this week, as the first couple of days started out with a gain, and I didn't lose weight until the last three days. The weird thing is that I still lost weight after I ate the GI burger from MAX, with it's 742 calories. I never understand how the scale works. I just stick to what number shows up on weigh in day

This morning really surprised me when I stepped on the scale. I almost didn't believe it. Of course I jumped on the scale two more times just to make sure I was stepping on the scale correctly.


Here's the 15th weekly weight update:


-2.0 lbs (-.91kg)


Total amount since started: -17.8 lbs (-8.09kg)

Monday, October 10, 2011

Food Log (10 October 2011)

I decided to try out Esther Ekhart's yoga dvd "Improvers Daily Practice", which is yoga for people who have been doing yoga, instead of doing her Beginner's dvd. I've been practicing some of the harder yoga poses, but I still have a long ways to go. Today's yoga reminded me of when I first started doing yoga almost three months ago, and how the poses felt difficult and challenging The Improvers dvd uses a lot more core and arm muscles compared to Beginners yoga. I can tell that the poses are really demanding, since all my muscles feel a bit shakey as if I've been doing some strenuous physical activity.

As for food, I've been trying to behave myself as tomorrow is weigh in day. I did eat plenty for breakfast and maybe too much for lunch. But for dinner I could have ate plenty more, though I made sure to stop at being satisfied instead of being greedy. The only thing that was not too good was that I wasn't finished making dinner until 19:30, so I ate dinner an hour later than I would have liked.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with strawberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and soy milk.

Lunch: Last night's leftover: Beef steak with tomato, radish, feta cheese and mixed dark greens salad and quinoa.

Snack: 2 pieces of dark chocolate

Snack: A peeled apple and a dessert spoonful of peanut butter.

Dinner: Beef, bell pepper, onion and garlic stir-fry with basmati rice/oat/barley mix.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Exercise: Pushups, crunches, and 42 minutes of yoga.

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Food Log (9 October 2011)

I don't count calories anymore, but I'm certain that today I was way over my calories and will probably pay for it tomorrow or on weigh in day. Only one more day until weigh in, so I should have been more careful.

Today we were out in the city and so we ended up eating there. We went to Max as it has a healthly menu compared to other fast food places and restaurants. I decided to go with a GI burger, and got chicken instead of beef. It was really good, the bread was whole wheat with lots of pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, oats and walnuts in it. Though when I got home I checked the calorie count on that bad boy and it was 742 calories Next time I'm sticking to the Delifresh chicken instead, it has only about 400 calories.

Since lunch had so many calories in it I decided to go a little easy on dinner. I ate only 2/3 of my steak, and not all the quinoa. But I don't think it would have helped. My OH ended up baking apples with cinnamon, brown sugar, and 86% dark chocolate. I took only a spoonful of vanilla ice cream and the baked apple thing. It was really good, and I could have so ate way more, and I'm sure the calories were ALOT. But I already felt so guilty from lunch, and also just for eating the dessert.

So I have to say today was a no good food day for me

Breakfast: Last night's leftover baked falukorv with salad and quinoa.

Snack: A quarter of Allévo bar.

Lunch: Max's GI chicken burger.

Snack: a peeled apple.

Dinner: Beef steak with salad and quinoa.

Dessert: Spoonfull of vanilla ice cream, with apples baked in cinnamon, brown sugar and dark chocolate.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Food Log (8 October 2011)

Today was a relaxing day of snuggling on the couch and watching some tv. I can't complain about that

For lunch was leftover chicken and aubergine curry that was in the freezer. I ate garlic naan, since I was a bit too hungry to wait to cook some basmati rice or quinoa. I know that was really bad of me. Naan tasted good, but it felt like I ate air. I didn't want to eat more than half since I know I could eat way more of it, and knew that's the trap of eating white wheat. You can eat a lot of it and not feel full, but the bum gets bigger. I think I made a good call on eating only half of it, even though I wasn't full.

I also learned that eating breakfast is so much better for my body and you should eat it. Earlier in the week when I was missing breakfast from not feeling good and sleeping in or not eating it, I gained weight. The scale was going up slowly, and now that I've been eating breakfast the scale is going back down. Hopefully I will have a minus at weigh in day, but Sundays and Mondays are usually my ultra strict days to help push a weightloss

Dinner tonight was a combined effort from me and OH. He cooked a Swedish dish of baked Falukorv (Swedish sausage) with apples, mustard, ketchup and cheese. I then made a salad of diced tomatoes, bell peppers and carrots, and a pot of quinoa. It turned out to be a yummy and healthy low gi/gl dinner

Breakfast: Oat porridge with raspberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and soy milk.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Lunch: Defrosted Chicken and aubergine curry with half a garlic naan.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate and 1 kiwi.

Dinner: Baked falukorv(Swedish sausage) with apples, with side of quinoa and tomato, bellpepper and carrot salad.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Food Log (7 October 2011)

I felt much better today, and the weather was really windy and cold, but I still decided to take my walk. Also I saw the weather forcast for the coming up days and it's going to be raining and really cold. So I had to squeeze in my walk

What a difference makes with the weather here. Last weekend we had unusually warm weather that was almost summer like. This weekend we're having unusually cold weather that's more winter like than fall. That's one thing out here in Sweden is that the weather is so unpredictable.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with raspberries, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and soy milk.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Lunch: Leftover Borscht soup with 1 slice of rye bread with butter.

Snack: A peeled apple with a dab of peanut butter.

Dinner: Leftover Borscht soup with 1 slice of rye bread with butter.

Exercise: 27 minutes long walk, pushups, crunches, 45 minutes of yoga.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Food Log (6 October 2011)

I think my cold is coming back, I wasn't feeling too well this morning hints the no breakfast today.

I felt much better this afternoon so I was able to do my exercise. Too bad it was raining so I wasn't able to go on my walk. Instead I brought out the mini trampoline and did something different, I did a running style jumping thing for 425 jumps. It was much harder than normal jumping on the trampoline. I also did 30 pushups instead of the normal 20 pushups. I also did some sanding for an hour and a half.

Hopefully I didn't over do it this afternoon. This cold hasn't really kicked in full gear, but it hasn't left all the way yet Luckly I didn't have to cook tonight.

Lunch: Leftover Borscht soup with gräddfil and 1 slice of rye bread with butter.

Snack: A peeled apple with peanut butter

Dinner: Leftover Borscht soup with gräddfil and 1 slice of rye bread with butter.

Snack: Maybe I will have a piece or two of dark chocolate.

Exercise: Trampoline, pushups, crunches, and 60 minutes yoga.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Food Log (5 October 2011)

I went to the library today to return some yoga books I borrowed, and I found some interesting books there. So I ended up borrowing them. They're all Swedish books naturally One is Matsmart (Food smart), knowing where your food comes where, how it's grown or raised here in Sweden, and also how other countries like USA and Germany raise theirs. It talks about how nowadays food is much more important than how much it costs and the volume you get for that price. So it will be an interesting read as it does go along with the low GI/GL diet mentality The other book I borrowed is about Power Yoga, thought it'd be good to read about the harder poses

I picked up some dark chocolate as they were on sale still, and wanted to horde them away. I also needed some creme fraiche for my borscht, but thank goodness I stopped to look at the labels. The creme fraiche has about 330ish calories per 100g. There was the light version, but it has starch etc in it to make it firm, so I took a pass on that. Luckly we have gräddfil here, I think it's the equivalent to American sour cream, and that has about half the amount of calories as the creme fraiche did, and it's made with cream that's soured, so is creme fraiche but gräddfil uses less fat so it's a lot less firm.

Breakfast: Oat porridge, strawberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and soy milk.

Lunch: 1 slice rye bread with peanut butter and jam.

Snack: a peeled apple

Dinner: Borscht with a slice of rye bread with butter.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Christmas Challenge!

So I've joined a Christmas Challenge to help keep myself focused on these cold and dark days.  The holidays are full of delicious but evil yummies.  Christmas is only 11 weeks away, that's less than 3 months.  It's a short time, but it's the most dangerous time of the year for weightgain.  We check in every week to see everyone's progress.  I think the challenge will be a lot of fun and really motivational

I know it's going to be tough to get to my challenge weight as it's getting closer to the holidays. I picked 13lbs so I can reach a nice even number of 150lbs. It's possible to reach it, if I lose about 1.2lbs a week for the next 11 weeks

Wish me luck everyone :)

Food Log (4 October 2011)

I was able to go on a walk today, so that's always a nice feeling. I've been trying here and there to do some harder yoga moves, and boy are they tough. I'm not strong enough to do them completely yet, looks like I'll need a lot more arm strength and a smaller bum to carry. They are some challenging poses, and the how to videos for them make it look so easy.

Food wasn't too exciting today. I finished off the last of the Korean leftovers, it was still very yummy I bought some fresh red beets yesterday as they were on sale. I'm thinking of making some borscht tomorrow. Borscht is a Russian red beets soup, it's really yummy especially on cold weather days.

Breakfast: Oat porridge with blueberries, strawberries, sunflower seeds, flax seeds, cinnamon, agave syrup and soy milk.

Snack: 1 piece of dark chocolate.

Lunch: Leftover Chicken bulgogi, korean style spinach, cucumber kimchi and rice/barley/oat mix.

Dinner: Leftover Chicken bulgogi, korean style spinach, cucumber kimchi and rice/barley/oat mix.

Snack:  2 pieces of dark chocolate.

Exercise: 27 minutes long walk, pushups, crunches, and 47 minutes of yoga.

Fourteenth Weekly Weight Update!

My weightloss this past week wasn't the greatest or the worst. I do have to admit I was hoping for a bit more. Though it is is much better than a gain and staying the same.

I'll have to try harder for next week's weigh in



Here's the 14th weekly weight update:


-.8 lbs (-.36kg)


Total amount since started: -15.8 lbs (-7.18kg)

Monday, October 3, 2011

Food Log (3 October 2011)

It was raining today so I didn't go for a walk It would have been nice if the sunny warm weather continued, but we were just really lucky to get hit with those few warm sunny days. Now it feels cold compared to those warm days.

I didn't do the best eating today. I didn't do well with my snacks as I was out this afternoon. So I managed to take a bite of my bar, which I luckly had in my purse. I did say no to cookies (biscuits) and normal tea. I just took some hot water instead, so I'm feeling pretty good about that Weigh in day is in the morning, I hope the not eating the snacks won't cause me to go stravation mode and hold onto my dinner >_<

On a positive note that has nothing to do with losing weight or eating.  I was complimented on how much my Swedish has improved.  I've been getting that a lot lately.  I don't feel that it's gotten better, I actually feel as though I forgot some recently.  But I guess my Swedish has come a long ways, and my pronounciation has become more native sounding (I guess). 

Breakfast: Oat porridge with blueberries, flaxseeds, sunflower seeds, agave syrup, cinnamon and milk.

Lunch: 1 slice rye bread with seeds topped with peanut butter and jam.

Snack: 1 bite of Allévo bar.

Dinner: Korean style chicken bulgogi, with korean spinach, cucumber kimchi and rice/oats/barley mix.

Exercise: Pushups, crunches, and 60 minutes of yoga.