I am a Brit living in Louisiana, I met my now husband in July 1998 playing text adventures online. In Sept 2002 I moved to the States to get married. I am a gamer, a geek, a pet (furry and scaley) lover, a book lover (fantasy and sci-fi) and just lately a health nut.Week 2 almost..
Posted by Morkai on March 1, 2009
Okay so weigh in is offically tommorow but I am still doing the happy dance and next week is gonna be extreme chaos as we have vendors coming into to install a whole bunch of equipment which is going to probably mean I will miss all my workouts and rack up some extreme overtime. I am not looking forward to it in the least but we will have to see what I can squeeze in. I will stick to my eating regardless.
Feb 11th to March 1st
So this is from Feb 11th when I started WW to today March 1st. I weighed in at 181.4 this morning, down from 186. The bumps are weekends (valentines day and then a mexican birthday party on saturday nights. The highest bump is the Sunday morning after.) and also illustrate why I believe in weighing every day. If I had just looked at Mondays which is the two second from highest bumps I would not be quite so happy although personally I would understand given the Saturday night food orgy. As you can see I have ‘behaved’ a lot better this weekend.
I have eaten foods that originally would have been banned from my diet, I’ve had rice and baked potatoes with butter! white rolls and chocolate too. I’ve had carbs out of workout periods and eaten out three times this week. Is it super athlete healthy? no, will I get to 10% body fat eating like this? highly unlikely. I don’t care, I’m past that now, I am eating to lose weight not to be super healthy food snob that eschews anything in a packet. Packets are making my life easier. Steel cut oats made with water are bleugh, for the same points I can have a packet of Kashi oatmeal and a packet of quaker raisin, date and walnut mixed and I am happy. Is it perfect? nope. Is it as super nutritious as the steel cut? Prolly not, but I am losing weight so I don’t care anymore.
*pokes tongue out* Neener Neener Neener *lol*.
I sound like such a kid sometimes, I have come to realise though that I can eat super healthy PN style or I can diet, not do both. This is not to say I am living on lean cuisines, I still grill fresh chicken and fish, I still have my huge bowl of organic salad greens with assorted seeds and roasted bell peppers every night. It’s just my lunches are convenience first, sometimes it’s a healthy choice steamer, sometimes an organic smoothie and a ‘craver’ etc.
Speaking of which these are cool. ProGrade Cravers, small (180 cal) organic nutritious snack bars made with 100% organic dark chocolate. I get them through David Whitley (A kettle bell guru) at http://davidwhitley.getprograde.com/cravers. You can’t buy direct. Nobody else I gave one to at work too liked them but I think they are fantastic, I got the Peanut Butter ones, I am not exactly sure what ’spirulina’ flavour would taste like and I don’t like almonds so i figured the PB would be a good bet. They are expensive (I think it was about $2.50 maybe $3 per bar after shipping) but I am not eating them every day, 1 or 2 a week maybe.
So yeah, life is good so far. I am very happy with this, I will come back to athlete nutrition when I get to athlete levels.
Oh new toys recently I got a Tassimo Beverage System yesterday, I love it 
It’s mainly coffee as it makes espresso’s, cappuccino’s and lattes but you can get hot chocolate and tea discs as well. It reads a barcode on the disc and adjusts water amounts and brewing speed based on the type. I need to experiment with the coffee packets, the gevalia signature blend I bought for plain coffee is extremely weak so I know not to go for mild anymore. They have a pretty wide range though. Only downside is not being able to make my own discs but I can live with that.
Trevor said
Rock on kid … ya doin’ great … glad it’s workin’ for ya!
Morkai said
Thanks Dad, *big hugs*
blubberbegone said
LOL! Welcome back to the real world and congrats on your five pound weight loss. I too think PN is super scientific and healthy and fantastic for athletes or people trying to achieve the cuts, but for the average joe shmoe… Hey, we should set up a support group – Survivors of PN, like an AA style thing. Hi, My name is Angie, and I used to follow PN. I’ve been eating normally now for 3 weeks and 2 days. What do you think?
Also, if you’re into your kitchen gadgets, have you seen the Actifry? It can ‘fry’ 1 kilo of chips in 1 tbsp oil. And the sweet potato wedges are to die for. Fantastic for roasting veg. We wavered as it was expensive, but then they trialled it on a TV show over here called The Gadget Show, and got all these chefs to try the chips, and they really rated it. Never having had, or ever likely to have, a deep fat fryer, I haven’t had chips at home since I was in short pants as it were. Now we can have fish and chips (pan fried plaice in a little flour and a dash of olive oil) without feeling guilty. It’s my all time favourite gadget. After non-stick frying pans.
Morkai said
Smile Thanks
lol, I like that idea, I go back to the PN forums sometimes and I think my brain will explode from the depth of thought people go into worrying about exactly what type of carb, or sugar or preservative is in something. Life is too short, I wanna get on with it not spend 3 hours of my precious weekend cooking food.
I decided that truly the best diet is the one you feel most comfortable with. I can’t do 6 meals of fresh prepped meat and veg every day, I was going bonkers. Fasting was cool as was the Warrior diet but I feel in the end it was a backlash from the 6 meals a day thing. I am back to 3 meals and very comfy with that
Morkai said
Oh, the Actifry sounds pretty cool, never figured the fascination with sweet potato I must admit but I do like some home made chips. I’ve been contemplating a deep fat fryer on and off, I’ll check that one out. Thanks
blubberbegone said
By the way, the skinnyr graph wouldn’t display on my wordpress blog. Any idea why?
Morkai said
That graph was a screen shot I did and uploaded as a jpeg, you can’t do some of the cool stuff with the hosted wordpress blogs.
blubberbegone said
Aha!
And as for sweet potatoes, try the Actifry wedges, and you may change your mind. They are better than sex! Don’t tell hubby I said that though.
Cynthia said
Hey congrats! And it sound like you are eating in a way that keeps you sane!
Though I laugh over the oatmeal… I can’t stand any instant oatmeal stuff, never liked it, even as a kid, don’t really care for rolled oats either, but steel cut cooked in my rice cooker with water is heaven topped with walnut, blueberry and a teaspoon of maple syrup. Everyone has their likes and dislikes, that’s for sure.
I may go check out that Actifry gadget as well! I don’t care about chips… but can it fry FISH or SHRIMP? Or veggies? I am a sucker for fried fish/shrimp.
Morkai said
Thank ye, I’m actually down to 180 today although I got this crud that is going round so feel like death warmed up. bleugh
lol, I thought of you when I wrote that about the oatmeal – it was some of your posts that inspired me to pick up a can in the first place. I’ll probably keep it and use it to make my reeses oatmeal out of on occasions but I haven’t dared check out the point quantity on that. I suspect it was one of my problems
Cynthia said
Woo HOO!
Sorry about the crud though. I think there is hope for me, after a few days of feeling like death warmed over, I’m starting to feel a touch better. And, I’ve learned I can keep the calories in check when sick if I want to. Likewise for liquids flowing down the hatch. OK… yeah, I did have to have honey to accomplish that for the last two days, but it was a measured 6g each time. And today I had my tea without and it went down OK.
I did the PN Reese’s oatmeal thing with rolled oats, but was never that fond of it. It was sort of a desperation after workout carb meal.
Now, with the rice cooker on timer, I do not have to be desperate enough to nuke rolled oats. Hubby thought he was buying me a rice cooker to cook rice, secretly, I wanted it for oatmeal! Specifically oatmeal that would be ready when I got home from a workout.
blubberbegone said
Shrimp definitely. Fish would be harder unless you went for goujons, because it is a circular gadget, with a central bit, so all the stuff goes in the outer ring – a fillet of fish wouldn’t fit. And it works by turning everything over so the fish would get broken up. What it does do very well, is “fry” oven-ready chips/wedges/etc. So things you get in the freezer and are supposed to bake in the oven crisp up like you wouldn’t believe for practically no extra fat. But NOTHING beats what it does for roast vegetables. You wouldn’t believe food could taste so good.
Cynthia said
Mmmmm, shrimp! I like the thought of easy roast veggies. But do I need another kitchen gadget is the question? I’ll have to look into it and figure out where I might put it, LOL!