Weight: 135 pounds
Bust: 37"
Waist: 28.5"
Hips: 39.5"
Thigh: 22.25"
Bicep: 10.25"
This is the first time that I've measured my body parts as part of a diet. But I know that a lot of weight-loss experts recommend measuring because it's another way of showing progress. Plus, if you're exercising--and gaining muscle mass/losing fat--at the same time as you're dieting, you may not see as much movement on the scale, but will see improvement on your body measurements.
Even if you don't measure yourself with a tape measure, every who's ever gained or lost weight knows the experience of having a pair of pants that's too tight, or too loose in the waist. Just the other day, I went out to dinner with a friend who commented that my shirt was gaping a little between two buttons. This is a shirt I've had for a couple years--and love--but never experienced a gape before. Looking in the mirror, I realized that it was too tight across the bust, because I've gained some weight.
Monday, September 3, 2007
September 3, 2007 Diet Diary
Weight: 135 pounds
Breakfast: Oatmeal with cottage cheese (cook 1/3 cups of oatmeal with 2/3 cups of water, when finished add 1/3 cup 2% cottage cheese, 1/2 teaspoon fructose, 2 teaspoons almonds, 1 tablespoon milk)
Morning Snack: Half of a ZonePerfect Bar and a couple Fiber One Clusters
Lunch: Leftover Basil Shrimp with Feta and Orzo
Afternoon Snack: None
Dinner: Restaurant meal! Asparagus salad with a poached egg, lettuce, pecorino cheese and avocado dressing; seitan with mushrooms and a marsala wine sauce, steamed broccoli and steamed kale. (I hadn't expected to go out to dinner, let alone to a vegetarian place, so I took a stab and guessed that seitan would be high in protein. When I got home, I discovered that I was right! Hopefully the marsala sauce plus the asparagus salad provided sufficient amounts of fat.)
Evening Snack: Almond mocha ice blended latte (decaf)
Exercise: I'm still sick, but managed to get out of the house today and walk around town. It wasn't a lot of walking (less than 2 miles), but better than what I've done the past few days.
Breakfast: Oatmeal with cottage cheese (cook 1/3 cups of oatmeal with 2/3 cups of water, when finished add 1/3 cup 2% cottage cheese, 1/2 teaspoon fructose, 2 teaspoons almonds, 1 tablespoon milk)
Morning Snack: Half of a ZonePerfect Bar and a couple Fiber One Clusters
Lunch: Leftover Basil Shrimp with Feta and Orzo
Afternoon Snack: None
Dinner: Restaurant meal! Asparagus salad with a poached egg, lettuce, pecorino cheese and avocado dressing; seitan with mushrooms and a marsala wine sauce, steamed broccoli and steamed kale. (I hadn't expected to go out to dinner, let alone to a vegetarian place, so I took a stab and guessed that seitan would be high in protein. When I got home, I discovered that I was right! Hopefully the marsala sauce plus the asparagus salad provided sufficient amounts of fat.)
Evening Snack: Almond mocha ice blended latte (decaf)
Exercise: I'm still sick, but managed to get out of the house today and walk around town. It wasn't a lot of walking (less than 2 miles), but better than what I've done the past few days.
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