Planning for Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Wake up :)

Eat 2 cups of watermelon, 100 calories

Do Insanity

Eat scallion bread, 350 calories

For lunch, have a sushi roll, about 400 calories?

Have a piece of fruit in between

Don't know about dinner.

Go to the gym :) But I'll only be doing light walking, etc.

Monday, August 9, 2010 Dinner

Today ended quickly, which was a little boring :(

For dinner, I had cereal and a protein shake, totaling to about 260 calories.

Today's calorie intake:

Breakfast-645 calories

Lunch/snack-300 calories

Dinner/dessert-260 calories

Total: 1,205 calories...not bad, considering more than half of it was breakfast :) I went under my limit, unlike last time. Now if only I can hold it until I go to sleep...

Exercise:

Today I only did the Insanity Fit Test, but I'm going to try and see if I can get some abs in ;)

Boysenberry Yogurt and Protein Shake

For snack today, I had a plum and a Dannon Fruit on the Bottom Boysenberry Yogurt with some graham cereal..I think that's what it's called? This totals up to about 300 calories :0

It was delicious, but the yogurt itself was 150 calories. The plum is 30 and a 3/4 cup of crackers is 110! So I estimated around 300 :D

Insanity with Shaun T :D

So I started doing Insanity today by Beach Body and just finished the fit test 5 minutes ago, and it's crazy how much my body is trembling! I thought I would be able to handle it, but this is tough! I'm going to do it for 30 days (until school starts) and if I see results & have enough time, I'll stick with the 30 days. Here are my results from the fit test:

Switch Kicks: 106

Power Jacks: 48

Power Knees: 75

Power Jumps: 30

Globe Jumps: 7.5

Suicide Jumps: 15

Push-up Jacks: 18

Low Plank Obliques: 28

I pretty much gave up on the low planks but I was pretty consistent throughout :)

I'm actually looking forward to tomorrow! It's INSANE (teehee) how fast my heart is still beating!

And I heard from my mom today that my dad got me a blue camera from becoming a swim instructor! Turns out he actually wanted this opportunity more than me haha :)

I feel so fortunate right now...I might just be high from adrenaline but right now I'm pretty content :) I don't feel so bad about the Dunkin Donuts I had anymore :D

A very filling breakfast!

Today I woke up at 8:30 because my mom wanted us to go to some Korean Cram schools to look for the September/20-week semester. We found a few suitable classes. I'm going to take HR (Honors Review, which is the name of the learning center) Math, which is a 3-on-1 tutoring which 2 other students based on your needs. For a 20 week session it's $1000, but they also give you early bird registration 10% discount and sibling discount which is 15% as my brother is taking the math thing as well. For English, my brother found a tutor for $30 but I have yet to decide on my English class. 10th grade Success English is, I think $800 but it starts at 4 o' clock which is a little earlier than when my dad gets off from work, so I wouldn't be able to do that...but I don't think I'm ready for SAT English. My friend told me it was hard because she took it this Summer. I'm going to ask her more about it before we decide on Monday. I want to take SAT, but I think 10th grade's a little early. SAT classes are in the middle of junior year so it would be pointless to take English and have all the words memorized and forget them by the time I take it in 11th grade! Right now, my dream is to get into a 6-year pharmacy program after I graduate high school but it's still a little early to decide. After all, math and science are kind of the things that I'm a little behind in...

We had to fix our car so we ended up getting a little something at Dunkin Donuts ;)

For Breakfast?

1 plum, 30 calories

1/2 a steamed scallion bun, about 175 calories

1 glazed donut...I had to! About 220 calories

I shared an Iced Mocha Latte (medium) with my mom but drank most of it, about 220 calories (I subtracted 1/3 of the calories)

I'm stuffed right now, and as a result I can't go exercising :( Maybe a little walking? And it's only 10:30 in the morning and I've eaten away half my calories :(

645 calories down....LOTS more to go!!!

Plan for Monday, August 8th

I'm planning out my day so that I can take control of my diet. Tonight I did a lot of binge eating :(

Breakfast:

2 plums, 1 cup of watermelon, 110 calories

Steamed scallion bun, about 300 calories?

Lunch:

Sushi made with brown rice, dried pork and nori, about 450 calories?

Dinner:

Protein shake made with 2 scoops of powder, ice, water and a frozen strawberry, 150 calories

Watermelon, 2 cups, 100 calories

Total:

1110 calories

Exercise:

When I wake up I want to do 15 minutes of abs.

Then eat my fruits.

Walk/run around 7 times for a total of 5 miles.

Then stretch and eat my main breakfast.

Hopefully I'll be able to fit in some other exercises :) maybe some jump roping or hula hooping?

Too bad my best friend's in Canada...we could have been walking/running together :D

I fell asleep...

Even though I woke up early this morning, I went back to sleep anyway at around 10 or 11... T_T so much for waking up early! Anyway, when I woke up at around 1, I was starving!!! So here's what I had:

Lunch:

1 boiled egg, 100 calories (there was some soy sauce)

A bowl of brown rice, 150 calories

Some cauliflower (leftover), 100 calories

2 yummy mini egg rolls! :), 60 calories

Dinner:

Japanese sweet potato (it's yellow and oh so yummy!), 150 calories

Some Asian...dish...about 100 calories?

Golden grahams cereal...it was calling to me...110 calories T_T

Some of my mom's hot and sour soup, 25 calories?

Woke up early today!

Today, I woke up at 7 and laid in bed for another 20 minutes. Then I got up and decided to go for a run. I was originally planning on running about 5 miles..then I saw this old man with a dog (my neighbor) and this old Chinese lady doing power walking...so I decided to just walk. Eventually, I was only able to walk 0.7 miles because I got bored of it T_T but I cycled on the stationary bike for around 15 minutes for 3.4 miles. I also did about 30 burpees...but that's really nothing. All in all, it was still a good morning for me. :) Waking up early was a first, and I actually enjoyed it. My little bits of exercise was refreshing to me, and if I could I would wake up early again, maybe on a day to day basis. It was a little humid, but nothing too bad.

Breakfast:

Protein shake made with 1 frozen strawberry, 1 cup of 2% milk, and YOR MRP vanilla flavored meal replacement protein powder. It actually tastes good! :0, about 270 calories

Before exercising, I had 1 cup of blueberries and 1 yogurt, 250 calories

I also had green tea this morning, 0 calories :D

Saturday, August 7, 2010

This afternoon I had my swim test/interview...and they were so desperate for people that I didn't even have to swim for them. They just hired me. I still had to get tested to prove my abilities, and even so, I saw that I had mostly C's and some B's...how can this be?! I guess 5 years of competitive swimming only gives you speed, and what they were looking for was technique. The guy said I'm only good enough to teach lower level children...and the parents are always watching, so I'm a little nervous.

I also have to go through this dumb 40 hour training where I'm not paid (that's $400 T_T)...it's like coaching but without pay...like a test, or, in other words...training. After that, they test me and on a scale of 1-10, if I get above a 6, then I pass and can start teaching for pay. If not, then I'll have to go through 10 more hours of training and try again, this time with only $7.50 pay. If I'm still not good enough, I try a 3rd time for another 10 hours and if I'm still not good, then they fire me :( I'm so nervous!!!

Breakfast: Had a light breakfast...I think.

2 homemade green bean steamed buns, about 250 calories

Lunch:

1 sweet potato, about 100 calories

4 crackers, 120 calories

Snack:

2 more crackers, 60 calories

Dinner:

California Pizza Kitchen...about 1,000 calories...

Total: about 1,530 calories T_T

Exercise:

Biking to and from Van Saun Park, about 5 miles.

Swimming interview/test, not much swimming done though.

Biking at home with mom, about 2 miles.

I'm not going to put calories that I burn from now on, as that is not in the least bit accurate. For all I know, I could be off by hundreds of calories! So now my only goal is to get under 1300 calories per day, before 6 o' clock. This is still a lot of food :)

Tomorrow's goal is waking up early to go for a run. I want to be able to do as many miles as I can, but I'll be going slow so I won't get too tired too easily.

My goal for tomorrow is 5 miles and up. I would like to do 11 miles, but that's crazy as the most I can run with some walking in between is 3 miles...but that's going fast. I'm going to go slow on this one. No more eating out for me! I've been doing that way too much this Summer. I hope that was the last time for at least a month! It seems that I've been going out for dinner every couple of days, which is really not good for my diet, plus with the crazy amount of sodium and MSG in all the food that I consume as well as grease and fat.

I'm calling it a day. Good night!

BTW, I'm going to try and take a picture of all the food that I eat throughout the day. It'll be hard as I tend to forget these things while enjoying my food ;)

Friday, August 6, 2010

Breakfast:

1 pear, 80 calories

1 cup of blueberries, 80 calories

Lunch:

1 cup of rice, 250 calories

Dried pork, 400 calories

Snack:

2 crackers, 60 calories

Dinner:

2 yummy homemade green bean steamed buns, 250 calories

1 cracker, 30 calories

Got home from the gym and ate some steamed buns and vegetables, about 100 calories

Total: 1,250 calories

Exercise:

Running 30 minutes on a treadmill.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Breakfast:

Some rice porridge and side dishes, 300 calories

Snacks:

1 Apple, 80 calories

1 Pear, 80 calories

Lunch:

1/2 cup of brown rice, 200 calories

1/4 cup of egg whites and vegetables, 75 calories

Dinner:

1 cup of blueberries, 80 calories

1 roast pork bun, 70 calories

Lots of peanuts, about 300 calories T_T cure those stupid caramelized peanuts!!!!!!!!!

Total: 1,235 calories....I'm going to do a LOT of exercise...

Exercise:

1 hour elliptical, 300 calories

Net Calories: 935

August 4, 2010

Breakfast:

1/2 cup of egg beaters and some olive oil, seasoning and a teeny bit of cheese, about 100 calories

1 yogurt, 150 calories

Snack:

Sour patch kids, 150 calories

Crackers, 125 calories

Lunch/Dinner:

1/2 cup of brown rice, 100 calories

1 tiny sweet potato, 100 calories

Some sushi vinegar, about 80 calories

Vegetables, 200 calories

Dumplings, 300 calories

Some salad

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

This is to plan out my day :)

Breakfast: 10 o' clock or earlier

1/2 cup of oatmeal with either banana or milk, either 250 or 270 calories (depending on what I use). Feel free to use cinnamon and other spices :)

Snack: 12 o' clock (if hungry)

1/2 a protein shake

Lunch: 1 to 2 o' clock, preferably 2...

A small sweet potato, 150 calories

1/2 cup of brown rice, 110 calories

Some side dishes/fish/egg/meat

Snack: 4 o' clock (if hungry)

Other half of protein shake

Dinner: Before 6

1/2 cup of brown rice, 110 calories

Vegetables/other side dishes

Afterwards, GYM

Exercise:

Either 45 minutes treadmill/stretching/weights OR 60 minutes elliptical/stretching/weights if there's free time

Protein shake recipe:

Blueberries

Water

Protein Powder

Banana

Yogurt

Results:

At my breakfast with banana :), 250 calories

for snack, I had to have these Chinese cookies :( It was only 60 calories all together, though.

For lunch, we went out to eat, so I had a slice of pizza :( it says 260 calories online..

For snack, I had some crackers..about 60 calories?

Some sour patch, maybe 10? About 100 calories

A pastry thing made out of white carrots, about 100 calories

Total: 830 calories (not much, but I fell asleep at around 5:30 and slept until 7, meaning I stopped eating at 5:30 T_T

Exercise:

Treadmill running for 45 minutes, about 3.4 miles, 305 calories

Some stretching/lifting weights/walking on the treadmill for 7 minutes.

Net Calories:

About 525-whoa! An all-time low :)

Monday, August 2, 2010

I ate so much stuff, it's not even funny...I couldn't even count!!!!

Breakfast:

1/2 of an English muffin sandwich (bacon and egg on it=very fattening), about 200 calories?

Dim Sum, oh my lord...

Lunch:

We went to the beach, so some chips, some sweet stuff, some Pocky, some sweet potatoes

Dinner:

We went to a Taiwanese restaurant and it tasted HORRIBLE!!! Advice to people out there-if you're not a fan of sour stuff or things that are too salty, don't go there. Even my naturally skinny 5'4'' 103 pounded mom's belly stuck out from the high sodium, which-unbelievably-caused her to bloat.

My mom's boss gave me advice on losing weight-"skip dinner". Meaning no eating after 6 o' clock. Any later and you won't lose weight/it won't be as effective, so I'm going to plan out my day's meals and exercise and, most importantly, STICK WITH IT!!! It's easy because I can eat almost anything I want before that, so not a lot of rules or restrictions. Just one big, fat, important rule.

The sodium most likely had me gaining 5 pounds...ugh, damn the stupid Taiwanese cuisine!

So I'm going to plan out tomorrow's meal in the next post and be able to blog about how I did!

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Breakfast:

Egg and bacon on an English muffin, 300 calories

Snack/Lunch:

1 roast pork bun, 70 calories

Vanilla yogurt, 90 calories

Raspberry Yogurt, 150 calories

Cherry Yogurt, 100 calories (now I'm full after all this... :])

Snack/Dinner:

Lots of sour patch kids, 420 calories

Half a strawberry yogurt, 45 calories

Some rice and salmon, 100 calories

Total: 1,275

Exercise:

Biking about 8 miles, about 275 calories

Net Calories: 1,000