*facepalm*

Dear people, while at the gym please don’t move someone else’s stuff from the hook outside their shower. It is not very good etiquette.

Dear people, while at the gym please don’t take over someone’s mirror space. If their stuff was there – maybe they had to step away to pee. It is not very good etiquette.

Dear people, while at the gym please don’t sit on someone else clothes that are laid out on the bench. They might wrinkle! It is not very good etiquette.

Yes, this all happened to me this AM at the gym. I am not kidding.

# 1 I actually caught the person and moved my stuff back. After I inquired if she moved my things – she said she was about to place her stuff on the hook because it was “empty”. It was “empty” because you just moved my stuff. *facepalm*

I placed all my stuff at a spot by the mirror, yes in order to save it for me (I won’t lie), Went to the restroom and then checked the scale. When I came back to my spot someone had spread out their things OVER mine and was getting ready. *facepalm*

#3 I was laying out my things to put them one when a women SAT DOWN on my clothes right in front of me! *FACEPALM*

In the words of Job from Arrested Development “COME-ON”.

Sorry for not keeping up on my Food items. I will try to get it all recorded soon and put up. But in the meantime I had a Doctor’s Appt. on Friday AM and got the results of my blood test that were taking in January. Here they are:

Ferritin – 27 ng/ML (Lab range is 10-291)

Even though this is quite low it is better than it’s ever been. So I am going to continue to try to get it to rise. I have added more beef into my diet and am thinking of getting an Iron Skillet to cook it on just to add more Iron to my diet.

Copper – 134 f ug/dL (lab range is 80-155)

I am ok on copper.

Zinc 80f ug/dL (lab range is 60-120)

I am on the low end of Zinc – but Doc gave me the ok. Still going to take the supplement to keep it rising.

Vitamin D 50f ng/mL (lab range is 30-80)

I am on the higher end of vitamin D. We are going to lower the dosage just a bit. But otherwise I am good with D.Last time my D was really low so I have improved at taking this supplement. Now I just need to up the rest. :-)

Pyrroles were in range at 7. Good there!

Now for the shocker!

TSH was 14.94 (Lab range .20-4.50)

This was a total surprise. I can’t remember what I was feeling in Jan. to have my TSH so high! I remember not taking my meds for a few days. That may be the problem – the nurse even made a comment that obviously I needed to support my thyroid! So true. In talking with my Dr. and true form to myself I often neglected to take my 2 dose of my meds throughout the day. Once I would remember it would be close to dinner and after dinner was way to late. I didn’t want to stay up all night. So we are now trying a time-release capsule instead of a twice a day pill. I hope this does the trick and keeps me on track. He also prescribed a liquid Magnesium for me in order so that I can workout. I had been feeling so pain during workouts that would make me want to quit. He felt that this would help. So – I have to take that twice a day. I have also be placed on an elimination diet. He feels I have a food allergy- and this is a good way to test it. So, this weekend was off -script for me in terms of food. I enjoyed myself a little bit in order to prepare for a long two weeks of eliminating foods from my diet. If anyone has any recipes for the elimination diet – throw em at me. I want to try them.

My Time-Release capsules came this weekend and Monday will be the first day of those. I will let you know what my experience is with them.

Thanks for being patient with me and posting this. I apologize it wasn’t sooner.

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.

So here we are day 3 of the food logging and I was doing good until there was cake. It was a friends b-day today and last night I made a chocolate cake to help him celebrate. I figured it would be a good after lunch treat. Oh BOY was it good. :-) I tried to be good the rest of the day and not eat any snacks. But I didn’t feel the need to snack in the afternoon – I wonder if the oil and fat in the cake had anything to do with that? But oh well here are my stats for today:

AM Workout: NONE

Breakfast: Hashbrowns & bacon Calories 287 – I am a sucker for Hashbrowns. YUM!

Lunch: Turkey wrap with lettuce, tomato, cheese, olives and soda Oh – and CAKE! Calories 731

PM workout: C25K wk 2, day 2 & weight  lifting, Elliptical 20 minutes Calories Burnt: 536

Dinner – chicken breast 4 oz, French Fries 14 count, soda  360

Food Calories: 1,378

Exercise Calories: 536

Net Calories: 842

I am under my calories for this day by: 281

I am under my calories for the week by 905.

I might have enough to enjoy the weekend with. What do you think? I am still going to continue my routine and finish out the week. I would hate to get relaxed and end up using all my calories in one day.

Tomorrow I might post something remotely fun. Instead of concentrating on food.

Have a good night everyone.  CAKE!

Oh and did I mention there was CAKE!?????

LOL

Ok day two of the Food challenge.Here’s the info:

AM workout: Elliptical- Calories Burnt 206

Breakfast:

3 hard boiled egg whites and a soda – Calories 200

Lunch; 1/2 ham sandwich on ciabatta with lettuce, tomatoes & Cheese with a side of fruit – Calories 303

Snack; tortilla chips and a soda-  Calories 206

PM Workout: None (I have an abundance of calories right now)

Dinner: I was really hungry for a huge meal Popcorn & soda – Calories 350.

Food calories: 1,071

Exercise Calories: 206

Net Calories: 865

I am under by 257. Which brings my weekly calorie surplus to 724.

As you can see I do have a huge problem with soda. I really need to be careful going forward. Tomorrow I am going to be good with it and not have any. I also crashed big time after eating 1/2 of my sandwich. Too many carbs in Ciabatta bread maybe? Monitoring my food this way is helping a ton. Thanks for going on this food journey with me. :-)

Ok I wanted to post this last night but I was so tired I had to go to bed after posting the Podcast. So here is my food for yesterday the 1st of March. I start with a base of 1,122 calories for the day. This based off how much weight I want to lose by a particular time. This is supposed to give me a good weight loss of 2lbs per week. Hopefully!

AM Workout: Eliptical Calories burnt: 308

Breakfast: Bagel sandwith (wheat bagel, egg, bacon, cheese) Calories 379

Lunch: Chicken breast 4 oz, White rice, Broccoli- cooked, soda Calories 392

PM workout: C25K wk 2, day 1 & weight  lifting Calories Burnt: 227

Dinner – Soup Chicken Noodle, Saltine Crackers, soda Calories 355

Food Calories: 1,291

Exercise Calories: 536

Net Calories: 755

I am under my calories for this day by: 367

I could of eaten so much more last night! But I usually try to save extra calories for the weekend. It gives me a break from having to monitor it all the time.

I am sure this format might change. But for the first post it could probably work.