A Day on Plan: My Food & Activity Journal (and some milestones!)

This is what I ate this past Tuesday, 01/26/2010. Most of this was TWIETed (I didn't tweet the banana and yogurt). A lot of the food is my usual stuff, but I ate more snacks than normal. I have photos of some but not all of my food for this day...

0630 Coffee with 1/4 cup Silk Light Vanilla soy milk (.5 pts)
Hot rollers are in, time to put on make up!

0830 Coffee with 1/4 cup soy milk (.5 pts)

0930 Grapefruit (1 pt)

1000 Bob's 10 Grain Hot Cereal (1/4 cup= 2pts) with Canned Pumpkin (1/4 cup=0 pts) and Cinnamon

1200 Pink Lady Apple (1 pt)

1230 Walk to gym - 40 minutes at the gym on the Arc Trainer - walk back to work.
Stats: 40 minutes total, 39 minutes in heart rate zone, average heart rate = 133, high heart rate = 147, total calories burned = 268. Per eTools, this earned me 5 activity points.

1400 Sandwich (3 pts)
4 slices Tofurky vegan deli slices (1 pt), Matthew Whole Wheat bread (2 slices=2 pts) with Tabasco and mustard (0 pts)

1430 Super Salad (6 pts)
Romaine, arugula, tomato, rice vinegar, lemon juice (o pts), 1/4 avocado (2 pts), 1/4 package of Tofu Lin (2 pts), 1/2 cup chick peas (1 pt), 1 tsp sesame oil (1 pt)

1800 Coffee with soy milk (.5 pts) at my Weight Watchers meeting

2100 Dinner (9 pts)
Vegan Chorizo (5 pts) in a whole wheat tortilla (2 pts) with onions, peas, peppers, collard greens and spinach, cooked in coconut oil (1 pt) with tofutti sour cream (1 pt)

2145 Aloe Juice with a splash of blueberry POM and my daily vitamins

2200 Banana (1.5 pts) and Soy Yogurt (3 pts)

Total Daily Points Allowance: 20
Points Earned from Activity: 5
Points Consumed: 28 (I used my 20 daily points, my 5 activity points and 3 of my weekly points.)


And for Weight Watchers Good Health Guidelines, here's how I did:

1. Activity: Check!
   
2. Water: Check! (At last count, I had 20 glasses of water this day!)
   
3. Healthy Oils: Check! I had only 2 oil servings (sesame and coconut). Though they are not in the "WW healthy oils" list, I still think this is ok.
4. Fruits & Veggies: Check!
5. Vitamins: Check!
6. Dairy: Check! (Soy milk, soy yogurt and supplement)
7. Whole Grains: Check! (Thanks to my Bob's hot cereal)
   
8. Protein: Check! (The soyrizo and Tofurky slices count towards my protein)

What a *great* day on plan!

Now for some truly incredible milestones-

Today my number of blog readers surpassed the 2500 mark. This is incredible for a few reasons:

1. I never in my wildest dreams imagined I'd have so many readers.
2. A year ago, I was blown away when I hit the 500 mark. I can't believe that in a year's time the number has quintupled!
3. I just hit the 2000 mark before New Year's - so in one month, that number jumped by 500, or 25% in one month! Incredible! Thank you all for reading and referring me to others!

I tell you all to not focus on the number on the scale, and I live by that concept. In fact, remember the amazing week I had last week? When I weighed in at WW that night, I was up half a pound. I did not let that bother me. I know I made great choices last week and I can see and feel that I am smaller - it was just a fluctuation on the scale and I did not let it bother me. However, that being said, I have been weighing myself at home daily and I've been in the 140's consistently for a while now. This, alone, is so exciting to me. There is a huge difference in my body in the 150's and 140's and it's in the 140's that I feel truly tiny and amazing.

In fact, many other people have noticed it too - one of my co-workers told me she almost didn't recognize me because I "looked like a toothpick" walking towards her. And another said I was "wasting away". I assure you I am not that thin, but those few pounds really do make a huge difference in my body. In fact, I'm back in my smallest skirts ever and things I wore a month ago are falling off me!

But this morning when I weighed in, I saw a number that I have not seen since September 2007: 145.2! One forty five (point two)! Holy crap! That's amazing!!! See the tinyness for yourself!

Here I am this morning before going to the gym:

And here is a snapshot of a spreadsheet I use to keep track of my weight on the Weight Watchers scale that I use. It measures more than just weight, as you will see below. I used to weigh in every Saturday morning but stopped for a while. I resumed this at the end of last year and intend to record my stats weekly this year. The green highlighted cells represent the lowest numbers ever for that category:

I'm so excited today, I can't even tell you!

Now to find something that fits my tiny frame and go to the store for my organic produce. I have a WW recipe to make and blog tomorrow. Have a great weekend, everyone! :)