Low Carb Profile By Sanford Plan

I have a plan to lower my carbs Monday thru Friday and to not track and pack in the carbs Sat and Sunday as part of an experiment to see if it helps me drop more weight.

I went through to see what Profile products have the least amount of total carbs, and here is my list:

25g Protein - creamy chicken soup : 7g total carbs,
15g Protein - refreshing strawberry kiwi drink & refreshing cranberry grape drink : 4g total carbs
                      cappuccino : 5g total carbs
10g Protein Bars - creamy Peanut Butter bars 18g total carbs

Just in Profile Products, total carbs would be 33 total carbs and add in 4 total carbs if you have the lemon iced tea fiber drink. Once you have 4 cups of veggies and your meal you can easily be over 60 carbs, and the article I found said to keep to 50 carbs. Unfortunately it didn't say net or total. 😒

At my appointment time, they did not have the creamy chicken soup so I went with the chicken and broccoli, which is 16g total carbs. I also got the refreshing cranberry grape drink, cappuccino, and lemon bars (19 total carbs). I plan on skipping the fiber drinks during the week. So total with Profile products will be 60 still. I figured 1 carb with the lemon bars won't make a difference if I do the PB bars, but maybe for the next week I will do PB. I thought about making my 25g be a 15g since those have fewer carbs, but I'm trying to stick to plan.

I didn't discuss with my coach because I wasn't sure what they would make of it, but I figure I am still sticking to the Profile plan. I see a lot on Facebook say they don't drink the fiber drink since it makes their stomach hurt.

I used Myfitnesspal to figure out carb amounts.

I plan to keep to 4 cups of veggies a day:

1 cup zucchini 4 carbs

1 cup raw cucumber 4 carbs

1 cup spinach 2 carbs

1 cup celery 3 carbs

1 cup Walmart Romaine salad blend 1 carb

Here are my dinner plans:

tomato tuna melt (2 carb meal)

dill chicken salad (2 carb meal)

 grilled turkey bacon with mushrooms, adding some Mrs Dash (depends on mush and Mrs Dash used)

chicken zoodles with salt and pepper (4 carb meal, 1 cup zucchini)

I hope to be within 10 pounds of my goal weight or 134 lbs by my appointment before Easter which I'm going to try to schedule Thursday April 13th. This gives me, as of last weigh in, 22 days to lose 8.6 lbs. This is about 3 pounds a week. Kinda a stretch but a good attempt at weight loss will make me feel better going into Easter. 🐰

Goals

I didn't keep track of my goals for last week so I have no updates. I kept pretty well to eating no wheat and dairy until the weekend. I'm going to continue it this week and here are my goals:

1. No pop.
2. 9,000 steps a day.
3. Bed by 10pm.
4. Dishes done every night.
5. Get school lunches done night before.
6. Menu Plan. I posted this on Saturday and did a lot of shopping this weekend. It took 4 grocery stores, and a big chunk of change. I am going to work on freezing leftovers to make it last longer. There were a few dairy products but not much.
7. Work with my son nightly on cub scouts and my daughter to practice her violin. Saturday she would like to play for Salvation Army bell ringing and I would like her to be confident.

Link up your goals at The Diary of a Fat Mommy or Fitnasty for Life.

It's Been 7 Days...

I have not had pop since last Sunday night. What I really need to do is find a way to have more energy. I don't know if it's the season or my lifestyle that is draining me. A few months ago I had blood test and everything checked out fine, but maybe it's my amlodipine. Moving on... last weeks goals update:

1. No pop. 100%. I still miss pop, but I have been able to resist. I keep telling myself "You only think you want it and will regret after the first sip."

2. 8,000 steps a day. 88%, I tried really hard on Thursday to get my steps in and I could have if I went to bed later. I was marching in place while making dinner and trying to move as much as I could. My knees are really telling me I have been moving a lot, but I'm keeping up. I only missed it by 800 steps and made it up the next night.

3. Bed by 10pm. This I'm going to say 88%. I was in bed, but sometimes I was checking facebook a few times on my phone. Just one night I was up until 10:30 I think. I don't know it was an exhausting week.

4. Dishes done every night. I did great on this one, so 100% and still going strong. It does feel good to have the dishes done, plus no smelly sink when I come home.

5. Get school lunches done night before. I didn't do too good on this one. I try to get my kids to make their own lunch but sometimes they (especially my son) just ignore me.

For this week:


1. No pop.

Work and Workout Clothes ready for the week.

2. 9,000 steps a day. I think I'm really starting to stretch this because I am currently typing my walking on my treadmill to fit in my steps. I also plan to walk 20 min every morning. It will fit in about 2500 steps.

3. Bed by 10pm. I have been tired because of walking and the getting darker soon combined with kids activities. I really like my sleep and day dream about it at work.

4. Dishes done every night. It really wouldn't kill anyone else around the house to help with this one.

5. Get school lunches done night before. I should set a reminder on my phone to get this done. I need more lunch ideas, something I can eat easily at my desk and have time for a walk. I only have a half hour.

New Goal 6. Menu Plan. I have gone away from this since my husband and I decided on a set schedule. I think everyone is boded with that plus I want to see if I can trim food spending.

 Link up your goals at The Diary of a Fat Mommy. (not posted as of this post, but she just ran a half yesterday!) or Fitnasty for Life.

I Will Succeed.

Diary of a Fat Mommy

First I will start with a recap of last weeks goals:

1. No pop: I had a 95% success rate with no pop last week. Sunday we went to a hockey game and we got a deal: 4 seats, 4 hotdogs, 4 pops, and 4 coupons to subway. They only had 4 options of pop so I go diet coke. I drank half of the small cup and felt sick after. If only I can remember how I feel when I'm craving pop, like today when I was falling asleep typing at work! I went to McDonalds friday night and I did get a water there....for an extra 40 cents! It was Dasani bottled water.

2. 7,000 steps a day: If you go by average daily steps I did great: 8,794 steps a day. If we go by actually daily, there were two days Wednesday and Friday I was short. Wednesday I only did 3,815 because I didn't feel good and didn't want to exercise. Friday I worked and then drove that night so there wasn't much time to exercise. Both times I made up for it by doing over 10,000 steps the next day.

3. Bed by 10pm: 57% success rate. Thursday I didn't go to be till 10:30, can't even remember why, Friday I stayed up talking to my sister and getting my kids settled in after the long car ride, so bed by 11:30. Saturday I was in bed by 10:30. Not too bad considering there are some nights I would stay up on the weekend until 1 or 2 am doing nothing productive!

4. Dishes done every night: I'm going to say 100% on this one. Wednesday I didn't do two pans that my husband cooked pork chops on, but that was on purpose. If he is going to roll his eyes at me when I said he should have used tin foil to make it easier to clean, then he can clean up after himself.

This weeks goals:
1. No pop. I'm going to be in town this week, with no company so I will be carring my water bottle with me everywhere.

2. 8,000 steps a day. I would really like to have this be each day and not just an average.

3. Bed by 10pm. Sleep is important to weight loss.

4. Dishes done every night. Boy am I tired of doing dishes.

New Goal: 5. Get school lunches done night before.

Link up your goals at The Diary of a Fat Mommy.

Working on Goals

Husband's M&M bar cake. I never said I was a baker, (that hole was to test if it was done).

Last week I posted 3 goals to link up to The Diary of a Fat Mommy's Weekly Linkup. Here is how I did:


1.No more pop. I made 87% of this goal. Saturday I went out to eat on Saturday and ordered a meal. They gave me a cup and the only options I saw was water (I thought it would be a waste of money) or pop, so I got pop. After I filled my cup I saw the iced tea which would have been a better choice. I'm sure the best choice would be to not go out to eat, but my husband didn't go grocery shopping last week so we had barely any food at the house. I was out with my kids all morning and only had a yogurt for breakfast. After walking around for 3 hours I was starving.What do you get when you go out to eat?

2. I only ended up running once last week, making 33% of this goal. It was Wednesday. It has been a busy and rainy week. I have been tracking my steps on my phone and my total for the last 7 days, including today is 49625.

3. I didn't get to bed on time last Monday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday. It was my husband's birthday on Saturday, so we were out celebrating. For this goal I made 43% of this goal.

Diary of a Fat mommy Weekly Goal Link Up Party

Here are my goals for this week are going to be the same plus add in another, so here are my edits plus one new goal:

1. No pop. I'm going out of town this weekend for my 5k. I know we will stop at least once for fast food so I need to figure out how am I going to handle this: just buy off the dollar menu and have water, get sweat iced tea (does this have high fructose corn syrup or other bad things in it?), can I swap pop for milk or juice (is juice at fast food any better than pop?)

2. 7,000 steps a day. This could include running or it could not. I did run a little on my treadmill tonight. I either need new shoes (well yes I know I need new running shoes) and/or I need to take some vitamin for joints again, as my knees are bothering me. It actually seems better to run outside even though my treadmill has a thick belt. I have so much to do at night that it is hard to get out before dark to run.

3. Bed by 10pm. My current routine is go to be about 10-10:30, toss and turn for what seems like forever, semi wake up a couple times a night. Alarm goes off at 6am and if I have stuff to do I get out of bed by 6:30, if not I stay in until 7am then rush to get us all out the door by 7:30am. I would like this to be: Bed by 10:00 asleep by 10:30 (see the bedtime calculator), wake up at 6am to do an ab workout and and easily get out the door by 7:15a.

4. Dishes done before bed. I tried to do this last week and I kept up except for the weekend, they seem to be my downfall. I want to start working on getting more chores done during the week, to do fun and projects on the weekend. I also want to have everyone help clean the house, not just me.

Link up Weekly Goals at Fitnasty for Life or Diary of a Fat Mommy.

Aspirations

I found my Halloween costume! Just kidding. I always thought these shirts were so funny, but I've never actually worn one.

I love Bloglovin because it has a search button to find more blogs. I recently found the Diary of a Fat Mommy and she has a link up for weekly goals. I have been thinking I need to start setting goals, but I'm not a big person for consistency. I hope I can keep weekly goals that can turn in to habits. I'm going to try to not be over zealous and just have 3 goals for this week:

1. No more pop. I want to drink water and stay hydrated because my skin pays for it. I have a pitcher of lemon water in my fridge and tea bags at work. When I'm not drinking pop I usually refill my water bottle 3 times during the day and have a cup of tea.

2. Run 3 times a week. I have done this before, many times. I want to work on running a 5K with no problem and would love to do one in about 20 minutes. My current time is about 38 minutes. It is getting colder and darker sooner, and with kids activities, dinner and bedtime starting at 7pm, it is hard to run outside. I am going to try HIIT workouts on my treadmill to keep it interesting.

3. Get to bed by 10pm. I have been having the hardest time sleeping, and when I do sleep I wake up. I need to try to be more consistent with bed time, even on the weekend.

Link up Weekly Goals at Fitnasty for Life or Diary of a Fat Mommy.