Today marks
one month without coffee. I love this decision. My body was totally hooked on
caffeine and now that’s all over. Thank goodness. The first 2 weeks was a real challenge
-- I’m actually surprised it wasn’t longer. I’ve been a coffee drinker for more
than 30 years so believe me this is a very significant change.
My mood,
appetite, energy levels, digestion, sleep, nervous system, cardiovascular and
circulatory systems were all effected by this change. But now one month later
and I'm no longer bloated, my appetite has adjusted to the switch from coffee
to water. I think almost everything except sleep is back to normal. My sleep
patterns are finding their way back though. I’m still getting 8 hours a night
but when I get up to go to the B/R about 2am and don’t go back till 3-3:30am,
that’s disruptive. Last night I started watching Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire with Vivien
Leigh and Marlon Brando. It’s hard to be upset.
July is turning out to be quite a phenomenal month – my discipline muscles are being stretched and
strengthened. So far I’ve tackled coffee, gum chewing, pickles, alcohol, paleo
dinners, increased walking, strength training and stretching, increasing
vegetables, moving to new place, stair climbing daily (several times), and the
other thousand things that had to be done to effect the move. Yes, an amazing
month so far – and still 9 more days to
go! I told you – calorie tracking and journaling slows the clock to a
crawl. And in the final analysis, that may very well be the greatest benefit of
all..
There is one
thing I definitely need to do more work on -- stretching. My legs feel great. My
walking has increased. I’ve been doing a lot more stretching than usual, but I
still need to do more. The muscles in my legs get very tight. So much so that
when I was doing a good calf stretch Sunday morning I almost cramped up my
hamstring. Geez. I need to stretch more frequently. You’ll see something about
stretching on new August goals.
P.S. My daily average is under 1750 - I'm pushing for 1700 by Friday!
Here’s Tracker:
| STATS | |
| Journey Day: | 192 |
| Today's Calories: | 1405 |
| Daily Calorie Goal: | 1700 |
| Next Weigh In: | 7/30/2014 |
| Days till Weigh-In: | 8 |
| Starting Weight: | 351 |
| Current Weight: | 321 |
| Lost So Far: | 44 |
| Calorie Tracker | Calories |
| MONDAY 7/22/14 | |
| BREAKFAST | |
| 1.5c Raisin Bran | 280 |
| 3/4c Skim Plus | 85 |
| Organic mixed greens | 0 |
| Breakfast Calories | 365 |
| SNACKS | |
| McIntosh | 60 |
| Snack Calories | 60 |
| LUNCH | |
| 3oz Angle Hair Pasta w/meatsauce | 500 |
| Organic mixed greens (forgot ugh!) | 0 |
| Fresh Cut carrots | 30 |
| Lunch Calories | 530 |
| SNACKS | |
| Seedless grapes | 40 |
| Snack Calories | 40 |
| DINNER (2 veggies) | |
| Ezekial English Muffin | 180 |
| PB2 & J | 150 |
| Corn Niblets | 40 |
| Organic mixed greens | 0 |
| Dinner Calories | 370 |
| Snack | |
| Grapes | 40 |
| Snack Calories | 40 |
| Exercise | |
| Minimum 35 Minutes of Exercise | YES |
| Total Daily Calories: | 1405 |
| ***Daily Caloric Goal: | 1700 |
| Daily Avg. Calories | |
| 7/1/14 | 1710 |
| 7/2/2014 | 1635 |
| 7/3/2014 | 1765 |
| 7/4/2014 | 1750 |
| 7/5/2014 | 2400 |
| 7/6/2014 | 1705 |
| 7/7/2014 | 1610 |
| 7/8/2014 | 1705 |
| 7/9/2014 | 1660 |
| 7/10/2014 | 1560 |
| 7/11/2014 | 1515 |
| 7/12/2014 | 3300 |
| 7/13/2014 | 1405 |
| 7/14/2014 | 1640 |
| 7/15/2014 | 1610 |
| 7/16/2014 | 1850 |
| 7/17/2014 | 1490 |
| 7/18/2014 | 1485 |
| 7/19/2014 | 2020 |
| 7/20/2014 | 1675 |
| 7/21/2014 | 1400 |
| 7/22/2014 | 1405 |
| 7/23/2014 | |
| 7/24/2014 | |
| 7/25/2014 | |
| 7/26/2014 | |
| 7/27/2014 | |
| 7/28/2014 | |
| 7/29/2014 | |
| 7/30/2014 | |
| 1740.68182 | |
