Those of you who are following this (…anybody…*taptaptap* Is this thing on?), will have noticed that I haven’t posted in a very, very long time. I’ve been without Internet, though I have it once more. I have also fallen entirely off the diet bandwagon. Big time.
I’m back above 180lbs. I hoped I’d never see these numbers again, aside from when with child. But, here I am again. I’m hoping a good deal of it can be attributed to my monthlies, but certainly all of it can’t be!
It’s about a month of work, completely erased. When you think of it that way, it’s pretty sad. Three weeks of eating horribly undoes a month of working my butt off. But, I guess stepping on the scale today was a wake up call.
So now I’m back and armed with a plan! I’ve got well over two weeks of exceptionally healthy and vegan meal plans worked on my nutrition tracker on SparkPeople.com. The calorie range is a bit higher than the 1,300 I was getting earlier. With these plans, I’m hitting between 1,400 and 1,500. But, they’re world healthier. I’m getting more than enough of ALL then nutrients I need (including protein and the dreaded vegan triumvirate of Vitamin B-12, iron and calcium, as well as plenty of fiber, omega-3s, Vitamins A & C and folic acid! Hooray!). Where early attempts at Veganism Meets SparkPeople were TITANIC failures in the nutrition department, I think I’ve figured out the puzzle to getting the nutrients I need, the cost being 1-200 more calories a day. That, I think, I can live with.
What else? Being far, far, far more active. I’m going to do Cool Running’s Couch-to-5K Program or hit the ellipticals three times a week to burn around 400 calories each of those days. I’m also going to bicycle about 45 minutes a day. New means of transportation, and all. It builds character. That will set me to around a whomping 4,000 calories burned a week, which certainly allows me to eat around 1,400-1,550 and not be too worried.
I’m going to have to see how my body responds to such vigorous exercise–starvation? I’ll boost my calorie count a hundred calories on days I bike and hit the gym.
That’s the revised plan. I’m planning on starting up quite soon. I’ve got a grocery list (alarmingly little money!) all worked out and am shooting to begin this nonsense Sunday.
Here we go again!
In my absense from this blog, I have been doing a great deal of happy vegan research and recipe pondering, so hopefully some very tasty things will be coming up in the future!
A bientot, mes amis!
A teeny to-do list: make a decent work out playlist, update the tags page of this blog, make up a few lists of recipes I want to try out.
Well done great blog and great posts!!!