I have to blog. It’s the only way I lose any weight. I think I gained a lot of the poundage I had lost (I’m afraid to weigh myself) because I stopped paying attention to the calories and the crap that I put into my tummy. I can definitely feel the fatness around my mid-section and frankly, I’m not a fan of the muffin top that has formed at the top of my underwear. Not all of them, just some of them, but some is plenty to freak me out enough to make time for blogging.

Today was a VERY bad day:
- caramel apple w/ peanuts for breakfast
- Java Chip Frappuccino (though it was light, but like that really makes a difference)
- a gigantic plate of nachos with corn, beans, salsa and WAY too much cheese (like 1/2 of a brick!)
- an apple with cream cheese fruit dip (which, by the way, is becoming one of my favorite foods)
- a handful of Cheetos (the only reason I didn’t eat the whole 4.5 oz bag was because I felt my stomach fall OVER my pajama pants as I was eating and well, that made me die a little inside)
- tea w/ milk and Splenda (delish)
- Diet Sprite (2)
- Cherry Coke Zero (2)

So yeah, I’m nasty. It’s time to jump back on the bandwagon and lose the weight I lost. My plan is to be down 15 pounds by Christmas so I can wow the folks back home with my sleek physique. That’s about 2 pounds a week. I’d love to lose 20, but I’m trying to be realistic because I know Thanksgiving will screw me up…

Let the games re-begin!!

(P.S. I hope you had fun in California!!)

Woohoo, I’m back!

I don’t even want to look and see how long it’s been.  Yikes.  but here’s today!

Breakfast = Quaker Weight Control Banana Bread Oatmeal

Lunch = Pita w/ Baba Bhanouj and Tomatoes

Snack = Kar’s Sweet and Salty Mix, Raspberry Yogurt

Dinner = Eggs and Toast

Snack = Manchego Cheese

1495 calories/58.6 g fat/184.8 g carbs/61.1 g protein

Coulda been worse, eh?

Ack!

I got out of the habit of updating daily and it shows!  Whether it’s related to Aunt Flo or pure laziness, my weight has creeped up a couple pounds.  SO.  Starting tomorrow, I swear, I will be better!  My cousin’s wedding in LA is coming up, and vacations are certainly not diet-friendly, so I need to be good beforehand and afterwards, at the least. 

I hope you’re doing better than I am!

Tuesday

I need to replace coffee with fruit or vegetables and I’d be just fine!!

Eh, don’t worry about the burger. I’ve had a YMCA pass for almost 2 weeks and have yet to go. By the time I get back to my apartment at night I have zero motivation to change clothes and go running/walking/yoga-ing. The best choices aren’t always the easiest or most convenient and if you beat yourself up over it, you’ll just give up all together. On that note, I’m determined to make it on Friday for a morning yoga class!!

Talk is cheap

Haha.  I went on about how I was being good, and tonight I had a bacon cheeseburger.  I’m ridiculous.  I was good the rest of the day, I swear!

1892 calores (yikes)/103.3 g fat/127.8 g carbs/108.4 g protein

Horrible!  This is by far the worst day I’ve had in like a week.  Oh well, I can’t get too worked up about it.  I was being social and met some people for $1 hamburgers and it’s not like it would have been very polite of me to order a salad or something, haha.

As long as you’re alive…

… I don’t care about the blog! I just wanted to make sure things were ok!

My BMI has gone from 28.2 to a 27! I’m still a good 20 pounds from my goal, but wow! That’s not too bad for a month!

I don’t know why the screenshots link sometimes and not others, but here’s the breakdown for Monday:

1230 calories (thanks in large part to Indian food for dinner!)
39g fat
340g carbs
and I’m too lazy to look up the protein number b/c I just forgot.

Back from the dead

I’m alive, don’t worry!  I’ve been decent, there have been some bad days, in terms of too few calories or too many, but as physical proof that I’ve been good overall, my BMI is down to 25.9 from 26.7!  Can you believe on Wednesday, we will have been keeping track of each other for 4 weeks?  I hope things are going well for you, I know this coming weekend may be rough, since a friend is coming in to town for the Michigan-Wisconsin game, and I have plans to tailgate, go to the game, and go out afterwards.  The last time I did anything similar to this was when I shared that fifth of Captain’s with a friend.  Whoops.  And I pretty much never make good nutritional decisions when I’ve had a few drinks. 

Keep up the good work!  And like I promised, I’ll try to be better from here on out!

Friday/Saturday/Sunday

Friday was pretty insignificant, but 1) I made a conscious effort to eat during the day and 2) I limited myself to water instead of coffee after 6pm.

1100 calories (yay – I broke 1000!)
39g fat
25g protein
230 carbs

Saturday was my day off. I had dinner with some friends and went to town on the variety of Whole Foods desserts I picked up on my way over. Try the peanut butter cup torte. Heaven!

Sunday has been pretty good. I got up late which is one reason I didn’t eat as much as I could have – when you miss the morning, breakfast isn’t that big of a deal.

Missing Days…

Wednesday – No idea. I was too busy on campus to notice what I ate.

Thursday – no breakfast, coffee/soup at Au Bon Pain for lunch, and OLD COUNTRY BUFFET for dinner (it was disgusting but we had a coupon and had been joking about going for a few weeks)

My OCB menu:
- mac and cheese (B)
- mashed potatoes (B+)
- corn (B)
- corn stuffing (D-)
- baked beans (A-)
- cole slaw (A-)
- potato salad (B)
- chocolate pudding (A)
- whipped cream (A)
- dinner role (A)
- pasta/tomato sauce (B+)
- chocolate lava cake (C)
- carrot cake (D)
- ice cream with hot fudge (C)

I really didn’t eat as much as I thought I would. It was more of a sampling plate with a heavy emphasis on things that were yellow, white, and full of carbs.

Monday/Tuesday

I can’t get my stupid logs to post so here’s the summary:

Monday – 790 calories, 12 grams of fat, 101 carbs

Tuesday – 875 calories, 21 grams of fat (yay for cheese!), 312 carbs

I’m really sucking at taking in enough calories not because I’m not eating well but because I’m too busy to eat during the day.  I even brought a snack to campus and I forgot to eat it!!  I’m going to go grab an apple and some peanut butter now which will bump me up to at least 1100 for the day, but come on, it’s 10:15 at night and I shouldn’t be scrambling to eat more…  This is worse than over-eating!