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?

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.

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!

Sunday – Back to Veggie Status

I’m taking a food and culture class and one of the books we are assigned is Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma.  While the purpose of the book is not to scare/guilt anyone into being a vegetarian, that’s the effect it had on me.  Pollan examines the way feed-lots and corn-fed livestock are produced and well, I can never eat another standard cut of beef, pork, or chicken EVER AGAIN.  I never really ate rabbit because seriously, who can eat a bunny, and lamb always freaked me out (they’re just too damn cute), so those two descriptions didn’t bug me so much.  However, his two chapters on beef production had me practically gagging on myself, and the description of chicken slaughter wasn’t much better.  I may be persuaded that grass-fed, free-range, antibiotic-free meat may be acceptable, but for now, I’m sticking to things that were not living, breathing creatures.

Pollan also ruined the McDonald’s chicken nugget – I had NO idea there was butane (yes, lighter fluid) and this other really long-ass named carcinogen in the nugget.  Even the new “all-white meat” nugget has this crap in it!  the USDA has said it’s ok so long as the amounts don’t exceed 0.02 percent of the nugget.  I do not care.  I am never eating a butane carcinogen again.  Ever.  That completely freaked me out.

And holy crap.  They manufacture corn syrup with HYDROCHLORIC ACID and flesh-eating protein enzymes.  I’ve started watching everything I put in my body very closely.  No wonder so many Americans are diagnosed with cancer – we’re eating lighter fluid, cow poop, sawdust, acid…  I just can’t believe I didn’t know any of this until I read this book.  I mean, yes, I knew that meat comes from cute little animals that we cut up into tiny pieces and cook, but I had no idea that the production of this meat was so environmentally and ethically heinous.  I used to make fun of the tree-huggers but I’m going to be bear-hugging every damn deciduous on this block!!!!

As for calories, I’m too lazy to add them up, but I know I’m way under again.  Stir-fry, brown rice, Smacks (which are not good for me but I refuse to throw them out because I am poor), pineapple juice, and 2 cups of coffee with skim milk are definitely adding up to the 1,400 I’m supposed to be eating.  I suck.

My suggestion for your eating out problems are to set a calorie limit (say 450-500) and aim not to go over.  Look up a few basic things (pasta, rice, etc.) and know the standard numbers for things.  You can choose carefully from there.  It doesn’t have to be exact, but at least you’ll feel like you’re not going too far off track.  When I went out last night for Chinese, I set myself a 500 calorie limit knowing that the rice would fall roughly in the 150 calorie range.  My entrée couldn’t be more than 350, so I ordered sautéed string beans and I think I did pretty well.  I ate about 1/3 of the serving (the BF ate the rest despite the fact I had planned to make it lunch for the next day…).  Don’t sweat the small stuff or you’ll go nutty!

Saturday

I’m still below and I actually tried today!  WTF?