Starting weight (7/15/08):  279.8
Yesterday:  265.2  Today:  264.8
Change today:  -0.4   Loss-so-far: 15.0 lbs.

Okay, watching carbs and calories at the same time is easier said than done.  All day long I felt almost afraid to eat anything!  I ate eggs for breakfast, two of them and then worried because two eggs is over two hundred calories.  I had a romaine salad with a spoonful of egg salad and a helping of the broccoli casserole and I could barely enjoy it, all I could think was, “Holy crap this broccoli stuff is 300 calories.”

My netrition.com box arrived this afternoon (yay low-carb tortillas!!!) so I pulled some chicken breasts out of the freezer so we could have chicken-soft-tacos for dinner.  I went ahead and added it all up ahead of time, exactly what I planned to have for dinner and my day came to a respectable 1400 calories but then while dinner was cooking I was hungry so I had a low-carb-peanut-butter-and-sugar-free-jelly roll-up on one of the tortillas, bringing my total for the day up beyond 1600.

Then after dinner I had a 118-calorie piece of low-carb-peanut-butter-fudge.  Sigh.  On this particular day - the first day I am paying any attention to the calories I’m eating - I ate more calories than I did when I wasn’t watching the calories at all!  Way more!!!

BUT, I was good in the exercise department.  My workout on the Total Gym now includes enough reps that it’s a full 40-minutes AND I put in 10 miles on the exercise bike.  TEN!  I broke it up into two parts, four miles and then later six miles - both while I was watching the movie Field of Dreams.  I still love that movie!  I would have married Kevin Costner in a heartbeat, had he asked.  =D

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