Day #83 - Inspired by The Biggest Loser
Starting weight (7/15/08): 279.8 (1/8/08): 285.2
Calories/Carbs Goals (limits): 1400 / 30.0
Yesterday’s calories & net carbs: 1232 / 29.6
Yesterday’s exercise: 1 1/2 hours shopping/walking
Weight Yesterday: 253.8 Today: 253.6
Change today: -0.2 lbs. Loss-so-far: 26.2 lbs. / 31.6 lbs.
I decided to watch “Biggest Loser” on the NBC website tonight (I thought maybe it would inspire me) and I got so caught up watching the first two episodes that I forgot to watch Dancing with the Stars! I can’t believe I missed my show! Eh, it’s okay, I’ll watch it tomorrow afternoon on the ABC website. I did see a clip of tonight’s show, the part about Misty Mae and her injury. Bummer! I was really rooting for her (and was really enjoying seeing Maksim dancing again)!
Anyway, so I watched TBL (and even though they do portray a method of weight loss that is pretty unhealthy), I couldn’t help but get caught up in everyone’s stories. I never really watched the show before (just caught a couple portions while channel-surfing) so it was interesting to me how it all works. The weigh-ins are so suspense-filled, I found my heart racing as I waited for the outcome. Ha! So caught up in the drama of it all!
I was doing some math tonight and found out some surprising results. Kevin and I have three favorite meals - hamburgers on low-carb buns, pizza made with low-carb tortillas, and chicken tacos also made with low-carb tortillas. We have these three meals every week, at least once, without fail. So for the heck of it, I decided to add up these meals and see how they compare with each other as far as calories and net carbs.
I was actually surprised at some of the results. Okay, not surprising was that the hamburger was the highest in calories (676). This was including the bun, cheese, mayo, ketchup, onions, and pickles. Next were the tacos (2 for 518) which for me included shredded cheddar cheese and sour cream. What surprised me though was the pizza (for two pepperoni pizzas, each on 7″ tortillas was only 368). Also surprising to me was that all three meals totaled about the same number of carbs (hamburger 10.5, chicken tacos 10.2, and pizzas 11.6).
So tonight for dinner I had a nice-sized romaine salad and two tortilla-pizzas… and it was enough, more than enough!
Tomorrow I will try DDR again… only I will skip the jumps for now.
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Thanks for taking the time to put in a comic for us all! They are a hoot!
Also, thanks for reminding me about watching TBL on the web ~ I had completely forgotten about this method of watching! Gulp! A guilty pleasure!
Yum. Your meal favorites sound good!
You know, I’ve never seen a Biggest Loser episode. I always thought I was the odd one out, so now I now there’s another oddball on my team, since you’ve never really gotten into it.
We could make our own suspense filled weigh-ins, complete with creepy heart rate raising music. Whaddya say? Well, strike that - since we both weigh in every day it would probably lose the effect after a day or so.