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 Starting weight:  285.2
 Yesterday’s Calories/Carbs Goals (limits):   1928  / 40.0
 Yesterday’s Intake:  Calories & Net Carbs:   1223 /  18.3
Yesterday’s Exercise:  7 hours remodeling
 Weight Yesterday:242.0    Today:  241.8  bmi:45.69 
 Change today::  -0.2 lbs.         Loss-so-far:   43.4 lbs.    
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I didn’t add up yesterday’s food until today.  I thought I was being liberal with my portions and my choices.  Certainly I thought I racked up at least 1600 or more for the day.  Ha!  I didn’t even make it to 1300!   I think it’s pretty funny that I can’t seem to eat 1900 calories a day!  There was a time not so long ago that I could have consumed that many calories during just one meal!

It says a lot, I think, about how my mindset has changed.  Even though I’ve upped my calorie limit, I haven’t been tempted at all to start eating anything other than what I’ve been eating all along.  Keeping away from the carbs - the wheat stuff, the starchy stuff, and the sweet stuff - just naturally results in less calories.  Oh, I could rack up some major calories really quickly if I widened my food selections to include french fries and chocolate milkshakes! 

It’s tempting to stop counting everything and logging every morsel that I eat.  On the days when I don’t count-as-I-go, I almost always find that I’ve consumed way less calories and carbs than I thought I did.  How liberating it would be to just trust myself to make good choices every day and never actually log in my food to find out!  Thing is, I guess I don’t trust myself.  Logging my food makes me accountable.  I’m just a little bit OCD so I’m not so sure I could go without knowing anyway!  Sooner or later I think I’d break down and try to recreate any days I missed.  And then I’d be all like omg-I-know-I-forgot-something! 

*Smirk*  I guess I’ll just keep doin’ what I’m doin’.  It would be nice to see an actual LOSS though.  I am still stalled since December 4th - that makes 18 days now!  But hey I’m still plugging away.  =D

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