Today started off poorly (I succumbed to a cookie dough ball for breakfast), but I decided to straighten up and do well for the rest of the day, and, surprisingly, that worked.  DH suggested pizza for dinner since we’re re-plumbing the house this weekend (no water, and we’re trying to get it done ASAP so we can turn the water back on), but I stuck to my guns and kept to plan A, which was grilling veggies, chicken, shrimp, and steak kabobs.  Pizza is my number one favorite food, so resisting the urge to throw in the towel for the day (especially after the cookie dough ball) was tempting, let me tell you.  Now, of course, I’m happy I stuck with it because the scale will make me happy tomorrow morning.

Last night was a total disaster.  I made up a bunch of cookie dough because I had some mixes that were expiring.  My  plan, of course, was to freeze the dough in balls and not eat any of it, but that went way out the window.  I had over 1,000 calories in cookies/dough, and I could/would have happily eaten more, I assure you.  I still lost weight this morning somehow, though.  According to my nutrition tracker on sparkpeople, I still had a calorie deficit for the day since I had worked out.

This brings me to another topic– sparkpeople.com.  I’m really impressed with it.  I signed up months ago, journaled one day, and never went back.  However, I’ve journaled for four days straight now, and I LOVE how you can run all the calorie reports and see what your deficit is for the day.  So, I think I’m going to skip posting my food and just post my calorie report:

Calories
  Eaten 874
  BMR* 1,897
  Exercise 0
  Total Burned 1,897
  Differential -1,023

 

Not too shabby, even with the cookie dough ball.  It’s also nice to see how many calories I can have to maintain my weight.  1900 without exercise isn’t too bad.  Unfortunately, it will be lower at my goal weight, but that’s how it goes, I guess.  I’ll just have to exercise so I can eat more.  Also, this just shows how important continuing to journal will be in the maintenance phase.  There will be times when I go way overboard, but I’ll just have to note that and go under the same ammount in subsequent or preceding days. 

Anyway, all in all, things are going well.  This next week shouldn’t present any major problems.  Next weekend I have a wedding to go to, but it’s an evening wedding, so if I can avoid the cake, at least I won’t have to struggle through dinner.  The bad thing is that DH is in the wedding, so he has to show up for pictures at 4:00– which means we will most likely skip dinner and be famished at the cake and punch reception, making said cake and punch all the more tempting…

weight at home:  167.5 (down 1.5 from yesterday)