Going to Lose: My Weightloss Journey!

Breakfast: I actually went to breakfast in the dining hall and it was quite good but i think I overdid it a tad, and I’ll need to scale it back a bit. so breakfast: 1 cup cheerios(110), ½ cup not fat organic milk (50 cal), ½ grapefruit (52) 4 tator tops (64 cal), ½ an egg white omelete (30 cal) with mushrooms (5) spinach (0) and turkey (15 cal) 326 total- I think this breakfast was way too big..I know I should either do just an omelete or just cheerios next time. and definitely no tator tots next time! damn you potatoes.

Lunch:I think I did pretty well at lunch, I had a bowl of chicken noodle soup, which I’m estimating was about (200 calories) and then i had 4 saltines (56 cal), 256 total

Snack: 1 string cheese (70 calories), 1 tangerine (40 cal), 1/2 of a rice cake (15) and some roasted soy beans (2 tsp, 95 calories) so, snack total: 220, oops thats a bit high for snackksss..arghhh this is hard

Dinner: Salad, i reformed my salad to be really low calories! yay so, salad: spinach (5 calories), broccoli (20 cal), cucumbers (5 cal) and some balsamic vinegar (5 cal) and two egg whites (30 cal), so salad total is (65) and then for food: 1.5 chicken tenders (100 cal), small scoop of mushroom rice pilaf (210), a bite of tofu (25 cal) and some ketchup (25 cals), so my dinner total was : 425–> but I’m gonna round that to 450 because perhaps some of my estimations were low.

So calorie total for the day (so far…because i see some fruit in my future tonight): 1252

and then adding in my small green apple (40 cal) tonight that puts me at 1292. except i had the munchies and had a 100 cal bag of popcorn. So final calories for the night is 1392. basically 1400, perfect. OOPs.. i did a bit of snacking and had 1 mini hostess cupcake of a 100 pack (33), a small piece of wheat bread (45) and some FF creamcheese(30) which brings my total of the day to 1500 exactly. fine

This makes me really happy that I totally stayed on track today, even though I kinda goofed with the too big breakfast.

also, today’s Workout: 45 min on the elliptical, and 30ish min of weights and abs, and man…i kinda feel it.

Also, I realized that my ideal calorie range is probably 1200-1400 daily, and then the really upper limit, on like special occassions would be 1600. i fell plenty full and happy with that range, and if I go higher than 1400, i usually kinda get mad at myself. so yeah. im feeling kinda good about these food choices. and i was even able to have chicken tenders and keep it within my range. i think that that is kind of the whole point. being able to eat foods I want, but just in moderation.
ok weigh in day tomorrow. im really hoping for some change! tchauuu

Today was a hard day just due to busyness, classes, running around, meetings etc. And sadly I got off track a bit. The only problem is that I didnt get to the gym, which I’m kinda upset about, but there’s not much I can do about it, and I’ll definitely go tomorrow, and I’ll definitely go a minimum of 5 times this week, i guess I just wont get to six times. oh well.

Breakfast: 1 starbucks light double shot (70 cals) i really needed this cuz i didnt get that much sleep, but im definitely going to go get more redbull this weekend so i can save 60 calories, and one string cheese (70 cal)-Breakfast total: 140

Lunch: 1 small cup of campbell’s roasted chicken noodle soup (85 calories) and one half piece of french baguete (~100 cals, guessing) with a slice of swiss cheese (~80 cal) and 2 slices of turkey(~70 cal). Lunch total: 335

Snack: I had a really lame nibble today that I’m mad I have but I’m obviously going to count it anyways. One mini reese’s peanut butter cup (42 cal) and 1 valentines day york peppermint patty (53 cal) stupid snack total= 95 the reason that is so frusterating is because i could have so many better and more filling things, like a yogurt or string cheese. grrr. well if anything ive learned my lesson

Dinner: 4 pieces of sweet potato tempura (280 cal), brown rice (~150 ish), some black bean tofu (200 cal), salad with 2 hard boiled egg whites (30), bean sprouts, lettuce, broccoli, a teeny bit of corn (~70 cal, i should really cut this out to and stick to green low-cal veggies), edamame (~100ish calories…yeesh they have a lot of protein but i didnt know they had so many calories) and some balsamic and a bit of olive oil (~50ish cals, but really i should cut this out of my salads) Dinner total-880 -honestly im shocked about this, because i thought I was being really careful but I think I’m learning that a lot of the little things add up. also i think i need to exercise much more portion control. for example instead of 4 pieces of tempura, I really should have had 1 or 2, and really I should just have a tiny bit of brown rice. but also, i need to be more cautious of what i put in salad. I dont think i realized how many calories edamame have or corn or olive oil. so next time i’m going to entirely cut those out of my salads and stick to all green vegetables, and to just balsamic vinegar.

so, sadly one of my highest calorie totals in a while 1450. I mean, it’s nothing crazy, but not the best. also, i may still have 1/2 a banana or an apple tonight, because I didnt have any fruit today. Oh well, tomorrow’s another day. I guess every day is a new lesson learned.  also, i think i suffered from not having an afternoon snack because i was obviously hungry and ate too much at dinner, and also those stupid candies.

2 days from weigh in…eek. i hope i can get back on track tomorrow.