Breakfast
1 cup raisin bran (200 calories0
1/2 cup 2% milk (50 calories)
2 tsp sugar (30 calories)
Lunch
6" chicken teriyaki sub, sweet onion sauce, American cheese, on white, from Subway (450 calories)
Snack
1 oz peanut snack bag (minus a few that others ate) (170 calories)
Dinner
Panera Bread's black bean soup (150 calories)
Panera Bread's half-portion of tomato and mozarella salad (400 calories)
Hrm. Lot of fat today, but usually I eat pretty lowfat so I'm not worried. Maybe my body was craving fat? Who knows. It was pretty healthy, though, not junk food. Total Calories: 1450. If I was doing WW points it'd likely be huge, the mozarella and tomato salad with dressing had so much fat. But it was good for a change of pace from my normal dinners.
Eh. I count with rough estimates at times, but I tend to center around 1600. Sometimes I'm over by a few hundreds, sometimes under by a few hundres. Really, it's just a guess, but so far I'm losing about 1.5 pounds a week, but it's only been a month. I'm very sedentary and haven't worked on the exercise aspect yet.
I have no idea if I should be eating more or less or what. I sort of aim for 1600 simply because some sites I see estimate 2000 calories as an average, and 1600 is under that. Plus, 5 or 6 years ago I dropped from 270 to 170 eating about that range. I'm not concerned if I top 2000 as long as it's not all entirely junk, since my aim for now has 'eating more normally (less binging and junk)' as its first priority, and 'losing weight' as the second. So I try to eat when hungry, vary what I eat to include different food groups, and limit 'junk foods' (like the Oreos I just scarfed down) to occasional treats. Based on my menus so far this week, I consider it the first 'junk food' of the week.
Breakfast
Oatmeal
Veggie breakfast patty
Lunch
Turkey (3 oz) and cheese (2% cheese slice) on white bread (sour dough from the bakery) with Miracle Whip light
Snack
6 oreo cookies in a snack pack (should've shared!)
Dinner
Small cheese steak sandwich from Philly Connection
Okay. Hrm. Not the healthiest day with lack of fruit and vegetables. D'oh!
Last edited by Scuttle; 07-01-2004 at 08:07 AM.
Reason: Adding something to the 2nd paragraph
Scuttle - 1.5 lb per week is great. WW always says you should aim for no more than 1-2 lb/week. I like your idea of just trying to eat healthier and it seems to me from occasionally glancing at your menus, that you do.
Yeah, healthier in a relative sense is easy compared to the junk I used to eat! I still eat fast food tons and even things like the occasional cheese steak or cookies, but I think doing that once a week is working out a lot better than once (or more!) a day.
This weekend is going to be not-so-healthy I'm sure as I'm going to a big huge party where people come from all over the country and bring all sorts of regional food treats, and there's a huge banquet, and pizza and fried chicken, alcohol, etc. I've decided that my goal isn't to avoid it, as I'm pretty sure that would put me into binge mode on day two, but just to avoid binging.
I'm curious looking at your menus what weight you're at. Given your amount of exercise and the amount of food, I thought a point was roughly 50 calories? And then maybe another 100 or 200 calories of 'freebie foods and fiber' if you're eating low fat. So it looks like you're at about 1200 calories a day? It just seems like I'd be rabidly starved eating that.
Thursday 7/1
Breakfast
2/3 cups egg beaters, scrambled
2% cheese slice on top
6 oz lowfat Yoplait yogurt
Lunch
Baja chicken wrap at Applebee's (wrap was good, fruit was horrid, one shriveled strawberry and three slim slices of mangy-looking pineapple)
Journal 6/25 - 7/1
