Well, yesterday's attempt to drink a few glasses of Merlot ended HORRIBLY!!
Here's the scoop on my Saturday night binge that turned out to be my Spike Day by force :cry:

Saturday's "Off the Chart" Menu
NOW Protein Shake: 451
Ezekiel Bread 1tsp Sunbutter, coffee: 169
**Pre-workout Fuel**Heart Healthy Trail Mix, PB2 Oats: 139
Beef Cabbage Quinoa, Chicken Caesar Salad: 536
Merlot (12 oz) ***Should have stopped right here!!!*** 285

JUNK: chips w/7 layer dip, 2 Macadamia Nut cookies, grapes, Honey Bunches of Oats w/skim milk: 966 :fr:
Total: 2840

Exercise: 631 :tread:
Water: 72 oz

Sunday (Cravings ALL day) Menu
:tantrum: **Do you know how long it's been since I had a craving??? Weeks!!! :tantrum:
NOW Green monster (I could NOT justify wasting this pre-made shake): 551
Wendy's Grilled Chicken Breast w/baked Potato, Kettle Corn, Ice Cream (4oz) :nono: : 464
Cottage Cheese w/Pineapple: 116
Dinner: TBD
Total w/out dinner: 1131

Water: NOT NEARLY ENOUGH 48 oz
I'll drink more before midnight.
Exercise: I have yet to run or do much of anything today. I do plan to do some weights in 30 min.

This is an example of a VERY BAD weekend for me. This is OLD habits resurfacing. This is the old me lifestyle. The part that sux the most is I'm craving sugar. I was doing so well. :stress:

Edited: This night DID end on a good note!
:running: plus some floor work= 421 cals burned
Dinner was 1/2 Protein Green Monster: 274, ending the day with 1405 cals
Water: 72 oz

I WILL NOT succumb to old habits.
I WILL be nice to myself & learn from this weekend!

Bfast:200

Lunch: 250

Snack: 450

Dinner: ~500

1400

Queen Sarah: Lovely day today for you. Tell me, what do leeks taste like? I've never had them, but that dish sounds DELISH! I'd love to make it!

So taken the weekend off from the scale. I kinda enjoy the break. Calories were 1828 yesterday and.....ahem......2174 today.....Yeah sunday funday?

Anyways I suppose I will have to face the consequences of my mistakes on the scale in the morning.

LAGreeneyes- I'm glad it made sense. After posting it I was reading it and it seemed a little hard to follow to me. :). I have used the "check how much is left in the container" a few times when I have cooked and forgotten about measuring. Ugh thats the one thing thats a real pain about calorie counting. Having to try to measure religiously when I cook. Then measure the number of servings I end up making so I can calculate calories per serving.

Queen Sarah- Thats an awesome burn! Well done.

K9Owner- You never know this may be the shake up your body needs to let go of some weight? We can always hope right?

Weekends been good. I worked out HIIT and weights yesterday. Today was my rest day. Been pretty uneventful, but the calories sure did add up to more than I needed to eat.

Well back to the grind this week. I want to really make a good hard push to stay between 1600-1750 in this next week.

So really I am about 2 weeks into this. Far from perfect, but overall I feel like I am making such better choices. Which fortunately has motivated me. I feel healthier already, and ,maybe even a little more comfortable in my cloths that were getting too tight.

Anyways I think I will try to focus on a healthy change each week. Depending on how difficult it is to implement I may wait two weeks or so to ad a new one.

So this weeks healthier focus is to track my water intake and drink more water. I need to do a little google search on what I should be drinking a day, but that will be my goal. :)

Well here's to the coming week and opportunity for more successes!

Sunday
 

Calories Spent 1483

Calorie Limit 1550

Calories Left 67

Good day.

K9 -- way to recognize what you were doing and stopping it in its tracks. Your Sunday ended up spot on!

It's so freakin' hard to get over the 'oh well I ate such and such and blew it, may as well gorge' mentality. Good for you for turning it around . . . it inspires the rest of us.

:cp:

breakfast: 255
tortilla, 2 slices rf cheese
1/2 cup plain greek yogurt

lunch: 270
egg
cheese stick
tortilla rolled w/ 1 slice rf cheese
small apple
carrot sticks

pre-gym snack: 70
yogurt cup

dinner: 450
2x turkey patty
1/2 cup veggies

Ended up at 1850 yesterday which is not great but still just inside my fat loss range. I am finally starting to feel a little better and apparently my appetite came back. Shooting for 1650 today. If all goes well, I should see Onederland this week or next.

K9, nice comeback from the high-calorie day! Be consistent (with the lower calories), and keep moving, and it will probably result in a metabolism jolt for you.

Leeks are like green onions, but bigger, and not as strong-tasting. For this recipe, I used two containers of Nutrisystem mashed potatoes, which you might be able to find at Big Lots, because they're clearing out their old inventory. These potatoes are higher in protein, but you could just use a couple of regular potatoes, mashed. I boil a head of cauliflower and put it in the food processor (with some garlic from a jar), and then simmer the leek (chopped) in water to tenderize it, chop up two string cheeses, and then divide up all the ingredients into two large-ish bowls. I eat one bowl for a meal. It's really indulgent-feeling to eat a huge bowl of "mashed potatoes," but it's really mostly cauliflower.:) I'm looking forward to eating the other serving today.

I had another good day yesterday, 694 calorie deficit, making 1,513 for the week. My trend weight (corrected for all the wild variances we all get) was down 0.8 lb, which is more than I'd expect! And this is the week I had a high-calorie day on Wednesday (followed by lower-calorie, higher activity days) -- we shouldn't get too bummed about the times we eat more! Just get right back on plan and it will work to our advantage. I think I had actually been *too* consistent lately.

b: coffee, picante/cheese omelet, grapefruit, 32 oz water - 325
l: 1 cup lf cottage cheese, 1/2 cup pineapple, popcorn - 400
d: linguini, chicken, sauteed veggies, Ken's balsamic vinaigrette - 500
s: banana w/p butter - 150, 3 jolly ranchers - 60


Total: 1425

I was on plan for a bunch of days, and then this weekend I felt I deserved to get some treat. And it just turned into a big mess. Ate 1000 calories worth of junk. However, with the low cal week, I avareged the weekend on maintenance calories. So no biggie. Today is monday, and I am picking up where I left off last friday. Almost like a job! ;)

I don't sweat it too much but I am just not losing anything so I can't be messing around. I need to be consistent for a while to figure out of the not losing is an issue or if it's just because I am not consistent long enough.

I am not so tall, and not very active other than my excersise so I decided to go from 1250 calories daily to 1100 for a while. It's below the magical 1200 line but I think it would be okay for me. I am not depriving myself of nutrients because I eat extremely healthy within my calories. When I eat junk it's mostly an 'extra' thing so it's atop of what I am eating. And it barely happens anyhow.

Originally Posted by philana:
I was on plan for a bunch of days, and then this weekend I felt I deserved to get some treat. And it just turned into a big mess. Ate 1000 calories worth of junk. However, with the low cal week, I avareged the weekend on maintenance calories. So no biggie. Today is monday, and I am picking up where I left off last friday. Almost like a job! ;)

I don't sweat it too much but I am just not losing anything so I can't be messing around. I need to be consistent for a while to figure out of the not losing is an issue or if it's just because I am not consistent long enough.

I am not so tall, and not very active other than my excersise so I decided to go from 1250 calories daily to 1100 for a while. It's below the magical 1200 line but I think it would be okay for me. I am not depriving myself of nutrients because I eat extremely healthy within my calories. When I eat junk it's mostly an 'extra' thing so it's atop of what I am eating. And it barely happens anyhow.

Don't feel bad. The same thing happened to me. I was going in the right direction on yesterday and had 1240 calories down out of my 1500 calories and then I had 6 of my favorite Kashi cookies that have 130 calories in EACH one. That was a whopping 780 calories. I felt so bad and angry at myself.

Today is another day and I'm thinking positive about this week. I will get back on my elliptical and I also want to begin the couch to 5K program again. I need to purchase a pair of running shoes that are not too expensive.

This week will be a great week for everyone!

Breakfast- Oatmeal w/ berries, flax seed, bee pollen, and protien powder-342 cals
Snack-Apple-80 cals
Lunch-Tuna sand and salad-704 cals
Snack-Sweet potato and canned chili beans-510 cals
Dinner-Thin crust margarita pizza-420 cals

Excercise- 60 min on stairmaster, weightlifting: Chest


Water: 65 oz

Total calories:2056 cals

Ok so I am not doing super hot. Thats ok this next day will be better. I have to say at least I am counting everything. This is better than eating too much and ignoring that fact by not recording it.

Originally Posted by LAgreeneyes:
Don't feel bad. The same thing happened to me. I was going in the right direction on yesterday and had 1240 calories down out of my 1500 calories and then I had 6 of my favorite Kashi cookies that have 130 calories in EACH one. That was a whopping 780 calories. I felt so bad and angry at myself.

Today is another day and I'm thinking positive about this week. I will get back on my elliptical and I also want to begin the couch to 5K program again. I need to purchase a pair of running shoes that are not too expensive.

This week will be a great week for everyone!

:eek: Wow, that seems like a LOT of cals for just one cookie. Are they really big or something?

Originally Posted by loose seal:
:eek: Wow, that seems like a LOT of cals for just one cookie. Are they really big or something?

You are right, that is a A LOT of calories. They are thick. As much as I love them, I may have to find another cookie snack. It's just too many calories.

Here are the list of ingredients:

Other Ingredients: Kashi seven whole grains & sesame ® blend, (whole: hard red winter wheat oats, rye, triticale, barley, long grain brown rice, buckwheat, sesame seeds), dark chocolate chips (evaporated cane juice, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, soya lecithin, ground vanilla bean), whole rolled oats, expeller pressed canola oil, honey, evaporated cane juice crystals, brown rice syrup, chicory root fiber, oat fiber, vegetable glycerin, natural flavors, sodium bicarbonate, soy lecithin, salt, mixed tocopherols, (natural vitamin e) for freshness, monocalcium phosphate, walnuts, peanut flour, nonfat dry milk, and eggs. CONTAINS WHEAT, SOY, WALNUT, PEANUT, MILK AND EGG INGREDIENTS. MAY CONTAIN OTHER TREE NUTS.