Queen Sarah- Thanks your always so encouraging!

I was thinking about my calories being off so far. I think I am going to make a mini goal. So three days I am making a goal to track everything in my iphone app right away. And when I get to the calorie allotment I gotta be done for the day no matter what else I have going on that day. I dont think I will be perfectly on plan everyday. But I know I can commit to three days totally on plan.

ma -- I added up your cals then divided by 4 (days) and you averaged just over 1900 cals/day. Not nearly as far off from your 1700 cals/day goal that you set. If you eat 1500 cals/day for the next three days your weekly average will be 1740 which is pretty close to your original goal.

Sometimes I find it helps to plan out what I'm going to eat for a few days and add up the cals before hand, that way I know if I'm on track or not. After awhile you do get into a groove of how many cals things you eat have (well, things you eat frequently) and it does get easier.

K9 -- congrats on your weekend success! It's so hard when you're surrounded by stuff you know is going to throw you off plan, isn't it? Kudos to you for sticking to it!

I made an entire post of personals & have NO IDEA where it is!! GRRR

Pre-Run Fuel: Ezekiel Raisin Bread, 1 tsp Sunbutter, 1/2 c grapes
FF Turkey Cheese Omelet, Cottage Cheese w/Strawberry Jam:432
Bean Dip w/tortilla chips :nono: , SBD Lazy Cabbage Roll, Grapes: 417
Thyme Chicken Pistachio Salad w/Mandarin Oranges: 544
Total Cals: 1393
Water: 80 oz
:running: & some floor work: 406{HRM} (50 Min)

Kristiina: Look at your perfectly OP day!! BRAT!!! :rolleyes: {{giggles}}

Seal: I've tried to put veggies in omelets, and I just can't eat it. I love all the foods--separately, but not together. Glad you found something you like. It keeps the lifestyle easier to adhere too.

MA: I would defo suggest logging as soon as you eat or during your meal (which is what I usually do). Depending on which app you use, you can determine where you are before your last meal. Like Tuesday night, I chose the chicken and miracle noodles--a lower carb meal, b/c I ate to many carbs throughout the day and not enough protein. I use the My Fitness Pal app and it includes a scanner. I love it! Good job on making progress!! Keep at it, you'll get there!

Sarah: You're making me consider a FitBit. Not good, considering I have enough gadgets. I just need the loss!! :lol:

Hanging in there...

Ended yesterday at 1555. :carrot:

coffee, omelet, toast: 445
salad: 300
pb crackers: 100
Tacos: 550
rice crispy treat and cookie: 140


Finally saw the scale start to budge this morning so I'm happy with that. :D

b: coffee, another of those tasty veggie omelets, 16oz water - 200
s: banana w/smear of p. butter, 16oz h20 - 150
l: one homemade bean burrito on low carb wrap, 1 red grapefruit, 16oz aqua - 275
s: two homemade choc. chippers and a bit of the dough - 250
d: the most fabulous roasted chicken, steamed carrots w/a bit of butter, honey and cinnamon, leftover scalloped potatoes - 400
s: 3 jolly ranchers - 60


Total: 1350

I think I may make this into a through the month editable post. Then have a side by side comparison to calories and weight. I'm curious to see the correlation develop.
-------Weight Calories
1/11: 179.8____1922 +222
1/12: 178.4____1798+98 much better :)
1/13: 177.8____1685-15 Doing the 5pm as start of the new day was much easier! I am liking the tracking days dinner through lunch so far. It's easier to plan and properly excecute calories at breakfast and lunch for me.
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ma, you might want to copy & paste into a new post every day or every few days, or it will get buried, and we won't get to see it!

K9Owner, I am a gadget-addict, too! I know how you feel. (This one really is great, though. A week after I bought it, they came out with the Ultra Fitbit, and it's all I can do, not to upgrade! But I can't justify it, since this one is perfectly good. But -- they are coming out with a wi-fi scale -- like the Withings, but less expensive -- that will sync with the Fitbit -- and it's sooooo tempting. I will probably get it as a reward for myself by the time it is released!)

OK, I forgot to update again last night. I went into a severe popcorn craving, but at least it was air-popped. So I ended the day with 1744 calories, and a 353 deficit.

Today was my mammogram, and I have a tradition -- I celebrate good results on mammograms by taking myself to IHOP and ordering two pancakes. :D Really, not having cancer is a great thing to celebrate! (I am hard-pressed to think of a better reason -- or two -- to celebrate) :D I also had an omelette, because I am assuming that I also do not have ovarian cancer. (On subjects like this, I like to think negative).

:carrot:

So, without apologies, (except, sorry for the bad puns), here is my already-high calorie count for today, Thursday:

breakfast: boiled egg, pear: 201
second breakfast: Light & Fit omelette, two blueberry pancakes: 730
afternoon snack (all that talk about popcorn made me crave it, and I have a box of microwave popcorn I need to use up, so --) one bag, plus a string cheese: 320
dinner: zucchini, yellow squash, mushrooms, NS Pasta with Beef: 230
snacks: NS dessert bar, 4 Hershey kisses, nonfat cottage cheese: 438


Total: 1919 Probably no deficit for me today. I'll be lucky to break even. But I had a good mammogram, and that's the important thing!

I've seen on here people who count calories dinner to lunch. I want to do this. I feel it will help greatly at reigning in the caloric counts. Especially since dinner is the most unpredicatable meal I deal with. For example we have dinner at a friends home tonight. And I have no idea what will be served. So to make the transition I figured that dinner tonight will be counted twice. Once to round out today, and then to start tomorrow caloric count that will end at lunch tomorrow. I figured this way I am sure to stay on track better than if I skipped this morning and just started tomorrow with dinner.

Anyone count this way? Did you just start it off doing so?

Queen S -- Popcorn is one of my all time fav snacks! I used to use an air popper but didn't like how dry it made it and how it got all 'hully' and those darn things sticking in my teeth.

I read an article about how bad microwave popcorn is (all the crap they put in there, not to mention the calories) and it gave a home version of how to make your own.

1. Put 1/4 cup of kernals into a brown paper lunch bag.
2. Fold the bag once or twice from top and seal w/a piece of tape.
3. Microwave it for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes (try not to burn it cause it's not very good burnt. Might take a few tries before you figure out exactly how long works in your microwave. 1 min and 50 seconds is perfect in ours).

OMG! The popcorn is more 'corny' tasting, crisper and not nearly as 'hully'. I usually sprinkle on butter buds and sometimes spray it w/butter flavored spray. Not that that stuff is great but I figured it's way better then all the chemicals in microwaved popcorn.

ma -- Why would you count tonights dinner twice? Once for tonight, then count b-fast tomorrow then count lunch and snacks tomorrow and that's your total. Right? Or am I missing something?

I start each day, counting cals from b-fast through dinner/night time snack.

loose seal- I want to count calories from dinner the night before and ending with lunch the next day. I saw some cc'ers on here count that way. And since dinner has been the meal that is the variable I was hoping that doing it this way may make it easier for me to keep my calories more spot on. I can control hunger better day and afternoons. Dinner is where I struggle. This way if dinner ends up always being a 500-700 hundred ordeal I can adjust my breakfast and lunches to accomodate.
But since I have been counting breakfast though dinner so far, I need to find a way to transition to counting dinner through lunch as a day. And I dont want to lose any accountability in the process.

ma, I had never heard of starting with the dinner calories before I came to this forum, but I think it's an interesting idea! If dinner/evening is when you tend to go over, I can see where it would make sense to count those calories first, and then it's easier to be frugal for breakfast and lunch the next day, and then start with a clean slate for the next dinner. Let us know how it works!

loose seal, thanks for the microwave popcorn idea! I will get some brown paper bags and try that! (I hope I don't regret buying the air-popper!)

Just wanted to note this. I have been really wanting to eat and eat today. But with dinner at friends tonight i wanted to save 600 calories so I can be ok regardless or what they serve. I was feeling so an urge to eat and decided to go for a run. The workout actually blunted my hunger! This is great. I'll have to remember that it worked that way this time.