LAgreeneyes, seriously! You do need to eat more!

Well, I must have set a record for inactivity yesterday. I did a lot of brain work, and didn't even go down to check the mail! :( (Oh wait. There wasn't any mail. It was a holiday). Today, I will get more steps in. My calorie deficit was only 29 yesterday! I won't lose very fast at that rate. But at least I'm maintaining.:cool:


Today, Tuesday:
8:30 breakfast: Pradaboy Quiche, 130 gram orange: 302 cal
11:45 lunch: NS chocolate caramel bar, 8 almonds, Big spinach salad with artichoke hearts, tomato, onion, pumpkin seeds, Walden Farms dressing, red pepper: 404
3:30 snack: sliced pear, 6T pb2 chocolate, 256
7:00 dinner: Pizza Fit n Free, broccoli, carrots, fat-free coleslaw, 318
snack: dried fruit, 145
NS dessert bar, 160


Total so far: 1585 calories

b: omelet and leftover roasted veggies, coffee, 16oz water - 400
l: 1 cup lf cottage cheese w/ 1/2 cup crushed pineapple, popcorn, water - 380

Forgot to come here to total up. Ate approx. 1400-1450 cals yesterday. Not a good day (not food-wise, just life-wise).

:smug:Queen Sarah - How does the fitbit work? Is it like a pedometer? I apologize if you've already given this info:smug:

OK so the weekend is behind me and I'm back to being better about the choices in foods I am making. Got a good run in, inspite of freezing wind. And am eating healthy on schedule foods.
7:45 am Protien and fruit smootie- 230 cals
international delights creamer and coffee- 50 cals
11:30am Mediterranean lentil stew 1.5 cups-300 cals
3:00pm- 3 c.mixed greens with 1/2c. cherry tomato,1/4 c. cucumber, 1/2 oz feta, 1 oz sun dried tomato in oil, 1 tbsp tuscan dressing-225 cals
5:15pm-1 oz veggie straws 1/4 cup vegtarian refried beans-190 cals
8:00pm-Veggie sausage tomato sauce and pasta-350 cals

And later last night 2 glasses vino- 250cals
Total for day: 1595

Since I have had issues with reigning in my eating this last weekend I am trying a new approach. I want to try to eat 5 light meals every 3 hours about. Hopeing this will help keep the late night munchies at bay. Also I have heard that this method helps keep the metabolism boosted. So here goes trying it out!

K9Owner- Ha ha I do like the wine myself. And when I am not actively working on the weightloss it does tend to be more 2-4 glasses than the 1-2 recomended. I at first was abstaining from any delicious fermented grapes or barley at first. But I think instead of no alcohol I have decided to limit the numer of glasses in a week. And no beer (I love the hoppy stuff and its high calorie).

Who here does calorie cycling? I have recently read a bit about it and how supposedly it helps keep your body tricked into full metabolism mode. I dont want to jump ship on my stead stay under 1700 calories goal (which I am yet to achieve). I want to do that method for at least two weeks before I make changes. I just want to not be jumping around all over the place. Thats what I usually do and I need to work on consistency.

i am curious if calorie cycling has been a useful tool for others. :)

The Fitbit is awesome. It's kind of like a pedometer on steroids. You wear it on your bra, so it doesn't show. (Guys wear it on their pants pockets). It measures steps, but also figures in some intensity, so a fast walk or a run would burn more calories than a slow walk.

It syncs with your computer, and the website shows you how many calories you've burned, along with some other helpful information (like how many calories you can eat the rest of the day if you want to meet your goal). There is a social networking aspect to it, and the newer Fitbits also count flights of stairs. (I don't have that one). You enter your calories on their website (although you don't have to -- you can use whatever features you want.)

It is similar to the Body Bugg, but much less expensive, no monthly fee, and not awkward to wear -- it doesn't give you some of the data that Body Bugg gives you, but it tells me the stuff I'm interested in. My big frustration with counting calories was that I had no measure of how many calories I burned just with incidental daily activity (not specifically "exercise") -- now I have a way to measure that! And I find that it's accurate enough. The calorie deficit I'm showing is right on track with the weight loss I'm experiencing.

So looking at the numbers really motivates me to move more (and eat less, sometimes).

Today could not have been any more OFF PLAN! :stress:
It is what it is…

1 whole grapefruit: 51
Raspberry Greek Yogurt w/Hazelnuts, Ezekiel Raisin Bread & 1 tsp Sunbutter: 264
1 Panko Encrusted Chicken Tender: 58
:censored: dessert, picked 3 bites of chicken off a :jeno: : Approx 468
Total: 841 :yikes:

Water: 48 oz!!!! :nono:
Exercise: NOTHING!!!! :tantrum:

This is a: "Dear Santa, I can explain" day!

I got up at 11am, tired…very tired..unusually tired.
I ate my pre-run food. My back ached. I returned to bed.
I felt worse.
I talked to my sister, who told me my mom was going to see Brandon--our chiropractor.
GREAT IDEA!!
I dressed, got myself together and went to see him!
I haven't been in about 2 months!!
I adjusted sooooo well!! But, he took my breath away.
I can't exercise afterwards.
I made dinner, but didn't want it.
I had a similar treat posted on my blog (1/2 of it actually) for dinner.
I feel weak and drained.
I'm returning to bed.
I'm not hungry, not even for dessert. ((STRANGE))

Read over this post. Esp on page 2. Lots of good info here!
Refeed Day

K9Owner- Thanks that was supremely helpful. I do want to try this. Maybe I'll try this even though I want to avoid my usual habit of skipping around with weightloss plans. But...I'm still calorie counting so maybe this isnt so much a crazy skip around? Not sure how to approach yet, so for now I'll do the 1700 goal, and once I see how wieght is actually coming off when I am sticking to those goals, then I'll figure my cycling plan :)

Yesterday's calories in: 1,585. Calories burned: 1,705. Only a 120 calorie deficit, but that's ok. At least I'm maintaining. When I'm able to get out more and be more active, I'll be on the losing track.

Regarding calorie cycling, I do it, but by accident. I'm really good at micromanaging my calorie intake, until a social (or sometimes emotional) situation comes up -- not very often -- and I eat in the two-thousandsies. Then I will eat low calorie for a few days to compensate. I always get a bit of a weight drop after these incidents. (In fact, I'm thinking maybe I need to manufacture one pretty soon, because my weight is flatlining lately, when I'd prefer a slow downward slope).

I guess if I never had these "accidental" situations, I'd have to do it on purpose, and plan a higher-calorie day, but I like the accidental way better. It gives me somewhat of a relief and a sense of temporary freedom from my own micromanagement.


OK, 6:30 breakfast: NS cereal, skim milk: 152 cal
9:30 2nd breakfast: egg, orange: 149 cal
12:00 lunch: fat-free coleslaw, 1 tomato, NS Fudge Graham bar: 255 cal

Woot woot!
 

Saw a crazy whoosh on the scale this morning. I know that with a light dinner and 2 glasses of wine I realize it may be a bit of dehydration, so I wont be surprised if it inches up a bit. But hopefully by the end of the week it'll be back and staying around. That would mean I lost 1/2 of the holiday weight gain!
Today so far:
7:40am- Protien shake- 140cals
12:15pm-Salad w/ mixed greens, tomato, red onion, feta, sundried toms, kidney beans, and 2 tbsp tuscan dressing- 384cals
1:45pm- 2 homemade light crab cakes 140cals
-----Still felt so hungry so 2:00pm- 3 tbsp adams natural peanut butter-300cals
coffee with international delights-35cals
5:00pm- Veggie Straws ranch flavored 1 apple 1 bartlett pear-282cals
7:30pm- 1 slice papa john veggie pizza (yes I only ate 1 slice!!! woo hoo!!!)-280cals
8:00pm- 1 packet swiss miss no added sugar hot cocoa-60cals

Total so far today:
1621

Hope its okay that I join in. My daily calorie limit for now is 1500.

Breakfast
1 1/2 C Multigrain Cheerios
1C 1% milk
1/2 C fresh strawberries
8oz unsweet mandarin orange green tea (total yumminess)
CALORIE TOTAL: 302

SNACK #1
Light Cheese Stick
101g Clementine
CALORIE TOTAL: 107

LUNCH
Spicy Black Bean patty
Two slices light white
slice of cheese
1/2 tbs olive oil mayo
spinach
28g of Doritos
CALORIE TOTAL: 443

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Regarding calorie cycling, I do it, but by accident. I'm really good at micromanaging my calorie intake, until a social (or sometimes emotional) situation comes up -- not very often -- and I eat in the two-thousandsies. Then I will eat low calorie for a few days to compensate. I always get a bit of a weight drop after these incidents. (In fact, I'm thinking maybe I need to manufacture one pretty soon, because my weight is flatlining lately, when I'd prefer a slow downward slope).



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I do it by accident too. It's a great tool. It can help you prevent the demotivation of an off plan day b/c it helps keep your focus on your weekly average. I do benefit from it, especially when I am working out a lot or just have one of those hungry days.

I was also surprised by even more loss when I had a higher calorie day here and there in my diet. I like to think of it as revving up your engine.

Today was better than yesterday, life-wise . . well, this morning wasn't but this afternoon was. A bit. My head hurts though. Ever just wanna scream at the world 'shut up, go away, leave me alone!!'? Oy.

b: kashi cereal (oo, the cinnamon crisp is really good), 2% milk, coffee - 400
l: l. cuisine rice/beans - 300
s: handful of crushed doritos (the crushed part was part of the 'life-wise sucky' yesterday . . don't ask) - no clue - 50
d: making chicken parm, pasta, leftover steamed broccoli - don't no, guessing 500

The scale is the same this morning as it was on Sat, no loss, might be getting TOM, not pleased, relatively annoyed at everything right now, have NOT been OP with my water intake AT ALL . . . oh, and I'm hungry.

BLARG.

:nono:Over the last two or three hours I am fighting with all I got to not just eat and eat and eat! I thought a tablespoon of peanut butter may help. Some natural fats to satify. And it was SOOOO good, so I had two more:nono: Somestimes :coffee:helps to blunt the appetite. So if it doesn't I am drinking water water water. I am at enough calories for the day so far. And in 3 hrs I can eat again. BUT NOT BEFORE!!! I feel great finally being in my planned calories yesterday, and even with a little guilty calories (the vino). And I woke up feeling great today. Bought tons of healthy whole foods groceries.

I will finish this coffee and then get off my arse and find something productive to do until its time to head to the gym! (Gym is right by my stepdaughters bus stop, so I want to time it so I can pick her up right after my workout)

Anyways, thanks to everyone just for existing out there and being a place in which I am determined to stay accountable. I feel like something is different this time. Even though I am so early in my calorie counting adventure it already is different than weightloss attempts of the past. I see this working, as long as I keep working it!!!!