Don't be worried but don't let yourself get complacent either. But yay for you!:carrot:

I think I should drink wine every night, it's like it's a magic whoosh serum or something:goodscale (not actually planning to do this ;))But it's probably that alcohols a diaretic and I am dehydrated these post some imbibing on vino days. I have already had 32 ounces of water this morning after weighing. So I'm drinking any damage back ;).

Late start this morning. Woke up just not hungry so I had to force myself to get the breakfast going. In the old days I would skip breakfast when I woke up without an appetite. No more!

9:00am-oatmeal with brown rice protien powder, flax seeds, bee pollen, and 1/2 cup blueberries-322 cals
12:00pm- Apple, banana, butternut squash risotto-520 cals
1:00pm- Veggie straws package and 3 cheese sticks-370 cals Total snack attack! Felt like I could have just kept eating. Now I only have 388 cals left for dinner :-(.
9:00pm-Grilled salmon(6 oz) Mango BBQ dipping sauce, mixed greens with peppers and tomato and 1000 island dressing-527 cals


Total:
1909 cals

Yesterday's calorie deficit was 293 (1638 calories in; 1931 burned), which undid the damage from the day before, leaving me at exactly zero calorie deficit for the week. My weight is also exactly the same. Yay for maintaining.

I finalized my teaching schedule for the semester, and I actually blocked off time for eating meals and snacks throughout the day. One of my problems has been not leaving time to eat (or not thinking I will have time to eat) and then panicking when I do get a chance to eat, and eating way too much. Now I can spend my panicking on something much more worthwhile. :)

Sounds like everyone is hitting their stride . . . how great is that? :carrot:

So ever since the other week when I sauteed peppers/zucchini/garlic/mushrooms for spaghetti I've been meaning to do another big batch so I would have everything ready to go to add to omelets and wraps and such. Spent some time this morning doing just that and added red onions into the mix. Should be good with this through early next week.

b: omelet w/cheese and tons of the above mixed veggies, 1 red grapefruit, coffee and water - 350
l/d: the rest of the baked ziti I had made (not very much was left), broccoli, some kashi cereal out of the box - not really sure on the ziti but I'm guestimating total cals for all of this is 800 - 900

Total: 1250 give or take

s: 1 banana w/smear of p. butter - 150-200

Total: 1450 or there abouts

Weird eating day . . . my b-fast stuck w/me until about 3 pm but I was out when I started getting hungry so when I got home I figured 'too late for lunch, kinda early for dinner' so I just combined them. lol

Do you calculate calories for peppers, onions, garlic, etc? I love all of these and can use up to 2 cups were veggie.

Just found this thread! What a great idea! I have my own but this one looks more fun Just getting over the flu so even though I lost you have to figure part of that was because of that..anyway lost 4lbs

Hi Everyone, I have chronic night binges and gained quite a bit of weight snacking my way thru the evening. I'm trying to fix that and lose a significant amount of weight. I know its worth it, but my body sometimes tells me it has other plans :(

My Calorie Limit is 1550, but I try to stay under by at least 100 calories. At first that was very hard to do, but it's become easier, maybe I've finally reached the "zone". That would be nice (for a change)

I'll check in later with my stats for the day hoping today goes well for everyone in here!

I have found that planning my meals and snacks and preparing the night before as far as what I will eat allows me to follow the foods that I have already written down including the calories, so this helps me stay on track.

I need to update my calories for the day. But I am feeling too lazy too at the moment.....
I had a thought though. I am wondering if I should raise my daily allotment? I have been running a pretty decent amount lately. (12 miles so far this week I think) And I have been lifting hard and heavy. I am wondering if perhaps I should raise my allotment to 1800 or 1900 calories? Not that I am not loving the fairly fast weightloss going on here, but I dont want a crash diet (those usually turn into crash and burn diets!) I haven't successfully counted calories like this before. And seeing what some of the foods I used to eat fairly frequently contained it seems I may have been eating like 2500 everyday. Maybe more somedays. I want to be sure I am losing at a healthy rate that I can continue on. I feel good now. Only had one especially hungry day that was a big struggle.

Also I have landed over my calories more than under.

Ugh. I feel like I am getting all concerned over something I shouldn't perhaps worry about? I am ready for this time to be THE time and I want to be sure I'm doing it right. I really believe that steady and slower weightloss is more maintainable. Quick losses have never stuck in the past. Why would they start now? But when I did lose weight slowly I didn't go back above the new set point for a long time. And it took really terrible eating to gain. Not just the "quit paying attention" kinda eating.

Geez sorry for the long ramble. I'm just like two weeks into doing this. I probably shouldn't be considering a change, right? Ugh! I dont know!!!

MA: how much exactly are you losing/week??

From the 15th to today I am down almost 4 lbs. I was down and then back up last week but on my daily weigh in I weighed 178.4 on sunday and then this morning 174.8. Not that I am at all complaining. Just like I said I want to be sure I'm doing this the right way.....

I only started counting on the 11th. Yeah so only 10 days. But I am down 5 lbs. Maybe its that intial weightloss craziness. So probably I am letting myself get concerned over nothing? Before the 11th I consistently weighed between 179.8 and 181.4 since the day after new years. (I was weighing daily a while before I started making dietary changes, but I started running again the week before christmas). I wanted a real legitamate starting weight, so I wanted to see what I consistently weighed weighing for awhile. But after seeing it hover around 180 for more than 10 days I figured I had legitimately gained that much weight over the holidays. Maybe the fact it was a recent gain (on november 1st I weighed 172, middle of october I weighed 170). is why its coming off more quickly?

Yup. I use one egg and two whites for the omelet (100 cals), at most 1/4 cup shredded cheese (100 cals), coffee was about 25, veggies (about 1 cup) I put in at 50, grapefruit 75. Although sometimes I don't even bother adding the cals for the veggies . . cause their veggies. lol But since I cooked all of these in some evoo I counted them.

DAY*UM!
You Geaux Girl!!

If I were you, and this is JUST me.. I'd stick to that for another 2 weeks if you are satisfied with the food amount.

K9Owner- I am seriously being a head case. Just got back from the gym and while on the stepmill was thinking about my crazy worrying about losing too much weight?! Whats wrong with me! But yes I need to stick with the plan at least another two weeks before I re-evaluate. If I find that I am not having energy to work out then thats another story. THanks for the imput though.

Well, I have NOTHING like ma26 to report, just another similar OP day in my world.

FF Turkey/Cheese Omelet, Fresh Pineapple: 217
Diet Coke, Coffee, Cottage Cheese w/Pineapple: 230 (Strange Mix, I know)
Beef Cabbage Quinoa, Tuna w/mayo on shredded lettuce, Grapes: 629
??Something else for roughly 125 cals. I'm not too hungry.
Total: ~1200
Exercise: NONE :tantrum: (last day of nada, :crossed: )
Water: NOT NEARLY ENOUGH!! 48 oz

I'll drink at least 16 more oz before bed.
I'm going to do some "hot" yoga in my bathroom to try to loosen up the muscles so I can run tomorrow.
Then, tomorrow night is girls night out w/vino!! :yay:
I'm hoping my strategy of saving up my cals for 2 days will pay off for Saturday night's drink- fest!

Spike Day is Sunday. I'm preparing that already. One GREEN MONSTER coming right up!! :stir:

I hate not being able to workout, but over-training 2 yrs ago for a 1/2 mary is what led to the re-injury of my lower back. I wanna take precautions and be smart this time. So, this week has been chiro, massage, and rest. UGH!!!

Oh yeah, and :goodscale might be tomorrow, IF I sleep well tonight!! :crossed: