Krampus - hugs to you. I have been "craving" a binge the last few days. I keep telling myself not too, but the thought of shoving every food I can think of into my mouth and having that wonderfully full, satisfied feeling after is so tempting - even if in reality it won't work that way, I won't taste the food and I'll feel sick and gross after.
Here was my today. Everything was OK until dinner I suppose...ate way too much salad from whole foods, but still didn't get that satisfied feeling.
Breakfast: 1 egg over easy (80), 1 slice ww toast (100). tea with almond milk (90).
Snack (35): baby carrots
Lunch (350): sandwich of 2 slices ww bread, 1 T almond butter, 1 T jam.
Snack (!35): giant banana
Dinner (who knows, probably way too much since my scale never moves? Obviously if I wasn't eating too much I'd be losing weight. Sigh.)
salad bar from whole foods with spring mix, red cabbage, shredded carrots, pico de gallo, egg salad, marinated tofu. A few tablespoons mac and cheese and a few roasted sweet potato chunks.
2 girl scout cookies (130).
snack later, because i was still hungry after eating all that: light babybel cheese (50), 10 grape tomatoes (20)
lackadaisy glad you were able to treat yourself and then successfully complete your fast! You definitely deserved it. I totally hear you on the fast- I always feel better and cleansed, as you put it, after a very low calorie day following a high one. Every now and then it feels like a good thing to incorporate into a healthy diet. Hope you have a wonderful run/normal eating/SPRING BREAK!!
WEIRD eating day today. I spent most of the day cooking for this party, ended up not eating much of anything throughout the day and then of course went crazy at the party/dinner thing.
Breakfast: 1/2 pumpkin cookie (tasting samples from each batch I made) (54) Lunch: 1 c corn flakes, 1/2 c skim milk (206) Dinner: 1 burrito (homemade flour tortilla, 1/4 c homemade refried beans, homemade salsa, sprinkling of cheese), handful of tortilla chips and salsa, about 4 water crackers with artichoke dip, 1 c watermelon salad, 2-3 tortilla chips with 7 layer bean dip, 1/2 ear corn on the cob, about 1/4 slice of chocolate cake, 1 glass red wine (1,011 holy cow)
Exercise: standing on my feet for 6 hours straight, including 5 hours of cooking.
Total: 1271 (very rough approximation)
Not even worth trying to figure out calories burned and a closer approximation of my dinner intake. It was a lot, we'll put it at that. Sodium was way up, retaining water today. 129.2
Breakfast: 1 c corn flakes, 1/2 c skim milk (163) Lunch: Taco salad (cabbage, homemade tomato salsa, tiny bit of cheese, a few tbs refried beans), 1 c watermelon, 1/2 ear corn on the cob (274) Snack: 1 slice multigrain bread, 1 tbs peanut butter (224) Dinner: 1 egg sunny side up, 1 c watermelon, 1/2 ear corn on the cob, about 7 tortilla chips, about 1/4 c bean dip (414)
Exercise: 30 minutes moderate stationary bike, 15 minutes running (300)
Total: 1075
Exercise: 300
Net: 775
A bit low, but not too hungry after massive dinner last night.
Help, everyone. I am having trouble sticking to my plan lately. First of all, TOM arrived last night, so my weight went up 2 pounds. Boo! I ran five miles yesterday, but then I can't get my eating under control the way I was doing before my wedding. My honeymoon is 2 weeks away and I really want to smash through this plateau. I have motivation, but after I saw how "easy" it is to lose weight for my wedding, I feel lazy. I need to stay focused!
I am going to go to the gym in a few minutes...I am planning to stay there for an hour. I am desperately trying to undo bad food choices and TOM gain.
kwinkle good luck! I hope you don't drive yourself crazy at the gym and restricting calories too much. I hope you are able to break through the plateau too but if the body is being stubborn it will still be an amazing trip with your husband, and you probably look FAB at 124
Today was Day One of trying out IF. I didn't eat until 1:30 PM. It worked really well. Am going to try to stick with it for a bit and see what happens.
Breakfast: -- Lunch: 3 "griddlecakes (oats, ww flour, mashed banana, yogurt, milk, egg) with 1 tsp honey and 1 tsp peanut butter, 1.5 c watermelon, 1/2 ear corn on the cob (447) Snack: small handful of corn flakes, 1 banana (130) Dinner: 1 c elbow pasta with 1 roma tomato and 1/2 onion sauteed in 1 tsp olive oil (sooooo yummy!), 3 oz of baked basa fish, 1/2 Hershey's special dark chocolate bar (716)
Exercise: 20 minutes moderate stationary bike, 10 minutes running, 10 minutes powerwalking, 15 minutes strength and abs
Total: 1356
Exercise: rounding down to 300
Net: 1056
As always, had a few bites of a few random things, possibly brought the total up to around 1150 or so.
I'm writing from sunny (but chilly) Myrtle Beach, SC, where I've been Spring Break-ing for the last few days. Staying on plan while driving down, going to Subway, and then DQ, and then Olive Garden for meals -- rough. But I avoided the subs (opting for salad), skipped the ice cream, ate half a grilled chicken wth veggies entree (one 4 oz breast, not both), and generally managed to avoid ODing on the snacks by remembering the calorie count of each. I've stayed under 1500 every day and have been going on beautiful morning runs along the water. Hopefully I'll have lost the thesis bloat by the end of this week -- I'm already looking forward to weighing in next Monday when I'm home!
Yesterday I had a couple slipups with junk food, but on the whole it was so much better than the past few days that it almost felt like a relief.
B Yogurt, oatmeal w/condensed milk, hard boiled egg L Spinach, egg, green pepper in leftover peanut butter sweet potato/pumpkin curry S Chocolate frosted bread thing...whoops D 1 apple, salmon fillet, cucumber, hard boiled egg, aaaand a jar of chocolate cream (the whole thing). that was a binge, it was gone in like five seconds.
Exercise Binging has made me feel REALLY weak and like if I do too much I am going to have a heart attack, so just 60 min fast walking, 50 pushups, 200 crunches (this felt so hard!) and bird dogs.
Calories about 2150. Would have been great if I had ditched the frosting (622 calories)...today is a new day though, and I have no cash to buy junk food.
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Sounds like a great way to spend spring break, lackadaisy. I've never been to Myrtle Beach but runs along the ocean - count me in!
indiblue I am going to try IF today too, just not eating until lunch. I think some days, breakfast sets off the "sit and watch the clock waiting for lunchtime" killswitch in my brain.
kwinkle Keep your eyes on the prize! I don't think you need to be cutting back and restricting much. Sane and mindful - easier said than done but it seems to be the only thing that works.
Breakfast: -- Lunch: 1.5 c daal (Indian lentils), 1 bran muffin (529) Snack: 1 bran muffin (110) Dinner: 1 c carrot-cauliflower puree, 1 c watermelon, 1-2 oz approx of baked basa fish, 1/3 Hershey's dark chocolate bar, (360) Snack: Mexican wedding cookie (127)
Total: 1126
Total waste of calories on the Mexican wedding cookie. I should have saved it for some eggs or additional protein. Boo.
EDIT: Hi lackadaisy, we miss you! Glad you're having a blast, getting in some yummy food, staying on plan, and enjoying beautiful runs. South Carolina was where my senior spring break was too :-D
Oh man I feel way silly for making this a one-woman show. I think others are taking well-deserved breaks/posting in other boards... but I'm totally stuck on this one so for now I'll stick with it
Lunch: 1 bran muffin, 1 "deck of cards" serving of baked basa fish, 1.5 cups watermelon (347) Dinner: 1 orange, 2 slices thin crust Dominos vegetable pizza, 1 slice deep dish cheese pizza (India serving size of one slice is the equivalent of a slice of personal pan pizza in the US), 1 brownie (882) Snack 1/2 slim fast with skim milk (100)
Exercise: 20 minutes moderate level stationary bike, 20 minutes run with power-walking/running intervals at the end
Total: 1229
Exercise: ~250
Net: 979
Not a nutritiously optimal day, but I deliberately did a splurge meal for dinner tonight.
Hi indiblue, I'll join back in. Yesterday was a good on plan day. I haven't weighed since last Thursday or Friday...the day I saw I was still 138 and had a breakdown when I realized I'd been that weight for a month. I don't know when I am going to weigh again...I am starting to panic I've gained and am back at 140. EEK.
Here is my Tuesday:
Breakfast (320): 2 eggs over easy (140). 1 slice dry ww toast (90). tea with almond milk (90).
Pre-work out Snack (270): baggie of carrots (70? - can someone please tell me how many calories are in baby carrots and not just to go look on sparkpeople, because those sites tell me 4 per baby carrot and that just seems way too high for the total calories on the entire bag from the store), small red pear (100?), protein shake (100).
Late Lunch (250): salad of herb mix (10), with 3 T hummus (75), 5 green olives (25), veggie burger (130), grape tomatoes (10)
Early dinner before class (330): Sandwich of 2 slices ww bread (180), 1 T almond butter (100), 1 T jam (50)
Late snack (240): 1 individually wrapped cheese (120), 2 slices tofurky (40), 4 brown rice crackers (30), 2 T hummus (50)
Edit: Forgot, also had an EmergenC packet - 25 calories.
Total Calories: 1435
Excercise: walked 2.4 miles throughout the day. Ran for 20 minutes at lunch. Up and down 5 flights of stairs at work 2 times each.
Last edited by Wildflower; 03-16-2011 at 04:05 PM.
baggie of carrots (70? - [I][U]can someone please tell me how many calories are in baby carrots and not just to go look on sparkpeople, because those sites tell me 4 per baby carrot and that just seems way too high for the total calories on the entire bag from the store.
Anytime!!!!! Good luck on your next weigh in, by the way. I understand how it is when the scale doesn't cooperate. I am taking a little break myself and I just know this will pay off sooner or later!
Thank you!
