You definately SHOULD be jealous of my brown rice crackers, because let me tell you, they are the most exciting diet find I've ever had and I am so in love with them i should probably write a post about it!!!!

These little crackers are gluten free, vegan, and made from wholesome whole grain brown rice. And the best part is (drumroll please).....you can eat a whopping 9 crackers for only 60 calories!!!!!!!

Please do check them out. Not all can be consumed for a mere 60 calories, I only buy the tamari seaweed and tamari sesame and I think some you can only eat 7 or something.

http://www.edwardandsons.com/es_shop_snaps.itml

And, well, they taste...really dry on their own, put dipped in hummus they remain crunchy and amazing.

I must admit, I had brown rice cracker envy when lackadaisy posted about her giant sized cracker things the other day. lackadaisy, please post a link to those when you get a moment!!! (yes, I understand that will probably be in 2 weeks when you finish your thesis. I'll wait! )

Haha, I'm procrastinating my thesis like crazy right now, and it's due in 6 days, so don't make me wish it were 2 weeks So much revision left to do... Did you mean the Suzie's Thin Cakes (I bought those in an organic/whole foods grocery -- Amazon store here) or the Bran Crispbread?

Suzie's thin cakes taste amazing and are just a legitimate yummy food item. I'm a little skeptical about the GG Bran crispbread (just got them in today) but, hey, they are 12 calories and SO MUCH FIBER OMG. http://www.brancrispbread.com/

Also, evening snacking failure: just ate the rest of my ChocoPerfection bar. Ah well, it was only another 100 calories. I'm never good at keeping my grubby hands off new food, especially not magical low-carb chocolate. Will have to watch how much I eat after this... not because it's unhealthy, but because it is wayyy to expensive for such abuse

Hahahaa, sorry lackadaisy! I suppose I read a week ago it was due in two weeks and that stuck in my brain. Good luck and thanks for the links, the Suzie's Thin Cakes sound great to me!

Just found a new way of procrastinating GRE studying: ordering healthy food on Amazon. YES! This is much more fun. Thanks guys!

Best wishes thesising, lackadaisy!

Yesterday wasn't so hot

B: 2 mini pancakes, mango, kiwi
L: Whole Wheat toast, hard boiled egg, broccoli, lettuce, tomato
S: cheese and wasa crackers
D: Pizza with arugula, mozzarella, and tomato (this was my down fall)
D: dark chocolate

today was better by a bit:

Late Breakfast/early Lunch: Black Bean Burger, bun, cheese, veg
early dinner: lettuce, tofu, broccoli. cabbage salad with a bite of noodles
Dessert: dark chocolate, pistachios

On plan today! Yoshhhh.

B: 80g plain yogurt, banana, instant oatmeal
S1: "Barley" chocolate
L1: Cabbage/corn/lettuce with a dollop of potato salad and 3 thin slices ham, no dressing from 7-11. Only 105 kcal!
L2: 1 Fuji apple, 1 serving cheddar cheese, 80g Borlotti beans, 1 "head" spinach stir-friend in sesame oil chopped and mixed. Note to self: VERY filling!
S2: 80g yogurt, 1 caramel chew
D: Salmon fillet, 1/2 stalk broccoli, 1 egg fried w/1 slice of Gouda cheese. 2 100g zero calorie jellos.

Exercise: 30 minute uphill powerwalk to work. 80 minute up and downhill powerwalk with lots of stairs after work. Some core stuff this morning.

Calorie total: about 1450

Making progress on the thesis. Woke up at 8 am, putzed around my room thesising and procrastinating until 11, did C25k Week 5 Day 2 in a fasted state... and I guess that set me up to be dramatically lower than my normal calories by 7:30 at night. I don't really know how to deal with how many calories I have for snacks/dessert. I ate a lot of dinner just now and so I'm actually uncomfortably stuffed.

Anyone else find that exercise in a fasted state actually makes them no longer have cravings for anything but protein and fruit? I actually passed up pasta for fish today, that never happens.

B: skipped. Did drink 20 oz water with vitamin mix (really sweet, 0 cal) first, of course.
L: 12 pm. 4 oz atlantic salmon, huge mess o' stirfried veggies (bok choy, cabbage, etc). 270 cal.
S: 2 pm. small tangerine, 50 cal.
S2: 3 pm. Clif mini, 100 cal. (Somehow these are really filling while other bars aren't. ??)
D: 6 pm. grilled chicken, 4 oz kale & caramelized onions, 2 oz chickpeas. 300 calories.
Evening snacks: 8 ginger thins (130cal), 1 graham cracker (60cal).

Total so far: 910 cal. I actually feel like I've been pushing food down instead of fighting cravings today... it's a really weird feeling. Currently at perfect 30/40/30... may stay up late to write just so I can justify a midnight boca burger.

Didn't do so great today nurition wise. Need to go grocery shopping but no time!!!

Breakfast (310) 1/2 cup oatmeal (150), blueberries (25), almond milk (45), tea with more almond milk (90).

Lunch (490): 1/2 a bagel (200) with hummus (70), mock chopped liver (150?), green olives (50) herb mix. Bunch of grape tomatoes on the side (20)

Snack: Dark chocolate (100)

Eary dinner/snack (225): 2 mini potato pancakes (90), T applesauce (15) 1/2 tofurky keilbasa (120)

Late dinner/snack (200): 1 cup korean ramen noodles with kimchi (200ish, the entire packet was 500 and this was less than half) I don't think kimchi has calories?

1325 calories

While I was searching for calories in kimchi I found this cool site, calorie gallery! Lots of different foods with pictures of the portion size and calorie counts. Might be helpful for some of us who don't always have packages around to read...

http://www.caloriegallery.com/

Wildflower, that site is FANTASTIC! I can't weigh my food in the dining hall (I've been bringing it back to my room to check in the last couple of days, to make sure I'm eyeballing correctly... a little neurotic, but I'd like to know exactly what 2 Tbsp of peanut butter is), and this is so helpful. Thank you!

B: 3 Weetabix, 1 cup light vanilla soy milk, banana (195, 70, 172)

S: Small Macintosh apple, 1 tbsp sunflower seed spread (80, 100)

L: Green Giant veggie steamer, serving low fat cottage cheese, 1/2 cup blueberries (50, 90, 41)

S: 1/2 avocado (apparently 140, thought it was more)

D: 4 oz shrimp, 1/2 cup cherry tomato, 4 whole grain crackers- sat down to eat it with spinach and Italian dressing, but the spinach didn't taste right (tasted like I had just eaten grass from right outside, blech!)so I ate it all other than the spinach and dressing and ended up making another veggie steamer of a different kind ( 103, 13, 60, 100)



Total 1214

I didn't workout today because work kept me longer than planned, did walk to work and back which takes 1/2 hr each way.

Yesterday definitely tested me. Farewell dinner for a friend at an Italian restaurant, and then another friend wanted to talk over going out to eat at lunch. On edge all day.

Breakfast: 1 pancake experiment (whole wheat, oats, roasted pumpkin, bran- turned out yummy) (178)
Lunch: 1/4 c shrimp in sauce, 1/4 c fish curry, 1/2 c coconut rice (810. Pretty sure an overestimate, but not taking any chances. It could be accurate- Indian food is extremely calorie-dense)
Snack: 1/2 pomegranate (105)
Dinner: 1 1/2 small broccoli-cheese-eggplant roll-ups at an Italian restaurant. (410)

Since two meals were out, it was difficult to estimate calorie content. I picked high calorie/fat content fish and shrimp curry entries in my calorie counter, and then opted for baked eggplant parmesean to resemble these roll-up things.

I was SO CAREFUL with portion size which was the only thing that saved me from a potentially disastrous day. There were 4 small roll-ups, I only ate 1.5 and took the rest home. Phew.

Then, feeling gross after lunch, I power-walked uphill for 30 minutes and hit up an abs and arm routine. Only counted the power-walking for my exercise to underestimate.

Anyway, totals are:
Total: 1507
Exercise: 281
Net: 1226

Whatever overestmating/underestimating I did I think worked, because even though I went to bed fearful and feeling gross (probably mostly psychological), woke up this morning the same at 129.6.

Feeling a little gross this morning, so I may try to do a VLCD today.

Sorry for the long post. Yesterday was just a very difficult day!

indiblue, it sounds like your day was extremely successful. Great job at dinner - wow!

What's a VLCD? I may have done one today and would rather just log it as such than stuff myself, at this point. After downing 200 cal of only carbs, I can tell I wouldn't be making healthy choices if I keep eating.

It's a Very Low Calorie Diet. I don't think it's a good idea in the long run, but I need a bit of a detox after yesterday. Lots of things running around amuck in my body right now :-/ Plus still have this strain in my groin that only got worse after my long powerwalk, so I really need to just RICE it today. Ergo, no exercise

Yesterday I was totally thinking of you and your recommendation of upping protein when I picked the restaurant where we ate for lunch. There is one restaurant that serves seafood curries, so I opted for that one. Got loads of protein yesterday as a result. So thanks!!!