Hmmm, Wikipedia is not promising on this... I am not obese and I don't want gallstones. You probably shouldn't go super low-calorie either -- especially if you over-counted at lunch (I HIGHLY doubt you ate 700 kcal), you can almost certainly just eat normally tomorrow. Don't set yourself up for a binge!

Vacillating on whether I should eat the Quest protein bar I bought yesterday. It's actually the $2 cost of the bar that is keeping me back more than the calories... I feel like I should bring it with me "on the go" or something.

Meh, think I will. It looks yummy, and I feel weird at 900 calories. I don't want to end up sick tomorrow.

ETA: STRONGLY REGRET eating/buying Quest bars. They taste like caramel syrup on chewy gelatinous poop. At least I'm full / nutritionally-balanced / over 1000 calories, now. But... gross gross gross.

I have to be sedentary all day today and continue to still feel full/sick from yesterday. Reducing my calories today to around 800 (or 900-1000 if I feel I need it, I'm not tied to the technical definition of VLCD's 800 threshold) for one day will be fine.

Your resolve is steely indiblue. I don't know how you managed to get away with eating that little at a restaurant!

Well, I just realized I completely forgot about the small roll and small bell pepper-goat cheese roll-up (lots of roll ups apparently) I also ate as an appetizer during dinner. Oh well. No use in going back and counting the cals for it. What's done is done.

Regarding resolve... I've just gotten to the point where I'm over being in the upper 120s. I'm DEFINITELY over being in the 130s. I was able to think all day and yesterday about the opportunity dinner would be to either eat well or to pig out. I had worked too hard over the past few weeks to throw it away over a meal. It just wasn't worth it.

I am sore. So sore. Only cardio for me today. Funny, when I get back on track and realize how hard I have to work in the gym, my food intake is immediately reorganized.

Of course in the face of pizza, pizza always wins, also vegetable lo mein....but in their absence, I'm a rock star if I do say so myself.

We're having friends over this weekend and most likely they will be of the sleepover variety so I need to make sure I get to the gym on Saturday and Sunday without fail. But..what's that Jillian Michael's quote?

Live in the moment, be in the present. That is all you have.

Didn't do the low-calorie thing due to dinner out. Oh well. I think still ate close to on-plan.

Breakfast Slim Fast with skim milk, 1 banana
Lunch 1 glass watermelon juice (which rang in at 128 calories- does that seem right??), 1 c Indian lentils (daal)
Snacks (throughout the day) 1 tsp Jif Peanut Butter, 3/4 cucumber, 4 tsp hummus
Dinner 1/2 c jasmine steamed rice, 1/4 c pad thai, 1/4 c green curry, 1 bite of stir fry, 3 bites of tapioca in coconut milk, 1 glass red wine

Total: 1194
Exercise: 0 (day 1 of resting the pulled hamstring)
Net: 1194

Although I had a few "bites, licks, and nibbles" or whatever WW folks call it throughout the day, so probably closer to 1250 or 1300.

Question the Thai dinner came in on my counter at 367. Does that seem a bit low to you guys?

Where can I find the suzie thin cakes???!? Does Publix or walmart or albertons carry it?? I am in Florida..

I decided I do want to log into 3FC -- just making sure to keep it under 5 min a day to do this accountability thread. I do need my sanity to be effective, after all. Sorry I can't do personals! I doubt anyone will have questions for me, but if you do just PM and it'll come through my email.

I bought Suzie's thin cakes at a yuppie grocery store in Boston. I wish I knew how better to describe it but that's what it is. I know they're on Amazon but I have no idea where else to get them, sorry

I don't really have "days" anymore so I'll just log what I've eaten since last logging:

After midnight: 10g block of ChocoPerfection dark chocolate (this stuff is awesome, girls -- hella expensive but awesome, & the price keeps me from eating too much), 1/3 cup Special K, ~1/2 cup cheerios, 1/2 cup broccoli, 1/4 cup carrots. All-nighter-ish, slept 7am to 10am.

Today:
B (170): 1/2 cup Cracklin Oat Bran (my favorite high-cal cereal), 1/3 cup milk.
L (320): grilled chicken, salad base, cucumber, red onion, balsamic vinegar... and an Atkins Daybreak bar because i had noms. Next time I'll prob replace that with a cookie.
S1 (120): 1/2 cup nonfat cottage cheese, 1 Tbsp PB2 peanut butter powder
D (260): huge mess of veggies & tofu, i think 1.5 lbs total: steamed cabbage and green beans, baby corn, a bit of snow peas & broccoli, lots of tofu. Some kind of greasy/syrupy sauce that I tried not to use much of. Ridiculously delicious/filling.
S2 (150): forced down 6 oz egg whites, 1 boca burger for the protein.
S3 (70): OMG cantaloupe & honeydew in the dining hall!! way too exciting.
0-calorie things: I don't know how many cups of black coffee and tea.

Total: 1160. No time for exercise.

Still pushing through this...
By the way, if anyone is willing to read a chapter of my thesis and point out my typos/run-on sentences, I would be much indebted to you. PM me. <3

Did really well yesterday. Today is doomsday aka all you can eat buffet day with my foodie friends.

Yesterday's food/exercise

Calories: 1300ish

B: Yogurt, bagel sandwich, oatmeal
L: Chicken breast, broccoli, pasta with beans and dill and a little olive oil
S: 1 small to medium Ruby Red grapefruit, 0 calorie jello
D: Chicken breast on top of "baby leaf" greens with a little sesame oil, mini Snickers, 4 tiny bite size cookies, 0 calorie jello again
Exercise: Nothing too sweaty; 200 crunches, 50 pushups, planks, squats in the AM, 100 min fast walking. Both feet feel awful now.

Currently having 2 eggs, spinach, and a slice of Gouda cheese for breakfast.

Breakfast: 2 eggs, sunny-side up
Snack1: (recovery from exercise) 1 apple, 1 tsp peanut butter, 1/2 slim fast
Lunch: 1 c cauliflower carrot puree soup
Snack2: 1/4 c yogurt, 1 tsp honey
Dinner: 2 homemade black bean burgers (carrot, black bean, chick peas, oats, onion, seasonings), 1 jalbi (Indian sweet)

A few bites, nibbles, licks= ~100

Exercise: 30 minutes uphill powerwalking, 15 minutes elliptical, 15 minutes abs and strength

Total: 1282
Exercise: 174 (only counted the power-walking and elliptical)
Net: 1108

Might have another small sweet to kill my sweet tooth, but net should not be more than 1200.

Yesterday -

Breakfast - Luna Bar and tea (my original breakfast of toast with almond butter had an unfortunate soaking of my original cup of tea...so thus a train station Luna bar, sigh)

Lunch - Sushi with friends! Brown Rice with avocado roll, 4 veggie dumplings, miso soup.

Snack - mimosa. No, I don't usually drink alcohol has snacks, I was a a spa and given while waiting! Hahaa.

Dinner: Snacks with the fiancee - chipotle hummus with brown rice crackers, green olives, 2 pieces of veggies sushi, these evil mac and cheese balls from Trader Joe's. 1 Rum and coke.

Calories: No idea, didn't count. Hopefully not too bad, my stomach was growling by 8:30 even after the snacks from 6:30-7 pm. I also did a lot of extra walking around the city today, probably about 3 + miles until rain started and I hailed a cab.

Worked out yesterday morning like the dickens. Today too. Eating is going well. Yesterday was on point. Today....doesn't look good as my daughter has a playdate and the lunch menu consists of pizza. Sigh.

Way to give yourself a fun day, Wildflower! Looks like you were able to keep it pretty healthy too. Hope the spa was fun When is your wedding?

ju5tdoit congrats on the good workout. Pizza is a great food if you can just keep it in moderation. I was nervous about a pizza lunch last week but was able to just have 1 slice and keep all my numbers in check. Plus an extra boost of calcium and protein Hope your day ended up where you wanted it.

(Oh my god. Thesis. It is a LOT better than yesterday, but.... a day has passed. I have never been so efficient and I am sure it will not get done. What a feeling.)

In terms of food, I didn't stay low-carb or "whole-food" like yesterday, but I also felt sick -- TMI alert but this constipation is really getting out of hand, I can't even be flippant about it, it's just painful as everything but s*** can be (PUN, ok I am flippant about it).

Morning run, C25k W5D2.

B (130): Atkins Daybreak oatmeal bar bc I missed real breakfast with real oatmeal. Determined to be awake for oatmeal tomorrow.
L (320): Big bowl of lentil soup and quinoa; steamed broccoli; 6 oz egg whites.
D (230): 4 oz Spaghetti squash, 4 oz collard greens, 4 oz grilled chicken, 14 pieces fresh celery sticks. One nibble of brownie that was too disappointing to continue (overlogged at 1/10 brownie or 13 cal).
Snacks: 3 Clif minis. (300 cal). 1 cup frozen grapes (60), if I manage to finish the grapes. Only 3 cups of coffee, 2 cups of tea today.

Total: 1040.

Daisy, I realize I never told you the bars I am eating. Mostly Atkins (even though they contain some bizarre ingredients and have a strange aftertaste). Usually the chocolate chip granola. Sometimes FiberOne bars. Occasionally MetRx if I worked out but usually eat 1/2 the bar. I tend to eat them as my snacks with tea since candy and cake are my downfalls. Especially cake. I am forever trying to trick myself into thinking these bars are candybars or brownies or real cookie dough.
You are doing great with the thesis and trying to stay on plan so don't be too hard on yourself. You also reminded me I have a spaghetti squash and kale that I need to cook! And I think I will buy some of those Clif minis. Are they 100 cals each? That would be a good on the go thing for me.
I hope you get a PW and that feeling goes away soon. My daughter suffers, too, and I feel so bad for her at times. The doctor wants me to give her Miralax every day but she hates it. It's supposed to have no odor or taste but somehow she knows when I've mixed it into her drinks!