K9Owner- We will miss seeing your posts, but it sounds like you are making a good decision to take a break. Hope you check in and let us know how your doing. Maybe not having to obsess about it all is just the prescription that you need to follow right now. Best of luck and well wishes!!!

Also its amazing that you have been logging religiously for a year. Thats real commitment and you deserve this break.

Anyways hi everyone I'm finally back. My camping trip was great. Alot of driving though and some terrible food choices. And I didn't do like I had promised. I didn't track anything after day 1. We were alwasy busy and honestly only ate like two meals a day, but my choices were sometimes really horrendous and I am nervous to see the damage on the scale tomorow.

I had my half marathon race yesterday and used it as an excuse to wait until today to start counting calories again. So today is day 1 I suppose. I forgot to weigh this morning so tomorrow will be the first time I step on the scale since before I left on my trip. I have a VERY bad feeling I may be back at square one.

Well looks like it has been a bumpy week for a few of us. Good job checking in and staying with it.

I have been craving carbs like mad today. I dont know if maybe it has to do with running yesterday? Or more likely is a carryover from my week of terrible eating......

Today:

Breakfast: Cheerios (no milk it was sour ), whole grain crackers- 307 cals
Lunch- Grilled shrimp salad-700 cals

Dinner- Apple pecan and blue cheese salad-400 cals

Total: 1407 cals

Mid-afternoon and I'm at 1275. Working at the computer all day. Got to stop snacking for the rest of the afternoon and have a light dinner to stay under 1600.

Hey everyone, I'm new to this forum. I've been counting calories, watching my fat, carbs, and sodium. I have had a cold for the last few days and resisited the urge to comfort myself with food. I didn't feel hungry for breakast, ate some lunch and dinner and then did my calorie count. It is 410 and I'm full. I don't know how this happened.

With a heavy heart and a higher number on the scale, I drag my feet back to calorie counting. Three days of foooooood and I weighed in at 170 yesterday morning - I am hoping for a few pounds of that to be bloat, but this is wishful thinking


ETA: and I just got my first "You've lost weight!" comment today. Go figure.

lunch: salad with chicken: 160
beef pocket: 340
5 chicken strips: 560
strawberries (300grms): 90

total: 1150

b: coffee, picante/cheese omelet, 3 leftove sweet potato/zucchini cakes - 450
l: 1 pita bread and leftover chicken from last night - 450
s: coffee, 1 energy ball - 150

breakfast: cereal bar (130), peanut butter (250), apple (100)

lunch: pulled pork meat (300)

snacks: banana (100), orange (100)

dinner: lasagna roll (220), salad (50), ranch dressing (150)

Total: 1300-1500

:-)

I think that today I will start a seven day-challenge until the end of the month for myself. After that, I think that I will be ready for a month long challenge. :-)

Went off track on the weekend, boo Back to it....

Goal = between 1200 to 1300 daily

Breaky = 165 cals
Coffee with Cream and Splenda x 2
1 Apple

Lunch = 310 cals
1.5 cups Kamut Puffs cereal (this stuff is great, only 50 cals per cup!)
1.5 cups skim milk
1 banana

Snack = 100 cals
Thinsation Snack

Dinner = 325 Cals
Haddock Filet from Costco
2.5 Cups Oven Roasted Veggies (Balsamic Vinegar & Olive Oil)

Snack = 75 Cals
5 Large Strawberries
1 PC Fat Free Yogurt

Water = 6 Cups

Grand Total = 975 Calories

New to the forum... I counted calories 2 years ago when i went from 140s down to 128. I stuck to about 1300/1400 calories but found myself hungry all the time. For the past week I'm trying to stick to about 1500 in hopes that I won't be as hungry. Trading in slower weight loss in hopes that I can stick it out further.

Breakfast: Bagel with margarine (I still indulge in carbs about 1x week) 330
Morning Snack: Banana (100)
Lunch: Amy's Indian Meal (320) & 1/2 apple (50)
Afternoon Snack: Hardboiled Egg & Crackers (150)
Dinner: Kale Salad (500, guestimating from entering all the items into my calorie calculator on my iphone - high in calories for a salad bc of tahini dressing and walnuts)

lunch:
salad with chicken (80)
fruit roll up (40)
burger (600)
cereal (275)
yogurt (90)

1100 approx.

net today was 1100 and yesterday was 1500, trying to stay around 1200

Welcome to the newbies!

Ok so yesterday was my first day that I FINALLY managed to be back on track. I have a mini goal of seven days on track in a row.

Also I am thinking I will start calorie cycling. But instead of mapping out each days I thought maybe I'd take a more natural approach. I thought maybe I could instead take a weekly total and let myself eat a little high somedays and ensure I dont go over my weekly total for calories. Thoughts?

lunch: chicken salad: 90
snack: slice of cake: 300
burrito: 290
Nutella on an English muffin: 250
grapes: 210
pineapple: 145
snack pack (mini cookies): 90
fruit roll up: 40

total: 1415

Goal = 1200 - 1300 Cals

Breaky = 149 Cals
Banana
2 x Coffee with 1 cream (down from 2 cream per coffee) and Splenda
Banana

Lunch = 284 Cals
1.5 Cups Kamut Puffs
1.5 Cups Skim Milk
Apple

Snack = 154 Cals
Celery
Green Beans
Peanut Butter (Natural)

Dinner = 365 Cals
Haddock Filet
Roasted Veggies


Total = 952 Calories

Hi DottieMae-

I've recently mastered how to not get hungry while I am on a diet. If you eat items that are high in protein, fiber, or made from whole grains, you will find that throughout the day you get less hungry. Here are some usual things I eat throughout the day, and usually I don't have trouble getting hungry:

whole-wheat flour tortillas (70 cal, 4 grams fiber, some have more)
kashi golean cereal - 1 cup (130 cal, 10 grams fiber/10 grams protein)
snackwells cereal bars (130 cal, 9 grams protein, 3-4 grams fiber)
apples (5 grams fiber)
jiffy to go (250 cal, 10 grams of protein)

Protein and fiber will help make sure that you don't get hungry throughout the day. If I didn't do this, I don't know how I would stay fit. After I go do a workout---my post workout snack is usually an apple and some peanut butter.

Here's what i am eating today:

BF: tortilla (130), egg (100) egg white (40), cheese (100), salsa (40)

Snack: peanut butter (250) and apple (100)

lunch: Amy's Samosa Wrap (250)

Snack: Orange (100)

Dinner: Bun (180), Turkey burger (156)

Calories for Today: About 1500

Thanks for the tips. I'm still getting the hang of calorie counting AND making sure I'm getting the right nutrients. Last time I dieted I really only paid attention to the overall calories.

Here's what I'm doing today:
Breakfast: 1 cup Joe's O's + 1/4 2% milk: (140)
Snack: Banana (120)
Lunch: Amy's Brown Rice & Vegetables Bowl + 1/2 apple (307)
Snack: Trader Joe's Nut & Fruit Bar (130)
Dinner: Corn on the Cob + Sauteed Kale + Baked Quorn (600 - guessing a little as I'm unsure how much/little oil I'll use - going to try for as little as possible but planning my calories around the 'normal' recipe)
Total (1300)