Working on a Work in Progress

Ran for an hour this morning! Or most of an hour at least. I went about 4 miles, and while I know that’s not a ton, it’s good for me and I’m pretty pleased with myself.

I had yogurt for breakfast, a bubble tea for a snack, and a Moe’s salad (with some chips) and some girl scout cookies for lunch. So not too too bad. I’ll probably have some more yogurt later. My weight was about 217 this morning, and while it’s still a bit of a gain from my smallest (214.5), I think I’m being a little more realistic this time. So here’s hoping it starts going down again.

Lastly — obviously this has very little to do with my diet, but it IS me. I got my bangs cut this afternoon, and I really like how they turned out. One of the women at the salon braided my hair after I got them done, and I hope when I take it out tonight my hair will be all cute and wavy when I go out for the Hunger Games midnight show :)

Still sort of figuring things out, last time was way too strict, but obviously letting myself go doesn’t work either. So today here’s what I’ve had so far:

Greek yogurt - 150 calories

Salad with grilled chicken - 150ish calories

Egg drop soup cup - 60 calories

Starbucks soy latte - 170 calories

Aaaaaand, if I’m being honest 

Moon Pie - 220 calories

Gummie bears at the movies - 150 calories

That puts me at 900 calories so far, but I still have to eat some dinner. So I just need to be good, but that won’t be too hard. Tomorrow I’m doing an hour run, too. So that’ll be good, especially since I missed Monday due to period harassment. I just have to get to bed at a reasonable hour and be ready to get up at 5am to run. 

After almost a week of falling off the wagon, I’m back to taking things seriously. Just in time for my period, of course, so that won’t do anything good for the scale for the next few days, but at least I’m back to trying. My weight went back up a couple pounds, but that could also be due to bloating. It’s hard to tell one way or another.

Breakfast:

Yogurt - 80 calories

Cottage Cheese - 40 calories

Peeps (don’t judge me. it’s Peeps) 140 calories

Total: 260 calories

Going out to lunch with friends, but I’ll probably just do soup or salad or something and then eat more of my own food here at home so I can control it a little more. I’m not doing no-carb again this round, but I still want to be pretty strict about what I eat. 

I ate less yesterday, around 800 calories, basically to no effect. I think this tells me overall that I have to eat more than I have been on days when I work. I think my body is just storing the calories in a way that’s totally counter-productive.

So last night when a co-worked offered to box me up some of the chicken they made for us for dinner, I let her. Then I ate it this morning. I think I need to take a day or two and maybe drop the diet (still eating reasonably, or course) and then go back to a version of it where I add in whole wheat, and go up to maybe 1300 calories on days I work.

I just need to take a few days to tweek things and find out what works. At least I’ve maintained my weight over the last few days, as long as that continues I think I can afford to experiment. 

As expected my weight today was back up a little, but as suggested to me by the friend who talked me into ordering food, I’m not going to count it. Instead I’m going to use it as a plateau breaker. Basically you take a day where you eat above your limit, and then the next day go way under, then the next day go back to normal. So today I’m going to try to stay pretty close to my calorie count, but do it with liquids. It should not only make up for all the crap I ate yesterday, but should job my body out of the plateau I assume is forming. 

Breakfast:

Yogurt - 190 calories

Starbucks grande soy latte - 170 

Jello - 10 calories

Total: 370 calories 

I was feeling really light headed earlier and decided that I really didn’t eat enough yesterday or today. So I ordered a bread-less turkey and ham sandwich from Jimmy John’s along with a dill pickle, and while I know this’ll throw off my weigh in tomorrow, I think it was a good idea. I’m still under 1500 calories for the day, so I didn’t totally ruin things, but I do think I needed a little extra food. The last thing I want is for this to become an unhealthy crash diet. 

Snack/Lunch:

Yogurt - 190 calories

Mixed veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, green beans) - 70 calories

String cheese - 50 calories

Dark Chocolate - 150 calories

Lunch Total: 460 calories

I’ll go over today, I’m sure. It’s only 4 and I’m already almost at my daily limit. I won’t eat another meal, and I won’t eat late, but I know I’ll have another snack before the day is over. I’m glad I’m doing this cleanse and shrinking my stomach, but some habits, like snacking when I’m just sitting around die hard. Best I can do is keep good food around for when I get the craving. 

Well, for the first day this week my weight goes unchanged. I really do think it’s partly to do with not eating enough yesterday given how active I was. I’ll do better tomorrow! I say tomorrow, because today is my day off and I plan on engaging in no physical activity at all :)

Snack (before my class):

Mozzarella stick - 70 calories

Handful of wasabi almonds - 50 calories

Breakfast:

Cottage cheese (90 calories), jello (10 calories) - 100 calories

3 eggs (210 calories), soy milk (30 calories), spaghetti sause (20 calories) - 260 calories

Morning Total: 480 calories

Breakfast:

4 eggs (280 calories), mozzarella (70 calories), soy milk (30 calories) - 380 calories

Soy milk (glass) - 70 calories

Snack:

1/2 Dark Chocolate Bar (gave a piece away) - 125 calories 

Lunch/Dinner:

PF Chang’s Salmon Lunch (no rice or soup) - 225 calories

1/2 Dark Chocolate Bar - 150 calories

Jello - 10 calories

Handful of wasabi almonds - 50 calories

Daily Total: 1000 calories!

I was at work ALL DAY and am just eating enough now to get to my daily limit. I should maybe eat more given how much physical activity I did today, but honestly it’s almost 10pm and I’m not hungry enough to eat more than what I’m planning on. We’ll see if that negatively effects me tomorrow of the next day… I hope not. I don’t want to hit a weird plateau because I’m not eating enough.

I was up at 5 this morning to get to my 5:30-6:30am boot camp, and after a week off it was BRUTAL. We started off the morning by running up and down the length of a 5 story parking garage twice, then if I remember correctly; we did abs, jump-roped around one level of the garage, did jogging suicides, weights, and suicide spints in 3 circuits. So yeah, pretty tough. Thursday I think we’re doing an hour run. I need to buy a flashlight for jogging in the dark.

I haven’t eaten anything yet today, but I think I’m going to go make eggs and yoguert before heading in to a long shift at work. So I’ll post a full meal log for the day when I get home.

Lastly, I’m 214.5 today! And that’s on my heavy scale, so man, maybe those starter pounds aren’t quite off me yet. It would be amazing if I could get to 13.5 by Wednesday, but 10 pounds in a week would also be a LOT, so I’m not going to expect it.