March 2012
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Week 3 - Thursday
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...
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Week 3 - Wednesday
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...
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Week 3
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
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Day 9 - Morning
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...
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Day 8 - Morning
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...
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Day 7 - Night
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...
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Day 7 - Afternoon
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...
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Day 7 - Morning
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
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Day 6 - Night
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...
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Day 6 - Morning
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...
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Day 5 - Night
Dinner:
3 eggs (210 calories), mozzarella (70 calories), soy milk (20 calories) - 300 calories
Dark chocolate: (150 calories)
Daily Total: 1110 calories
I know I went over, but I did work for 5 hours today, so I’m sure I worked off the extra 100. Tomorrow I workout AND work for probably 9 hours. So I’ll probably aim for more like 1200-1300. We’ll see.
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Day 5 - Afternoon
Snacks:
Starbucks grande soy latte - 170 calories
PF Chang’s Shanghai Cucumbers - 30 calories
PF Chang’s Tomato/Cucumber salad - 60 calories
Afternoon Snack Total: 260 calories
I worked through lunch then decided to hit Trader Joe’s and do a little grocery shopping. It sort of sucks spending money on food again…. for a while while I was maintaining and not trying to...
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Day 5 - Morning
Oops, so turns out I’m almost out of food. Granted, I didn’t buy much, but still. No more eggs.
Breakfst:
Fat free cottage cheese (90 calories), jello (10 calores) mix - 100 calories
Planters Heart Healthy mixed nuts - 250 calories
String cheese - 50 calories
Breakfast Total: 400 calories
As expected, the scale weighed heavier than it did yesterday, but that was on a lighter...
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Day 4 - Night
So I ended up taking a couple string cheeses to work for snacks (50 calories each) which brings the day up to a near perfect 995 calories.
TECHNICALLY I had a bite of red velvet cake at work that a table gave me, but as I was amazingly good and only ate that tiny bite (I gave the rest away to my co-workers) I’m not going to count it. I was only a bite after all.
I’m not looking...
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Day 4 - Afternoon
Back home and making myself some lunch before work. I did have a snack earlier though, so that helped.
Snack:
Sugar free pudding cup - 60 calories
World’s Market dark chocolate/sea salt bar - 220 calories
Total: 280 calories
Lunch/Dinner:
Broccoli/cauliflower steamed: 75 calories
Cottage cheese (90 calories), jello (10 calories) mix: 100 calories
Total: 175 calories
I should mention...
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Day 4 - Breakfast
I stayed the night with a friend yesterday and her parents made us breakfast this morning, so looking around online I’ve sort of put together what the calorie count probably was. Thankfully they’re doing low carb too, so it didn’t totally put me off my diet. Plus it was delicious.
Breakfast:
2 eggs (140 calories), cheese (50 calories), mushrooms, peppers and onions (30...
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Day 3 - Dinner
Snack:
Hershey’s Dark Chocolate Bar - 180 calories
Dinner:
Ruby Tuesday’s white fish (don’t remember the name) (330 calories), spaghetti squash (50 calories) - 380 calories
Yogurt Fruz (fat free sweet cream yogurt, 4oz) (100 calories), peanuts, almonds, strawberry and kiwi topping - 130ish calories
Other: 64 ounces of water
Daily Total: 1290 calories
So not bad really,...
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Day 3 - Afternoon
Lunch:
4 scrambled eggs (280 calories), soy milk (20 calories), spaghetti sauce (20 calories) - 320 calories
Mixed veggies (broccoli, mushroom, green bean) - 60 calories
Soy milk - 70 calories
Lunch Total: 450 calories
I’m going over to my friend’s place tonight and we’ll be seeing a movie and grabbing dinner. On the one hand, I have 400 calories left for the day, but on the...
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Day 3 - Morning
Unexpectedly after going over on my calories last night, I apparently still have water weight to shed since I’m down to 217 today. I know this massive quick weight shed loss won’t last much longer, but I’m enjoying it while it does.
I had a midnight snack last night, and ate the other half of my dark chocolate bar. So my daily total was actually more like 1210. Dark chocolate is...
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Day 2 - Dinner
After already being up to 820 calories for the day, I knew getting dinner with my dad was going to put me over. So I went to the Cheddar’s website, where we planned to eat, only to find that they don’t have nutrition info up yet. So I did the best I could once I got there.
Dinner:
Cheddar’s Grilled Salmon (lunch portion) with steamed broccoli and sweet carrots - 300ish...
Quick Note
As people start to follow me here (thank you so much!!), just know that I’m following you back from my main tumblr account ‘warbler-sebastian’.
Yes, I’m secretly VERY dorky. Or maybe that wasn’t much of a secret.
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Day 2 - Afternoon
Only worked 2 hours today, so not much physical activity in store as I plan to spend the rest of the day in my PJs on the couch. Might go out to dinner with my dad if he’s in town, we’ll see. Eating out is tricky while on a carb diet, but obviously I want to see my dad.
A few weeks ago before I started my diet again, I ordered 4 dozen pre-portioned peanut butter cookies from a kid at...
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Day 2 - Morning
So, I know that the first few days of a diet any weight lost is probably water weight, but man, it’s still numbers on the scale, and success is totally addicting. Tuesday I was 223.5, and today I’m 218.5. It may be slightly misleading success, but it feels the same, and really helps me stick with it.
So now here I sit eating my easy breakfast, watching Daily Show on Hulu, and...
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Day 1
I eat on the go. I’m also poor, and spend like $40 a week on food. This isn’t going to be the diet blog of a girl who fixes beautiful meals for herself full of spices and cleverness and originality. So don’t judge me. Or do, your call. I’m going to be honest about what I eat here. I work odd hours, and sometimes a couple string cheeses is the way breakfast is going to go.
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Starting Up Again
As you can see in my profile, I’ve already lost 80 pounds — unfortunately that only gets me to 220. Better, yes. But not where I want to be. I’ve gone from a size 22-24 to a size 14-16, but would love to be a size 8. I’m tallish, 5’9”, so to me size 8, or about 160 pounds, sounds about perfect. Here’s hoping I can do it!
The short term goal is to get down...
