Anyway, here is how today went:
Allotment: 1144
Breakfast: About 165
Cheerios
1 % milk
Lunch: About 165
4 oz chicken
steamed brocoli
Dinner: About 395
Linguine
Chicken
mushrooms
marinara sauce
Snacks (and here is where I royally screw everything else): About 795
Yoplait yogurt
4 graham crackers
popcorn
2 ice cream sandwiches (different times of day)
Just cause I don't want ya'll thinking I sit and scarf two ice cream sandwiches in a row. I may feel deprived, but I do still have some self control :) Today I took a long walk with Ritchie and Max and I also ran 3/4 of a mile and then walked the rest of that mile. If I can somehow keep up the exercise I know I'll be much better off. Goodnight!
4 comments:
Okay - so I am gonna give you my 2cents (unsolicited, I know) - first of all I think that you are doing a wonderful job with this, and that with the calorie allotment that you are using that it is a lot of hard work to stay within that amount of calories - and you deserve props for sticking too it! Chipotle in a bowl is fantastic - no guilt, no need for confessions!! I am a Weight Watchers girl myself, so I totally buy the "pound a week" as a safe and manageable weight loss pace. Also - are you using Sparkpeople? I wonder if WW might work for you (and I totally don't mean to be a pusher, here, lol) - not only do you have the daily points, but you also get 35 points a week to use however you want. There was definitely a learning curve as I was figuring out the points for everything, but that is manageable with regular use. I use the eTools, which is $13/mo and there are all sorts of great resources including fantastic recipes. Anyways, enough unsolicited advice from me - I still think that you are doing an amazing job with this!
Thanks, Tracy! I love advice, unsolicited or not ;)
I have done weight watchers before and I'm using the "Lose It" program on my iphone because it's free and really straight forward. I have tried WW in the past and have had some success with it, but I don't have ANY of the stuff anymore!! Plus, Ritchie and I are doing it together so I like using a program that we can both use. He would never do WW - haha! Too girly for him :) I may very well switch to a pound a week because it would give me much more freedom and then give myself one "free" meal a week where I can go wild with whatever I want. But, I'm going to stick through this month because I said I would! Only 2 weeks left! YES!!
Oh - and can I tell you how not fair the weight loss process is for men and women? Whenever I am serious about weight loss and am doing all WW friendly stuff, Mike totally drops weight like nobody's business, even though he isn't trying! Whatevs, dude. :)
BTW, even though I am a WW girl, I am more on the "invisalign diet" right now. I have to brush & floss each time I take my trays out to eat. It is such a pain in the bootie that I have stopped snacking all together and have lost about 6 - 7 lbs since I got my first set of trays about 8 weeks ago! I am about 6 lbs away from my wedding day weight, wahoo!!
Man! I need to get me some invisaligns! Haha! And, yeah - Ritchie gets like over 500 more calories per day than I do. It's SO not fair. Not to mention he's 3 pounds from his goal and I'm 6 away from my FIRST goal. I'd like to lose 16 though. Thanks for all of the support! You're awesome :)
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