Day 151

New Year's Eve!
Breakfast Protein bagel with 1.3 T of almond butter (went by grams) (140+120)

Went to school for morning. Left aroun 230.  Lunch around 1.  Chicken stuffed with spinach and feta with peas, mushroom, corn and asparagus.  I really like the gravy on this one. (340)

Snack - 1/2 cup of rice.

Dinner at a Hibachi Grill.  Had two small drinks made with shochu (35cal = 2oz) (150cal) We ordered apps.  I had one coconut shrimp(125), 3 potstickers(250), and 75cal of edamame.  We ordered dinner - Hibachi chicken (4-5oz) (no teriyaki sauce at least, saved some sugar cals), fried rice, and stirfried veggies (cabbage, zuke, beansprout, broccoli, mushrooms).  Got full and took half the meal home.  Did not eat the dessert.

NYEve - 1 glass of white wine(100), 1/2 vodka tonic(75), bread (180) and dip (150)

Daily Total = 2320 est.

Day 150

Breakfast = Protein Bagel + 2 T of almond butter (140+190)

Lunch out at Pasta Pomodoro - Shared a small salad (100) and an order of butternut squash ravioli (225), ordered the Vedure (roasted veggies - love!!!) w/chicken (350+100) had a bread stick (150)

Snack - Small Gelato - Dark chocolate and raspberry (250?)

Dinner out at Dave and Buster's.  Got there for happy hour -- not hungry (and why would I be, I'd already eaten 1500cal today!), but had two small potato skins.  THought I was being reasonably good, not ordering a full app for myself.  Surprised to find that the 2 small potato skins totaled to 750cal!  :(  Had 2 6oz drinks of vanilla vodka, malibu, and pineapple juice plus a root beer with vanilla vodka (800?)  Later had a jicama/cabbage/orange salad and shared 3 chicken street tacos.  Wasn't really that hungry for any of the mexican food - ate like 1/3 of the salad and 1.5 tacos plus 1/3 cup of rice.  I was soooooo stuffed - uncomfortably full.  And I used to eat a LOT more before I felt uncomfortable.

Daily Total - 3200?

Day 149

Up late, not too hungry given that I ate that salad at 1030 last night!

1100AM - New Meal!  BMD Pork Tenderloin in Asian Plum Sauce (450) - Pretty decent.  Really liked the snap peas in seasame seeds.  The pork is good, the sauce is good, the rice noodles get overcooked...  Added a few almonds (50)

1230 - 200: Ate half a bakery cookie (150), a small bit of trail mix (50), a couple of bites of see's candy (100), and a string cheese (80) I know, I know.... So, I left the TV.  For some reason, I don't feel munchy in front of the computer.

500PM - Bacon Cheeseburger Meatloaf with carrots, spinach, yucca and a 1/3 cup of corn (450+36)

Later = ??  Can't remember
Daily Total: 1361 + ??

Day 148

Ate the burger for breakfast...  Tried to eat the sweet and sour shrimp from BMD for lunch, but couldn't do it.  Too shrinpy and way too gingery.  Had already cooked rice, so I cooked some frozen veggies and 3 turket meatballs.  While I waited for that to cook, I ate most of the rice with some butter.  Full when eating, so only ate 1.5 meatballs.  The rest went to the dogs (saved 90cal).  Had a couple of cookies in afternoon.  Meeting at night.  Got Wendys salad on way home.  New style of french fries advertised - tried them out.  Didn't like them as much as the original (thank god!).  So ends my fast food binge of Dec 2010.  Ready to get back to school next week and on a normal routine.  Not stressing about the rest of the week, but not going crazy either.  Goal weight is to maintain 239 this week.  2011 starts next Saturday - weighin day one of 2011.

Day 147

Wasn't hungry in the morning after my fastfood feast last night...  Ate okay throughout the day.  DInner was problematic.  I was pretty hungry, but the waitress wasn't bringing me a menu (got there after the order went in) and that irritated me, so I didn't order anything.  I did eat bread and butter.  And then I stopped at a burger place on the way home.  Tried to be okay, ordered the smallest burger with no mayo or cheese and the smallest fry (which I see later is listed as two servings on their nutritional page.  Not that I thought it was one serving, really, but it irritates me that I could NOT order a smaller size.)  So I ate the fries, but was really full, so I'm saving the burger for tomorrow.  A small victory.

And add a small vodka drink to that total.  And a couple of bites of nachos...  Let's just round it to 2000.

Day 146

800AM - Started the day off with a cupcake and a small piece of fudge (225cal).  Wasn't prepared with breakfast food.

930AM - Home now.  Spinach Ricotta Crepes (280) with 40cal of cheese.

100PM - SantaBarbara (BLTA) Small Sandwich at Beach Hut Deli with no mayo and easy on cream cheese (est 500) with part of a beer (100cal)

330PM - 2 Jack's Tacos (350) - totally caved, but tried to be decent.

500PM - 70 cal of light popcorn - really munchy today...

700PM - Dinner Broccoli and Beef Dinner (360)
Driving home from somewhere - can't remember where...
JackintheBox - Bacon Cheddar Wedges (710)
JackintheBox - Breakfast Pita (425
Daily Total = 3050cal - nice.

Day 133 - 145

I've been remiss at posting on the blog.  It's too many days to try to recreate, so I'm just going to start up again tomorrow: 12-26-10, Day 146.  I have been sorta keeping track on another calorie logging site, so I haven't been completely out of it.  However, I have definitely NOT been tracking everything or eating as carefully.  That includes holiday sweets, but also includes things like Cheetos and buttered bread.  It does NOT include any trips to fast food places, so at least that habit is more or less gone.  [Update: That habit is apparently NOT gone, see days following.  Though it was diminished and didn't taste as good as I thoguth it would.]  Also, I felt horrible physically from eating too much crap -- too much grease, not enough fiber/veggies.  Weight reflected a small gain from 237.5 up to 243ish (see, I wasn't even weighing carefully -- I can't even say for sure!), back down to 239 today.  Lots of factors contributing to this issue - winter always gets me down because there's not enough sunlight, stressed about work, icky birthday emotions, holiday sweets, got cold/flu sick for a few days, and I think I may have some sort of hang up about the weight number.  I haven't weighed in the 230's for YEARS and 230 is my lowest post-college adult weight.  It's sort of tough to wrap my head around.  Every weight after that is unchartered territory and I don't really know what to expect - it sort of freaks me out.  Anyways, hopefully the last SIX weeks at around 240 stabilized me somewhat and it won't be too tough to move on now... maybe I'll even get a little mini-woosh effect this first week!

Day 132

Breakfast - Ham, apple, cheese muffin
Lunch - 3 mini muffins, 2 oatmeal cookies, 1 egg roll
Snack - finished the plutos salad from friday.
Dinner - Zucchini, small potato with 1TBS of shedd's, 5oz? of meatloaf

:(

Day 131

Breakfast - Ham, cheese, apple muffin
Lunch - Bday party - ladle of tomato soup, ladle of chicken chili, cupcake, two bites of cake, fruit, broccoli salad, cheesy garlic bread
Snack - 3 egg rolls, 2 satsumas
DInner - 2 smallish pieces of pizza
Snack - 2 egg rolls, coffee with a shot of baileys and whip cream

Yeah, not a great day, but could have been a lot worse.

Day 130

Breakfast - Berry Crepe (365)
Lunch - Ham and TUrkey with couscous (400)
Snack - mandarins (65), Big Spoon Yogurt with a bit of chocolate and choc candy toppings (250?)
DInner - Salad from Plutos with garbanzos, edamame, tomato, broccoli, seeds, chicken, beets, sprouts, and foccacia bread.  Ate half the salad with balsalmic vinegar.

Total - ?

Day 129

Day 128

Normal day, went fine.  Not real hungry in morning, had a bagel.  Lunch was a new one (forgot to take camera or phone to have pics) -- Rice with Chicken and Lentils.  Added a cup of raw spinach which wilted down.  Thought this was pretty good!  Overallt he day was pretty light on calories.  Until the eve -- Met friends at Bell Bru.  Had already eaten dinner.  Ordered tea.  Ate some bread and had half of a friend's steak slider.  Then I ate part of a corn dog at my parents house.

Day 127

Day 126

Breakfast with out of town friends.  Thought about getting oatmeal, but wanted more protein.  Ordered a veggie omelet, requested only two eggs.  Dissappointed when it came because the veggies were cooked in olive oil and they'd added unadvertised pesto.  Made the best of it, ate half the egg. (And all the potatoes!!)  Shopped a bit, then went to rehearsal.  Left around 1, made a stop at TJ's to get some lunch.  Ended up with the vegetable sushi (spinach, carrots and tofu in rice) and some satsumas.  Ate dinner at home.

Day 125

Too tired to retype... see below.  I had a concert today in the eve and brunch in the morning.  I feel like I worked around the brunch incredibly well.  The concert always screws with me because I'm committed from 430-1000 and I hate to play on a full stomach.  Brunch at 900AM.  While I did order a not-too-healthy meal, I didn't overeat AND I monitored my hunger the rest of the day and didn't eat until I got hungry.  I ate a BMD meal at 330PM.  Played concert at 730.  Ate string cheese and rice cakes at 830.  Ate soup and crackers at 1000PM.  Not an ideal day, but I think it's the best way to handle the situation.  At the end of the day, I was only up a pound and that may be gone by tomorrow.  So, I was able to have my cake and eat it too today.

I really liked this meal - the barley was good!

Daily Total says 1593.  I want to add 150, because I think the breakfast count is low.

Total: 1743



Day 124

Breakfast (700am):  Chicken Mushroom Crepe(270) with 60 cal of avocado

Snack (1000AM): String Cheese (80)

Snack (1230PM): Tomato Soup (120), CHocolate Cheerios (40)
Lunch  (300PM): Chicken Burrito Bowl(300), with 60 cal of avocado and some Fat free sour cream.
Dinner part 1 (600PM): 2 Corn Thins (44), 1 oz of ham (30), a string cheese (80), almonds (100)

Dinner part 2 (1000PM): 1/2 cup broccoli (15), 1/3 cup of green beans (10), baby potato (35), 30 cal of chick peas, 20 cal of kidney beans

Daily Total: 1294

Day 123

Breakfast (700AM): Protein Bagel with egg and ham (150) + 1/2 oz of cheese (60)

Snack (1030AM): String CHeese (80)

Snack (1200PM):  Apple (80)

Lunch (200PM):  CHicken Marsala with Mushroom Risotto (410) - Yum!  I love the risotto!

Snack (430PM): Bread with a bit of Shedd's Spread (150)

Dinner (615PM):  Cheese Tortellini (390) with 20 cal of cheese

Snack Almonds (40)

Lil Drum (135)

Daily TOtal: 1515

Day 122

Breakfast (700AM): Stuffed French Toast (360), set meal on top of car and it slid off!  i caught it on the way down and managed to only lose the sweet potatoes and half the veggie sasage.  I'm claiming 300cal.

Snack (1000AM): String Cheese (80)

Snack (1200PM): Apple (80)

Lunch (200PM):  Ham and Turkey Dinner (400)  I'm never excited about eating this one, but it always tastes better than I expect.

(530) Ate 4 marshmallows on the way home (100) Thankfully, they are all gone now.

Dinner(630PM): Beef Tips with Mushrooms. (300) Decent.  I really like the spaghetti squash and the noodles, the beef is good - though not plentiful.  The mushrooms were super chewy for me - maybe I overcooked?  Okay overall, but didn't leave me super satisfied.

(800) Corn Thin (22cal) with a TBS of Artichoke dip (80) and a slice of ham (30)

(900PM): Ice Cream (135)

Daily TOtal: 1527