Day 269

Big run today -- ran my first official 5k. Well, walked and jogged it anyways.  Goal was to get below 45minutes, but I thought 40 minutes was probably too ambitious.  My official time was 38minutes!!! Yay!  Fastest pace today over that distance so far. 

Ate very little breakfast - hate to move on a full tummy.  Had a banana at home and a few orange slices at the event.  Afterwards, I ate another banana and a fruit leather. 

Lunch out with a friend at a new restaurant... 

orange, beet, pistachio, goat cheese.  very little (2tsp) dressing.

Shared.

Dinner: ??/

Day 268

Breakfast: Protien bagel (140) with 1.5 Tbs of peanut butter (150)

Snack: Baby carrots (30)

Small Lunch:  Lentil stew with green beans and spinach (210) - Homemade and calculated last night.  Most servings also have some chicken breast in them.

Snack:

DInner:

Daily Total:  530

Day 267

Made my own meal today... Honey tomatoes with chicken, quinoa, and roasted veggies.

Day 266

I'm back... I had sort of a mini meltdown that I'll post about when I've had some time to analyze and process. Right now I'm barely back on track.  Just trying to get back here and post to keep track...

Breakfast - Spinach Ricotta Crepes (370) with extra spinach and 5 grape tomatoes.

Snack (1000) - String CHeese (80)

Lunch (1200) - Southwestern Wrap (400) - didn't eat the "coleslaw" because it's icky.

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Dinner () -

Daily Total - 850

Day 263

Easter

Day 261

Lunch with a friend...

Day 254

Out of town... Walked 3 miles ths morning in sunny San Diego.
Breakfast - english muffin with peanut butter
Lunch - Subway sandwich
Dinner - formal with numerous drinks... and dessert.  Did not eat any food at the cocktail hour though.

Day 253

Okay, TMI up ahead, but for the sake of posterity...
Breakfast (5:00): Turkey, avocado, apple muffin
600 - so sick... threw up the breakfast.  Either I ate something bad yesterday or I just ate way too much of crappy stuff.  I think the later... so freaking sick.
915: granola bar (90)

Lunch : ??

Afternoon flight - Pre-flight vodka tonic...

Dinner with fam - Spaghetti Warehouse... My favorite spinach tortellini with alfredo was not weight-loss friendly, but I haven't had it in like 3 years...

Day 252

Breakfast: Turkey apple, avocado muffin (260)
Lunch: Leftover Mexican food (1 chicken taco, soft and leftover rice beans) (600?)
Snack: String Cheese (80)
Snack: Panda Express - caved a bit... bowl with mixed veggies and string bean chicken (300)
Snack: Okay, caved a alot... Ate a small bag of potato chips (300) and an apple (80)
Dinner: Turkey dinner - turkey breast, mashed potato, a little gravy, salad, and a roll. (500?)

Snack: Frozen yogurt with peanut butter sauce and reeces. (250)
Snack: Corn thin with hummus and cucumber (100)

Daily Total: 2470 - and I felt like CRAP the next morning... so sick.

Day 251

Breakfast: Sweet Potato Pancakes with berries (300)
Snack (1000): granola bar (90)
Lunch: Morrocan Beef stew with quinoa and green beans (330)
Snack(100): granola bar (90)
Snack(200): string cheese (80)
Dinner (630): Out for Mexican.  Had one beef taco (250), not fried, with half of the rice and beans(500?).  No chips.  Saved the rest of dinner for tomorrow.
Snack (900): carrots and hummus with grapes. (100)

Daily Total: 1740?

Day 250

Breakfast: Stuffed French Toast (350)

Snack: half a banana (50)

Lunch: apple pork tenderloin(390)

Snack:  Half a banana (50), tortilla pizza (150), 60 cal of cheddar.

Dinner: 3 pieces of pepperoni pizza (720) and a salad with thousand island dressing (120) with sunflowerseeds (100), bacon bits (100)

Daily: 2090

Day 249

Breakfast: Stuffed French Toast (350)

Snack: Russian tea cookie (150?)

Lunch: turkey tamale casserole with broccoli (330) and a salad with tomato and avocado (50)  This is one of my favorite recipes so far...

Snack:  Celery and peanut butter (160)

Dinner:  CHicken with spinach/feta stuffing with extra broccoli (350)

Dessert Jello cheesecake thing (150)

Daily Total: 1540

Day 248

Breakfast: turkey avocado apple muffin (260)

lunch : pot roast meal (340) with 50 cal of cooked carrtos.

snack: corn thin, 1tbs almond butter, 30 cal of banana [130]

snack: apple with 180 cal of almond butter [260]

dinner: @ mom's:  bread (150) while waiting for dinner.  Small chicken breast (160), broccoli, green beans (50), rice a roni (too much and went back for seconds, but less than a cup total.  Ate Ricearoni instead of pumpkin pie!) (250)?

Snack: Jello strawberry cheesecake thing (not great... ) (150)

daily total: 1800

WeighIn 4/9/11

First time I've seen the scale at less than 220!  Weighed in a 218.5 today.  That's around a 4.5lb loss over the week, so I guess my body adjusted after last week.  And ironically, my daily calorie count was way up over this week.  There's just no predicting this at all.  I'm starting to get why some people choose to not weigh very often.  I'm not ready to quit yet, but I have weighed myself a lot less this week.  Whatever, it's a good lesson not to get so freaked out like I did last week.  Also a good reminder that I can eat too few calories.  It's happened twice in the last few months -- when I ate really low cal (like average 1150-1200), I didn't lose much of anything.

Day 247

BReakfast (700 - 1000): Chicken Mushroom Crepes (270) with spinach and tomatoes (20)

Snack (1200): medium banana (80)

Lunch (300): Chicken fajita pita with no cheese (225) with lots of extra lettuce, 5 grape tomatoes, 50cal of avocado, 50cal of cheese, ff sour cream [350ish]

Walk (345):  Just back from a 3.8 mile walk/jog.  Finished in 51 minutes!  That's a 13:25 min mile over nearly 4 miles!  At that pace, I could finish my 5k in about 43 minutes, under my 45 minutes goal.  AND I have until the end of April to improve it.  Think I could have jogged more if I hadn't just eaten!  Better planning in the future... and it was hot out there today!

Snack (430):  Celery Stalk with 20g of peanut butter (120)

Dinner (700):  Salmon minus the pepper coulis and plus a serving of broccoli. (235) added a few almonds (100)

Lil Drum (800): 135

Daily Total: 1310

Day 246

Breakfast(630): Turkey, Avocado, Apple Muffin (260)

Snack(9-1200): Apple, 1TBS of peanut butter, 100cal of raisins.  [270]

Lunch(200): Penne ala vodka (230) with extra spinach

Snack (530): Chips (150), tortilla with turkey, artichoke dip (150)

Walked 2.85 miles.

Dinner (800):  Sauteed mushrooms, butter, spinach, veggie sausage with leftover quinoa/squash salad [350]

Lil drum (135)

Daily Total: 1555

Day 245

Breakfast Turkey, Avocado, Apple Muffin (260)

Snack: String Cheese (80)

Intended to go home for lunch, but had to run a long errand.  Stopped at Jack in the Box and got two tacos... (400)

Snack/Lunch - Small serving of bean/ham soup with a 1/4 cup of rice (250), 2 pieces of bread (200), 1TBS of country crock (60)

Dinner - Chicken with penne and eggplant (400), added spinach.

Late - 2 Lil Drums ?!?! (270), carrots with hummus (100)

Daily Total: 1820

Day 244

Breakfast (700-900):  Spinach Mushroom Crepes (365)

Snack (1200): String Cheese (80)

Lunch (230): Veggie Chili (280) with avocado (50), tomato and mushrooms.

Snack (430): Carrots and hummus (100)

Dinner Part 1 (630): 2 corn tortillas (110), 3oz of turkey (120), artichoke dip (80) and almonds (60)  [370]

Dinner Part II (900):  Frozen serving of leftover quinoa with butternut squash and arugula with a veggie sausage patty (250ish)  Yum! 

Snacks (late): corn thin with hummus and cucumber (75), lil drum (135), mms (50) and pretzle bar WW (50)

Daily Total: 1805

Day 243

Breakfast (700-800): Stuffed French Toast (350)

Snack (1200): String Cheese (80)

Lunch (145): Apricot Mustard Pork (320)

Snack (530): Half an order of Elephant Bar Shrimp Spring Rolls (170) and a margarita (250)

Dinner (700):  Elephant Bar Lemon Garlic Chicken Breast (650).  Should have gotten all veggies, no rice.  I would have enjoyed that more.  But pretty decent overall.  Ate some of a friends mac and cheese too (100)  Also a Raspberry Lemon Drop (250)

Dessert (900):  Half a Junior Sundae @ local ice cream place (300)

Daily Total: 2470

I think it's all out of my system now... :)  Not feeling particularly binge-y or anything, but was feeling upset about the scale and not particularly interested in moderating.  That said, my overeating wasn't totally ridiculous (the drinking is another story... 5 beers was not necessary) and I'm feeling ready to crack down again.  I'm actually craving vegetables and water!

Day 242

A bit hungover this morning... needed a pick me up.  Breakfast (900) - McDonalds Sausage Biscuit, hashbrowns, and a small coke.  Just like old times ;) .  And while it totally did the trick and tasted pretty good, it wasn't amazing and I felt soooo full after eating.  The hashbrowns were not worth it at all.  First soda in a long time that actually tasted good.  So, all in all, met my needs, but not dying to go back anytime soon. 

Lunch (1230): POtluck at church.  At a little bit of a few things, didn't finish the things that weren't amazing.  Total 500cal ish

Snack: Pizza Pretzel (250)

DInner Honey TOmato Chicken with quinoa and roasted veggies (300)

Snack (900) Lil Drum (135)

Daily Total: 1900ish

Day 241

Breakfast (830) - Leftovers (get them out of the fridge and eaten as an official meal, before I snack them away!) Beef Taco, mexican rice (maybe 2/3 cup), lettuce, tomato, and a homemade tortilla (the best part of the whole meal, seriously.)  ummm... guessing 225 + 225 + 200?  (650)  a big breakfast!!  Fortunately, it was late, so I'll just eat a small lunch!

Lunch (100-200): ugh.  Don't know what I was thinking... I needed cash, so I stopped at the grocery store.  I decided (why?!) to get lunch there.  Looked at sushi, but decided on a sandwich.  Got turkey on sliced wheat with mustard, avocado, tomato, lettuce and pickle.  (420?) AND I got a mini bag of potato chips and ate the whole thing (220).  Only ate half the sandwich at first, but went ahead and finished it even though I wasn't really hungry.  I think the crappy week is effecting my... dedication?  interest?  meh. whatev.

Dinner (630) - Bock Bierfest!  Beer and grilled veal sausage...  Sausage (500?) and 5 beers?  (900)

Daily total: 2670

Weighin aprl 2

Stupid scale... I was down to 221 by Tuesday of this week and I ate around 1200-1300 calories all week.  And now the scales up to 223... really 223.5.  Makes me so mad...  I have noooo idea why.  Ate too little?  End of TOM?  Didn't drink as much water?  Started walking more after a weak couple of weeks?  Who the hell knows...  grrr... It better shake out next week!

Day 240

Breakfast (730 - 1030) - Chicken Crepes (270) with spinach and 2 cherry tomatoes

Snack (1200) - 2/3 of an apple (55)  Super hungry by 130pm -- needed a protein snack!  Hurry home for lunch!

Lunch (230) - Mediterrean Chicken with quinoa and roasted veggies (250).  I die for these roasted veggies... the eggplant is sooooo good!  The side makes this one of my favorite meals!  Edit: I just looked at the ingredient list and eggplant isn't even listed... maybe that's why I had a hard time recreating this!  It says there's zucchini and portabellas... but I swear there's eggplant.  I'll have to check closer next time.

Snack (300) - Chocolate pudding cup (100)
Snack (700) - Corn Thin with a tbs of hummus (70)

Dinner (815) - Mexican restaurant - ordered a chicken taco and a beef taco, requested they not be deep fried.  Ate the chicken taco and the beans with 10 tortilla chips.  Caved a little on the chips, didn't have any while we waited, but ate a few with dinner.  Then found it to be true that it's harder to stop once you've started... now I know for sure.  Some lessons are best learned the hard way! :D  Ordered no margarita - it didn't seem worth the calories.  (Which then meant my friend didn't order one, since she didn't want to drink alone.  I felt a little bad, since we'd been talking all week about going out for margaritas.  oh well.)  Took the rest home.

Daily Total  = idk?  if I guess the taco was 300, the beans were 250 and the chips were 300 ???  I think those are reasonable guesses.  THat would put me at about 1600 for the day.