Sunday phone post

Stayed under calories again yesterday...1675.

Created a yummy snack...

Fiber one brownie (warmed) topped with half a sliced banana, a scoop of skinny cow ice cream, and a dash of fat free whipped cream. Delicious!

Happy Sunday.

Saturday phone post

Did awesome with calories on Friday...1685. Ate a lot of protein.

Doing good today and on target to be under again. Didn't exercise today mainly Bc of my aunt flow still breing a cow.sigh.

How everyone is having a great Saturday.

Gotta get down on Friday!

Yesterday, I totally ROCKED my calories for the day! And I got in my walk in the morning. The afternoon was plagued with severe weather so I stayed inside.

7am: Unjury Iced Mocha                                           180cal
9am: 5 brown rice crackers                                         50cal
         Unjury chicken dip                                            90cal
          three cucumber slices                                        free
11am: ham/swiss sandwich                                       250cal
2:30: six grilled chicken nuggets (CFA)                        120cal
         cinnamon apple sauce                                       60cal
5pm: ham/swiss rolls                                                200cal
8pm: ear of corn                                                          free
         baked beans                                                   320cal
         grilled chicken                                                 100cal
Total for day:                                                                     1370

I tried making an egg white muffin sandwhich at home for breakfast this morning--and it was awesome. I used an Arnold sandwhich thin instead of an english muffin, and the eggwhites from the container-- and it was great! I wonder if egg whites reheat well once they are cooked--so could I make this at night and then just reheat? Or would it just be better to cook the egg whites fresh when I wanted one? I'm going to see how it does at keeping me full for the morning.

My Aunt Flow showed up, and she is being a real cow to me today. Ugh. But I did get three laps in before the rain became hard to deal with.

Nothing planned for the weekend except for the usual--laundry, sleep, walking, and if I'm so inclined--cleaning. What an exciting life I lead.

Yesterday and Today

So, today there was a small NSV for me.  During my morning walk this morning, I was able to clock six laps around my building in 23 minutes.  It used to take me over 20 minutes to do four laps when I first started walking in November and by the end I would be DYING. Now I do six every morning (weather permitting).  Monday, I plan on adding lap seven.

As for food yesterday, I don't think I did too badly.

7am:    Turkey sandwich                               130cal
          1/2  Unjury iced coffee shake               90cal
11am:   tossed salad                                    free
            dressing/croutons                             100cal
            hot italian ciabatta sandwich              530cal
3pm:     1/2 skinny cow ice cream                    75cal
6pm:      kale/onions/peppers/tomatos/garlic     free
            chicken salsa suprise                         1170

Total for day:                                                      2095

Stupid chicken salsa suprise.How can you tasted so good and be so bad?   Again, I ate the whole thing. I bought regular cheese instead of reduced fat, which is the majority of the problem. I just need to stick to the one porition  size on that dish (it makes about two cups), and I would have been under for the day.  

I noticed a weird pain yesterday around my large scar.  My port is about 5 inches south of this scar, but I've noticed some weird random pain--not OMG I'm going to die pain--just some twinges. Also, I burped for the first time since before surgery. Now I'm worried that I might have a band slip. I see the surgeon next Friday (June 21) for a fill--but does anyone have any input on what might be causing this? I'm not sick or throwing up or feeling bad. Just this twingy pain.

My scar sits right on my tummy where my desk hits--and I do lean forward and push on that area alot during the work day. But that wouldn't cause me to burp, would it? Could the burp just be random and unrelated? I just read on the boards that burping is something that you usually aren't able to do post surgery--so it shocked me when I did.

Probably just being paranoid.

Yesterday was bad...but not as bad as I thought

So, I ate WAY TOO MUCH yesterday.  I know that Aunt Flow will be here tonight, but really, that's NO EXCUSE for my indiscretion.

7am: slice of ham                                                30cal
8am: 1/2 raisin bagel                                          160cal
        plain cream cheese                                       75cal
         cream of wheat                                           90cal
10am: beef stick                                                  60cal
          Sargento reduced fat cheese stick                 60cal
12pm: 4 baked chix wings  (4ozmeat)                    120cal  
          collard greens                                           free
          chipotle hashbrown casserole                      280cal (est)
1-4pm: assorted candies (6pcs)                             180cal
           3 peanut butter cookies                             510cal (est)  
6:30: two turkey burgers                                       560cal
         kale/onion/tomato/garlic/peppers                   free
10pm: 1/2 skinny cow ice cream                              75cal
Total calories for day:                                            2200 (?)

Okay, now that i do the math, it's really not as bad as I thought. Of course, the original total was WAY higher because I had to google reeses pnut butter cookies for an estimated calorie count--and the first website said that there were over 1700 calories per cookie. I about had a heart attack! When I checked another site, I saw that it was actually like 170 calories per cookie. WHEW!        

I'm doing okay so far today. Although, I did an epic FAIL for breakfast. 

Recently, I have realized that I sometimes like the taste of coffee--but I am not a coffee drinker. So the other week, I bought a jar of Maxwell House instant coffee to use to make shakes with so that it tastes like one of those fancy schmancy coffee drinks. This morning, I thought, instead of doing the shake, I'll do an iced mocha drink. And as soon as I dumped the Unjury into the coffee, I realized I had made a grave error. Unjury clumps in liquids over 140 degrees--and my mock coffee was well over that. So, my iced coffee was kind of gross. But now I know to mix the Unjury with the soy milk and then temper in the coffee. Lesson learned. 

I have been on plan (sort of) today, barring the coffee mishap. Will update tomorrow once I have finished my calorie consumption for the afternoon.

B2B day...whatever

Okay, so I lost count.  But I haven't stopped counting my calories!

Yesterday, even with the asiago bagel, I did okay.  Pumpkin said that she can't eat bagels.  Well, I probably shouldn't be eating them--and after I get my second fill next Friday--I probably won't be able to, either. So I enjoyed this one while I could.

Yesterdays food looked like this:

7am: Unjury Shake made with Silk                                  180cal
12pm: Asiago Bagel (toasted)                                        330cal
          plain cream cheese                                             190cal   
          cucumber                                                              free
          Boars Head oven gold turkey breast                        60cal
4pm: slice of ham                                                          30cal
6:30:Chicken enchilada suprise                                     1180cal
10pm: 1/3   of Skinny Cow ice cream cup                           50cal    
Total calories:                                                                       2020   

So, was I awesome? Meh, not really. I didn't NEED the bagel with cream cheese. I didn't need the ice cream.  I didn't need to eat the ENTIRE dish of chicken enchilada suprise...but I did. I am not proud of myself. I am actually disappointed. I was perfectly happy with a single portion that would have kept me well under my calories for the day. And then I ate the rest of it. I regretted it, too.  

This is what I deal with EVERY SINGLE DAY. I know that I'm satisfied with a portion. I know that I'm 'full' and that I've had enough and that I should walk away. I know that if I am truly hungry, that I can walk into the kitchen at any time and get something to eat. I don't know why I have these issues with food and having to eat all of something at one time.  I bet that it would have been really good as leftovers for dinner tonight--but I'll never know that now. 

I have no idea why I have this in my head. I grew up in a house where we never wanted for food. I had plenty of love and affection. I was never really denied anything growing up (well, except for the major life altering things like a brand new mustang convertible on my 16th birthday, the 'perfect' LL Bean ski sweater for Christmas one year...things like that). I wasn't a spoiled rich girl, but my dad worked hard to provide for us. My mom stayed at home and was there every single day when we got home from school. We had chores and were taught to work hard for what we wanted.   

I had a good childhood.  

So why am I so screwed up in my relationship with food?                          

Lunch

I ended up making a turkey and cucumber sandwich on my bagel. it was yummy.