fried fiday night

Working at a shelter has its jolts; this afternoon I encountered one big enough to make me too busy to eat at all. Afterward it took what felt like superhuman strength to resist stress eating fast food on the drive home. BUT I RESISTED! Yay me!

Daughter bought me dinner out, as I was completely fried and had a meeting at 7. I got shell pasta loaded with olives, peppers, onions and sauce, and had them leave the mozzarella off. Enjoyed the garlic bread too, and ate my salad and my daughter's, with just a tiny bit of italian dressing. I have studied it a bit and am guessing that supper at 770 calories.

Before bed, we had root beer floats made with diet root beer and fat free frozen yogurt (90).

Count for the day: 1759, if I got it right.

lunch and thoughts on less being...not less

Coffee w/sugar (135).

Mid morning 10 baby carrots (50).

Diet soda to hold me till noonish for lunch, which was:

Salad w/raspberry vinaigrette dressing (162), small baked potato (130), hard boiled egg (77). Salt and pepper in there too.

Total so far today: 899.

Surprising ongoing discovery: less breakfast does not make me more hungry, I think. In the first week of this thing, I cut my breakfast almost in half and it was fine; later I cut my milk at breakfast in half and it was fine; now I cut my peanut butter in half at breakfast and it seems to be fine. Quite confounding, to discover that filling the tank fuller does not necessarily make me run further. Apparently I don't yet know Everything There Is To Know about dieting.

Shocker, eh?

friday startup

Breakfast: one slice multigrain toast (100), 1 tbsp Smucker's peanut butter (105), crabapple jelly (50) and 1 cup of skim milk (90). Yeah, I spread it thin, because I feel like I can. Let's see how that plays out.

I think maybe the peanut butter toast is not holding me as well as the old fashioned oats. But life tosses in so many variables, I don't feel sure about that yet.

delayed thursday summary

Hey now it's Friday morning, and I haven't yet summarized Thursday! Came home to Much To Do and never got back to blogging fun. Twas a Very Late Night. Grrr.

Finishing up yesterday:

2 afternoon snacks: 15 carrots (75) and 1 large apple (100). Bottle of water.

Driving home snack: 1 oz mixed nuts (170). Bottle of water.

Supper: 1 cup basmati rice (210) and stir-fry made of chicken breast, bell peppers, and onions, - my best guess based on a cup of chicken, a cup of onions, a cup of peppers, and a tsp of olive oil, is (376), and of course a bottle of water.

Total for the day: 1975, which is 99 calories over my target, which ain't bad for a very hungry, way too busy, extremely distracted day.

lunch update, obsessing too much about food

The usual morning jump start - coffee with sugar (135).

Snack about 10 a.m. - 15 baby carrots (75). Bottle of water to try and stave off hunger pangs.

Ravenous at 11. Lunch: I brought the last cup of my wonderful chicken stir-fry (142) with 1.5 cups leftover rice (300), so I left my beloved feta cheese off my salad with lite balsamic vinaigrette dressing, bringing the salad total down to (77). And another bottle of water. Lunch was grrrrrreat!

Total for the day so far: 1044

I am too food oriented. Worrying right now about whether my snacks are sufficient.

I annoy me.

are we there yet? how about now?

Breakfast: one slice multigrain toast (100), 2 tbsp Smucker's peanut butter (210), crabapple jelly (50) and 1 cup of skim milk (90).

Tired. Dreading the drive to work, which will almost certainly be Horribly Sleepy. Where is Saturday? I want my Saturday....

hey, i was bad and it still came out good!

Afternoon snack: large apple (100).

Drive-thru McDonald's between work and meeting: chicken caesar salad w/lite vinaigrette dressing (220), a hamburger (270), and diet soda (0).

Naughty snack after incredibly frustrating meeting: snicker's bar (280). Bottle of water too.

Check it out: today, I ate at McDonald's AND had a snicker's bar and still came in 134 calories under the bar!!!

How cool is that?!