2/24/10

the last few days I've sucked quite a bit.

In fact, my weekly weigh in puts me at 253.8. I've gone UP. Bad me. :(

So trying to be better.

9:00 - yogurt - 100cal
had the red velvet yoplait light. Not all that. It tasted OK, but not awesome.

12:30 - mexisoup - 96cal
sauteed: onion (44cal), 2 bell peppers (66cal), and 1/2 a cucumber (22cal)
added in a can of chicken broth (20cal), some garlic (free), some taco seasoning (free).
added in some salsa (20cal) and some bean dip (70cal)
added water to make soup.
my whole pot is 242 calories
I portioned it out into quarters - about 2 cups/portion - so each portion is roughly 60.5 calories. i'm going to count the first two i eat as 61 and the last two as 60, just for rounding.
To my two cups of soup i added 1/4 C cottage cheese (fat free). that's 35cal. total is 96. I went with cottage cheese cause i was contemplating adding either cheese or sour cream. This feels like a combination. Plus, it's in the house.

I'm seriously proud of myself for going back on the diet when I don't HAVE to. Also, I'm pleased because I used up stuff that needed to be used: cottage cheese, bean dip, cucumber, bell pepper, and onion, were all going to be approaching expiration shortly. There's still some cottage cheese and some bean dip, but it was USEFUL.

I don't want to be on as strict a diet as I was. I don't believe it's long-term healthy, and as of now, there's no real need to be. So I'm going to change the daily calorie intake to approx 800. That's the goal.

Dinner's always hard for me, and I tend to overeat, so I'm limiting my earlier intake a LOT to adjust for it.

Opinions?

3pm - snack - apple slices (35cal)

4:30 pm - pizza - 740cal
I had two slices of pizza. I assumed, like most pizza, they'd be 300cal each. WRONG. 370. Ouch.

Then I got depressed about being over my calorie limit. And about not working. And about not being able to control pain. And about being physically limited. And I cried.

And I ate some ice cream.

Then I was over sugared and loopy from THAT, so I had some ham.

I have no idea where I ended up.