5 posts tagged “high calorie days”
Tonight I was attacked by the cereal monster.
It literally grabbed me around the neck and MADE me swallow every single spoonful.
After sleeping through church (b/c I was up till 2:30am Friday night watching James Spann talk 'Hook Echos" and making sure we were not all about to get blown away, I ate pretty sweet till we got home.
Then I watched my husband eat about 6 cups worth of honey nut cheerios! I wasnt even hungry I swear!! However, somehow I ended up eating a few cherrios while working in the kitchen and before I knew it I was hooked!
Even SMALL amounts seem to send me into spin off. Sheesh.....
No workout today b/c it was my workout "day off" and I slept late
Ok, so here's my food today. Remember I woke up late and didnt have my first meal till around 10:30
M1: Nutrigrain bar (my son brought this for breakfast in bed and so I HAD to eat it)
3.5 oz turkey breast, 1/2 sweet potato, 1.5 oz sugar snap peas, 1.5 oz carrott chips
M2: 2 oz turkey breast, 1 md orange
M3: 2 oz turkey (to make up protein for the nutrigrain bar)
M4: 2 oz turkey breast, 1/2 grapefruit
M5: 3 c of Honey Nut Cheerios, 2 c of grapes, 2 sheets of graham crackers
Totals: 1817 calories, 35 fat (17%), 279 carbs (59%), 108 (24%)
Ok, well could have been A LOT worse!
Let me start off by saying that right now my stomach hurts so bad from eating a piddly 5 fried pickles I can hardly see to type. I understand the idea of a splurge meal, but I need to do some serious refining of my thinking!
This is a GOOD thing b/c it proves to me that my body does NOT WANT FRIED FOODS or foods super high in fat and that they throw me out of wack. More on that in a second.
So I'm at my MIL's still. This morning I blissfully slept past 9am. Then got ready to go out and run on the track. Stopped by Kmart and picked up some swim suits for the kiddos and a few other things for us and then left for the track. I did interval runs for 30 minutes. It was a pretty good workout and I was sweating pretty good. :) Of course it was like 10:20am when I was running. Fit day says only burned 231 cals, but seems liked more to me.
As I was leaving I got a call from my MIL asking if I was on my way back that they were ready to go down to their property on the creek. So I got there, still sweaty, grabbed some clothes for after I jumped in the water, and my turkey breast/apple and we took off down there. I spent most of the day training the puppy to sit and stay so it didnt clobber my kids every 5 seconds. Then around 1:15 Josie was heading towards MELT-DOWN from not getting her nap so we came back home.
I ate my turkey and carrots like a good girl then headed upstairs to take a little nap. Around 3-ish I woke and went downstairs where Josie was whining in Papas arms. I figured she must be hungry, so I got her some grapes. She wouldn't eat them, so I did?! Then got her some Amish bread, which I snuck some bites in of as well.
Around 4 the Lindor truffles I bought for my chocolate trist tonight were calling for me and since I knew we'd be heading
When we got to the resturant NOTHING looked good to me. Seriously! I knew eating anything fried would tear up my stomach so I didnt order for anything fried (shrimp or cx) and I wasnt interested in a mostly-fat prime rib steak so I just ordered three "side" dishes. Mac n Cheese, hushpuppies, and a baked potato with REAL sour cream. When the fried pickles my MIL ordered came I decided to eat only 5 so my stomach wouldnt explode. They were good, but not amazing. Then our food came. The hushpuppies were the worst I've ever eaten in my LIFE so I only ate 1.5 and left the rest of the plate. Then I ate one bite of my mac and cheese, which also was terrible, and gave the rest to my 19 month old (she loved it since it only really tasted like plain macaroni!) and I just ate the baked potato w/ REAL sour cream. It was pretty good. I was STUFFED after that. About to burst wide open it felt like.
I think the real thing to blame is the TRUFFLES for the stomach pain, not the fried food. But I don't think I could put another morsel in my mouth. I am glad I got the chocolate fix out of my system, but I'm not sure I'd do it again. HURTING!!!
Ok, so here's my food today. Remember I woke up late and didnt have my first meal till around 11:15
M1: 2 oz turkey breast, 1 md apple
M2: 3.5 oz turkey, 3oz carrotts
M3: 2 c grapes, 2 slices amish bread
M4: 12 Lindor truffles 660c, 54g fat, 45 carbs, 6 protein. These 12 tiny pieces of candy made up 30% of my calories and 54% of my fat intake for the ENTIRE DAY!!!
M5: 5 fried pickles 1.5 hushpuppies, 1 bite mac n' cheese, 1 baked potato w/ sour cream.
Totals: 2252 calories, 97 fat (38%), 292 carbs (49%), 71 (12%)
So, today was a fun day overall. I sang in the praise choir this morning so I was up and at em early this morning. After church we decided to go to Zaxby's for my "Splurge" meal. Wow after I just looked at the calorie count I'm pretty sure it wasnt THAT delicious!! Then Josie and I had icecream on the way home and the boys went to the botanical gardens to enjoy Dinosaur days. Josie went right down to sleep when we got home and I rested outside on the swing for about 20 min till I got hot and went in and slept about 2 hours. :) VERY NICE! I love naps. When Logan got home we decided to wash the cars. It was fun. Nice to finally get some work outta these kids. ;)
I gave my body the day off but still technically got some exercise cleaning both cars. Still, it wouldnt "plug in" to leanness.
Here's my food for the day:
M1: EAS RTD & brayburn apple 160 c
M2: Zaxby's chicken finger plate, no tx toast, no slaw & a coke to drink. 1276 cals!!!!! 56 fat
M3: Dairy Queen turtle waffle bowl sundae 918 c 42 fat!!!!
M4: Fresh fruit and some skim milk mozerella cheese (at cell group instead of COOKIES) 201 c
Total Cal count: 2556cals, 290carbs (45%), 112protien (17%), 107fat (38%)
Ok, so I admit it...
When I work my hiney off one day and eat lower calories and lower sodium foods and I STILL gain it makes me flat out pissed off.
Am I over-working? Whats this crap everybody says about "its really quite easy....you just burn more calories than you take in and you lose weight"?? In what PLANET does that happen? Not where I am livin sista.
So anyway, you can guess my scale was BACK up this morning. Quite frankly it ticked me off. I moved it all around the room (hoping it was off center or something) then stepping on again and again to see that I was up 8oz from yesterday's weigh in. Thats almost a bloody POUND!
So as I was driving home from my lunch with this weeks official "splurge meal" still warm in my tummy and ice cream chasing it, I decided maybe my scale needed to take the week off.
I still put too much stock in that stupid thing. And although everybody tells me I need to make peace with the scale and realize there just "water fluxuation" (boy that phrase chaps my hide!) day to day I'm over that crap. When I have a day that I'm up after I've worked really hard before that it makes me take a "oh what the heck, eat whatever you want b/c its not gonna matter ANYWAY" day. Now, today was my scheduled splurge meal at lunch. Supposedly we do this to remind our bodies we're not starving so they'll let go of the weight, but quite frankly I was HAPPY it was today b/c I'm still ill about the dern scale.
So I'm giving my scale the week off. I'm not going to weigh again till Saturday and see how I feel and how much I'm weighing then. Life's too short for me to keep yoyoing everytime I dont "get my way".
So there we go....
I was up in weight this morning about a lb. That always throws me off even when I understand it. So it was better after seeing my lower calorie day making no progress to just stay under 2000 cals.
Had bootcamp again this morning. I felt a little worn out before I even went, so I dont think I was doing that awesome!!!
So... plugged into Leanness Lifestyle Estimated calorie burn: 440cals
Here's my food for the day:
M1: 3 egg whites w/ 2 Tbs salsa & weight control oatmeal & Jay Robbs Whey Protien shake. 320 c
M2: EAS RTD & guiltless gourmet brownie 309c
M3: Celery w/ natural pb & rasins & ff sf chocolate pudding, granola bar 534 c
M4: Kraft Mac and Cheese 4 oz & Wheat Eggos w/ sugar free syrup 542
Total Cal count: 1706cals, 241carbs (57%), 87protien (20%), 42fat (22%)
* Some legitimate "cheats" in there, but I think I made decent choices considering I COULD have gone and stuffed my face with Sonic food. :)
