First,
I want to say that I flubbed with last week’s WIAW post. I had meant
to post only Sunday thru Tuesday but added in Wednesday as well since I
was posting at the end
of the day, after work, after I had done all my eating for Wednesday.
So, maybe…maybe I will just go with that and it’ll be Thursday thru
Wednesday.
Second,
I want to say, I’m sorry I didn’t post this on Wednesday. I
worked two 16 hour shifts 2 days in a row and didn’t have time to post
it. But, next week
I should be back on schedule with posting the WIAW on Wednesday. Haha.
•
Thursday: this was a no exercise day because I worked a 16 hour shift
at work, so I had to really “work it” with the food and stay within my
1700 calorie allowance. BIG
SUCCESS! I love these little mini sweet peppers. One serving, 3 of
them, is only 25 calories. I grab 6 and put them in a baggie to take to
work and they are FANTASTIC for using as, what I will call, “filler
food.” This means that when I’m feeling snacky,
but I’m not really hungry, I can just grab a baggie of mini peppers and
it’s only 50 calories and it satisfies the snackiness. And they’re a
little sweet, so any sweet tooth tendencies I may have at that moment
will also be satisfied. WIN-WIN! So, this
was day 4 of my new “plan.” I like how I’m just not feeling
“emotionally hungry,” you know what I mean? That hunger that isn’t
hunger. That feeling of wanting to stuff your face because you’re bored
or upset in some way. Yea. I haven’t had that for 4
days at this point and I REALLY like it. I’m eating mostly whole,
fresh, unprocessed foods (as you can see in my MyFitnessPal entries).
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Friday: we had a going away party for one of our co-workers at work
this day. There was cake, chips & salsa, deviled eggs, homemade
potato & boiled egg salad, fried chicken,
and a fruit tray. I had a little bit of the potato/egg salad and a
slice of cake. I brought my quinoa and beans to work with me to eat. I
also brought what was left of the grapes and some of the mini sweet
peppers. You see, I had no intentions of eating
ANY of the food that was laid out at work, but I waited a little too
long to eat my quinoa and beans and my blood sugar dropped and I got the
shakes and general yucky feeling associated with that…so I decided one
slice of cake wouldn’t hurt, so I got one.
And it’s true, one slice of cake (or any food in moderation,
really…this is a well-known factoid) is not the end of the world and
won’t impact things overall…so long as it is ONLY ONE SLICE (however, it
ended up being 2 slices…wah wah). After work, we all
headed over to the Texas Chili Parlor for a general get together to
finish wishing him off to his next adventure. Last time we went there
for a retirement party, one of the guys got these nachos that I just
drooled over, but since I had already ordered and
eaten something else, I didn’t get them. Well, I didn’t end up getting
them because when I looked at the menu, I realized that they had no
meat in them. Ugh. I like some meat in my nachos! So I got a bacon
cheeseburger instead with pasta salad on the side.
YUM! No “extra” calories from exercise this day.
•
Saturday: day before the marathon, so not really counting calories this
day. There was no exercise so no “extra” calories earned that could be
added to my calorie allowance
for the day. There was my now standard day-before-a-marathon meal of
shrimp alfredo. There was also Totino’s pizzas…shameful. I ate my
alfredo too early in the afternoon so I was all famished by dinner time
and completely overdid it.
•
Sunday: the marathon happened this day, so I earned well over 3000
“extra” calories that I could eat on top of my normal 1700. I opted to
get me some Panda Express since
I was sort of craving Chinese food. By the time the day was over and
done with, I still had almost an entire day of calories left over as a
deficit.
•
Monday: back on plan today. And, not only was I back on plan, but with
a new lunch! I decided sometime last week that I wanted to do spring
rolls, so I found a recipe
for them and I made them, along with a peanut dipping sauce (the recipe
will be with this weekend’s What’s Cookin’ Sunday post if you’re
interested in it). The short story of it is that they are AH-MAY-ZING.
I’m totally making them again for next week’s
lunches as I bought way more of the supplies for it than I actually
needed. And they’re so simple to make once you get the hang of rolling
them up.
•
Tuesday: discovered that I probably didn’t have my original Polar M400
synced with my heart rate monitor because my calorie burn for my
strength training session was way
higher (like 4 times higher) than it showed to be on the original watch
I returned. So, I had more available calories for this day than I had
expected to have. Food went as planned again. Had a 16 hour shift at
work and took extra of the mini sweet peppers
because they’re great for feeling full but not breaking the calorie
bank. I took 3 bags that were 2 servings each with me (they’re 25
calories per 3 pepper serving, so I put 6 peppers in a bag and call
good) and took 1 bag back home with me uneaten. Didn’t
earn any “extra” calories from exercise this day.
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Wednesday: another good day. I’m feeling really good about the foods
I’m eating and the amount of food that I’m eating. It’s just enough.
And I’m having fun finding
new things to switch up my lunches and snacks with to keep it fresh.
I’m also trying to keep the majority of my foods as “real” food…you
know, fresh, whole, mostly unprocessed foods.
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