May 23, 2007

I think I've figured out why I was so hungry yesterday. TOM hit me like a brick this morning. So far today I've done pretty good. I did have a small piece of cheese to help tide me over until lunch. My weight was only up a few ounces.. less than 1/2 a lb, which is unusual for me at this time. I usually gain 2 or 3 lbs. So maybe I'll see a good loss when this is all over.

I'll come back to this post later tonight with my fitday stats. I don't feel much like exercising, but I'm going to try to anyway.

Update

Today I had the following:

Breakfast: EAS carb control shake
Snack: 2 ounces cheddar cheese
Lunch: 1 cup chicken salad (homemade low-carb version of course)
Dinner: Arby's Large Roast Beef Sandwich, no bun
Water: 48+ ounces
Exercise: housework and chasing after kids all day

I didn't have nutritional totals for the Arby's sandwich because all their counts include the bun. I had to just pick something I thought was close. I may be way off, but I can live with it.

Fitday total says:

Calories - 552
Fat - 33
Carbs - 5
Protein - 57

Total Calories Burned - 2,666
Baseline (BMR) - 1,484
Background Activities - 2,424
Logged (exercise) - 0
Digestion - 242

We'll see how tomorrow goes. I have a wedding rehearsal and dinner to be at tomorrow night. I'm praying for something lc friendly. I may keep an protein bar in my purse.. just in case.

Monday.. bleck!

First I'll start off by telling you that as of yesterday's weigh-in, I'm down 2 more lbs! Whoo hoo! I've finally broke into the 180's! It seems like it's been forever since I've seen those numbers. Saturday I pulled a box of clothes out of my closet and started pulling out some smaller sizes. Most of them fit or will fit very soon so I left them out. Then I packed the rest up and put them back in the closet for later down the road. I feel like I've gotten a whole new wardrobe!

I'll try to get some exercise in today, but I'm not too sure it will happen. Not only is it Monday, but I woke up to find that it's that time of month that we women always dread (unless of course you have some worries about possible babies.. then you'll find women doing the victory dance in the bathroom). The one reason we'd all like to go back in time and strangle Eve before she ever got close to that tree! So anyhow.. I'm not feeling so hot today. You know all those symptoms listed on the PMS relief bottles? Yeah.. if you looked those up in the dictionary you'd see a picture of me. I'm the poster child. I just took some Advil and we'll see if they do the trick. But if they don't stop the pain.. I'm headin' right for the hard stuff - Pamprin. Then I'll sleep solid for about 2 days. So if I don't check in until Wed. you'll know I'm still in a PMS-causing, drug-induced stupor. And note that I'll be completely happy that way. :0)

Surprisingly, I found that the scale stayed the same today despite my affliction. That's a bit unusual for me. I tend to retain water like a camel. Low-carb has helped me with so many things.. but sadly my craving for chocolate and comfort foods during this time is not one of them. I won't cheat, but I'll probably overeat on sugar free chocolate.


Other news: I went to my new dentist today and he seemed really nice. I go in Wed. morning to have the first crown put on. They will fit me for the crown and apply a temp, which will take about 1 1/2 hours. Then in two weeks I can go back in and have the permanent one put 0n. It looks like I may not need quite as much work as the other dentist said. I'll only have about $1500 worth of work to be done, instead of the $4000+ the other dentist was talking about. Thank the Lord for dental discount plans! I won't be having the cosmetic stuff done any time soon, but it's an option I can look at once this necessary stuff is paid off.

OK... off to lay my achy body down and let the pills do their stuff.