THE COUNTER
Starting weight: 299
Last weigh-in: 287.8
Total pounds lost: 11.2
Pounds until 240: 47.8
WHAT I ATE TODAY
Here’s the rundown, but with only approximations on fat and calories. Now that I am eating non-labeled vegetables, it’s kind of hard to tell. I will say, though, that I need to invest in some measuring spoons.
Breakfast:
2 cups of honey nut cheerios
1 ½ cups of skim milk
Calories: 400
Fat: 2 grams (I am guessing. Forgot to read that label. Damn!)
Snack:
1 serving (5 slices) of super duper lowfat salami
2 slices of whole wheat bread
Fat free mayo
Mustard
Calories: 220
Fat: 3.5 grams
Dinner:
1 big ass salad with
Lettuce1 serving of nonfat cottage cheese
Half a green pepper
1 medium-sized tomato
Several mushrooms
5 slices of super duper lowfat salami
2 servings of Just 2 Good Blue Cheese dressing
Calories: 340 (guessing)
Fat: 6 grams
Dinner 2
A few too many pretzels (in my defense, it was 9 p.m., and I had to scramble back to work from a game. A little less than half the bag was left over from the last shopping trip, and they were the only thing in the house I could eat while I was writing a story on deadline. Better than getting a whopper, eh?
Calories: 500?
Fat: 4 grams?
Dinner 3
3 lowfat hot dogs
Calories: 135
Fat: 4.5 grams
Total calories: 1,595
Total fat: 20 grams
Exercise: None.
ON THE LOW-FAT BANDWAGON
So the salad was a big success, and I am grateful that I bought a lot of vegetables. However, after spending $114 on food Monday, I am realizing I might have a little too much in the house.
Certainly that’s not a bad problem to have, other than the fact that I shouldn’t have spent that much (the budget allows $100 every two weeks for food), I am quite worried that I will have a refrigerator full of rotten vegetables by this time next week. It’s happened before.
Still, though I didn’t break away from sodium-rich food (see salami and hot dogs above), I was happy to finally eat something green and unprocessed today. In fact, I’d venture to say that salad was easily the best thing I had all day.
Article comments
1 - Guy
Good work on the vegetables- they'll make meals nore appetizing and don't have much in the way of calories. I know you mentioned sodium - those hot dogs probably and the salami definitely aren't going to help with the sodium thing. If you aren't drinking enough water and getting a bunch of salt- pretzels too- you're gonna retain water and it's going to mess up the scale. But good work on the whole.
2 - Purple Tigress
I agree. Lots of sodium and not only in the salami and pretzels, how about the bleu cheese dressing?
Better than lettuce would be spinach--more nutrition.
You might try to stop eating after 6 p.m.
You also eat meals that aren't particularly appetizing.
A sandwich is a snack? That's more like breakfast 1 and breakfast 2.
My friend commented recently that athletes eat to perform well as opposed to exercising so they can eat. I think overweight people, if they exercise at all, exercise so they can eat.
You also seem to have slightly defeatist attitudes. At one time it seemed as if you were weighting yourself more than once a day.
You definitely lack a well-researched plan and discipline and I wonder if you don't need to deal with some emotional issues.