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What I ate today:
If you want to you can post what you ate here today. Somehow that helps me. I have been posting to a friend in another forum, but she has limited access for a while, so I'm going to post it here.
Breakfast: skipped
Lunch: Wendy's chicken mandarin salad with chinese noodles, almonds and zero calorie honey mustard dressing
Snack: Blue Bunny low cal ice cream bar
Supper: 3 ounces brisket, 1/2 cup mashed potatoes, 1/2 cup english peas (seasoned with ICBINB spray)
Snack: apple and 8 almonds.
Total calories for the day (according to CC as far as I can figure them) 976.
Weight today 234.0.
Food for the day:
Breakfast
1 whole wheat bagel
6oz Yoplait Light strawberry yogart
Dinner
2 cups scrambled eggs made with cheddar cheese, mushrooms, garlic, spinach and olives topped with 1/2 cup salsa
2 slices Franz Multigrain Light and Healthy bread toasted with Shedd's Spread and Smucker's Sugar Free Blackberry Jam
1/2 canned fruit salad
Total calories for the day: 1428
Texmom, I'm really proud of you for posting your overages. I know how hard it is but I think you made a good choice. Earlier this year I heard someone on TV or the radio say, "You're only as sick as your secret." That really hit me, my bingeing was a secret for so long, I was in such deep denial for so long it was crazy. (Somehow I thought that I got to 244 lbs without having a problem with food. This forum, you guys understand so it makes it ok to talk about here and stops it from being a secret.
Yay, finally a good day! Back on track, I was actually under my calorie budget for the day but I just didn't really want to eat anything else.
Breakfast
1 slice cinnamon raisin bread with 1 tbs peanut butter.
1 cup of nonfat milk.
Snack
6 oz nonfat yogurt
Lunch
Salad with 1/2 cup chicken breast, green peppers, carrots, red cabbage, cucumber and 1 tbs feta cheese.
snack
6 oz nonfat yogurt
Dinner
2 cups chicken vegetable soup
total calories:1088
Yesterday was better:
Breakfast skipped
Snack: v8 juice and mini delights
Lunch: Subway turkey breast sandwich with mustard
Supper: Spaghetti
Dessert: low cal ice cream bar
Snack: crackers
Total calories about 1000. That is better and scale is down a teeny bit.
texmom, why don't you ever eat breakfast? I can't go without unless I want to feel lethargic and sick all day. I'm just curious why you chose to cut out the meal that kick starts your day.
Another thing, so many of you are eating at or below 1200 calories a day. Isn't that unhealthy?
I am 5'1" and my doctor has looked over my food logs and he is fine with it. I don't buy into the 1200 bare minimum thing. My calories end up averaging 1200 anyways. One day around 1100 the next 1300. Even if my calories averaged at 1000 my doctor said that is fine. Based on my height at my ending weight (there are so many threads on the forums) women my height, healthy weight, my age range, all eat around 1300 to maintain. I brought this up with my doctor also and he said that is about right also.
I think there are a few other short ones here too :)
If I was taller, my maintenance calories would be more, if I had more muscle they would be a bit more and if I was much more active they would be more.... but just default, sedentary, it is going to be very low, so I deal with it now.
I goal myself towards 1340 calories a day but I just didn't get that in yesterday. Since I had been bingeing a few days previously I figured one day at a bit under he calorie goal wouldn't kill me.
Yesterday
1C Rainin Bran, 1C 1% Milk 2C Decaf Coffee, 2T Half and Half
Salad with cherry tomatos, cucumber and onion with romaine lettuce and 4T FF Kraft Catalina Dressing. 1C Chicken Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad (see the recipie here...it was damn good)
2 small chicken fingers with BBQ sauce and 1/2oz blue cheese dressing
3 Slices of homemade pizza
1700 calories
I also walked and did my indoor mini workout for a total of 500 calories
My burn rate is 2460, so I had a bout an 1100 calorie deficit
Original Post by loviedovieann:
Another thing, so many of you are eating at or below 1200 calories a day. Isn't that unhealthy?
It is unhealthy in the long run. The key here is where this forum is directed - people who need to lose more than 100lbs. At that level, your body has more stores of energy to draw on, so you can get away with having a larger deficit for awhile. Eventually, your body will start needing less energy with less weight to carry around.
The other danger of using 1200 as your base, is that as you see results there, you can be tempted to shoot lower. "If I lose 4lbs a week at 1200 calories, if I drop to 1000, I can lose even more!", or "I knew a person whose doctor put them on an 800 calorie diet - I can do that myself!".
When people start getting too low, they will more prone to binges. They will also start sacrificing nutrients by cutting out too many calories.
KDH's doctor, I'm sure, is looking at the risks of her being at her current weight versus losing a little extra each week. And by keeping her doctor apprised, he can make sure she isn't doing anything detrimental.
I suppose this does make sense. Still seems a bit awkward to me. Even if you're very short and inactive it seems like you would end up feeling tired more than anything. I know for the longest I ate that much and I constantly felt like crap.
Yes, my doctor is good :) I am very open with him, say whatever I need to say and I want him to be a part of my health, not just for problems, but for weight loss also. My calories averaged out to 1200, so some days I was lower, some higher, and its ok. As I lose weight, I can not drop my calories though and my only option will be to increase my physical activity. When it is time to maintain, I will increase my calories, and see where I level off.
Breakfast 159
my standard tortilla, 1.5 oz cajun turkey and .5 oz mozzarella melted
Snacked for lunch 309:
1/2c dry cereal, some cheese, 3 twizzlers
Snack 90
banana
Dinner 402
crockpot lamb roast (2 oz) with potatoes (2 oz) and onions (1 oz) and broth(100 g) cup of cereal with 1% milk
Snack later 140
ww ice cream bar
Total 1198
What I ate today:
Breakfast:
1 1/4 Cups Honey Bunches of Oats w/ 1/2 cup 2% Milk
6 oz yogart
Lunch:
Last of General Tsao's Chicken from Sunday
2 cups Salad w/ 1/2 cup cottage cheese
Dinner:
2 Cups salad w/ 1/2 cup cottage cheese & 1/4 cup salsa
Ham sandwich made with 96% lean ham, 1 T Smart Beat Mayo (10 cal & no fat) & 1 T Barbecue sauce on Franz Multigrain Light & Healthy Bread
Total Calories for the day: 1248
Good morning fabulous people.
I had another good day, I"m a little bit over 1340 but I got a lot of exercise in yesterday so I'm not going to sweat it.
Breakfast:
1 slice of raisin bread with peanut butter.
1 cup of coffee with coffeemate creamer.
Snack:
scrambled eggs and strawberries
Lunch
Salad made with salad greens, green pepper, cucumber, feta cheese, 1/2 cup of chicken and red cabbage.
Snack:
Baked Lays cheddar and sour cream potato chips
hard boiled egg and cantaloupe
Dinner:
1 cup chicken veggie soup (homade)
Total calories: 1464.
Yesterday's fare:
Breakfast: 1.5c Honey Nut Cheerios, 1c skim milk, 1 medium banana - 408 cals
Lunch: 1c mashed potatoes with skim milk and a smidgen of margarine, 1 chicken sandwich (1c roasted breast, 1tbsp mayo, .5c romaine, 5 pickles) - 514 cals
Dinner: .5c shells and cheese, .25c 80/20 hamburger (drained), 1c frozen peas (steamed), 1c romaine, 2tbsp fat free ranch - 732cals
Snacks: salad (1c romaine, 10 small olives, /25c sharp cheddar, fat free ranch), 1 Mini Baby Ruth - 239cals
Daily Total: 1893
Still 200 under, but I indulged in seconds the night before so it evens out.
Yesterday:
Breakfast: My usual cereal and a banana - 408
Lunch: 2c tomato soup, 3 slices whole grain toast, 1c mixed fruit in lite syrup, 2tbsp margarine - 630
Dinner: .5c spaghetti, .5c whole wheat spaghetti, 1 Italian sausage link, .5c stewed tomatoes - 517
Snack: 6" Spicy Italian Subway sub with 5 bazillion veggies. I had to finish the veggies with a fork because most of them fell off. I didn't expect them to get so serious with them so this number's kinda off. - 380
Total: 1934
limited finances for the next 7 days is leading to stressful eating, poor choices, fruit/veggie less meals, and digging through the freezer : /
breakfast 320
lean cuisine
lunch 320
lean cuisine
dinner 700
sandwiches with cheese, light mayo, turkey lunch meat
snack 140
ww ice cream
total 1490
Food for the 7th
Breakfast:
1 cup leftover scrambled eggs from Tues
1 Whole Wheat English Muffin
Snack:
1 gala apple
7 baby carrots
Dinner:
6" Subway Club sandwich w/ pepperjack cheese, southwest chipolte sauce, lettuce, olives, and pickles
32 oz ice tea w/ diet sweetner
Snack:
1 oz Kettle Chip Salt & Pepper chips (the only snack I ate at D&D night - since I picked up my dinner on the way there)
ok, I will fess up:
breakfast 190
1 blueberry fiberone poptart
lunch 159:
edamame and some cajun turkey
all day snacking 396
twizzlers
dinner 442:
2 hot dogs and some bugles @ school carnival
snacks later 574:
about 10 sugar cookies, i wasnt keeping count, but thats a good guess
total 1761
I only walked some yesterday so.... about 430 calorie deficit still :)
I like this idea. I use to post my food on another site and it really helped me stay on my program. Not that I was perfect but I like public accountability. So I'm really glad to find this thread :)
Breakfast: a biscuit with 2% cheese, poached egg, and lf mayo . 300 cals /Coffee with creamer and sf mocha mix 50 cals: =s 350 cals.
Lunch: I was so full from breakfast that I didn't have lunch until about 4:00. Compleasts ravioli 230cals. / carrots with lf ranch 50 cals / apple grape bites 40 / swiss roll 100 cals =s 420 cals if my addition is correct.
Supper will be: fillet o fish 380 cals / and a small fry 231 cals =s 611 total calories.
My grand total for he day will be 1381 calories
If I decide to snack I will choose a bake chip and lf dip so that will be about 200 more. If I do that then I will end my day at 1581 calories.
Water: 34 ozs so far. Will try for 16 more ozs which will bring me up to 54 ozs. I've got to do better with the water for the sake of my kidneys
Here is my food total for the day:
I got home really late (or early depending on how you look at it) and when I went to bed, I couldn't sleep so I wound up still awake about 3:30am and I was hungry, and knew I wouldn't sleep on an empty stomache, so breakfast was at that time.
Breakfast:
Left over chicken salad from a couple of days ago: 337 cal
Lunch:
The other 6" of last nights Subway sandwich (Subway Club w/ pepperjack cheese, southwest chipolte sauce, olives, lettuce, & pickles): 471 cal
Dinner:
2 1/2 cups salad w/ Newman's Own Lighten Up Sesame Ginger Dressing
1 Cup Hot Dish (Whole Wheat Macaroni, 85% lean ground beef, tomato soup, mushrooms, corn, worcestshire sauce & other spices)
Calories in dinner: 409
Total calories for the day: 1216
I may still have a snack of 1/2 cup cottage cheese & 1/2 cup fruit salad: 165 cal
This would make total 1381
B: 1/2 cup Fiber One Honey Clusters (sample box), 1/2 cup Kashi Go Lean, 1/2 cup skim milk - 222 calories
L: Left overs from yesterday's japanese steakhouse: noodles, rice, zuccini, mushrooms, broccoli, carrots, and shrimp - 605 calories (est)
S1: oat bran pita w/ Tbs chipotle hummus - 90 calories
D: Spicy Beef w/ Broccoli and Brown Rice - 472 calories (used the recipe analyzer on our home-made stir fry)
S2: pop secret 94% fat free popcorn - 130 calories
Total 1520
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