170 on the dot.
So far, since Jan. 4 I've lost a whopping six pounds.
This has been a frustrating two months, but hey, if were easy, everybody would be at their goal weight I suppose.
I've broken down my numbers and found where I can improve.
Honestly, and this is shocking even to me, my meals can't get much healthier. My breakfasts could be boosted some, but my suppers and lunches are, like the kids say, "On Point." I'm eating a lot of nutritious foods. Some low calories, some not (avocados).
Looking at My Fitness Pal diaries I see my issues are snacks, snacks, too many snacks, even too many healthy snacks, too many Girl Scout cookie snacks,etc...SNACKS!
Some days my snacks are totaling enough calories to be a meal. No bueno.
Here is an example:
This day was low on the calorie side. MFP gives me 1,200 cals a day. Most days I meet that or go over. Because of the snacks, I go over between 200-400 calories. Gah!!!!
I chose this graphic to show how the pie illustrates the snack wreckage.
Most days I eat apples, oranges, cheese sticks as snacks. I'm not going to forgo healthy snacks. Sorry, I'll just be over calories. The pros outweigh the cons on the healthy snacks.
The REAL problem seems to be my "special" snacks. Particularly Girl Scout cookies. I don't go crazy with these things and most cookies are two cookies for 150 calories. Not bad, but when you add it to the "healthy" snacks or throw in a chocolate milk for good measure - well, there you go.
The calorie-counting is definitely something I am NOT interested in long-term. This is pretty draining to be honest. I don't like thinking of foods as "good" or "bad." I don't like restricting. I am interested in cutting back on foods that cause inflammation because of my plantar fasciitis and because I had cancer 18 years ago (my diagnosis anniversary is this weekend!).
But, MFP opened my eyes to a lot of things. So let's say we want a "cheat" meal. Stay away from the chicken places. One Popeyes three-piece WHITE meat, mashed potatoes, biscuit (not including drink) is almost 1,000 calories in that one meal.
Canes, a popular chicken place here which serves ONLY chicken - yeah a three-piece finger meal with fries and texas toast - 965 calories!
What??? How can this be? It's chicken after all.
The real thing that boggles the mind is some of these places - the salads have MORE calories than a chicken meal. So yeah, you may as well have your chicken meal because a chicken salad can give you an atomic 750 calories.
My beloved Starbucks coffees - let's just not even go there.
I'm all for "sometimes" foods and meals. You only live once, but alas, when you have a goal in mind, the chicken places won't help matters. LOL!!
Here is MFP graphic of my "progress." They say slow and steady wins the race. Any runner knows - THIS IS NOT TRUE!! Slow and steady will have you running all freaking day long.
My plan for the rest of my work's weight-loss challenge is to stay the course, cut out the Girl Scout Cookies, cut out night-time snacking and add exercise.
My house has been infected with two kinds of HAZMAT issues. (just kidding, not that bad). My daughter has been in-and-out of school all week for a stomach virus. Me and my husband both have a second-round of the sinus infection we had a month ago. I expect any day now we will all switch illnesses and I'll have the stomach virus.
I work at a newspaper and now I'm officially in the "newsroom!" This is thanks to our move to the shiny, new building. This is glorious because I love being around the news as it happens. It's bad because the newsroom is the equivalent of a daycare. We are all sick and still go to work.
Today, in particular, my food has been off track.
I had to go early this morning for my annual mammogram. I did eat oatmeal before, but it's also my "late" day at work. I walked into my work with two drinks. I was told by two different people I was "double-fisting" it. I tried to explain my coffee was low-cal, but what the hell difference does it make?
My unsweet ice green tea.
I also got a caramel macchiato - just a tall and not my usual grande. (forgot to take a pic)
Because I'm on the verge of passing out from not being able to breathe and my food would have to sit in the car for a couple of hours, my lunch was from the fantastic cafe at work. I got the turkey mozarella sandwich. 435 cals with baked chips. This is definitely a "sometimes" food for me.
That's a lot of bread, so that's not good for my insulin resistance problems.
Hopefully this weekend I can get some rest (yeah, right, last Girl Scout Cookie Selling weekend)! I have been doing GREAT with my goal this week of going to bed early. This has been amazing. I've got my oil diffuser going with lavender and I have slept really good. I'll talk about the oils in another post. I've found the end-product is part placebo effect, part crunch-granola mommy effect and part magnificence!
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