Moving Right Along

Today was another good day.  We went to my parents' for dinner, but we brought our own food.  Here's the breakdown:

• 1410 calories
• 102g carbs
• 48g fat
• 153g protein

 I didn't have a sweet potato with dinner so I treated myself to a chai latte for a snack :)

Resisting

Day two... done!  Another great day.  I had a little temptation, but I was able to stick with my plan.  I had a doctor's appointment on the south side of town, near a Chinese restaurant I love.  Usually when Bill takes me to this doctor we pick up Chinese on the way home.  Today I thought about it, but it wasn't that hard to say no.  We went to Giant for milk and yogurt... and I really had my eye on some pita chips.  It was a fleeting craving though, and I talked myself out of it.  All of this was without eating my afternoon yogurt!  I just wasn't hungry before we left for the doctor's office at 3 pm.  We came home and I cooked dinner.  It just felt good :)  Here are my stats for the day:

• 1469 calories
• 53g fat
• 111g carbs
• 150g protein

 

Day One

Today was my first day following my meal plan and I think it went very well! All told I had my SparkPeople stats were:

• 1499 calories
• 112 g carbs
• 53 g fat
• 157 g protein

I just finished my dinner and am quite full.  I'll have a cup of milk before bed for my snack.  I got this idea from the Food Addicts Anonymos meal plan.  They recommend having a serving of dairy after dinner.  I also added chia seeds to my salad and butter to my sweet potato. 

I drank 3 bottles of water at work and had another glass and a half when I got home.  I didn't get any exercise in today.  Hopefully I can focus on eating better this week and add exercise next week.   

Well, here goes nothing

I am going to journal here every day.  Mostly for accountability, but also (if I’m able to lose the weight this time), this should be interesting to look back on.

 

I’m using SparkPeople to figure out my calorie intake and track my meals.  To lose a little over 100 pounds and get to 250 by January 14^th, 2013 I will need to lose (on average) 3 pounds a week.  This is using the start date of May 1^st, 2012.  That gives me an extra week since I’m starting my “meal plan” on Monday April 23^rd. 

 

SparkPeople suggests eating between 1290 and 1640 per day.  This really isn’t much compared to what I have been eating.  I’m sure this is going to be a shock to my system, but hopefully a good one!  My idea for the time being is to eat from my meal plan 6 days a week and have Sunday’s off.  I’ll eat one menu until I get sick of it, and then I’ll formulate another.  Here’s the meal plan I’ll be starting with on Monday:

Breakfast

• Cake Batter Muscle Milk Light Shake (actually my shake mix won’t arrive until later in the week, so I’ll bestarting out with Chocolate Muscle Milk from Sam’s Club)

Morning Snack

• 1 organic apple

Lunch

• 6 ounces chicken breast
• 2 cups cooked broccoli (steamed)
• 1 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce

Afternoon Snack

• 1 vanilla Siggi’s yogurt

Dinner

• 2 Jennie-O turkey burgers
• 1 medium sweet potato
• 2 cups romaine lettuce
• 2 tablespoons Newman’s olive oil & vinegar dressing

 TONS OF WATER THROUGHOUT THE DAY!

 

It’s pretty strict, but it works out to the following:

• 1, 431 calories
• 107g carbs
• 56g fat 
• 131g protein

 

I’m also going to try to get up every morning at 5 am and do “The Biggest Loser: Power Walk”.  Hopefully after the first week or so this will become habit and I can do the walk in the morning and come home and do about 30 minutes of “Just Dance” on the Wii or go for a nice bike ride.  Baby steps, though J

 

I’m getting psyched up this weekend.  I’ll go grocery shopping on Sunday, but with this menu that shouldn’t take too long.