Day 358

I'd like to say I'm having a good eating day but truth is it's 4pm and I'm at 160 carbs for the day. Not necessarily bad carbs...90% of them are from the fruit I've eaten.

Breakfast - Strawberries, blueberries, a banana
Snack - Grapes, 2 small apples, string cheese (eaten over the course of a few hours, of course)
Lunch - 2 slices whole wheat toast with 1 tblsp LF PB and a drizzle (maybe 1/4 tsp.) of honey
Supper - Not quite sure yet

Puts me at roughly 840 calories, 17g of fat, 164g carbs, 22g of protein. Yikes!

I have all this fruit to eat before it goes bad which explains the enormous consumption increase. I feel pretty bloated now and will try and stick to a light supper. We'll see how that goes!

And just for the heck of it, here's some recent weight stats:
All time low: 169.2 (Dec. 31st 2007)
Last week: 184.9
This morning: 182.3

Day 357

Breakfast - Strawberries, blueberries
Snack - 1 cheese stick, 1 banana, 1 iced soy SF latte
Lunch - Protein bar
Supper - I think we're going out for thai...eek.

Yesterday was a good day. I didn't end up going to the gym though and during the hockey game last night I ate about a cup of pretzels at work. My work had a crappy supper too so I didn't really eat much. I had a tiny bit of salad, a couple of oz of chicken and maybe 1/3 cup of white rice. I got home late with a huge headache and had some frozen yogurt and a couple of roasted baby potatoes leftover from my family's dinner.

So far so good today. I'm at the library and this morning I spent an hour sitting on one of the many terraces having my iced latte. It's so nice to finally have gotten through the rough winter we had. We still have quite a bit of snow on the ground though...it's weird because it's been so hot. It's like we never had a spring, we went straight from winter to summer weather.

Plan for today is simple...no eating unless it's a meal. I only had fruit for breakfast so I was pretty hungry by the time I got to school. I brought the banana and cheese with me and when I was at the coffee shop, I almost got a muffin but my friend gave me 'the look'. Thank goodness too because I didn't need the freaking muffin! I think we're going to this pad-thai place for supper tonight. They do have these non-fried eggrolls which are excellent. I wonder how bad they can be? I'll have to look it up...

I don't know when I'll be able to make it to the gym next. My last final is Saturday and it's a biggie!

Day 356

10 days until my big 1 year surgiversary! It's scary how quickly the past year has gone...where does time go?
I had my first support group meeting yesterday in a long time. I've been working on Sundays lately so hadn't been able to catch one in a while. It really clears my head when I go to these things and today I'm feeling 101% more confident in my eating than I have been.
What I need to do:
- Have a big breakfast which should keep me full for about 4 hours.
- I also need to stretch out my meals because I'm eating them too quickly and getting hungry quickly thereafter.
- Big'ish lunch & smaller suppers.
- Set a cutoff time for eating in the evening.
- Get back to exercising.
- Weigh myself regularly because I've gained weight and I've been in denial about it.
- BLOG MORE.

So...

Breakfast - 1 egg, 1 slice of whole wheat toast with 1/2 tsp. LF PB, 1 new potato with tiny piece of onion, about a cup of fresh fruits.
Lunch - 2 bocconcini balls, 2 roma tomatoes, some onion, some garlic, some EVOO with some form of protein which I have yet to figure out.
Supper - Whatever is made at work
Snack - Whole wheat crackers with cheese? Depends what time of day it is.

Water - Most certainly
Exercise - I sure hope so!

Boo!

I haven't updated in a long while and have gotten e-mails and messages like there's no tomorrow. So, here I am! Reason for not updating: I've just been really, really busy. School is taking up all of my time but the good news is I'm almost done. Classes officially end tomorrow and then all I have left to do is 1 term paper and 3 finals. Finals are the toughest part and just thinking about them makes me sick to my stomach from nervousness.
I had a horrible flu right after Easter and I was stuck in bed for a week. I'm just getting over the cold leftover from that. I didn't think it would ever go away...not cool!
My weight has been stuck since December. I've been bouncing up and down between the same 10 lbs. I can't say that I'm happy about it, but at the same time I'm not unhappy with what I weigh now. It wouldn't be the end of the world if this was it for me. Would I like to lose another 20lbs? Absofrikenlutely. However, maybe that just isn't realistic for me. There is a lot going on in my life right now so things will change.
I move out June 1st. Moving out of the house for the first time...and I'm terrified! Very excited, a little sad, and very nervous. Food is the number 1 issue in my life. Having surgery did not change that. I'll always struggle with making decisions. So not having as much crap in the house will probably do wonders for me...if I don't do the buying of course. I've always secretly resented my parents for buying junk food and making me fat and I've always said that if I lived alone, I wouldn't buy any of it. We shall see!

So that's my update. I'm house-sitting all week and then finals start and end April 26th. Oh and I start a second [full-time] job and summer school April 30th. It just doesn't end!