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Doing well so far, just trying to get back to that even 143 I saw on Saturday... I decided to have a "realistic" day today and test myself with going out to lunch and acting on a craving I've had for days now. I had an LA Lite bar for breakfast with water, another bar as a snack before lunch with Diet Snapple Iced Tea, and then I went to the Flat Top Grill for lunch. The only frustrating part of this lunch is how addicted I am to the vegetarian chicken they have available--I have no idea how to measure this as a protein or what exactly is its nutritional content! I know it will be high in sodium but I have no idea how high. I then got a cookie from the Starbucks inside Target, a Chocolate Chunk cookie, something I had been craving for a very long time but withheld.
I have been wondering how exactly I'm going to transition to the "real world" once I reach my goal. Will I continue to withold from those temptations, telling myself I can never ever have it and then gorge myself when I finally allow it back into my life? No, I think I should try to allow myself small cravings once in a while, work those calories off, budget that food in my day as best I can and move forward. So, that's exactly what I did today. I ate what I imagined was two protein servings worth of fake chicken, I had plenty of green veggies, I put in a handful of oranges and a handful of pineapple, and cooked it all together with lemongrass water. So, both my fruit servings, both my protein, both my vegetables, and no fat because I used water to steam it. I said that the cookie would probably be about 300 calories, so I decided that was like two starches and a fat, with probably another fat to tack on because of using real butter. Well, it turns out that there is no nutritional information online for the brand of fake meat I ate today, which means I have to estimate. And then it turns out that the cookie I ate at Starbucks is actually worth 470 calories!! Whoops.
At least now I know what I need to burn off. I normally work out on Wednesdays anyways, but now I'll do 30 minutes on the elliptical (250 calories) in addition to zumba class for 60 minutes (at least 400 calories) and maybe I'll drink an extra two bottles of water to flush out that sodium... We shall see if there are any side effects of my "slip" today when I weigh in again on Friday.
As a side note: I was proud of myself today. I went to Target to buy a new swim suit, something I have always dreaded as a person who refused to buy a two-piece, who could barely fit into the 14's most stores carried. I purchased a royal purple halter top bikini today. Not a tankini that hides my mid-riff. It's a true bikini, the first one I've owned and will wear in my entire life. I now fit into a size large top (a 36C chest is still a large!) and a size medium pair of bikini bottoms. I think that's something to celebrate, even if it's on the same day as my caloric underestimation of Starbucks cookies...
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143.2 lb
Lost so far: 11.8 lb.
Still to go: 8.2 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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losing 1.4 lb a week
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