Day 127

WTF??? Perhaps I should not have recalculated my calorie allotment because now all the sudden I'm back UP? How is that fair? So maybe I'm NOT working out enough to say "moderately active"? Yeah, I wanted to run yesterday, but couldn't due to LASER BRAZILIAN appointment (yowza!) but I went to abs class on Wednesday.... is my abs teacher right? Do I have to do cardio EVERY day? Who has time for that? When do you get to live your life? Between work and taking care of the dogs and keeping the house clean and sleeping, that only leaves so many hours a day to live...... and when I do cardio, I have to shower and that will ruin my new hair color :(

I'm cranky pants today. Oh, and my dermatology appointment only told me I'm getting OLD. Thanks.

Friday morning, 154.1 lbs

Food detail:

Breakfast
1/2 serving Fat Free Milk - 45
1 serving Fiber Plus Antioxidants Cereal - Berry Yogurt Crunch - 170

Lunch
1 serving Bistro Smokehouse BBQ Style Ranch (Ready Pac) - 260
1 serving Vanilla Ice Cream Cups - 100

Dinner
1 serving Carrot Sticks - 35
1 serving Chicken Corn Dogs -  180
1/2 cup slices Cucumber (with Peel) - 8
1/2 cup pieces or slices Mushrooms - 8
1 tbsp Ranch Salad Dressing - 73

Snacks/Other
2 servings Coconut Rum - 102
1 serving Smooth & Dreamy Ice Cream Sandwiches - Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough - 160
1 serving Tater Tots - 160

Total = 1301

Day 126

Mark made the yummy Szechwan Chicken again last night when I got home from abs class. I am hoping I can trust the calorie count on the recipe because it's really good and pretty filling and a steal at 210.

Thursday morning, 152.8 lbs

Food detail:

Breakfast
1/2 serving Fat Free Milk - 45
1 serving Fiber Plus Antioxidants Cereal - Berry Yogurt Crunch - 170

Lunch
1 serving Bistro Chef Salad - 270

Dinner
1 cup cooked Brown Rice - 215
1 serving szechuan chicken - 210

Snacks/Other
2.7 oz Chocolate Chip Cookies (with Butter) - 374

Total = 1284

Day 125

So, it's getting to a point where I have enough calories available, if I don't snack and just have something small for lunch, like a peanut butter sandwich, I can have pretty outrageous things for dinner. Well, outrageous for being on a diet, anyway. We were shopping while hungry last night (dangerous territory) and happened to see in the warm, pre-cooked foods section near the deli where they usually have whole rotisserie chickens and meatloaf they had chicken fried steak. I LOVE me some chicken fried steak. These were a little on the dry side without the gravy (they provided plenty of yummy looking gravy, but I passed on it), but I was able to eat two whole steaks for dinner. I should have had just one, with a LITTLE gravy and some fresh green beans, that would have been much better for me, but I wasn't sure how they would reheat.

And to top that off, I had one of my favorite cookies for dessert. It's really disconcerting to know that I used to eat TWO of those cookies at a sitting now that I have some idea how many calories are in them. I can't be SURE, but they are awful good so I believe the calorie counter that says for their weight, they are almost 400 calories each. Otis Spunkmeyer cookies, my 2nd favorite, are a lot smaller and are 180 each.

Wednesday morning, 152.8 lbs

Food detail:

Breakfast
1 serving Golden Corn Vitatops - 100

Lunch
1 serving 45 Calories and Delightful Wheat Bread - 90
1/2 serving Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter - 90
1 serving Squeezable Concord Grape Jam - 50

Dinner
5.2 oz boneless Fried Battered Beef Steak - 461

Snacks/Other
2.8 oz Chocolate Chip Cookies (with Butter) - 387
1/2 serving Kettle Corn 100 Calorie Pop - 50
1 serving Smooth & Dreamy Ice Cream Sandwiches - Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough - 160

Total = 1388

Day 124

Despite the BBQ, there's not much food in the house, but we did have some steaks we got last week that still looked good so we fired up the grill again and had those. Sent Mark to the store for some kind of potato product and green beans and his lunch stuff, forgot to ask for MY lunch stuff. guess I'll be having peanut butter today? Oh, and the scale thing yesterday must have been a fluke, 'cause...

Tuesday morning, 152.8 lbs

Food Detail:

Breakfast
1 serving MAPLE BROWN SUGAR OATMEAL INSTANT - 160

Lunch
1 serving cheesy cauliflower casserole - 117
1 serving Deep Chocolate Vitatops - 100

Dinner
5 oz Beef Top Sirloin (Lean Only) - 180
1 cup Green Snap Beans - 34
1 serving Steak Fries - 110

Snacks/Other
1 can Strongbow Dry Cider 200
1 serving Smooth & Dreamy Ice Cream Sandwiches - Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough - 160
1 serving Wheat Thins Original Baked Snack Crackers - 140

Total = 1201

Days 121-123 the BBQ Weekend.

So with throwing the BBQ on Saturday, and eating nothing all day until the BBQ started and then eating a cheese burger and a bunch of chips before DEVOURING a half dozen of Colleen's AWESOME jello shots, then going to Suki's and drinking till I blacked out, I don't really have an accurate count for that day, and Sunday's subsequent hangover and not being ABLE to eat until after 4pm after Colleen dyed my hair when I suddenly chowed down all the remaining deviled eggs, 2 hot dogs, the rest of the BBQ chips, all the pita chips and a few of Mark's circus peanut candy, I don't have a count for that day either. All I know is I woke up Sunday morning at 152.1 lbs and this morning I am a massive 155.4lbs. I don't even KNOW what that's about.

here's Friday's food detail, anyway:
Breakfast
1 serving Frosted Shredded Wheat Cereal - 200
1/2 cup Milk (Nonfat) - 43

Lunch
2 servings Light Zesty Southwestern Style Vegetable Soup - 120

Dinner
1 serving Pork Fried Rice - 290

Snacks/Other
1 serving ice cream sundae - 80
4 servings Orange Slices Candy - 520

Total = 1253

Day 120 - where dieter goes to Red Lobster!

So, I saved up some calories and Rachel and I headed over to RL armed with notebooks full of calorie listings of the various menu items we were interested in and cost/benefit ratios of trying the 4-course-meal deal for $15 and came to the conclusion that we would do better ordering a la carte. And we did just that. Her meal came to about $17 and mine a mere $7 because I didn't like the lobster bisque soup so they took it off my bill. So that's $7 for a Diet Coke, a side of mashed potatoes and a side of fresh broccoli. And the 2 free Cheddar Bay Biscuits which were my ENTIRE reason for wanting to go to Red Lobster in the first place. So in that respect, a success. Though not sure the drive to and from Gresham was worth a couple biscuits. Oh well, had to be done.

Friday morning, still 153.4 lbs

Food Detail:

Breakfast
1/2 serving Fat Free Milk - 45
1 serving Fiber Plus Antioxidants Cereal - Berry Yogurt Crunch - 170

Lunch
Salad: 1/2 cup slices Cucumber (with Peel) - 8
1/2 cup pieces or slices Mushrooms - 8
1/2 serving Organic Baby Lettuce Mix - 8
0.3 serving Peeled Baby-cut Carrots - 10
1 serving RANCH LITE - 80
1 serving Shredded Lite Mexican Blend Cheese - 80

Dinner
2 servings Cheddar Bay Biscuits - 300
1 serving Home-style Mashed Potatoes - 210
1 serving Sides - Fresh Broccoli - 45

Snacks/Other
2 servings Coconut Rum - 102
Total = 1066

Day 119 - wherein our dieter goes to the movies and has popcorn!

So, you'll notice that I didn't have a lot of food yesterday, but what I did have was yummy! Right after work we took off and went to the movies (Pirates IV) and I got to pretend I was back in time before the diet and have popcorn and Reese's Pieces. I did have the gal at the concession stand actually measure out the popcorn for me (did you know there are SIX cups of popcorn in a JUNIOR popcorn???) and I actually COUNTED out the Reeses Pieces, but I enjoyed them. I didn't even make it to my limit for the day, but that's ok because I failed to count the soda at the theatre because I had no way of measuring how many sips of Mark's Cherry Coke I had. Probably at least 100 calories worth. And then after we got home I read a book for 3 hours and had a slice of toast.

Food Detail:

Breakfast
1 serving Deep Chocolate Vitatops - 100

Lunch
2 servings cheesy cauliflower casserole - 234

Dinner
1 serving 45 Calories and Delightful 100% Whole Wheat Bread (toast) - 45
6 cups Oil Popped White Popcorn - 330

Snacks/Other
1 1/2 servings Peanut Butter Candy in a Crunchy Shell Pieces - 285
1 serving Smooth & Dreamy Ice Cream Sandwiches - Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough - 160

Total = 1154