Day 13 -- Rest, Pizza, Potato Chips, Oh My!

Well, it's Sunday again, hooray for a day off! We are getting in a bad habit of sleeping in and missing church. Gotta get back to that next week.

I had decided yesterday that today would be a high calorie day, and as you'll see below, it ended up being about 1,800 calories, which isn't too high over the mark. I averaged out the last 6 days, and I've been averaging 1,780 calories a day, which is right around the mark for me, and should be good enough to lose a pound a week.

Speaking of weight loss, I saw a commercial today for "Smart Cookies," which sounds really dumb to me. You eat cookies for breakfast and lunch and then a "sensible" dinner, and you lose TONS of weight! Well, DUH! If all I ate was one food until dinnertime, I would lose tons of weight, but I imagine I would never keep it off, because as soon as life started up again, I'd gain it all back. UGH, some of these dieting programs make me nuts.

As for me, I am trying to get this thing down again for life, so I have a program and a plan that is workable for good, and I don't gain back what I've lost. As you'll see below, today included pizza out at Ledo's -- the best pizza in the world, as far as I'm concerned -- and a tiny bag of 105-calorie potato chips. If I can incorporate these things I really enjoy into my life without gaining weight or keeping at an uncomfortable weight for me, that will be success. Ledo's is working on getting its nutrition list together, but I found out that a piece of cheese pizza is 110 calories per slice, so I added from there. WOW!

I encourage you to do the math from yesterday's post and figure out your calorie needs, then start tracking your eating. It is eye-opening and will keep you on the right path, as long as you're not over-obsessive about it or too strict on your calories. That's a sure way to fail.

I am struggling again with my old soda addiction, and I've gone from 3-5 diet sodas a day to 2 regular sodas a day down to 1/2 a diet soda every few days. Soda is just empty calories and chemicals, not a good part of a healthy plan. But I am craving it lately, so in order not to obsess on it, I'm allowing myself a half a soda until I'm over it.

Here's my eating journal for today. I am beat, going to bed early. Be back tomorrow, with Core Secrets 25-minute Full Body Workout and 10-Minute Solution abs workout. See ya' then.
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Eating Journal:

Sunday, 12-13-09:

8:00 a.m.
1 cup coffee w/sweet & low & 2 tbsp organic creamer – 34
Subtotal: 34

10:00 a.m.
2 nutrigrain waffles – 140
1 tbsp butter – 50
1 tbsp jelly – 50
1 egg scrambled – 70
1 cup potatoes w/onions fried in nonfat spray – 100
Ice tea w/sweet & low -- 00
Subtotal:420

11:30 a.m. – Ledo’s Pizza with Galen & Sarah
1 glass water – 00
1 side salad – 50
2 tbsp light ranch – 120
4 pieces Ledo’s pizza mushroom & pepperoni – 540 (ouch!)
Subtotal: 710

4:00 p.m.
½ serving 100-cal popcorn – 50
1 glass water – 00
Subtotal: 50

6:30 p.m.
16 dark chocolate chips – 80
1 sugar free popsicle – 15
1 glass water – 00
1 serving shrimp – 110
4 tbsp shredded coconut – 140
2 tbsp barbeque sauce – 50
1 tbsp light mayo – 50
½ boiled yam – 50
Subtotal: 495

8:00 p.m. watching movie with girls
½ coke zero – 00
1 small packet utz potato chips – 105
Subtotal: 105

Total Daily Calories: 1,814