Day #2—A Success

This morning I was much happier when I stepped on the scale. On my first day, I lost 4.4 lbs. I weighed in at 211.4. I’m trying not to think about the fact that I’ve been 10 lbs. lower than that, but I’m just going to be happy for such a HUGE loss!! I guess some of that was water weight after all.

For breakfast, I ate an egg with FF cheese and ham on a sandwich thin along with 1/2 a banana.

I used to laugh at people who ate 1/2 a banana but now I kind of understand it. 1/2 the calories!

And then it was time to work again. While working, I sipped on an iced latte.

On my break, I ate a Quaker Stila with blueberry. It’s a crispy oat cookie bar with fruit filling. Delicious and only 100 calories, but I don’t like that they have HFCS in them. Didn’t look when I bought them!

I was starving a couple of hours later. I got off work 1 hour early, which was nice, especially since I was so hungry!

For lunch, I made a salad with lettuce, strawberries, blackberries, oven roasted chicken bites, slivered almonds, 1/2 slice of gouda cheese, and raspberry vinaigrette.

And a little closer:

Mmmmm so good! The only thing that would make this salad better is feta and blueberries.

I finished it up with one of these:

And then I got started on some work for Job #2.

I took a 5 minute break to eat a snack around 2:00. I had 1/2 cup of grapes and 1/2 oz. of English Walnuts. Delicious snack!

I worked for a few hours and then decided to stop working for the day so that I could make sure I got a workout in. I was SO hungry at that point, but thought I should wait and just eat an earlier supper.

I walked 1.64 miles in 32 minutes. All I thought about the entire time was food. lol. That and I listened to the Jillian Michaels Podcast, which I love!

For supper, I made a pizza on a Light Flat Out with sauce, spinach, cheese, ham, turkey sausage, and tomatoes.

I also had a side of green beans.

For dessert, I had FF/SF Butterscotch Pudding and FF Whipped Topping.

I have 68 calories left for my daily goal of 1370 today. I am also allowing myself to eat 1/2 of my exercise calories burned, based on the Fit Bit Stats, which is really a gauge of how active I am. They do not roll over to the next day though.

Right now, due to extra activity in the day, above sedentary, I have 120 additional calories I can eat if I want to.

I am also allowing myself 1000 extra calories a week, kind of like the WW Weekly Points idea. I am doing this because if I go over my calories I feel like a failure, and this way, I will still lose weight if I need to eat them, but still stay in control.

Another good day down!