- total calories: 1252 - yeah, now you see what my title was all about... waaaaay too few calories for one day. That's a good way to send my body spiraling into store-fat mode.
- 0 calories burned - no workout
- 0 cigarettes - here we go another Sun-Thurs success lol
- 11pm bedtime
- $0 spent
I intended to weigh myself and take measurements this morning but I forget until after I'd already eaten breakfast and I was running super late for work anyway - tomorrow hopefully I'll have a chance to get this done.
I had originally said in my post yesterday that I was going to do my JW workout dvd Mon, Weds, Fri - but that may end up being Tues, Thurs, Sat instead since today is my brother-in-law's birthday and we're going out to dinner for that at 6pm. This should also be interested since I started my clean eating today and we're going to Outback Steakhouse, which is pretty much the worst restaurant you can possibly choose to eat at... I decided earlier I'd be having the salmon with steamed veggies - y'know, trying to do a good thing by keeping my meal below 700 calories. -.- RICIULOUS!!! Even if I wanted to have half a steak I couldn't because that with just a house salad and some veggies would have run me almost 1'000 calories and some 40 grams of fat. WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY PUTTING IN THIS MAGICAL FAT SALAD?!
Anyhoo - we'll see how it goes. I had lunch at Taco Bell today.. had a steak salad without rice or salad dressing - just a bunch of sauce packets, and it was pretty delicious as well as being under 300 calories. I normally eat at home during the work week so the rest of this week should be okay. Just gotta work on getting into that workout routine again!
This is why I get more and more convinced that eating out is a bad idea - especially when counting calories. I don't know what restaurants do to food to make it so high calorie! You could probably make a steak, a salad, and a baked potato at home for fewer calories than a steak and vegetables or something would be at Outback! I don't get it! Even the low-cal menus at restaurants usually boast meals under 800 calories or something like that. 800 calories seems like a lot for one meal, but maybe that's just me!! :)
ReplyDeleteI ended up getting the salmon with steamed veggies - all told only 400 calories! Not too bad and it was really delicious! I did break down and have a bite of bloomin' onion and a bite of desert too.. but just bites, literally. All in all I was really proud of myself. :)
ReplyDeleteThey do it by using whole fat products and making portion size way bigger than you would at home. Look at it this way. If I were going to make tacos at home I would buy reduced fat cheddar cheese, fat free sour cream, and lean ground beef. All of those things are more expensive, and therefore a place like Taco Bell does just the opposite. I've also found that restaurants often put "mystery sauces" on their food that you would never use at home. What is that cheese sauce in the Taco Bell quesadilla? Or the sauce on a Sierra Turkey sandwich at Panera? Or the sauce on a Big Mac? You'd never put that kind of stuff on home cooked food and I bet you that those sauces are loaded with carbs.
ReplyDeleteAlso, cheers to you for your comment about eating too few calories. Most people don't understand the danger of that. I certainly didn't until I spoke to a friend of mine about a year ago who did sports medicine in college. She explained to me that when you don't eat enough calories in a day your body goes into starvation mood and hoards the calories you do consume. It also does awful things like start eating off of your muscle and essential body fat. Not good. Then your metabolism slows down and when you finally do start eating like a human being again, you gain every single pound back and then some. Obviously that's what I did for years, causing me to yo-yo over and over again. I'd diet at about 1200 calories a day for a month or two, drop 20 pounds, and then go back to eating like a human being and put it all back on. That being said, one 1200 calorie day certainly isn't going to kill you, but cheers to you for taking note of a problem that most (female) dieters (myself included for a very long time), don't understand!
You're doing a great job by the way! Your smoking stuff is kinda putting me to shame. lol.
I think I was probably less of a "hard core" smoker to begin with - very rarely did I ever smoke more than half-a-pack a day. I'm really kind of terrified to see what happens when we go to Arkansas over thanksgiving considering that my Uncle Mark and Marvin (who we're staying with again) both are heavy smokers... plus you and I being around each other... it's all over!! lol
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