2 Days of Food

I know. I said I was going to start posting food logs again. I forgot. So here's 2 days of food for you!!

3/20/12

·         Breakfast:  regular oatmeal w/ stevia and a little milk, a donut (yes, again), some almonds

·         am snacks: organic peach yogurt, apples w/ peanut butter

·         Lunch: Cici’s pizza – 2 slizes (think frozen pizza sized slices, so, small) of each veggie, cheese, pepperoni… and then of course I had a couple super skinny slices of dessert pizza. Oh, dessert pizza, why must you be so delicious?!

·         Dinner: cottage cheese with fresh strawberries

·         Pm snack: fruit smoothie with whey protein

·         Exercise: Base Phase Workout B

Total Calories: 1814

Estimated Calories Burned: 600

Net Calories: 1214

3/21/12

·         Breakfast: regular oatmeal w/ stevia and milk, banana

·         Am snacks: almonds and strawberry yogurt

·         Lunch: Qdoba veggie bowl, half rice extra black beans and a 16oz coke

·         Dinner: turkey and swiss sandwich

·         Pm snacks: iced sweetened passion tea from Starbucks, two beers

Total Calories: 2282

Obviously no exercise last night. And I honestly forgot about those beers until just now. This seems to be my pattern lately. On exercise days I end up eating relatively little, and then on non-exercise days I hit or exceed the 2,000 mark. It’s okay I guess, since it all evens out. And there’s nothing wrong with giving my metabolism that boost on those off days as long as I’m not regularly reaching that 2,500-3,000 range every other day.

I’m actually feeling really good about my eating this week. There have obviously been some fast-food type things thrown in the mix, but overall I feel like I’m eating mostly intuitively. If I’m hungry, I have something. If I’m not, I don’t. None of this wanting to eat just because I'm bored stuff that I usually struggle with.

My general goal is 2,000 or less for the day, but I’m not stressing on that. It feels good to just eat without a constant, nagging inner-monologue going on in the back of my head. Even with those donuts earlier this week. I ate one, it was whatever. I moved through the rest of my day without feeling guilty about it until having to post it to this blog lol. But even then, as soon as I wrote it out, it was forgotten. For someone who has been on-and-off obsessing over every bite that goes into her mouth for almost 3 years, that’s a huge accomplishment. HUGE. Now the trick is to keep it up!