I ate a lot of food that last week of May. I was so hungry from my two May races & added activity. Things have slowed down. I am currently tracking calories (the horror) as I’m trying to lose 10 lbs before August 1.  I have discovered that I really was consuming more calories than I thought, but not a ton. I’m not quite sure why I haven’t been at the least losing 0.2 lbs/week. I am on week two of tracking, and so far I have lost 1.2 lbs - bringing me back to 1 lb heavier than my last posted weight. So, in other words, lame.

I am trying really hard to concentrate on fruit/veggie intake, minimizing cheese & peanut butter, and instead of counting my alcholic beverages, I am trying for a ‘weekend & special occasion only’ plan. This is the first week. Since Sunday, I have had approximately .5 beers. So far, so good!

I am hoping that tomorrow’s weigh-in brings a visible loss - I’m trying for 1.5 lbs/week.  I’m totally loving the Daily Plate with it’s chart that shows 1) how many calories you consumed; 2) recommended calories; 3) net calories (when exercise comes into play). I need to keep line #3 below line #2 every day - and so far this week, I’m doing well!

I think I will not go back to this being my daily food diary until I’m done tracking at Daily Plate, but I will go back to posting my weekly weigh-ins & any delicioso recipes that I come across/create. I would also like to start thinking about my food more, and will perhaps talk about that stuff here, so that anyone heading to gazelles on crack for shoes & corn won’t have to read about my crazy.

Morning snack: green smoothie (basically spinach & apples, with flax seed & vanilla soymilk)
I started drinking this at 10:30 & it took about 40 minutes. That seems a good amount of time.

Lunch: big-ass salad: mixed greens, 1 hard-boiled egg, a bit of chicken, some soft croutons, a few bell pepper chunks & some beets w/ the beet juice as dressing. Notably - no cheese.
Lunch at 1:30. Trying to eat slowly. If I don’t finish everything, it goes back in the bag for tomorrow!

Dinner: 6 saltines & 3.5 oz of cheese; also salsa; and 1/2 glass of grapefruit juice topped with Fresca (mocktail!)
I was still hungry after this dinner, but not hungry, so I just went to bed.

Dinner: Steamed broccoli, wheat pasta, balsamic vinegar & some parmesan for fun!

Exercise: 45 minute swim (1,500 yds);

Water: 48 oz.

Morning snack: banana (10:30 AM)
I was just starting to get hungry - feel good about this one.

Lunch (1 PM): two chicken tamales
I was pretty hungry - the banana alone didn’t tide me over for 1.5 hours (should’ve added PB), so I got two tamales instead of one. and then I proceeded to eat them both as though tamales were going out of style. I was still uncomfortably full at 2:30, and am still full at 4:45. Again, ate too fast as well.

Dinner: green salad (spinach & romaine) with bell pepper & parmesan olive oil dressing (just a bit!), leftover turkey burger (the small one), 1 slice cheese, 2 slices of bread (too many!), ketchup & onions.  4 oz grapefruit juice.
The architect assembled the burgers, and I didn’t see until too late that he’d made mine w/ two pieces of bread. I didn’t want to WASTE the bread or hurt his feelings, so I ate them both, and that was just a bit over the top for me. One would’ve been plenty.

Exercise: 3.5 mile run in the AM; 1 hr bike in the PM (about 10 miles)

Water: 64 oz

Morning snack: banana

Lunch: 1 slice lasagna, 1/2 cup cottage cheese

Afternoon snack: 1 mini butterfinger; grapes

Dinner: turkey burger with tomato, onions, cheese & lettuce; baked potato fries; ketchup! 1 glass of apple juice w/ fresca; 1 glass of grapefruit juice w/ fresca

Water: 64 oz

Breakfast: 1 blueberry muffin, fruit smoothie, orange juice, coffee with cream, fresh fruit, blackberries Napolean

Lunch: 2 slices of pizza

Dinner: 2 steak tacos, chips & salsa, 1 baked potato; more wine than should be allowed

Water: 80 oz

Exercise: beach walking + 3 hours of gardening

May 16, 2009

Breakfast: waffles with PB & apple butter, coffee with soy milk

Lunch: 2 slices of lasagna

Dinner: 1.5 cookies, some bites of the architect’s food, pizza & 3 beers

Water: 80 oz

Exercise: 10 mile bike ride

During run: 1 vanilla Gu

Lunch: 5 saltines, 3/4 cup of couscous, 1 poached egg, spinach & 1 oz cheese; crystal light

Happy Hour: 1 pretzel with cheese, 1 beer sampler tray, 2 beers

Dinner: 1 slice of lasagna, 1 glass wine, 1 cookie

Water: 80 oz

Exercise: 7.5 mile trail run

Morning sipper: green smoothie with (spinach, banana, apple, a few chunks of frozen fruit, flax seed & vanilla soymilk)

Lunch: Chicken Fajita Soup; saltines

Dinner: homemade chicken nachos with cheese, tomatoes, refried (fatfree) beans, onions, peppers, garlic & black olives! Yum! beer (5/10)

Exercise: yoga (90 minutes)

Water: 64 oz