Una ragazza magra

Well, today went well, except I subbed the applesauce for the veggies again for dinner.  Also, I ate a creamy HNS in the same day that i had a bar, and I’m not supposed to do that.  Too many carbs, apparently, but there’s still a big calorie deficit, so we’ll see what happens.

Tomorrow holds a big eating challenge:  my teacher is buying pizza for the class.  I know that I’m not strong enough not to eat any.  Plus, he’s made a big deal about us not eating lunch, so I at least need to get something.  I think I am just going to have it be my lunch, eat TWO pieces only (no third as I’ll be tempted to do), and take my carb blockers just before class.  I have them packed, so we’re good to go.  I know this will probably mean I won’t lose weight at next weigh in, but if I go Friday instead of Thursday and drink a lot of water, perhaps some of the water weight will be abated.  The scale at home isn’t really budging, either, so it’s a bit of a discouragement.  I’m just used to quick weight loss, so I know I need to just be patient, but I’m worried about meeting my deadline, and with Thanksgiving and Christmas in there, it makes it tougher.

On a bright note, I wore some white pants tonight that I haven’t been able to wear in at least 3 1/2 years.  I bought them the day my husband proposed (that’s how I remember so well), and they didn’t even fit me then (I needed to lose 5-10 lbs for them to look okay– why did I used to buy clothes that were too small for me??).  Now, however, they fit fine.  They’re even on the loose side this week (as compared to last when they were just right).  So, that’s definitely something to be happy about.  I still think I must have more muscle because I didn’t weigh this much when I didn’t even fit into them before. 

Breakfast: cheese toast, 1 egg white, HNS

Lunch: Bar, HNS

snack: choc. soy mini crisps (HNS)

Dinner:  cheese toast, 1 melba toast, 1 applesauce cup, 2 oz. chicken, HNS

weight at home: 182 (that’s up again– who knows what’s going on!!)

Well, today went well, I suppose.  I only lost 1/2 lb. at weigh in, but last time I was down 3 lbs. in 3 days, so it all equals out in the end.  Maybe next time will be a bigger loss.  Plus, 1/2 lb. is better than maintaining or not losing, or (gulp) gaining.

Breakfast:  cheese toast, egg white, HNS

Lunch:  bar, HNS

snack:   chocolate soy mini crisps (these are a creamy HNS, and they are fantastic, may be addictive.  They taste a lot like nestle crunch.)

Dinner:  spinach salad with chicken, cheese toast, HNS

water: 32 oz. (I must get better with this!

weight at home: 181.5

MRC weight: 186

Today went fairly well.  I veered off ever so slightly for dinner because I just didn’t want broccoli….ever have one of those times when something just sounds totally unappetizing?  That was broccoli for me today.  Hopefully it doesn’t cause me too many problems.

Breakfast:  cheese toast, 1 egg white, HNS

Lunch: 2 oz. chicken, 1 oz. parmesan, spinach (salad), HNS

Dinner:  1 pc. 35 cal. bread, 2 oz. chicken, 1 oz. pepperjack, 1 single serv. cup natural no sugar added applesauce, HNS– creamy

We’ll see what the scale brings tomorrow.  I go to MRC to weigh in.  The scale at home has stalled, so who knows what I’m in for!  I think drinking more water might help, at least with keeping the numbers even and steady.  I tend not to drink any water at all on the weekends, and during the week I usually get my 64 oz. per day in.  I guess I need a better system for the weekends.

It’s been going okay…slight variances from the plan, but nothing too terrible.  Yesterday was 100% OP, and here’s the damage today:

Breakfast:  cheese toast, 1 egg white, HNS

Lunch:  8 ritz wheat crackers, about 4 oz. cheese (total guess here, but more than 2 oz. for sure)– this was at a friend’s jewelry party, but it was around lunch time, and I hadn’t eaten, so I just ate this and skipped lunch all together.

Dinner:  2 oz. shrimp, 1/4 wrap, 2 melba toast, 1 oz. pepperjack, 4 oz. broccoli, HNS

snack:  coffee with cappuccino HNS

weight at home:  182.5

I bought a new belt today at TJ Maxx in a size L.  My current XL belt is on its last notch and not quite doing its job anymore, so I thought it was time.  This belt should last me at least a couple months since I’m only at the first notch or two. 

So, I went to weigh in today, not expecting much of a loss since I hadn’t been exactly on plan and……..I lost 3 lbs!!  Three pounds in three days– couldn’t ask for much more than that.  So, now I’ve officially lost 40.5 lbs., and it’s time for my next reward, which is a facial at Christina’s, and since it doesn’t cost much (because I’m going to the education center instead of the regular spa), I think I’m going to get an Italian CD as well, since I really like Giusy Ferreri’s music.  I’ll post and let you know how it turns out.

Breakfast:  cheese toast, 1 hardboiled egg white, HNS

Lunch: bar (fourth for the week, only supposed to have three), HNS

Dinner:  Plan to have shrimp and cheese on a wrap again, but we’ll see if I have time.

Today and yesterday were both on plan, and I feel much better now, too.  I think I wasn’t eating enough before on top of having too much caffeine, and I was totally jittery.  They also did my measurements today and a body fat analysis.  I’ve lost 2.5 lbs. of muscle since I started, but that’s very good considering I’ve lost 40 lbs., too.  They said it’s normal (on their program) to lose about 5 lbs. of muscle over the whole course of the diet, and that fits since I’m about halfway through.  On other diets you lose a lot more muscle mass, but since this is so high in protein, you tend to keep the muscle and lose fat, which is always a good thing!

weight at home:  184

weight at MRC:  186.5

body fat:  38.2%

inches lost overall since beginning:  60 something, ten since last month.

So, i got 3 hours of sleep last night, and I’m in bed, ready to go to sleep.  i still have to go grocery shopping, but i did go in and get a chicken tonight, so I had a good dinner, and I must say I think it’s made me feel better.  for a while I was totally subsisting on cheese and bread, lol.  i’m going to stock up on stuff again on Friday. 

Breakfast:  cheese toast, hard boiled egg white, HNS

Lunch:  bar, HNS

Dinner: 4 oz. chicken, 4 oz. veggies, 4 melba rounds, HNS

weight: can’t remember.  that’s what this much of a lack of sleep will do for you.

So, I’m still plugging through the paper, and it’s been rough today since it’s my busiest day of the week.  I only have until 5 pm tomorrow to get it done, though.  As of now, I have four out of the necessary five to six.  However, those are four very rough pages, and this professor is maniacal on having very good polished writing, so there’s still a lot of work left to do, which is why I’m posting and not writing it, of course.  Once again I didn’t have time to go grocery shopping, so here’s the damage today:

Breakfast:  1 pc. bread, 1 oz. cheese, 1 hardboiled egg white, HNS

Lunch:  bar, starbucks decaf with equivalent of about 2 Tbsp. nonfat milk (not on the diet)

Dinner:  1 pc. bread, 1.6 oz. cheese, 2 melba rounds (25 cal), 1 applesauce cup (no sugar added, all natural), HNS

snack:  starbucks coffee (with caffeine this time, to aid the late night studying), 2 Tbsp. half and half (there was no nonfat milk, but I think I used less of the half and half because it did a better job– strange how fat helps out so much!)

So, it could have been worse, but I’m definitely not following the plan.  My carbs are much higher than normal, but I don’t think the calories are all that bad.  Once I get some time (Weds. evening after I email my paper off?), I might plug them in to a counter out of curiosity.  Also, I was getting hungry since I ate an early dinner, but the coffee did the trick (and now I’m wired, too, which is good), so I’m not hungry, and I don’t think snacking will be a problem the rest of the night.

Incidentally, the coffee was free because I voted.  One cup was from campus, and the other cup on my way home from IBC. :)  I love election day freebies!

weight at home:  I totally can’t remember….maybe 184.5??  It’s been too long, and I’ve been too busy….Friday can’t come fast enough.

Well….I’m writing this paper (or rather, I’m supposed to be writing it right now), and I haven’t had time for many things (grocery shopping, cooking, for example), and about dinner time, I realized that I really had no protein in the house.  I had finished the last of it up last night.  So, rather than spend a bunch of time going to buy stuff, I made do with what was on hand– not terrible, but not on plan, either.  Here’s what I had:

1 piece bread with 1 oz. cheese melted on top

2 melba toast rounds with 1 oz cheese (basically like cheese and crackers– very good!)

1 single serve cup of all natural no sugar added applesauce (apples and water)

HNS

So, basically I had more cheese today than I was supposed to, and I swapped the veggie for the applesauce because it was faster and just plain more appetizing, and with all this work looming over my head, I didn’t feel like dealing with it all tonight.  I have seriously been having to fight the munchies tonight– not because I’m hungry but because I want to distract myself, and because whenever I write a paper, I want to go snack to take breaks.  It’s just an ingrained habit since I was a teenager (you write, you eat, you write, you eat), and it’s kind of tough to break.  I haven’t given in yet, though, and I think the worst has passed.  However, in about an hour I’m going to go make some (real) coffee for the caffeine (which I’m not supposed to have) to help me stay awake.  I had my first diet soda since I started.  I also decided I needed the caffeine, and I must say, it’s pretty good, but it hasn’t been too bad going without them.  Three months is a pretty long time considering how often I drank them before I was on MRC, and I haven’t really missed them– interesting.

So, I have to write my paper tonight, and I’m putting it off…

Today went well, I weighed in at 189.5, which is 1.5 lbs. down since Friday– not bad for 2 days!  Also, I’m hopefully out of the 190s forever (I say that every time, but maybe this will be the time it sticks).

Today is also my first day off metaquick, and I must say I did like eating the normal breakfast again.  I had a bar for lunch, so not much of a change there, but I really would rather have a bar for lunch all the time if I were allowed.  Tuesday and Wednesday lunches will also be a bar since I won’t have time to come home, but after that I’ll be making my own lunch at home as well.  I had a tuna melt last night, and I really enjoyed it, so I’ll be buying more tuna tomorrow at Meijer.

weight at home:  184.5

MRC weight:  189.5  (loss of 1.5 lbs. since Friday, loss of 6.5 lbs. for the week)

Wow– until I typed that, I didn’t realize I had lost 6.5 lbs. in one week.  That’s pretty exciting.  Also, I am in my size 12s now!  I tried them on last night, and 3 of them are perfect, and two of them I’ll probably wait a week or two for.  They technically fit, but the others look better. 

So, I was really anxious to see what I weighed this morning since yesterday showed a 7.5 lb. overnight loss.  Unfortunately, I was back up to 185 from 179, so it must have been some sort of fluke.  I weighed myself about six times yesterday, and the scale didn’t budge, but it looks like it was only a 1.5 lb. loss overnight, which is much more believable and of course still a good loss.  Oh well!