Day 15

I am keeping up with calorie counting every day so far. It's been challenging, and half the time I guess at what I ate because I forgot to write it down.

Looking over my numbers so far, I have been over more often than I have been under.
Granted, I usually don't include any cardio I do. Cardio being my once a week kickboxing class.

I was doing good for a little bit where I was going two or three times a week, but I have had to take care of my friends dogs right after work and I hurt my knee again so I have been cutting back on my workout.

November has been flying by at lightning speeds, and now I am trying to plan out Thanksgiving.
If I wanted to be really healthy, I would have turkey instead of our traditional ham. But, I have decided to still have ham, but focus on portion control, using a small plate, and having a nice salad to go with dinner.

Maybe a walk after dinner to get some exercise, hopefully I'm not comatose.

Meals that I remembered to take a picture of:

This meal is from day 11. I went over 151 calories for the day, probably because I had velveta mac and cheese for dinner.
Rasin bran, toasted peanut butter cracker,s sugar snap peas, apple, and pork chops with rice and corn.

I love breakfast. I haven't been able to do it justice now that I work 9-5, because I have a hard time getting my butt up early enough to cook this. Sausage, egg and pineapple. I had 2 sausages and 3 eggs on this day (yesterday, the 14th) because I had a really busy morning and didn't eat breakfast until 12. Despite how bad that is, I still managed to keep my calorie count under 1,600

Today's lunch box. All added up, I have 652 calories left for dinner!
Breakfast burrito, peanut butter crackers, salmon (homemade with lemon and some spice) mashed potato, pineapple and oatmeal with cinnamon and some milk.

I am on 2 days in a row of being under the calorie goal. 11/6 was really bad because that was our Day of the Dead party.
I need to have more good days!

I was scrapbooking recently, and my roommate was looking through my college scrapbook. She pointed at a picture of me and exclaimed "Look how thin you were!"

I know she wasn't calling me fat. I KNOW it wasn't meant to be hurtful or mean. It was, however, true.

I am bouncing around 182-185 right now, and back in college I was around 175.

I walked everywhere, biked everywhere. I didn't eat great, but I was leaner. Back then I was trying to get back to my before college weight, 165.

I can't get back to being able to walk everywhere,  (work is so far away, and while I COULD bike, I have NO motivation to bike myself and my heavy backpack to work everyday). I can however watch what I eat, and really focus on going to the gym and walking when I can.

I am going to find some old pictures of myself to use as references, and a few pictures of me from right now. They should hopefully stop me from overeating....

This was the photo my roommate commented on. This was back in 2011

This was in 2012, in Costa Rica. We did a LOT of walking while we were there. A lot of eating too.

This was in 2010 or 2011 in Acadia Park, Maine

For reference, here I am wearing that same fleece in Yellowstone in 2016:

2016 in Yellowstone.

May of 2013.

Fall of 2012

This was me at my best since high school. I biked 45minutes to work every day (to and from) and I was too poor to afford food. This was right before I started college in 2008.

 Now for the photos of present me.

This is me in Marble Colorado in 2015. I forgot to suck in my gut for the photo...

This was me this summer. Yuck. The lighting didn't help, but this is part of what made me join kickboxing class and start calorie counting. This photo. I get embarrassed every time I look.