Day 5

Yesterday I went WAY over my calorie intake. I hadn't been feeling well, so I made the "smart" choice of eating a whole box of velveta mac and cheese (so good) and too many butterfinger candies.

As a result, I saw my weight go up the following day.

I realize that weight can bounce around a lot due to water weight, but mine tends to be fairly consistent, so seeing my weight go up 2 lbs made me realize I need to be more careful.

I plan to go out to dinner tonight (another danger zone!) so I am packing a light lunch for my 8 hour shift, and if I need to, I will have a salad for dinner instead of the burger I am already daydreaming of.

The delicious pumpkin latte I had for breakfast cost me 350 calories (ouch!) so I will try and stick to homemade coffee from now on. It's better for me anyway and I use no added sugar, just honey, powdered creamer (which has some sugar, I get the Hazelnut flavor) and cinnamon.

My lunch box for today:

pomegranates, pumpkin seeds, granny smith apple, chicken with rice, chick peas, and yogurt

I had a breakfast burrito in here, but opted to save it for another day. With everything in here, I have 592 calories left for dinner. So, I am going to try to eat only a few things in here so I can remove some of this from my calorie list!

I didn't feel well yesterday and the day before, it felt like I had soap in my stomach or something. (You know that feeling you get when you drink too much water, or when your in the pool and accidentally ingest some chlorine water? THAT feeling. Ugh) I almost wonder if it was because I had a lot of fruit (more than usual) and had two cups of green tea (also unusual). I might have just flooded my system, so to speak?

I dunno. But after over eating yesterday, this is the first day I have felt awake all week (even though I had to get up earlier) and I don't feel sick anymore.

Maybe I just tried to make too many changes too fast. After all, my original intent was to simply log what I was eating so I could get a feel for what my calorie intake each day was, not to immediately try to cut down the amount I'm eating.

If I can cut out the yogurt and pumpkin seeds from today, that will leave me with about 200 extra calories for dinner!