Day Three:
I ended my day with only 1055 calories. I thought I was very close to the 1500 limit so I was very happy to see such a low number. Why? Because I was craving -like CRAZY!- dessert. And with almost 450 calories to spare I splurged on homemade strawberry shortcake!!! :-) I really enjoyed it too. But it occurred to me after I ate it that it wasn't very much food for about 450 calories. It was hard to know how many calories it really was (since I made it and it wasn't from a pre-measured package).
Day Four:
This was Friday. Fridays are a very hard day for me to be on a diet: it's my women's Bible study morning and there are always a ton of tempting sweets and savory dishes. I would not be surprised, at all, if on some past Fridays I have consumed 800 calories there. Hard to know, really, but it would not shock me to find out that I actually have had that much... Scary!
I went, nervous to see all the good food there would be. Thankfully there were some healthier options like light yogurt and bananas. I had a half banana and a light vanilla yogurt (about 110 calories for the two). But then I was just stupid! I had a mini scone. It was good, but probably NOT worth all the un-known calories. I estimated it at 100 calories. Not that big of a deal, but there was no redeeming health values to the stupid thing. And I was sad to know that I caved in too easily to it.
The rest of my day went okay. I made fairly good decisions and kept my calorie count to under 1,500. I estimated my "leftovers-from-dinner" lunch to be about 500 calories. We were driving down to my in-law's house so we did the usual routine of "just get out the door ASAP" routine and stopped for fast food on the way to feed the family. It was not hard for me to choose something low calorie. I spoke up and said "Jack in the Box!" because I like their chicken fajita pocket. It's fairly tasty and and just 326 calories. It was a bit hard to not eat some fries, but I knew that if I had one -I'd have many of them! So I stuck with my pita and had a Diet Coke. (I know, so much for my trying to avoid diet drinks!)
Because my calorie count was at only a bit over 1,000 I planned to have half of a chocolate milk shake with my husband. But our dog thwarted my plans! I put it in a cup holder in the back of the car and the dang dog decided to lick all the whipped cream and even got as far down as the top layer of the shake. To put it mildly I was pretty ticked with her. LOL
About 45 minutes later we stopped to get a Frosty from Wendys for me. I got a small Frosty and it was very tasty. And in a way it was better because it was much lower in calories. :-) I just looked it up: it was 310 calories. So my day's total was close to 1400 total for the day. I am sure with the milk shake I would have easily gone over.
It is now Monday -three days later- and I wish I could say I did as well as the first four days of the diet this past weekend. ... See my next entry for more information. :(
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