Day 43

Breakfast:

Nutrigrain bar 120

Lunch:

Half strawberry poppyseed and chicken salad 170

Bowl broccoli cheddar soup 290

French baguette 150

Dinner:

Bowl of Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup 160

French Baguette 150

Total:

1040

Day 42

Breakfast:

Nutrigrain bar 120

Lunch:

Half Mediterranean veggie sandwich 300

Cup lemon chicken orzo soup 130

Dinner:

Grilled chicken in a lemon butter sauce with mixed veggies 600

Total:

1150

Day 41

Breakfast:

Nutrigrain bar 120

Lunch:

Cup lemon chicken orzo soup 130

Half Grilled Chicken Caesar salad 250

French baguette 150

Dinner:

Bowl of Broccoli Cheddar Soup 290

Total:

940

Day 40

I hurt my knee at work a few weeks ago, so have not been able to do much exercising. I really wanted to do something today, even if it was for a minute. When I woke up, I did 30 jumping jacks. This wasn't much, but I'm glad I did it, and I can work my way up from there. After the jumping jacks, I weighed, and am back up a few pounds. I knew I had gained some weight back, because I have not been paying attention. I am just glad it wasn't more. I'm going to eat a huge breakfast today, and eat very light the rest of the day.

Breakfast:

Asiago bagel with butter 380

Fruit salad 70

Baked eggs with onions and cheese 200

Oatmeal 100

Dinner:

Garden Salad 200

Total:

950

Day 39

Way too many carbs today. End of story.

Breakfast:

Cinnamon swirl and raisin bagel with cream cheese 450

Lunch:

Jalapeno cheddar bagel with cream cheese 440

Dinner:

Roast beef sandwich with french fries 800

Total:

1690

Day 38

Breakfast:

Asiago cheese bagel with butter 380

Pecan braid 470

Lunch:

Cup broccoli cheddar soup 190

Half Mediterranean veggie sandwich 300

Dinner:

5 layer beefy burrito from taco bell 540

Total:

1880

Day 37

Breakfast:

Jalapeño cheddar bagel with butter 360

Lunch:

Half tuna salad sandwich 380

Half Greek salad 190

French Baguette 150

Dinner:

 Can of Progresso Soup 240

 Total:

1320

Day 36

Breakfast:

Everything Bagel with reduced fat cream cheese 430

Lunch:

Mediterranean Veggie Sandwich 600

Bag of Chips 160

Total:

1190

Day 35

Breakfast:

Apple 90

Cinnamon Raisin Bagel with butter 370

Lunch:

Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad 510

French Baguette 150

Dinner:

Greek Salad 380

French Baguette 150

Total:

1650

Day 34

Breakfast:

Slice of Cinnamon Crumb Cake 420

Skinny caramel macchiato from Starbucks 140

Lunch:

Greek Salad 380

French Baguette 150

Dinner:

Two slices of pizza 500

Total:

1590  

Day 33

Lunch:

Half Italian combo 520

Half Thai chopped chicken salad 200

French Baguette 150

 

Dinner:

Too many wings at buffalo wild wings 800?

Total:

1670

Day 32

I finally lost the 7 pounds that I originally lost (plus another half a pound)! It took me a much longer time to lose it this time, and I think that is because I haven't been getting enough sleep. When I am tired I do not make good decisions. Today is fathers day, so I brought my dad home a whole cinnamon crumb cake from work. I shouldn't have had a whole slice of it for dessert, but I did. Hopefully slicing off some carbs at dinner time helped to redeem me somewhat.

Lunch:

Half chicken Caesar salad 250

Half chipotle panini 420

Dinner:

Hotdog with half a bun

Hamburger with no bun and some tomatoes, onion and cheese 500?

Dessert:

Slice of cinnamon crumb cake 420

Total:

1590

Day 31

I started off the day today good, but I started to get a headache shortly after I got to work. The headache got worse and worse as the day went on, and I was all out of the advil I keep in my purse. No one else had any either, so I just had to work through it. This was the worst headache I've ever had in my life, and by the end of the day I felt very sick to my stomach also. I got a free brownie with my MyPanera card, and ended up eating this later on.

Breakfast:

Jimmy dean sausage egg and cheese breakfast sandwich 510

Lunch:

Half chicken Caesar salad 250

Half Mediterranean veggie sandwich 300

Snack:

Double fudge brownie 480

Total:

1540

Day 30

Breakfast:

Everything bagel with reduced fat cream cheese 430

Lunch:

Bowl all-natural chicken noodle soup 110

Half Mediterranean veggie sandwich 300

Apple 90

Dinner:

Thai Chopped Chicken Salad 400

French Baguette 150

Total:

1480

Day 29

Well, my weight is ALMOST back down to where it was before I killed it. Only a pound and a half to get back there. My goal was to get back to that weight by sunday, and that did not happen, but I got pretty close. I just ordered the invitations for my friend's bridal shower. All this wedding stuff is going to break the bank! Today was my day off, and I am PMSing, so at least I got a few constructive things done!

Breakfast:

Potato chips 160

Lunch/Dinner:

General Tso's chicken with rice and eggroll  1400

Total:

1560

Day 28

Breakfast/lunch:

Part of a cheese tray and some sushi 400

Dinner:

Half Don's sampler and Don Pablo's 1000

Total: 

1400

Day 27

Breakfast:

Bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich 430

Lunch:

Half BBQ chopped chicken salad 250

Half ham and Swiss on rye 350

Bag of chips 160

Dinner:

Bowl of Broccoli Cheddar Soup 290

French Baguette 150

Total:

1630

Day 26

Tonight I went to my friend's house for dinner. She suggested quesadillas or pizza...I told her I was trying to watch the carbs so we made something a little lighter. When I got home I cleaned the bathroom so I rewarded myself with some cheesecake. Afterwards, I forced myself to take a walk to help compensate for the cheesecake. I was hoping to go around the development two or three times (I used to do 5), but I only made it once. Will have to work my way back up to 5.

Breakfast:

Special k with skim milk 300

Lunch:

Turkey shortie from wawa 360

Dinner:

Grilled chicken breast with grilled squash and zucchini and rice 350?

Dessert:

Small slice of cheese cake 350

Total: 

1360

Day 25

Breakfast:

Special k with skim milk 300

Lunch:

Half asiago roast beef 350

Half Greek salad 190

Potato chips 160

Snack:

Frozen lemonade 100

Dinner:

2 beef patties with some cheese and ketchup 300

Total: 

1400

Day 24

Today was the day all the new summer stuff came out! So of course I had to try as much as I possibly could in one meal lol. I love how low calorie everything is. I pigged out for lunch but it was only 510 calories for everything! I'm not nuts about the strawberry salad, but will probably eat it when I need something low-cal. I like the new lemon chicken orzo soup a lot, and the watermelon is a nice summery treat.

Breakfast: 

Everything Bagel with reduced fat cream cheese 430

Lunch:

Half strawberry poppyseed with chicken salad 150

Cup lemon chicken orzo soup 130

Watermelon fruit cup 50

Frozen strawberry lemonade 180

Dinner:

Bowl of Broccoli Cheddar Soup 290

Total:

1230 

Day 23

Breakfast:

Double fudge brownie 480

Lunch:

Half Grilled Chicken Caesar salad 250

Half Italian combo 520

Apple 90

Total:

1340

Day 22

Breakfast:

Slice cinnamon crumb cake 420

Lunch:

Sierra Turkey Sandwich 970

Apple 90

Total:

1480

Day 21

Breakfast:

None

Lunch:

Half Grilled Chicken Caesar salad 250

Half Italian Combo 520

Dinner:

Greek salad with chicken 480

Snack:

Chocolate fudge brownie  410  

Total:

1660

Day 20

Breakfast:

Eggs, sausage, half a bagel 500

Lunch:

Bagel and cream cheese 430

Dinner:

Slice of pizza 200

Total:

1130

Day 19

I slacked and didn't write down what I ate for dinner and forget what it was. I burned my arm today at work on a hot rack (of souflees.) It's not a horrible burn, I'm just hoping it doesn't leave a scar. Not much else interesting happened today.

Breakfast:

Special k 300

Lunch:

Ham & Swiss souflee 490

Total:

?

Day 18

I weighed today and I've lost 3 of the pounds that I gained back. Woohoo! It's sickening how easy it is to gain weight and how difficult it is to lose it again!

Breakfast:

None

Lunch:

Greek salad 380

French baguette 150

Dinner:

Bowl of Broccoli Cheddar soup  290

Bag of Chips 160

Total:

                                   980                                     

Day 17

Today was a national holiday. That's right, national donut day. This means that dunkin donuts was giving away a free donut with every beverage purchase. So of course I had to take advantage of this deal. I stopped for a donut and latte for breakfast. I had a panera breakfast sandwich for lunch (early day today), and hit up a different dunkin donuts later for dinner. I have my own little donut scam going, lol. The chocolate glazed donut was a few more calories than I bargained for...but I found that out after it was already gone, so not much I could do about that! I was hoping to have a few more calories to spare for later, so if I get hungry I will have to eat something VERY low-cal.

Breakfast:

Iced caramel latte lite 160

Sour cream donut 210

Lunch:

Asiago bacon egg and cheese sandwich 620

Dinner:

Chocolate glazed donut 290

Total: 

1280

Day 16

Breakfast:

Bag of  chips 160

Lunch:

Half Grilled Chicken Caesar salad 250

Half Mediterranean veggie sandwich 300

French baguette 150

Dinner:

Bowl of Broccoli Cheddar soup 290

French Baguette 150

Total:

1300 

Day 15

6:20AM:

I've lost 7 pounds in my first week. This encouraged me so much and I really thought I had the hang of this. Then I managed to gain 6 pounds back in my second week. Today was the first time I've weighed in a week. I knew that I was making some bad choices this week, and expected to see a slight gain. I would've been ok with 2-4 pounds. But gaining back almost all I lost makes me feel completely defeated. It feels like all of my effort has been for absolutely nothing and makes me want to give up. A friend of mine suggested that I only weigh once a week, but I know now that if I had kept a closer eye on my weight this past week, I would have seen the path I was going down and could have avoided it. I am now going to weigh at least every other day, and maybe every day. After I had lost that 7 pounds, I felt much better bit did not think it made much of a difference. When I looked in the mirror after I weighed, I realized it made a huge difference. I will never get to my starting weight ever again.


5:45PM:

I think I'm done sulking about my gain. I ate out today, but made good decisions. This gain has taught me a few things. One is that going off the diet may be fun in the moment, but it never, ever pays off in the end, and I WILL be miserable for destroying all my hard work. Another thing I learned is that I can not let setbacks like this get me down. If I do, I will gain all my weight back and more.

Breakfast:

Half omelet with bacon and cheese 150

A few tator tots 100

Lunch:

Cheese plate with mixed fruit 300

One and a half meatballs 375

Snack:

32 oz iced coffee from wawa 560

Total:

1485