Lesli - I'm up for a trip to Chicago anytime - I love going into the city.
Thanks for your comments. I decided last night that I wanted pizza for dinner - and not frozen. I wanted real pizza. I've kept my fat grams down already (through lunch I'm only at 9.1 grams!!!!! So I feel I deserve a little break and something that I want. My plan is to only have 2 pieces and then if I'm still hungry I'll have a salad - might anyway but depends on what time we eat. We are going camping this weekend and we are going to get the camper from storage tonight so that will take some time. Decided I'm not going to work out tonight - I was going to but I need my day off (I've been trying to go one night, rest one, go one, etc.).
I was proud of myself at lunch - I brought a sandwich and had a plum, a tomato, and some rice from last night and I had planned on a cheese stick and a reese's peanut butter cup (if I plan for it, I can have it and I've been able to have the bite sized candy bars with no problem) and by the time I got the tomato done I almost couldn't eat the plum and so I put the RBP cup back in my drawer!!!! I'll save it for later if I get hungry. But I also have carrots in the fridge so I'm eating those first. Then the RBP cup if I'm still hungry!
Right now I'm at:
790 calories, 9.1 fat grams, and 153.6 carbs (a little high for having pizza tonight but that's not my main focus - my calories and fat grams are so as long as I can do good on those, I'm satisfied).
I realized that I am not posting what I'm eating and everyone else is. So I'll start doing that as I'm logging it on an excel spreadsheet anyway - so here's what I've had today...
breakfast strawberry fruit and oatmeal bar fat free yogurt
snack 100 calorie Nabisco snack
lunch 97% fat free ham sandwich on light bread with romaine
1 TBSP fat free mayo
1 medium tomato
1 small plum
1 c. mushroom rice
snack 18 baby carrots
2 TBSP light homemade dip (I use the Hidden Valley Ranch dry dressing mix for this also and it's not bad - 30 calories, 2 grams fat and 2 carbs for 2 TBSP - I can't eat carrots raw, they mess my stomach up)
Water - 56 ounces so far - 16 to go for the day. I'm trying to drink earlier in the day because I was up 4 times last night going to the bathroom since I didn't get all my water in until after 8pm. NO WAY am I doing that this weekend when we are camping - the bathrooms too far away!!!!!
One downfall which I hope and I can overcome - I HAVE TO - I woke up in the middle of the night with a blazing ear ache and then later a sore throat. My sore throat went away but now it's back. I'm hoping it's just some sinus drainage - I hate being sick!!!!