Day 3 - I tried to log in to my laptop with the password 'turkey'... that is not my pasword...not even close.

Yes, I really did try to log in to my laptop with the password 'turkey'.  And yes, that is no where close to my password.

I also have the word 'soup' written on my hand and I don't remember why...

I know one thing very very well about myself and that is that my hunger comes in 4 hour increments.  I want to eat the sea every four hours or everyone dies.  It explains why I usually eat a very heavy breakfast and did a lighter everything else.  Well..most the time.  Obviously I have to lose weight for a reason.  I love food.  So I need to use this knowledge to my advantage and plan to have something low calorie on hand to hold me over.  I was thinking celery but... I think I need to put more research into it.  I am trying to eat smart by avoiding what I consider to be obvious trouble makers, you know... the C.R.A.P. 

Finding stuff to drink that isn't bland and that doesn't steal calories from my food is the challenge for me right now.  I used to drink Coke Zero every single day and am now mostly drinking water and iced coffee.  I have some blueberry tea so I am going to make that into iced tea... That should be good.  Anyways, let us get on with it.

BREAKFAST - 340 Calories

I did it again, because it is low in calories, delicious, fast and satisfying.

LUNCH - 311 Calories

My boss wanted to order lunch so I used Postmates (Use code IEWVP for $10 off your first order!) to order from a place called True Food Kitchen.  I ordered the Inside Out Quinoa Burger.  It came with a kale side salad and sweet potatoes but I threw out the sweet potatoes.  (No one wanted them... I did feel bad but I didn't want to eat them either.)  I ordered the Kale-Aid as well since it was only 58 calories (woot!).  It tastes like earth... Some people hate it and some people just want something that isn't water. (ME)

DINNER - 424 Calories

For dinner I steamed broccolette, baby bella mushrooms and asparagus.  I pan fried (with water) salmon and seasoned everything with salt, pepper, and garlic and added half of an avocado on the side.  This was really tasty, easy and fast to make and very filling.  I will definitely make it again.  I had 3 days of fish because I bought a hunk of it and cut it into small portions... I am done with salmon for a few days.  I bought some ground turkey so that will be next on the menu.

I feel a lot better this evening.  I'm excited to go to the Farmer's Market on Sunday with Miss Bren!  I am hoping to get some great fresh veggies and low sugar fruit.  I went to the market this evening and bought egg whites and chard.  I might make some kind of breakfast bowl for tomorrow...we shall see.

So that's all for tonight.  I'm hoping that by logging this a little earlier I will feel less inclined to eat anything else.  I have ony had 1,075 calories today so I have 424 left if I do get hungry.  But I've got to tell ya, I still feel pretty full from that dinner!  I may take a leaf out of Brendas book and just brush my teeth when I start feeling hungry again.  Then I will drink some water and park my arse in bed. lol

Till tomorrow, my friends!  This evening I will leave you with my favorite song of the day:

Day 2 - I admit...regret...and find a fat tiger.

I AM ALREADY HATING THIS. 

  I miss ice cream...and bread.

Something happened to my Day 2 Entry so I am entering it again... I found a draft in it's place.... I think maybe the mobile window that was open from a draft I started earlier in the day was auto saved over it when I opened it.  So it is most likely my fault :(

So here is what I recall: 

BREAKFAST - 340 Calories

I decided to go back to McD for their yummy low calorie breakfast bowl and opted for a tall iced coffee sweetened with extra soy milk as it is only 90 calories!  This meal holds me over til about 11:30am.  That's when I get hungry, and by 1pm I feel that I could eat a small child if they came too close.  So... I ate this at 12:30pm to be safe:

LUNCH - 332 Calories

 I left my stupid soup in the fridge at work when I left to go home on my lunch break.  Luckily I live five minutes away which makes lunch breaks at home possible.  I checked my fridge for calorie friendly foods and figured kale salad with half an avocado, one slice of smoked salmon and very little balsamic vinaigrette would taste decent.  It really was delicious and was a measly 234 calories.  I didn't think it would completely hold me over til dinner, so I made a carefully measured smoothie.  I used 1 cup of frozen whole strawberries, 1 cup frozen blueberries, 1/4 cup kale and one cup of Brasilia Blueberry Water.   This was a 98 calorie smoothie.  Pretty darn good too.

DINNER - 468 Calories

I had a meeting that lasted until 7:30pm and let me tell you, it took all my willpower not to be drawn into the tractor beam that is fast food restaurants along the way.  I knew I was going to have to look for and cook a meal and I was already pretty damn hungry.  So when I got home I made what I saw first in the fridge.  16oz. Salmon, 8 stalks broccolette and 7 baby bella mushrooms.

Now here comes the hard part...admittance...and what is infinitely worse is that I have to admit it AGAIN thanks to the deleted entry snafu.  So... I got a sweet tooth after dinner and ravenously ate a banana with Nutella.  I will not even tell you how much Nutella.  Ok, it was like 2 tablespoons.  Maybe more.  DON'T LOOK AT ME!! I am so ashamed...in fact I was so upset with myself because I knew I had ZERO intention of putting that in the MyFitnessPal Diary that I threw the remaining jar of Nutella in the trash.  It has NO PLACE IN MY HOME UNTIL NEXT YEAR.  Anyways, I received encouraging messages from my handful of readers that told me they were proud that I told on myself and prouder that I threw it away so... that helped. haha... (Thank you!)

I did have a logged snack of Rold Gold Pretzel Thins that were 120 calories which brought my total calorie count for the day to 1450.  SHHHhhhhhhhhh... It was 1450..  

I had mentioned as well that my brother mentioned that I should try the keto diet he has been on as he has had a lot of success with it, so I downloaded a pdf of a book some chick wrote to check out the recipes.  If anything, it will give me a little more creativity in the kitchen.  He, like me, does not have the time to work out and I will say it again, if anyone comments on this saying that I do have the time because they do I will punch said person right in the nose.  RIGHT in the nose... when I see them.

On that note, I will leave you with an important update from Tony the Tiger:

June 1st, 2016 - The ONE YEAR challenge.

Well, I haven't updated this blog in quite some time... 

Not that anyone noticed.  

But, I have really good news which is what brought me back here!  I have decided to pay myself $100 a month in order to get a ticket on the Disney Cruise to Alaska with my family and friends next year!  So I have one year to lose some weight so that I can gain it all back in 7 days next year! lol...

So I figured I would share the journey so that I am held accountable.  If I stop updating, that means I am probably stuffing my face with horrifyingly delicious food.  But, YOU MUST NOT LET ME!  I love to cook and I love to share the end results.  So that is what I am going to do.  

I have an app that I use called MyFitnessPal and I log the foods I eat every day.  If you want to add me and join this challenge for the heck of it you are more than welcomed to.  My username is 'caressev'.  My goal is to lose 2 lbs a week (although I may lower that to 1.5 lbs a week because I love food too much.)  So I started today and this is how it went.

BREAKFAST - 370 Calories

Ok, don't get too impressed.  

This is the low calorie Turkey Sausage & Egg Whites Breakfast Bowl from McDonald's.  It was only 250 calories and honestly, it tasted pretty great.  I had this along with a Grande Iced Coffee, sweetened with extra soy milk.  This brought my breakfast to the grand total of 370 calories.  Yay!

LUNCH - 374 Calories

 This delicious salad is from VONS people.  I added half an avocado, but let me tell you that this salad is only 260 calories and is SO YUMMY!  The avocado added another 114 calories but it was well worth it.  I had a snack (Rold Gold Pretzel Thins) between dinner, and that was another 120 calories.

DINNER - 445 Calories

So for dinner, I was worried.  I only had a few calories left in my budget and I was HUNGRY.  So I steamed 5 spears of asparagus and 6 baby bella mushrooms and sprinkled a little salt and pepper over them and then I pan seared Salmon with Curry spice, salt and cumin.  I kept adding 1/4 cup of water to keep the salmon from sticking/burning.  It came out really great!

So total today I have had 1309 of my 1400 calorie budget.  I am a little hungry, but I noticed that I get hungry when I am watching tv (mildly bored) and I've learned that chewing on mint gum and drinking water helps me not want to eat anything else.  So... today went pretty well.  I guess tomorrow morning you will find out if I have to edit this entry because I lost my willpower.  It is a constant struggle.  Food usually wins.  

Anyways, thank you for reading, if you did!  I hope to keep this updated this time.  But who knows... if I can LOOK A BUTTERFLY!! RUUNNNN!!!