January 16, 2011

What a long day! We went shopping today, as I haven't bought non-maternity clothes in over 2 years. Shopping is generally not a good experience for me, I love so many clothes and hate the way they look on me... but today was good! I am now IN LOVE with Maurice's (& they're probably in love with me after the $270 dent to my bank account). I found tons of stuff! A lot of it is kind of form fitting, but enough that I'm still comfortable in it, which will be beneficial with weight loss because it'll still fit for a while. For the first time in a long time I found clothes that I feel good in which only makes me want to improve myself even more!

The challenge for today was that we ate 2/3 of our meals away from home. I could have done better with dinner, but I had done so well the rest of the day that I think I did pretty well! My meals for the day...

Breakfast
1 cup fat free vanilla yogurt 110 calories
1/4 cup almond and granola cereal 130 calories
1 peach about 40 calories

breakfast total: 280 calories

Snack
1 chocolate crunch rice cake 60 calories

Lunch
Panera Bread (mmmmmm)
1/2 smoked turkey sandwich 220 calories
1/2 classic cafe salad 80 calories

lunch total: 300 calories

Dinner
Bonefish Grill (super mmmmmmm)
6oz chilean seabass topped with butter 270 calories
Garlic Whipped Mashed Potatoes 270 calories
No Butter Steamed Seasonal veggies---freeeeeee
I'm gonna add an extra 100 calories because I did have some chimichurri sauce etc, so I'm covering my butt :)

dinner total: 640 calories


All day total: 1280 calories!!


Today was definitely a challenge... took everything I had to resist a bacon turkey bravo at Panera (880 calories!!!) and I'm quite proud of myself for not eating the extra piece of bread that came on the side of the salad... Even more than that I didn't TOUCH the bread with delicious pesto/olive oil dipping sauce at bonefish grill! I would have come out a bit better on the fish but they were out of my favorite rainbow trout :( I had them leave the butter off the veggies, but said to leave it on the potatoes and fish (fearing a deficit of flavor) but next time I'll definitely have them leave off all the butter, their food is sooo good it doesn't need it. Made a stop off for a good scale on the way home. On a normal weigh day I will weigh first thing Sunday morning on an empty stomach, but for today I had to weigh at night.

1-16-11 weigh in

209.4 lbs


I'm pretty happy with that, because this last Monday when we were at Wonder Works, they made us step on a scale before we got onto every attraction (250 lbs weight limit..) and they all consistently said 216 lbs, so just these last few days are already paying off :) Will be updating daily, but not weighing again until next Sunday! Thank you all for all the support you've already given, it means the world to me <3 Rachel