I've allowed myself to get quite chubba chubba.
My weight tends to fluctuate some, usually from mid-range healthy to high-range healthy, but right now I'm just plain overweight. When my weight starts to creep up (this typically happens when I am happy and things are going well), I have a fair amount of success knocking it back down with calorie-counting or Weight Watchers (believe it or not, I used to work as a Weight Watchers meeting leader, a job that I loved).
I'm not willing to fork over the money to get the new WW materials online or otherwise, and I've lost the key elements of my old material, so I'm going to go with calorie counting. Same difference.
I'm going to limit myself to about 1,200 calories a day, which should give me just the right rate of weight loss and will still fuel my body healthfully.
In order to add an element of accountability, I'm going to keep a food journal on my blog. This will probably be boring, but I'm going to leave it open for others to see and comment because I feel it will help me because of the accountability that will provide.
I've already screwed up today, and I haven't had supper yet, but my incomplete food journal for today is...
Breakfast:
5 cups of coffee with about 5 tsps. ea. creamer and 2 tbsp. Splenda: 300 calories (holy crap!)
1 and 1/2 cups fried potato squares (hey, I made them for Adrian's breakfast burritos and there was extra...someone had to eat them!): 200 calories
3 tbsp. ketchup: 48 calories
Lunch:
sandwich with 2 thin slices swiss and 1 tsp. spicy brown mustard: 280 calories
RC cola: 160 calories
And another...RC cola: 160 calories
Total: 1,148 calories (as of 2:55 pm...yikes)
Tomorrow I'll catch up with the rest of today's food journal when I write the next one.
So, there you have it. Completely uninteresting, but necessary.
