Coffee, two cups (80)
Breakfast: 1 fried egg and two pieces of cinnamon swirl toast with margarine (320)
Hard candy: three pieces, and a few cheddar cheese potato chips (200)
Lunch: Hamburger with onion, cheese, ketchup, mustard, mayo and dill pickles
Salt and Onion Potato chips...hmmmm, maybe a good handful. Diet Mtn Dew (750)
Caffeine free coffee (40)
I finished up my evening with a snack of half of a hamburger patty, with onions on one slice of wheat bread. (300)
Of course, I bounced up a little after what I ate on Saturday, but I noticed I was coming back down this morning. Monday Morning: back down more.
I am not looking on these high calories days as "failures" in my diet, but as "reality" days. Without having some places to "indulge", I am sure that I could not keep this up long term and even if I have a small backset because of eating high calories for one day or two, I feel that I will be "setting myself up for success" by building in days when I don't feel like I'm depriving myself. One reason I was not able to go back on my former diet was because--AFTER I STOPPED WATCHING THE CARBS-- I could never bring my mental state back to a point that I was willing to say YOU ARE NOT GOING TO EAT THAT. That is why I chose to count calories this time. I don't tell myself I CAN'T EAT anything. BUT when I look at how many calories are in some things, I CHOOSE to forgo lots of things that I gobbled on down before because they take up too much of my "spending allowance".
