Days 1 + 2

Day 1 consisted of:

• A 45 minute run at 11pm the night before (it still counts).
• A bowl of Kashi Go Lean cereal for breakfast. With 2% milk, alas, because I hadn't the forethought to get skim. Roughly 160 cals.
• A medium, iced Dunkins coffee with skim milk and two Splendas. Their website claims it's only 30 calories, but I suspect it's probably double that, because of the milk. So we'll say 60.
• A SlimFast Strawberry shake, 180 calories.
• Then, Justin neglected to inform me that it was his dad's birthday (!!!), so we ended up at his parent's for dinner. Mum made this amazing chicken dish, with a sauce that was made from white wine, butter, and lemon juice. It was FANTASTIC, but unfortunately, I have no idea how many calories or grams of fat were in it. And they definitely talked me into a little piece of chocolate rum cake after :-\

Started strong, ended iffy. But we did take a daytime walk for a little over an hour, and after dinner, we took a loooooong walk for 3 hours. We walk at a fairly relaxed pace, so according to the calculator at Calorie Count, I'd estimate we burned just over 800 calories.

So, my caloric intake for the day was probably right around 1k, and we walked enough to bring it down to only 200 calories. My Basal Metabolic Rate estimate for my height, weight, gender, and age is 1455 (BMR is the minimal amount of calories your body should need to completely maintain your weight if you were to lay still in bed all day). That means -- the good news!! -- that I managed a deficit of about 1200 calories! And we all know that a pound is equivilent to 3,500 calories, so I supposedly managed to lose about a third of a pound yesterday!! Woo!

* I feel I should note (maybe TMI) that I'm not including sexual activity in the list. For "vigorous" activity, they estimate 102 cals/hr, which doesn't seem accurate to me, honestly, especially when they say "Light reclining - Reading" burns 68 cals/hr. Come on, sex is only two times as strenuous as reading a book?! Puh-lease. But, if that's the case, I can still take off another 100 cals per day when I'm with him :)

Day 2, today, was better:

• One packet of Maple & Brown sugar Quaker Weight Control Oatmeal. 160 cals.
• One french vanilla SlimFast shake. 180 cals.
• Six baby carrots. Hard to get an exact amount, but at most, 50 cals.
• One Glazed turkey tenderloins Lean Cuisine. 250 cals.
• Walked around Westfield for about 2 hours. -400 calories.

And that's it! Also for the record, I've been drinking lots of water throughout the day. And Justin got a really tasty-smelling meatball sub from Subway (mmmmmmmm Subway drool), but I managed to be good and wait until we got back to drink my "lunch" shake. But! That means 1455 + 600 intake - 400 burned = 1255 again! Thus far, we're at 2,510, and I'm not having a hard time. *thumbs up*

I have decided that if I don't give in a little bit, I'm likely to say "Fuck it," one day and pig out. So! Sundays will be my "mischevious day," as my dear boy put it. Why Sundays? Well, specifically because, on the weeks I'm visiting Westfield, we always go to lunch at his parents' house. His mom is an AMAZING (can I emphasize, amazing?) cook, but she's Italian, so I have no idea what goes into her dishes, only that they are delicious. And dinner is also always followed up with dessert.

Justin also suggested, as I lamented over my farewell to Taco Bell's 5-layer beefy burritos (SO. GOOD. But also 550 calories and 22g of fat each, sadly), that I spend non-Westfield Sundays eating healthy, but sneak one in with a lunch salad, or something similar. Genious idea. I think. Unless it just makes it harder to give them up. I'll cross my fingers.

Next endeavor is to inquire at the local 24-hour gym in Auburn, because my knees very much disliked my run the other evening, and if it's cheap, I can have a treadmill any time I like!

Off to a good start :)