WEEK 6 -- DAY 37 -- Back On The Wagon....For Sure!!!!!

After yesterday's momentary lapse, I can only go up from there. I woke up feeling positive. I wasn't hating myself about what I'd done. It was time to move on. I started off the day with my usual package of Hostess mini blueberry muffins. I reach for these because they're fast and quick. I'm sure scrambled eggs and toast would be much healthier but I usually don't have time to cook in the morning. I know I've reported in the past that I have Entenmann's blueberry muffins in the morning and today I realized that they have been Hostess brand all along.

Late in the afternoon, while in my office, I had two mini Milky Way treats simply because I was starving. I'm going to have to bring in some healthier snacks so I have something to reach for when it's 4PM and I'm hungry. When I got home, I had a Jenny Craig thin crust pizza (delicious) followed by some sugar free jello with a little bit of Redi Whip on top.

I found this great site (the one where I get the weight loss ticker I use) called My Fitness Pal and you can actually plug in what you've eaten and it will give you the caloric intake as well as how many grams of fat, carbs, etc., each item contains. If you plug in what you've eaten for the entire day, it will tell you how many leftover calories you have that you can still consume. Based on my current height and weight, it calculates how many calories I can eat in a given day in order to lose weight. The total they have allotted me is 1650 calories. I can't even imagine how many calories I consumed yesterday but I know it's well above what they recommended. Since I've been on the plan, I must be consuming less than the 1650 calories or I wouldn't have lost the weight I've lost. For instance, today it says I've only consumed 575 calories and it says if I continued this way for the next three weeks, I'd lose another 15 pounds. (This is a sample of what their calorie counter looks like.....it's not mine but you get the picture).

Well, that's not going to happen because that's unrealistic. But the bottom line is that I'm happy that I was able to get right back on the horse again after yesterday's debacle. (By the way, I just did the calories for all I ate on Monday and I was only 90 calories above what's recommended for me). Now I really love this calorie counter.....I don't feel half as bad as I did about yesterday. But don't worry. I hope I won't be doing this for another 36 days.