WEEK 4 -- DAY 23 -- LOSE IT!!!

I'm absolutely loving my Lose It app.  Not only does it tell me how many calories I've eaten for the day, it also tells me how many calories I can eat each day and still lose a pound a week.  Then, as if that wasn't good enough, it then tells me how long it will take me to reach this goal.  So then, if you lose more than a pound a week, the initial date changes and the goal becomes closer.

When I first signed up, I weighed in at 226 pounds and said I wanted to get down to 150 pounds losing a pound a week.  My daily calorie budget is 1759 calories and if I lost a pound a week, I would be at my goal by July 9, 2014.  That's a long way away but it is what it is.  So today I plugged in my weight loss of two pounds and now I will achieve my goal by June 25, 2014.  This will be fun doing this.  Also, as the week progresses, it tells me how many calories over/under my budget I am.  Did I already say I'm loving this.

Today was a day at the theater on Broadway to see Evita.  The play was fabulous with Ricky Martin in the lead as Che Guevara.  I had seen the original back in the late seventies with Patti Lupone and Mandy Patankin.  This one was very different but still great.  Going into the city always presents problems eating-wise if you're trying to diet but, since I'm not on an actual diet but on a "plan",  it really isn't a problem.  I think if I weighed myself everyday, and got up the next morning and saw I had gained weight from the day before, it would be a problem.  But, since I don't weigh myself again for another six days, I'm fine.

Before we left, I had about 1/16th piece of an Entenmanns Raspberry loaf to tide me over until we got into the city.  We got in an hour before the play started and parked in a garage right next door to Juniors.  I remember Juniors from living in Brooklyn -- they're famous for their cheesecake.  So we stopped in there and I had a bagel and a cup of tea as it was freezing out that day.  I also introduced Linda to my new Lose It app and now she's hooked.  For dinner we went to Lida Bastianich's restaurant Becco. I had a little bit of three different kinds of pasta and this Panko crusted Fluke.  Dessert was the problem.  We had the most delicious Panna Cotta ever.  When I got home, I plugged everything into Lose It to see how many calories I had consumed during the day and I was still under by 22 calories.  So a successful day into the city.