Day 9

Oh weekends, how you make me want to cheat.  I have had some serious urges to cheat today!!  All I've wanted all day is bad foods and to be lazy.  So far, I haven't done too bad, but am getting ready to head to watch my cousins boyfriend's band play at Buffalo Wild Wings, so pray that I can keep up my decent day!  While calorie wise I've done well today, I have eaten very little in the way of veggies and fruits and way too many carbs!  All I can say is that I need some motivation and I need it quickly!  Luckily we are starting the detox on Monday and for whatever reason, I usually do pretty well on it once I get over the initial day or two of missing meat and dairy products terribly!!  This is also aiding in my desires to eat bad things.  I keep trying to justify that anything dairy, meat, carbs, etc that I desire to eat I better get in before Monday because once I start that detox it's almost a month without those items.  It's amazing how my mind can battle within and how I can convince myself that things are ok!  I truly do believe that for myself at least, the battle to lose the weight is as much one of the mind as it is of the body.  I have got to learn to treat food more as nourishment and less as a reward or a punishment for things!  I think that one might be a very LONG journey, but it's either that or continue this up and down battle for life with my weight.

Oh food, how I love and hate thee all at the same time!!

So here is my so-so day.......

Breakfast:
1 egg, 2 egg whites, 1/4 cup of milk, and 2 slices of turkey bacon
Total: 201 calories

Mid-morning snack:
1/2 english muffin
Total: 60 calories

Lunch: Leftovers
Pork Chops with cream of mushroom, brown rice, and green beans
1/2 cup of raw carrots
1 banana
Total: 393 calories

Snack:
Diet Coke with Vanilla
Total: 60 calories

Dinner:
2 pieces of Little Cesars Cheese Pizza
Total: 500 calories

Total for the day:  1240 calories

Exercise: Today in class I taught my students about calories.  They each ate a large marshmallow (25 calories), then could choose how to work that marshmallow off.  All classes chose to walk off the calories, so I go about 30 minutes of walking in between walking around with the kids during 6 periods and standing around making sure they were participating in the activity.  FYI: It takes about 10 minutes and 30 seconds of walking at a normal pace to burn the 25 calories and 6 minutes and 30 seconds of walking at a fast pace. Of course your weight also plays into this too, but we didn't get into that today and since it's middle schoolers, they burn less calories because they weigh less.

Total: 118 calories based upon my weight

*Calories calculated using the My Fitness Pall on iphone.