Last night...

Last night I had a mini-binge and ended up eating a total of 600-700 calories overall, with about 175 of it being from candy D:  I guess it's still not bad, but since I haven't been able to weigh myself today, I can't tell for sure so I wanted to stick to 200-300.  I want to be losing weight daily, and since my weight loss has slowed down to ~2 pounds per week I'm worried that it'll be slowing down even more.  

I went to bed last night thinking about how I could possibly ensure that I avoid any extra calories and I came up with this--eat first thing in the morning to get my metabolism going a bit, then wait until as late as possible to eat dinner and eat it sloooowly.  I know I can go through the day without eating, it's always late at night that I stuff my face.  And since I have a preset meal that I eat every night, I can just eat it late and be full by the time I usually want to start snacking.

I also decided I should list everything I plan to eat, because if it's posted here then I should really stick to it!

-1 small California clementine for breakfast ~40 calories

-unlimited black coffee

-unlimited unsweetened tea

-unlimited water

-veggie taco at the end of the day ~200 calories

-Mango Tango (to swallow my vitamins)~25 calories

TOTAL~ 250-300 calories

Frozen

Yay so yesterday I stuck to my goal of 200-300 calories and I feel great today!

I had:
-most of a corn tortilla ~ 80 calories
-1 leaf of lettuce ~ 5 calories
-1 tbsp of hummus ~ 25 calories
-1/2 veggie patty ~ 85 calories
-4 sips of Odwalla Mango Tango ~ 50 calories
for a grand total of ~245 calories!

I had this all for dinner by spreading the hummus on the tortilla, breaking the veggie patty into the tortilla, and then topping it with lettuce to make a little taco.  It was delicious and flavorful so it kept me full for the rest of the night.

I was also able to sneak my scale into the bathroom to weigh myself really quick since my roommates all left the apartment before me.  I am now down to 115.5 pounds :) 

I also discovered a little trick to keep from eating everything in sight.  I've been portioning out all of my dry foods, but I've had to eye out how much I should eat of regular food that I keep in the refrigerator.  Usually I'm really good about it, but this has resulted in me throwing out a bunch of food at the end of the week that I didn't eat.  Yesterday it finally dawned on me that I should just freeze everything.  So I measured out how much I'll eat for the rest of the week (through Friday) and froze the rest.  This way I can't eat more than I planned since all of my food is frozen, but I also won't waste any expensive food.  So far I've frozen tortillas, tofu, beefless strips, veggie patties, strawberries, and soy yogurt.  I may add some Mango Tango and bananas by the end of the week.  My main problem now is that there isn't really any space left in the freezer :)

No scale! D:

So sometime in the wee hours of Saturday morning, my bathroom ceiling started leaking water.  Then it started pouring.  Apparently the girl upstairs left her shower on all night and blocked the drain, completely flooding her apartment enough to start leaking significantly into mine.  By the time I woke up, it looked like there had been a hurricane in my bathroom!  We had to move everything out, including my scale which had been sitting in a pool of water.  I had to let it dry before testing it out, but since there isn't anywhere to put it (can't really use the bathroom right now) I still haven't checked to see if it works.  More importantly, I haven't been able to weigh myself since Friday!

This is going to be really hard on me since I absolutely need to make sure I'm losing weight, otherwise I would cut more out of my diet.  Without being able to keep track, I think I'll have to default to eating 200-300 calories a day just to be safe.  But even with that, I might be stuck at the same weight for a while without even knowing it... Arrgghhhh!!!!

Hopefully I'll be able to sneak my scale back in to the bathroom sometime this week without anyone questioning it.  Our toothbrushes aren't even in the bathroom right now though, so if it's bad enough to leave those out I don't know how I would explain the scale...

I also left my reusable water bottle somewhere, and I didn't notice until I was about to leave for class this morning.  I'm going to have to rumage through my things and find another one tonight because there is no way I can go one more day without a bottle of water on me, especially if I'm going to be cutting my calories even more than they already were.