The couple of pounds that I thought could not be for real last Thursday, are apparently for real, because each day I've been weighing, I've been getting about the same number on the scale. Which just boggles me because I did not feel like I've been eating too terribly much plus I ran almost 30 miles last week, so I was getting SOME exercise. Anyways, I decided today to log in my food for the day into fitday.com and get an idea of how many calories am I really consuming. Okay, that was totally disheartening. So far today, I've eaten a banana, a Clif Bar, a hardboiled egg, about 1.5 cups of steamed rice(nothing on it but a little salt), and a small drinkable yogurt (5.75 oz). That's it. I'm almost at 1000 calories just in that and I'm starving! Plus, I stil have dinner tonight and you figure that is easily around 600 with just having small portions. We are having grilled chicken, a veggie and probably a pasta something - which I guess I won't have. Dang, calories add up fast

I'll join too. Goal by Easter - to lose 10 pounds. My danger time - from 3 to about 9pm. Also - regular running (I'm back on the C25K program after a year of fighting PF).

so I tried logging everything into fitday yesterday to get a picture of what my calories/carbs/protein, etc. look like. I had to guesstimate dinner. DH lightly breaded and pan fried chicken strips. Very tasty, but more cals than I probably should have had I had 1.5 strips, plus 2 cups plain steamed broc and a few french fries and a few of those damn choc chip cookies after dinner. Gotta get out of the habit of needing something sweet after dinner. It's just a psychological addiction right? Ok, fitday put me at 2300 cals, but I'm calling it 2500 because I figure there's always some hidden cals that I'm not guessing accurately on. And I went to bed hungry, but wasn't going to allow myself to eat more. I woke up hungry. Had a nutrigrain bar about 10:30 so far today. brought tuna to make myself a sandwich for my lunch, hardboiled egg, banana, apple, plus will get in about 1.5 hrs of cardio tonight after work. real frustrated with my lack of progress in losing weight. I dropped 30 lbs just like "that" when I was 30. (ok, nevermind a divorce was involved), but seriously, the weight practically melted off me. And now it's like squeezing blood from a turnip to get rid of 10 measily lbs - which must come off prior to June dangit!

Hey Tammy. I don't know if this is reproducable. BUT, I was having a devil of a time losting 10 lbs. two years back. While running... I got serious about getting all HF corn syrup out of my life. All of it, 'cept for what I might have had while at a restaurant. Those 10 went very quickly about 60 days after I was "clean." And they have remained off. So, I guess what my suggestion would be is to check your cookies -- and other items. Maybe your body would react like mine. BTW, I had the same diet you had at 30 at 31.

it is cumbersome Erika and I know I won't keep it up because I seem to be taking as much time to try and find my foods, as I do eating them. But I'm just wanting to get an idea of how many cals I'm getting when I think I'm eating "healthy" and the breakdown of carbs vs protein because I think that is one of my problems - too many carbs. Even though I haven't eaten everything what I brought with me today, I went ahead and input all the food that I brought , and I have a breakdown of 50% carbs and about 25% protein , 25% fat. I think my protein grams are at 70 and am not really sure how many grams of protein I should be getting a day.? So, just based on what I put in so far, I'm at about 1300 calories and I know I'll want to eat something when I get home from the gym tonight. In fact, what I have left to eat today is a banana, apple and a hardboiled egg. And that needs to last me through my workout tonight and until I get home about 8 p.m. sometimes i think it might be easier to go through another divorce . . . ok, that was a joke I'll start paying attention to HFCS. If my cookies are homemade though, I wouldn't have any of that in there right? I don't eat store bought goodies - only homemade ones. this sux. Who's great idea was this anyway to try and lose some weight.?

I'm not looking forward to tomorrow's weigh in, either, since I'm hormonally challenged this week, and wasn't doing well beforehand, either. But I'm 3 days into it, so you'd think I might have lost some of the bloat.