Day Five

I made it to Day Five. I honestly wasn't sure I would. Yesterday was rough. I spent the morning feeling pretty light-headed and wonky. After eating the cardboard granola bar, I almost caved with (gasp!) a hard boiled egg from the cafeteria. But I powered through and gulped down my mid-morning protein shake 30 minutes early (yes, I have scheduled this thing out so all my meals are evenly spaced). I think what got me through was knowing that I was going to get that extra 100 calories for lunch. 

I sat down last night and made a spreadsheet. Well, another spreadsheet. You know I have a few for this journey already. Because I was curious the distribution of calories coming from fats, protein, and carbs that I'm eating. Turns out, a typical day looks like this:

Not bad in my opinion. Yes, it's a lot of carbs compared to, like, Atkins, but carbs are good and they're the good, whole grain kind of carbs. And yes, it's more fat than I would have expected. But fat means flavor and with less than 1,000 calories a day, I need those calories to taste good. Am I justifying this graph because the weight loss community probably thinks I'm eating too many carbs and too much fat? Probably. But oh well. Judge away. 

Turns out, as I created this spreadsheet, that most days I'm getting between 800 and 900 calories. Except today. Today totals out to a whopping 780 calories. This is my own fault for not looking more carefully at the calorie count of my choices each day to ensure this didn't happen. Tuesday was a big day, 920 calories. Sigh. Oh well. Life goes on and people have survived on less for longer.

In other news, I've discovered that our cafeteria has caffeine-free diet coke! I needed a treat today, but I haven't had caffeine in so long I was worried about the jitters (on top of the hunger jitters). But hallelujah! Yes, it's basically just brown, bubbly water full of chemicals, but it feels like a treat nonetheless.

Breakfast - Cinnamon Raisin Bar 
Snack #1 - Chocolate Turbo Shake 
Lunch - Three Cheese Chicken
Snack #2 - Peanut Butter Chocolate Crush Bar 
Dinner - Hearty Beef Stew

Height: 5'5" 
Weight: 183lbs 
Short term goal: 150lbs 
Longer term goal: 130lbs 
Weight Loss So Far: 2lbs