The Truth Of Tuesday Night

And today's food diary!

Well, it was my first meeting and weigh in since before we went to Ottawa and holidays started.  I was a bit apprehensive about it....being pretty sure I was going to be up.  Part of me contemplated not even going and working hard for a week, but I put on my big girl panties, hiked them up to my armpits and took off for the meeting.

I got out of the house early enough to meet up with the ladies who walk around the block before the meeting, so that was a nice change.

The reason I was pretty sure I was up (aside from my lack of exercise and over abundance of food) was that we bought ourselves a set of scales for home.  Up until now, we didn't own a set.  I bought a Weight Watchers Brand for this reason..I had bought a set for a contest prize and the member who won them said they were pretty much bang on to the scales at TOPS.

So, I weighted myself just before I walked down and they read 258.50 lbs.  I wasn't surprised, but disappointed in myself none the less.

So officially...totals for this week:

Last weigh in: (July 31) - 255.75 lbs
This week: 255.50 lbs

Yeppers!  That is a LOSS!  I will take that quarter of a pound thank you very much!

That means, the scales at home are off by about 3 lbs.  Now that I know that, I can use it as a judge to how my week is going.

As for the food diary....there is a lot of food on it, but small quantities.  I'm still pretty excited about my lunch container and the food I packed in it, that I can barely contain myself until it's time to eat it. (which is an oddity...I hate breakfast and lunches..or rather ones that are not prepared and eaten at home....I am NOT a sandwich girl!)

This is my breakfast container.  I have a Greek yogurt (90 calories) , bar (100 calories)  and the fixings for a mini bagel egg sandwich.  I has some liquid egg in the fridge.  Each 1/4 serving is 30 calories. I put one serving in muffin cups and baked them in the oven.  I left one out and froze the other 7.  I am not sure how they will be after they come out of the freezer.   I also found these cute little mini bagels that are 100 calories.  They are smaller but still give you the satisfaction of the thick chewy bagel. With a thin slice of cheese (60 calories), the whole mini sandwich would be 190 calories.  I ended up passing on the egg...it was a southwest blend with peppers, etc. and in the end I just couldn't do it.  Perhaps with the plain egg.

In total: 340 calories

Now for the lunch part, working left from right:

• 60 grams of Honey Maple Turkey Breast - 68 calories
• 1 light Mini Babybel Cheese - 50 calories
• 25g Almonds - 150 calories
• 1/2 cup grapes - 31 calories
• 1/2 cup raspberries - 32 calories
• 1/2 cup cucumber - 8 calories
• Veggie Dip - 40 calories
• 12 mini rice cakes - 90 calories

In total: 521 calories

I had a toasted tomato sandwich and some more almonds when I got home instead of dinner with the family.

• Sandwich, including bread, butter and tomato - 267 calories
• Almonds - 300 calories

In total: 567 calories

Then after I got home, I had another mini dinner.

• 1 light Mini Babybel Cheese - 50 calories
• 1/2 cup grapes - 31 calories
• 9 pita crackers - 120 calories
• 2 pepperoni sticks - 140 calories

In total: 341 calories

The total intake for the day: 1769 calories

Calories burned: 128 calories

Net loss: 35 calories

All in all, not a bad holiday or day!