The Tattooed Lady

No strength training today. Hour of tennis in the park.

Breakfast - cereal and milk w/banana, egg, smoothie
Snack - peanut butter and banana tortilla burrito
Lunch - other half of sub
Snack - handful of sunflower seeds (no shells) and banana
Supper - 2 pieces of steak (one made into sandwich), baked beans, vegetables
Snack - salad w/ dressing
 
This question might have been asked before, so if it has, just point me in the right direction. Today I have started to count my calories that I eat during the day and how do I eat all 5-6 meals a day? I ate breakfast which was at 7a and wasn't hungry until lunch at 11a and I'm just now getting hungry so I will eat a small snack and it's 4p. I'm just not hungry. Don't know if it's because of the hot weather or what I'm eating.

I will post my eatings tonight after supper, but I can tell you that I had 410 calories for breakfast and 275 calories for lunch. I know that breakfast was high, but I could get it down to 340.

What can I do? I don't want to eat too many/or not enough calories. I'm 5'1/2" and weight 187. I don't know remember what website Greene went to to get the amount of calories I should eat a day to maintain that weight with moderate activity. I can tell you that it was over 2000 calories.
 
If you are not hungery then don't think you have to eat. You'r not trying to bulk but lose. I think your belief that you had to eat 6 times a day is adding greatly to your caloric intake.
 
I went yard saleing instead of strength training. We also did about 45 minutes tennis for cardio.

As for my food:

Breakfast - 3/4 cup cereal (120 calories), cup milk (120 calories), banana (100 calories), smoothies (70 calories) = 410 calories

Lunch - 1/2 cup salad (15 calories), 1/3 cup of cheese (110 calories), ff french dressing (50) = 175 calories
1 tortilla (50 calories), *1 cup grilled diced chicken (120 calories), *1 tablespoon homemade salsa (12 calories) = 137 calories

Snack - Apple = 55 Calories

Supper - Same as lunch but had 2 tablespoon salsa (324), 1 slice of Ezekiel 4:9 cinammon raisin bread, plain (80 calories) = 229 calories

Grand Total = 1181 calories

* Give or take calories because couldn't find the calories for the chicken and my salsa was homemade.
 
Went and got Greene some flex seed, protein shakes, and some Soy Protein for Father's Day. The Soy protein is powedered chocolate, so it should be good with some milk. The protein shakes are ok, but I will drink them if need be. Still not sure what the flex seed is for, but I'm willing to give it a chance.
 
We set around and listened to music, so I didn't have a chance to post last night.

I think I did better in calories this time. We'll see.

Breakfast - cereal (3/4 cup, 120 calories), milk (1 cup, 120 calories), banana (100 calories) = 340

Snack - 9 mini oreos (130 calories), 4 bbq chips (50 calories), 4 red hot chips (50 calories), 1 Balance Snack Bar (100 calories) = 330 (I bought the snack bar first, but it just didn't do it for me)

Lunch - 1 hot dog (120 calories), mac and cheez (1 cup, 400 calories), 1 piece of bread (40 calories, it was healthy lifestyle whole wheat) = 560

Snack - 1 tortillia (50 calories), peanut butter (2 tablespoon, 180 calories), 1/2 banana (50 calories) = 280

Supper - hamburger helper (1 cup, 330 calories), fried taters (around 480 calories) = 780

Snack - ff,sf pudding = 70

Grand Total = 2360 :eek: :eek:

Greene said I should be eating more after my 1181 calories the other day, but I was not expecting this:eek: Time to do some rearranging again, and this is without going for seconds:eek:
 
Sometimes after doing super well w/low calories, I go nuts for awhile on eating. So then I try for the same low cal stuff + some other healthy thing. Kind of like when I don't eat breakfast I have a huge lunch. Maybe you could try to find your happy medium, even though you probably won't lose as much as the 1181 cal day, at least you will less likely gain it back:) Keep going!
 
Never have thought it about that way before. Today I'll being eating heavy on calories again, but some of it is because I'll under/over estimate on the calories, so I'll be off now and then, but I'm sure it will be close. We'll see tonight calorie wise if I'm high or low.
 
My problem is that I see calories 2 ways, either too many or not enough. I never saw eating too many calories in one meal as a good thing as long as it fills you up for awhile. For example, biscuits and gravy for breakfast is high in calories but it fills me up for a long time. Wouldn't need to eat until a late lunch or supper, but in all reality, that would be a good thing.

I also didn't know how many calories are in food until I started watching what I was eating. All the things I would usually eat really don't look appealing anymore and when I do eat, I don't go for seconds anymore, which is very good for me. I still love all the naughty stuff, but I watch how much I eat and I always eat the recommended portions (i.e. 1 cup, 2 tablespoons, etc) or try my hardest too.I couldn't tell you the last time I had a candy bar. I almost got a three musketeers the other day at the store but I decided to get a energy bar instead, which again is very good for me.
 
6/18

Played tennis for hr for cardio.

Food:

Breakfast - homemade biscuit and gravy, one biscuit(318 calories) and gravy (approx 1/2 cup 272 calories) = 590

Snack - *homemade protein balls = 85

Lunch - leftover hamburger helper (1 cup 330 calories), cottage cheese (1/2 cup 90 calories), green beans (1 cup 50 calories), 6 fried taters (????) = 470

Snack - cinammon and raisin EZ bread (1 slice 80 calories), butter (1 tablespoon 60), smoothie (70 calories) = 210

Supper - corn on the cob (1 medium ear 80 calories), veg (3/4 cup 30 calories), chicken (approx 7oz 280 calories) = 390

Snack - oatmeal (1 packet 120 calories), protein ball (85 calories) = 205

Hour later, I was getting hungry. Too low on calories.

Grand Total = 1950 calories

*homemade protein bars
1 cup milk
2 cups protein powder
package of fat free pudding
3 cups of oats

mix powders and milk, stir in oats, pam muffin tin and put in fridge to set

I made these yesterday with chocolate protein powder and ff chocolate pudding. I swear I followed the directions,but it came out crumbly because lack of liquid, so we rolled them into little balls, which made 24 give or take, just depends on how big you roll them. Greene squirted some water on them which made them easier to roll.

This is what we came up calories wise:
Protein Powder - 1360
1 cup milk - 120
3 cups oat - 400
pudding - 160
Grand Total = 2040/24 =85ea
 
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How do those protein balls taste? I'm intrigued by them:) --it seems like most conventional granola bars don't have any protein, unless you go for the pricey diet ones.
 
The taste is not bad. Not what I thought it would be. They remind you of no-bake cookies. Greene thinks they need sugar to dip them in, but I won't do that.
 
Hi she,i am reading your diary if u dont mind me commenting on your menue ,i need to ask,after eating sugary or sweet(no matter with sachrine or splenda) dont u feel u are hungry all the time?
if i eat things from your menu,i feel hungry all day long!!
why dont u add some more proteins?just a suggestion hope u dont mind that
 
Hour later, I was getting hungry. Too low on calories.



too high on carbs i would say
why dont u analyse your daily intake on
 
Don't mind the comment there Sadie. The only sweet I have is the pink stuff in my tea, but other than that, no not really. I keep forgetting to put my tea down on my menu. Will do that today. My tea is 2 teaspoonful and 4 pink stuff in a quart cup. I usually have 2 of those a day. As for anything else sweet or sugary, it's very few and far between. I used to eat frozen banana cream popsicles, but it's probably been a week since I had one of those. I couldn't tell you the last time I had a candy bar. The last time I completely pigged out on food was June 9 and 10. My mom and dad was here for a visit.

As for my carb intake, I did go litttle overboard, but I'm not going for strength. I'm going for weight loss as Greene would explain it and I'm sure people would look at my eating and tell me I need to quit eating this and that and start eating this and that if that is what I'm going for.

I have defintely changed my eating habits (even Greene would agree with me on that) from when he met me (2 years ago in September) until now and it's still a work in progress.

As for calories, Greene send me this link, even though I don't live in Dallas...lol. It says I need 2595 calories (-500 if you are trying to lose weight), so which means I need 2095 calories. I try to get a close as that as I can. One day I'm under and one day I'm over. It just varies because there are times I can't get a calorie count on some of the foods I eat. Yes, that is where fitday.com would come in handy, but with what I eat, all I have to do is write it down and I'm good to go.

Did that answer your question or did it confuse you or did I ramble on and on and not even get close?
 
Glad I didn't confuse you. Glad you're doing a good job. Hope you can run your marathon soon. If I didn't live so far away from you, I would come and watch you.:)
 
Tennis for an hour again for cardio.

Food:

Breakfast - 1/2 cup EZ 4:9 cereal (200 calories), 1 cup milk (120 calories), 3 eggs scrambled (225 calories) = 545

Snack - 1/2 cup cottage cheese (90 calories), protein ball (85 calories) = 175

Lunch - 1 cup chicken (120 calories), 1 tortillia (50 calories), 1/3 cup cheese (110 calories), 3/4 cup veg (30) = 310

Supper - 1 cup chicken stir-fry w/rice (320 calories), 1/3 cup green beans (17 calories), 1 slice whole wheat bread (40 calories), 1 tablespoon butter (60 calories) = 437

Pre-tennis snack - Apple = 55

After tennis snack - 1 packet oatmeal (120 calories), protein ball (85 calories) = 205

Grand Total = 1727
 
She didn't tell ya'll she started whining after about a half an hour and by the end of the hour you couldn't get her up. :D
 
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