Tuesday:
Breakfast – One cup of tea (no milk, no sugar) and that is it! I didn’t even think of eating my oatmeal.
Estimated calories: 0
Lunch – A peanut butter and marshmallow sandwich, and pretzel sticks
Estimated calories: 422
Snacks – One fat free yogurt, some coffee to get me through study time, and a Skinny Cow cup that I got very excited about when I remembered I had bought one for the office
Estimated calories: 270
Dinner – Tuna salad on a wheat wrap, with light miracle whip, lettuce, and shredded cheddar cheese. Plus a pickle on the side. Minute maid frozen lemonade for dessert.
Estimated calories: 423
Total calories for the day: 1,115
Exercise – Absolutely none. I worked non-stop from 9 am to 5pm and immediately switched over to homework from the office until 9:30 pm. Got home at 10:30, ate dinner and watched The Event on DVR and crashed.
Wednesday:
Breakfast – One cup of tea, and a fat free yogurt
Estimated calories: 110
Lunch – Work lunch: two tacos with beef, salsa, sour cream, tomatoes, lettuce… two chips with dip, and one very small triangular piece of a weird cold quesadilla thing. I wouldn’t say it was bad… just weird. Followed it all up with TWO (yes, two) slices of coconut cream pie. Agh. I do not feel like estimating these calories now. I will do this later!
Estimated calories: TBD EDIT- Can I plead the fifth on this one? I'm calculating 1,250.. gross.
Snacks – Another yogurt, apparently… I wrote this down but have no recollection of eating it.
Estimated calories: 110
Dinner – Steak tip salad, with a pita on the side. Was amazed that I only need one serving (2 tbsp) of dressing (light Italian) for the WHOLE thing. I put one serving on fully intending to add more later but I didn’t!
Estimated calories: Uhhh, also TBD….. EDIT - 825, based on the calories in a chop salad with grilled steak from Bertucci's.
Snacks – 8 starbursts, and maybe 2 servings of chips… I accidentally took the weight of the chips PLUS the bowl I ate them out of, and oddly enough was not fazed by the fact that according to that weight I was eating three servings. It was study time, I didn’t care about much! Late night coffee to try and help me be productive, but truthfully it just made me more awake for the CMAs.
Estimated calories: TBD EDIT - 470
Total calories for the day: TBD EDIT - Drumroll please.... 2,765. NOT a good Wednesday. Not at all!
Exercise – 5K run in the park. T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E. I had quite a bit of confidence after the 5 mile run on Sunday but yesterday’s run was not good. Two days off, combined with not enough to eat the day before, plus being fueled by tacos and pie… yeah. What was funny was that my friend was about 4 steps ahead of me the entire run, especially on the one dreaded hill we have to face 3 times (we do three laps around the park). After the third time, I’m thinking to myself “Wow, she is carrying me today” and she says “Man am I struggling right now!” Then I’m thinking “Oh my gosh, if she’s struggling what does that say about me??” Basically, we were both incredibly happy to be finished.
My husband always wants to watch the tv to fall asleep too and I'm the type that needs it pitch black and no sound so it's pretty frustrating. I try to go to bed before him so he doesn't have the option when he comes up since it would be rude to put it on when I'm already asleep but that doesn't help the sex life!
Haha, yeah, that doesn’t sound very helpful! I try to tell him that couples without tv have a lot more fun at bedtime but for some reason that doesn’t do the trick, haha. I’ve been up late and up early to study this past week (mid-terms, ugh) so he’s actually been keeping it off the past few nights. It’s been nice! And he falls asleep immediately; maybe I can get him to remember this later.
Urghh, I HATE those one-size-fits all tights. MY BUTT DOES NOT FIT! Sad times. Hope you're feeling less chubby and more yummy this afternoon!
Yesterday was much better, and those stupid tights will not be worn again for quite some time!! Glad it’s not just me who has issues with them.
Laura!! FANtastic!! You killed that race. You are totally my motivation to work on my running! Ps...I will have to try this chocolate soy milk you speak of...YUM! Also I actually laughed out loud when you were describing sprinting cause your bf was watching!! I TOTALLY did that on my last run! It looped past my house and I know my bf was in his office with a window facing the sidewalk so I literally sprinted passed the house, as though that was my normal pace!! Hahaha it was all I could do to make it out of his line of site without passing out!! Hahaha I love that you did that too!
Mmmm, chocolate soy milk… they have it pre-made, but I haven’t tried that one yet. I just use light Hershey’s syrup to make mine. I get sad when I run in the park after work because I read that chocolate milk is super beneficial, but only if you drink it within an hour after working out (to replenish something, I don’t know what, I read “drink more chocolate milk” and stopped there!) And by the time get back to my office and then take public transportation home it’s been more than an hour. I LOVE that you can relate to my “sprint when they can see you” story!! He told me it looked like I was running really fast when I got back, and I’m like “uhhh, yeah, that hurt a little” hahaha. So we ARE really alike!!!
Well I am too lazy to count my calories out because I have been up since 5 am after going to bed around 12:30; did two hours of studying before work, and now I am writing this instead of actually working. Ooops. I have been struggling this week, the usual school + work + work-out + eat healthy overload, where work gets done (because it has to) but everything else suffers a little. I used to be a tax account at a public accounting firm… this meant I was in busy season for approximately 9 months a year (every month but summer, pretty much). I worked minimum 50 hours a week, plus commute time, plus non-chargeable time. When it got into the REALLY busy times, I’d work 70 to 80 hours a week. In June I switched to a 9-5. Now I have a couple of weeks of busy times and I can’t hack it! I keep trying to remind myself there are six weeks left of school… I have gone 6 weeks without a day off before, so why can’t I go six weeks of being productive with studying? Ahhhh.
I cheated the past two nights and looked at my scale…. 148.0 and then 148.4. But that’s ok, I may have to just work on maintenance for a little bit. School needs to come first!
I was such a nervous wreck both last night and this morning. I am not sure why, I do five miles on the treadmill, the race description said it was a flat course, there was no rain... but I was definitely terrified. I had a goal of 55 minutes, J said I'd do it in 52, and what, might you ask, was my final time? 48:53! That's a pace of 9:47 per mile, which is probably about what I did during my last 5K. The last mile I was running right next to an older gentleman, who pulled away at the last minute and finished just ahead of me. Afterward he thanked me for pushing him at the end, and helping him meet his goal of fifty minutes. I thanked him, too, because there wasn't anyone else around us, and it's so much easier to push yourself with at least someone near you. Just checked out the results online, and he was 71! I also got beat by at least two ladies pushing strollers, but that's irrelevant, haha. It was such an amazing feeling to finish, without even having thought about walking. I guess my training methods have worked well... On my long runs I always start out slow and increase my speed halfway through, then keep increasing it as I go. Today I saw that three mile marker and suddenly off I went, passing maybe 6 or 7 people and never seeing them again. (There were 147 people running total.) This is by far by biggest running accomplishment to date, and I am looking forward to the next milestone! Maybe the 10K on January 1st that I've been eyeing... but darn it, that will be FREEZING! 
…. Even though, like I told the boyfriend, I don’t care what the scale says, I KNOW I am getting skinnier and faster and that’s what matters!
