Every once in a while, I revise my eating habits to keep things interesting for me mentally, and hopefully to tweak things back in the direction to re-ignite my weight loss, which has pretty much been stalled for two years (the bulk of my weight I lost post-op was within the first 11 months post-op).
Even after the pitiful bowel movement I had this a.m., I hopped on the scale hoping against hope that it would read what it did at the nephrologist's office last week. No such luck: 4 lb uptick since then (on a completely empty body!).
Today's reading, ego and efforts be damned: 203. (This is also going to be my "starting weight" to monitor progress from/once I start physical therapy.)
So, between going off Cymbalta, I've decided to forego my usual a.m. "intake" of 2 low fat Baby Bells and about 1.5 oz of Cheez Its (approx: 320-350 calories), in favor of a Jimmy Dean breakfast sandwich (english muffin, egg, cheese, w/turkey sausage, weighing in at 250 cal and 17 gm of protein). I toasted the English muffin, nuked the filling to the sandwich, reassembled, then reheated right before leaving the house. I ate it while I waited (in my car) for the clock to strike 9:30 as I don't enter my office until the very last possible moment.
# Calories reduced by substituting breakfast sammie for the cheese/crackers: 100
Current typing: 10:53 a.m., and I'm not peckish, actually I still feel full.
In the feedbag today and timings of intake:
11ish: Protein shake blended w/iced coffee 23 gm protein thereabouts
1 p.m.: 1 can Campbells low fat/low cal Light Chicken noodle soup (140 cal and 12 gm protein for the whole can)*
3 pm.: Small salad of arugala, sliced beets, red onion, blue cheese, 1/2 HB egg, and a few oz of last night's steak (this will be tomorrow's 3 p..m., too)--to be drizzled at the last minute with some low fat/low cal dressing
5 p.m.: Baby carrots and low fat/low cal dressing (for something crunchy instead of my standby pork rinds)
Banana in case I need it while I wait for the husband this evening at the train station.
# Calories reduced by substituting Campbells soup for the Chinese take out egg-drop/wonton hybrid (I'm rounding up to about 200 calories for a pint of this soup, entirely possible, the soup is more calories), approximately: 60
# Calories reduced by substituting 3-4 oz baby carrots + low cal dressing for the pork rinds, approximately: 140
Note: It's entirely possible I won't even eat the carrots, there are some days I forego the snack.
*Now back to the soup in question... Every work day, it is almost imperative I have soup for my 1 p.m. intake. Usually it's egg drop or egg drop wonton mixed. And SURELY, that's gotta weigh in at more calories than the 140 for the can of Campbells, with an undetermined amount of protein and nutrition, too. At least with the canned soup, I know exactly what I am consuming. Let's see if I can get into this habit, and save my egg drop/wonton hybrid for something like Fridays-Only, or if I can eliminate the egg drop entirely from my weekday repertoire, I could just relegate it to the days I pick up/drop off my laundry.
If anyone reading this is interested in the exact soup I am eating and wants to try my experiment (of just purely cutting calories, that's it. Simple math, cutting down calories), here is the exact soup:
