Day 11 What's On My Plate Today?

My intention here is to post daily. Weigh myself every 2 weeks (that's subject to change) and post photographs of my progress and recipes I use. This is labeled "Day 12" because I haven't posted here daily, but I will! It'll keep me focused.

I'm keeping my calories in check for the most part, even though that's not my focus. Before I was making these food choices, I limited my calorie intake to minimum 1200-with a maximum of 1400. But now I eat what I want (and what I want is what I'm eating now) and I range anywhere from 1200-2000. I eat when I'm hungry, stop when I'm full. It's a simple concept. I'm focused on carbs. I'm keeping them below 20 grams per day (give or take, sometimes I need a nibble of PB or a few leaves of spinach). Protein, I'm trying to boost up as much as possible too.

Here is what was on my plate today.

Breakfast:

French Vanilla Protein Drink

3 Eggs

3 Strips of Bacon

I'm ashamed to admit, I ate bacon. I dont normally eat pork (but I love pepperoni and sometimes sausage), but it's allowed in the list of the foods I'm eating and it just sounded good, so to heck with that. That was a fulfilling breakfast.

Lunch

I drank this. It's pretty tasty and only 1 net carb. This held me over until I got home from work at 4:15pm.

Lunch II

I had an "oopsie roll" (mock bread made of eggs and cream cheese, I'll post info later) with minimal spaghetti sauce spread over it, cheese and mushrooms and peppers and toasted in the oven. My version of a pizza. It was delicious.

Dinner

2 chicken leg quarters.

Snacks

1 Tbsp of Peanut Butter (even though technically I shouldn't eat PB right now, I needed a "treat" (and yes, PB tastes like a sweet treat to me right now, a few weeks before I would have bet you a million dollars I'd never eat a spoonful of peanut butter...gross. Oh how our tastes change with a little education and better choices in life.)

Beef sausage snack stick (for the protein, but goodness gracious it has a lot of sodium...I'll drink an extra glass of water)

and some coffee with sugar free creamer and stevia.

That's a typical diet for my days, except I usually have actual food for lunch, I just didnt have time the night before to prepare.

At the end of the day, I post notes on my food diary here about what I would do differently the next day. I bought the protein powder and I realize now the sugar content is too high for my liking. Next time I'll buy a lower sugar/carb variety. Overall, I had a good day! I'm proud of myself, because if you know me, you know I love sugar and baked goods.

Calories: 1,209

Carbs: 22 g

Protein: 118 g

Fiber: 2 g

Sugar: 14 g

Fat: 71 g