Weight Loss Challenge Week 1, Day 3 — 1500 Calories Just Not Enough
Posted in: July to October 2009, Suzanne's Weight Loss Journey, Week 1
If you read yesterday’s blog , you’ll remember I was talking about not going to bed hungry and how you don’t want to wake up in the middle of the night ravenous. Well, guess what happened to me! I wasn’t hungry when I went to bed, but I did notice my calorie count was low (around 1300). I decided to eat a little something extra (but could have made a healthier food choice) and at least bring my count up to 1500.
Woke up at 3:00 AM! I wasn’t feeling particularly hungry, but I was tossing and turning trying to get to sleep for a bit. And then the hunger came. I’m rarely that hungry so early in morning (and I’m an early riser at around 4:00/5:00 AM).
I’m going to have to figure out a healthy snack for my 3rd snack. It seems I need one!
Here’s what I ate on day 3. I did end up having a beer at supper time, but I counted it in with my calories.
Note: I am not a nutritionist; I’m just showing this as an example of what I ate.
| Food Item | Amount | Cals | Carbs | Prot. | Fat |
|
| Milk, nonfat, fluid, with added vitamin A (fat free or skim) | 1 cup | 83 | 12.15 | 8.26 | 0.20 |
0.12
0.02
0.29
|
| Protein Powder – Wheat Isolate | 1 serving | 100 | 3.00 | 20.00 | 1.00 |
0.00
0.00
0.00
|
| Scrambled Eggs (egg, egg white, spinach) | 1 serving | 158 | 2.43 | 17.62 | 7.57 |
2.91
1.36
2.26
|
| Squash, summer, zucchini, includes skin, raw | 1 small | 19 | 3.95 | 1.43 | 0.21 |
0.01
0.09
0.05
|
| Plantain Snack (28g or 33 chips) | 1.2 serving | 180 | 22.80 | 6.00 | 9.60 |
0.00
0.00
0.00
|
| Salmon – Kirkland Frozen | 0.5 serving | 170 | 0.00 | 18.50 | 10.00 |
0.00
0.00
3.50
|
| Rice, white, long-grain, parboiled, enriched, cooked | 0.33 cup | 66 | 14.28 | 1.32 | 0.16 |
0.05
0.04
0.04
|
| Subway 6″ Turkey & Ham (plus Swiss) | 1 serving | 290 | 48.00 | 19.00 | 4.00 |
0.00
0.00
0.00
|
| Alcoholic beverage, beer, regular | 1 fl oz | 12 | 0.90 | 0.09 | 0.00 |
0.00
0.00
0.00
|
| Turkey Mashup Surprise | 1 serving | 259 | 14.33 | 24.40 | 11.05 |
4.07
2.73
2.85
|
| Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Bar (Almond) | 1 serving | 160 | 22.00 | 3.00 | 7.00 |
0.00
0.00
0.00
|
| 1497 | 143.84 | 119.62 | 50.79 |
7.16
4.24
8.99
|
Wednesday’s Workout — Weight Training “B” from the New Rules of Lifting
Deadlift
Dumbbell Shoulder Press
Pullover (should be lat pulldown but I don’t have the machine for that)
Lunge
Swiss Ball Crunch (holding a 5lb plate)
I’m still going a bit easy with the weights because I recently pulled a pec. It seems to have recovered, but I like to be cautious!
Week-end is coming up, so I should think ahead of what I’ll be eating and what I’ll do for week-end activity. I won’t be doing any formal workouts, but I’d like to get a bike ride or a hike in, do some gardening, that sort of thing.
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Suzanne is the owner of FitWatch. She's had strong interest in nutrition and exercise for over 20 years, and is an ACE-certified Lifestyle & Weight Management Coach. Back in 2002, she started FitWatch.com because she wanted to help people lose weight by creating helpful tools and calculators. A huge fan of calorie counting, Suzanne created the FitWatch Fitness Tracker to make it easy for people to count their calories.
