Fitbethlin's Journal

I know it’s only Thursday, but I’m already worried about the weigh-in on Monday.  I have let some drinking get between me and the calorie goal, although I’ve tried to offset that with exercise.  I know the equation should be a simple calories-in-calories-out but that isn’t really what works for me.  Something about alcohol throws that equation off, not just because I want to eat more or end up taking in more liquid calories than I ought.   I don’t want to cut out drinking completely, but I need to work at keeping it down to once or twice a week, and not overindulging at that. In the last seven days I drank on:

• Saturday – Wine, 250 calories worth
• Sunday – Beer, 740 calories worth
• Tuesday – Beer, 200 calories worth (I also ate wayyyyy too much, although I offset it with exercise)

So there are some good trends here – I didn’t drink more than 3 days of the last week, I didn’t go totally overboard eating after I had drinks (I have a habit of eating my favorite 1340 calorie meal at Whataburger on the way home from a night drinking), and I was somehow able to limit myself to one beer on Tuesday (although it was a close thing and I was minutes away from getting a second, which would have led me down a dangerous road).

To get through the rest of this week, I think I have to promise myself:

1. Eat ~1200 cals on a non-running day.
2. Eat ~1350 cals on a running day.
3. No drinking until the weekend. Not even one beer.
4. Only get to drink one day on the weekend, and even if I’m having a blast and it fits in the calorie routine, ONLY ~500 calories on that one glorious day.  (This means 4 light beers or 2.5 regular beers or ~3 whiskey & diets*).

Food/Exercise Today -  1140 calories

• Breakfast 173
• Lunch 350
• Dinner 476
• Snack 140
• Water 72oz

*Stop making fun of me for ruining good whiskey with diet Coke – I only mix with crap whiskey and will have it straight if I want nummy whiskey.

~ by admin on April 23, 2009.