So this morning, I ate a chicken biscuit from Chick-fil-a. (I know…I’m not losing any weight this week…at this point, I’m just trying to break even). Did you know a chicken biscuit has 440 calories? I mean…I don’t know why that seemed high to me but it did. I actually don’t like biscuits unless they have something on them, so I always tear off the edges where there is no chicken. But this particular biscuit had a perfectly shaped piece of chicken, so I didn’t tear off much of it.
The good news is that I wasn’t at all hungry all morning. Usually I’m ready to eat my arm, but today I wasn’t even super hungry at lunch. I did go work out today, too. I think my workouts are where I’m seeing the most change. I can go longer and harder on the elliptical machine, and I’m upping the amount of weight I am lifting.
In the end, my calorie count was fine even with the yummy breakfast treat. It's funny though, how I stress so about something like that now. I guess that says a lot about my eating habits...there is a certain amount of guilt when I eat something I know I shouldn't. But, I must admit, my goal is truly "all things in moderation", because I will eventually go off a diet but I want to make a lifestyle change. Perhaps that's why it took me almost two years to lose this weight the first time...because I didn't count every calorie and just tried to exercise and eat sensibly. This time...I am counting every calorie, at least for awhile, but I want to reach a point where I don't have to anymore because I make balanced choices automatically. We'll see if I get there.
My menu:
Breakfast: Chicken biscuit – 440 calories
Lunch: leftover buffalo chicken pasta – Usually it’s 420, but I didn’t eat all of it, so I’m guessing 350 calories, apple – 60 calories, 100 calorie cake
Dinner: Poppyseed chicken (fat free cream of chicken soup, fat free sour cream, and chicken mixed together and baked with reduced fat ritz crackers on top) with rice and veggies – 400 calories
Dessert: Popsicle - 25 calories
Total for the day: 1350 calories – Not too bad
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