Guilty

D convinced me to sign up for myfitnesspal.com, which is a free calorie counter, diet and exercise journal. I weighed myself earlier (after eating most of what is noted in the image below) at 137.2lbs, fully clothed. If I deducted 2lbs for clothing, that's roughly 1.5lbs more than what I weighed three months ago and I haven't really been exercising in the past three months.

I've decided to challenge myself to lose 9lbs for two reasons. One, to see how accurate this tool is and two, to see if I can actually control my desires to eat high calorie, delicious food. For the record, I am totally comfortable at my current weight and size, but love a good challenge and this should motivate me to at least run more. I mentioned this to one of my girlfriends and she laughed at me for attempting this right before the holidays.


Here's a snapshot of today:

To be fair, I did actually go for a run. Mind you it wasn't a very long run, 25 minutes to be exact, but I consider it to be a decent effort considering I haven't done any cardio in almost four weeks. According to my Nike+ (which I love and adore), I burned about 248 calories. I'm still -136 calories for the day, but the pad thai was worth it!


Some of you may be wondering what I ate over the weekend. I'll give you a quick run down...


Friday:

• four cups of coffee
• a whopping 40oz of Red Bull, total
• Lean Cuisine butternut squash ravioli, which was surprisingly good
• three large spoonfuls of Nutella
• calamari
• a small field greens salad
• romanelli alla vodka (romanelli pasta stuffed with fontina, ricotta and Parmesan cheese topped with tomato vodka cream sauce, prosciutto and large shrimp)

Saturday

• four or five cups of coffee
• a 12oz Red Bull
• turkey, brie, apple and spinach wrap
• blackened tuna nachos
• a few freshly shucked oysters topped and broiled with bacon, spinach, parmesan cheese and a hint of sambuca
• one and a half of The Fresh Market's gourmet bacon and cheddar burgers
• a generous portion of The Fresh Market's lobster macaroni and cheese
• orzo with basil and tomatoes
• lo mein noodles (or something very similar)
• grilled veggies
• s'mores
• Yes, I actually ate all of that. And yes, it was delicious.

Sunday

• Four cups of coffee
• three slices of spinach pizza, with mozzarella, fontina, parmesan and roasted garlic
• two pieces of peanut butter toast

Now do you understand how trying to lose 9lbs is going to be tough?