Day 7 - Back on Track Again . . . .

Starting Weight - I'm a little confused about my scale.  So much so that I'm going to go out and buy a new one tonight!  So last night, the scale low battery, even though I put in new batteries 6 days ago.  Now on a typical day, whatever I weight after dinner is about 3 pounds more than when I wake up.  Plus, I had a bad day, so it was not crazy that I was up 5 from the morning.  Subtract 3 and I gain 2 for the day.  Then I put new batteries in and it added 5 more pounds, AGAIN!  So now, I am showing 10 pounds higher than I was in the morning.  That just doesn't even make sense!  I've had it with this piece of trash.  Getting a new scale.  Not sure what that's going to mean for my calculations, but it's time.    That being said, this morning, it showed me at 235.6, which is 2.5 up from yesterday - not shocking if that's accurate.  I'll knock some of that off today.

Breakfast - 1st smoothie of the new year! It had 1 cup of trop 50, 3/4 cup of frozen strawberries and 3/4 of a banana.  About 200 calories did the trick.  It was quite good.  I could not eat this as my breakfast every day, but I could do it 2x a week I think.  :-)

Was planning on a mid morning snack, but never got around to it because I got busy.  Straight to lunch!

LUNCH: Leftovers of my buffalo chicken from the crock pot on a bagel thin.  500 calories.

Snacks: Heading into my department meeting, I knew I'd need something if I wanted to get through this Atlas Mapping session so I tried these.  Not bad!  Actually was not too pumped after the first bite, but there were a lot of them and they were tasty.  Just needed to get used to them.  I was expecting them to be soft, but they are called CRUNCHY DOUBLE CHOCOLATE, so I'm not sure what I was thinking.  110 calories

 Then - at the faculty meeting, there was a box of chips ahoy and a box of oreos.  And of course, they were RIGHT NEXT TO ME!  I did GREAT!  Only had 1 of each - 50 calorie chocolate chip and 80 calorie oreo.

WHen I got home, I needed something else, so I had the Rice Krispie Treat.  90 calories.

DINNER TIME!  Kristyn and I tag teamed to make stuffed peppers using ground turkey, spinach and tomato paste in a green pepper.   200 calories!  This is a healthy dinner!!!!!

 (pictured below is tomorrow's lunch!)

Post Dinner Snacking - I had 2 cheese and cracker snacks.  Total of 300 calories.  Why?  Because I could.  I have no other answer and I'm good with that!  Oh yeah, and a frozen lemonade - 70 calories.

TOTAL: 1,600 calories

Money spending update: Went to Shoprite yesterday for the chicken and today for the shrimp, some more ground turkey, a replenish on Frank's Red Hot and extra peanut butter crackers for Joey.  Brings the bill up to $208 so far.  (still need to add in the Costco bill)  $4 spent on the road yesterday :-(

Non-food spending - I grabbed a new scale today.  Spent $51 on it, but I had a $50 from Christmas gift money, so it was not my money and I did not charge it!  :-)  I got some gas today with cash I had, which was $8 and yesterday on my drive to PA, Traci gave me the money for gas.  What does that mean - I'm still Credit Card Free in twenty-nineteen!

Water Update - finished the gallon again today.  I have been working on pacing myself.  I've found that I actually finish the gallon really early if I don't watch myself.  Problem with that is that it's supposed to help me stay away from the snacking, but if there is no water left, I will then snack!  SO I need to find a way to pace myself without ending up leaving some at the end of the day.  Working on it!