Monday, February 02, 2009

Horrible weekend and stress binging

Calories eaten Thursday: 1447
Fat: 21g (14%)
Carbs: 118g (34%)
Protein: 148g (42%)
Weight Thursday morning: 131.2 (One week ago: 132.8)
Calories burned in exercise Thursday: 292

Calories eaten Friday: 1495
Fat: 26g (16%)
Carbs: 99g (27%)
Protein: 123g (35%)
Weight Friday morning: 130.4 (One week ago: n/a)
Calories burned in exercise Friday: 73

Weight Saturday morning: 131.4 (One week ago: 132.6)
Calories burned in exercise Saturday: 0

Calories eaten yesterday: 1105
Fat: 20g (17%)
Carbs: 114g (43%)
Protein: 103g (39%)
Weight this morning: 138 (One week ago: 135.4)
Calories burned in Sunday: 56
Calories burned in exercise today: 184

It was a long, horrible weekend. I didn't weigh-in yesterday and felt so horrible I decided not to post at all. This week will count as week 94 (again).

As most of you know, I try not to eat as I please on Saturday, but I allow myself some treats. To my shame, I got really depressed this past Saturday and ate every bad thing in sight. :( I sometimes stress eat and carb binge when things get really bad.

I didn't feel any less stressed out on Sunday and just tried to convince myself to NOT order pizza and run to the gas station for cupcakes. For the most part I try to keep my eating under control on Saturday and just allow myself more food and calories but still eat healthy. I don't care about mashed or baked potatoes, or rice, but I do love hash browns and french fries.

I felt horrible yesterday with an upset stomach. I slept until noon and had two slices of plain (low-carb) toast for breakfast. At work I continued sipping my black coffee (with a little sugar-free caramel syrup in it). I stopped at Safeway for some Diet 7-Up to help settle my tummy.

Brad and I had a big fight Saturday night (that left me in tears) and I ended up drinking too much and pigging out on cake and candy not once, but twice. First at Safeway and then later at 7-11. I bought ice cream, cake, and candy.

So I was hungover and didn't make it to the gym. I felt fat and bloated on top of it all, and feel the same way today. *sigh* I won't even talk about the hash browns and breakfast sandwich I had before church and the humongous cinnamon roll I had after.

I have a serious sugar problem. I've tried to address it, but fail. I am an addict. If it weren't for needing the Cream of Wheat and liquid iron I could get my carbs down much lower. And I always end up binging on Saturday either because I feel so deprived during the week or because I get stressed. Between the Cream of Wheat, liquid iron, and (especially) the binges I am out of control and gaining.

I'm fat again and must get this under control. I also realize my metabolism is extremely slow and I probably need less than 1200 to maintain even with exercise. I did a basal metabolism test where you plug in your weight and height and age and my number came out to just 1155. The Thyroid Diet book says this should be my calorie target.

Going by this level and the "rule" in the book about getting at least 25% of your daily calories from breakfast, my breakfasts should be just under 290 calories.

Tomorrow is mail and then I might make it to the gym once this week on Wednesday.

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1 comment:

me said...

So sorry you had such a bad weekend lovely. x