Alrighty... day of eating is done

Had 2 coffees w/ the usual in it
plate of baby spinach w/ Kens italian w/ aged romano & a little bit of salsa
About 1/2c kimchi
Low carb yogurt
2 low carb tortillas w/ chicken and hot sauce

Total calories... about 800

Feeling ok. I may drink another cup of coffee so calories will be closer to 900. Still not too shabby I think
Just need to work on the water intake!

Oh and I exercised some today. Did bicep curls, leg extensions and overhead tricep curl (not sure if that's what they're actually called lol)

Thanks Jade! It's incredibly helpful to see others talk about not being completely perfect all the time. Even though I'm good.. it helps to know that perfection isn't needed.

I did have that cup of coffee last night so calories were around 900.
I say around usually for my calories b/c I eyeball some of the things I eat b/c I just don't want to dirty up stuff to measure every little thing. Like salad dressing for instance. I think I have a pretty good eyeball on how much a tablespoon is. Or with my veggies... 1 cup, 2 cups.. sometimes it's a little more or less, but if they're a low carb/cal veggie it doesn't matter if it's off just a little ya know?

Anywho.... this is working though. Was up 6lbs yesterday and only up 2lbs this morning.
Hopefully the trend continues and my weight will get back down to where it was and keep going down after.
Going to try to continue with the lower calories. If it feels like I need to eat more though, then I will. I know they're not super low right now, but it's lower than I'm used to.
I'd really like to do this more often. Maybe 1 or 2 times a week.... if I remember to do it that is lol.
I've been good with it though. Did feel a bit unsatisfied with my dinner yesterday even though I made sure to get a good helping of the chicken. But the coffee I had after helped w/ that.
Water wasn't that great. Drank about 1/4 of the gallon which isn't what I had hoped, but it's better than what I had been drinking the last few days.

And yeah.. feeling a bit tired today b/c of a restless night of sleep and a bit hungrier this morning but I'm good

Thanks vol. Again...it's so incredibly helpful mentally to see that.
We don't have to be perfect and it's OK!

I was hoping to do only 500-600 calories but I guess my low cal days won't be quite that low lol. It's all good. I think the 700-900 range is good enough to where I don't feel hungry after and I can at least eat enough veggies to feel satisfied for the most part.

I just had to eat though. My youngest is in a constant whiny/cry/tantrum mood today and it's developed in to me getting a giant headache. Needed to take ibuprofen so needed to eat something for it.
Today could be a regular calorie day. MAYBE. I only ate a cup of kimchi and I feel ok so meh. Either way.. I'm good with whatever happens
Ibuprofen needs to kick in soon though. Not sure it's strong enough to defeat the likes of a moody 3yo.

Thanks!
Yeah so long as I don't keep allowing these cheats to occur more and more frequently.. I'll be good.

Woo boy though. My youngest was... just...he was something today and not a good something. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed I guess and was not happy with anything that was going on lol. That wore me down. Physically, mentally, emotionally.

Thankfully it didn't result in me stuffing my face though. I felt like I needed (or more like just wanted) to eat, but I didn't.

Food today

2 coffees
kimchi
2 low carb yogurts
2 low carb tortilla shells w/ ground beef taco meat, 1/4 avocado, hot sauce
more kimchi

Total calories about 900.
Those little burritos were flippin delicious! The meat was leftover stuff from this weekend and dang was it good. Not to pat myself on the back or anything, bc I've made some bland taco meat before, but I seasoned it just right this time /patpat
Carbs were a little higher than usual b/c of the 2 yogurts and 2 tortilla shells, but I'm still only at like 30 something. Not a big deal.

I had planned on fixing fried cabbage for dinner, but I can save that for tomorrow. Yum yum!

Yep... I will get to my goal, it's just having to remind myself that I need to remain patient with my weight loss. I went in to this knowing that I was in it until the end, whenever that was and I'm not giving up anymore.
Like this year. I groan when I think about the weight I gained back, but I think part of this whole weight loss journey is a lot of mental hurdles we have to overcome too. Such as not being perfect and getting past mess ups or WHY you overeat or binge or whatever else might be going on. So while I wish this year had been more productive with my weight, it was productive in other ways. That's not always easy to see/accept though. It's not the accomplishment I was hoping for but it's still a good one

Speaking of not accomplishing things though.... I failed at OMAD today. Maybe it's b/c of the lower calories, but I found myself constantly thinking about food until I ate something (about an ounce of bacon scraps and kimchi).
Will try harder to resist the urge to eat tomorrow!

Aww thanks

Good today but definitely noticing my hunger is amped up these last 2 days and early on. I'm ok mentally not OMAding right now just bc my calories are remaining a little low, but I do want to get back to it once I'm not doing lower than usual calories.

Friday won't be that day though. It's our anniversary and we already have our dinner planned out. I've been craving a baked potato and damnit, I'm going to have one! Sour cream, lots of butter and salt and peppered outter skin and I'll be happy! DH also wants chili so I'll be fixing chili w/ beans too. Not a giant pot of it like I usually do, but just enough for dinner. OMG I can't wait. May make myself a chocolate mug cake to go along with it. Found SF whipped cream in a can at Walmart that I bought for it or just to spray in to my mouth :P lol
Curious to see what my body will do on whole food carbs instead of sugary processed stuff carbs. See if I bloat up as much or less or what.

DH has a potluck on Friday and wants me to make a cheesecake for it. UGH.
It's a white chocolate raspberry cheesecake recipe that I found on allrecipe. It's seriously the best cheesecake ever. Rich and delicious and it's going to be hell not tasting it when I make it tomorrow. Torture. Pure torture!

Anywho... water has been sucking. Been working on trunk or treat thing and not in my usual spot so haven't been thinking about water until it's bed time. I've been trying to chug down some, but it's not as much as I hoped. You can only chug so much in 30mins lol. I'm almost done with the stuff though so should be getting back on the water train soon!