Monday's foodlog (1/9)

Here is my planned foodlog for today.  Let's see if this works since I created this Sunday night and obviously am typing it on Sunday night.

Breakfast

• Egg Whites (3) -  75     0     1.1     0     17.7     226.5
• Grapefruit cup  -  60     0     15      1       0          25

Total for this Meal:  135     0     16.1    2     17.7     251.5

Snack

• Protein Bar       -  180   4     18     0         19        70
• Small Apple     -   95    .3    25.1   4.4      .5          1.8
• Peanut Butter   -   95     8     3.5     1         4         65

Total for this Meal:  370   12.3   46.6   5.4     23.5     136.8

Lunch

• Salad (2c with assorted veggies)
• Green Beans  - 45   0     9.9    0    2 
• Pink Salmon  -  70   2    0       0    13    330

Total for this Meal:  115    2       9.9    0       15     330

So I was good up to this point and then the oh no, I feel like crap with a fever moment :)  We degraded quick like and I got no cardio in today cuz I'm coughing up a lung here.

The rest of the day went like this...

• chicken noodle soup (cuz my throat hurts so much and I can't stop coughing, yuck!!)
• Candy Canes
• Protein Bar
• Burlatoni  Chicken tortillini with some red sauce
• 2 c. of skim milk (cuz that so helps with the congestion, ummm...NOT)

Foodlog cuz I said I would

Okay, so I said I would put my foodlog up today (warts and all) and here it is.

Pre-workout

• Whey Protein Shot

Snack

• Protein bar (I got lazy and didn't boil the eggs, mostly cuz I need to wash my pan, lol.)

Mini Breakfast or sorta snack??

• Grapefruit cup
• Whey Protein Shot
• 60 cal pudding cup (guess I need the calcium cuz I'm craving some milk.)

Stress Eating - Wednesday's Foodlog (nom, nom, nom, blech...)

So my blood pressure dropped back to a more normal range and I am far less hurt and upset by my job today.  You just shouldn't make sweeping life decisions when you're so upset your head is going to pop a blood vessel.  Why I think I have any control of the situation I'm in is beyond me. *sigh*  I can only control me and my own actions.  And if I wanted to be liked by everyone, I guess I shouldn't be a QA Analyst, because no one ever likes the person who tells you what is wrong all the time.  It's just a part of the job pointing out that code is wrong or process is wrong or... or... or...

Another bad eating day, but I think I'm gonna take what control I can and do some cardio.  I may not be able to change certain circumstances but I can get up and move and no one can take that from me.

Breakfast:
Nothing decent though I did start the day with a Red Velvet Sugar cookie... I didn't feel less stressed until after I got that first meeting out of the way and hashed things out with the Manager of the group that I work with.  I personally hate conflict which is hard when your job is to tell someone the bugs in their code or process all the time.  I have one type of logic and developers have another.

Lunch:

• Wheat wrap with Mustard, 2 cups of lettuce, some onions and pickles, and about 2-3oz of Chicken.
• Baked BBQ lays

Snack:

• Spicy chicken (no BBQ sauce)
• Small piece of Peppermint Brownie and a little square of fudge

Dinner:

• Chicken Noodle Soup

Snack:

• Medium Apple with 2.5 tbsp of Peanut Butter

Stress Eating Day #2 - Tuesday's foodlog (nom nom nom)

So my level of stress was no better today.  It was actually much worse.  The blood pressure was some where around 143/98 and I could feel it.  I don't normally have high blood pressure but that is how very, and yes unreasonably, angry I was today.  I won't bore you with the gory details, but work really got to me.

So here is the foodlog:

Breakfast:
Nothing

Lunch:
Nothing

Snack #1:

• Medium apple with some peanut butter

Dinner:

• Turkey sandwhich
• Grapefruit
• Salad
• 2 Sugar cookies.

Stress and eating - Foodlog from Monday (nom nom nom)

I am a terrible stress eater.  When I'm overwhelmed and totally overloaded with stress, I seem to stop drinking water (way dehydrated right now) and there goes the breakfast, and by the end of the day, yuck!  I either won't eat or I go to the opposite end of the spectrum.  I have no middle ground, and if you know me, you know that is no lie. 

Monday's eating log went something like this:

Breakfast:

I had it in my hand (egg whites and an apple) but by the time I got to work, I didn't stop from the moment I got there and breakfast became an after thought.  It's currently sitting in the fridge at work while I work from home today.  I was also pretty near to tears by that point so food and liquid were the last things on my mind.

Lunch:

Then the boss took us to Chuy's for Team Christmas lunch and things went much worse.  I did manage to eat, even though they brought me the wrong dish (there was no point sending it back, they were all kinds of confused).

• approximately 48oz of water
• some chips and salsa
• Corn Tortilla tacos (beef, I asked for Chicken) and part of the rice and beans

Dinner:

• Chicken Noodle soup
• Pink Salmon
• .5 a Coke

Not nearly a good eating day at all.

Starting the day by eating right (nom nom nom)

It's really true, breakfast makes or breaks a good eating day... well, at least for me :)  If I eat cleanly for breakfast, I am far less likely to eat bad through the rest of the day.  My brain just cannot allow me to ruin a good breakfast with junk for the rest of the day.  If my breakfast calories look high, it's because I tend to get the bulk of my calories in before 4PM and then have a salad and some type of fish in the evening (when I am eating cleanly.)

Today's breakfast (10AM):

• Medium Apple
• 1 Tbsp of Peanut Butter (Jif Extra Crunchy)
• 1 Whey protein shot
• 2 slices of Ezekial bread
• 1 tsp of "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter"
• 14 oz of water

Calories:  510, Fats:  13.3g, Carbs:  59.6g, Fiber: 7.4g, Protein:  30.5g, Sodium: 366.8

Today's first snack (Noon)

• Protein Bar
• 16 oz water

Calories: 200, Fats:  12g, Carbs:  10g, Fiber:  1, Protein:  13g, Sodium: 100 g

Late Lunch (2:40PM)

• 6 in turkey breast on honey oat with veggies/no cheese and a hint of ranch dressing
• Baked Lays

Calories: 400, Fats:  6.5g, Carbs:  69g, Fiber:  7, Protein:  20g, Sodium: 1130 g

I started feeling sick again (I'm craving sodium and maybe it's potassium that I really need, idk.)

• Ramen Noodles

Calories: 361, Fats:  15.6g, Carbs:  45.7g, Fiber:  2.4g, Protein:  7.2g, Sodium: 1275 g