Wooo Hoooo 5 weeks for me. 3 for everybody else.

I've got a 2500 calorie (eating... not burned) day planned.

My plan is to get Indian take out for lunch. I love these things called samosas (and also plan to get goat soup [which I haven't tried before... or haven't had goat since 4th grade or something] and a nan/chapati bread sort of thing). You get two samosas in an order, and I'm the only one in the house to eat them. Oh, and did I mention... they are like mashed potatoes in a pie crust, deep fat fried.

If I cut one in half... I could shave off 350 calories, I'm guessing, and make it a 2150 calorie day. And I can EASILY burn 2150 calories... but burning 2500 will be VERY hard.

However, I'm feeling very emotionally attached to this food.

But I've decided that I'm going to cut one in half and give it to a homeless guy near the Safeway. I thought about cutting it in half and IMMEDIATELY throwing it away. I've done that with other foods, and have never regretted it. However, I've seen a number of people posting about just handing food to homeless people...

I also USUALLY don't have a problem throwing food away... but I'm feeling very possessive of these samosas. Nobody in my family is going to ask for a bite... but if they did... I might resentfully say, "OK... don't bite off too much..."

Would think that I'd be cured by now, no?

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Originally posted by GoingSkiing:
I was doing that "Should I eat it? Should I not eat it? Maybe I will eat it. No, I'm not going to eat it" waffling thing. (Which we both know is the worst...)

Congrats on dumping it in the compost.

I agree--- the should I or shouldn't I thing is very, very stressful. When I read Beck's explanation that it's the INdecision that is stressful and that saying NO can totally alleviate the stress, I started to get it about not having to eat in order to quell stress.

P.S. We also loved West Wing.

I did end up cutting one of the samosas in half. I offered it to ds... but he didn't want it. I put it in the fridge, and had PLANS to drive it to the park... but it was calling to me. So I dumped it in the compost really quick because I was doing that "Should I eat it? Should I not eat it? Maybe I will eat it. No, I'm not going to eat it" waffling thing. (Which we both know is the worst...)

I ended up counting each samosa as 800 calories and ate 1.5 and then they had Tandoori shrimp on special and I got an order of that... and SparkPeople actually had that in the database... so I went with that number as it looked worse than I would have guessed... like 350 calories or something.

They had samosas in the database, too, but the number looked really low to me. Like looking up a Marie Calendar Pot Pie and seeing 250 calories and saying, "Yay! It isn't that bad! I can have two of them!" Actually a cup of pot pie is 650 calories. So 600-800 calories for each samosa is probably realistic (since they are big and are not bite size).

But I was happy that I followed thru with eating 1.5 instead of 2.

I was less than active. It was a day off from exercise. AND dh and I are addicted to The West Wing (since we never saw it when it was on TV) and every weekend we get a new West Wing DVD from Net Flix and we pretty much take up residence on the couch and watch 3-4 episodes back to back. So we had popcorn and diet soda for dinner and watched 3 episodes. Now need to walk disk to post office and wait for next weekend for the next 3-4 episodes.

According to Fitday, I burned 1694 calories. And I think that I ate 2264.

But the average for the week is 2008 burned every day, and 1850 eaten.

New week rolls over today. But I think that I'm getting the rhythm of the high calorie days and low day... both burned and eaten.

I came in at 1850 calories today. I did a good, long walk this morning.

Denise,
I can totally understand your emotional attachment to the Indian food today. Every 6-8 weeks we go to my absolute favorite restaurant. I love to eat the "individual" pizza with super thin crust, arugula and proscuitto. (The pizza is actually 12 inches in diameter, so it is not so individual.) I love, love this pizza and am very attached to eating it.

If dd or dh ask for a slice, I get very possessive and almost mean about having to give up a slice. I generally end up giving away 1/4 of the piizza and eating 3/4 of it.

I figure that it's okay to be possessive about my food once every 6-8 weeks. I generally share well and don't get too into my food. I get to guard my food once in a while.

Week June 14 - average weight was 128
Week June 21 - average weight was 129.9
Week June 27 - average weight was 128.3
Week July 4 - average weight was 127.21
Week July 11 - average weight was 125.1
And I was 124 this morning.

I've noticed something sort of interesting (well, it was interesting to ME)

I started out with 38.3 lbs of fat and ended with 33.7 (to the best of my ability to figure).

During that week when I gained weight and went up to 129.9 (that was the week I freaked), my lean tissue went up a LOT. It went from 88.5 pounds to 91.3 pounds.

And stayed there. But now it is starting to drop after being in losing mode for 5 weeks.

I was going to stay in losing mode one more week and getting back to 123.5... but I'm adding in some calories and looking to be maintaining and see what happens.

I really haven't added calories in an organized way since Oct/Nov 2004... so interested to do it again.

And thanks to everybody for hanging with me during this time!