Thanks for all of the responses yesterday! I just read them right now, and wish I read them earlier since I definitely ate too many cookies today, smh.
I was cleaning my pantry today and found dark chocolate morsels - I added them to the pumpkin spice cookies that I had (9 of them), and ended up eating them all throughout they day, tbh. Thankfully, they were only 100 calories each, but that's almost 1K of calories on sweets.
Even more, I made a gaffe at work after eating a bunch of cookies and am mortified afterwards. Adding chocolate led to eating all the cookies that I had remaining, even though before I was able to control myself and have 1-2 per day. I just can't stop talking when I have anything with caffeine, and I talk too much with caffeine and don't think things through.
I'm throwing the chocolate chips away after this, very interesting experience to see how much my cravings increased when adding chocolate after not having it in over a month. There have been layoffs in my area, so I think I was also stress-eating.
Other than that, I ate at maintenance instead of a deficit. I had boiled eggs, 8 cookies with chocolate chips, and ate a ton of watermelon slices (throughout a bunch of stressful meetings). Then for lunch, I had a bunch of chicken slices, followed by another short pumpkin spice latte with a chocolate cake pop. And then for dinner: fiber bread with chicken, grapes, and cottage cheese. And the last Cookie. I definitely ate way over the deficit. Putting the exact calories may be triggering, so I'll just stick with the protein, carbs, sugar, and fiber content for today. I did eat ~1K above the deficit, purely from cookies and Starbucks. I also didn't drink much water today, so I think that may have been a huge part of it:
Carbs: 490 grams
Protein: 72 grams
Sugar: 105 grams
Fiber: 39 grams
Also, I found out today at my new Dr. that I'm actually 2 inches shorter than I always thought I was, so my calories/everything has been off for a while. I'm 5 ft 1, not 5 ft 3.5. It doesn't make sense to me because that was my height when I was in high school and people usually assume I'm 5 ft 5 or so, definitely not 5 ft 1.
Maybe my posture makes me look taller than I am? Unsure, but it's sort of awkward since 5 ft 3.5 or 5 ft. 4 is on all my medical records/license. I haven't been measured since I was in high school and haven't lost inches randomly, so I think the person who measured me back then was off.
R4: Day 1 of Cooking more and Eating out Less
Thanks for all of the responses yesterday! I just read them right now, and wish I read them earlier since I definitely ate too many cookies today, smh.
I was cleaning my pantry today and found dark chocolate morsels - I added them to the pumpkin spice cookies that I had (9 of them), and ended up eating them all throughout they day, tbh. Thankfully, they were only 100 calories each, but that's almost 1K of calories on sweets.
Even more, I made a gaffe at work after eating a bunch of cookies and am mortified afterwards. Adding chocolate led to eating all the cookies that I had remaining, even though before I was able to control myself and have 1-2 per day. I just can't stop talking when I have anything with caffeine, and I talk too much with caffeine and don't think things through.
I'm throwing the chocolate chips away after this, very interesting experience to see how much my cravings increased when adding chocolate after not having it in over a month. There have been layoffs in my area, so I think I was also stress-eating.
Other than that, I ate at maintenance instead of a deficit. I had boiled eggs, 8 cookies with chocolate chips, and ate a ton of watermelon slices (throughout a bunch of stressful meetings). Then for lunch, I had a bunch of chicken slices, followed by another short pumpkin spice latte with a chocolate cake pop. And then for dinner: fiber bread with chicken, grapes, and cottage cheese. And the last Cookie. I definitely ate way over the deficit. Putting the exact calories may be triggering, so I'll just stick with the protein, carbs, sugar, and fiber content for today. I did eat ~1K above the deficit, purely from cookies and Starbucks. I also didn't drink much water today, so I think that may have been a huge part of it:
Carbs: 490 grams
Protein: 72 grams
Sugar: 105 grams
Fiber: 39 grams
Also, I found out today at my new Dr. that I'm actually 2 inches shorter than I always thought I was, so my calories/everything has been off for a while. I'm 5 ft 1, not 5 ft 3.5. It doesn't make sense to me because that was my height when I was in high school and people usually assume I'm 5 ft 5 or so, definitely not 5 ft 1.
Maybe my posture makes me look taller than I am? Unsure, but it's sort of awkward since 5 ft 3.5 or 5 ft. 4 is on all my medical records/license. I haven't been measured since I was in high school and haven't lost inches randomly, so I think the person who measured me back then was off.