Dog Food (just kidding!): Beagle's Diary

Today's summary: (Cals/Carb/Fat/Protein) (target/guide: 1600/200/50/100)
Cinnamon toast: 140/32/1/2
Sausage roll: 400/10/40/20
Fudgsicle: 60/11/1/1
Shrimp (about a dozen): 520/55/25/25
Fries (about 10g): 400/60/15/5
TOTAL: 1520/168/82/53

As expected, I went waaaay over on the fats, but still right around caloric target which is the main concern. Also got my full 45 mins of biking in tonight too.

Whew, now I need to go study for a midterm for my Deviance and Conformity class :)
 
I've had a bit of a bad start to the day. Not nutrition-wise, just in general. I slept in hardcore this morning, had about ten minutes to get ready and RUN out the door to my bus (I wonder how many calories running full-tilt for a block and a half is worth? ;))

I managed to grab an apple on my way out, but forgot my waterbottle and money, so I guess I don't eat again until I get home about 4:30... Not that I don't need it, it just seems like a long time especially because I'm already hungry again.

On the plus side, the exam I had today went beautifully, only took me twenty minutes to write a mini-paper I was given fifty for (side note: after practicing writing ten-page typewritten papers on the most inane topics for two years, its really hard to fit any topic into a handprinted page and a half - double spaced!). Now I've got a two-hour spare that I need to fill up. I don't really have the energy to go for a brisk walk around campus (that and its really cold out today), so I think I'll finish up some drawings I've been working on.
 
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NOTE TO SELF: Take a picture of myself for motivation when I get home today. I've had my digital camera sitting on my desk for about a week but I keep forgetting!
 
Oh, i hate it when it gets cold out. It totally gets me out of the mood to go workout. It was cold and overcast all week last week. I had to practically drag myself out of my office to get to the gym. Thankfully my gym is right across the street from where i work. So i really have no excuses sometimes as far as needing gas or it being too far away..DOH! but its good for me sooo not much to complain about. Anywho, its beautiful here today, hopefully your day will brighten up and you;ll be able to get some exercise. And even if you dont, just shrug it off because tomorrow is a brand new day! Good luck!
 
Still haven't exercised, I'll be doing that after my gaming tonight... I meant to do it before I started, but... well I just didn't :( I'm so bad about my exercises.

Though about twenty minutes after that last post about not getting any lunch, my fiance called offering to buy me some lunch! Since I didn't have much of a breakfast, I opted for a slice of pizza and diet pop, about 250 calories. Then when I got home... the candy was out. Oh my. I only took a couple and then retreated back to my room to do some reading. A few coffee crisps, a kit kat, and two boxes of smarties. About 200 calories.

Still haven't had any dinner yet, I'm going to see if my mom has the time or the energy to cook between trick or treaters, but I don't think she will, so I'll probably slap together a sandwich or something. Sounds like she's playing some videogames too... Ochirana of Time or whatever :p
 
Thanks for the congrats, I'm majoring in sociology, minor in psychology. People are much more interesting than numbers and molecules ;)

Also, I've just weighed myself, and am so disappointed. I have not lost a single ounce. Well I don't know about ounces but I certainly haven't lost any pounds. I hereby declare a ban on any and all fast-foods and junk foods - regardless of how many calories they have - in the domain of Beagle's Belly. I keep justifying them by figuring that I won't go over my calorie limits, but obviously, that's not correct. I haven't lost ANY weight in the last three weeks.

So mad at myself :mad:
 
I know just how you feel.. I worked my butt off (well not really because its all still back there!) the past two weeks and when I weighed in on Friday it showed I stayed the same. Everyone keeps telling me I'm not losing because I'm starting to gain muscle.. I hope they are right!! Dont Give up Beagle this is a new week.. I'm sure you will lose this week!!
 
Thanks for the support, Christinanva :) As it turns out, the scales were skewed a little by some, ahem, excess waste, and once it was gone, I was at 195, so I did make progress!

It feels so good to have the scale budge, its been sitting at 200 for god knows how long. I think it was all the water, since that's the biggest thing I changed this week.
 
Daily update: I had two packets of instant oatmeal for breakfast (~300), a couple tacos for lunch (~500), and a small Quizno's sub for dinner (not sure how much, probably another ~500). I've already finished my third litre of water (100 oz), and am about to go fill another for work. Man that stuff goes fast when you carry it everywhere!

By the way, does anyone have any nutrition info on Quizno's?? They don't have the pamphlet instore (I thought they were required to have these?), and the website lists the info for THREE of their sandwiches, even though there are like twenty different sandwiches to choose from, not to mention the salads and soups. That is really anoying.
 
After work last night, I had some baked pumpkin seeds, about half a cups worth... I think 125 cals or so... and then I got my biking done.

Bacon and eggs for breakfast today, and not sure on lunch or dinner yet. but lots of water still!! I had nearly 4 litres by the time I was done yesterday! I seem to be getting better at holding it in for more that two hours at a time now :D
 
Breakfast was a bust because the A&W stopped serving breakfast by the time we got there :(

So I had an early lunch of a turkey sandwich (460), with which my fiance bought me a root beer for being so good (I felt bad about it but I didn't want to offend, and also it was pretty good) (210). On my way home I picked up a frozen yogurt cup (210), and for dinner I had chicken fingers (390) and fries (178). Total = 1448. Also only about 50 oz/1.5L of water today.
 
Good job Beagle! Your food sounds yummy. I'm glad to have you on the Red Team!

13 more days! So you're birthday is on the last day of the challenge? That's great. What a better gift to yourself than seeing a few pounds depart from you. It's your 21st, that is a good year. Do you plan on having drinks that night?

Keep up the Good work. I hope you have a great Thursday!
 
Drinking age here is 18, but I'll probably have a few anyways :p

My birthday is the 16th, so the day after the challenge ends!
 
hoo boy, I'm starting to slack in my tracking!
Yesterday: Ham and cheese sandwich, orange, a big plateful of cheese ravioli, and about 2.5L/85oz of water. 45 mins of biking to CSI!

So far today: Bacon and 2 eggs with toast... and probably a sandwich or soemthing when I get home.

Test today in Child Development :(
 
I've lost one more pound so far this week, but the official weigh-in is on monday! Yesterday I was baaaaad and had some pizza for dinner - FOUR SLICES >< So today I'm being extra careful. Josh made me a homemade bacon and egg mcmuffin - 347 calories, and I've also had a bit of cereal - 250 calories. So I'm at just less than 600 today and already at my lunch break at work.

I wish my mom would stop ordering pizzas though. I mean, I understand that she's stressed too, especially since she's gone back to school for accounting - a rather study-intensive program, and she hasn't had to study for over 20 years... but whenever she's just too tired to cook she gets pizza or some other take out food, and I have so much trouble trying to limit myself and to have the willpower to just make something else to eat. I can't blame her, but she doesn't try to make it much easier and she knows I'm trying to lose weight. At least she ordered veggie pizza rather than the regular pepperoni (partly because I'm the only one that likes pepperoni anyways)

I've been considering finding a rubber band to wear around my wrist. That way, whenever I'm tempted to get food when I'm not actually hungry I just just snap it on myself really hard. Maybe eventually I'll associate the thought of impulse eating with pain and stop being tempted by it.
 
I finally calculated it out - yesterday's final total was around 2125 calories. Absolutely shameful. I didn't want to tell any of you, but if I'm hiding my slip-ups here, it completely undermines the point of this journal, which is to subject myself to monitoring. It seems to be easier to translate the anonymous and disembodied monitorying of people on the internet into the disembodied monitoring of my own consciousness, symbolically speaking. Its not like subjecting myself to the monitoring of my fiance, who doesn't seem to apply when he's not actually there to watch me, whereas "the gals on the internet" seems to always be there.

The fact that I am so embarrased about it seems to be a good sign, I must be internalizing my new lessons rather than just doing them because I have to. The last diet I was on was completely useless because it was my fiance who was doing the monitoring. I snuck a chocolate bar in at least once a day when he wasn't looking because I could get away with it. Its not like I wanted to be fat, but I just didn't get it. I think I do now, or at least I'm starting to. I still need to stop myself before the fact, but I feel immensely shameful after the fact, more than I used to.

Anyways, today is going much better than yesterday. I had a bit of cereal and a homemade bacon'n'egg mcmuffin, a granola bar, a banana, and a couple slices of raisin toast. I'm up to 1075 calories today, and I seem to be doing good. I'm a little peckish, so I think I'll actually go cook something for dinner, since my mom was just complaining today about how me and my sister never help cook dinner which is why we get take out so often. I'm a terrible cook, but I think I saw some of that flavoured rice in the cupboard. Now I just need to find something to go with it since the rice is just a side dish. That and there's three of us for dinner tonight (I also have a younger bro, and my sister is working tonight), so the rice won't quite stretch through us all.
 
I'm glad to see that you are posting your actual intake and not trying to "hide" it. So much about the whole food thing can be tied to shame and hiding. I'm glad you found a safe place to write about all this stuff. You have made a huge step in becoming accountable for what you are eating. That's a HUGE thing.

Ok, today is Sunday. What are your plans today? How much water will you drink? Are you able to exercise today? How many calories are you allowing yourself each day??? Check in whenever you can and let us know how you are doing!!!! hugs, Julia
 
Thanks for the support tallgirl! The day's just started, so I haven't had much chance to mess anything up :p I've had an apple so far, but its not very filling, I think I should actually make a good breakfast... I'm thinking scrambled eggs and some toast. I have a "date" with my brother to watch all three Matrix movies today, so I think I'll see about moving my bike up to the livingroom so I can exercise at the same time.

He is fascinated with my bike, and tries to ride it when he can. I haven't been letting him so far because he's still too short, but I think he just hit a growth spurt (he's 13) so I may let him start using it too - may as well start developing good habits young, right?

I know my mom is planning a nice classic Sunday dinner tonight since we'll all be home (a rarity in my house), so I'll probably have a light lunch since Sunday Dinners tend to also be Big Dinners. I'll also try to limit my portion size, and that's what's going to be the hardest.
 
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