Holy Crap Fast Food Calories!

Out of curiosity I looked online at the 2 closest fast food places to work and what I normally order.

At lunch if I ate from McD's, I'd consume 1130 calories.
That's just lunch!!

If I went to Taco Bell, 1020 calories.  And even their chicken quesadilla is 510 calories.

I'm definitely doing a good thing changing my eating and drinking habits!!

NS - Day 5

WOO!  I'm so hyper.  But maybe it's just me having my energy back and I haven't had it for so long, I didn't realize it was this great.

Breakfast today was a blueberry lemon baked bar.  Pretty good.  I also had a couple baby carrots on the way in.
Bar -
150 Calories
4.5g Fat
5g Fiber
6g Protein
23g Carbs


Turbo Shake around 10.

Lunch today is beans and ham soup
170 Calories
2.5g Fat
5g Fiber
12g Protein
25g Carbs

It looks yummy!

Lunch was tasty and my afternoon peanut butter bar was ridiculously delicious because....my stomach and pancreas had a meeting without my knowledge.  And they are pissed.  It's like they suddenly realized this is not just one day of healthy.  So between my eating one of them down there will make a weird noise.  I did walk around the building once today.  But this rebellion surprises me since I thought my body was going to accept this new way of doing things right away.

Ravioli with meat sauce!  Four large raviolis - it's yummy.
230 Calories
6g Fat
3g Fiber
14g Protein
28g Carbs

I've been snacking on baby carrots throughout the day.  So tonight's veggies might be broccoli in tomato sauce. 

NS - Day 4 - almost slipped and still fighting

It's cold out.  Coffee would be lovely.  But I haven't gotten over needing it to be the pretty caramel color.  So I immediately looked online at calorie content of International Delight.  My thought was, "30 extra calories is not going to be a big deal."  Well, the vanilla is 45.  So I might try black coffee with my caramel Sweet Drops that my BFF gave me a little later.

Breakfast is a blueberry muffin.
150 Calories
3g Fat
6g Fiber
7g Protein
23g Carbs

I should have warmed it up a bit, but it is good.

The last time I wore the dress I'm wearing today, it felt too tight all over.  I even said to myself I probably wouldn't wear it again.  Today I put it on because I like, I'm cold enough that I'd have something on over it, and I didn't give a flip if it was tight.  Well, it isn't as snug as last time!  So between no soda, no caffeine, and this new way of eating - I just might be on the right track.

Turbo Shake at 1015.
130 Calories
2.5g Fat
5g Fiber
15g Protein
15g Carbs

I'm so happy (that's been a very, very long time) and hyper that I walked around the building once and will probably go again around 1:30.

Lunch
Chicken Noodle Soup - very yummy.
110 Calories
2g Fat
0g Fiber
10g Protein
13g Carbs

I'm sure you Atkins people are freaking out about the carbs.  Get over it.  This isn't Atkins.  And, again, what works for me might not necessarily work for you and vice versa.

Afternoon peanut butter chocolate bar!
150 Calories
3.5g Fat
5g Fiber
13g Protein
21g Carbs

Above photo is dinner.  Chili with beans.  I added a veggie serving (celery).
240 Calories
8g Fat
6g Fiber
14g Protein
27g Carbs

I had a serving of veggies already - 4 baby carrots and a broccoli flowerette.  :-)

NS - Day 3

At no point yet have I felt hungry.  I've wanted food, but my stomach wasn't growling and I wasn't tired.  No low protein episodes either.

Breakfast today was a Harvest Nut Bar.  It was a tastier version of a granola bar.  There were cranberries in it which sweetened it up.  I'm saving the good stuff for weekdays.  :-)

Lunch today was a Trail Mix Bar.  Yummy because it had chocolate on it.  And celery and tomato sauce.  I cut up the celery put it in the tomato sauce and warmed it.  Even though the tomato sauce is no salt added - it still tastes salty to me.

Snack was the peanut butter bar.

Dinner is rotini and meatballs.  It smells yummy!
Tasting - DELICIOUS!!

NS - Day 2

I ended up eating my breakfast bar for yesterday last night.  So I was only 2 veggie servings short of what I was supposed eat.

Today's breakfast is a cinnamon streusel muffin.  I made coffee cubes (decaf) for my Turbo Shake so I can bring it with me when Cesar and I go volunteer and visit the pet store festival.  That way I won't be rushing to get home to drink it.

Turbo Shake - put 8 bean shaped coffee cubes in my tumbler then headed to volunteer.  2 hours later was still frozen.  So I'm shaking it the whole drive from FWB to Niceville and get it all melted, but it's not enough liquid.  Rebecca at Laura's was kind enough to add water to it so it wasn't the consistency of chocolate frosting.  

Lunch is 2 celery sticks dipped in low salt tomato sauce (1/2 cup) and a fudge graham bar.  The bar is delicious!!!

Dinner tonight is chicken pasta parmesan.  It''s very yummy!  Wish I was allowed a slice of whole grain to sop of the rest of the sauce.  :-)

I'm going to wait an hour or so to eat my 2 servings of veggies.  I don't want to wake up in the middle of the night just because my stomach is empty.

It will be lovely if I do lose weight, because this is a lot easier than planning meals, counting stuff, going to the grocery store, cooking.  I just reach into a box and TADA! that's what I get to eat.

NutriSystem - Day 1

I'll add to this after dinner.

I packed my food for work last night thinking I was all smart and organized.

Get to work and no breakfast.  Spent so much time messing with the food at home I forgot to put breakfast in my bag!

So I had my TurboShake for breakfast.  I use decaf coffee instead of water.  The shake was good.  Filled me up and did give me energy.  It's not OMG delicious, but chocolaty good.

Lunch was the loaded mashed potato.  WOW!  So yum!  I was full before I finished, but ate it all.  I don't feel stuffed, but satisfied.

At around 2:30 is a peanut butter chocolate bar.

And now I'm wondering how they expect me to stuff 4 servings of vegetables in my body!

Dinner was BBQ chicken with whole grain bread (cheap store didn't have buns) and 2 servings of veggies.

This is where I get confused.  The suggestions for non-starchy veggies include carrots.  Way back in high school I thought I learned that carrots are starchy and they turn to sugar when you digest them.  My dinner is yummy.

If my body starts screaming for food later, I still have my breakfast bar and 2 more veggie servings I can eat!

NutríSystem - Food has arrived!

It took quite awhile to unpack my food.  I have a Week 1 starter box.  I've already packed my meals for tomorrow at work.  Breakfast, a chocolate turbo shake that I'm allowed to add ice coffee in!, lunch, and an afternoon snack bar.

I'm supposed to have 4 veggie servings a day.  Plus, some of the breakfasts are cereal and at least one of the dinners said to add a whole grain roll.  So I'll be stopping at the grocery store tomorrow after work.  :-)

64 oz. of water or a 0 calorie drink.  I'm up to 67.6 already!

Main reason it took so long is that I don't have a pantry or anywhere to store the food.  I'm going to have to think about that one a little bit to try and store, but also organize things.  I did consider my oven, but it won't hold it all in an organized fashion.

Enjoy the video and photos!