Calorie countdown - what did you eat today? (Weekend)

Feel free to post your weekend food choices here  Have a nice weekend!

Here's my damage for Saturday - I've given up staying under 1000 calories, I am getting hungrier now and I can eat larger volumes, so around 1000 calories seems to be where I end up being comfortable.  I am also stress eating a little bit, but trying to keep it healthy at least.  I've been depressed today - I had to force myself out of bed and then I cleaned the kitchen instead of going to work.  B - 1/2c cottage cheese, 1/2c fresh raspberries S - 8oz Mootopia, 2 fortune cookies L - 4oz lean ground beef (hamburger patty), 1 slice swiss cheese, 1/4c vegetarian baked beans S - Power crunch protein bar (cookies and cream) D - half quesadilla - whole grain tortilla, 1/4c mozzarella, 2oz pico de gallo, 1/2 avocado with lime juice and a tiny drizzle of olive oil S - 1 cup sliced strawberries Calories - 1183 Fat - 51g Carbs - 104g Sugar - 33g Fiber - 27g Protein - 88g Water - 80oz so far plus 8oz milk and 16oz green tea Exercise - several hours of cleaning Vitamins - everything but iron taken, will take with strawberries later

Oh, Lord, I'm not sure I want to post my food choices today! I started off OK on Saturday morning with two protein drinks and a cup of decaf with the usual. 240 calores, 36g protein. We went to the stock show, and I was good and took some Atkins protein bars to nosh on while walking around.  I ate four of them during the day.  600 calories, 44g protein. My sister decided she needed to eat something at the show, so we went into the food tent and I ended up eating an enormous Nathan's hot dog (called a Tundra dog, I think it was the size of a garden hose and about a yard long).  I have no idea what the calorie count is on the hot dog/bun, but I'm pretty sure it would have fed several starving orphans. We didn't get home until midnight, and I felt peckish, so I ate three pieces of texas bread with butter and another cup of decaf coffee with the usual. I'm back on track today.  Moral of the story is, at least for Kix, when you eat "tasty" carbs like hot dog buns, it will trigger an overeating urge and you'll be doomed.  Best just to stay away from  them. Kix Calories consumed?  About a bazillion.

The whole hot dog fit?  It couldn't have been THAT big then.  And at least you walked around a bunch yesterday...?  You've been on a hot dog kick lately.  That's one of those foods I've just never really cared for, and a bite of hot dog post-op is responsible for one of my two "very sick I want to die episodes" (after the plumbing was repaired- too many to count before the plumbing was repaired).  I think its good that you can admit it here.  I am having the urge to overeat really bad - between life and the non-moving scale I am not a fun person lately - but the thought of having to report it on here to all of you has kept me in line fairly well.  Oh, and Texas bread is also evil, its up there with wheat thins and tortilla chips.  You shouldn't have that in the house!  I was seriously contemplating getting some kind of lock box to keep our bread in (Ryan bought cinnamon raisin bread and has been toasting it under my nose... *******).  If he has the combination then I can't eat the bread.  I am surprised HOW seriously I am contemplating this idea.  Oh, and super embarrassing moment when we were cleaning yesterday - he found a hidden box of truffles (half-eaten) from like 10 months ago.  I'd hid them in one of the bathroom cabinets and then forgotten about them.  I don't do it often, but I've hidden food several times since we've lived together, and I even hid a bottle of scotch for about a month when we were having a lot of problems.  I'd have a shot (or three) before bed so I could sleep because otherwise I'd just lay there.  Hiding food and sneaking off to fast food is one of my most secret shames and yesterday it came out.  He took it well, I don't think he was too surprised.but I was mortified.  It felt good to throw it away.

I couldn't jam the entire footlong into my stomach in one sitting.  I ate half, then put the other half in my purse and ate it two hours later during the Mexican rodeo.  What makes me mad is that I even got the stupid thing in the first place.  I wasn't really physically hungry, more of a "it's dinnertime, I must eat" sort of thing. I'm done with hot dogs for awhile.  I had actually planned to have a cheeseburger, but I looked at them and they appeared to be overcooked hockey pucks with Kraft cheese.  Ugh. I used to hide sweets when I was a kid.  I also used to get up at night and eat bread.  If there is bread in the house, I will still do it, so we don't usually keep bread here.  The texas bread is out of the freezer from Thanksgiving, and my sister has been eating it all day, so it will be gone tomorrow and thus no longer a temptation. Kix

B: 6oz Unjury and Skim shake with 3 strawberries, 1/3 banana, raspberry DaVinci and Ice. Yum!
S: 9 Soy Crisps
L: 1/2 Chicken Cordon Blue and 2 oz green beans
S: 3/4 oz. Turkey Jerky
D: Buffalo Burger with Fat free cheese, 2 oz green beans
S: 1/2 cup cream cheese pudding with SF preserves

Calories: 776    Fat: 21     Carbs: 64    Protein:82

(I'm trying to up my fat a little, seems to help me lose somehow when I do)

Exercise: Will walk a mile while chicken cooks!
Vitamins: Always-- why oh why do I have to take so much effin' Calcium? I poop rocks!
Water: Gonna shoot for-- you don't wanna know. Over 40 oz is a good day for me. (Ducking!)

Shari - I know you are a little farther along than me, but I was wondering if you've gotten your hunger back?  Just in the past month or less I've finally started feeling hungry, and I'm not really happy about it.  I was hoping to have a longer amount of time before this starting feeling like it was the same old struggle with food.  I knew that would happen eventually, but 5 months out?  *pout*

I am not sure about hunger, DB. I get the munchies-- I want lots of yummy things-- I would like to graze-- but most of these are (intense) head feelings. I don't TRUST myself to know when I am sated or not, so I pick a number (calories) and stay under it. I don't get the grumbly tummy kind of hunger any more, and find I can usually wait out the head kind until my next meal. I *do* think my body needs more food-- I get weak when I exercise, feel weak during up/down transitions, etc...bt I intend to keep the calories pretty low for as long as I can. The head hunger was very bad at holiday time, but by planning a couple off-plan excursions, I got to sample good stuff and get back on plan without much misery. I'm glad about that. The key for me is DENSE protein. I mean, like shoe leather. ;) I just ate a 1/4 pound buffalo burger that was the consistency of a hockey puck-- that'll be with me until my snack at ten, I am sure. Earlier today I ate chicken and turkey jerky. The denser the better! Protein bars, crackers and cheese and soy crisps go down easy and feel nice and snacky but I find they aren't very sustaining. It ****** my ex-nut off to no end,  but I try to keep one more snack "available" ahead of me all the time-- whether that's a popsicle, or my pudding, or a piece of fruit. That way, if I do feel the urge, something safe is already there and was planned. I plan my whole day out in the morning-- what I *can* have--- and if I eat less, I take things off.

I guess my experience is a little different - for the first 3 months I basically had to force myself to eat much of the time.  At first food was just disgusting - I got over that but I could still go the entire day without eating and not notice if I didn't plan out meals or if my husband didn't remind me.  When I did eat it was fine, pleasant whatever, but I could take it or leave it and physically didn't feel hungry.  I would feel tired and light headed if I didn't eat, but that's not surprising.  Now, I get hunger pangs.  Sometimes its head hunger, but there is also physical hunger coming around about every 3 hours.  I usually drink some water and wait a while to eat after I start feeling hungry - hoping it will go away.  I know its real hunger when it doesn't go away, and even gets worse.  I know its head hunger if it goes away.  I was trying to stay under 800 until 6 months out like my surgeon suggests.  I made it a month, but now I've raised it to 1000 calories.  I've also been stalling pretty much the last 4 weeks, so I thought maybe raising the calories would help.  Not so far.  Anyway I was just curious how it was for you.  I don't like being hungry.  I really felt like I had a reprieve from the food prison for a while there and it was soooooo nice. 

Here's my totals for Sunday : B - 14oz Mootopia milk, 1 teaspoon chocolate ovaltine (22g protein) L - slice whole wheat toast, 1/4c vegetarian baked beans S - meat from a small arby's roast beef D - 1/3 of a large baked potato with salsa, 2oz of steak S - will have 1 cup strawberries and 2 chocolate truffles Calories 863 Fat 27g Carbs 90 Sugar 35 Fiber 15 (below goal of at least 20/day) Protein 62g exercise - 3 games bowling water - working on it - only about 40oz so far vitamins - all but iron (with strawberries)