Calorie Countdown - Fearsome Friday, what are you eating?

Send me lots of good thoughts from 1-2!  I'll be up in front of 40+ faculty members and all of my fellow cell and molecular biology students, boring the heck out of them.  And send lots of good thoughts to my butt also, because it will be sitting from 9am to 5pm listening to boring presentations.  I am taking the donut pillow and expect to be squirming from one cheek to the other repeatedly and/or taking lots of bathroom breaks! I don't know what I'll eat, its catered.  I hope its not something bad because I present AFTER lunch.  I'll probably have a protein bar or something like that on hand just in case. 

Ugh, this sounds like the science version of giving recitals!  I was a music major my first year in college, and our final exams each semester were recitals.  I played flute, oboe, piano, and sang, thus I had to give four recitals each semester.  Keep in mind that I hate performing.  Not only that, we were required to attend each other's recitals.  Boo.  Nothing like an oboe recital at 8 AM on finals week to make you regret your choice of major.  I will think excellent thoughts for you and your tender a$$, and here's hoping they have something for lunch that won't kill Thundercles.  I'm almost afraid to ask for fear that my brain will dissolve, but I must know -- what is the title of your presentation? Good luck! Kix

The title was Comparative Genomics Among Vibrios.  It went ok, I was much more nervous than usual about speaking.  I have a lot more anxiety these days Afterwards I had my friend take me home, but first we stopped for drinks, uh oh.

Vibrio?  You mean like cholera?  Interesting!  My brain quivered a bit, but didn't implode (yay!).  Public speaking is difficult even if you don't feel nervous, so I'm glad you feel it went well. Kix

Lots of good energy coming your way from Cleveland, Jen!  I wish you and your a$$ good luck today.  Long meetings/presentations in uncomfortable chairs make me feel like I've died and gone to the very hot, flaming place...   Good plan to take a protein bar or something similar with you.  I've always got one in my bag these days just in case.   Here's what's on my plate Friday - will update with final info later today or tomorrow. 
Breakfast:  1 cup skim milk in my coffee, 1 packet Quaker Weight Control Oatmeal

Snack #1:  1 cup low-fat cottage cheese, 4 tbsp. sugar-free preserves, ~1/2 c. sliced strawberries

Snack #2:  ~3/4 c. fresh pineapple
Lunch:  unknown - taking co-worker out to lunch and don't know where we're going yet
Snack #3:  6 oz. Breyer's light yogurt, 1/4 c. Kashi granola

Snack #4:  1 slice whole-grain bread, 3 oz. smoked turkey breast, 1 slice low-fat cheese, alfalfa sprouts

[maybe workout #1:  45 minutes of cardio - have lots of stuff I should do tonight after work, so may skip the gym so I'm not up until 1:00 a.m.]

Snack #5:  medium apple (if I go to the gym)

Dinner:  unknown

Snack #6:  2 sugar-free fudgsicles

Total calories:  
Carbs:  
Fats:  
Fiber:  
Protein:   Today's weight:  still holding pretty steady at 189.7!!!

Lots of good thoughts being sent your way today Jenn! Pre B - SF NF Eggnog Latte

B - Frittata - turkey and veggie, banana

S - Greek yogurt w/ blabk and blueberries added in

L - ham, cheese, 3 RF triscuits

S - cottage cheese and Splenda peaches

S - NF SF iced carmel latte

D - Indonesian food - most likely a chicken soup w/ lots of yummy bean sprouts

S - turkey peperoni stick, cheese

Good thoughts being sent your way!!! I'm going to try to get back in the habit of posting my food - my time on the internet is kind of limited for now so it may be sporadic but I have got to get better control (candy and chocolate is becoming a BIG problem!) and I think this will help. So, here it goes: pre-workout snack: PB pudding breakfast: large banana, atkins protein bar snack: fat free yogurt, 1/4 c. raisins lunch: WW homestyle chicken with green beans snack: string cheese, grapes snack: atkins protein bat dinner: scrambled eggs with cheese, 1 piece of whole wheat bread with low fat margarine and jelly snack: 1 c. strawberries with sugar free cool whip calories: 1905 fat: 67 gm carbs: 249 fiber: 30 protein: 94 water: at least 104

I don't want to post my food today.  Uh uh.  No way.  Oh ok.  But I'm not proud of my choices. B - 16oz vanilla soy plus fiber, 1 tsp ovaltine L - catered from taco cabana - 3 or 4 bites of borracho beans, 2 slices of chicken fajita meat (maybe an oz total) and about 15 tortilla chips with queso - I was nervous and the chips were all about being nervous, plus the queso was the only edible thing in the spread IMO S - 2 very sizeable margaritas and 3 low fat chicken pot stickers from TGI Fridays with my new old friend Jenn (we are in the same year on our PhDs and have a billion things in common, she's like a skinny me, but we never hang out - even though we always say we should).  I had a really good time, and the margaritas didn't hurt but I shouldn't have had them and I would have had a good time anyway.  At least they eased the hiney pain momentarily because tylenol didn't do a darned thing all day!  I was drunk -I opened the car door right into my face... seriously.    D - no idea, but definitely NOT taco cabana

Wow What a day you had!!   Did you have the margaritas with sf mix or reg ones?  Hows your face?    I'm scared that I will drunk easy away from home.....

Face is fine, margaritas were not low-cal nor sugar-free.  I didn't dump, I have a headache now though!