What am I eating?

Since I need to get back to regular blogging, and I'm no longer doing Medifast, i thought I'd point out what it is I'm eating currently.

I'm still somewhat in a 'Medifast Mindset', in that I'm eating 5-6 times a day, and lots of prepackaged snacks, I'm just well over the calories that Medifast provides.

The bulk of my pre-packaged foods are:

Weightloss shakes (about 200 calories)
Protein Bars (about 200 calories)
Greek Yogurt with granola (150-200 calories)
Frozen 'light' lunches (200-300 calories)
Cheese sticks (85 calories)
Canned tuna (100 calories)
Nuts (75-150 calories)

these have taken the place of Medifast bars, crunchy snacks, hearty meals, and shakes. They run close to 2x as many calories as Medifast, and are higher carb. I'm ok with that though.

In addition to that, I'm eating egg white/egg beater eggs, and turkey sausage/turkey bacon for some breakfasts.

I'm having bagels 1 day a week for breakfast as well.

for dinner I'm trying to be reasonable without being ridiculous. We ate out a lot the past 6-8 weeks, so we're going back to healthier options, but not just 'chicken breast plus some mushrooms' like before, there's some other things on the plate.

I'm getting back into the swing of tracking, but it's not a solid habit yet.

New Year, new... Fitbit?

I'm looking forward to getting a FitBit Surge. I have been trying to read up on the device, especially how it actually works in the real world.

I've still got my recalled Force, but I submitted my claim for a return recently. Soon I'll ship it back to FitBit, and get a bit over half of what a Surge costs. Then, I think Ill get the Surge with some birthday money.

Back to the blog!

I can give all sorts of excuses. I was close to goal. The blog posts were repetitive. I couldn't think of something to write.

And then there was my ruptured Achilles, and the surgery, and the cast, and then the physical therapy.

But the fact is that I just weighed in at nearly 280, after being at 255 at the end of summer. Yes, 10 lbs of that was going off Medifast and back into a real diet, as soon as my body had carbs again I popped up, as expected. However, what I didn't do was stay there.

I can blame the lack of exercise due to surgery, and bloating and swelling, but I also know that I wasn't eating properly. So it's time to get back on the wagon. Blogging regularly. tracking my food intake. Getting back to the gym regularly. Rehabbing my foot so I can play tennis again and start running.

Today is a new Day Zero. Nearly a year ago I started this journey and was sitting at 332 pounds. I had gotten down to 280 in April. My goal is still at 240, and I've got 39.8 pounds to go, starting now.

I don't really want to kickstart things with another bout of Medifast, but it is definitely time to go back to small meals, lots of healthy snacks, and reasonable dinners. MyFitnessPal needs to be back on the daily website rotation, and I need to update the app and track religiously.

Yes, that includes the cupcake I got in the break room this morning. *sigh*