Day 12

Everything ended up a little inverted today.  It was a Halloween party at work today so the managers bought pizza, and everyone else brought in potluck including a very large number of deserts and candy.  On the plus side I was able to donate the bottle of Mountain Dew out of my pantry, removing some temptation from the house.  On the negative side, that was a lot of temptation at work!

I'm kind of proud of myself actually that I was able to restrict myself to two slices of pizza and a handful of tortilla chips.  Then, despite the leftover pizza calling out to me, walk away.  When they make the movie of my life I hope they put in a Sarah Mclachlan song at that point for the soundtrack.  Maybe the one with the abused dogs.

Food for the day ended up shifted around.  Breakfast was an egg and cheese sandwich with milk (300 calories).  Lunch was the aforementioned pizza and chips (not precisely sure on the calories for that, I used nutritional info from a couple chain pizza places to guess on the pizza, the chips would be about 300 calories, pizza about 700).  Dinner ended up being the turkey sandwich which would have been lunch without the Halloween party (I'd already made it that morning, and was lazy when I got home, 500 calories).

Today's Results:
Daily Food Total:  1800 calories
Exercise:  0
Points Earned:  1200
Total Points Earned:  16500
Points to go:  183500

Day 11

First day actually back at the gym since starting the diet.  I went for a little bit more than a half-hour on the treadmill.  What was nice to discover was that I haven't lost everything I'd gained from my half-marathon in June.  I was able to do a half-hour at 4 mph and 4.5 mph.  Had I just stayed at 4 without bumping up to the higher speed I probably could have run for a even longer, but I started to wear out a bit.

Food for the day was: an egg and cheese sandwich with a glass of milk for brunch (slept in today), and salmon with noodles and green beans for dinner.  Brunch was probably around 400 calories, dinner was probably about 1000 calories thanks to a large piece of fish.  Exercise was approximately 300 calories burned (the online calculators all seem to jump around on the number, this seemed to be the average).

Today's Results:
Daily Food Total:  1400 calories
Exercise:  300
Points Earned:  1900
Total Points Earned:  15300
Points to go:  184700