Day 36

This weekend has clearly been about healthy activities but not healthy eating.  Yesterday I did 17 miles on the bike, today I ran a 10K.  So in terms of an accomplishment I finished the 10K in 1 hour and 5 minutes which compares very favorably to my 5K time as well (a little bit slower as an average pace, but not too bad).  Unfortunately the unhealthy eating reared its head after the race when I went and got pizza for the day.  Not really too bad of course, and while I did eat a little too much on the day it was certainly balanced by the run. 

Of course what's worse is that I completely recognize that my craving pizza after the race is due to the race organizers having pizza available, but only for a subset of participants.  Since I didn't want to eat the food they did have for runners (some sort of crappy pasta dish), and wasn't allowed to have pizza, I was both very hungry and craving pizza on my way home from the run.  There wasn't much chance of eating healthy after a 45 minute drive of that combo.

Food today:  egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), pizza and breadsticks for lunch (1500 calories), dinner was another couple slices of pizza (500 calories).  Exercise was the 10K run (800 calories).

Today's Results:
Daily Food Total:  2300
Exercise:  800
Points Earned:  1500
Total Points Earned:  42935
Points to go:  157065

Day 36, or Surviving Thanksgiving

Today was Thanksgiving, a day of giving thanks, being with family, and eating until you collapse.  Needless to say it could have been a bad day for me.  However, much to my surprise I seem to have passed the challenge without too much trouble.  Admittedly one of the big helps in terms of total food intake was simply the fact that I slept late.  Holding off breakfast until 10:30 meant I wasn't grabbing another meal before the afternoon dinner.  Then I had a couple servings at dinner, but avoided the worst offenders in terms of calories.  My worst "cheat" of the day was having a couple small pieces of pie, but since combined those only equaled one piece of pie on a "normal" day I think I did pretty well.

Breakfast was another egg and cheese sandwich with milk (300 calories).  No lunch, but I had some crackers and cheese as snacks before dinner (call it 200 calories worth).  For dinner I focused on turkey, with some mashed potatoes and a couple rolls.  I did get seconds on turkey, but not on the potatoes or bread.  Hard to judge the total calories but none of those items were particularly calorie intensive in the quantities eaten.  I'm going to say 1000 calories for the lot, but that may actually be a bit high.  Dessert was intensive though and I'm guessing about 550 calories for the pie.

Today's Results:
Daily Food Total:  2050 calories
Exercise:  0
Points Earned:  950
Total Points Earned:  46668
Points to go:  153332