Day 324, 10/3/2011

My morning weight: 132.4 lbs

Objectives:

calorie range (1300-1500) ✘
carbs (≤ 6 servings, ≤ 40 g/meal) ✔
fiber (≥ 25 g) ✔
sugar (≤ 15 g, ≤ 5 g/meal) ✔
4 water bottles ✔
workout ✘

What I ate:

8:10 PM: breakfast quesadilla
1:25 PM: 1 cup split pea soup
2:30 PM: two hardboiled eggs and 1 tbsp mayonnaise
7:15 PM: five medium strawberries; 1 can tuna fish with 1 tbsp mayonnaise
9:50 PM: 3 cups spinach sauteed in 1 tbsp olive oil and garlic

Total nutrition data:

1262 g calories
76.5 g fat
69.9 g carbohydrates (32.1 g fiber, 8.2 g sugar)
99.7 g protein

Workout:

none

Day 323, 10/2/2011

My morning weight: 130.6 lbs

Objectives (not including pb binge):

calorie range (1300-1500) ✔
carbs (≤ 6 servings, ≤ 40 g/meal) ✘
fiber (≥ 25 g) ✔
sugar (≤ 15 g, ≤ 5 g/meal) ✔
4 water bottles ✔
workout ✔

What I ate:

8:50 PM: two scrambled eggs; four large strawberries
12:45 PM: 1.5 cups spinach, 0.5 cup black beans, 4 slices bacon, 8 cherry tomatoes, 0.25 cup mushrooms, 2 tbsp Ranch dressing
4:25 PM: 1 cup split pea soup; 1 serving almonds (the split pea soup had an unexpectedly large number of carbs, so it was in this meal that I violated my ≤ 40 g/meal rule)
8:30 PM: stuffed mushrooms
9:30 PM: peanut butter again. I was feeling sorry for myself because I was working late on my lab meeting.

Total nutrition data (not including pb binge):

1364 g calories
83.6 g fat
84.8 g carbohydrates (31.1 g fiber, 14.8 g sugar)
80.5 g protein

Workout:

erging intervals: 3' warmup; 3x(1' split under 2:15, 2' split under 2:30); 3' cooldown

Day 322, 10/1/2011

My morning weight: 131.6 lbs

Objectives (not including pb binge):

calorie range (1300-1500) ✔
carbs (≤ 6 servings, ≤ 40 g/meal) ✔
fiber (≥ 25 g) ✔
sugar (≤ 15 g, ≤ 5 g/meal) ✔
4 water bottles ✔
workout ✔

What I ate:

10:35 AM: breakfast quesadilla
4:15 PM: 1 serving of oatmeal with 2 tbsp peanut butter; 3.5 oz chicken with 0.5 tbsp salsa
8:10 PM: one serving almonds
8:35 PM: 2 cups zucchini sautéed in olive oil with Parmesan; 3.5 oz chicken with 0.5 tbsp salsa
9:10 PM: 3 strawberries
10:05 PM: 3 strawberries
11:25 PM: peanut butter.  lots.  I didn't even try to stop myself this time.

Total nutrition data (not including pb binge):

1350 g calories
83.4 g fat
72.8 g carbohydrates (25.1 g fiber, 14.3 g sugar)
93.6 g protein

Workout:

NRLW Stage 1 Workout B1

Day 321, 9/30/2011

My morning weight: 131.6 lbs

Objectives:

calorie range (1300-1500) ✔
carbs (≤ 6 servings, ≤ 40 g/meal) ✔
fiber (≥ 25 g) ✔
sugar (≤ 15 g, ≤ 5 g/meal) ✔
4 water bottles ✔
workout ✘

What I ate:

12:10 PM: breakfast quesadilla but with a chicken breast instead of the bacon
4:45 PM: 1 serving roasted almonds
6:20 PM: 1.5 cups spinach, 0.5 black beans, 4 slices bacon, 8 yellow cherry tomatoes, 1/4 cup mushrooms, 2 tbsp Ranch dressing
10:45 PM: stuffed mushrooms

Total nutrition data:

1364 g calories
85.2 g fat
58.8 g carbohydrates (26.5 g fiber, 8.4 g sugar)
99.9 g protein

Workout:

none

Sausage Stuffed Mushrooms

I made the most DELICIOUS treat tonight!  I have never made stuffed mushrooms before.  This recipe is deceptively simple - only 3 ingredients and a few minutes of preparation and cooking.  But it literally is in the top two best-tasting dishes I have ever made for myself!

The recipe is from all recipes.com.

I sautéed a pound of hot pork sausage that we got from our CSA (I only used half a pound).

I pulled all the stems out of 8 oz of mushrooms to create the caps (this is 4 oz).

When the meat was done I put half a pound of it in a bowl and added 8 oz of cream cheese.

I mixed it until it formed a delicious mess.

Then I plopped some of the cheese-sausage filling in each of the mushroom caps (this is half the recipe).

I broiled the caps in our toaster oven for 3 minutes and they were finished!

So easy and so delectable!

I was shocked by how good they were!!

I was making like an orgasm-face on my last bite and my husband tried to capture it, but I started cracking up before he could.

My husband enjoyed the caps but said he could feel his arteries hardening.  This is why I love living low-carb - because fat is good and we don't have to fear it while we're restricting carbs!

There were an obscene number of calories in the caps though, for just four (1/4 of the recipe)!

327 calories
26.2 g fat
3.8 g carbs (0.6 g fiber, 1.4 g sugar)
15.8 g protein