206.2 - Just Back Up a Truck and Dump a Load of Food In My Mouth

Weight - 206.2
Weight Lost - 29.2 lb. in 74 days

Total Calories Eaten - 1782
Today's MFD calorie allowance range - 1553 for a 2 lb loss/week rate, 2553 for weight maintenance
MFD occupation activity level - Moderate Activity
Total MFD Exercise/Activity Calories Earned - 219
MFD Calorie Balance - 229 over at 2lb loss/week rate, 271 left to eat at 1lb loss/week rate
MFD Weight Loss Rate Today - 1.5 lb loss/week
HWHL Points Today - none, we are between sessions
Cat's Challenge Points - starts Sept 1st and goes to December 31st, with weekly reports. The first report is next week on Thursday, Sept. 9th.
Exercise - 20 minutes on my Gazelle strider while listening to Conference on my MP3 (I'm still having issues about this and can't make up my mind about exercise on Sunday, I really enjoy my time listening and get a lot out of it, but feel kind of guilty about the exercise. Hmmm...)

Man, I have been soooo hungry and snacky the past few days. As you can tell, my calorie intake has increased, and I'm often in the l pound a week category, instead of in the 2 pounds or even 3 pounds a week loss rate. The day I ran 3 miles seems like a lifetime ago, but it was only three days. Crazy. I just want to lie in bed and have someone back a truck up to my mouth and dump food in it all day.

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Breakfast - 1 banana, 3 tbsp. dry cream wheat cooked with 3/4 cup water & dash of salt, 1 cup frozen mixed berries cooked with the wheat, 20 oz. water later with exercising
Total calories - 318

Lunch - 1 apple, 7 tortilla chips, 1 oz. shredded cojack cheese, 7 oz. V8-style 100% vegetable juice, 1/2 cup mint ice cream (same recipe as yesterday, just omitted the crushed choc cookies), 1/4 dry refried beans cooked with 1/4 cup water, 3 more tortilla chips, 1 tbsp Naturally Yours fat-free sour cream, 10 oz. water
Total calories - 573

Snack - 1 package (6 sandwich crackers) Austin PB & J sandwich crackers
Total calories - 190

Dinner - nibbles of boneless skinless chicken breast as I cooked, guesstimate about 2oz. worth, 2 cups of Chicken Fried Rice, 40 oz. water after dinner until bed time
Total calories - 422

Dessert - 1 cup mint fat-free frozen yogurt (not worth putting up a recipe, it tasted weird, just fat-free yogurt, sugar, peppermint extract, I think yogurt and mint just don't mix)
Total calories - 277

Chicken Fried Rice - monster big recipe, you will probably want to halve it unless you are feeding a big family

2-1/2 cups dry white long-grain rice, then cooked with 5 to 5-1/2 cups water
2-1/2 cups diced celery
1-1/2 cups diced green onions (green tops and white onion)
1 tablespoon minced garlic
2 cups frozen peas and carrots
3 cups or 13 oz. diced cooked boneless skinless chicken breast, about 3 chkn breasts
1/2 cup soy sauce or teryaki sauce
1/4 cup brown sugar

349 calories for a 2-cup serving, 3.1 g fat, 0.9 g saturated fat, 17.9 g protein

First cook the rice in a separate pot as you are chopping veggies. Saute the celery, green onions, and garlic. When they are almost softened, throw in the peas and carrots and chicken. Cook and stir occasionaly for a few minutes until the peas and carrots are heated through. Next, put the cooked rice on top and pour the mixture of soy sauce and brown sugar on top of the rice. Fold everything together gently until it's well-blended, you don't want to mush up the rice so that it's really sticky. Enjoy!