Woo Hoo!

So this calorie counting has paid off! This morning I lost 2.5 pounds this week! Hooray!!!

Rough day today: chick-fil-a chicken biscuit (450 cals), tomato basil soup (84 cals), french dip (350 cals) and chicken casserole tonight to which I didn't even calculate. Yipe! (and now, popcorn, oh well...) I'm going to the gym in the morning so I'll just attempt to burn it off in the morning. 

Tomorrow is the big UL/UK game. I'm not really into this year. I don't know why. Definitely cheering for Louisville in my heart, but don't really care to deal with it. Does that make sense? 

Watching E!news. Eclipse drama? Gasp?! OK, there wasn't any. Damn. What a bunch of crap. However, I had a strange dream last night about Rob Pattinson. Um, we're just sitting in a hotel watching TV... then suddenly walking down the sidewalk and he see my coworker McKenzie to which Rob says, "You're going into labor aren't you?" (She is pregnant and it's close to her due date.) and she replies, "Yep. I'm walking to the hospital now. See you guys later." I'm thinking this means I'll be doin' Rob soon. Ok, probably that McKenzie is going to pop soon, but whatver. I like to think it means I'll be humping Rob Pattinson. Zip it. 

I'm trying to kill time until The Office comes on Adult Swim at midnight. (it's the original, with Ricku Gervais-I'm excited.) It's the little things, I know...

bulls and bears

This post has nothing to do with the stock market. I just work at a Retirement Company all day and thought, "why the hell not?"

On my one and only financial point of the day:

I did a little math this evening regarding my car and the payments on it. According to Toyota, my loan matures in 8/2012. Which in my eyes isn't too far off. 2 years? A cake walk! (ok, maybe not that easy..) I've been wanting to get out of this payment for a couple months and this seems attainable to me. After a little more math, I figured out after 16 more months of payments, the car will be completely paid off! There's an even brighter light at the end of this tunnel! How freaking fantastic. The car will be pushing 6 years old by then, but it's a Toyota, so I'm thinking I should be good for a while. 

On a McFat note: 

I do so well until I get home at night! Ahh... 

I wasn't bad, but I wasn't great. Homemade nachos! 1/2 pound Laura's Lean ground beef. 1/2 pound reduced fat Jimmy Dean sausage, cumin, salt and red pepper to taste. Green pepper, Mild Banana Pepper and diced fresh tomato. Top with 1/8 Velveeta cheese, cubed and melted on top. Eaten with Blue Corn chips?!

Amazing. I highly recommend it. It wasn't so bad... Until I ate the entire concoction. (and then became too lazy to workout...) LOL. 

Totally hitting the gym in the morning. Believe it. 

Just call me McFat.

So many weight loss things to discuss. 

First and foremost:

An hour on the elliptical may burn my fat ass 919 calories. The chances of my actually lasting that long... Well I was about 40 short today. [wamp wamp wamp] So, ok, I didn't do an hour, but I did 20 on the treadmill at a moderate "brisk" walk (thanks, self.com) and 20 minutes on the elliptical. A grand total of: 413 calories burned. Which isn't too shabby my friends! (not for a fatty with a slightly gimp knee.)

Second:

I'm loving being registered on www.self.com. Loads of information. So I was playing around on the site and I found a calculator that shows you if you want to be a certain weight, exactly how many calories I should be eating... Um..  Bone to pick... Maybe I'm way off base, but I don't feel like a consume 3037.5 calories per day. I mean, I developed my own gravitational pull SOMEHOW, but I seriously don't believe I eat that much EVERYDAY. Sooo.. To lose the 100 pounds I need to I should only consume 2045.45 calories. Ok, I believe that. I probably intake that much now... but I don't weigh 100 pounds less... Something to think about. How many of those 3,000 calories am I actually in-taking and not realizing? I dunno. 

It's time to get my game face on.

Third:

At self.com you can also log all your workouts and food intake. Major plus. I consumed 1,506 calories today. I'm not planning on eating anything else tonight (unless I just can't deal with the hunger, duh. I'm fat.) So... If I'm eating 1,500 calories a day, shouldn't the pounds just fall off? 

You'd think. 

Hey McFatty!

For the first time since I signed up for DirectTV in February, my satellite lost service. (And as I'm typing this, the damn thing came back on... OOO-and just went back out. Crack me up.) Regardless I'm not upset about it, but as I was sitting here with Socks I decided I should use my blog as a calorie counter to keep track of my intake. I mean, I realize I have one follower (SHOUT OUT HOGGY!) but, seriously, why not. Perhaps I'll be more accountable this way. And maybe i'll end up blogging a little more too. I can also talk about these 'diet foods' I'm trying: 100 calorie packs, low cal yogurts and anything I concoct that is tasty and low cal. So here goes nothing':

Breakfast: 

Egg McMuffin - 300 calories/12g fat

Hashbrown - 150 calories/9g fat*

Medium Diet Coke - 0 calories (holla!)

*So i found a funny website: http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/ and you can read really funny texts that you sent or a friend sent. It's very entertaining. However, I read this one and laughed my ass off for a good 10 minutes and when ordering my hash brown this morning it crossed my mind: 

(812): McDonalds has hash browns for only a quarter!....how many u want?
(1-812): All of them

Isn't that the damn truth! Ha. 

Lunch:

Maruchan Chicken Ramen (don't hate.) - 290 calories/12g fat

Snack:

Yoplait Lemon Parfait (um, delish!!) - 100 calories

Dinner:

TBD. 

I'll edit this post later when I eat dinner. 

FYI: I'm trying to stay between 1200-1500 calories and keep it low in fat. (I'm more concerned about the caloric in-take though.)