In honor of election day

I think I will exercise my right NOT to post my weight this morning. Sigh. I was 217. AGAIN.

I exercised last night - 44 minutes on the treadmill, burned 405 calories. I ate poorly yesterday. I didn't eat anything (coffee and skim milk excluded) until about 1pm - when I ate my left over shrimp scampi and homemade applesauce (no sugar). Then I ate nothing more (a little pack of skittles and 8 candy corn) until dinner. Katie and I had baked chicken breast and green beans. Then I lost it - sort of - I had a lemon bar, and a Reeses PB Cup, Mounds, Almond Joy, and Three Muskateers and Kit Kat (all mini sized) spread out through the evening. Then I drank some water and went to bed. Oh! And I drank a cider.

That was my day. By the time I did my exercise at 6:30pm I had BURNED more calories than I had consumed. Granted - I consumed a lot more after that - but my net intake (figuring 80 calories per for the candy and 250 for the lemon bar) was 1480 consumed and 405 burned... so 1075 net. I don't usually have the candy around to eat - but otherwise my food intake was about typical.

OK - This is really bothering me now. I thought I was really bad yesterday. But - seriously, counting the cider and all of the candy - I was still under 1500. So - if yesterday was a BAD day - I wonder what my normal calorie consumption IS? When I was tracking it over the summer, I was shooting for 1200-1500 a day, and VERY RARELY did I go over 1500 - more often I hovered around 1300. But - like I said over the summer - I don't know what else I could cut out. Obviously the sweets from yesterday - but normally I don't eat that many. Normally my calories would come from cereal, and V-8.

I give up! Tonight I have to spit at midnight. Then tomorrow I am having my blood taken and my thyroid ultrasound done.