Weight-Loss Diaries: The Lawyer Who Balances Killer Workouts And Lots Of Takeout
5:45 a.m. I wake up to go to the gym and go back to sleep. I am too tired for the gym after going to the theater last night. I weigh myself and the scale reads 154 pounds.
8 a.m. I wake up again and stay in bed for about 20 minutes. After I get up, I drink two teaspoons of fiber powder and 16 ounces of water. I throw on a new pair of size six pants and a size small shirt. The pants and shirt both seem big. Go me! I hope my mom will notice my transformation when she visits later tonight!
9:00 a.m. I walk my dog, Riley, for a few minutes and walk to the bus.
10:15 a.m. For breakfast, I eat a cup of whipped cottage cheese, a container of Greek yogurt, and a cinnamon coffee cake Fiber One bar. Breakfast calories: 325.
12:30 p.m.-ish I walk to pick up lunch (about 0.4 miles each way, desk to door), but I wander a bit more on the walk. For lunch, I order three chicken tacos, rice, and beans. I eat the chicken from the tacos, but only one flour tortilla, all of the beans, and about half the rice with 16 ounces of water. Lunch calories: 393.
4:45 p.m. I get up and walk around the office a few times after eating lunch, and then eat a 100-calorie pack of pistachios. I’m up to to 5,249 steps.
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6:45 p.m. Between my snack and dinner, I walk quite a bit to a burger restaurant where I meet my mom for dinner. I order a salad with brown rice, wheat berries, arugula, peas, shaved Brussels sprouts, avocado, pecorino, and topped with a tuna steak! Yum. I also eat some French fries and a McKenzie’s Black Cherry Cider. I take home half the tuna steak. Dinner calories: 881. (200 from the McKenzie’s cider.) My mom tells me that I look better than I have in 10 years!
9:00 p.m. When I get home, I walk the dog 0.25 miles and do a Jillian Michaels exercise video for 20 minutes. Then I walk the dog again (0.25 miles).
11 p.m. I go to bed.
Day in review:
Calories in: 1,699 calories
Exercise calories earned: 432
Steps: 13,626 (5.7 miles)
Floors climbed: 22
Active minutes: 89