Back from my trip

The business trip was 9 days, and it seems that I may have gained a kilo during that time. Let’s check the numbers, then let them go.

855 calories more a day than my body needed is the number that supports a kilo weight gain. Is this possible? My eating habits were all the cottage cheese I wanted, plus normal portions of anything else I wanted. I ate past full several times, and almost never stopped at lightly full.

A typical breakfast was 250 calories of cottage cheese, a jimmy dean biscuit at 300, and milk. Lunch was warm, dinner was warm. I often ate a meal salad. All large portions. During the course of a week, I ate a bag of Ruffles cheese and sour cream chips, with dip. Total about 1000 plus 2000, could equal half the weight gain all by themselves. Add to that a Cheesecake Factory porn meal (actually 2 meals) of Chinese chicken salad and brownie cheesecake, and I’m pretty well at the kilo.

OK, so yes, it was possible. I congratulate myself on this week, because it wasn’t a week full of punishment for my eating, it was enjoyable, and I am aware of what I ate. I am on track, continuing building good eating habits.  Woohoo!

Yesterday, I ate a light dinner, which nicely complemented my mood and physical state. I don’t feel any cravings to continue like that, and I don’t miss any specific foods. I didn’t eat Cheetos and never missed them. I did wonder why I didn’t want any, but it was a simple case of satisfaction with everything else I ate.

Good job.