The Hard and the Easy

So not having candy yesterday ended up being both easier and harder than I was expecting. All day I kept saying I was going to have one of my chocolate shakes and that kept me pretty happy.  I also drank a ton of water which really helped. Often I want a hard candy or mint because I'm actually thirsty.

Once I got in my car though, all I could think about was candy. And when I got home the same. We still have some Halloween candy - starbursts and skittles - which I don't eat because they have gelatin in them. But I was so close to grabbing them. So close! I was happy as I went on my run that I didn't succumb. But later in the night after dinner, after having my chocolate shake, I was working on a project and all I could think was "I want candy."  The good thing is that I kept telling myself,  just wait X minutes. Then I'd go back to work and totally forget until long after my time was up. I ended up having a diet soda instead. Cherry cola which kind of helped with my craving for the skittles and starbursts because they are fruity. But even now as I type this all I want to do is ransack the work's candy dish!

I know it's stress. Working on that project last night which I had procrastinated on. And even now, I should be working on a job application that is due today and instead I am writing a blog.

In the end though, I did it and I did not have any candy. I'm going to make it through the work day too and I will follow my plans laid out yesterday when I get home.

I don't know why I always obsess over whether I'm counting my deficit correctly with my BMR. I'm always seeing what different websites and calculators tell me. I have already figured out through trial and error what my body responds to, I don't know what more I think they can tell me. But, I found this one http://www.nutracheck.co.uk/MyProfile/Create/Start which I saw on Peyton's Blog. You put in your information and it comes back with the cutest display for the information.

My first results saying I wanted to lose a pound and a half a week. Said I could eat 1400 a day and burn 271 and I'd be 110 by Feb 13.

What adorable little characters they have!

So I went back and told it that I wanted to lose 2 pounds a week. And I was told that I could eat 1400 calories and burn 521 calories a day to be at my goal a month sooner by Jan 13. Of course it also warned me that calorie burn was very high and difficult for most people. Silly calculator, doesn't know me very well does it?

It gave me a warning! How cute. They don't know me very well do they?

Anyway... it didn't tell me anything new. But the pictures are super cute.

Challenge
11/15 Day nine: What is your favorite food, healthy or unhealthy?
Ummm... candy? And seriously like any kind - fruity, chocolaty, hard, chewy. The only thing I don't like in candy is candy corn (tastes like wax), peeps, and caramel all by it's self. 


But seriously - I don't know that I have a favorite food. I'd probably have to say mexican just because it's the one thing I don't think I could get tired of eating.  Even Italian, Indian, and Middle Eastern I can imagine I'd start to want something else after awhile - maybe not Italian - but Mexican... that I could eat 24/7.