I didn’t get around to posting this last night like I’d planned, so here’s the stats for yesterday.

Food eaten:

• Breakfast: 2 scrambled egg whites, 2 tbsp. Pace Chunky salsa, 1/2 sliced avocado, 2 cups coffee. Calories: 265.
• Lunch: Large salad with mushrooms, broccoli, green onions, peas, baby corn, 1 oz. shredded cheese and vinaigrette dressing. Calories: 344.
• Dinner: 6 oz. baked chicken breast, brown rice pilaf, small side salad with artichoke-Parmesan dressing and pumpkin pie pudding. Calories: 620.
• Snacks: 2 sesame brown rice cakes; 2 stalks of celery with cream cheese. Calories: 220.

Exercise:

• Cleaning, vigorous – 65 minutes. Calories burned: 280.
• Walk around neighborhood – 15 minutes. Calories burned: 54.

Calories consumed (1449) – [(BMR (1580) + calories burned (280)] = -411

My calorie consumption was bass-ackwards yesterday, with the biggest meal coming at the end of the day. I know better. Long before the big breakfast diet became a fad, I’d seen that a larger breakfast and a smaller dinner make a huge difference in weight loss.

No doubt that accounts for the lack of movement on my scale this morning. Grumble.

Today I’ll adding a slow jog into my treadmill time. I’m so out of shape that I’ll be happy to just manage a couple of 1-minute intervals interspersed by walking, sweat soaking through my Ping Golf workout shirt. . Now let’s just hope my chest doesn’t give me a black eye in the process.