All I did today was work, work, work. Seriously no breaks at all. Zero! Well ok, I went to the bathroom a few times and got up to make my food, and yes I responded to a few comments on the blog, but all that was maybe 15 minutes over the corse of 12 hours!! I’m not even done with work, but a fire alarm went off on our floor at work (it smelled like gas, a sprinkler exploded… ) so I left. After connecting to our network remotely from home, and doing a bit more work, I decided to call it a night. I’m exhausted and I think that I can finish everything up in the morning. I really hope I can get it done, otherwise I’m pretty much screwed. Don’t you hate when work gets in the way of fun?! 
Today was ok, eating wise. I’m still not my cheery old self, ready to be healthy and all, but I went through the motions and ate pretty well. Hopefully the happy/healthy feeling will come back soon, probably once I start exercising again – that usually helps clear my head! I was also thinking more about a comment Sarah made on my previous post (thank you Sarah, again, by the way!). She suggested increasing my calorie range so I wouldn’t be tempted to overdo it or binge. The thing is I heard so many times that as long as you eat at least 1200 calories/day, no matter how much you exercise, your body should have sufficient fuel to function and anything else you burn on top of the calories consumed will help in weight loss. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, or if you recently checked out my About Me page, you know that I’m trying to lose weight. I recently increased my calorie range up from 1200-1500 to 1200-1650 in order to feel more satisfied. This may not seem like enough to some people, especially on days when I exercise a lot, but like I said before, I never ever eat less than 1200 calories so that means my body should still have enough calories to function, and I don’t eat extra on those exercise intensive days because even when I’m “strict” I still give myself a day off, eat out, enjoy a pastry, etc. I figured this way my weekly intake is at a good level, considering I am trying to lose weight. I think I even heard some people refer to this strategy as “calorie cycling”… does it make sense? Does anyone else have any thoughts on this? Do you have any other suggestions? I really do want to go out at least once a week and not worry about calories. This works for my personality (and worked weight loss wise for me in the past). Thanks again for hearing me ramble here and I really do want to be able to live a happy/balanced life. I don’t mean to starve myself at all, and hopefully you know this from reading my blog already.
Moving on, let’s see what I had today. It wasn’t overly exciting (and definitely not very creative) so I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.
I ate the easy mac because I thought I was staying late in the office and that was the only thing in my desk drawer that was kind of dinner-ish. It tasted very fake but it filled me up! 
Total calories for the day: 1428
No workout again today … tomorrow I should be able to squeeze one in!
Thanks again for all of your comments!!!
