Day 9

While I LOVE that my TOM allows me to drop water weight, I HATE HATE HATE the fatigue that comes with it.  Am looking into what foods I can eat to help get my energy up, but I'm pretty sure it's due to low iron levels.  Spinach would probably help.  Hrm......

Yesterday was an OK day.  Didn't exercise at all, but I think my overall deficit for the day made up for it! 

Here's my summary:

Target Calorie Intake: 1500
Actual Calorie Intake: 1253

I had a small serving of ice cream for dessert, which is fine because I was way under for calories for the day.  I was also under for sodium, which is also always a plus because I tend to have issues with that!  I try to aim for no more than 2000mg per day (ideally I stay in the 1500mg or less range) and I was at 1862mg.  Not 'perfect' by any means but certainly acceptable. 

If I were to be critical, I'd say that I need to work on getting more veggies into my diet, and more water.  I drank about six and a half cups yesterday, so I definitely could have done better (though, I could have done worse, too!!!!)

Target calories burned through exercise: 275
Actual calories burned through exercise: 0

Still dealing with a chest cold and that time of the month (which always = fatigue for me).  Can't wait for this to be over with. 

Target daily deficit: 811
Actual daily deficit: 783 (+200 nursing calories)

So my deficit for the day was 983, which was 172 above target.  So even though I didn't exercise, the day was an overall success.  Woohoo!