Let me first say that I truly do appreciate the feedback and I know you don't have to take out time from your day to help me. But I am feeling the need to defend myself a litte. Don't take this personally, instead please see it as what's going on in my head when I'm doing the things you are calling cheats. heh.
I know, I know! it's a million little things.
Club soda doesn't have anything in it though! I only had that salad dressing that one weekend, and I was so out of it I really thought I was allowed (read the label closer on sunday--this was WEEKS ago!). As for cheating, it's the regular diet soda that makes me feel like I'm cheating... but even those are no more then 3 a day...... if that. Only that one week did I have reg diet soda all week, still it was only 3 a day.....and still it's DIET soda... not cheating... not
perfect but not cheating. Years ago when I first started I'd drink caffeine free diet coke
instead of water.......... silly but true. It's a hard habit to break for me but I am not even remotely close to substituting soda for water. It's just now, I have to run around after my 7 month old and work from home.
I have been doing the same thing everyday for 6 months practically. I think you're right that I've gotten sloppy with the counting of carbs.. but a tbsp of tomatoes .. how many carbs can that through me over? on fitday it's less then .5 carbs. Having half a glass of wine, 2.3 carbs .........yes your body burns alcohol first... but a half glass? even if it had been a whole glass that's 4.6 carbs..and it's never been everyday or anything, it was 2 different days weeks apart. In my mind my body was only using the wine to use as energy for an hour. It shouldn't through me off a whole month. Even if it
was on different occasions.
I guess I just don't see how I'm messing up here. Most days it's bacon and coffee in the morning, then 3 eggs, then chicken with guacamole, (that's 2.2 carbs) so far. Then I have dinner, which is usually chicken with broccoli (7.2 carbs)
The reason why my post is so scrambled is because I feel guilty about the cheesecake. I think it may have too many carbs.. but mostly it's that I am getting half my carbs from cheesecake. Still MOST of the time I am under 20 carbs. I feel that it's not healthy, but I am doing what I can to get through each day. it's still only 4oz of cheese, 1/8 cup of cream, half an egg... 1/8 cup of splenda 1/4 piece of unsweetened chocolate and if I had these things seperately it wouldn't sound so bad, but I say that I have a 10 carb cheesecake slice everyday and it sounds bad.
On fitday even 8 cups of coffee isn't even a carb yet. Not that I have 8 cups of coffee, but you see my point here. These things could slow my weight loss perhaps but why stalled completely??? I only added in extra veggies for a week, and the ricotta cheese was another week and a few days.. and that was the last 2 weeks.
I'm going to get liquid sweetner for the cake... maybe that'll cut some of the carbs out. I've been using granulated splenda and sweet n low packets for the chocolate. I won't eat above 20 carbs anymore. I have half a diet dr.pepper in the fridge and a diet rite. If I can't have diet soda though, I need the club soda, and frankly don't see what's wrong with that. My husband forgot to buy water last week, which is why I haven't been drinking it recently. I don't get close to 64oz or the 90 oz I should be drinking usually, but I try try try. It's hard to run to the bathroom when you're trying to take care of a baby.
Ok well that's my story! haha. I will go back to basics. I have been so far, since I i first posted this, the evil soda keeps popping back into my life. (ok ok I asked my husband to get it for me!)
Can stress alone cause a stall? Because I had some pretty bad things happen over the last 2 months. I understand the sloppy carbing could be it too. I will check more carefully from now on, so far on fitday it's as I expected it would be though.
Thanks again. Ultimately it's about getting to my goal weight. Whatever I have to do I will do. I didn't think I was doing that bad though. Not enough to cause a stall.