Day One Hundred and Forty-Eight - Weigh in #21 - How Many Calories Are In One Piece of Italian Cheese Bread?

Losing weight takes a great deal of planning, discipline, and self-control (as well as great accountability and a wife who will cook phenomenal healthy meals).  I have not always been a great example of any of these, especially when it comes to my health and diet.  There have been small periods of time when I did well striving for each of the traits, which led to a small period of weight loss.  For some reason each time I would let one of these fall off or completely give up all together.  The result was my butter half.  One of my biggest fears right now is that I will lose all of this weight and hit my goal, and then stop and allow all of the weight to come back on.  I don't want to be that person again.  I want to lose it and keep it lost!  If this is going to happen, then the planning, discipline, and self-control will have to continue for the rest of my life.  I will still have to plan my meals and workouts.  I will have to be disciplined in keeping that plan.  Finally I will have to continue with the self-control to turn down temptations.

One of my coworkers had Little Caesar's Italian Cheese Bread for lunch.  The entire office smelled like garlic and cheese gooeyness (and since our office shares a wall with Little Caesar's and smells like Hot'n Ready pizzas all day long, it was a double impact)!  She ate a portion of it and then left the rest on the break room table offering it to the rest of us.  On top of that, another coworker brought Shipley's donuts for the office.  Now these aren't Krispy Kreme, but they are still an excellent donut.  Have I mentioned that my office is directly across from the break room?  Oh, I haven't?  Well, it is directly across from the break room, which forced me to stare at a bag of donuts and cheesy bread for hours this afternoon.  There were many times that the thought of sneaking a donut or bread stick crossed my mind.  Oh, who am I kidding?  I wanted to grab a donut, shove it between two pieces of cheese bread and slip into a coma.  It didn't help that for one of the first times I was actually hungry at four thirty this evening (which might have been caused by the aroma).  My point it, temptations and old habits will always be there.

We all know today was my weigh in day.  I am sure most of you skipped the previous two paragraphs simply trying to get to how much weight I've lost or gained (which is a real shame, I am rather proud of those two paragraphs 😜).  Since you are in such a hurry, I will get straight to it.  I'm happy to report that after another hard week of planning, discipline, and self-control (come on, I had to throw it in there), I am down another 3.8 lbs.  This brings my total weight loss to 82.2 lbs., and a current weight of 284 lbs. even.  To say that I am excited would be an understatement.  I wasn't sure how much I would be down when I went to weigh this morning, and I was a bit nervous.  I was hoping that I would be under 285.8 (2 lbs. down), but to be under 285 lbs. was an added bonus!  I know that each pound down is a tremendous blessing and I am so grateful for the grace to keep losing.  I don't muster the strength to hit this goal, I rely on God and the gift He has given me in each of you faithful readers.  Your accountability is the best motivation I could ask for (well, outside of the three blessings I wake up to each day).  So here I stand at 284 lbs., and I'm just starting to catch my stride.  I am losing my butter half!

***The answer to the question is 130 calories.  Each Italian Cheese Bread order has ten pieces (yep, those little half pieces are actually considered a whole piece!!!) and they are 130 calories each.  That'll make you think twice next time!

My calorie intake was good today (I love that I was able to turn down the donut and bread stick).  I also was able to extend my workout for five more minutes this evening completing a solid fifty-five minutes on the bike!