Step One (the need to plan a plan)

2 large eggs - 108 cal, 1 carb
cherry tomatoes - 15 cal, 3 carb
mushrooms - 15 cal, 3 carb
spinach - 5 cal, 1 carb

breakfast today, an omelet with 2 eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms and spinach, 143 calories, 8 carbohydrates total.  good start.

Lunch/Dinner - hot and sour soup (10 carbs), 91 calories, two spring rolls (15 carbs), 115 calories, 4 wings, 720 calories (9 carbs).  total calories in the afternoon so far - 926 calories.  total carbs - 34.

one banana after lunch/dinner - 105 calories, 27 carbs.  carbs are my enemy...

total for the day:
calories: 1174
carbs: 69

now, the problem here is not having a plan for the day.  and, though that may seem anal, without a real plan, these things are what i leave myself open for.  i am powerless over my need to eat, and i am powerless over the effect that carbohydrates have over me, and they do and have made my life unmanageable by me.  so i have to come to some acceptance of that.

but i still have to give myself props.  under the 75 carbs that i set for myself, under the 2000 calories, and i have more dancing to do.  moving in the right direction.