Monday Moaning
Posted by Simon
My stomach hurts today. Here’s why.
8am-3pm Snackfast 400 cals
Over most of the day I was working away saying to myself ‘oh, I’ll have breakfast in a minute’, and in the mean time consuming a granola bar, some crunchy ‘crisp bag’ snacks, and a banana.
5pm Dinner 1010 cals
So by dinner I was starving, so made it bigger than normal, because I was extra hungry, I’d ‘need more’. Which I now realise is rubbish. I had fish finger wraps, with some new coleslaw (addition: capers, peas!). Fingers 400, wraps 360 cals! (Mission brand wraps were on sale, 180 cals each, cos they are bigger than the Discovery ones, remember your Pi-r-squared folks!), slaw 200 cals, mayo 50 cals.
A big grand of calories. I had one too many fingers, and those wraps being bigger, I could probably get away with just one and more filling.
Moral: your eyes are bigger than your belly, even when you feel full half way through you just keep eating. No wonder you have a sore stomach now, 2.5 meals worth of calories in one go is TOO MUCH
Running Total 1410 cals
A low total so far, I feel compelled to eat more, as 1400 doesn’t seem enough. I’ll drink lots and see later if I’m actually hungry or not.
10:30pm Supper 250 cals
Peckish, but wanted something easily digestible, so banana & goat smoothie.
Daily Total 1660 cals
My starvation then eat all at once had a good effect on calorie intake, but I think I’d have prefered it more spread out!
Paola said,
31 March 2008 at 9:10 pm
“Moral: your eyes are bigger than your belly, even when you feel full half way through you just keep eating.”
Yup.
I’m still falling into that trap three months into my diet. But I’m trying a couple of ‘rules’ to minimise that kind of over-eating:
1) don’t delay eating once you get hungry;
2) eat smaller portions but to tell yourself that, if you’re really still hungry afterwards, you can have more.
That all said, read my food diary for today!