The Food Confessional

Posted by Becky

This isn’t bad, considering the Mcdonald’s madness in the middle of the day. It was so not worth the calories. The salmon I had later was lovely, though.

Posted by Sylvia

I had some leftover pork loin from Friday’s dinner which I chopped up to turn into a sort of stir-fry dish with red pepper and courge and egg and potato. I was feeling a bit guilty as I could tell it was going to end up rather heavier in calories than was sensible. There was the rest of the wine from Friday night that I’d planned to have tonight so I was trying to keep my overall count low. I increased the amounts of veg and egg so that it made for a large batch to try to cut down the high-cal percentage of the high-calorie ingredients. Then I weighed it out and took one third for my lunch.

It was awful. I tried a few more bites. No, genuinely awful. Not a single saving grace in the world. I refuse to waste calories on this, I thought as I got up. My boyfriend watched me – he’s become very aware of food around him in the third week of his diet.

“You aren’t throwing that away, are you?”
“I am. It’s awful!”
“But that’s a waste.”
I paused. “I refuse to spend calories on something that tastes this bad.”
“You have to count the calories anyway though! Even if you throw it out!”

He was kidding, of course. But that’s what we were taught, wasn’t it? It’s a “waste” to throw food away, someone should eat it. Force it down rather than throw it away, there’s starving children in Africa that would be pleased with such a meal!

I threw it away anyway, along with the additional food in the kitchen (quietly, out of sight, that probably would have killed him) and thought about what to have instead. I came to the conclusion that I wasn’t that hungry actually, especially with that horrible flavour still in my mouth, and so I left it with a plan to have a snack in the afternoon. I have no idea how many calories I had in the three bites that I tried so I put down 200 as definitely above what I might have consumed. As it happens, skipping the meal wasn’t a big deal – a few hours later I still wasn’t very hungry and just had a yogurt for my snack like I normally would.

I’m thinking the high-protein breakfast might have made the difference so I’m trying that again today. And in the end I had my wine anyway.

Posted by Becky

The calorie count weren’t too bad, considering the rubbish I ate yesterday. (the worst bit is I feel awful this morning) Some goddess food is required for this week. (or at least a more normal diet)

Posted by Jennifer

Since I’m starting over, yet again, I’m purposefully keeping my calories down for a few days. I’d like to do at least 3 days under a thousand calories and then work my way back up to my 1300 norm. We’ll see how it goes.