Posted by Jennifer
Well after a brief (who am I kidding?) hiatus, I’ve decided that it’s time to start tracking, recording and posting my calories again. I have to admit that after today’s high calorie debacle, I *nearly* chickened and out and pulled an “oh, I’ll wait until tomorrow to start back.” But instead I decided to suck it up, and face the music. I may write more about this on my own blog, but for now, it’s good to be back… even if I did eat poorly today.
A couple of things to note:
- I recorded things like carbs, fat, protein, etc, in grams, rather than the daily percentage beacuse, well… frankly, I don’t really know what my daily percentage should be. I guess that’s something I need to figure out.
- And, man… it takes a *long* time to record all that stuff. So long that I’m pretty sure I’ll think twice before putting a variety of foods into my mouth. I knew Paola’s html food diary would be a tool to help me lose weight, but I didn’t realize it would work quite like this. :)
Anyway, tomorrow is my first official day back to school and *hopefully* that will also mean a return back to the beloved routines that helped me lose the amount of weight that I already have.
*fingers crossed*
| Meal | Food | Drink | Calories | Carbs | Protein | Fat | Fibre | Sodium |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| breakfast | banana | 90 | 23.1 | 1.1 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Sub-totals | 90 | 23.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 6.0 | 1.0 | |
| lunch | my husband and I split an order of nachos while out to lunch with friends. these (over) estimates were the very best that i could do. | ||||||
| tortilla chips | 350 | 54 | 6 | 21 | 1 | 354 | |
| queso cheese | 200 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 0 | 370 | |
| ground beef (I only had 2 bites with meat) | 100 | 0 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 41 | |
| lettuce (iceberg raw) | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| tomatoes (diced raw) | 15 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | |
| Sub-totals | 669 | 65.0 | 32.0 | 52.0 | 3.0 | 777.0 | |
| dinner | raw spinach (about 2 cups raw) | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 48 |
| mushrooms (4 raw baby bella sliced) | 22 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |
| tomatoes (diced raw) | 15 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | |
| chicken grilled (about 5 oz) (no fat used in cooking) | 200 | 0 | 43.1 | 5 | 0 | 550 | |
| salad dressing (thousand island — about 3 tbls) | 210 | 6 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 400 | |
| Sub-totals | 461 | 19.0 | 49.1 | 26.0 | 5.0 | 1012.0 | |
| snack | brownie | 170 | 25 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 149 |
| Sub-total | 170 | 25.0 | 2.0 | 7.0 | 1.0 | 149.0 | |
| Water | about 2 liters | ||||||
| Total | 1,390 | 132.1 | 84.2 | 86.0 | 15.0 | 1939.0 | |
The Food Confessional 
I think you did really well, considering you had nachos for lunch. (you possibly over-estimated your calories for the ground beef anyway) Your breakfast and dinner were really healthy.
Good luck on your return to calorie counting!
stumbled here. nice blog! you’re brave
This is awesome, thanks for sharing! I had to do a hard reality check concerning my calories today when one weeks worth of laziness resulted in zero pounds shed. Kind of a bitter pill after losing 21 pounds in the four weeks previous to my last weigh in. I’m going to spend some time on your blog here… very cool! I’ll add a link from my blog to yours as well so others can see this. It’s well worth sharing!
Cheers!
Rex