An Ominous Return
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 | |
Becky said,
18 August 2008 at 5:28 pm
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!
Rikki King said,
23 February 2009 at 3:16 am
stumbled here. nice blog! you’re brave
rexharris said,
16 August 2009 at 11:27 pm
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