For the Record

Posted by Jennifer

I tallied and recorded my calories today, but some spreadsheet difficulties have left me unable to post them (yet). I will say that I scarfed down about 1700 calories today. Some canned tuna and a lunch out conspired to make my sodium a bit higher than I would like *and* I still managed too much fat. However, I did rack up a couple of small victories. In addition to keeping up with what I ate today, I also managed to drink 3+ liters of water *and* I went for a 3.2 mile walk tonight. This is the same hilly walk that I was taking nearly every night 2 months ago. However, after 8 weeks of not walking regularly, tonight’s little jaunt nearly killed me. I was really huffing and puffing near the end. But I trudged forward, even when my husband gave up about half way through (wuss!) So… all in all, not a bad day. Hopefully, I’ll be able to post a more detailed report tomorrow. Cheers! :)

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:

1. 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.
2. 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

Too Tired to Eat

Posted by Jennifer

It’s been a long and exhausting week and I just haven’t had the energy/gumption to record my calories. Today, as it turns out, I came in pretty low today… but that hasn’t been the case on several of the last few days. I’m hopeful that I’ll feel more inspired and energetic this week and that you’ll see more posts from me which are ripe with healthy eating. *fingers crossed*

Meal	Food | Drink	Calories
11:00am	banana	100
	Sub-total	100
2:30pm	2 whole wheat cracker breads	60
	1 wedge lowfat laughing cow spreadable cheese	35
	Sub-total	95
6:00pm	iced tall skinny vanilla latte	90
	Sub-total	90
11:00pm	egg sand on whole wheat bread	350
	2 finn crisps with nutella (i was pretty generous with the nutella)	300
Sub-total		650
Water	2 + liters
Total		935