What an exciting blog this has been, but I'm sure once I get past the humps I'll have all sorts of funny and insightful revelations to share with myself--because after all is said and done, this journal is essentially me talking to myself; a sort of self-encouragement and sifting thought my own accumulated junque, like when you go through your old closets and come across items you forgot you had, and you have to decide whether to keep them, donate them to Goodwill, or toss them in the rubbish bin. I think my mind has become clogged with emotional and spiritual detritus and sorting though it might not be a fruitless activity.
So if nothing else, for now I can compulsively record my food intake. This morning I had a bowl of raisin bran with soy milk, a cup of coffee with 2% milk, and a banana. Total calories by my estimation is around 500 calories.
I need to pack for the Superbowl and I have a Piano lesson at 2:00 PM, which I have to drive through the Snowpocalypse to get to. I have a full and exciting day ahead. Whoopee.
Lunch was a rather delicious egg-and veggie bacon sandwich on toast, total calories was :
Egg: 70
Bread:130
3 pieces of veggie bacon: 90
Let's call it an even 300. I'm going to have an apple so we'll round off the mid-day at 400 calories, with a mid-day Total of 900 calories.
Today being Wednesday it's my treat day, but I don't really feel like one today (I usually have a treat when I'm gloomy, or when I'm celebrating something) but I fell that tomorrow I'll really need one,so I think I may postpone my treat until tomorrow.
I have 1100 calories left for dinner. How cool. I can splurge. Wonder how much a Dominoes thin crust cheese pizza has? I'll go look.
I just did. It has +- 1200 Calories. That's a handy thing to know.
No pizza but a peanut butter sandwich and soup. The sandwich was around 250 calories and the soup was 450 calories for a total of 700. A cliff bar at 200 for dessert rounded me out at 900 calories Total for dinner.
So my Total for the day so far = 1800 Calories.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Food Journal, Day Two
On Thursday I'll be leaving town for five days, so I'll be curious to see how well I'll do eating out at restaurants. I used to have mad dining-out skills I learned from my weight-reduction Bible Lean and Mean by Dr. Morton Shaevitz, a book written especially for simple-minded men, who don't want to spend a great deal of time planning meals, weighing portions, and counting exchanges. Actually as a compulsive type I don't mind counting exchanges, but Lean and Mean is still an excellent resource.
Breakfast, for which I actually had time today, was a bowl of shredded wheat with soy milk, and a banana, a combined total I think of around 400 calories. I no longer have the cereal box so I can't ascertain the exact breakdown of the cereal. I bought the cereal at Sam's Club in a huge two-bagger, and as soon as I finished the first bag threw the box away.
I've got one day down and did quite well--let's go for two.
I'll commence my exercise regime as soon as I return from my trip. By then I should have my dietary discipline well in hand. I think the trip should be a good test of my determination. There will be lots of pressures on me to succumb to temptation.
I also just noticed today is the first of February, the worst month of the year. I hate February. It's a sulky, cold, bitter, useless month. Nothing good ever comes of it. I wrote a poem in High School about it:
February is the Unshaven Month.
It lays around in a tattered gray shirt
Too dispirited to even finish
A full thirty days.
Which pretty much sums it up.
Let me keep the running food tally here:
Bowl of cereal with banana: +- 400 cals
Lunch: The other half of the Subway Tuna Sandwich 540 cals
Cliff bar: 185 Cals
Mid-day Total == 1125 cals.
Leaving me 900 cals +- for dinner. I know exactly what I'll have I think.
Update: And I did: I had an Amy's Mexican dinner, 340 Cals and a banana, 125 cals. total for dinner 440 cals.
Snack: 2 waffles with margarine: 300 cals
Total for today = +- 1900 cals.
So for so good; this isn't very hard at all.
Breakfast, for which I actually had time today, was a bowl of shredded wheat with soy milk, and a banana, a combined total I think of around 400 calories. I no longer have the cereal box so I can't ascertain the exact breakdown of the cereal. I bought the cereal at Sam's Club in a huge two-bagger, and as soon as I finished the first bag threw the box away.
I've got one day down and did quite well--let's go for two.
I'll commence my exercise regime as soon as I return from my trip. By then I should have my dietary discipline well in hand. I think the trip should be a good test of my determination. There will be lots of pressures on me to succumb to temptation.
I also just noticed today is the first of February, the worst month of the year. I hate February. It's a sulky, cold, bitter, useless month. Nothing good ever comes of it. I wrote a poem in High School about it:
February is the Unshaven Month.
It lays around in a tattered gray shirt
Too dispirited to even finish
A full thirty days.
Which pretty much sums it up.
Let me keep the running food tally here:
Bowl of cereal with banana: +- 400 cals
Lunch: The other half of the Subway Tuna Sandwich 540 cals
Cliff bar: 185 Cals
Mid-day Total == 1125 cals.
Leaving me 900 cals +- for dinner. I know exactly what I'll have I think.
Update: And I did: I had an Amy's Mexican dinner, 340 Cals and a banana, 125 cals. total for dinner 440 cals.
Snack: 2 waffles with margarine: 300 cals
Total for today = +- 1900 cals.
So for so good; this isn't very hard at all.
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