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This morning I thought to myself, "I don't need to enter things into my food diary, I know how this goes, now!"
Duh. Rookie mistake, right? After one day I think I have this diet thing down and can go back to just winging it. Clearly, just winging it hasn't worked for me. At all.
Luckily, this website has the best food diary I've seen, especially combined with the Calorie Counter app for my Android (looooove the barcode scan!). So I find I want to come here, enter my food consumed, and keep track of things.
Today I went to school to try to be more productive. I forgot to pack a snack. (I pretty much need three medium-sized meals per day plus two snacks--in between breakfast and lunch and between lunch and dinner--to keep my body going and so I don't get cranky or weak feeling. I'm keeping close tabs on this, though, and I'm going to work on making sure each snack is just one serving, and not four.) So I made what I thought was a good vending-machine choice: the unsalted trail mix. In terms of real food, this is a good choice, but I was pretty shocked when I looked at the nutritional information, and especially when I saw that the whole (tiny, 2 ounce) bag was 2 servings. If I'd eaten the whole bag, I would have consumed 12 grams of fat and 240 calories! This would have been nothing before yesterday. I would have told myself that I needed the fuel. But today I learned that's not true. The calorie count made the shriveled up raisins not that appealing, and I ended up throwing over half the bag away.
In the past, I ate a lot of nuts at a time, figuring they were good for me--good fats, good source of protein. But I forgot just how much fat they contain, and that just a few nuts (combined, e.g., with a piece of fruit) will give me all I need for a filling snack. I've been on diets before, but remembering this stuff feels like recalling a second language--it's there in the shadowy back of my brain, rusty information covered in cobwebs.
Today I went slightly over my allotted calories. I knew this would happen--I knew since yesterday, in fact--so yesterday I was (more than slightly) under. My boyfriend is leaving for a week, so I cooked a nice dinner. In cooking that nice dinner, I was careful to measure out the olive oil and butter I used. Turns out, these things can be very satisfying in small quantities. It helps that I used them as condiments instead of as cooking lubricants. For cooking, I used water--to boil the potatoes, and a small amount to wilt the arugula and warm the cherry tomatoes. But I didn't feel like the dishes were any less rich than I wanted them to be. What a satisfying night!
-----Edited to add-------
Notes to self, part 1:
-get weighed to properly assess RDI of calories--probably consuming too much at 2100 per day to lose weight
-eat about 60 grams of fat per day to MAINTAIN weight --> must lower amount of fat consumed!
-need to incorporate regular exercise asap!
Actually, I'm going to go ahead and reset my calories to 1900 right away. That will make today truly a day of indulgence, but better to do it now then to put it off 'til I get my hands on a scale.
Diet Calendar Entry for 19 March 2010:
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2159 kcal
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Fat: 89.08g | Prot: 80.48g | Carb: 281.95g.
Breakfast: Unsalted trail mix, maple syrup, banana, Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Original Unsweetened Non-Dairy Beverage, Old Fashioned Oats, Organic Lowfat 1% Milk, Coffee. Lunch: Southwest Veggie Dinner. Dinner: goat cheese, Five ice cream, mint flavor, cherry tomatoes, mixed greens, extra virgin olive oil, asparagus, butter, boiled red potatoes, brisket barbecued. Snacks/Other: Gala Apple (Medium), Mini Babybel Bonbel Cheese, 34% Cocoa-Rich milk chocolate, Iced coffee. more...
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