January 20, 2006
Day 16
I spend too much on groceries and don't take in enough calories
January 20, 2006
Day 16
What I ate today
Breakfast (8:30 a.m.)
1 can of Tuna
2 slices of wheat bread
2 tablespoons of fat free mayonnaise
Approximate Calories: 270
Fat: 2.5 grams
Lunch (12:30 p.m.)
3 servings iceberg lettuce mix (with cabbage and carrot bits cut up in there)
½ Tomato
¼ Cucumber
1 can of Tuna
2 tablespoons of fat free Italian dressing
1 tablespoon of Just 2 good Bleu Cheese Dressing
Approximate Calories: 310
Fat: 3.5 grams
Snack: (4:30 p.m.)
3 ounces Cajun Roast Beef
Approximate Calories: 100
Dinner (6 p.m.)
6 ounces of Cajun Roast Beef
4 slices of wheat bread
2 tablespoons of fat free mayonnaise
1 thin slice of onion
Approximate Calories: 418
Fat: 8 grams
Snack (9 p.m.)
1 serving of pea pods
Calories: 40
Fat: 0 grams
Approximate calories ingested: 1,138
Fat ingested: 14 grams
I need to get a scale. That 1,138 calories there is probably pretty close to right, but still, I had to estimate the roast beef. I tried to take conservative portions, but that stuff is really good. I did, however, smarten up and ask the deli counter guy to slice the turkey I bought today into two-ounce slices. So one slice equals two servings, 100 calories and two grams of fat.
Assuming your reading comprehension is at least at a fourth-grade level, you should be able to tell two things from the above paragraph: 1) I went shopping today and 2) I am making an effort to more closely count calories.
While shopping, I decided to add a few new things to the diet. The much anticipated V-8 and cottage cheese were both purchased as were pea pods, grape tomatoes, actual grapes, and catfish nuggets. The recurring theme there is that I want easily available and healthy foods that I can grab as a quick snack. I ate five times today. But I usually eat four times and I don’t really think that is enough. I’d like to add at least one more snack in there, preferably between lunch and dinner. I also got the aforementioned roast beef (100 calories, three grams of fat per three ounces.) I asked for a half pound, but the apparently-deaf deli guy gave me a full pound. To me, that was like found money. I shut my mouth and went on my merry way.
The other purchases today were old reliables: a pound of turkey, wheat bread, salad mix, celery, baby carrots, mushrooms, one onion, cucumbers, chicken and tuna.
I thought I would end up paying about $40 for all this stuff, but when I checked out, including some (non-genital) wart remover, I ended up paying $56. $56! Now I realize the other reason I never wanted to lose weight: I can’t afford it. However, I have a feeling some of this stuff will still be around the next time I go shopping. Let’s just hope it doesn’t rot in the meantime.
The calorie counting is becoming a big deal to some readers. They seem to want much more information than I was originally planning to give. It seems like a lot of work to count calories, but I don’t think I could do this as effectively without knowing, at least in close proximity, how many calories I am taking in per day. I see 1,138 (and the 1,200 I’ve been averaging each day) and I think that is a little low. Because of that I decided to up it a little bit with more snacks and stuff. I think a logical range each day would be 1,200-1,500 calories per day. And what, exactly, does it say about me that I am setting the limits of this project 16 days in? Probably not a whole lot.
But, you see, the whole point of this was just to see if an overhaul of my diet and a newfound love of exercise would enable me to lose weight in a quick but healthy manner. I never planned on counting calories. However, now that is the first thing I think about before a meal. So I think the diet led to the desire for information. But I went into this thinking that I knew what was healthy and I knew what I would eat and what I wouldn’t eat. In my mind, more salads and low-fat sandwiches were good while fast food and pizza were bad. It didn’t take a genius to figure that out and it doesn’t take a genius to do this diet.
Still, I find myself wanting to know how much I take in and making adjustments based on that total. So I dunno, this thing just keeps getting more and more complicated as we go along. But that’s not a bad thing. I suppose that if I am successful now and for some reason get back up to 350 in the future, I can look back on this to remind myself of exactly how I lost weight. But even then I think I will still know: eat green and white things. Don’t eat brown or dripping things.
It doesn’t take a health expert to tell you that.
Posted by Dan Nied at January 20, 2006 1:46 AM
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