The first goal in my goals for this week was to record 100% of everything I ate today. Mission accomplished:
Breakfast
2 egg omelet with avocado, mushrooms and a little smoked provolone. (531 calories)
12oz Spicy V8 (75)
16oz decaf coffee with 2 sugars at McDonalds (for the commute) (30)
Morning Snack
Banana (105)
Lunch
Small bowl Thai Curry soup with no noodles at Noodles & Company, plus tofu and chicken breast (520)
Afternoon Snack
Kind Fruit & Nut bar (210)
Dinner
Chopped salad (arugula, cucumber, avocado, tomato, mushrooms, green onion, olives, almonds, balsalmic) (457)
Leftover grilled chicken breast (180)
Yogurt (90)
1 Gallon of water. Also had 3 sticks of sugar-free gum, 2 glucosamine & condtroitin pills and a scoop of Citrucel.
All told, 2,269 calories. According to The Daily Plate at my weight to lose 1.5 pounds/week I can eat 2400, so I am withing range for the day.
I probably will just go with the tofu and stop adding the chicken with lunch. I was going to add a couple of cheese sticks to dinner until I noticed they were 120 calories each.
I really don’t want to do this logging every day because it isn’t sustainable “in the real world” but it is a good reminder on what I can really eat. It wouldn’t have taken but a tiny slip and I’d be past my limits.
Even though I don’t want to do this food journaling long term I am going to set a goal of doing it for Tuesday as well.
(By the way, I also completed Day One of Week Three on the Hundred Pushups Challenge, did lower body strength training and ran/walked the 4.1 mile loop around the lake, so all in all a great start to the week!)
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