I am going to keep harping on this, but I really think the single biggest thing that we have done to help us stay on track for our diet has been to cut out soda completely. I think we probably average an extra 400 calories a day that we can spend on REAL food. I feel less hungry and less cranky than any other time we've started on this same exact diet, despite being more stressed about work stuff. I am able to make healthier choices and stick with them. I am getting a good feel for what my total caloric intake is, and how much is carbs vs protein vs fat. The last couple days seem to have been really good food-wise, and so I tracked them in Fitday to see if my estimates were correct.
Tuesday (long busy day at work, grab and go foods mostly):
Breakfast: Starbucks lowfat berry muffin and small coffee
Lunch: Starbucks Sesame Noodle Salad and iced tea
Afternoon snack: 8 peanut butter pretzel nuggets
Dinner: Taco Bell chicken ranchero soft taco, chicken grilled stuft burrito (both fresco-style, which means salsa instead of cheese/sourcream/sauce) and iced tea
Evening snack: celery with peanut butter
Totals: 1656 cals, 28% fat, 55% carbs, 17% protein, 22 g fiber
Wednesday
Breakfast: Kraft Easy-Mac and piece of toast with peanut butter
Lunch: Grilled chicken breast and prawns teriyaki (no sauce), rice, small salad w/ light vinagrette, iced tea
Dinner: Quorn "chik'n" patty on toasted wheat bun with ketchup, mustard and a tomato slice, corn/tomato/avocado salad with lime and cilantro, baked beans
Dessert: microwave-poached pears with vanilla sauce
Totals: 1654 cals, 28% fat, 49% carbs, 23% protein, 27 g fiber
This gives me hope that we are getting into a good routine now and making healthy choices without having to go out of our way. I don't miss soda at all now after last Sunday and we can go out to eat and not worry so much.
I feel the same, less cranky than other times we've done this. The hard part is still thinking up a dinner every night. We had that problem before though too so..yeah.
Posted by: schnitzle | Aug 09, 2007 at 06:57 PM