Dealing with a tough day
I feel pretty good about how I handled yesterday. I didn’t eat enough calories, again (less than 1200), but I only had two and a half hours sleep the night before. Normally, I’d load up on caffeine and sugar, but I listened to my stomach and not my tired brain.
I’m working towards eating smaller meals more often. What I really like about the food diary at MyFitnessPal is that there are 6 “buckets” for entering meals, rather than just a single list or a breakfast-lunch-dinner breakdown. This is helping me think in 3-hour blocks of time, making sure I get a couple hundred calories every couple hours. I’m also working toward getting my carbs in prior to 6 pm, so this tool is helping me with the mental shift required.
Between the exhaustion and a rainstorm, there was no walking yesterday. I had to pick up the little one from dance on my way home from work, so I stopped at the grocery store and picked up a ready-made chicken caesar salad, swapped the creamy dressing for a fat-free balsamic vinaigrette, and grabbed a pack of protein drinks. Ate in the car while waiting for the class to end. Then it was home and in bed by 8 p.m.
Tags: diet, fitness, food journalGood source of information about fiber-rich foods
You may have noticed that weight loss badge in the sidebar - it’s from myfitnesspal.com, where I’m tracking my diet. I am seeing that I eat too little fiber, so I went on a hunt for a list of fiber-rich foods. Found a good one with a couple dozen foods that you’ll find in a grocery store:
The full chart and article explaining it is at WHFoods.
Tags: diet, fiber, fitness, food journal, tipsReporting in with a food journal
If nothing else, I ought to be able to post about what I’m eating, correct?
Well, that depends on me sticking to logging my meals… so, we’ll see…
Anyway, here’s yesterday’s food:
January 3, 2008
| FOODS | Calories | Carbs | Fat | Protein | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Breakfast | |||||||||
| Egg Beaters - Egg Beaters, 0.88 cup(s) | 105 | 4g | 0g | 21g | |||||
| Lunch | |||||||||
| Kraft - Light Catalina Dressing, 2 Tbsp | 60 | 12g | 1g | 0g | |||||
| Breakstone’s - Cottage Cheese - Lowfat 2% Milkfat Small Curd, 0.25 cup | 45 | 3g | 1g | 6g | |||||
| Weight Watchers - Smart Ones Four Cheese Pizza, 1 Pizza | 390 | 56g | 10g | 19g | |||||
| Dinner | |||||||||
| Chicken - Breast, meat and skin, cooked, roasted, 0.5 breast, bone removed | 193 | 0g | 8g | 29g | |||||
| Chicken - Wing, meat and skin, cooked, roasted, 1 wing, bone removed | 99 | 0g | 7g | 9g | |||||
| Chicken - Leg, meat and skin, cooked, roasted, 2 leg, bone removed | 529 | 0g | 31g | 59g | |||||
| Kraft - Macaroni And Cheese Dinner - Deluxe Original Cheddar, 1 oz | 91 | 13g | 3g | 4g | |||||
| Beans - Baked, canned, with pork and sweet sauce, 0.25 cup | 70 | 13g | 1g | 3g | |||||
| Sauce - Barbeque, low sodium, canned, 0.2 cup | 38 | 6g | 1g | 1g | |||||
| Bread - White, toasted, 2 slice, large | 158 | 29g | 2g | 5g | |||||
| Butter - Unsalted, 2 tbsp | 204 | 0g | 23g | 0g | |||||
| McDonald’s - Iced Tea (Large), 1 serving | 0 | 1g | 0g | 0g | |||||
| Snacks | |||||||||
| Coke - Diet Coke, 1 Can | 0 | 0g | 0g | 0g | |||||
| Coke - Diet Coke, 1 Can | 0 | 0g | 0g | 0g | |||||