Food Bits

I started my day off with about 30 minutes of fairly strenuous activity from 8:15 - 8:52. Hee.

Then I had a terrible breakfast - Sonic's Chili Cheese Tots - Sonic Sized. 720 cal (EEP!) - 9:30 am
Lunch was a Sonic Jr Deluxe burger - 350 cal - noonish
Later, I had most of a bowl of Vegetable Korma - I have no idea how many calories it was, but it was REALLY tasty - and mostly veggies. Peas, carrots, Cauliflower. All in a spicy sauce. It came from the Indian hole-in-the-wall restaurant down the road. They didn't have nutrition info. MMM. that was about 2:30
Then, we went over to Hughs. I had 1 (JUST ONE!) piece of pizza. And even that was a half a slice. I had 2 chocolate chip cookies. Both the pizza and cookies were from Papa Murphys (I don't know what kind of pizza). I had a handful of veggies - carrots, tomatos, and broccoli with 1 tbsp of ranch to dunk them in - that I didn't finish. And I drank water, and that was IT.

I didn't do great, but I did ok, I think.

Total Cal: no idea.

So, tommorrow is going to be a really HARD day for me to maintain healthy eating. It's one of the type of days where Jason and I are never home. I could seriously use some help on how to manage this.

At 10am, we have to be @ Beth's for a D&D game. Snacks are available - namely, donuts. I have a weakness for donuts. Also, I'm not moving at all, I'm sitting at a table, rolling dice. Moving is disruptive and not an option. The snacks are within arm's length.
This lasts til noon.

At 1pm, Jason has a dentists appointment. It's all the way on the OTHER side of town, so we don't have time to swing home for a balanced meal. Likely, it will be McDonalds or Burger King, in the car, on the way.

Once Jason's done with his dentist appointment, we come home and prep for the next game. I'm not really able to go do my own thing at this point - I need to help him. There's barely time as there is - certainly no time to make/eat a salad, or create healthy snacks.

At 4pm, We have to be at Hugh's for the next D&D game. I have the same problems - lots of snacks. Not donuts this time, but more stuff I love. Chips, dips, cheese, pizza...etc. Everyone snacks the entire game. Ditto on the not moving as well. This generally runs until 9, 10 pm. Whenever everyone's too tired to continue.

Help?

Today's goal is simple: eat better than I did yesterday.

I went with protein for breakfast, and still lower cal than my usual breakfast bar. And I traded in my normal hot cocoa for something better for me.

Plus, I'm being better to my back, after having fallen DOWN this morning. I took the rest of the day off, and rested.

The trend continued at lunch, where I had to get creative. I woke up from a nap later than my usual lunch, and was starving. I was also cold. I wanted something yummy, filling, and WARM. The problem being, to get something warm, I had 3 options: 1) Grab insta-food easy to heat up and use up my last remaining lunch meal. 2) Heat up something in fridge - all we had were some cheddar dogs that are 270 cal for JUST the dog. 3) Cook something - which would have been disobeying Jason's orders to rest. So, I had to get creative. And I did.

I started with salad - 2 cups of my salad mix is 15cal. I didn't measure, but it looks like i have a cup and a half. I'm rounding up. Dressing always kills me - i can NOT stick to the '2 tbsp for 40 cal' on my light ranch - i always at LEAST double that. So I switched to salsa - because it's thicker, i can use less, so i put in roughly 2 tbsp. that came out to 20cal. woot. I wanted something filling, so I added a piece of string cheese, split up into little nibbles. that was 80 cal. At this point, I decided I needed a little MORE oomph to my salad, so I poached up another quick egg at 70 cal. That added some heat. Now, none of this is all that warm (the egg doesn't do that much in a salad!) so I added a calorie-free mug of peppermint tea and a sweater!

For a snack, I had about 6tbsp of salsa (30 cal), 7 toasted ritz crackers (sour cream & chive flavor - 130 cal for 14 = 65 cal) , and a piece of string cheese (80 cal)

One egg, poached with/ salt & pepper - 70 cal 7am
Mug of hot chamomile tea - 0 cal AND no caffiene! 7am
Lunch Salad - 185 cal 11:30 am
Mug of hot peppermint tea - 0 cal AND no caffiene! 11:30 am
Snack - 175 cal 4:30 pm

For dinner, we're went to a friends house. I couldn't really track calories, so I just tried to be careful. I had:

• A hamburger (small) with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, and very light may on a potato bun.
• About a quarter cup of Potato salad
• About a quarter cup of some sort of macaroni tuna salad (I did not know it had tuna. YECH)
• 10 kettle chips, lightly salted variety
• a touch of some sort of garlic onion mustard - trader joes brand. I dunked a few chips in it. Maybe 1 tbsp total, but I doubt it.
• 5 thin mint girl scout cookes

All this was at about 6:30ish.

I was hungry on the way home, so we swung through Jack in the Box and I got a grilled chicken pita snack. That was about 11:30pm


Daily Total: no freaking idea.

Nutrigrain breakfast bar -130 cal 7am
Sugar Free Hot Cocoa - 50 cal 8am
Smart Ones Chicken Parmigan Meal -290 cal 9am
Nutrigrain breakfast bar - 130 cal 11:30 am
McDonalds Side Salad w/ Ranch - 190 cal 1:30 pm
Dinner Salad - 135 cal 5:30 pm

Total Calories 925

Dinner salad's an estimate based on ingredients. I didn't measure.



I was doing GOOD! So Good. I even went for a walk (about 20 min, broken up, and slow cause of the back and the cane) and used my wiifit (about 20min, most of it boxing). AND I resisted the urge to have that donut that was yelling my name when I passed the shop.

Then...I screwed up.

I was up late with Rose, going over Wedding flowers. And Jason started DEEP-FRYING chicken nuggets. And he handed me one, and I nibbled, and next thing I knew the two of us had killed the entire bag. 290 calories a serving, 9 servings a bag. so 290 x 9 / 2 = 1305 calories. That doesn't include what deep-frying added.

Total Calories for the day: 2230+ Ouch. :(