One Day Done

I signed up with livestrong.com to help me track my caloric intake and usage. Its an amazingly helpful website. I also purchased the iPhone app version ($2.99) which is crazy useful as well.

You enter all your food, it calculates automatically. Enter in your activities. Click your water drinkage if you wanna. It really is very very useful for this kind of project.

Based on my weight, height, gender, and activity level, they say I should eat 1,732 calories a day.

Yesterday I ate 1,136 calories.

I did eat both carbs and sugar (disappointed finger wag!). Once with a bite of frosted brownie and once with some Marshmallow Maties. But I ran a mile, lifted weights, and stretched, burning 317 calories, so my net calories were 819.

Today I spent $30 on green things, meat products, and beans. I walked into the store and saw this lovely watermelon half for $1.72. And cut pineapple for $3.28. I touched them both lovingly and gazed at the berries as well. Fruit is not on my list for a while (wait til Saturday, precious pineapple: you and me, I promise.).

Tho, I kind of love beans. Even right out of the can. Kidney, Black, Pinto. I love beans.



Last night, when deciding what to eat, it wasn't so much about making a meal, it was finding things on my short list of acceptable food (vegetables and proteins mostly, with some cheese thrown in because it is so tasty). I'd locate something, eat it, then try to find something else. I realized I was going to run out of broccoli and get sick of carrots, to say nothing of poached chicken quickly if I didn't find some extra things to vary it all up.

There are a lot of beans to try :) Chick peas, garbanzo, butter beans ....

I weighed in this morning at 144.6 lbs. My body weight typically varies by 1-3 pounds no matter what I do, so I will get all excited when that number is closer to 135. Or 145 with no jiggles would also be acceptable. Well, a couple jiggles, but that's it!

I think I will run and swim today. Then eat some more.