what i ate wednesday: tracking
As I said in yesterday’s post, I’m back to tracking my food again (at least temporarily for my nutrition class). This day of food represents by first day “back” and man, could I ever feel the difference in portion size. I was hungry all day. I’m not sure if it was physical hunger or mental hunger, but it sucked. I even got so hungry while I was on the treadmill after work that I felt like I was going to pass out. Which is ridiculous because I got plenty of calories and fuel in yesterday. I guess my body just needs to get used to eating correct portions again. It did occur to me that I’ve probably been taking in 2700-3000 calories a day between sneaks of treats and large portion sizes. Which is a lot. Even for someone of my height, weight and activity level. I have no idea if I’m gaining weight (no scale) but I do know my pants don’t feel any tighter. Although that could just be me living in happy delusion land. Anyway, I think this exercise is definitely a good refresher on how to stay the course of a healthy lifestyle. I’d hate to have to track my food for the rest of my life, but a few weeks every year might be good practice. Anyway, on to the food.
Breakfast
Breakfast was eaten at my soon-to-be-gone desk. As you can probably infer from the boxes, we’re moving offices temporarily while our office space is being remodeled. It’s going to suck for the next two months (I think we’re going to end up crammed in offices and conference rooms in another building) but the end result will be worth it. I’ve seen the plans for our newly-renovated space and it’s going to be beautiful. Anyway, breakfast among the boxes—a slice of super bread, a pear and a protein shake make with banana protein powder and chocolate almond milk.
589 calories, 114g carbs, 8g fat, 23g protein
Morning Snack
Ate a just-slightly unripe banana plus a packet of applesauce for snack. I went to grab regular applesauce at the store this past weekend and saw these fun gimmicky applesauce bags and couldn’t pass them up. I’m a sucker for food gimmicks. Plus, I like that I can just toss one on my bag and they’ll probably have a better fate that if I’d say, tossed an apple in my bag. The only issue? I feel like I’m sucking out of a blood bag (a la The Vampire Diaries) when I eat one.
165 calories, 42g carbs, 0g fat, 1g protein
Lunch
Last week, Babyface had the genius idea to use hummus in place of mayo in tuna salad and I have been all over it! So yummy and creamy. I even doctored up some hummus tuna salad to make a recipe you’ll see later in the week. But for now, I served it on a bed of greens with a drizzle of avocado vinaigrette and some toasted almonds. On the side, I had a clementine and a vanilla Voskos. First time having Voskos. The flavor was good (I loved that you could see real vanilla been specks) but the consistency was thin like regular yogurt. One of the reasons I shell out the extra cash for Greek yogurt is the thickness. Boo. Also had a LaCroix on the side. LaCroix was on sale this week and I jumped all over a 12-pack of grapefruit and coconut. So good.
549 calories, 35g carbs, 21g fat, 21g protein
Afternoon Snack
Hummus and spelt pretzels. Not a whole lot to say about that. Other than the fact that I love Newman’s Own Spelt Pretzels.
273 calories, 37g carbs, 10g fat, 7g protein
Dinner
Dinner was weird. I threw together an omelet/millet recipe. In the little cups is cooked millet, eggs, egg whites, milk, goat cheese and rosemary and I baked them all like a quiche. The end result was delicious, but weird. Alongside, I had a small pile of roasted Brussels sprouts. After dinner, I dug into a chocolate cupcake provided by my Mama this past weekend. Tracking or not, a day without chocolate is a day I don’t want to live.
520 calories, 54g carbs, 34g fat, 23g protein
The Totals
2106 calories, 282g carbs, 73g fat, 75g protein
What was the best thing you ate yesterday?
The chocolate banana protein shake was really, really good. But a cupcake will always win.
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i enjoyed reading your tracking today. it is good to check in every now and then to see where you stand. and the hummus in tuna salad idea is so smart!
hummus and tuna sound delicious…thanks for the tip. i was wondering if you used a calorie counter app for your phone and if you do, what’s the name of it?
I use MyFitnessPal!
I love it. I actually don’t like the website at all, but their iPad and iPhone apps are awesome.
Good for you! It’s really easy to slip and start eating too much (for me, at least). I find it’s the first few days of getting back on track that are hard, but once the body adjusts it gets easier. Your meals look delicious!
i love this post haha. i’m not sure if in ontario we have the apple sauce blood bags, but i had a similar apple in purse situation last week but it was a yogurt, so something that portable would be nice. that hummus and tuna idea looks awesome, and i’ve got both awaiting in the kitchen! ugh, i have a cake mix in my cupboard that has been screaming my name for the past few weeks and that cupcake reminded me that i should maybe make them, eat ONE, and then take the rest to work for everyone else to enjoy. i’m the exact same way about chocolate…it must be consumed once a day. lately i’ve been getting that fix from my skinny cow chocolate fudge brownie cups. i also feel the same way about myfitnesspal. tracking my fitness is impossible with that thing for some reason, so i just count the calories, do the weigh in, and forget it.
I just started tracking again 2.5 weeks ago. I hadn’t tracked calories since early 2008 when I was using a BodyBugg. I slowly packed on the pounds until late 2009 when I had a bit of a wakeup call & then I lost 30 without having to track. BUT I managed to gain 10lbs during 2011 just by being lackadaisical about my food choices. I was definitely exercising enough but was cancelling out all of my hard work with what I was eating.
I was so surprised to see (again) how fast the calories really do add up when I started tracking this time around. And it’s scary to think that it’s so easy to lose sight of it & back pedal.
I’m using MyFitnessPal too, on Android. It’s super easy and I really like it a lot – more than the BodyBugg software actually! (And you’re right – the actual website is pretty underwhelming.)
What made you switch over from using SP’s tracker to MFP? I’ve just recently made a MFP account(as in a week now), and I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. I guess it’ll take some time to get used to.
Tracking really does make a world of a difference! It always surprises me how often my guesses on a serving can be oh so off!
I love SP’s website but don’t really love their app. I hate MFP’s website and love their iPad and iPhone apps. And I found myself tracking more on the phone and iPad than online, so I switched to MFP.