Having breakfast with a friend turned out to be a lesson in how bad food can look so damn good! Turns out homemade granola has a TON of calories. Luckily I wasn't very hungry and didn't eat the whole bowl. If I had eaten what was set in front of me at the restaurant I would have had well over 1,000. calories in that yummy portion. Later in the day I had waited too long to eat lunch and ate a whole plate of teriyaki tofu...too much when you're thinking about portion size. But it's all lessons! My breakfast friend and I talked about keeping a food journal and she related a story about doing her tallies all by hand! I'm glad I have the mathematical powers of Sparkpeople!
Here's the day:
Breakfast:
1.5 slices wheat toast
1 tall soy latte
.25 C. granola
.25 C. fruit
Lunch:
1 serving tofu teriyaki
1 c. brown rice
1 ea. fortune cookie
Dinner:
4 sm. whole wheat pancakes
1 ea. chicken sausage
Snack:
1 med. apple
1 med. banana
Here's the breakdown:
1,655. calories consumed
1,677 BMR
143. exercise
1,820 total burned
-165 differential
For a while I'm going to just eat at home...restaurants are too confusing to my diet and I'll save money!! I am getting a bit more adjusted to what a good portion looks like. Sparkpeople had some good "you could eat this or you could eat that for the same amount of calories" pictures. I'm very visual so this helped.
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