THE COUNTER
Starting weight: 299
Last weigh-in: 287.8
Total pounds lost: 11.2
Pounds until 240: 47.8
What I ate today
Honestly, I really need to start tracking calories better.
Breakfast
2 Cups of Wheaties
1 ½ Cup of skim milk
Calories: 375
Fat: 0 grams
Snack
1 Handful (1 serving?) of what apparently are “Cheetos Puffs Cheese Flavored Snacks” (according to the website)
Calories: 160
Fat: 10 grams (I guess)
Lunch
1 Footlong Subway club,
1 Footlong Subway veggie
(yes, two feet of sandwiches, only four more for a party sub!)
Calories: 1,100
Fat: 18 grams
Dinner
2 Chicken breasts, 1 big, 1 small
Calories: 325 (a guess, since the bag of chicken says 120 calories per “piece”, yet one of these pieces was better than twice as big as the other. Somehow I don’t trust their rationalization on serving size.)
Fat: 4.5 grams
Total calories: 1,960 (according to my calculations. However, I don’t believe for a second that it was under 2,200)
Total fat: 32.5 (yikes)
Exercise: None. I am, for some reason, staying away from the gym right now. I don’t know why, but I do know that I will think about it and talk about it tomorrow.
So Monday was a bizarre day in the old Fortress.
As you can see, there were some odd eating choices. Will I rationalize them? Nope. But I will, however, point out that even with a handful of some sort of puffy Cheetos product and two footlong subs over the course of 15 minutes, I still managed to have a semi-acceptable calorie count.
I am fairly confident in those numbers, I suppose. Though I can’t be sure I only had one serving of the Cheetos product (but if not, it wasn’t much more), I used the nutritional value provided on the company’s Web site, as I did for Subway (I knew the count on the club, wasn’t sure on the veggie. By the way, it is less calories and fat if you get a double meat footlong club instead of a footlong club with a 6-inch veggie. Interesting, eh?)
But I think I should explain what happened on Monday, though it might not be that interesting.
Article comments
1 - Guy
Good work on not ordering the pizza! And consider yourself lucky you are not within the grasp of Mike Ilitch and his Little Caesar chain's $5 Hot 'n' Ready pizza here in Michigan. Sure it tastes bad (well as bad as pizza can taste) but it's $5 and there's no wait.
As for the roommate...I'm sure Reuben is a good guy - I mean he obviously is good at sharing. But a role model he is not - so best to keep your distance, at least in the beginning.
Hope you enjoyed the BCS game. I know I did. The only thing better that Ohio State losing by double digit points is them having a chance to come back and turning the ball over 2 series in a row! Thanksyou Les Miles even if you aren't Michigan's man.
2 - Purple Tigress
Seriously? Eating pizza is better than eating Cheetos IMHO.
You say you're a sportswriter and sports fan? That's not readily apparent in your writing here. If you really knew about athletes, you'd know more about diets (and not necessarily in terms of dieting) and proper nutrition.
Also, if you had the self-discipline to exercise, I think you'd understand an athletic mindset better.
Otherwise, besides just the weigh-in, you should keep your vital statistics. By this I mean, you can lose inches while not losing weight because you are gaining muscle. That would, of course, only happen if you were exercising though.
For instance, I gained weight because I was developing muscle so I decided that because I could still fit in my jeans from high school when I was exercising six days a week, that was OK.
Also, instead of cold cereal, why don't you try oatmeal (no sugar, no butter, no honey).
Check your sugar/sucrose/fructose intake as well.
You might take a peak at Family Circle or some other housewife type magazine to get a grip on better nutrition at a low cost if you can't take a more scientific approach.
3 - Bill
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