I thought it'd be interesting to track the number of calories I am eating each day. These are rough numbers that I am getting from either online or the package of the food I cooked. I figured if I was tracking my food, I should try and see if I can keep the numbers of calories I intake under the number of calories I should be eating. Now I went online and found out that for my lifestyle (I put sedentary, although I am trying to [slowly] change that) I should be ingesting about
1615 calories to maintain a weight a 130 lbs. Now, I'm not 130 pounds yet, but since that's where I want to be, I figured I would use that number of calories as my target! (Note that Cam had to go find another site that said that if I weighted 148 pounds and wanted to weigh 130 pounds, then to lose 1 pound a week I'll need to intake only about 1400 calories a day. Yuck. I'll have to decide on that one. For now the magic number is 1615.)
My food day:
For breakfast1 cup of Quaker Instant oatmeal, golden brown sugar variety (200 calories)
1/4 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (30 calories)
For lunch
1 piece of breaded pork loin (360 calories)
1 cup of sauteed butternut squash and cauliflower (168 calories)
Water
Yay! I ate leftovers! Woo-hoo!!! :)
For dinner
3 pieces of kielbasa (510 calories)
* Slow-cooked in sauerkraut
1 cup of steamed broccoli (54 calories)
Water
Snacks
4 tablespoons of trail mix (213 calories)
1/2 cup of coffee w/vanilla creamer (35 calories)
1/2 stick of string cheese (45 calories)
Total Calories (roughly): 1615 (On target!)
Exercise
Nothing really. I did housework all day, plus 100 ab-crunches on my ab lounger.
3 pieces of kielbasa? You can eat a little more! Go on line and try and see if you can look at weight watchers points without joining. It's all about portion control. Tomorrow night we're going to have chicken breasts. I'm going to put Paul Prudhomme seasoning on it. I'll make my portion at least 8 oz or what I see fit. A small portion of rice a roni and broccoli (boiled on the stove). BTW, if you crave chocolate, go and get the darkest dark chocolate you can handle and have a small square a day. Green & Blacks Organic 85% dark or Ghiradelli. Don't eat the whole thing cause the calories and fat are killers. Dark chocolate is the best.
ReplyDeleteoh yeah, for lunch do they sell progresso soups in your neck of the woods? If so, buy the progresso LIGHT soups. Endorsed by Weight Watchers and actually very good. Today I had the chicken noodle. :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, I heard that about dark chocolate. I will definitely do that.
ReplyDeleteI agree about the portion control - that's why I ate only 3 pieces of kielbasa - I looked at the nutritional content on the package and holy crap is it loaded with fat! Seriously... 2 oz is considered 1 serving. That's one piece!
I'll look at the soups (they sell them), but I'm not a soup fan in any conceivable way. Only chicken noodle *if* I'm not feeling well!
I have some WW recipes from a friend of mine which I'll make. There's this one for pasta that's amazing!
So L, you have to get over you're soup sick theory. LOL. I am the same way with tea. I'll only have tea when I'm sick. On a cold day, nice hot soup does wonders. :)
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