In honor of the new season of The Biggest Loser which starts tonigh, I'm taking Bob and Jillian up on some very practical weight loss advice - I decided to keep a food journal. Apparently a food journal is supposed to list everything that you put in your mouth, how you are feeling at the time, and how many calories it's worth, so here it goes:
6:35 - coffe with 1/4cup of Vanilla Chai Spice cream...actually I think it might have been more than 1/4 cup but I can't figure out the calories on the label for more than a 1/4 cup.
7:03 - three bites of Carson's left over 'just add water' pancakes with lite syrup. 225 calories...plus bonus points for using "lite" syrup.
8:57 - Spearmint Breathsaver - 10 calories...feeling hungry and cranky...possibly starting to crash from the Vanilla Spice/"lite" syrup sugar high.
9:34 - Spearmint Breathsaver - 10 calories...stomach growling - considering swapping an "A" test grade for 6th grader's Gatorade
10:06 - Stomach still growling - decide to tough it out and save Breathsavers for emergency needs
11:38 - 4 fried chicken wings "donated" to me from a student's lunch in the cafeteria - bonus points for leaving the last chicken wing for another colleague.
12:02 - 1/2 an orange brought to me by my daughter Kaitlyn who traded it at lunch for her fruit snacks. ..slight worry about who has actually touched the orange - but go ahead and give negative calorie points for eating fruit in the middle of the day.
12:35 - Breathsaver - 10 calories...no guilt for breaking into emergency stash - post chicken-wing breath is an emergency.
12:40 - One piece of Dove Chocolate - zero calories (the effort from savoring it for 12 minutes eliminates any negative calories from the chocolate)
1:15 - Breathsaver
2:35 - Breathsaver
3:05 - Hunger pains getting stronger - tried to convince Kaitlyn to giver me her after-school Pop-tart with no luck...Breathsaver
5:52 - Caprisun juice box and one Poptart...tried to hide it from Carson by eating in the bathroom - no luck, Carson found me and ate the second Poptart from the package.
6:30 - Chris home...burgers on the grill, Corona with lime, and 1/2 bag of lime Tostitos...maybe more than 1/2 bag - calories: too many to count...but just enough to make me happy and content while I watch The Biggest Loser!
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