Since I started my diet last week, I'm pretty much either always starving or gorging myself while feeling guilty. I've never been a huge dieter, but especially with the wedding coming up, it seemed like a good time to practice healthy living. I know I don't have the will power to really cut any of the good stuff, but I figure if I can cut my portions and exercise more, I'll be well on my way to being acceptable in my wedding pictures. But damn, that's easier said than done.
Seriously, suddenly all I do is think about food. Yesterday, in a fit of masochism, I started perusing my favorite recipe site just so I could drool at the pictures. (Well, I needed healthy dinner ideas, what else was I supposed to do?) To manage my portions, I've started keeping track of all my calories at this great website - www.fitday.com. Sometimes, when I'm really hungry, I'll get on there and start entering in foods that I want to eat, so that I can see what I might be able to get away with. The website lets you track activities/calories burned also, so I play that game too -- see if I can't balance that extra portion of lunch with an extra 10 minutes of walking. Its become something of an obsession.
What's sad is that its only been a couple of weeks and there have already been days when I've gone way beyond my allotted calorie intake. NO, no - actually what's even sadder is when I realize how much of a piggy I was before all this started. Case in point, this morning I happened to notice the number of calories in a package of Ramen (all right, I admit it -- my love for Ramen is a freak of nature that somehow survived the college years). Anyway, there are 190 calories per serving of Ramen. But get this - there are 2 servings per package! AND whenever I ate Ramen, I almost always ate 2 packages. So can you imagine what my total daily intake might have been like if I was wasting almost 800 calories on this crap?!?
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