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Food & Workout Log 8/22/07

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Shauhnathan - 23 Aug 2007 05:02 GMT
Breakfast: 7:00     Cinnamon Spice oatmeal with raisins. water
cal- 240

Lunch: 2:00  Black Bean Burger      steamed broccoli.  3  glasses of
strawberry lemonade             cal- 850

Dinner:   10:00    Sonic Tots    strawberry banana smoothie
cal- 660

Total cals-   1750

Workout:   50 minutes of cardio - burned 500 cals.
Chris - 23 Aug 2007 13:26 GMT
> Breakfast: 7:00     Cinnamon Spice oatmeal with raisins. water
> cal- 240
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>
> Workout:   50 minutes of cardio - burned 500 cals.

Clearly the eating is what you need to work on.  Your day got off to a
good start, but the lemonade is nothing but a bunch of calories from
sugar, and the smoothie isn't a whole lot better.  You need to spend
more of your calories on real foods.  (But I think you know this...)

Chris
262/130s/130s
maintaining since June 2004
Shauhnathan - 23 Aug 2007 20:15 GMT
Yes, most definitely, but I am getting better, trust me.  The food log
I have kept on here has better food choices than I've had in about a
month. I keep learning things to avoid too, because I'll eat something
and then check the calories online and be shocked by some, like the
lemonade, for instance.
I always drink a lot at restaurants and when I was at Chili's and had
the black bean burger, I had three glasses w/o even realizing it. When
I came home I saw online that it's about 80 calories a glass- that
added up bigtime! Today I did much better and avoided getting the
usual, lemonade, at Panera Bread and got bottled water instead.  Last
night I hadn't eaten dinner, but I was going to get a low-cal smoothie
from this place that I know that uses splenda so the calories are
really low, but they were closed by then, so I went to Sonic, was
hungry, but didn't want a bunch of grease-ladden from there, so I
opted for just small tots and a smoothie. Little did I know, the
smoothie had twice the cals of the tots, even though it was advertised
as no-fat.  (bunch of bull, because there IS no fat, but there's 440
cals!)

> > Breakfast: 7:00     Cinnamon Spice oatmeal with raisins. water
> > cal- 240
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> 262/130s/130s
> maintaining since June 2004
Chris - 23 Aug 2007 21:40 GMT
> Yes, most definitely, but I am getting better, trust me.  The food log
> I have kept on here has better food choices than I've had in about a
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> as no-fat.  (bunch of bull, because there IS no fat, but there's 440
> cals!)

It sounds like you are learning good things from counting your
calories and posting here, then.  As a next step, you might want to
think of some goals for the macronutrients (fat, carbs, and protein)
and try to aim for those.  Your diet looks way heavy on carbs and low
on protein.  It might be that focusing on this a bit would help you
make better food choices.

If I were out in the evening and starving, I'd aim for something like
a Panera (good salads), Subway (good healthy subs), or even a
McDonald's sort of place with grilled chicken sandwiches before I'd go
to eat tater tots and a smoothie, as I'd know these wouldn't have much
protein and wouldn't be very satisfying for me.

Chris
262/130s/130s
maintaining since June 2004
 
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