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May 20, 2008

Calorie counting again

Just for a little while anyway, I need to start counting the calories. Yesterday when I ate what I thought was a good amount turned out to be much too little. I was at under 1100 calories just before I went swimming last night. And when I logged it into SparkPeople I was rounding up.

Today on the other hand, I’m already at nearly 800 calories (just after breakfast). I had some granola cereal for breakfast and decided not to leave such a small amount straggling in the bag. When I measured what I had, it came out to one and a half cups. It was a little more than I would have put in there had the box been fuller but didn’t look unreasonable. It’s kind of sitting like a ton of brick in my stomach now so maybe that’s why a serving is only a half a cup (!). I had three servings!

I’m doing dinner with my parents tonight so I have to manage the calorie budget closely. I was planning on ordering Italian food, dang it. They can all enjoy it while I steam myself some veggies or something.

With my workout schedule I’m allotting myself between 1500 and 1800 calories a day. I’ll aim low on the days that I don’t workout. I think that during the beginning of all my training I was under eating which slowed down my metabolism and then I went in the other direction.

Hopefully monitoring what I’m doing for a little while will help me get off of this plateau and put portion sizes back into perspective.

Posted by hopeful @ May 20, 2008 11:29 AM