What I'm eating

Okay, Beth - here ya go!

I do track what I eat, but I generally track by virtue of pre-planning and repetition. I do not strictly count calories or macros. I try to eat a "lower" carb diet, and my diet is focused on eating "real food" or "clean eating" as I've sent it called. I sometimes put my stuff in sparkpeople, and I will track if I feel I'm overeating. A lot of times just writing it down is sufficiently mindful.

What I ate yesterday:

Coffee - 2 cups, with 2 T half and half each (80 calories)
1 prune (20 calories)
Breakfast - 2 boiled eggs - 140 calories, stonyfield farm chocolate yogurt (150 calories) with 1 T each whole oats (18 cal), German muesli (33 cal), 1 T chopped walnuts (50 cal)

AM snack; premier protein (160 calories)

Lunch; 2 homemade baked chicken strips (200?) , half cup homemade sloppy joe mix made with ground turkey (150?), tossed salad with 2 T Caesar dressing (120 calories).

Snack: 2 mandarin oranges (80 calories) 12 almonds (70 calories)

Snack: 1/4 c fritos, a slice of cheese - we ate dinner LATE! 160 calories

Dinner: 2 tilapia fillets and a crab cake (I put the crab cake between the fillets and made a stuffed flounder type thing) - tilapia (125 calories plus 190 for the crab cake) coleslaw (100 cal)

That come to 1845 calories, so my take away is I eat a lot of food! According to my fitbit (so take it for what you will), I burn 2350 calories on an average day. So a 500 calorie deficit should get me a 1 pound/week weight loss, which is pretty darn close!

I primarily drink water and unsweetened tea (no artificial sweetener) and my AM coffee - I rarely drink soda and generally will have a beer maybe twice a week.

And I will sometimes have a bite (literally, like a bar will be in my desk a couple of weeks) of dark chocolate after lunch if I want the taste of something sweet.

Thanks - this has been an interesting exercise!