Thursday, May 19, 2016

Thursday, May 19

Well, today is another day!  I slept like a log so that's great!  However, I'm moving slower than yesterday and I'm not exactly sure why.  Caffeine please!

I think I failed to mention I'm a indoor cycle instructor and I "spin" twice a week.  Tonight I have my class so I'm not really going to push any exercise this morning.  Although a quick little walk/run wouldn't do me any harm! Who knows, perhaps I'lll give it a go before I leave for work...??

So, breakfast.  Wasn't bad.  I again had a 2 egg omelet with onions and a little cheese.  1 slice of Ezekiel whole wheat bread with low fat cream cheese.  I usually use My Fitness Pal to log my food and it states (proudly) that I had 375 total calories.

Okay.  Do we BELIEVE My Fitness Pal?  Or do we BELIEVE the calorie and nutritional information on packaging?  That's a BIG question in my mind.  Let's compare...

The egg carton states each egg contains 70 calories.  I had 2 so that's 140 calories.  (YES I'm a wiz at math!)  I had 1 piece of cheese on/in my eggs. The Cracker Barrel Sharp White Cheddar package states 4 slices are 140 calories.  (To be HONEST I ate another slice while cooking) so let's say that's 70 calories.  I also had onions in my omelet but really I soooo few they really can't be over 5 calories!?

Let's math is up 140 +70+ 5= 215 according to the PACKAGING.  The Ezekiel Bread states 1 slice is 80 calories.  Neufchatel cream cheese 2 Tbsp is 70 calories but I don't THINK I had 2 Tbsps.... I'm GUESSING I had half that so I'm going to say, 35 calories

Math please.... 80 + 35= 115   Total breakfast (I might add I gave a more accurate listing of what I actually ate with the individual package listing because I didn't list the extra piece of cheese on My Fitness Pal!) is drum rollllllll
215 +115 = 330 calories for the packaging total!

Let's look at both. My Fitness Pal states 375 total breakfast calories and the packaging states 330 so that's a difference of 45 calories.  So let's go back to my original question...WHO or WHICH do we believe?  45 calories over 3 meals is 135 per day.  Does that REALLY make a difference in a day? But in a week that's 405 calorie difference.  Does that make a difference?   I don't know??

I think the answer to that is you do that best you can.  You DO try and measure and log your food until you're VERY comfortable being able to "guessestimate" portion size and hence calories consumed.  And you give yourself a bit of break now and then because we're not perfect!  We never will be...even when we (and by we I mean me.)  do lose those 8 pounds I'm TRYING to lose!