Just One More...

Over the last few days I have noticed a disturbing trend with the food servings I have been eating. I can trace it down to one glaring issue - number of servings or serving size. In each of the last four days this has been a major contributor to me going over my calorie window.

Saturday - The increase to 12 Honey Maid graham crackers from eight. Those four crackers equal one serving which equals 120 calories. I also could have saved 295 calories if I would have cut out one of the Amaretto sours.

Sunday - Small fries would have saved me 230 calories right off the bat, but again - I blame the sours for clouding my judgement. And again I went with 12 Honey Maid graham crackers and an additional 120 calories.

Monday - I wasn't as bad here. I still did the extra 4 Honey Maids again dammit (why are they so good in milk?), but also added an extra slice of my mother-in-laws homemade white bread, which was an extra 100 calories. But in her defense, that was some GOOD bread.

Today - I can point to a few things here. While I did cut down on my Honey Maid intake, I had an extra 1/2 cup of Macaroni & Cheese (160 calories) and an extra pancake (140 calories) - each of which I could have easily have passed on.

The moral of the story? Well in my case at least, if I could have cut back on just a few of the "extra" servings over the course of the week, I could have easily made my calorie window in most cases and kept my confidence at a high level. So before you go to grab that fourth pancake or order those large fries, think about it for at least 3 seconds and realize that a minor portion adjustment can be a huge calorie difference.

WorkoutUnless you call working on the van (without much success) a workout - there was none. Tomorrow will be elliptical day because there is no damn way I am running four miles in 20 degree weather. I still have more work to do on the van tomorrow, but that is another day.

Diet

Time	Description	Calories
1:00am	Del Monte sliced peaches	100
3:00am	1 cup Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate	80
4:30am	1 Apple	110
9:30am	86 Goldfish pretzels	260
	2 Honey Maid graham crackers	60
2:00pm	1 slice of homemade white bread	100
3:15pm	1 1/2 cups Macaroni & Cheese w/ peas	480
4:00pm	8 Honey Maid graham crackers	240
	1 cup 2% milk	130
7:30pm	4 pancakes	560
	2 potato pancakes	180
	7oz. Pepsi Throwback	87.5
ALL DAY	10 pieces of Orbit sugar-free gum	40
	4 cups coffee (black)	28
	TOTAL CALORIES	2455.5