January 23, 2010
Nutrition for 2010-01-22
Breakfast2x slices of Sara Lee Oat bread with Country Crock spread (320c)
Lunch
6x Chicken Nuggets (252c)
Dinner
Plate of mac and cheese (380c)
Snack
4x Cans of HFCS-Free Mt. Dew (680c)
3 servings Blue Diamond Wasabi & Soy Almonds (510c)
Total: 1190
Total cals for day: 2142
Labels: food
Nutrition for 2010-01-21
Breakfast2x slices of Sara Lee Oat bread with Country Crock spread (320c)
1/2 cup mixed berries (45c)
Total: 365
Lunch
McDonald's Angus Mushroom & Swiss (770c)
McDonald's Medium Fries (380c)
McDonald's Medium orange drink (240c)
Total: 1390
Dinner
Brat (200c)
1/4 cup small curd cottage cheese (120c)
Total: 320
Total cals for day: 2075
Labels: food
Nutrition for 2010-01-20
Breakfast1/2 cup mixed fruit (45c)
1 beef sausage patty (150c)
Total: 195
Lunch
3 slices Pizza Hut Dan's original (1020c)
Dinner
3 slices Pizza Hut Dan's original (1020c)
Total cals for day: 2235
Labels: food
Nutrition for 2010-01-19
Breakfast2x slices of Sara Lee Oat bread with Country Crock spread (320c)
2x Beef sausage patties (300c)
1/2 cup mixed fruit (45c)
Total cals: 665
Lunch
Culvers hot dog (386c)
Dinner
1/4 cup small curd cottage cheese (120c)
2x slices of Sara Lee Oat bread with Country Crock spread (320c)
6x Chicken Nuggets (252c)
Total cals: 692
Total cals for day: 1743
Labels: food
Nutrition for 2010-01-18
Breakfast1/2 cup blueberries (35c)
Lunch
Taco Bell steak grilled stuft burrito (640c)
Taco Bell chilli cheese burrito (370c)
Total: 1010
Dinner
Beer Brat on toast with mixed cheese (380c)
1 slice of Sara Lee Oat bread with Country Crock spread (160c)
1/4 cup blueberries (18c)
Total: 558
Total cals for day: 1603
Labels: food
Nutrition for 2010-01-14
LunchSandwich (700c?)
Dinner
Ribs (500c)
Other stuff (300c?)
Total cals for day: 1500?
Once again, eating at conference so I'm not really sure what I'm really eating.
Labels: food
Nutrition for 2010-01-15
BreakfastBlueberry muffin (420c)
Lunch
2x Generic tacos (1000c?)
Dinner
Messy airport dinner bagel (1000c?)
Total cals for day: 2420
Once again I'm not sure exactly how many cals were in lunch or dinner. I'm guessing roughly based on feeling relative to other foods.
Labels: food
Nutrition for 2010-01-16
BreakfastMcdonalds McSkillet (610c)
Large Orange Juice (250c)
Hash brown (150c)
Total cals: 1010
Lunch
Sandwich (400c)
Lays classic potato chips (150c)
Total cals: 550
Dinner
Taco Bell Beef Grilled Stuft burrito (730c)
Total cals for day: 2290
Labels: lunch
Nutrition for 2010-01-17
Breakfast1/2 cup of mango chunks (60c)
Lunch
9 pices chicken nuggets (378c)
1/2 cup of mango chunks (60c)
Total cals for day: 498
Is this really all I ate?
Labels: food
Nutrition for 2010-01-13
Breakfast2x pancakes with maple syrup (298c)
Lunch
Subway 6 inch turkey melt, vinager salt chips, orange fanta (910c)
Dinner
Rodizio salad and meat (1200c? Wild guess)
Total cals for day: 2408
Labels: food
January 22, 2010
Nutrition for 2010-01-12
Breakfast2x Beef sausage patties (300c)
1 cup blueberries and mango chunks (71c)
Total: 371
Lunch
Airplane sandwich, cookie, chips (600c?)
Total: 600
Total cals for day: 971
Labels: food
January 12, 2010
Caloric intake tracking
I have been running a sort of experiment for the past week to see if I can learn to pay attention to what I eat. Every day I recorded what I ate, which meal period I ate it in, and how many calories I consumed.Perhaps I should have titled those notes “consumption” instead of “nutrition” as I did not record any breakdown of nutrients.
Here is a chart of the number of calories I consumed per day for the past eight days.
I think the chart will become more useful after I record a few more weeks of data.
Specifically, I want to see if my caloric intake is cyclical and if it is cyclical discover what its frequency is so I can compensate.
If I can predict that I'll be more hungry than usual on a specific day I can pack a bag of frozen fruit or something instead of doubling up on fast food.
The overall good news from this experiment is I think I'm learning to recognize the correlation between portion size and calories.
What I can comfortably eat in one sitting rarely goes over 800 cals unless it is extra sugary.
A ice cream type treat or general confections are a example of something that can easily take me over 800 cals in a meal sitting but they are not as appealing to me as they once were.
Nutrition for 2010-01-10
Breakfast10x Whole Strawberries (450c)
3x Beef sausage patties (450c)
Total cals for day: 900
I seem to recall waking up, Playing World of Warcraft, eating breakfast, playing some more, and then going back to bed. Blame it on sleep debt from last week.
Labels: food
Nutirition for 2010-01-11
Breakfast9x Chicken Nuggets (378c)
Total cals: 378
Snack
2x Quick Trip glazers doughtnuts (380c)
Total cals: 380
Lunch
Taco Bell Steak grilled stuft burrito (325c)
Total cals: 325
Snack
McDonalds Brat (guess 400c)
McDonalds medium fries (380c)
Total cals: 780
Dinner
11x Chicken Nuggets (462c)
Total cals: 462
Total cals for day: 2325
I should have had more fruit and less chicken for dinner.
Labels: food
Nutrition for 2010-01-09
Breakfast9x Chicken Nuggets (378c)
9x Whole strawberries (405c)
Total cals: 783
Snack
9x Whole strawberries (405c)
Total cals: 405
Lunch
1x Peanut butter and Jelly sandwich (300c)
Can of Cambells Select Harvest Potato Broccoli Cheese soup (300c)
Total cals: 600
Dinner
1x Peanut butter and Jelly sandwich (300c)
Total cals: 600
Total cals for day: 1788
The Cambells soup was bland.
Labels: food
January 10, 2010
Nutrition for 2010-01-08
Breakfast6x Chicken Nuggets (252c)
Total cals: 252
Dinner
McDonalds Brat (guess 400c)
McDonalds medium fries (380c)
Total cals: 780
Dinner
2x Hu Hot noodle plate (guess 800c)
Total cals: 800
Total cals for day: 1832
Labels: food
Nutrition for 2010-01-07
Breakfast2x slices of Sara Lee Oat bread with Country Crock spread (320c)
1 cup blueberry, banana, peach, strawberry mix (70c)
2x Beef sausage patties (300c)
1 cup ConAgra Southwestern style egg beaters mix (30c)
Total: 720
Lunch
Subway 12 inch Big Philly Cheesesteak (618c)
Total: 618
Dinner
9x Chicken nuggets (378c)
Total: 378
Total cals for day: 1716
Sausage and Chicken Nuggets are all Walmart store brand. Fruit is Dole frozen fruit bags.
The liquid egg mix was nasty. I think the problem was I tried making it in a microwave oven instead of on a skillet. There were microwave instructions on the carton, which I followed, but the result was such that I threw out ¾ of the finished mixture.
Labels: food
January 07, 2010
Nutrition for 2010-01-06
Breakfast1x Domino's Buffalo Chicken sandwich (841c)
4x Domino's Buffalo Chicken kickers (210c)
Total cals: 1051
Lunch
2x slices of Sara Lee Oat bread with Country Crock spread (320c)
1x Campbell's Baked Potato with Cheddar & Bacon Bits (380c)
Total cals: 700
Total cals for day: 1751
Labels: food
January 05, 2010
Nutrition for 2010-01-05
Breakfast2x Beef sausage patties (300c)
1 cup blueberry, banana, peach, strawberry mix (70c)
2 cups grape juice (320c)
Total cals: 690
Lunch
Angie B'z wrap - chicken, bacon, lettuce, tomato, other stuff, some dressing (guess 900c)
Angie B'z Chicken Tortila soup bowl (guess 800c)
Total cals: 1700 I guess. No apparent info but it can't be good. Work bonus lunch again.
Snack
Small Dairy Queen Turtle Pecan Cluster Blizzard (700c)
Total cals: 700
Dinner
McDonalds Brat (guess 400c)
McDonalds medium fries (380c)
Total cals: 780
Total cals for day: 3790
Today was not so good. I work up late and didn't have enough time to cook scrambled eggs.
Lunch was bad, again. I don't know the official cal count so I'm guessing but it was a bit much again. It was yummy but I should have ditched the soup. Snack was just one of those group things. I usually have a DQ Blizzard every quarter year so this one will count for December, January, and February.
Labels: food
Nutrition for 2010-01-04
Breakfast2x Beef sausage patties (300c)
1 cup blueberry, banana, peach, strawberry mix (70c)
2 cups grape juice (320c)
Total cals: 690
Lunch
Work bought Taco Bell for everyone due to daily sales reward program.
1x Steak Burrito Supreme (380c)
1x Steak Quesadilla (510c)
Total cals: 890
Dinner
Walmart store brand canned Spaghetti & Meatballs (560c)
2x slices of Sara Lee Oat bread with Country Crock spread (320c)
Total cals: 880
Total cals for day: 2460
Pretty much what I'm aiming for so far as food. I should have added scrambled eggs for breakfast and had mixed veggies for lunch instead of the Steak Quesadilla.
I think I'm doing OK so far on avoiding HFCS.
Labels: food
January 04, 2010
Social Security
I recieved a letter from the Social Security Administration the other day.It said I'm more than half way to having paid in enough to retire. I turn 25 in three months.
Then then the letter said I can't start collecting until I'm 67 and that without changes by congress there wouldn't be any (or as much) money for me when I became eligible to collect.
Here I was thinking that I could retire at 30, use Social Security to pay for rent & food, and do a startup without worrying about a job.
This is, of course, yet another way the older generation takes unsustainable advantage of the following generations.
This is discounting the availability of Social Security in case of disability. I'm not sure what I think of that yet but I do think it should be moved into whatever National Health scheme we end up with.
Labels: taxes