Meals for the Day - 02/13/08
It’s a good thing this cereal is tasty, because I’me ating it pretty often.
Breakfast: 265 calories, 4.5 grams fat, 44 grams carbs, 8 grams fiber, 15 grams protein
Lunch in a bento! I’d packed this cottage cheese and pineapple for Emmitt earlier in the week, but he never ate it. So, I added some carrots, celery, black olives, grape tomatoes and baby gherkins to the mix. I also used a low-carb, high-fiber tortilla to make a PB&J sandwich.
As it turned out, the pineapple had gone bad. (Well, it had gone alcoholic. I didn’t even know pineapple would do that, but wow did the bite I took have kick!) So, I ate everything BUT the pineapple and cottage cheese. (and the two carrots Emmitt stole.)
Lunch: 315 calories, 13 grams fat, 37.5 grams carbs, 15.5 grams fiber, 5.5 grams protein
My snack today was some baked honey mustard pretzel chips. They sell these things in giant bags at Costco and they’re absolutely amazing.
Snack: 165 calories, 2 grams fat, 33 grams carbs, 1.5 grams fiber, 4.5 grams protein
Dinner confirmed my thoughts that counting calories is a good idea. I’d picked up some all natural beef at the store today and let it roast for several hours. It turned into that perfect melt-in-your-mouth pot roast that used to lead me to down 12-16 oz of beef in a sitting. 
I’d also roasted some red skin potatoes, sweet and red onions and carrots in some olive oil, salt, pepper and rosemary. I had a serving of those, plus three very thin slices of the beef. When I finished, I came in to the computer to figure out what those calories added up to. Doing the math, I realized I could eat a little more beef, or I could wait and have a cookie and some milk. As much as I love beef, cookies won. 
Besides, by the time I figured out the numbers, I realized I wasn’t hungry anymore.
Dinner: 527 calories, 17 grams fat, 41 grams carbs, 6 grams fiber, 52.5 grams protein
Mmm….Kashi cookie and milk.
Snack: 220 calories, 5 grams fat, 34 grams carbs, 3 grams fiber, 10 grams protein
Exercise
Wednesday is gym day, and I’m on my new workout routine. (Gotta change it up every couple weeks.) Once again, I started off with 15 minutes on the treadmill at an 8% incline, then popped over to do weight training, then headed back to the elliptical for 25 minutes there.
Total calories burned: 450
Daily Total: 1491 calories, 41.5 grams fat, 194 grams carbs, 34 grams fiber, 87.5 grams protein
Net calories for the day: 1491 - 450 = 1041 calories
