Alan H's 2012-2013 OFF-season log

[Alan H]

Yeah, no way milk has the same calories as a bottle of chardonnay.


Have you ever checked out sparkpeople.com?
They have a good food/fitness tracker.

I agree with both of you. Something ain't right, here. I do not remember my mornings being filled with 1200 calorie breakfasts, but hell if that's not what the calorie-counter told me. Gonna have to go back and check this thing.

The only real reason that I'm going with this website is that generally, I'm a pretty boring eater, and about 2/3rds of my regular foods are already in my personalized database.

[o1d_dude]

1/2 cup is a serving of oatmeal.

1/4 cup of raisins is a serving.

Sprinkle cinnamon on it for taste. A LOT of cinnamon.

Salad dressing can be high in calories, too. Especially if you use a "real" serving of it. Cheese is high in cals as well.

[Alan H]

**snarl** .... stupid calorie counter is dog slow with my network connection from home. I've entered in stuff 3x and it's not getting added to my journal. ()*&^#$ USELESS. This is pissing me off.

Breakfast is the same everyday: 1 cup dry oatmeal, cooked....1/3rd cup of raisens....1 cup nonfat milk. That is supposedly 893 calories.

Lunch was good, pretty paleo. Bottle of flavored tea, 100 cals. "salad" with about 2 cups of raw spinach, two decent sized slices of chicken breast, the equivalent of one whole marinated tomato...some tofu in there with the tomatos. That's it. Virtuous.

Dinner was out with friends at a local restaurant that specializes in "comfort food" and was a disaster. Starter of mac and cheese ( had about half a cup of it) then a burger and fries. I didn't eat half the burger bun. And a Guinness, for the vitamins.

I ate a bagel in the afternoon because someone gave it to be, and it was free. Bad.

Now, if the flippin' online journal would let me add the damn food... GRRRRR. this is what I remember from last year, it just takes for-EVER to log this stuff. I could probably do it faster, manually.

[MacFhearchair]

1 cup dry oatmeal: 311 calories
1/3 cup raisins: 166 calories
1 cup skim milk: 86 calories

Total: 563 calories

Your calorie counter is wack.

[o1d_dude]

1 cup dry oatmeal: 311 calories
1/3 cup raisins: 166 calories
1 cup skim milk: 86 calories

Total: 563 calories

Your calorie counter is wack.

1/2 cup dry old fashioned oatmeal - 150 cal
1/4 cup raisins - 130 cal
1 cup skim milk - 90 cal

Total: 370 calories

Use measuring cups for consistency.

This is my daily starter.

I normally down a glass of orange juice (110 cal) or cherry juice (130 cal) with this so my total calories for the average breakfast runs from 480 to 500 calories.

[RogerWS76]

OR ... walk briskly three miles a day. You will be astounded when everything starts feeling better!!!

[Alan H]

The Luminous Joan is not on board with this LOLOL.

Breakfast...the usual oatmeal, raisens and nonfat milk, all measured out. Which is somewhere between 400-800 calories, depending on which calorie counter you check in with. I may just give this calorie logging thing up, and just be good/paleo.

Lunch was a PB&J sandwich on Miltons bread with a mess of stuff in it.

Dinner was the Luminous Joans aunt and uncle over. I ate too much. This is a Big Deal in upper case letters for The Luminous, as we NEVER have people over. So she goes whole-hog on the cooking. That's enough information. Suffice it to say that there was sugar-free ice cream involved.

This morning, the usual breakfast. I will have approx. 1 cup of cooked steak for lunch, and that's it.

Sunday I drove out to Modesto and picked up a MAJOR score on weights. Some guy that I don't know who threw during the late 90's, had left his gear at his house post-divorce. Apparently it's been the better part of a decade and the Mrs. is sick of looking at the things. So Tim C's brother went out there and picked them up and stored them in his garage until I could get out there.....which was Sunday.