Yesterday I mentioned that counting calories wasn't serving me very well...This is why: For lunch yesterday I had a leftover 6" meatball marinara sub from Subway. When I got it, I knew it wasn't the best choice, and it's odd because I almost always get a Veggie Delite, but it sounded good. So I looked up the nutritional info and found out it was 580 calories. Not so great, but manageable. Well, in WW+ terms it's 15 points, which is horrible! To put it into perspective, I'm shooting for a ~1400 calorie day, so that's less than half of my calorie limit. Well my 'allowed' WW+ points are 27, so that makes it well over half of my points. I feel like since there are more criteria dictating a 'point' it's probably the better system to use.
On a semi-related note, I found this great resource, with WW points for all sorts of different alcoholic drinks. Remember I said I wasn't sure how many points the wine would cost me? Well, now I am (4 points for a generous glass of cab)!
Weight this morning: 203. Happy to lose over 3 pounds in a day, but it's probably mainly being less bloated in general.
This morning I made a pumpkin smoothie (5 points) for breakfast, which was delicious. There's a good chance my points were slightly different, as I used soy milk instead of skim, etc., but we'll go with it. For lunch, I had leftover tortellini with meat sauce, and a hunk of baguette. This threw me off worse than the meatball sub yesterday. I wasn't able to weigh it, so I guessed at portions and plugged the ingredients into The Daily Plate, and when I plugged in the carbs, fiber, protein, & fat into the WW+ point calculator, it came up 16! This is horrifying, mainly because for a dinner portion I probably would usually eat 2-3 times as much as I brought for lunch. That's where changing my mind set comes into play.
I usually tend to eat fairly 'healthy', not a lot of junk food, no pop, etc....but I've always overeaten. I have always known this, but I'm just now starting to understand the degree. I am feeling pretty grossed out by it, and now I have the challenge again of finding a sub-7 point dinner. Luckily, I was already planning to make some chicken noodle soup for a coworker, and soup is usually a pretty safe option. I think since it's mainly veggies, broth, and chicken breast, it'll come out pretty safe. Safe enough to sneak some wine in again? ;)
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