Food Diary

You know how, when you're trying to lose weight, one of the recommendations is to keep a food diary? The theory is that you'll eat less if you have to write it down.

I tried that once. It worked for about four days, until I had a food meltdown and was too embarrassed to write down everything I ate on the fifth day. Instead of eating less, I just wrote less in my food diary.

Yep, I confess: I only wrote down the good days.

Which is maybe why I still have a lingering ten pounds or so I'd like to shed. Honestly, today was one of those days I would never have written down in my food diary. So why am I writing it down on my blog? Who knows, other than perhaps the thought of public humiliation might stop me on my next day when I am consumed by uncontrollable munchies?

Probably not. I just won't blog about it again. But I'm feeling brave, or stupid, or just on the edge of a self-induced food coma, so here I am, posting today's food diary:

• chocolate sheet cake for breakfast. Seriously! I make the pioneer woman sheet cake (if I weren't spiraling towards a sugar crash I'd totally post the link) which has, seriously, nearly two pounds of butter. This was cake #1 yesterday for our family barbecue.
• then, to feel a little bit more nutritious, I also had a bowl of raisin bran.
• blueberry sour cream pound cake for an after-church snack. I was thinking about this cake all throughout the last meeting. It was cake #2 yesterday, and not as many people liked it, so I had more left overs.
• 18 Cheezitz
• 1 slice of muenster cheese
• 1 baby bell cheese
• another slice of blueberry sour cream pound cake
• 8 baby carrots to counteract the two slices of cake
• 2 cheese roll ups (actually, Kendell helped me eat these, so I really only had about 1 1/3. Redemption!)
• 1 small scoop of pasta salad and 1/2 of a garlic bread stick for dinner, which I mostly ate just to keep company with the kids
• 1 can of Pepsi

See. Told you. A shameful, shameful food day. Haley made me feel a bit better when she pointed out that I am training for a big race, and I'm running tons of miles a week. Until I counted and realized...20 miles a week isn't exactly tons.

But tons might be the direction I am headed toward if I have more days like today. Tomorrow I must get back on the eat-healthy thing.

Comments

[Apryl]

Frosted mini-wheats. Chicken curry and rice. 1/2 a chocolate muffin (Costco size. Which = 2 regular muffins...) Swedish candy from Ikea. 5 slices of Pepper-Jack Cheese. Pretzels. Tuna fish sandwich. Cadburry egg. Tums.

[cris]

I love this post.... and I hate the food diary.... I notice I get through about 1/2 the day and then don't record the rest - ha! :) I love that you shared because I have these days - more often than I'd like to admit.... yesterday.... i would have been ok with what I ate, but then at 9pm I no longer could resist the package of chips ahoy cookies that had been left on my desk by one of the kids (evil child!) and that was the end of any self control that i had.... what makes i worse is that I would never think "man, if I could only have a chips ahoy cookie right now!". I consumed a number that I am just not willing to share! And then my day was a little ruined and I went to bed.:( today is better!

[Jenna]

I only lasted about two days on my food diary since last Wednesday. Milton crackers & almond butter were my biggest temptation yesterday. I have figured out a reset button for my diet & it helps the next day - I have a cup of oatmeal with an apple & two eggs for breakfast. I am so stuffed that I can't even fathom eating crap until after noon. I still have horrible days when I can't fill my stomach more frequently than I would like.

[Britt]

That sounds like an excellent meal plan to me! Now please pass the Pepsi!

I've never been diligent enough to keep track of what I eat. I probably SHOULD join Weight Watchers, but who wants to do all that point adding and crap? Not to mention the time and effort it takes to figure out how many points everything is worth. I'm just too lazy for all that food tracking. Who has the time?

[Janssen]

Mmm, blueberry anything. . .

[Helena]

Mmmm...cheese....