| Calories | Item consumed … | ||||||||
| 2 Perriers | |||||||||
| 110 | 1 banana | ||||||||
| 110 | 1 Activia yogurt (from Costco- either vanilla, peach, strawberry) | ||||||||
| 72 | 1 mozz cheese stick | ||||||||
| 76 | 1 apple or plum | ||||||||
| 100 | 1 can of Healthy Choice Chicken Noodle soup | ||||||||
| 130 | 1 portion of pita chips | ||||||||
| (Alternate lunch is cut up peppers with hummus + baby spinach and cucumber salad) | |||||||||
| 140 | 1 Fiber One bar (only 140 calories- PLUS 9g of fiber) | ||||||||
| 39 | 1 Apple or Pear crisps | ||||||||
| 777 | Total Calories | ||||||||
Not so bad, right? That's what I thought ... thinking that of course I would have wow- anywhere between 750 and 1000 calories to "spend" on dinner and/or an evening snack. My lunchmates, however, showed me the error of my ways by pointing out the following:
Activia yogurt- the 4 oz portions I purchased at Costco have 17g of sugar!!!
Fiber One bar- akin to a candy bar, albeit with less sugar than my yogurt at 10g
Apple Crisp- made in China, so scary to think of the chemicals ... uh oh!
And so we won't even discuss the dried blueberries I snack on either. Frustrating. Markus also explained to me that I shouldn't eat my Fiber One bar unless its immediately after a workout, this way my body will process the sugars as it replenishes glycogen levels instead of turning it into fat. I know I've learned all this before, but for some reason it seems to be making more sense to me now. Stay tuned. No group workout today so I'm beholden to drag myself to the gym on my own ... packed sneaks, downloaded a podrunner 55 minute track, and am ready to go!
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