SPOILER ALERT: This story might make some of you want to vom...out of annoyance.
So yesterday, there were a few people from the other location (of our office) that were up for the day. Usually, this means a group or whoever wants to can go out to eat with them for lunch. I decided I would go yesterday, I usually don't...for this reason I'm about to tell you!
We, of course, went to Hickory Park. I was well-behaved and ordered a TINY salad (like it took me 3 bites to be done, tiny), some mashed potatoes (no gravy!), and (my fave) pickle slices! I was done with my meal a good ten minutes before everyone else.
Well...I don't usually have a craving for sweets...if anything it's Hershey's Kisses that I do crave. But I wanted ice cream so bad. I figured my meal was under 400 cal., easily. Why not get ice cream. "Cookie Crunch" shake comin' right up!
I don't think I took a breath while eating it. It was SO good...their vanilla ice cream...oohhh baby!
We got back to the office and I just felt terrible! (Mind you, I have been eating pretty well and very proportionately the last few months. <—One of my friends refers to my eating habits as that of a "bird"...haha!) The rest of the afternoon (sort of) drug on...I blame the ice cream. I brought up to someone about how many calories I thought were in the ice cream. We decided to base it off of Dairy Queens blizzard. (We went with a small because I didn't eat all of what I was given...we did add a few calories—rounded up—just to be safe.) A small Oreo blizzard at DQ is 570 calories! I seriously about s!@# myself!
If you know anything about me, I freak out when anything I eat (individually) is over 200–300 calories. Pure guilt overcame me. It annoys me when I do this to myself. You're allowed and supposed to "splurge" every once in a while, right? Sometimes, I feel as though I do this too often. :(
So anyways...I wrote down everything I ate yesterday and averaged the calories. Which, I use Livestrong's "My Plate" to keep track of my daily intake. http://www.livestrong.com/myplate/
It lets you chose what you want to do...lose or gain weight, by how much each week, ect. I'm at an average of 1600 cals, daily. That's too much for me...so I, generally, stick with 1200. As of yesterday at 4:00pm, I was at 1450 calories...seriously...Which meant, to me mentally, that I had to spend a long time at the gym last night if I wanted to have anything for supper. Welp, I did. I was at the gym for 2 hours and 45 minutes. Burning a solid 1,000+ calories. 5–5:30 was a "light" run, 5:30–6:30 was a Group Power class (weight lifting), and 6:30–7:35/45 was (my fave) Kickboxing class.
My point with this... I got on Facebook this morning to see that the gym I go to had done a post about keeping track of what you eat. I've done this since I can remember (more like in college). It talked about how if you don't know where the weight is coming from, logging what you eat may be beneficial...it may not be fun, but it definitely opens your eyes.
In all reality, keeping track of what you eat is a good thing. It can be by the link I posted above, an app, or simply writing it down in a notebook. It doesn't mean you can't eat certain things...but it definitely helps you realize what you're putting into your body. I used to believe in the "you can eat whatever your want if you work out" theory...I totally don't now.
I almost feel bad for letting things like eating ice cream, pizza, or popcorn at the movies bother my conscious. But then again, I've work really hard to get and stay where I'm at and eating such things would be silly. Especially, if I think I'm going to run more races and attempt RAGBRAI this summer...can't be doing that! I'd like to save any excess calories I can have for a glass of wine on the weekend! :) And trust me, I know I'll eat ice cream, pizza, and pop corn again in my life...I'm not saying I'm totally against it. :) I mean, that stuff is delish!
*I hope this post wasn't a downer for you. I just think that exercising and nutrition have become a very important thing in my life.
**And if you love to eat pizza, ice cream, or pop corn...you go, girl/guy! I envy you!
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