- May 28, 2007
- 15,995
- 1,686
- 126
I carefully track and control my calories, it's worked pretty well so far, I've lost thirty pounds and plan to lose at least another twenty.
Yesterday my sister flew into town with my brother in law and my four month old niece. I drove up to my folks place to visit, and my mother served lasagna.
I had no way of knowing what went into it so I was very conservative, charging myself 1000 calories for a modest portion. 'No big deal', I thought, 'I'll miss a few calories but get right back on track tomorrow.' This has happened before.
I stayed the night, but had to get up early to go to work. 6 AM, in fact. Well, my dad gets up before me and makes me steel cut oats (he's really into that). I was planning on just declining since I eat 3 eggs and cottage cheese every morning, but I realized that I really couldn't say "no dad, I don't care that you got up at 5:30 AM to make me oatmeal, put it back in the pot." So I ate the goddamn oatmeal. Of couse, I have no idea how many calories that is either, so I charged myself almost 400 calories.
TLDR: I could eat my fucking shoes I'm so hungry right now. I'm still a half hour from lunch, and I doubt my hunger will really fade for a while since I keep myself in a significant caloric defecit. So I'll still be hungry after lunch, after dinner, and probably not until I have breakfast tomorrow will I start to feel a little better.
Yesterday my sister flew into town with my brother in law and my four month old niece. I drove up to my folks place to visit, and my mother served lasagna.
I had no way of knowing what went into it so I was very conservative, charging myself 1000 calories for a modest portion. 'No big deal', I thought, 'I'll miss a few calories but get right back on track tomorrow.' This has happened before.
I stayed the night, but had to get up early to go to work. 6 AM, in fact. Well, my dad gets up before me and makes me steel cut oats (he's really into that). I was planning on just declining since I eat 3 eggs and cottage cheese every morning, but I realized that I really couldn't say "no dad, I don't care that you got up at 5:30 AM to make me oatmeal, put it back in the pot." So I ate the goddamn oatmeal. Of couse, I have no idea how many calories that is either, so I charged myself almost 400 calories.
TLDR: I could eat my fucking shoes I'm so hungry right now. I'm still a half hour from lunch, and I doubt my hunger will really fade for a while since I keep myself in a significant caloric defecit. So I'll still be hungry after lunch, after dinner, and probably not until I have breakfast tomorrow will I start to feel a little better.
