One of the things I’ve learned over the past 10 months is that I need to shake things up with my daily tracker. In other words, I have to change the portion size, the time that I eat, and in some cases the actually food itself. Raisin bran for instance, sometimes I have crunchy and sometimes regular – I switch off. Sometimes I have black beans and sometimes red. Sometimes I eat breakfast at 6am and sometimes at 7:30am. Sometimes I drink my smoothie on the way to work and sometimes when I get there. Sometimes I have the smoothie before dinner and sometimes after. I’ve learned that the body’s energy system (a.k.a. metabolism), the internal process that burns calories and fat, works significantly better when it’s kept on its toes. I understand the reasons for that if not the mechanics – but bottom line is, if I continually adjust my tracker, it should (in theory) force my internal boiler to burn more efficiently. These adjustments aren’t always evident on the reader – but they are always there – never two identical days – regardless of what it looks like in print! Meanwhile..
Here’s
Tracker:
| STATS | |
| Journey Day: | 295 |
| Today's Calories: | 1675 |
| Daily Calorie Goal: | 1700 |
| Next Weigh In: | 11/19/2014 |
| Days till Weigh-In: | 13 |
| Starting Weight: | 351 |
| Current Weight: | 283 |
| Lost So Far: | 68 |
| Calorie Tracker | Calories | |
| THURSDAY 11/6/14 | ||
| BREAKFAST | ||
| 1.5c Rice/blk beans/ham & jalapeno bruchetta | 500 | |
| Ogranic Red/Green Romain | 0 | |
| Breakfast Calories | 500 | |
| SNACK | ||
| Ninja Blast Smoothie (fully loaded) | 150 | |
| Snack Calories | 150 | |
| LUNCH | ||
| PB&J on 16 grain | 450 | |
| Organic Red/Green Romain | 0 | |
| Lunch Calories | 450 | |
| SNACK | ||
| Banana (sm) | 75 | |
| Snack Calories | 75 | |
| DINNER | ||
| 1.5c Raisin Bran | 285 | |
| 3/4c org. 1% milk | 90 | |
| Org. Mixed greens | 0 | |
| Dinner Calories | 375 | |
| Snack | ||
| Ninja Nutra Blast Smoothie 20oz | 125 | |
| Snack Calories | 125 | |
| **Miscellaneous Calories: | ||
| Exercise | ||
| Strength Training (gym / home) | No | |
| Walking - 25 min | Yes | |
| 10 Min Stretching (& deep breathing) | Yes | |
| Total Daily Calories: | 1675 | √ |
| ***Daily Caloric Goal: | 1700 | |
| **Miscellaneous Calories: not reported on yesterday's tracker | ||
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| Daily Avg. Calories | |||
| 10/22/2014 | 1705 | ||
| 10/23/2014 | 1555 | ||
| 10/24/2014 | 2020 | ||
| 10/25/2014 | 1595 | ||
| 10/26/2014 | 1795 | ||
| 10/27/2014 | 1795 | ||
| 10/28/2014 | 1800 | ||
| 10/29/2014 | 1745 | ||
| 10/30/2014 | 1670 | ||
| 10/31/2014 | 1770 | ||
| 11/1/2014 | 2175 | ||
| 11/2/2014 | 1780 | ||
| 11/3/2014 | 1745 | ||
| 11/4/2014 | 1745 | ||
| 11/5/2014 | 1695 | ||
| 11/6/2014 | 1675 | ||
| 11/7/2014 | |||
| 11/8/2014 | |||
| 11/9/2014 | |||
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| 11/11/2014 | |||
| 11/12/2014 | |||
| 11/13/2014 | |||
| 11/14/2014 | |||
| 11/15/2014 | |||
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| 11/19/2014 | |||
| 1766.5625 | |||
