Someone recently introduced me to the concept of “mindful eating”.
The art of enjoying a meal to the fullest. I took the suggestion to heart and now I eat slower and enjoy
every bite - yum. I enjoy all the colors, the aromas, the textures. I even enjoy
preparing my meals. I'm using more spices and variety of ingredients. Oh, I even love putting together my menu plan and corresponding
shopping list. It wasn’t too long ago that I was a completely
mindless eater. I paid very little
attention to calorie counts or how I was eating. I only enjoyed comfort foods and needed too much of them to keep satisfied. An example: last night I
made bbq chicken wings. I checked the bottle of honey bbq sauce for the
calories and it has 60 per 2 tbsp. Wow! I put 3 tbsps into a ramican and used a
basting brush to coat all the wings – and then once again after 20 min of
baking... they were delicious.
Rewind 60
days. The same meal – I would have poured the entire bottle of
sauce into a bowl and marinated for 24 hours – then placed the saturated wings
onto a baking sheet with additional basting every few minutes until all the
sauce was gone. The meal I just described would have been several hundred
calories in sauce alone. Totally obscene. So many empty calories... for bbq sauce...
Well, I’m happy to report that I had a mindful day, I did some exercise too. I
walked more than 60 minutes at the outlets (after seeing Liam’s new movie – a
big two thumbs up). I can attest that time
flies when you’re walking for fun. J
The Tracker:
| Calorie Tracker | Calories | ||
| SUNDAY 3/2/14 | |||
| Breakfast 8:30am | |||
| English muffin | 110 | ||
| *2 jones canadian bacon | 40 | ||
| 1 egg scrambled | 60 | ||
| 1 pat butter | 36 | ||
| *Romaine - no dressing | 0 | ||
| *Coffee | 50 | ||
| Breakfast Calories | 296 | ||
| Snack | |||
| M&M Peanuts | 250 | ||
| water | 0 | ||
| Snack Calories | 250 | ||
| Lunch | |||
| Grilled Chicken sandwich | 370 | ||
| Sm. Fries (Wendy's) OMG! | 310 | ||
| Bottle water | 0 | ||
| Lunch Calories | 680 | ||
| Snacks | |||
| *Coffee | 50 | ||
| Apple | 60 | ||
| Snack Calories | 110 | ||
| Dinner | |||
| 1.5c Raisin Bran | 285 | ||
| 3/4c Skim Plus | 83 | ||
| 1c Rice, Beans, Ham steak, onions, peppers | 180 | ||
| Dinner Calories | 548 | ||
| Snack | |||
| *Coffee | 50 | ||
| Kind Bar | 200 | ||
| Snack Calories | 250 | ||
| Exercise | |||
| 1 Hour Walking | <240> | ||
| Total Daily Calories | 1894 | ||
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IF: 3 of 12 items = positive
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| Daily Blog URL - March 2014 | DATE | TDC | |
| http://loriliny.blogspot.com/2014/03/no-pain-just-gain-total-daily-calories_27.html | 1-Mar | 1766 | |
| http://loriliny.blogspot.com/2014/03/mind-your-business-total-daily-calories.html | 2-Mar | 1894 | |
