I have some good food habits, (oi! I can hear you laughing!) I do! I eat good food - lots of veg and plenty of pulses and good dairy calcium, I just eat too much of it ! My other downfall is cheese … I really I love cheese! Its my big weakness *sigh*
So back to the eating too much, I thought as part of my pre-season I'd start to keep tabs on what I eat. Late one evenening I was doing a bit of blog surfing that had started with fellow 12WBTers blogs and ended up somewhere out in the nether reaches of the ether. I ended up at www.myfitnesspal.com ... and in my pixel fatigue I signed on up. It’s a bit off-putting that the site insists on your specs and wants to your exercise goals before you get to do anything … so a few guestimates later (this is in the time before scales) and I was underway. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the food database included the brands that I tend to eat (in fact the Trident Thai soup I had just had for dinner was the first thing I tested !) … so there must be other Aussies using the site regularly. So for a week now I have been punching the numbers … and the results are quite surprising. Even though I haven't made any drastic changes. But must confess that having to record how much all the ingredients weigh so that I can record calories made me very aware of how much I have been eating! This has considerable effect when it comes to thinking about how much to prepare - my portions have been measured out for a single meal - not even a chance of an extra spoonful on the plate or a second helping because its so yummy !!
Have you had a look at Calorie King?? I live on it!! So easy to keep track of those pesky Calories.......easy to check BEFORE you eat too....great for planning.
ReplyDeleteI only found calorie king after myfitnesspal. Have used it to look up a few generic things - like frash tofu - which don't come with nutrition labels !?
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