Check In - January 15, 2012

Well this week was better - but barely!  I did manage to track my calories every day this week. I ate out at a place without nutritional information available and ate at my parent's place but I still at least estimated my calories each day.  One thing I need to work on is tracking at the time I eat and not later in the day or even the next day.  The reason I need to track right away is I forgot about what I ate.  If I log the next day, I'll almost always forget something.  As a matter of fact, I think I forgot to add the cake and ice cream I had for my Dad's birthday on Thursday, so I now see my calories are off by at least 500.

I have not finished my eating for today, so if you look at the first 6 days I didn't do very well.  Even though I have met my goal of tracking each day (even if I did it the next day) and eating my 2 veggies a day I still have a lot of room for improvement.  As you can see, I did a terrible job of not going over my calorie allowance.  So my goal for next week I want to have no red in this bar graph for at least 3 days out of 7 next week.

I weighed in today at 185 pounds which is 2 pounds less than it was on January 1.  So maybe eating the veggies has helped a little bit because as far as I can see it isn't due to the lack of calories.