Breakfast was whole milk yogurt drizzled with local honey, a piece of wheat toast with butter, and some clementines.
And, because I realized that I haven't really shared my new living space here (mostly because the kitchen sucks) here's where we eat now:
My husband still isn't 100% sold on having the front room of our home as a semi-formal dining room, but there's nowhere else to put the table and I think it looks AWESOME and I'm not going to move it, so suck it up honey- there's a couch and a tv in the basement. Plus we can play LP's (when the needle on the record player isn't broken) without getting up from the table.
I had a banana for a snack but I was too lazy to take a picture of it.
For lunch I made this salad, and then trucked around with it until I got hungry enough to eat it. This bowl is a Martha Stewart pyrex bowl that comes with a fitted lid- I just carry it around like regular tupperware most of the time. This is one of my most treasured kitchen items- I can bake in it, use it like tupperware, freeze stuff in it, store things in the fridge. My mom (who bought it for me as a wedding gift, in a set with other sizes/shapes) and sister both have the same set, and if we ever bring food to a family function in the dishes, we always make a huge deal about getting ours back.
I didn't eat much after lunch- just a heart thrive bar- those things kind of suck but they sell them at my work and they're handy, and low glycemic index hippie business, blah blah, so I eat them when I'm hard up.
I was so hungry I forgot to take a picture of my dinner until I was almost done eating it:
A black bean burrito with lightly sauteed spinach, avocado, sour cream, cheese, and salsa. After dinner I had a few squares of dark chocolate, and just a few minutes ago, at like 9 o'clock, I had a piece of toast with peanut butter. REALLY EXCITING STUFF, RIGHT?
I posted all this garbage for 2 reasons- first, I thought the photos were nice, haha. Second, I wanted to illustrate what it looks like to eat on a limited number of calories. Since I got all gung-ho about calorie counting, I've sort of invested all my OCD energies into it and I'm like measuring all my portions with little cups and tablespoon things and the whole thing feels kind of ridiculous, but I feel like I'm teaching myself how to eat less, and that's a pretty valuable lesson to learn. It took me almost a full week of eating like this before I wasn't COMPLETELY STARVING TO DEATH ALL DAY but it's been over a month of diligent calorie recording and I'm doing a pretty good job of keeping track of everything, I think. I have a chalkboard in my kitchen and I just jot down the calorie amounts of everything I eat all day. If you care, the final countdown of all this stuff I posted is 1701 calories. I don't count grams fat or carbohydrates and shit like that, I just try to balance out what I'm eating so it's not all the same types of food all day. One thing that I'm really trying to stay away from is falling into the trap of "Low Calorie Dieting." I see it all the time, and I think it's the worst way to live.
A good example, since I'm a barista- is the NONFAT LATTE DRINKER. I'm not going to go on a tangent about my customers, (nobody wants to get dooced) especially knowing that at least a few of them are readers (hey dudes!), but I think it's safe to say that nonfat latte drinkers fall into the same category as diet coke people, or really anyone who is so afraid to eat LESS than they normally do, they'll find any way to fill themselves up on lower calorie junk. You can totally lose weight this way- I've seen people do it, but it can't FEEL good. Nobody ever looks happy when they spit out, "NONFAT MILK, please." (But the lady who comes in and asks for heavy cream in her drip coffee- she's always pretty smiley. And she's skinny, too.) The thing that's funny about it is that the calorie difference when you remove fat is usually pretty negligible. For instance, the yogurt that I buy (Nancy's) comes in different fat contents. I buy the plain whole milk yogurt, because it's thick and satisfying and creamy, but it's like 180 calories per cup. One day my husband accidentally bought the lowfat version and it's still like 150 calories per cup. NO THANKS, GUYS- I'll take the fat and the 30-calorie hit. I only eat it a half a cup at a time anyway.
Anyway- I'm rambling. Blah blah blah, smaller portions of more satisfying food, live long and prosper, etc. (By the way I've lost 5 pounds since Christmas! WOO HOO.)
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