Day 5: 5th of Janaury

Benefits of Measuring Food

Today is the first day on my new weight loss programme and I decided to play a wee game when I was making meals today. I decided I wanted to see how distorted my understanding of portion control was. Below is my menu of what I had to eat today. At first I took out what I thought the correct portion size I needed, then weighted it to see how off I was. I found this as a complete eye opener as because my goal is to lose weight I thought that the portion size was a lot smaller than it should be for the vegetables. However when it came to the yoghurt, hummus and meat I complete over estimated what I should of been eating. This highlighted how much of an education I need to understand portion control. Today really drilled home the benefit of using scales, measuring cup and so on when preparing food to make sure I am getting the correct calorie intake as well as meeting the right portion size to make it 1 of my 5 a day.

Target Food Intake: 1400 Calores
Breakfast (max. 280)
2 Boil Egg White with grill Asparagus tip (50g) (61 calories)
Black Pepper (ground) (5 calories)
2 x Green Tea and Mint (4 Calories)
Total = 70 (-210 calories)

Lunch (max 420)
Greek Honey Yoghurt and Banana (252 calories)
Total = 252 (-168 Calories)

Dinner (max 420)
Gammon Slice with Salad (415 Calories)
Total = 415 (-5 Calories)

Snacks (max 280)
None
Total = 0 (-280)

I understand I am 663 calories under my daily allowance however I got up really late today meaning I had breakfast did my strength workout for the day then walked the dogs. By the time I got home from the dog walk dinner was ready so my 'lunch' was eaten as a snack a few hours before bed.