I've attempted the exercising, the dieting, the carb counting. But it always was too easy to think I was eating healthy and then ruin it.
I mean, do you know what 2oz of vermicelli noodles, dry, looks like?
How about 2oz of lunch meat?
Yeah, exactly.
A year ago I purchased a scale for the kitchen. This thing is spiffy and comes with a booklet containing a list of foods and corresponding codes. The codes are for the food you are weighing, so if you enter it then the display looks like a nutrition guide label on the side of a box of crackers.
I used it twice. Then packed it to bring here.
Well, Monday I unpacked it, and it's been used 2-3 times a day. I am making sure that my portions are what should be an actual portion. I am making sure the chicken breast I eat is exactly accounted for and not just estimated to be about a certain size.
And it's all on an Excel spreadsheet.
I've color coded breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. I total the calories, carbs, protein, fiber, and net carbs each day.
I even added a column to put my glucose levels after eating each meal so I can see the numbers each day.
Will this last? I really don't know.
But even if documenting every last drop of food I intake doesn't, I am getting a sense for portion sizes.
And I am using that for both our dinners.
I actually took the time to measure out 2 servings of dry pasta last night, 1 serving of sauce, and used just that. We split that with a chicken breast each, coated with Italian seasoning, Parmesan cheese, and garlic powder, and we were both happy.
The other major bonus:
Last night after seeing a movie, A asked if I wanted to have dessert someplace. I was able to tell him I had reached my calorie numbers for the day and would have to plan for another night.
And he was completely okay with coming home to snack on a Popsicle.
Now to add back in the exercise at a steady level....
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