And that makes 4 days posting in a row!
Again, focusing on food this week, I … failed a bit. The bf did me no favors and went to Costco to get a few things for him and came back with a 12-pack of croissants. Lacking any control, I ate 3 of them. Those mo’fo’s are 300 calories each. So, what am I doing?
The old me would conveniently “forget” to count them. The new me is making sure I count them this week, but … I’m putting one on Thursday and two on Saturday. That works with the other food planned.
So … if we ignore that slight cheating, I “hit my goals” for today, Wednesday, at 100% of my calories (1730), 97% fat (56 gms), 101% carbs (154 gms *cough*) and 99% protein (150 gms).
I’m running now up against my weekly limit on carbs (101% projected), doing well on protein (99%), and very well on fat (83%). It was a bit foolish of me to plan both chicken biryani and pad se ew in the same week, since both are very high in carbs (≈60–65 gms each serving). But, the problem is that I have more with meal planning to try to take into consideration now … this is what I have to try to balance:
- One meal heavy and one meal lighter in carbs each day, so balancing biryani with a stir fry, for example.
- One meal heavy on protein and one lighter, or two that are medium-high (so orange chicken has 60 gms protein per serving, while gingery beef has 35 gms).
- Not having too much red meat in the week (1x or 2x, max).
- And the new constraint to balance is that the bf has to go into work and wants to bring in left-overs, so I have to plan meals during the week that have left-overs that are easy to pack and eat at work, like biryani or a stir fry.
Add to that remembering what to get at the grocery, and having to rearrange things last-minute like yesterday. That’s I think what led to moving up the biryani by two days which leads to the slight carb warning level. Oh well …
At least the scale went down again today!
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