Wednesday Calorie Count

This Wednesday it's all about the numbers. The calorie numbers.  I'm going to use my daily food journal as part of What I Ate Wednesday, hosted by Jen at Peas & Crayons, to show my actual calorie numbers for a day of eating.


Yesterday I did a post on "What is a healthy diet?" Today I'm taking it a step further and showing my own calorie count.


Today's overall calorie count: 1,804


I used MyFitnessPal online to track my calories.  It is fairly simple to use, however I don't like that it doesn't show vitamin intake for the day.


Here's how my meals broke down:

Breakfast 

Julie's Baked Oatmeal + Blackberries + Coffee

Lunch

Rotisserie chicken + roasted red potatoes + snap peas

Dinner

Egg/Hashbrown crock pot casserole + salad + raw bell pepper

This is an odd and carb heavy dinner for me to have.  I made it, because I'm thinking of cooking for our Easter brunch and needed to test the recipe.

Snacks

Snack 1

Banana + Starbucks coffee with soy milk

Snack 2 - Post-Workout

Chocolate GAT Prolein shake w/ water

Clif-Z Bar

Snack 3

Honey Nut Chex

Snack 4

Rice cake + almond butter

Small red apple

 Total Calories: 1,804

Obviously this is an estimate and I would guess a low estimate.  

My calories were probably really around 2,000. It's hard to estimate grams of items in a recipe like the backed oatmeal. As I suspected I had too much protein and carbs and my fat intake was low.  We need far less protein than most of us eat....but...I keep on eating protein because I find it helps me maintain my weight.

If you're reading this and thinking, "How many calories do I need?" I hear ya.  That's the key question.

And....I'm going to have a whole post about that on Thursday (tomorrow)!!! Sorry for the tease, but it's a lot of information so I wanted to give it due space

How do you count your calories? Do you?

Love and the numbers game,

Carissa & Kyle