Re: Friday Report (Lota)

[Guest guest]

> Then a friend and I went out to

> lunch. I chose chicken strips,

> corn and slaw to eat. Then I came

> home and looked them up on fitday.

> They had a lot more calories than

> I thought.

I cannot understand that, Lota. None

of those things have high calorie

numbers in my book. How many did

they have according to fitday? Maybe

their figures assume that there is

a certain sauce on them or plenty of

butter.

> I just had a few calories left for

> the rest of the day. That's when I

> lost it. I thought, " I'm still

> hungry. I can't do this. " That's

> when I gave up and binged. I feel

> real badly about it. I'm going to

> pick myself up, dust myself off and

> start all over again tomorrow.

There is no known part of the human

body that measures energy intake in

daily doses, Lota. Over many millions

of years of evolution, human beings

have had to live with ample food on

one day and nothing at all the next.

Human beings are constructed to

average over many days (7 - 10 for

example). There is no logical reason

why you should give up or start again.

You just carry on and, if you want,

have a couple of lean days as a sort

of penance if it makes you feel

better. In reality, your body sees

only the average.

I believe that it is very restrictive

to assume that you have to get in a

certain amount of food before midnight

and then you start a new eating day

at breakfast the next morning or

that you are limited on a night out

on the town to exactly the same

amount as when you are sitting at

home. You will have a hard time

sticking to that in the long term.

> I'm not going to eat in the middle

> of the night for a long, long time.

I never saw any credible evidence

that there is any reason not to

eat at night occasionally. I

sometimes work at night and if I

have a meal at 4 am, I just call

it breakfast and my next meal

after I wake up at 11 am is lunch.

> I'm going to be more careful about

> what I pick to eat when I eat out.

That is always a good resolution but

I find that the important thing is

not " what " but " how much " of it!

Regards

[Guest guest]

> , the best I remember the

> chicken strips were 468 ...

Hi, Lota!

There is a recipe for chicken strips

(fajitas) at:

http://www.lowcarbfriends.com/recipes/poultry/fajitas.shtml

where they reckon that three pounds

of chicken breasts made into fajitas

gives you 1994kcal which means that

you would have had to eat about 12oz

of chicken to get 468kcal!

Fitday.com gives 234kcal for 7oz

of fajitas which they call " 1 meal "

(nearly 7oz) which is only half your

468! I would normally eat only about

3.5oz with a vegetable like corn.

> ... and a cup of corn was 600 and

> something. I figured that I had

> 1/2 cup of creamed corn.

On fitday.com I found:

" corn, cooked from fresh, with cream

sauce, made with milk " with 291kcal/cup

which makes your 1/2 cup only 145kcal

and not 600!

>I couldn't find the slaw in fitday.

They call it " cabbage salad with

dressing " and it has 270kcal/cup which

is mainly the dressing since the

cabbage itself has only 23kcal/cup.

The point is that chicken, corn and

cabbage are all healthy foods in

reasonable quantities so it would

be a pity to miss out on them.

Your meal out had only about 380kcal

without the cole slaw but if you had

a whole cup of that with dressing

then it put you up to 650kcal for

the meal which is not too much on a

night out and easy to balance out

the next day!

The moral though is: " leave off the

dressing! "

You might have beaten up on yourself

unnecessarily, Lota!

Regards