My sister emailed me this morning and asked me to start counting calories for her and report back to her in a couple of days. I went to the kitchen a few minutes ago to get me something to eat for breakfast. I followed the suggested serving size of Raisin Bran which is 1 cup and also 1 cup of milk. To my surprise that is approximately the amount that I would have normally ate. The only problem with the cereal is the milk, we only have 2% milk in the house. I suspect that is something that will have to change.

There are two numbers, Calories and then Calories from fat. I don’t know if I’m suppose to add both of these numbers together or if I should just jot down the calories of each item. The Raisin Bran has 190 calories per cup and 15 calories per cup from fat. I also had 1 cup of Mayfield 2% reduced fat milk with my cereal which has 360 calories per cup. TOTAL CALORIES FOR BREAKFAST: 550 (I think).

According to that, on a 1,000 calorie diet I would not survive! However, I have heard that most people, men in particular, need 3,000 calories.

What is everyone else’s thought on this?

EDIT 1: I forgot to mention, she also asked me to buy a food scale. Don’t exactly know what it will be used for other than measuring food.

EDIT 2: Do I include tea in my calories if I don’t put sugar into it?

EDIT 3: I was wrong. The milk only has 130 calories per cup. That changes my breakfast total to 320 calories. I also called and asked my sister about the tea, she said I could count it as water as long as it had no calories or sugar in it. That won’t be a problem as long as I drink this green tea that Dace bought me for Christmas. With it, I don’t need sugar, it’s flavorful enough. Before I got off the phone, my sister said she set up a “Sparkle” account for me, she told me not to look at it until I figured out the calories, so, I guess it’s like a weight loss help site.

I’ll be getting paid for some projects I’ve been working on in a few weeks. When I do, I’m going to be upgrading my hosting account at GoDaddy which means that this blog will have to die. LOL, ok, I am kidding. No, I am really enjoying this blog and in fact, when I upgrade my hosting account I’ll be able to host an unlimited number of domains on my account, so, I was thinking I’d move this blog over to its own domain. I’m looking for suggestions as to which domain would be best for this blog.

Expect a post from me tomorrow, I’m sure you’ll enjoy the topic!

Want some pizza but stuck on a diet? Try vegetable pizza! I know the bread, the cheese and the ranch dressing are the most healthy but I seriously think it is a lot healthier than TONS of cheese and meats, which is normally how I prepare my pizza!

The piece of meat beside the vegetable pizza is bar-b-queued deer (venison) steak. To my understanding, it is a lot healthier than beef. Dad killed a deer last weekend and so we’ve got a freezer full of deer meat now, so, hopefully I’ll be eating healthier because we won’t be eating much beef while we have the deer.

As far as my exercising lately I have been going outside and walking the dogs or playing with them every evening, it gets me out of the house and away from the computer for a little while.

I had a small piece of cake early in the day with my Dad, I considered that my lunch. The cake was REALLY rich! It was a chocolate cake with fudge icing, it was good, but good lord was it ever rich! I drank a little bit of milk with it. Later yesterday evening I grilled some chicken and bar-b-queued it, had some carrots and mashed potatoes with it. Later on in the evening I had another piece of chicken. Overall, I think I done pretty well.

Tomorrow I’m gonna be a fixin’ fried chicken, mashed taters and opening something up from a can (probably corn and peas) and I’ll be eating cake too! Its my Dad’s birthday tomorrow, good Lord in heaven I hope I can only take a small portion! Oh Lord, there’s gonna be ice cream too! Done soo good this week watching what I eat, drinking water instead of tea…oooh Lord!

Just to clear up about the title for this post, someone posted a blog article and forgot to change the category lol, I need to login and see who it was and fix it, I just thought it was humorous when I saw it earlier this week.

This week has been really busy for me. I’ve been swamped. I’ve been working on websites, which is good, means I’m making a little bit of money! The only problem is, it cuts down on the time I have to exercise, so, mostly for my exercise this week I’ve just been going out into the yard and walking around, playing with the dogs, picking grapes off of the grape vines, taking pictures of the fall colors. I am REALLY hoping that the leaves don’t just fall off the trees, THEN turn, like they have in the past.

As far as my eating goes, I’ve been watching my in-take of food. If we have hamburgers, instead of eating two, I’ll just have one and then maybe save the second one for the next days lunch. I’ve also been getting up each morning and fixing oatmeal and topping it with honey and cinnamon instead of sugar like I would use to in the past. Its really good, I quite like it. According to my Dad & some one he was talking to about weight loss, it helps you…not sure how, but supposedly it does. I’m really surprised I like it so well. I use to put butter and sugar into my white rice AND oatmeal! I’ve also been eating grapes instead of junk food, especially at night, I think it helps out a lot.

I do notice that I don’t have a significant amount of energy like I did when I was walking. Unfortunately, like I said, I’ve been so busy I just can’t go walking. Its really sad, I’ve been having to schedule times when I can re-boot my computer. BUT, hopefully I’ll get some things finished soon and I can go walking back out the road. OOOH, I did go walking today though. I walked up to our field and walked around up there for a little while, taking pictures and getting leafs for the leaf mobile I made.

I can’t remember if I mentioned it before or not, but, guess what. The pants that I bought at the store a couple of weeks ago, they’re TOO big!!! That made me SOO happy. I put them on the other day and they’re AT LEAST an inch a half too big for me. Also, an old pair of my pants fit a lot better now. Hopefully staying busy, drinking water, doing a LITTLE exercise is doing me some good.

Also, they say you’re suppose to do AT LEAST 30 minutes of exercise a day, does doing the dishes, washing & folding laundry and feeding the dogs count (they live outside)??? Just curious.

I think thats all I was going to say…I hope everyone else is well.

I think everyone should be real proud of me today! Well, at least I am proud of myself! I got up this morning and all I had was 1 piece of bacon, SERIOUSLY, I know, I know, you’re probably giggling, but I’m serious! I wasn’t very hungry for some reason when I got up this morning. I didn’t have anything until later this afternoon, my family came home and they brought me half of a personal pan pizza, yes, I said HALF! Then, later on tonight I had a little bit more, my Mom & her husband came in to visit and we grilled burgers and baked fries, I only had 1 burger, which, I normally have 2 and I only had a very small amount of fries with ketchup! Thats it! Thats all I have had!!! As far as exercise goes, I went around the yard this morning and took pictures of the cats. I also walked home from my sisters house tonight. I needed to do more exercise, but, at least I didn’t do nothing. NOW, lets try this tomorrow. It will be a lot harder tomorrow since I have a family reunion to go to, there will be tons of food there.

Update: I had a snack.

I think that was a very healthy snack to have.

After a week of being extremely busy, I am finally able to come back and make a post. I didn’t do too terrible this week, I watched what I ate, I didn’t drink so much sweet tea, I ate salads, I did eat un-healthy things, only because I didn’t have a choice, but I watched how much I ate of it. So, I think I done decently this week however I am wanting to do even better next week. The good thing though about being busy is that I don’t think about food so much.

The day before yesterday I saw a shirt in my closet that I had not worn in ages, I thought I’d put it on and see if it fit me, I was SHOCKED that I was able to actually put it on without it feeling like a tight corset or girdle! So surely, the diet is helping me as well.

My birthday is Wednesday (the 13th), hopefully I won’t have too many cakes to eat!

I know I said I stopped dieting for the week on Madge’s Yeast Radio today, however, I haven’t, I have just been EXTREMELY busy and have had no time to post anything, hopefully, I’ll be able to post something a little later today. The meeting I had today got canceled, the life changing event has to wait until Monday!

Post to ya later!

Today I went and bought some clothes. The only store that has clothes that will actually fit me is the Casual Male Big & Tall. It takes over an hour to get there and I go to it once a year, or try to, if I can afford it. The clothes are expensive! BUT, they’ve got clothes that will actually fit me! So, reluctantly, I pay for them…well, tonight Dad did because he bought them as an early birthday gift for me (my birthday is next week, yay, will be 21, AND I’M NOT going to get drunk).

Anyways, back to my thoughts, while I was at the store today, I kept thinking, with stores like these…whats the point in losing weight? I KNOW, I KNOW, I honestly don’t plan on NOT trying to lose weight, but thats the thought I had. I don’t think I’m making any sense, lol. But, it just got me to thinking about how much fat people are catered to, I mean, fast food, drive thru’s, fat people clothing stores, all-you-can-eat buffets, etc.

What are your thoughts?