1500 calories a day.
Most days, I can easily go to bed with 1300 or less, including 1/2 cup of Dreyer’s Grand Slow-Churned Ice Cream (Peanut Butter Cup is amazing), which at 140 calories per serving is by far the best ice cream, per calorie, available. Trust me, I’ve invested lots of energy researching this.
I do usually get Saturday nights off for a beer or two, and Sundays there is no counting at all. This is when I eat things like pancakes, bacon, Thai food, and cheeseburgers.
Along with a regular yoga practice (hooray! I’m stronger and more flexible!) and laps around the lake either on wheels or on foot, this 1500 calorie a day limit has been easy to maintain and I’m very pleased with the results. The easy-going weekends and the kitchen scale have made this less of a diet than a lifestyle change, and it’s been so easy.
Until today.
I think my calorie counting for the day pretty much speaks for itself:
coffee with half and half: 40 calories
breakfast: 175 calories
lunch: 300 calories
dinner: 320 calories
Halloween Candy: 665 calories
That’s 3 mini-Snickers, 2 mini Butterfingers, 1 large Reeses’ PB cup, a mini Nestle Crunch and a mini Kit-Kat.
So, the good news is that I’m within my very reasonable calorie range for the day. The bad news is that we bought our Halloween Candy at Cost-Co and only saw about 5 trick or treaters…
