Level 1: Extinction Event Averted [3/22/22 | 251.8 lbs]

Some food pictures of the past day. Caloric density.

General Notes

Yesterday's lunch (shrimp/fruit salad) and dinner (rice bowl with gyro and tzatziki).

My water goals went well yesterday. Kept a full water bottle by me and drank as the day went on, drinking 40 oz. total. Ice helps, but isn't required. Keep it up!

Sketching today's meals:

• Breakfast: Two egg omelet with mozzarella. (250 cal)
• Found that cooking this on medium heat and not agitating it much in the pan worked well. In the past, I'd overcooked it. Not today!

Morning omelet. 

• Lunch: Chipotle burrito bowl with brown rice, pollo asado, mild salsa, fajita vegetables, guacamole. (620 cal)
• Snack: Bottled frappuccino. (200 cal)
• Dinner: Three chicken tenders, toast, sauce. (740 cal)
• I know that this isn't a "healthy" meal, but this is, relatively speaking, a low calorie option for a once-per-week craving. The normal combo I'd generally get is four tenders, fries, and two cups of sauce, clocking in at 1,400 calories. This is a way to scratch the itch without going wild.
• Total: ~1,770 cal

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Daily Article Notes

Relevant notes from my daily set of Noom articles.

• Noom talks a lot about "scale anxiety." I feel some of that, but I'm used to weighing in regularly that I know to not read too much into it, so my anxiety isn't really there.
• The next article here goes more into caloric density. I'll repost this chart here:

• In general:
• Green: e.g. vegetables, whole grains
• Yellow: e.g. lean meats, starches
• Red: e.g. red meat, dessert
• I appreciate that the goal here is NOT 100% green. They recommend instead a green/yellow/red breakdown of about 30%/45%/25%. That feels doable most days.
• Still, "green" foods should form the baseline for my diet. Luckily, there's a crapload of stuff that I already look forward to eating, without any sort of adjustment needed. For example:
• vegetables, e.g. cucumber, bell pepper, broccoli
• whole grain foods, e.g. whole grain bread, brown rice
• fruits, e.g. banana, strawberry, cherry, tomato
• miscellaneous!? e.g. tofu, skim milk