Friday 6/18/10

Exercise: 35 mile bike ride (to beach and back) 1492 calories
Weight: 210
Hacker's Weight:210.8
Net calories: 1233

Wow. I went kind of crazy at breakfast today, I knew I was going to be doing a long bike ride so I figured I'd have more of my cereal than normal. Thing was, then it was like I was suddenly ravenously hungry - I usually eat about 200 calories worth of cereal, but today I ate almost 800 calories in about an hour. Usually 200 calories gets me through to lunch - it almost felt like breaking the routine opened up the floodgates. I'm still going to be okay today since I'm riding my bike to the beach and back, but the feeling out of control with my eating was not okay, and I broke my own rules about only eating sitting down, from a dish. Yikes. Stick to regular breakfast.

The other thing that happens to me that happened today is the craziness in the morning spirals into later craziness as well. Almost like, "well the day is already shot, why try anymore?" That's ridiculous thinking, but alas can happen. Today it manifested by my buying a snack I really don't need in the house, these silly dark chocolate covered toffee almonds that are in the bulk section at Hannafords. I took down the nutritional information to enter in to MFD, and it was sobering. Unfortunately I've eaten most of them today (thankfully I didn't get many), even though they weren't really that enjoyable, especially now that I know how calorific they are. The spiralling didn't get too out of hand, largely due to my long bike ride. I'm going to end up the day within my calorie goals, but on the higher rather than the lower end of those goals. I'm really looking forward to getting my heart rate monitor back and functional, there's so much guess work right now in my exercise calories, depending on how I log my bike ride I either earned 1492 calories or just over 2000 (it's based on speed, and my average speed was 12.9 which would give me 2000 but I honestly don't think I burned that many calories).

Actually, I ended up not being very hungry for dinner and thus was on the low end for calories.