I used to keep a food journal, and measure out exact serving sizes of food, just to try to keep track of how much I was consuming each day, but that never ended well. On the plus side, it made me accountable for the junk I was eating, and since I couldn't face that, I just didn't eat it. Even now, if I go to the store and start looking at sweets, all I have to do is read the nutrition information/serving size to decide I can't afford the calories. I never did figure out the number of calories in an average bowl of cookie dough. I estimate it at 300 per bowl, even though it's really more like 500-600 or so, and put my blinders on. Basically, as long as I don't have an exact approximation, it's nebulous/not real and doesn't matter/count, even if I estimate it in the thousands.
The RMR test sounds like a great idea. I have an LA Fitness membership through work, as well as some professional contacts, also through work, so we'll see. One of the important things for me is to find a diet that I can live with forever, rather than one that I'm going to stop once I reach my goals. This diet must therefore include cakes and cookies and the like. I've heard 80/20, or 90/10, and I think those are good ways to go, but I'm worried about how many cakes I can eat in 1/10 of my day/week/month. And I mean that in both directions. One of the diets I've done in the past was 1 cake, or equivalent dessert item, per month. I only kept this up for a month or so, before I realized that I would definitely want to try more than 12 recipes per year. I just don't know. If I knew that the only way to get a model/dancer's body was to give these things up forever, I could do it, but I know that I can have that body and still have them in moderation. Of course, I don't want them in moderation, I want them in excess, but that's the trick of it, isn't it?
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Date: 2006-03-01 12:48 pm (UTC)The RMR test sounds like a great idea. I have an LA Fitness membership through work, as well as some professional contacts, also through work, so we'll see.
One of the important things for me is to find a diet that I can live with forever, rather than one that I'm going to stop once I reach my goals. This diet must therefore include cakes and cookies and the like. I've heard 80/20, or 90/10, and I think those are good ways to go, but I'm worried about how many cakes I can eat in 1/10 of my day/week/month. And I mean that in both directions. One of the diets I've done in the past was 1 cake, or equivalent dessert item, per month. I only kept this up for a month or so, before I realized that I would definitely want to try more than 12 recipes per year.
I just don't know. If I knew that the only way to get a model/dancer's body was to give these things up forever, I could do it, but I know that I can have that body and still have them in moderation. Of course, I don't want them in moderation, I want them in excess, but that's the trick of it, isn't it?