End of Day 3

I tried a new online service today called Calorie King.

I have to say, I'm impressed. I tried several other calorie counter programs online (the free ones), and I didn't like how there were several pages to scroll through for every food search until I finally found the one I wanted. I signed up for the free 7-day trial (you have to give a credit card, though), opting for the 1-year membership at $50 if, after 7 days, I decide to keep it. (It's $50 only for the month of January, though; after that it goes to $12/month -- a little expensive to my thinking.)

It's really a very handy program, and does all the work for me, including breaking down my total nutrition for the day, charting calories and exercise, telling me what percentage of carbs/fat/protein I've ingested, etc. Pretty cool, and very easy to use. It's going to save me a LOT of time, and probably keep me from boring you to death by listing every item consumed, etc., since I will undoubtedly have a lot of repetition. Maybe I'll figure out a way to import the weekly chart from there. Fun!

It also has a food database with recipes, and more.

So here's today's nutritional breakdown, per Calorie King:

922 calories total, incl. 32 g fat, 95 g carbs, 18 g fiber, 59 g protein.
It even shows that I had 501 mg calcium, 6.5 mg iron, etc. (It lists zinc, sodium, potassium, cholesterol, you name it. Really handy, like I said!) It helps with knowing whether the multivitamin is needed, or not. In this case, I'd say yes.

I'm a little worried about not having ingested at least 1,000 calories, as I think that's about where my body shuts down for starvation, but I'm just not hungry so I'm going to pass on extra calories that I don't feel like I want.

I will post a new section for ultra-good, ultra-high fiber/low calorie recipes soon... stay tuned!