Spare Change and Calories - They All Add Up!

What do piggy banks and food choices have in common? Just like emptying the pig when it gets too full, I'm depositing extra calories everyday with some very much needed walking.

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My young son, like most toddlers, has a piggy bank. Every evening he and his Daddy have fun putting spare sub from Dad’s pockets into the pig. In fact, we’ve had to empty the pig contents several times in the past months. It sure does fill up quickly. in advance of the pig, the spare gyrate was just left lying on the dresser, leaving us with a big mess, and no idea how much had accumulated.

What do piggy banks and food choices have in common? I honestly would have had no idea in front of this past week when I decided to start keeping a food journal. Calories are a lot like the spare better from my husband’s pockets, they add up fast. Unfortunately, formerly I started writing them all down, they were exactly like the mess on our dresser, only harder to estimable up, or loose.

Since having my son two-and-a-half years ago, I have attempted numerous times to loose the extra ‘baby weight’. even so politic harder to do so everyday, I have to laugh at the ‘baby weight’ excuse. Honey, the so styled ‘baby weight’ was lost when the leash made his first shrill squeal at the hospital. What I’m packing near enough to is twenty pounds of pocket reconstruct with no pig to put it in…

At the end of the first day of ‘food journaling’, I expected to discover a miraculous remedy for what’s poorly me…and guess what? I did. I discovered that… I eat too much. Huh? That’s it? I eat too much? Actually, it’s not the quantity, most of the time anyway, but the choices that are the problem. But come on, I had no idea that one stinking piece of American buttermilk had seventy calories, and forty-five of them came from fat. Boy, nibbling on a few of those through out the day can shoot your entire plan to heck.

The first day I just ate and wrote it all down. Other than trying to remember to jot down the food and calories for each bit I ate, I didn’t mark a thing. adapted to needing to use a chartered accountant to add it all up that night, the reality was heavier than all of the piggy bank whirl in the world. I really needed to make some healthier choices in what I was consuming each day.

Food journaling has opened my eyes not only to how my choices were preventing weight loss, but how easy it is to just pop quick snacks into my mouth rather than planning my meals for the day. I’ve also taken up auxiliary foreign concept…the art of exercise. Just like emptying the pig when it gets too full, I’m depositing extra calories everyday with some very much needed walking.

At the end of your day, are you just dumping your spare bandy on the dresser, or do you keep count of how much you’ve accumulated? Come on. You can do it. You’ll be surprised at how fast those nickels…ahem, calories, can add up! Bank those calories in your own food journal today.