Sugar Shock

(me after a workout, I thought I looked much worse)

So I was chatting with a buddy on Twitter the other day because she said she’d lost 70lbs. I was impressed and asked her what she did differently. Basically she said she cut down on carbohydrates and ate more protein. That’s when I had basically a WTF moment: I do all that already and I gain weight.

For the past year or more I’ve been choosing whole grains about 80% of the time, in fact we only keep whole grains in our house anymore. I gave up soda several years ago, I never even drink diet. In the last year I’ve been eating a lot more protein, I consciously try to include protein in every meal. I know I don’t eat perfect but something just doesn’t add up.

Ok, rant done. Next…

My food from yesterday, overall I guess not too bad but the calories were way higher than I would have thought. I really want to drink less beer, that’s the one thing in our house we tend to be indulgent with. We don’t keep soda in the house or any white bread, we rarely have sweets but we almost always have beer.

I don’t know how true these amounts are since the hamburger I had was from a local grill and I had to guess although I didn’t eat the whole thing, it was just too big. I miss grilling my buffalo burgers outside on the grill, stupid snow ruins everything.