Sally’s Kitchen & Stuff

I joined SparkPeople.com last week to track what I eat. Granted, I really don’t try to stay within how much calories I’m consuming - just tracking what I do eat.

Mostly I joined because I need something to whip me into drinking 8 glasses of water a day. I think I must’ve been doing <1 glass of water plus 3 mugs of coffee with cream and sugar, plus two glasses of milk. That’s something I always made sure I did - two glasses of milk a day for strong bones, since I’m so bloody accident prone, I need every bit of help i can get! Knock on wood - I haven’t ever broken any bone in my body, yet.

(Did I tell you about the time where I fell down the stairs at work and all I did was sprain a finger? And the time when a counter plank hit me straight on the top of the head and was rushed to the ER only to find that I was perefectly fine except for a scratch on the nose? Yup. Strong bones.)

Turns out that I’m consuming around 1200 - exactly how much I need - regardless of whether I track it or not. I just eat a meal when I’m hankering for a snack and it’s meal time, or eat a snack when it’s not. I also have a bad, bad habit of eating tuna out of the can a lot. Maybe 3 times a week. In the old days, that would give you alzeimer’s. Now it turns out that my fish addiction is really good for me.

When I have a fast food day I end up not eating anything else for the rest of the day (fast food makes my stomach whirl. Then I eat it again when I forget that it does.) so that 1000 calorie combo at Wendy’s isn’t so bad after all, since it would turn out to be the only thing I eat that day. But if I go to a good restaurant, just watch me devour a 12 oz steak. It’d take an hour, but I just LOVE a T-bone. I also love lobster tail in purified butter, fish and chips with real tartar sauce, real lox, potato latkes, and southern fried chicken. If I ever start really counting calories, shoot me.

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