Undercounting the Calories

It was a beautiful day for a run yesterday. It didn’t look promising when I got up, very wet and windy, but a few minutes after I got out onto the road the sun started peeking through the clouds and by the end of my run it was a sunny, though still breezy, warm day. I did find I was much slower this week than I was on the same route last week, probably because I had a week’s worth of training in my legs instead of 2 rest weeks. However, it’s clear that my body is reasonably comfortable running 10km so it’s time to start adding to that distance.

For whatever reason, I had real trouble judging how many calories I’d had to eat as I was going along yesterday. I just kept thinking I had not had enough to eat and trying to take in more calories, even when I was full. I thought my breakfast was low in calories for the amount of exercise I had planned, so I put milk and sugar in my two large cups of tea. It was the usual routine after my run yesterday afternoon: get in, stretch, eat, shower, then sleep. Also as usual, I wasn’t terribly hungry right after my run, and I struggled to finish the large portion of chilli I had served myself. Oddly enough, I woke up from my nap not feeling too peckish but felt I really should eat more, hence the toast and lemon curd, which is a treat I rarely allow myself. I was hungry for my dinner, and decided that what I needed was more carbs, so made some gluten free stuffing to go with the roast vegetables. This despite knowing we would be having wine with dinner and a 300+ calorie dessert!

So clearly an instance where I should have listened to my body and not eaten so much. I would still have topped 2500 calories for the day, but not 3000, and they would have been calories I truly enjoyed eating.

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Alcohol:	Fibre:
3018.53	129.17g	386.57g	92.22g	21.50g	33.63g
	17%	51%	27%	5%
Calories burned through exercise:		758

What I ate:

Time	Item	Amount
09:00	Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 each
	Cold water	200mL
	Mattesson's Turkey rashers	3 rashers
	Nature's Path Gluten Free O's	60g
	Alpro Soy milk	120mL
	Sainsbury's Orange, Mango and Passionfruit juice	200mL
09:30	Black tea with milk and sugar	500mL
10:15	Black tea with milk and sugar	500mL
11:15	Easy long run - 75 min
	350mL Sponser Isotonic, fruit mix	26g
13:00	Lemon lime Nuun electrolyte tablet in water	750mL
13:30	Sponser Chocolate Recovery Shake	30g
	in skim milk	225mL
	Homemade chilli	400g
	Doritos Hint of Lime tortilla chips	40g
	Sainsbury's pressed apple and cherry juice	150mL
17:00	Irish Yoghurts Diet Strawberry	125g
	Fresh blueberries	100g
	Lindt Excellence 70% cocoa dark chocolate	20g
17:15	Genius brown bread toast	1 slice
	with Flora Light	4g
	and Waitrose lemon curd	17g
	Black tea with milk and sugar	500mL
20:00	Baked chicken	85g
	Mrs Crimble's Sage & Onion stuffing mix	80g prepared
	Parsnips	81g
	Carrots	68g
	Beets	108g
	all roasted and brushed with olive oil	7mL
	Ocean Spray Smooth cranberry sauce	20g
	Bisto Best Chicken Gravy	about 5g
	Rose wine	150mL
20:30	Seriously Smooth Passion Fruit Panna Cotta	100g
	Rose wine	100mL
23:00	Ellactiva Chocolate Calcium Chew	1 chew
	500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 pill

Plus 500 to 1500mL of cold water sipped from a water bottle throughout the day.