50 pound problem

I worked out hard today!! I'm really a true beginner workout-wise. I literally don't even know what it means to work out hard. I'm just beginning to learn. Let's see....yesterday

Breakfast: Yummy!  2 homemade crepes with a very small amount of nutella and jam, ff whipping cream and pecans, oj and milk. That held me pretty well.

Snack: 1/2 or so sleeve of nuts

Lunch: fajita meat, spinach, tomato, guac, light sourcream, homemade tortilla chips, 2 chocolates, fresca.

Snack: apple

Dinner: 3 small pretzel rolls, about 1.5 to 2 oz cheese, cup o soup, olives, 1 choc

Snack after class: hot-chocolate made with real milk and nestle's quik. ff whipping cream.

Exercise: Zero. Stress: High

I'm still loving see all of this laid out. It's helping me believe that I DO have a natural diet. I mean if I were on some weird plan, where all of this was laid out for me, it would be very difficult to follow, and I might even feel like eating a lot more. But this shows me that I actually do NOT eat an infinite amount. Even better---I might not even be that far off.  I can't wait for technology to invent some kind of calorie counter that I could wear next to my skin that would detect the raise in temperature--or whatever when I ate, so that I could get a very accurate calorie count. Was the apple 80 cal or 84 or 106?

 Looking back at yesterday--what could I, should I have changed?  Not that much I think!! Breakfast was really ok, I went easy on the pecans and the milk is 1%. Lunch---I could have done with less sourcream--but at least it was light. Also, a few less chips--but they were the homemade kind--with only 50 cal for 8 chips. The chocolates---these aren't even the fun size. They are the little bite-size kind. Still though, I ought to cut back to one. After all, my body doesn't need any.  I also should have added some more vegetables.

I'm always hearing about how small changes make a big difference, but I have a hard time believing it, because even big changes don't seem to make all that big of a difference. Example---I went from a sedentary life-style to a job where I walked and lifted boxes 8 hours a day. Zilch. However, when I went to Japan and became more sedentary---30 pounds. Food-wise, it seems as though I have to go to drastic measures to achieve anything. It's beyond frustrating!!!

 However, I did see in my kettle-bell class how small changes really do add up.  Today's work out was running laps alternating with kettle-bell swings. We were supposed to run 2,4,6,6,4,2 laps if we could, but were free to cut it back if we had to. I had to. I couldn't have finished the workout in time if I hadn't. I ran 2,3,4,4,3,2 for a total of 18 laps. The real workout had 24 laps. Six laps is a big difference. Maybe in the world of food knocking out those little things that add up really will make a difference.