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Food Tracking

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When I decided to work on getting in some sort of summer shape to go along with my biking I started to do push ups and sit ups again.

I did them for about four months last year (September – December) before winter killed my ambition.  I started at two sets of 25 push ups and 2 sets of 30 sit ups and increase it every week based on how I feel.  I only do them during the week, and take weekends off.  This last week I did sets of 30 push ups and sets of 40 sit ups.  Feels good.

But in addition to that I started tracking my food again.  This too is something I did in the past to help me be aware of what I eat.  I’m not one for diets.  I just can’t picture restricting myself to any degree.  But keeping track of what I eat helps me subconsciously make better decisions about what I eat.  I don’t track calories, portions, or anything like that.  If I feel like putting small or large down to describe portions, or know exactly what I ate then I’ll put it down.  For example, a kid at work gave me ten French Fries the other day.  Why ten, I don’t know.  But I put ten down.

Anyways, I keep it online.  I do all my food tracking with google calendar, its easy to enter from my phone and only takes a few seconds for everything I eat.  So take a look if you care to.  You’ll see I thought about starting at the beginning of the month, and only kept at it a week or two later.

AJ’s Food Calendar

A Week’s Worth of Food II

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Here’s the second week’s worth of food.  While I’m not sure if I’m eating healthier because of this, it definitely feels good to keep this log.  I’m rolling around thoughts in my mind of how to make this easier to keep track of.  Currently I keep track of this on google documents.  I can access it from any computer, my phone and my iPad.  That’s pretty convenient.  The only other idea I’ve had is to dedicate an actual calendar to this.  But then it wouldn’t necessarily be a list of what I ate.  You’d have to look at each day for the information.  On the other hand I don’t want a bajillion page document that is just a list of food.  I suppose I could break it up by month.  I don’t know.  Open to ideas here people.

Feb 8th:

  • Cup of Cranberry Juice
  • Coffee (x3)
  • Banana
  • 6 inch buffalo chicken sub from subway
  • 2 white chip macadamia nut cookie
  • Veggie – Meat (Morningstar Fake Meat) burrito w/cheese and hot sauce
  • bowl of Mac n’ Cheese

Feb 9:

  • Smoothie (banana, oj, cranberry juice, honey)
  • Coffee (x2)
  • Banana
  • Veggie Wrap
  • Small Cup o Mac n’ Cheese
  • Med Bowl of Spaghetti
  • 1 large cookie (w/ frosting)

Feb 10th:

  • 3 Mini Muffins
  • 1 bean burrito (black beans, lettuce, tomato, cheese)
  • bowl of tortilla chips
  • cookie (normal)
  • 2 slices of pizza
  • 1 cheesy breadstick

Feb. 11:

  • 1 slice pizza
  • 1 cheesy bread stick
  • bowl of Ramen noodles
  • Chick-Fil-A chicken sandwich
  • 1/2 cup of coke zero
  • 1/2 serving of potato fries
  • med Shamrock Shake

Feb 12:

  • Jozi’s Fav (2 slices of French Toast, 2 eggs w/ cheese, 4 slices of turkey bacon)
  • 3 cups of coffee
  • 7 buffalo chicken balls (Blue cheese dressing, chicken, hot sauce, cream cheese, corn flakes, egg dip, flour)

Feb 13:

  • Coffee (x3)
  • Small cup of cranberry juice
  • Veggie Wrap
  • Banana
  • 5 Buffalo Chicken Balls
  • 2 Slices of bread (artisan Asiago cheese bread w/ oil dip)

Feb 14 (Valentine’s Day):***

  • Cup of Cranberry Juice
  • Coffee (4 cups)
  • 3 peanut butter cookies
  • 1 sugar cookie (heart shaped)
  • Veggie Wrap
  • Banana
  • 2 starburst candies
  • 2 Slices of Pizza (w/chicken)
  • 6 pieces of boneless chicken wings (w/ dry rub spices)
  • large cup of jelly beans

A week’s worth of Food

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I am keeping track of everything I eat during February.  Just because.

Anyways, I’m not keeping track of specific serving sizes, but am generalizing instead, large serving is bigger than I normally would eat, small is smaller than normal, and handful is no more than a couple.  Sticking to this nicely vague measuring size I am trying to be honest.

So here’s February 1st through 7th.

*Feb. 1st:  

  • Cranberry Juice (small cup)
  • Coffee (x3)
  • Banana
  • Veggie Wrap**
  • Chicken Tenders (1 serving)
  • Gatorade (32 oz bottle)
  • Rice (big bowl)
  • Chicken Breast (large, Teriaki Marinade)

Feb 2nd:

  • Cranberry Juice (small glass)
  • Banana x2
  • Coffee x3
  • Veggie Wrap
  • Turkey Sandwich
  • Small cup of Mac n’ Cheese
  • Tortilla chips, Nacho Cheese

Feb 3d:

  • Coffee (x2)
  • Cranberry Juice
  • Donut
  • Banana (x2)
  • Veggie Wrap
  • Buffalo Chicken Dip (med serving)
  • Tortilla Chips

Feb 4th:

  • buffalo chicken dip
  • tortilla chips (med serving)
  • Cookie
  • Cupcake
  • Coffee (x2)
  • 8 boneless buffalo wings
  • 3 soft pretzels
  • ½ long island iced tea

Feb 5th (SUPER BOWL SUNDAY):

  • asiago cheese bagel w/butter
  • coffee
  • 4 boneless wings
  • 4 slices homemade pizza (small slices)
  • med serving of buffalo chicken dip
  • small serving of salsa
  • tortilla chips
  • 2 beers

Feb 6th:

  • Coffee (x3)
  • Fruit Smoothie (10 oz apprx. 1 Banana, Orange Juice, ½ teaspoon of honey)
  • Veggie wrap
  • Banana
  • tortilla chips (handful)
  • brownie
  • chicken wrap (same as veggie, but w/ chicken)
  • asiago bread (2 slices)

Feb 7th:

  • Cup of Cranberry Juice
  • Coffee (x3)
  • Banana
  • 6 inch buffalo chicken sub from subway
  • 1 white chip macadamia nut cookie
  • 3 small veggie tacos
  • tortilla chips (handful)

* These lists exclude water drank throughout the day
** Veggie Wrap is a 10 inch burrito filled with lettuce, tomato, cheese and hot sauce (often some blue cheese dressing or asiago pepperciorn dressing)

Buffalo Chicken Pizza

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Sam and I have been making pizza from scratch lately.  Not that pizza out here is bad, but particularly there is no place to get a good Buffalo Chicken Pizza.

Sam had told me once that her mom had this fantastic pizza dough recipe.  Turns out her mom knows nothing about this fantastic pizza dough recipe, so instead Sam and I use Mitch’s Pizza Dough Recipe.  It’s pretty basic, but makes great pizza dough and can be altered as you need it.  One batch of dough using the recipe makes up two pizzas.  We usually make one the first night (make the dough in the morning, pizza at night) and a second pizza either that night or the next day to take to work with us.

To make good Buffalo Chicken Pizza I got rid of the sauce and instead used a base of Blue Cheese Dressing mixed with Frank’s hot sauce.  Not a lot of each, and more hot sauce than blue cheese dressing, but just enough to give a good solid coat to the dough.  We then topped this with chicken (that has been doused with hot sauce as well) and some spices (we added some cajun spices).  Make sure to dice the chicken up pretty good so you still have chunks, but smaller chunks.  We have recently started to add a little Tapatio hot sauce for some more kick to the hotness.

Throw on cheese (Sam has some official twirl the cheese to put it on technique that just confuses me) and you’re ready to bake. We just use mozzarella or buy a bag of shredded Italian cheeses or Pizza blend to use.  Toss it in the oven at 375 for about twenty minutes and you’ve got yourself a great pizza.  Its started to become a staple around my apartment.  Its also a nice weekend activity and meal.