Take I, Day 2

I am slowly trying to get my calorie max goal down. I went to a calculator on a website that told me my daily caloric needs add up to 1585.92 cals. I ate 1319 calories yesterday... far too much. I mean, yes, I burned around 45 of those calories off, but still. I changed my goal to 1100, down from 1200, to try and motivate myself a little more. Soon I'd like to get to 1000 as a max -- perfectly possible if I fill the time between meals with diet pepsi/coke, water, and maybe an occasional bit of veggies (cauliflower, anyone?).

I've only had 261 calories so far today... I am pleased with myself. I have decided that, to keep my cravings for junk food in check, I will allow myself to eat tiny bits of bars or a few chips at a time. I just had one Pringle -- 11 calories, which isn't so bad, I guess. One block of a Caramilk bar is 26 calories. One of those fiddle stix is 25 calories. Etc etc. You know? Just little things, so I don't completely deny myself and end up screwing myself over by gobbling down the whole chocolate bar or something. (260 calories in just one Caramilk bar! Eww.)

I am finding some contradictory calorie infomation on sites, though. For example, on this site it said my large orange was only 86 cals, but on another site I found it says 100. On this other site it also says that a regular-sized orange is only 35 calories, which doesn't make much sense to me. It also says an apple is only 45 calories... that seems a bit low to me, too. Wtf!? I will have to look at this some more -- get more sites, etc.

If I do well for the rest of the day I'll let myself have a bit of a treat, I think. Treats come only after I know I've met my calorie goal of the day, and have a little room to spare. :)